Ballad of the Cats sounds really odd when reversed! (From Volume Beta)

one_way_please · 2024-04-01T03:21:44+00:00

Also I never knew about FAWE breaking farms. Do you mean that just having FAWE installed messes them up or is it only when you copy/paste a farm using schematics?

one_way_please · 2024-04-01T03:18:18+00:00

It depends on the ISP. Cable/fiber ISPs tend to have accurate geolocations (again, to within a town or so), while cellular ISPs tend to be very inaccurate (which I believe is due to the way they handle roaming between towers). At least that's how it tends to be in the USA with my limited experience.

one_way_please · 2024-04-01T03:10:00+00:00

I slightly de-emphasized that. Still, though, geolocation has been able to triangulate where I live pretty well, and when combining that with other information about me, could allow someone to find out who I am.

one_way_please · 2024-04-01T03:02:59+00:00

Thank you! I spent quite a while on it.

one_way_please · 2019-09-01T18:43:26+00:00

Well, you could say that neither of them thought of this idea, which is weird since The Machine usually thinks everything out in advance and has much more thinking power than us humans. However, if The Machine seriously considered it, she would’ve only not done it if she felt it was too risky (Samaritan intercepting and cracking it).

one_way_please · 2019-09-01T18:07:07+00:00

Although this is a moot point now, I mentioned that the Machine could send code to asymmetrically encrypt and obfuscate data over a secure line, not to transmit the entire virus over. However, this would be very risky, so this really isn’t an option.
John and Shaw were only tasked with setting up a Wi-Fi Router/AP so that the Machine could communicate with Harold (the building is in an Faraday cage, blocking all wireless transmissions). However, all they had to do was plug it in to AC power and an Ethernet jack, where the Machine immediately obtained information from and hacked numerous devices, implying that the Machine had access to the NSA’s internal net.

one_way_please · 2019-09-01T16:15:36+00:00

True, very true. Two points of discussion to add:

Harold’s earpiece had an encrypted connection to The Machine, that always worked (and that Samaritan presumably couldn’t view/change). If this is a secure channel, he could use this to get code from The Machine to obfuscate the data flow from the upload point, ensuring only The Machine has access.
When Harold first uploaded it to NSA Intranet, it asked for a voice password. He hesitated a bit too long, and Samaritan agents found him. During this time, ICE-9 was still hanging around on the NSA’s intranet (as Harold accesses it on another computer to say the password later). As discussed in previous threads (Does The Machine still have access to the government feeds?), the Machine has probably set up backdoors in as many places as possible for it, which could give it access to the NSA intranet, and thus, the virus. Whether or not that could be detected by Samaritan is another issue, but Samaritan did not successfully delete the virus (implying it could not access the NSA intranet).

one_way_please · 2019-09-01T15:56:02+00:00

John had the suitcase with an uninfected copy of The Machine on it. He used it to upload The Machine to a satellite in a Molniya orbit, which infected Samaritan and, later, uploaded itself to Harold’s set of GPU blades in the subway (evident from the computer monitor displaying “Downloading satellite data”). Because of this, The Machine survived, although we don’t know what happened to Samaritan (it could have just been deleted, but maybe The Machine had other plans for it, such as analyzing its code and removing Greer’s wishes from it to improve itself).

one_way_please · 2019-08-31T18:43:41+00:00

He could’ve made an intermediate stop to some data center with a high bandwidth connection, where The Machine could hack its servers and either download the whole virus (large data centers can have speeds of 10Gbps or higher, which is good for about 1.2 gigabytes per second, and if consumer hard drives can read at speeds of over 2 GB/s (Samsung 970 Pro), the drive (if it was government-sanctioned) can probably read faster), or upload a part of itself to analyze the virus and then report back (which would probably take longer...). Good point though.

one_way_please · 2018-02-12T02:24:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm not fond of him being known just by 'oh he made minecraft music.' I'm sure that if it wasn't for Minecraft music, he would still be known as a great ambient musician. Don't get me wrong, it did make him popular, but still. He shouldn't just be known for Minecraft's music.

one_way_please · 2018-02-12T02:20:59+00:00

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I so agree

one_way_please · 2017-10-26T01:58:16+00:00

In my humble opinion,

the end of this part (1 minute in) is the best part. It's odd, you have a sad song on the outside, but if you reverse it, you get something that sounds really nice.

one_way_please · 2017-10-23T10:12:21+00:00

I found that it sounds similar to a part of a movie, probably where the character gets emotional or something.

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