True. But they can cancel your ticket(s) without refund, and add your name to their naughty list (i.e. blacklist you.) As with all things, read the contract to which you are agreeing when purchasing your ticket(s). Not that any airline would care to do so, but they do want to discourage the practice.
I've had that conversation on Southwest. You aren't allowed off the plane (unless there's a real emergency) as you don't have a ticket/boarding pass for getting back on the plane. 'tho it's not like they'd stop you; if you get up and leave like everyone else, how do they know who's supposed to be staying? Of course, it does screw up their count, and can cause delays (esp. with an inexperienced crew.)
Correction: air travel is hugely expensive. From the price of the aircraft (~50mil) to the fuel it takes to move it around (thousands of gal) to the expense of required routine maintenance, plus the mountains of documentation of everything... If people had to maintain their car like a commercial aircraft, they'd give up their cars.
No. Airlines still have "hubs", they just don't leave billions sitting idle and unused in a hangar (that also costs a small fortune.) If you think you can do better, there's nothing stopping you from pissing away your billions playing airline.
It's the future, things should have *improved*, not gotten worse...
You failed to factor in the increase in the number of lawyers. Airlines are simply avoiding the entire mess by taking ZERO chances with things going tits-up. In your "golden era", there were plenty of accidents due to flying in that kind of weather.
That's just people that don't know how to leave a message. It's not an in-person conversation. You have to slow down, speak up, and call out numbers slow enough that the listener can make sense of your ramblings and have time to write it down. In person, one can ask "what's that number again?" or ask you to "slow the f*** down!"
a) (lie) I didn't get your VM b) (truth) I haven't listened to your VM
Maybe I'm old, but if I don't answer, leave a message. If it's not important enough for you to bother to say anything, it's not important enough for me to bother calling you back. And if you call my home number without leave a message, it may be weeks before I look at a phone and know anyone called. (with telemarketing bullshit, I rarely both looking at the call list unless the answering machine is flashing. [FTR, the phone on my desk is showing "110 missed calls"]) Calls to the cell (which goes to google voice for VM, which will *ding* on a dozen devices, get emailed to me, and transcribed to a text if Google can make any sense of it.) I'll notice in a day or two -- usually in the morning when I pick the phone up to go to work. [current count: 4 numbers I don't recognize] Texts I'll notice immediately if the phone's on me.
Bottom line... if you called me but didn't (a) leave a message, (b) send a text, or (c) follow up with an email, then you really didn't need to speak to me, did you?
How brain damaged do you have to be to "forget" you're carrying a firearm into a place where you are absolutely forbidden from carrying? This is a new fucking rule they drafted yesterday. I'd be very surprised if it weren't something covered in the concealed carry process.
That said, the TSA is well known for not following their own rules and procedures, and violating federal law w.r.t. transport of firearms. Odds are, if you've tried to fly with a firearm, you have a horror story to tell.
To be far, the FAA wouldn't let them fly a plane to altitude and then shoot out a window. (or as they ramped up, blow holes in it with gun powder.) Not that Discovery would've approved the 50mil$ for the plane:-)
Indeed. I had a friend fly to Israel years ago with a file (foot long woodworking file) in his carry-on. US security didn't notice anything. Customs in TA sure as f*** found it -- in seconds as the story goes.
If you are approaching a RED LIGHT at 55mph without braking, you're the asshole about to cause a wreck. There's a reason there's a delay between a red and the next green. (to give people in the intersection time to move through it.)
Ah, but there isn't "plenty of warning". Even if your foot is on the brake and you are (dangerously) focused intently on the light, it'll take a quarter second to engage the brakes. (there have been studies.) When some asshat set the timer to 2.8s to drum up more revenue, you have two seconds to get clear or come to a full stop. That's going to be an "eventful" stop at normal speeds (35+), and a complete "oh shit" for the person behind you -- even 3 car lengths back, which in city traffic is unlikely. (if there's room for a car, some idiot will fill it.)
