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Without seeming paranoid and in no particular order:
People that don't understand how insurance works. Plow into the back of my car while I'm stopped in traffic, then try to sue me because they have damage, their kids cavorting in a nearby lawn might have been injured, they don't have insurance and mine should cover this.
Electrical shock. I lit myself up as a kid with household current, which made me a bit apprehensive to learn that I was now a welder for the company.
Exchange of information between doctors. My dimwitted brother is a doctor, and if he discovers what doctor I've been seeing for a cold, everyone in the family knows the diagnosis before I do.
The phrase a friend's wife often uttered while I was helping to take care of her last year; "I need to go shopping." The translation of that is "I want out of the house, I'm on so many meds I can't drive, and I'm going to subject you to 6 hours of driving all over hell and gone, dealing my OCD while I'm on a little electric shopping cart and you're running around to keep up with me while I buy crud I don't need and nobody wants."
On the same stay, I came to fear my cell phone. It was her substitute for an intercom. Without fail, she'd call me as I was getting ready to use the toilet, take a shower, or go try to fix the radio in her car. The latter of which she'd call me about as soon as I had the tools out and was starting to troubleshoot. And after a half dozen calls, trips in to bring her something, almost making it back out to the car, she'd be ready to go shopping and wonder why I hadn't fixed the radio.
The same friends' daughter. At 13, we could be emptying portajohns and she claims she wants to see and help, which amounts to sitting in the truck, snivelling, sulking, complaining that she was bored and resetting the preset buttons to ghastly pop stations. Heaven forbid you mentioned places you'd been that she wanted to visit, done things she wanted to do, and heavens to murgatroids mention wearing spurs while riding a horse. Do some legwork, find her a riding stable, phone number website and all, and she'd blow up at you for telling her she had to call and find out more information such as rates, western or english riding style, and availability.
People that can't be bothered to think, or prefer to let someone even lesser qualified than themselves do the thinking for them. This is horrifying when you're in the business of aviation. Between misfuelings, pilots that don't know the difference between cans of paint and engine oil, and retired airline pilots with private planes that think the average line guy can do the preflight for them, you have a recipe for disaster.
Supervisors that believe they can do anything they want. Were it not for the potential for collateral damage, I would have been gleeful if a supervisor had blown himself up with a fuel truck that I'd warned him was an explosion hazard. I called him at home to alert him that I was taking the truck out of service and hiding the key. He had a spare, so he used it anyway; the dumb SOB thought it was funny when he found out it was an explosion hazard.
Being outed when I don't want to, or am not ready to be. My primary fields aren't that open to gay people, and it's a small community. I don't care how good you are at what you do, they'll find a reason to fire you and tell everyone else they know about you. You can crush a career with a well placed rumor about someone's sexuality.
Politicians that have never heard, or understood, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Grass roots lobbyists of the same cut; after a court dismissed charges of DUI for utter lack blood evidence, I spent half a year's salary and about half a year, fighting off lawsuits from MADD.
And we come to the one that's had me so frightened, that I've spent as much time out of town and out of immediate reach as possible. At Easter dinner, it was brought up that my nephew was getting his learners permit, which wouldn't have terrified me that much, were it not for the fact that my cousine opined that everyone should be able to drive a manual transmission. Heads swivelled in my direction like the guns of battleships taking aim; I have the only vehicle with a manual transmission in the family. The thought of having to relinquish the driver's seat of a new 4x4 with a high performance engine to a 15 year old chills me to the bone.
Jimmy Buffett's gone nothing on that event horizon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRvDLceTAdU
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Without seeming paranoid and in no particular order:
People that don't understand how insurance works. Plow into the back of my car while I'm stopped in traffic, then try to sue me because they have damage, their kids cavorting in a nearby lawn might have been injured, they don't have insurance and mine should cover this.
Electrical shock. I lit myself up as a kid with household current, which made me a bit apprehensive to learn that I was now a welder for the company.
Exchange of information between doctors. My dimwitted brother is a doctor, and if he discovers what doctor I've been seeing for a cold, everyone in the family knows the diagnosis before I do.
