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Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by dang »

nadieyninguno2 wrote: post #274
dang wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

And yet you don’t touch ‘greedo for the same conduct? You’re a pathetic bug-man.

Which comment(s) are you referring to?

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

bagels wrote: post #241
jrm4 wrote: post #58

Kind of surprising to not see the words "domestic terrorism" here, so let me be the first? This very well could be domestic terrorism and for now it would be prudent to treat it as such.

We don't know why it was done. Isn't intent of the action part of the formula for terrorism?

Yet. You are correct about credit claims being part of the formula, but it's not a hard requirement.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

lolbyutuwha wrote: post #222
greedo wrote: post #187

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These groups are already organized and coordinated. They mobbed/brigaded school board meetings in a coordinated fashion. They know who their allies are, and are now starting to act out in more violent fashion. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

>They mobbed/brigaded school board meetings in a coordinated fashion. It's a strange way to write "parents attended school board meetings".

Obvious shill is obvious.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

dang wrote: post #281
nadieyninguno2 wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet you don’t touch ‘greedo for the same conduct? You’re a pathetic bug-man.

Which comment(s) are you referring to? If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

idk Dan, maybe playing nice with the person you banned hours earlier who came back to throw racial insults at you isn't gonna lead to a redemption arc.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by dang »

anigbrowl wrote: post #284
dang wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which comment(s) are you referring to? If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

idk Dan, maybe playing nice with the person you banned hours earlier who came back to throw racial insults at you isn't gonna lead to a redemption arc.

That's not the issue. I get insulted all the time and after a while it doesn't count for much.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

posterboy wrote: post #236
anigbrowl wrote: post #15

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Yeah and no. Metcalf was similar in terms of targeting the transformer with rifle fire. But it was more professionally done (in terms of minimizing forensic footprint) and more hands-off, compared to the gate being pulled down by a truck as in this case. There are a number of potential suspects, but my feeling is that if there are no arrests in 72 hours you can expect a bunch of copycat attacks. Substations are very…

Not that it matters but I looked up ringer and I beleive wringer is essentially correct but the w was lost and I'm not sure. We used to speak of substitute players when a team needed to fill a spot with randoms, what is elsewhere called "ringer", nothing about cheating. There is an Old Norse word or something that is translated "fighter" . I don't remember its spelling and could not find the entry immediately. W woul…

That's interesting, wasn't aware of that particular meaning.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

TheGhostOfBoris wrote: post #244
anigbrowl wrote: post #175

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The person who posted that isn't just some random nutter, though. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain...

Au contraire After reading that article, I do think they qualify for the epithet "nutter".

But not random.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by bokohut »

The problem is vastly greater than being reported and for great reason obviously, copy cats. This past weekend nearly one million USD in losses alone were accrued by a regional power company at several regional substations via damage and theft. These incidents did result in power outages but not to the scale of affecting 5o,ooo people but instead only areas of several hundred. This problem is not isolated to only what you read in the news but is currently happening everywhere which in time will be impacting electrical costs and reliability for everyone. Lather in the supply chain issues and the depletion of on hand supply of drop-in replacements and some this winter, domestically and internationally, will be in the dark feeling the cold if electricity is their only means to survive.

https://www.wrde.com/news/elkton-car-fire-causes-50-000-in-d...

So maybe Motel 6 won't be leaving the light on for you as the core infrastructure problems are just getting started.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

dang wrote: post #285
anigbrowl wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

idk Dan, maybe playing nice with the person you banned hours earlier who came back to throw racial insults at you isn't gonna lead to a redemption arc.

That's not the issue. I get insulted all the time and after a while it doesn't count for much.

I should have been clearer; being nice to an obvious troll that you banned just a short while earlier is likely to invite more trolling rather than less, which negatively impacts everyone else. It's great that you're not taking it personally, but it doesn't seem good for HN.

I may have pointed it out before, but there is data demonstrating that your approach works poorly compared to alternatives: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3178876.3186141

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by Trouble_007 »

FYI: Power Outages - North Carolina : https://poweroutage.us/area/state/nort>

Edit to add below;

OK! Some questions, looking at the News aerial video shot of one of the switch yard and transformer,

  it looked to me, judging from the size of the primary input insulators to be about 110kv to 220kv input.
Why shoot up two sub-stations? - Is the area a ring-feed, if so did the perpetrator/s have that knowledge?
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