In Fight Club, something happens at the end.

[Gooberlx2]

I had the impression that, since the club had at least gone coast-to-coast or possibly global, with individuals infiltrating each aspect of ordered society, they pulled off a much larger scale "demolition". HQs, data centers, remote centers, disaster recovery centers, for every type of financial/credit companies and gov't, all went up in smoke.

Basically, the ultimate domestic/global terrorist attack.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: jonks
Can you really upload a virus from a mac to an alien mothership?

:laugh:

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: Titan
Take an IBM z/Series mainframe that was in WTC on 9-11. They were still phoning home after the building fell down.

Big iron is rugged.

shit! I had no idea.

 

[OCGuy]

What you are supposed to do is have the software round everything to the nearest penny, and have the difference put in your own account.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: OCguy
What you are supposed to do is have the software round everything to the nearest penny, and have the difference put in your own account.

Just don't fuck up the decimal place. 😀

 

[Titan]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: Pollock

Originally posted by: Titan
Take an IBM z/Series mainframe that was in WTC on 9-11. They were still phoning home after the building fell down.

Big iron is rugged.

:Q Link?

wow, they still had power and a network connection after the buildings collapsed? shens...

No link, sorry. Let's say I have reliable sources. Those million dollar servers are overbuilt and over-redundant so they only have 5 minutes of downtime a year. I know after 9/11 those boxes were still seriously effed up, but working. Although it is a good question on how the connectivity worked, maybe wireless backup?

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: OCguy
What you are supposed to do is have the software round everything to the nearest penny, and have the difference put in your own account.

Just don't fuck up the decimal place. 😀

Or buy a ferrari the day after pulling it off.

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: mchammer187
The movie was made in 1998-1999 and maybe took place in a couple years before that so this could take place in the mid/early nineties when the internet was just taking off so there wasn't all the cyber-security threats that there are today so massive redundancies and backups may not have been implemented yet.

lol like financial institutions wouldnt make mega redundant backups of their debt information....

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: jonks
Can you really upload a virus from a mac to an alien mothership?

No, but you can make one of those snazzy timer thingies that they had counting down to the end of the world.

You could use a Mac to install a virus on a bank's server to steal the fractions of a cent that get rounded off in interest calculations, but of course the bank server wouldn't actually be running Mac OS.

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: LS21

Originally posted by: mchammer187
The movie was made in 1998-1999 and maybe took place in a couple years before that so this could take place in the mid/early nineties when the internet was just taking off so there wasn't all the cyber-security threats that there are today so massive redundancies and backups may not have been implemented yet.

lol like financial institutions wouldnt make mega redundant backups of their debt information....

I'm sure there are backups but how many 0-day backups in 1995 are we looking at

remember in the financial world losing a few days worth of data (say 1 week) is probably enough to wreak havoc

 

[ForumMaster]

all big companies will perform daily backups. they'll have DRP's with a complete ability to switch over immediately should the primary go. there are also usually additional backups made constantly that are stored in vaults. with modern technology like Storage virtualization and virtual server's, immediatly getting all your systems back online in minutes should be no problem. in fact, if that doesn't happen, the IT team should be fired.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: OCguy
What you are supposed to do is have the software round everything to the nearest penny, and have the difference put in your own account.

Can't reference the movie without making it a spoiler ...

good movie though 🙂

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: jonks
Can you really upload a virus from a mac to an alien mothership?

Yeah... everyone knows that aliens use Linux 🙂

Apparently, in that particular case, they used OS 9...

How did a 1996 movie use an OS introduced on October 23, 1999?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: scorpious
...would everyone's loans/credit debt/etc really disappear? Do a few key buildings maintain the records for ALL individuals in the US?

And if that indeed happened, what would be the repercussions? Would you ever have to pay back that debt you had?

Edited for PlasmaBomb

:beer::beer::beer:

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: scorpious
...would everyone's loans/credit debt/etc really disappear? Do a few key buildings maintain the records for ALL individuals in the US?

And if that indeed happened, what would be the repercussions? Would you ever have to pay back that debt you had?

Edited for PlasmaBomb

safe to assume that any major business would have off-site backups and solution mirrors (if not multiples).

I started getting into isilon storage this week and some of the stuff you can do with it is really neat.

 

[CZroe]

The real question is, would it be a big enough catastrophic blow resource and employment-wise to wipe out the company? In Fight Club, they did it supposedlywithout killing anyone, but what if the buildings were full and all the executives were now gone? Would thebank still have the will and means to survive just because your debt was still recorded? Also, no one said that the recovered debt would be enough to restore the whole bank, so it may not matter in the end..

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I had the impression that, since the club had at least gone coast-to-coast or possibly global, with individuals infiltrating each aspect of ordered society, they pulled off a much larger scale "demolition". HQs, data centers, remote centers, disaster recovery centers, for every type of financial/credit companies and gov't, all went up in smoke.

Basically, the ultimate domestic/global terrorist attack.

Same. The buildings they were looking at weren't the only ones that blew up. There might be some instances of data out there, but I think the message was that there was much more widespread infiltration and exploding of things.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: CZroe
The real question is, would it be a big enough catastrophic blow resource and employment-wise to wipe out the company? In Fight Club, they did it supposedlywithout killing anyone, but what if the buildings were full and all the executives were now gone? Would thebank still have the will and means to survive just because your debt was still recorded? Also, no one said that the recovered debt would be enough to restore the whole bank, so it may not matter in the end..

I'd assume that the shareholders would declare bankruptcy and make whatever money they can by selling the bank's debts to other companies.

 

[xanis]

Uhh... I don't think you need a spoiler warning for Fight Club. I'm pretty sure just about everyone and their mother has seen it by now. 😛

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: Xanis
Uhh... I don't think you need a spoiler warning for Fight Club. I'm pretty sure just about everyone and their mother has seen it by now. 😛

I think if you haven't seen a classic movie 10+ years after it came out, it's fine to assume that you're not too interested in it and/or have already heard the major spoilers.

Either way, it's no longer other people's responsibiliy to keep you insulated from a piece of popular culture till you get around to watching it on your deathbed.