The phrase a friend's wife often uttered while I was helping to take care of her last year; "I need to go shopping." The translation of that is "I want out of the house, I'm on so many meds I can't drive, and I'm going to subject you to 6 hours of driving all over hell and gone, dealing my OCD while I'm on a little electric shopping cart and you're running around to keep up with me while I buy crud I don't need and nobody wants."
On the same stay, I came to fear my cell phone. It was her substitute for an intercom. Without fail, she'd call me as I was getting ready to use the toilet, take a shower, or go try to fix the radio in her car. The latter of which she'd call me about as soon as I had the tools out and was starting to troubleshoot. And after a half dozen calls, trips in to bring her something, almost making it back out to the car, she'd be ready to go shopping and wonder why I hadn't fixed the radio.
The same friends' daughter. At 13, we could be emptying portajohns and she claims she wants to see and help, which amounts to sitting in the truck, snivelling, sulking, complaining that she was bored and resetting the preset buttons to ghastly pop stations. Heaven forbid you mentioned places you'd been that she wanted to visit, done things she wanted to do, and heavens to murgatroids mention wearing spurs while riding a horse. Do some legwork, find her a riding stable, phone number website and all, and she'd blow up at you for telling her she had to call and find out more information such as rates, western or english riding style, and availability.
People that can't be bothered to think, or prefer to let someone even lesser qualified than themselves do the thinking for them. This is horrifying when you're in the business of aviation. Between misfuelings, pilots that don't know the difference between cans of paint and engine oil, and retired airline pilots with private planes that think the average line guy can do the preflight for them, you have a recipe for disaster.
Supervisors that believe they can do anything they want. Were it not for the potential for collateral damage, I would have been gleeful if a supervisor had blown himself up with a fuel truck that I'd warned him was an explosion hazard. I called him at home to alert him that I was taking the truck out of service and hiding the key. He had a spare, so he used it anyway; the dumb SOB thought it was funny when he found out it was an explosion hazard.
Being outed when I don't want to, or am not ready to be. My primary fields aren't that open to gay people, and it's a small community. I don't care how good you are at what you do, they'll find a reason to fire you and tell everyone else they know about you. You can crush a career with a well placed rumor about someone's sexuality.
Politicians that have never heard, or understood, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Grass roots lobbyists of the same cut; after a court dismissed charges of DUI for utter lack blood evidence, I spent half a year's salary and about half a year, fighting off lawsuits from MADD.
And we come to the one that's had me so frightened, that I've spent as much time out of town and out of immediate reach as possible. At Easter dinner, it was brought up that my nephew was getting his learners permit, which wouldn't have terrified me that much, were it not for the fact that my cousine opined that everyone should be able to drive a manual transmission. Heads swivelled in my direction like the guns of battleships taking aim; I have the only vehicle with a manual transmission in the family. The thought of having to relinquish the driver's seat of a new 4x4 with a high performance engine to a 15 year old chills me to the bone.
Jimmy Buffett's gone nothing on that event horizon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRvDLceTAdU
D
Cyber-terrorist attack?
snps#21
Imagine you wake up one morning, but it seems strange. It is unusually bright to be 6 o'clock in the morning. You look over at your alarm clock to find that it's off. "Holy crap! I'm late for work!" But when you get up, go to the bathroom, flip the light switch - nothing happens! The power must have gone off. "But I paid the electric bill!" You try to call your friend through your cell phone to tell them what happened. But you have no service! You go to a neighbor's house to get help, only to have them tell you that there is a major blackout throughout the neighborhood, maybe even the city! After a few hours of no electricity, the power comes back on. Suddenly, a media frenzy consumes the nation as the news of a major cyber-terrorist attack breaks out. Due to the downed national electrical grid, chaos erupted in cities across the nation as street lights went dead, car pile-ups numbered in the hundreds, and air traffic control centers briefly lost contact with all aircraft. Thousands are feared dead! Damage costs to the nation's telecommunications and physical infrastructure could mount into the tens, even hundreds of billions!
What do you think? Could it happen?
