Pipeline hacked/the greedy line up

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Svnla

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Just saw on the midday local news. SC, GA, VA = at least 50% or higher of gas stations are out of gas. Many people wait for hours to get gas.
 

hal2kilo

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Just saw on the midday local news. SC, GA, VA = at least 50% or higher of gas stations are out of gas. Many people wait for hours to get gas.
Fuel only flows 5 mi per hour though the pipeline. Since panic buying was out of control, and everyone emptied the system, it will take a few more days. Think infrastructure update, and infrastructure cyber security update required to avoid these these occurring in the future.
 

WelshBloke

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you know what? here the fuck we go again. Why the fuck is that these days, whenever some dumbfuck problem with communal dumbfuckery is going on, here is webloooker at the center of it all. Always, always, always being wrong. Always doing the absolute worst fucking thing that is plainly the cause of everyone's problems.

Because he's a coward that only knows how to respond to things with the fight or flight response.
His fear kicks in so he panic buys and to assuage his fight response he tries to piss people off on the Internet.
Its a bit tragic really.
 

allisolm

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Just saw on the midday local news. SC, GA, VA = at least 50% or higher of gas stations are out of gas. Many people wait for hours to get gas.

Went to get gas this morning in northern VA and drove in directly to the pump. Gas available and no waiting. I think we got lucky.
 

MtnMan

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I don't get it....
You take the oil out of the ground, you process it into gasoline, you slap it into a pipeline, you load it onto a tanker, you drive to the gas station(s), so what's to hack? :p
The computers that manage the pipeline...

They ship multiple products through the same pipe. Computers sort that out
 
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Vic

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Fuel only flows 5 mi per hour though the pipeline. Since panic buying was out of control, and everyone emptied the system, it will take a few more days. Think infrastructure update, and infrastructure cyber security update required to avoid these these occurring in the future.
Just-in-time logistics be black magic to many, it would seem. Especially those who create shortages by stockpiling against the threat of shortages.
 
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Pohemi

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My town is in a particular 'end-of-route' area for the fuel tanker trucks, so it's always a cent or two higher here than 15 miles north on the highway, or 30 miles south. (eastern-central WI on Lake Michigan)

Still not seeing abnormal lines here in town. Tomorrow evening might be a better showing from 5 til 8pm, but that's kind of typical busiest time with people getting paid at the end of the week.
 
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Whew! Good thing we're covered!

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IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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Now I remember why Jesse Kelly lost his election in my district. Even nut job McSally won the district but not Jesse Kelly.
 

dank69

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Fuel only flows 5 mi per hour though the pipeline. Since panic buying was out of control, and everyone emptied the system, it will take a few more days. Think infrastructure update, and infrastructure cyber security update required to avoid these these occurring in the future.
Plus all those Adobe updates they've been putting off.
 

pcgeek11

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Jun 12, 2005
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ah, so same old same old: "Didn't effect me, doesn't matter," and a little bit of "FYGM."

typical.

No one made up anything, but it did provide you another opportunity to expose your complete lack of empathy and ability to participate in humanity outside of anything that directly effects you. Of Course you didn't learn anything from the much bigger crisis that didn't directly impact you, absorb anything to inform your future behavior to such events. But man, when the smaller version of the same thing happened, and it did affect you--still no change in learned behavior beyond RAGE at all the people that actually weren't responsible.

lol, and it's only a "crisis" because it didn't impact you. What a disingenuous twerp.

Way to totally misinterpret what I said!

The idiots I was referring to are the assholes hoarding gas...

Way to go. Who is in a rage?
 
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Muse

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Amazing to watch a limited supply issue blossom into a full blown panic because people are dumb.
witness the toilet paper run a year ago. I didn't buy any. I can't imagine how people use so much toilet paper.
 
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Muse

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So, they paid the hacker's $5,000,000 to restore access to their computer systems.

I have to wonder. How did the hackers do this? Lock up the data with some glitch that couldn't be detected and released without privy data? Basically embed a Trojan horse the nature of which can't be detected? Seems to me it couldn't be simple data access, because any database of any consequence should be backed up.

I also wonder how hackers can get their booty and remain anonymous. That's a weird challenge, one that's been thought about and worked on by a lot of modern criminals, yeah, but still I don't understand how it can be done.