Right. And every light in the city has the exact same yellow time. Do you know how long that light is going to stay yellow? Are you 100% certain of that? Are you sure that PoS isn't going to snap your picture even during the yellow cycle? The things only make drivers more panicky. This is further fueled by every bloody city in every study having been found to shorten yellow cycles to intentionally increase the number of tickets.
Ah, it's a hardware "bug" that has to be placed in the phone -- as that's where most interesting conversations will happen. It can technically be attached to the phone line anywhere. Putting it in the phone means it'll obviously have access to the line, will go where ever the phone goes, and will be in the vicinity of most conversations. It can then be activated by a special incoming call that it answers before any ring is generated. (or without a ring being signalling at all.)
This is in contrast to what I was thinking... hands-free auto-answer by a speaker phone, or as is the current fad a firmware ("app") hack to a VoIP phone to use it's mic to continuously send you traffic -- zero indication the phone's doing anything, unless you watch its traffic.
If you're talking about cihosting? They didn't have security guards. And all the hand scanners and man traps in the world won't do you any good when thieves use a chainsaw to cut their own doorway from the hall.
(If I recall, ci's breakin was with a reciprocating saw.)
Funny. The phones of that era (70s/80s) were mechanical. The handset speaker/mic weren't physically connected until the handset was lifted -- the phone went "off hook". The ringer was a solenoid, swing arm, and one or two bells -- so the ringer was useless as a "listening device". Until the advent of digital (speaker) phones, these sorts of line seizing hacks were of very little value. Even the early electronic touch-tone phones of the 80s had no speaker/mic connected until the handset was lifted.
Also, computing technology was large, slow, power hungry, and expensive. Cryptography was primitive due the lack of cpu processing to handle the complex math, and doing it in hardware was another exercise in expensive. Any considerations for security would've quickly been dismissed as a) unnecessary, and b) prohibitively expensive.
Why haven't "we" updated the system? Because there's an immense amount of "legacy" gear still running the PSTN to this day. The AT&T 5ESS local switch I walked past several times a month (in the front of the room where the IP gear lived) and later worked on in various admin roles, was installed in 1974. There was a faded dot-matrix printout on the side detailing it's origin and when it was installed. It is still there handling calls to this day. My home town was still served by a rotary switch into the 80's before Bellsouth finally replaced it with a tiny building across the street housing a DMS100 -- 30+ years on and it's still there.
Cellular is the only thing seeing regular technology refreshes. And that's driven by new technologies... AMPS to PCS to CDMA to LTE...
The issue is the amount of blind trust still in the system to this day. Even in the Mitnick hacking era of the early 90's, the system needed to be modernized. Security through obscurity doesn't work. "Lack of physical access" isn't a sufficient barrier. (and really never was. How many telcos had (still have) dialup modems on rcv and tlws ports, with little or no authentication? The telco I worked for did for over two decades -- to everything not just the 5ESS's, before moving them to terminal servers on the company network.)
I'd post a picture, but I'm not going to slash my own server.:-)
Ours was connected to the company LAN -- so you could telnet to it. It originally lived next to the HVAC in the room with the LD switch (Alcatel 600e.) In the Grand NOC Redesign of 2001(TM), it was moved to the desks in the NOC which moved to the CO.
Who's to say they didn't have a man on the outside in a boat to pick them up some distance from the prison? (I'd sure as hell have the rest of the my get-away planned to the last detail.)
Who's to say they didn't resume a life of crime in some other country under different identities. Costa Rica would have little reason to check 'em against US records, for example. It's not like they had a world wide fingerprint and DNA database with which to verify every human being.
Now repeat that Sharkfest with a single solitary swimmer. No film crew. No chase boats. No shark repellent. Just one thrashing piece of meat in the currents. See how far you get before something nibbles on ya'.
Nope. Lame summary: The zone files contain quite bit of valuable information... *Other* files with the CZDS held usernames and encrypted passwords. That is the only "valuable" non-public information.