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possible. you know what's even easier? imagine October Sky (movie) but the kids strap on a micro-nuke. goes up 50,000 feet into the atmosphere and blows up over a large city. The nuke doesn't actually break anything. the EMP created fries electrical grids, kills pacemakers, makes planes fall out of the sky. Trillion dollars of damage. 6 months without electricity. rains planes all day, and panic sets in at NORAD. The military thinks someone is planning to nuke us.
a cyber attack to do what you suggested would have to be a large coordinated effort, maybe by hundreds of hackers acting in unison and hundreds of hours of hard work. Its way easier to illegally build a ammonium perchlorate multistage rocket and strap on some kind of EMP device and have it blow up over a large city, such as Los Angeles. Unless the terrorists get stopped by a cop taking the rocket to the launch site in the desert they can launch the device and have it to around 25,000 feet before anyone says, "hey, what's that on the radar?" then the device goes above 70,000 feet before jets are sent to investigate, and detonates at 90,000 feet. EMP will do 100x the damage of a cyber terrorist attack. unless the terrorists hijacks the data stored online these days any cyber attack is merely a 1 week to 1 month temporary obstruction of services.
EMP is destruction of the services. not disputation, destruction. it will fry ever electrical item within 80 miles radius, just to get the grid up and working requires the city to replace every transformer, transistors and computer on the grid. they have spares, but not to replace the grid that powers 13 million people. factories have a lead time of 28 to 50 weeks. minimum time is 3 months, but likely it may be a whole year before electricity is restored. no power, no water, no cell phones, no telephones, no lights, sends LA back to the 1910s.
Then there's the cars getting stalled out. 13 million people,10 million cars. due to a strong hippie movement in California there are few pre-1970s cars left. less than 2% of hte cars will be left working. the rest will be blocking roads, freeways, train tracks, in parking lots and wherever they happened to be when the EMP hit. most cars would require a complete replacement of the computer to be operational again. 10 million car insurance or warranty claims bankrupts every major car insurance company on the west coast. but since the roads are blocked nothing comes in or out. Some cars may of stalled out on train crossings, preventing trains from being used. There's also the issue ot the trains themselves being stalled out. Everything must be flown in. There's another problem. Los Angeles is home to one of the nation's largest and busiest airports- LAX. planes while not on the ground and not attached to the grid will be affected by EMP. Now this isn't an engine failure or other issue, the plane's electronics just dies. No steering, no landing equipment, nothing works. Airplanes are basically tin cans flying faster than they can fall. well then they don't fly fast enough they will fall. A few planes may crash on the LAX runway, the lucky ones won't. They'll plow into houses and business, freeways and tall buildings. how its lucky is because those people die instantly. The unlucky few that actually land everyone suffers injuries but there's no cars or working ambulances those people may suffer for days before dying.
Society impacts of a EMP attack is far greater than a cyber attack. Cyber attack- disruption of services. EMP - destruction. all factories are indefinitely closed. there's no work. there's no food. farmers can't harvest, they can't ship the food, and people can't make money to buy the food. food rots in the fields, because the machines are dead. drought hits LA- without electric pumps there's no fresh water. No transportation, no communications, LA goes from 2010 to the 1830s. Choas, looting, loss of order. Mass deaths. A few band together and manage to escape. the rest all die- starvation, dehydration, injuries.
There's also the military side of the story. cyber attack- wow we're vulnerable. EMP attack: we just got nuked. its hte cold war all over again. terror by cyber attack most people don't even understand it. the cold war on the other hand, many Americans still remember it. EMP isn't that well understood, but MAD is understood. a few cyber terrorists sets off an EMP, it just might spark a nuclear exchange!
