More likely someone was scamming Spotify. Artists get paid per song play, not per minute of stream time, so a bunch of short songs can cost Spotify much more than otherwise. Someone figured out how to fake song plays by different users, probably by hacking the accounts of people with weak passwords and simply using them to play a lot of one-minute rubbish when the legitimate user was offline.
I think it's used for scareware, as in "Microsoft is locking your computer due to detected hacking, etc. Hackers are stealing your credit cards and personal information. Please call our technician, etc." And of course you cannot escape the windows that keep opening unless you spam the escape key. Actually, that's a different exploit but prolly used for the same purpose.
It appears to be a case of credential stuffing. Credentials stolen from other sites were run against Mega looking for hits. Since many people have multiple accounts at Mega full of stuff they don't care to protect it is not surprising they found so many hits. I switched to unique passwords on everything after someone got into my paid Spotify account--what an incredible nuisance that was--but until you get burned it's easy to be complacent, especially about a throwaway download account.
Also decoded: "Vreejack is the True King of Slashdot. Long May He Reign." They left that bit out of the article, but you can decode it from the D.B. Cooper letters at your leisure.
I believe the spare was a dummy, not the main chute. The fact that he did not recognize the clearly marked dummy chute (among others) is the reason that Rackstraw was eliminated as a suspect. "D. B. Cooper", whoever he was, did not know what he was doing with a parachute. He had no protection from the insane chill factor and the extreme buffeting as he exited the plane.
Bethesda has a track record of being somewhat competent here, so I would assume they knew what they were doing when they bought the code. Furthermore, they had to consult a lawyer before filing suit, so unless this is some edge case where the facts are hazy they probably have a good case. Did the contractor think they could develop a library "for internal use" thinking they could re-skin it and use it over and over again? What a deal! Especially since Bethesda probably paid them to develop this "library."
If eliminating oxygen and water from the air are so important, it would be fairly easy to seal a server behind a sheet of vinyl and purge the air inside with nitrogen. Or just fill the system with dry air if Nitrogen bothers you. The problem now is that the server exchanges air with the larger room, where people are breathing. There is no reason that professionally maintained servers need to be exposed to atmosphere outside of occasional maintenance.
If AMOC stopped then the climate of Europe would line up with that of its corresponding North American latitudes. Which is to say, it would be come like Canada, not the North Pole. New Foundland is snowier than contemporary France but the latter's albedo would not significantly change. In any event, the AMOC is unlikely to stop any century soon without a significant forcing event. Perhaps if a meteor hits Greenland.
I didn't like it at first, but after letting it sit in my desk drawer for a year I tried it out again and loved it. Especially the tribute level, that made my skin crawl.
I always wanted to do a story re-write that would incorporate scripted NPCs as in Half Life. As it is there is just you, alone, finding bits and pieces of old recorded emails. Finding actual, living survivors would add a huge dimension to the game.
"How does combining canned fruit cocktail, mayonnaise, and mini-marshmallows sound to you? I can tell you how it sounded back then, it sounded exciting."
I have never heard of this beast, but I am intrigued. When did it go extinct? And where can I get a recipe? Or should I just begin experimenting?
The southern Democrats were the party of racism and anti-black terrorism. They were conservative, anti-negro, aristocratic and anti-democratic. They were opposed by the southern Republican party, which was a working-class party that attracted all african-americans and 10-40% of the white vote depending on the southern state. Once Reconstruction was abandoned, the aristocratic whites in the KKK assassinated all of the african-american leaders and terrorized the rest into submission, thus ending the southern experiment in democracy for a century. The southern Democratic party was the party of white supremacy, and there was no other party. This ended in the 1960s, when leading racists in the southern Dems, realizing the distance between themselves and the national party, first founded their own explicitly southern party (the Dixiecrats) and then finally relented and joined the GOP, which was their natural home.
In this case it means: "Stupid headline; clickbait that will lie or disappoint." The only possible news here is that NASA is doing something stupid, but I cannot be bothered to check for sure.