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True. But they can cancel your ticket(s) without refund, and add your name to their naughty list (i.e. blacklist you.) As with all things, read the contract to which you are agreeing when purchasing your ticket(s). Not that any airline would care to do so, but they do want to discourage the practice.
I've had that conversation on Southwest. You aren't allowed off the plane (unless there's a real emergency) as you don't have a ticket/boarding pass for getting back on the plane. 'tho it's not like they'd stop you; if you get up and leave like everyone else, how do they know who's supposed to be staying? Of course, it does screw up their count, and can cause delays (esp. with an inexperienced crew.)
Correction: air travel is hugely expensive. From the price of the aircraft (~50mil) to the fuel it takes to move it around (thousands of gal) to the expense of required routine maintenance, plus the mountains of documentation of everything... If people had to maintain their car like a commercial aircraft, they'd give up their cars.
No. Airlines still have "hubs", they just don't leave billions sitting idle and unused in a hangar (that also costs a small fortune.) If you think you can do better, there's nothing stopping you from pissing away your billions playing airline.
You failed to factor in the increase in the number of lawyers. Airlines are simply avoiding the entire mess by taking ZERO chances with things going tits-up. In your "golden era", there were plenty of accidents due to flying in that kind of weather.
That's just people that don't know how to leave a message. It's not an in-person conversation. You have to slow down, speak up, and call out numbers slow enough that the listener can make sense of your ramblings and have time to write it down. In person, one can ask "what's that number again?" or ask you to "slow the f*** down!"
a) (lie) I didn't get your VM
b) (truth) I haven't listened to your VM
Maybe I'm old, but if I don't answer, leave a message. If it's not important enough for you to bother to say anything, it's not important enough for me to bother calling you back. And if you call my home number without leave a message, it may be weeks before I look at a phone and know anyone called. (with telemarketing bullshit, I rarely both looking at the call list unless the answering machine is flashing. [FTR, the phone on my desk is showing "110 missed calls"]) Calls to the cell (which goes to google voice for VM, which will *ding* on a dozen devices, get emailed to me, and transcribed to a text if Google can make any sense of it.) I'll notice in a day or two -- usually in the morning when I pick the phone up to go to work. [current count: 4 numbers I don't recognize] Texts I'll notice immediately if the phone's on me.
Bottom line... if you called me but didn't (a) leave a message, (b) send a text, or (c) follow up with an email, then you really didn't need to speak to me, did you?
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How brain damaged do you have to be to "forget" you're carrying a firearm into a place where you are absolutely forbidden from carrying? This is a new fucking rule they drafted yesterday. I'd be very surprised if it weren't something covered in the concealed carry process.
That said, the TSA is well known for not following their own rules and procedures, and violating federal law w.r.t. transport of firearms. Odds are, if you've tried to fly with a firearm, you have a horror story to tell.
To be far, the FAA wouldn't let them fly a plane to altitude and then shoot out a window. (or as they ramped up, blow holes in it with gun powder.) Not that Discovery would've approved the 50mil$ for the plane :-)
Indeed. I had a friend fly to Israel years ago with a file (foot long woodworking file) in his carry-on. US security didn't notice anything. Customs in TA sure as f*** found it -- in seconds as the story goes.
If you are approaching a RED LIGHT at 55mph without braking, you're the asshole about to cause a wreck. There's a reason there's a delay between a red and the next green. (to give people in the intersection time to move through it.)
Ah, but there isn't "plenty of warning". Even if your foot is on the brake and you are (dangerously) focused intently on the light, it'll take a quarter second to engage the brakes. (there have been studies.) When some asshat set the timer to 2.8s to drum up more revenue, you have two seconds to get clear or come to a full stop. That's going to be an "eventful" stop at normal speeds (35+), and a complete "oh shit" for the person behind you -- even 3 car lengths back, which in city traffic is unlikely. (if there's room for a car, some idiot will fill it.)
