Panic buying gas

[JayMysteri0]

Holup

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That's one way to make a Tesla payment.

 

[JayMysteri0]

Spoiler: Warning: You canNOT unsee this. You've been warned!

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1393309565970681858/

 

[Huntn]

These keep getting dumber.

Ok, what is in the laundry basket besides holes?

 

[Huntn]

Holup

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This is what I look like when stocking up for a hurricane, to run the generator, but they go in the back of my SUV.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Woman Bursts Into Flames After Rolling Car Full Of Hoarded Gas​

Woman Bursts Into Flames After Rolling Car Full Of Hoarded Gas

A South Carolina woman found herself on fire after rolling a Pontiac G6 during short a police chase. The hoard of gasoline in back exploded, setting both the car and its driver alight.

jalopnik.com

 

[Runs For Fun]

Woman Bursts Into Flames After Rolling Car Full Of Hoarded Gas​

Woman Bursts Into Flames After Rolling Car Full Of Hoarded Gas

A South Carolina woman found herself on fire after rolling a Pontiac G6 during short a police chase. The hoard of gasoline in back exploded, setting both the car and its driver alight.

jalopnik.com

Why do these situations always seem to bring out all the extremely stupid people?

 

[Renzatic]

Why do these situations always seem to bring out all the extremely stupid people?

Situations like this are when they're finally allowed to shine their brightest.

 

[thekev]

Situations like this are when they're finally allowed to shine their brightest.

You quoted the wrong one there..

Woman Bursts Into Flames After Rolling Car Full Of Hoarded Gas​

Woman Bursts Into Flames After Rolling Car Full Of Hoarded Gas

A South Carolina woman found herself on fire after rolling a Pontiac G6 during short a police chase. The hoard of gasoline in back exploded, setting both the car and its driver alight.

jalopnik.com

^ See your response should have quoted this if you're going to make human candle jokes.

 

[Renzatic]

^ See your response should have quoted this if you're going to make human candle jokes.

WAY TO EXPLAIN THE JOKE THERE, KEV! GEEZ!

 

[thekev]

WAY TO EXPLAIN THE JOKE THERE, KEV! GEEZ!

I was wondering, because you quoted the response to it rather than the original reference. Alternatively, you could have gone with a Fantastic Four reference.

 

[lizkat]

Holup

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Lotta people fishing for Darwin awards while hoarding something because the internetz said people were hoarding it and there'd never be any more.

The face we show the world sometimes is spectacularly stupid.

It's like waving to the leaders of countries that bear us no good will and hollering "We're not prepared for anything but we'll BELIEVE anything and we stand for exactly one thing: ME FIRST." Not us first. Me first.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Holup

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Congratulations. You’ve found the DUMBEST thing on the internet.

Where’s a cop when you need one?

 

[Renzatic]

I was wondering, because you quoted the response to it rather than the original reference. Alternatively, you could have gone with a Fantastic Four reference.

Well, flame on would've been a little TOO on the nose, you know?

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Holup

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Telsa model Pinto X

 

[JayMysteri0]

Read an article earlier saying there’s evidence the execs shut the plant down, not the actual hackers, but the accounting software possibly being compromised and they were worried they wouldn’t be able to charge customers accurately. Guess they were unaware of how to place a Staples order for pens and paper.

Gizmodo has their version of this

The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, But Its Owner Shut It Down To Make Sure They'd Get Paid Correctly

The cyber attack that shutdown the Colonial pipeline causing a gas panic and stoking fears of gasoline shortages, didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried about how they’d collect payments.

jalopnik.com

The cyber attack that shutdown the Colonial pipeline causing a gas panic and stoking fears of gasoline shortages, didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried about how they’d collect payments.

Yes, the fuel-carrying pipeline was shut down last week in order to prevent a company that is entrusted with what should be a public utility from enduring an accounting headache.

Zero Day’s Kim Zetter had noted this may be the case and CNN confirmed it in a later report, emphasis mine:

The company halted operations because its billing system was compromised, three people briefed on the matter told CNN, and they were concerned they wouldn’t be able to figure out how much to bill customers for fuel they received.

One person familiar with the response said the billing system is central to the unfettered operation of the pipeline. That is part of the reason getting it back up and running has taken time, this person said.

Asked about whether the shutdown was prompted by concerns about payment, the company spokesperson said, “In response to the cybersecurity attack on our system, we proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.”