Information cannot be delivered faster than Einstein's constant even using quantum entanglement. The concept is well-understood. Would you read an article about how NASA discovered how to make your car run more efficiently by using tap water instead of gasoline?
It's a basic principle that branded products will lose market share if people are momentarily forced to try something different. This is why Kraft foods spends so much money maintaining a cheese reserve; if--due to some temporary disaster--there was a shortage of cheese then they might not be able to keep shelves stocked with their brand and loyal customers would be forced to try something they might discover that they prefer.
What a great "idea". Unfortunately you still have to divide first in order to determine your multiplicand.
For example. Dividing by 34.527. How do you know what to multiply by instead? Do you have a very, very large lookup table? Now there is a solution. Get rid of multiplication AND division and just use lookup tables. That should be fast.
It was an accident in the same way that drinking and driving recklessly through a crowded schoolyard while fleeing from a bank robbery is just an "accident." Except the bank robbers still got away with a fortune and are still robbing banks.
I see cars on fire on Google traffic reports quite often. I had to make a detour earlier today because of one. Otherwise I have only seen one in my life, when my professor at Brooklyn Polytech forgot to put the oil cap back on his engine. He rode into the parking lot with a lot of smoke coming from under the hood. Then it ignited. We couldn't say for sure whether or not he was better of keeping the hood closed.
This is true. If you eliminate all the nitrogen from the air what is left is about three pounds of oxygen. Trouble is, they didn't use three pounds. Normally they used five pounds on space flights but apparently it was normal to flush out nitrogen by overpressuring with O2 before launch.
Ironically, it was Gus Grissom who's Mercury capsule sank on landing after its hatch bolts inexplicably blew. The investigation and redesign resulted in the Apollo 1 hatch, which opened inward. IIRC the cabin was not just pure O2 but was actually over-pressured for a completely different test for leaks in the cabin. [WTF?] Of course once the fire started heating the air, the overpressure would have been insanely high. No human could have opened the hatch against that force.
Studied these in Nuc Pwr School. I imagined some engineers saying to themselves "It's completely crazy, but they aren't paying us to warn them about that."
Slashdot Mirror
More likely someone was scamming Spotify. Artists get paid per song play, not per minute of stream time, so a bunch of short songs can cost Spotify much more than otherwise. Someone figured out how to fake song plays by different users, probably by hacking the accounts of people with weak passwords and simply using them to play a lot of one-minute rubbish when the legitimate user was offline.
I think it's used for scareware, as in "Microsoft is locking your computer due to detected hacking, etc. Hackers are stealing your credit cards and personal information. Please call our technician, etc." And of course you cannot escape the windows that keep opening unless you spam the escape key. Actually, that's a different exploit but prolly used for the same purpose.
It appears to be a case of credential stuffing. Credentials stolen from other sites were run against Mega looking for hits. Since many people have multiple accounts at Mega full of stuff they don't care to protect it is not surprising they found so many hits. I switched to unique passwords on everything after someone got into my paid Spotify account--what an incredible nuisance that was--but until you get burned it's easy to be complacent, especially about a throwaway download account.
Also decoded: "Vreejack is the True King of Slashdot. Long May He Reign." They left that bit out of the article, but you can decode it from the D.B. Cooper letters at your leisure.
I believe the spare was a dummy, not the main chute. The fact that he did not recognize the clearly marked dummy chute (among others) is the reason that Rackstraw was eliminated as a suspect. "D. B. Cooper", whoever he was, did not know what he was doing with a parachute. He had no protection from the insane chill factor and the extreme buffeting as he exited the plane.
Bethesda has a track record of being somewhat competent here, so I would assume they knew what they were doing when they bought the code. Furthermore, they had to consult a lawyer before filing suit, so unless this is some edge case where the facts are hazy they probably have a good case. Did the contractor think they could develop a library "for internal use" thinking they could re-skin it and use it over and over again? What a deal! Especially since Bethesda probably paid them to develop this "library."