Right. And every light in the city has the exact same yellow time. Do you know how long that light is going to stay yellow? Are you 100% certain of that? Are you sure that PoS isn't going to snap your picture even during the yellow cycle? The things only make drivers more panicky. This is further fueled by every bloody city in every study having been found to shorten yellow cycles to intentionally increase the number of tickets.
Ah, it's a hardware "bug" that has to be placed in the phone -- as that's where most interesting conversations will happen. It can technically be attached to the phone line anywhere. Putting it in the phone means it'll obviously have access to the line, will go where ever the phone goes, and will be in the vicinity of most conversations. It can then be activated by a special incoming call that it answers before any ring is generated. (or without a ring being signalling at all.)
This is in contrast to what I was thinking... hands-free auto-answer by a speaker phone, or as is the current fad a firmware ("app") hack to a VoIP phone to use it's mic to continuously send you traffic -- zero indication the phone's doing anything, unless you watch its traffic.
Perhaps. But the real key is detected when they've gotten in.
If you're talking about cihosting? They didn't have security guards. And all the hand scanners and man traps in the world won't do you any good when thieves use a chainsaw to cut their own doorway from the hall.
(If I recall, ci's breakin was with a reciprocating saw.)
Funny. The phones of that era (70s/80s) were mechanical. The handset speaker/mic weren't physically connected until the handset was lifted -- the phone went "off hook". The ringer was a solenoid, swing arm, and one or two bells -- so the ringer was useless as a "listening device". Until the advent of digital (speaker) phones, these sorts of line seizing hacks were of very little value. Even the early electronic touch-tone phones of the 80s had no speaker/mic connected until the handset was lifted.
Also, computing technology was large, slow, power hungry, and expensive. Cryptography was primitive due the lack of cpu processing to handle the complex math, and doing it in hardware was another exercise in expensive. Any considerations for security would've quickly been dismissed as a) unnecessary, and b) prohibitively expensive.
Why haven't "we" updated the system? Because there's an immense amount of "legacy" gear still running the PSTN to this day. The AT&T 5ESS local switch I walked past several times a month (in the front of the room where the IP gear lived) and later worked on in various admin roles, was installed in 1974. There was a faded dot-matrix printout on the side detailing it's origin and when it was installed. It is still there handling calls to this day. My home town was still served by a rotary switch into the 80's before Bellsouth finally replaced it with a tiny building across the street housing a DMS100 -- 30+ years on and it's still there.
Cellular is the only thing seeing regular technology refreshes. And that's driven by new technologies... AMPS to PCS to CDMA to LTE...
The issue is the amount of blind trust still in the system to this day. Even in the Mitnick hacking era of the early 90's, the system needed to be modernized. Security through obscurity doesn't work. "Lack of physical access" isn't a sufficient barrier. (and really never was. How many telcos had (still have) dialup modems on rcv and tlws ports, with little or no authentication? The telco I worked for did for over two decades -- to everything not just the 5ESS's, before moving them to terminal servers on the company network.)
I'd post a picture, but I'm not going to slash my own server. :-)
Ours was connected to the company LAN -- so you could telnet to it. It originally lived next to the HVAC in the room with the LD switch (Alcatel 600e.) In the Grand NOC Redesign of 2001(TM), it was moved to the desks in the NOC which moved to the CO.
Who's to say they didn't have a man on the outside in a boat to pick them up some distance from the prison? (I'd sure as hell have the rest of the my get-away planned to the last detail.)
Who's to say they didn't resume a life of crime in some other country under different identities. Costa Rica would have little reason to check 'em against US records, for example. It's not like they had a world wide fingerprint and DNA database with which to verify every human being.
Now repeat that Sharkfest with a single solitary swimmer. No film crew. No chase boats. No shark repellent. Just one thrashing piece of meat in the currents. See how far you get before something nibbles on ya'.
I suspect at least one of them would've bragged about it at some point.
Nope. Lame summary: The zone files contain quite bit of valuable information... *Other* files with the CZDS held usernames and encrypted passwords. That is the only "valuable" non-public information.