At this time, there is no evidence that the company’s operational technology systems were compromised by the attackers, the spokesperson added

Zetter pointed out the affected system handled the billing in a report prior to CNN’s, wherein she cited Colonial itself. The company said that the hack affected its corporate network and not the operation of the pipeline:

In a statement published Saturday, it said the ransomware infected only its corporate IT network. Although the operational network that controls its pipelines and distributes fuel is separate from the corporate network and wasn’t infected, Colonial said it temporarily shut down the pipelines as a precaution to prevent the infection from spreading.

Meaning that the pipeline was fine, and all its gasoline was sitting.

Meanwhile, Colonial had to get its corporate network running in order to process what amount of fuel went to which of its clients, as Zetter noted:

Colonial’s operational network uses automation systems to control and monitor the flow of fuel from refineries and tank farms into Colonial’s pipeline, and from Colonial’s pipeline into the tanks and transportation facilities belonging to suppliers and distributors.

As if that weren’t enough, CNN also disclosed the hackers that breached Colonial’s automated billing were likely “novices” who miscalculated their own actions:

Among the signs that the hackers were novices is the fact that they chose a high-risk target that deals in a low-margin business, meaning the attack was unlikely to yield the kind of payout experienced ransomware actors are typically looking for, the sources told CNN.

“This was a gross miscalculation on the hackers’ part,” a source previously told CNN, noting the hackers likely had not anticipated that their attack would lead to the shutdown of one of the US’ largest refined products pipeline system, spurring emergency White House meetings and a whole-of-government response

 

[SuperMatt]

Gizmodo has their version of this



The company halted operations because its billing system was compromised, three people briefed on the matter told CNN, and they were concerned they wouldn’t be able to figure out how much to bill customers for fuel they received.

One person familiar with the response said the billing system is central to the unfettered operation of the pipeline. That is part of the reason getting it back up and running has taken time, this person said.

Asked about whether the shutdown was prompted by concerns about payment, the company spokesperson said, “In response to the cybersecurity attack on our system, we proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.”

At this time, there is no evidence that the company’s operational technology systems were compromised by the attackers, the spokesperson added


In a statement published Saturday, it said the ransomware infected only its corporate IT network. Although the operational network that controls its pipelines and distributes fuel is separate from the corporate network and wasn’t infected, Colonial said it temporarily shut down the pipelines as a precaution to prevent the infection from spreading.





As if that weren’t enough, CNN also disclosed the hackers that breached Colonial’s automated billing were likely “novices” who miscalculated their own actions:

Governments all over the nation bend over backwards for the folks running the pipelines, letting them dig in places nobody else would be allowed to.

Then, these providers of critical infrastructure decide to cause a panic by shutting everything down and blaming a cyberattack, when the real issue is that they might not be able to bill people… as if all their customers would take the opportunity of the billing system going down to screw them over? Gotta love it.

 

[User.45]

 

[JayMysteri0]

Now the UK is experiencing a fuel crisis of their own.

With gas pumps still dry, Britain brings in the army

Britain will from Monday deploy military tanker drivers to deliver fuel to gas stations, many of which were still dry on Friday after a chaotic week that has seen panic-buying, fights at the pumps and drivers hoarding petrol in water bottles.

www.reuters.com

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Britain will from Monday deploy military tanker drivers to deliver fuel to gas stations, many of which were still dry on Friday after a chaotic week that has seen panic-buying, fights at the pumps and drivers hoarding petrol in water bottles.

With an acute shortage of truck drivers straining supply chains to breaking point the government said on Friday 200 military tanker personnel, 100 of which are drivers, will complete their training over the weekend and start deliveries on Monday. read more

“While the situation is stabilising, our Armed Forces are there to fill in any critical vacancies and help keep the country on the move by supporting the industry to deliver fuel to forecourts," said defence minister Ben Wallace.

Shortages of workers in the wake of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic have sown disarray through some sectors of the economy, disrupting deliveries of fuel and medicines and leaving more than 100,000 pigs backed up on farms.


Retailers said more than 2,000 gas stations were dry and Reuters reporters across London and southern England said dozens of pumps were still closed.

Queues of often irate drivers snaked toward those gas stations that were still open in London.

 

[User.45]

Now the UK is experiencing a fuel crisis of their own.

A hilarious way to end your empire which was still disproportionately capitalizing from its past conquests by having the lowest language barrier in the EU.

 

[SuperMatt]

A hilarious way to end your empire which was still disproportionately capitalizing from its past conquests by having the lowest language barrier in the EU.

They will be feeling the pain of Brexit for a long time. Turns out that letting the xenophobes run things doesn’t really work out too well. Sure, they will get mad and vote out Boris now, but since it was a referendum, a majority of Brits can only blame themselves.