IED(EDS) sufferer and spectrum surfer. You probably won’t like what I have to say.
TIL and thank you for pointing me to movies I’ve never seen.
Reminds me of the old days of the internet when people still talked about niche things they loved without judgment. If any gods exist may all of them richly bless you with exactly as many pleasant surprises as you desire.
Still in the ‘acceptable in a polo at the lawn party’ crowd
That said, if someone told you “I was on the rowing team back at university” you’d have decent odds his name would be Chet or similar.
import crc
Ok, so how do you calculate the correct value when the database keeps dumping new arbitrary length records at roughly 10 per second? And figure it out quick because once that record hits finalization in roughly four minutes, it’s going to puke out a record dump that contains every test done since the database was stood up a decade ago and there isn’t enough HD space in the cluster for even half of it.
Three minutes now, do you have that number? Two minutes fifty seconds…
So out of the box a lot of equipment has a set of standard default passwords, you can usually get them from the company’s own manuals or websites
A lot of people also never bother setting up their own passwords, so a lot of these devices are insecure.
If you are walking around a place, and see they offer free wifi, you can connect and the landing page usually gives you an idea of the manufacturer of their equipment. You look up the manuals and it will tell you the default IP address and login passwords for the management console. Try them. If they work, congrats you are a hacker and technically a criminal (so don’t do this at all ever even in minecraft)
If the site is REALLY STUPID none of these have changed, and from any web browser you can do anything you want to the network. You’ll need to learn how those kinds of devices work because the UIs aren’t designed for ease but you can still navigate them from a phone.
Unify is the most common midgrade equipment used by small to medium sites, and even as part of larger networks for campus style mesh networks but it’s unlikely a team with the skill to set that up would leave default passwords on
It angers me even more than normal that this is so fucking true
I loved that entire scene for all the wrong reasons
My entire career was applying for places that regularly drug tested while being an active cannabis user.
I had a whizzinator, realistic looking penis with a bag of synthetic urine
I’d used it about 30 times and replaced it on occasion, never once even suspected
If companies can lie to you then you can lie to companies
Rowing and sailing they get right because they are upper middle class activities, form which screenwriters are almost exclusively picked
I constantly get surprised looks from the people I deal with when they learn I don’t know anything about sailing.
I hate to say it but the pilot to Stargate Atlantis almost had me not even watch the series
so okay, this game somehow accurately maps an alien reactor technology down to each individual particle and instead of running several billion iterations of procedural testing they make it into an MMO that paradoxically only ever has 1 player and they solve the equation by walking into the correct room…
Every finicky technology always works the first time unless it’s plot-relevant
No paper jams ever unless it is funny or plot relevant.
It took me getting obsessed with Kerbal Space Program to figure out my understanding of orbital physics was absolutely ridiculously bad
“What do you mean you have to go sideways to go up?!”
Hollywood is a facsimile of reality that now we are being punished for not conforming to, despite it being illusion
Modern western culture worships image over substance, and Hollywood is 100% image
that really is a great way to sum it up.
Funny to think a John Woo film could make both marksmen and sword practitioners wince for different parts while cheering for the other
The ‘but I am not left handed’ duel in The Princess Bride is about as close as can be expected
And Achilles jumping at the beginning of Troy was just comical.
FUCKING THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN THINKING THAT FOR DECADES
Now you’re making me want to write a story about a high stakes embroidery counterfeiting ring
Even worse the Hollywood Effect makes the stuff that I do that’s ACTUALLY impressive look like routine.
Fuckers will literally clap if I unjam their printer but manually recalculate a CRC header for a mission critical live database without a second of downtime and they’re like ‘Ok but isn’t that your job?’
BITCH LESS THAN 5 PEOPLE IN THE STATE CAN DO THIS
But you just typed in some numbers
BITCH I CANNOT EXPLAIN IN UNDER FOUR HOURS HOW TO FIGURE OUT THE RIGHT NUMBERS TO USE
As a kid watching Miami Vice, except for a few external shots I was like “Umm… that’s not miami…”
And the few shots that were kind of just had Sonny and Rico walk-talking past buildings that were like eight blocks apart from each other in the same conversation
If there is a god to bless people, then people like you deserve it the most.
you have me intrigued