No. THX-1138 would have been filmed decades before these tunnels existed. I think that was filmed in San Francisco subway tunnels that were still under construction in the early 70’s.

These are the Boston tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

I know a guy who spent 40+ years in special effects. He now goes around giving talks/demonstrations about it all. He has a series of photos showing how a typical car is rigged to explode into a fireball.

Depending on what the director is looking for, steel horns are welded to the car frame inside each door, the hood, trunk, windshield, etc. The horns will direct the fireball out the car when ignited. Each horn holds an explosive similar to gasoline connected to a detonator.

After that, each window is wired with a squib, a small explosive smaller than a coin that will shatter the window about 1/10th of a second before the fireballs are ignited.

If necessary the hood, trunk, and/or doors are also wired with smaller explosives to pop them open immediately before the fireball as well.

All those smaller explosives are needed to get the doors/windows out of the way for the main fireball explosives. The fireball doesn’t have enough punch to push the doors open on its own, and it also provides significantly more control of the whole explosion. (You’re not guessing where the windshield might get blown to, etc).

Part of the Tom Cruise movie Knight and Day was filmed in Boston. There’s a car chase scene through the underground highway tunnels at one point. Anybody that’s driven here for more than a few days would recognize that there’s no way the chase could play out the way it did. The tunnels don’t interconnect the way the movie shows it.

It definitely needs to be private. If an attacker can obtain both the password hashes and the salt(s) (via the same database vulnerability for example) then they have everything they need to run offline attacks against the passwords.

It could be an older codebase that’s using an inline encryption algorithm as opposed to a hash. Using an encryption algorithm with a private key would result in varying length outputs.

Proper hashing of a password includes a salt that should be kept private. This means the password should definitely be passed to the server in plaintext. The server adds the salt to the password, then hashes it.

This adds more protection should an attacker somehow manage to get access to your hashed passwords. Even if they identify the type of hashing mechanism used it will prevent the use of rainbow tables, dictionary attacks, etc. against the hashes.

Is “MS13” overlaid on top of the shells?

Well in some cases it makes sense to do this with solar. The state I live in allows us to sell renewable energy credits for all the electricity our panels generate. It’s all managed by a third party, and just requires that my inverter tells them exactly how much was generated.

Building on this, see if you can collect pricing over time where Comcast is the only option vs. places where Comcast faces competition from other providers. I’ve lived in Comcast-only markets and where they compete with Verizon FiOS. Their pricing when forced to compete is often more reasonable.

I’m dating myself:

• Hogans Heroes
• Mission: Impossible (the TV series from the 60’s & 70’s, not the movie franchise that’s just a Tom Cruise adrenaline fantasy)

Watch it suddenly become a problem when Mar-a-Lago floods.

It’s state-by-state in the US. Some states allow it if just one person wants to record a call. The others require both/all people to know and approve. The fun part is when somebody in a one-party state calls somebody in a two-party state…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)

I’m a huge fan of the original Mission Impossible TV series from the 60’s and 70’s. I’ve watched the entire series a few times now. I can’t stand what Cruise did to the franchise, especially since he basically plays the same thrill seeking character in all his recent movies.

Depends on the airplane. My brother used to fly a stunt plane. It was designed such that he had to wear a parachute just to sit in it properly. If the engine quit, it had the glide characteristics of a rock…

My understanding is that they’ve loaded the datacenter with far more than the local utility can provide power for. So they’re reportedly running a number of generators 24/7 to provide enough electricity.

He doesn’t want to go to Mars himself. He wants to get all the undesirables to go there.

Passwords in movies NEVER adhere to best practices. They’re virtually always a word or phrase that’s all lowercase, has no numbers, no punctuation, etc.

I volunteered with the Auxiliary for 10 years and met a lot of active duty & reserve coasties during that time. Also have two uncles that went to the USCG Academy. I have the utmost respect for the organization as a whole given they have members who will willingly jump out of helicopters in the middle of a hurricane to try to rescue complete strangers, no matter who they are.

Even in a very optimistic timeline it would take years for Tesla cars to suck less. I don’t think Tesla has that kind of time any more, now that there’s growing competition from big automakers like Honda & Toyota as well as Hyundai, Volkswagen, etc. and all the other EV companies like Rivian.

Those established automakers have a long history of innovating & listening to customers. As their expansion into the EV market grows, they’re going to put a lot of pressure on Tesla to innovate as well, and that doesn’t mean bowing to whatever whims the CEO has.