So if that's just LA, if the nation got hit a cyber attack the way you described would look like a prank by some misguided youth, compared to what real cyber terrorists do: coordinated EMP attack. two 1 megaton nuclear bombs, one per coast, will wipe out the continental USA up to 10 years. the deaths, destruction, losses would be so big there's no recovery. While a cyber attack like yours may be possible, its not as good compared to an EMP attack. same work, 100x the damage. Honestly, if the power when off nationwide off for a few hour
possible. you know what's even easier? imagine October Sky (movie) but the kids strap on a micro-nuke. goes up 50,000 feet into the atmosphere and blows up over a large city. The nuke doesn't actually break anything. the EMP created fries electrical grids, kills pacemakers, makes planes fall out of the sky. Trillion dollars of damage. 6 months without electricity. rains planes all day, and panic sets in at NORAD. The military thinks someone is planning to nuke us.
a cyber attack to do what you suggested would have to be a large coordinated effort, maybe by hundreds of hackers acting in unison and hundreds of hours of hard work. Its way easier to illegally build a ammonium perchlorate multistage rocket and strap on some kind of EMP device and have it blow up over a large city, such as Los Angeles. Unless the terrorists get stopped by a cop taking the rocket to the launch site in the desert they can launch the device and have it to around 25,000 feet before anyone says, "hey, what's that on the radar?" then the device goes above 70,000 feet before jets are sent to investigate, and detonates at 90,000 feet. EMP will do 100x the damage of a cyber terrorist attack. unless the terrorists hijacks the data stored online these days any cyber attack is merely a 1 week to 1 month temporary obstruction of services.
EMP is destruction of the services. not disputation, destruction. it will fry ever electrical item within 80 miles radius, just to get the grid up and working requires the city to replace every transformer, transistors and computer on the grid. they have spares, but not to replace the grid that powers 13 million people. factories have a lead time of 28 to 50 weeks. minimum time is 3 months, but likely it may be a whole year before electricity is restored. no power, no water, no cell phones, no telephones, no lights, sends LA back to the 1910s.
Then there's the cars getting stalled out. 13 million people,10 million cars. due to a strong hippie movement in California there are few pre-1970s cars left. less than 2% of hte cars will be left working. the rest will be blocking roads, freeways, train tracks, in parking lots and wherever they happened to be when the EMP hit. most cars would require a complete replacement of the computer to be operational again. 10 million car insurance or warranty claims bankrupts every major car insurance company on the west coast. but since the roads are blocked nothing comes in or out. Some cars may of stalled out on train crossings, preventing trains from being used. There's also the issue ot the trains themselves being stalled out. Everything must be flown in. There's another problem. Los Angeles is home to one of the nation's largest and busiest airports- LAX. planes while not on the ground and not attached to the grid will be affected by EMP. Now this isn't an engine failure or other issue, the plane's electronics just dies. No steering, no landing equipment, nothing works. Airplanes are basically tin cans flying faster than they can fall. well then they don't fly fast enough they will fall. A few planes may crash on the LAX runway, the lucky ones won't. They'll plow into houses and business, freeways and tall buildings. how its lucky is because those people die instantly. The unlucky few that actually land everyone suffers injuries but there's no cars or working ambulances those people may suffer for days before dying.
Society impacts of a EMP attack is far greater than a cyber attack. Cyber attack- disruption of services. EMP - destruction. all factories are indefinitely closed. there's no work. there's no food. farmers can't harvest, they can't ship the food, and people can't make money to buy the food. food rots in the fields, because the machines are dead. drought hits LA- without electric pumps there's no fresh water. No transportation, no communications, LA goes from 2010 to the 1830s. Choas, looting, loss of order. Mass deaths. A few band together and manage to escape. the rest all die- starvation, dehydration, injuries.
There's also the military side of the story. cyber attack- wow we're vulnerable. EMP attack: we just got nuked. its hte cold war all over again. terror by cyber attack most people don't even understand it. the cold war on the other hand, many Americans still remember it. EMP isn't that well understood, but MAD is understood. a few cyber terrorists sets off an EMP, it just might spark a nuclear exchange!
So if that's just LA, if the nation got hit a cyber attack the way you described would look like a prank by some misguided youth, compared to what real cyber terrorists do: coordinated EMP attack. two 1 megaton nuclear bombs, one per coast, will wipe out the continental USA up to 10 years. the deaths, destruction, losses would be so big there's no recovery. While a cyber attack like yours may be possible, its not as good compared to an EMP attack. same work, 100x the damage. Honestly, if the power when off nationwide off for a few hour
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