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ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by hakfoo »

DangitBobby wrote: post #478
soniman wrote: post #371

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ATT has more debt than the Phillipines, it's no surprise that they're trying to cut costs.

Why do they have so much debt? Aren't they profitable?

I'd expect they've got a LOT of baggage. They have the ex-SBC copper-wire networks they probably wish they could shed (compare when Verizon basically refused to rebuild damaged infrastructure after Hurricane Sandy). But they also went all-in on pay TV, buying DirecTV at a premium price just as cord-cutting became a thing.

I wonder if we'll eventually see an "Amtrak" style nationalization for our POTS and related infrastructure. The firms with nothing sexier in their portfolio (Frontier) are frequently unhealthy, and the ones that do have other things to sell (Verizon, AT&) don't give it their full attention. It's no longer a competitive commercial product, but it serves enough of a public interest (i. e. not breaking a billion POTS-attached alarms, the high resiliency in natural disasters) that it can't just be dug up and scrapped for copper.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by Cyberthal »

5G conspiracy-theorist suicide bombing is now the strong likelihood, due to the demographics of the primary suspect and the use of an RV. Boomer independent sole-proprietor businessmen such as this electrician / internet IT guy trend heavily right-wing. His social isolation is evidenced by the gift of houses to an unaware single mom.

When the MSM loses credibility, people such as the bomber are set adrift to seek truth in hostile seas swarming with clickbait. Success in small business does not translate to epistemological accuracy. His failure to obtain a family to sublimate his death drive is a sign of societal breakdown. When sufficient numbers of combat-capable men fail to reproduce, they initiate violence, regardless of the proximate trigger. He reminds me of a less-intelligent, less-alienated Unabomber.

Given those facts, I'm comfortable deprecating the much weaker Dominion-AT&T angle.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by daraghfi »

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveill...

The vehicle was parked outside an AT&T Inc office, and the blast caused widespread telephone, internet and TV service outages in central Tennessee and parts of several neighboring states, including Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/tennessee-blast-idUSKBN2900C...

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by SigmundA »

daniellarusso wrote: post #414
SigmundA wrote: post #144

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A lot of cities in Florida have natural gas including mine. My cook top, hot water, dryer and pool heater run off it. Not used for heating the house as a heat pump is plenty for the mild winter.

What city in Florida? I have only seen this in newer planned communities, never city or county wide in Florida.

Clearwater, FL

https://www.clearwatergas.com

You can see a maps of the gas lines in FL and counties that have it here:

http://www.psc.state.fl.us/files/PDF/publications/consumer/b...

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by pjc50 »

jonny_eh wrote: post #482
pjc50 wrote: post #354

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Warnings tend to come with political bombings. But in this case we have a bombing with no manifesto - yet. A lot of effort for unclear purpose.

Hard not to jump to the conclusion that it was some Q-Anon inspired attack on "5G".

A news organization is now reporting this hypothesis too: https://twitter.com/JFinleyreports/status/134303899884809011...

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by nr2x »

voldacar wrote: post #471
nr2x wrote: post #464

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I stayed up late looking at network maps/etc trying to figure out any special features of the location, this was the only thing I could find. Likely coincidence, possibly not, but very high chance many people at 3-letter orgs have had a busy 24 hours as they also need to rule out some of the more exotic motives.

Where do you find such maps? I've looked before and it seems like a lot of the useful information isn't public

Lot of Snowden files still out there.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by [deleted] »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #221
corndoge wrote: post #186

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You probably saw the headlines about Cellebrite claiming to have "signal decryption" capabilities, which they did, provided they had the device in hand and unlocked https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/

Just like anyone with a private key and file — this site has tangibly shifted from ‘14 to now.

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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by dang »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #490
dang wrote: post #468

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You've been posting a ton of flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN. If you keep doing that we will have to ban you, so please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Dan, your "flamebait" characterization is grossly unreasonable. Nobody's flaming me, so if it were flamebait I'd deserve some kind of award for most astonishingly-ineffective flamebait in history. You ought to call it what it is: dissident speech. Dissonant, too. Does dissident speech get people banned from HN? PS, I admit that the (one) ascii-art text banner was silly and inappropriate.

I use the word to mean provocative/inflammatory comments that don't contain enough information to outweigh the provocation. Such comments tend to lead to flamewars.

Definitions aside, please don't post any more comments like that. We want substantive, thoughtful conversation on HN. Comments like "racist racist racist Fascist racist" are obviously not acceptable, quite apart from ascii art (though what you did with that was also not cool, and you did it at least three times).

Please don't post any more unsubstantive comments like these either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25435883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25428670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427868

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by dang »

vageli wrote: post #99

> I think bombers broadcasting warning messages is somewhat more common with certain types of political violence. I know weather underground bombings tried to choose times for their bombings when buildings would not be inhabited, not always successfully. Just wanted to point out that dressing things up as "political violence" is a disservice; violence performed in the commision of promoting an ideology is terrorism.…

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540820.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by monoideism »

concordDance wrote: post #381
monoideism wrote: post #288

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I know this is true. There are a handful of bots, or possibly HN itself, that immediately downvotes comments that HN will find popular, but that aren't "politically correct". Happens to me frequently that I receive an immediate 3-4 downvotes, only to end up with 10-20 upvotes and few subsequent downvotes. The only alternative -- that there are a handful of avid HNers who are on here 24 hours a day, who really hate di…

I think your alternative explanation is the correct one. Also, I've said a bunch of very non-PC things here and they don't always get downvotes.

> Also, I've said a bunch of very non-PC things here and they don't always get downvotes.

Again, these comments end up with a large number of upvotes. HN as a whole is pretty good about that.

It's the initial downvoting that is confusing to me. Why is the voting in the first ~5 minutes so different from later voting on these types of comments?

jlokier came up with a possible explanation, but I'm not fully convinced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543147

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