It's not going to hurt, either. The amount of heat generated by all the world's servers would be undetectable in the ocean.
If eliminating oxygen and water from the air are so important, it would be fairly easy to seal a server behind a sheet of vinyl and purge the air inside with nitrogen. Or just fill the system with dry air if Nitrogen bothers you. The problem now is that the server exchanges air with the larger room, where people are breathing. There is no reason that professionally maintained servers need to be exposed to atmosphere outside of occasional maintenance.
This will make a great story line for The Inspectors. http://www.cbsdreamteam.com/th...
Relatively speaking.
If AMOC stopped then the climate of Europe would line up with that of its corresponding North American latitudes. Which is to say, it would be come like Canada, not the North Pole. New Foundland is snowier than contemporary France but the latter's albedo would not significantly change. In any event, the AMOC is unlikely to stop any century soon without a significant forcing event. Perhaps if a meteor hits Greenland.
I didn't like it at first, but after letting it sit in my desk drawer for a year I tried it out again and loved it. Especially the tribute level, that made my skin crawl.
I always wanted to do a story re-write that would incorporate scripted NPCs as in Half Life. As it is there is just you, alone, finding bits and pieces of old recorded emails. Finding actual, living survivors would add a huge dimension to the game.
"How does combining canned fruit cocktail, mayonnaise, and mini-marshmallows sound to you? I can tell you how it sounded back then, it sounded exciting."
I have never heard of this beast, but I am intrigued. When did it go extinct? And where can I get a recipe? Or should I just begin experimenting?
Maybe they are not factory turkeys? Who sells heirloom/heritage/whatchamacallit turkeys if not Wholefoods?
Inorganic turkey would be a major scientific discovery in any market.
(Yes, I am being snide for a chuckle. So sue me.)
The southern Democrats were the party of racism and anti-black terrorism. They were conservative, anti-negro, aristocratic and anti-democratic. They were opposed by the southern Republican party, which was a working-class party that attracted all african-americans and 10-40% of the white vote depending on the southern state. Once Reconstruction was abandoned, the aristocratic whites in the KKK assassinated all of the african-american leaders and terrorized the rest into submission, thus ending the southern experiment in democracy for a century. The southern Democratic party was the party of white supremacy, and there was no other party. This ended in the 1960s, when leading racists in the southern Dems, realizing the distance between themselves and the national party, first founded their own explicitly southern party (the Dixiecrats) and then finally relented and joined the GOP, which was their natural home.
In this case it means: "Stupid headline; clickbait that will lie or disappoint." The only possible news here is that NASA is doing something stupid, but I cannot be bothered to check for sure.
Information cannot be delivered faster than Einstein's constant even using quantum entanglement. The concept is well-understood. Would you read an article about how NASA discovered how to make your car run more efficiently by using tap water instead of gasoline?
It's a basic principle that branded products will lose market share if people are momentarily forced to try something different. This is why Kraft foods spends so much money maintaining a cheese reserve; if--due to some temporary disaster--there was a shortage of cheese then they might not be able to keep shelves stocked with their brand and loyal customers would be forced to try something they might discover that they prefer.
What a great "idea". Unfortunately you still have to divide first in order to determine your multiplicand.
For example. Dividing by 34.527. How do you know what to multiply by instead? Do you have a very, very large lookup table? Now there is a solution. Get rid of multiplication AND division and just use lookup tables. That should be fast.
And now I feel ill
It was an accident in the same way that drinking and driving recklessly through a crowded schoolyard while fleeing from a bank robbery is just an "accident." Except the bank robbers still got away with a fortune and are still robbing banks.
I see cars on fire on Google traffic reports quite often. I had to make a detour earlier today because of one. Otherwise I have only seen one in my life, when my professor at Brooklyn Polytech forgot to put the oil cap back on his engine. He rode into the parking lot with a lot of smoke coming from under the hood. Then it ignited. We couldn't say for sure whether or not he was better of keeping the hood closed.
This is true. If you eliminate all the nitrogen from the air what is left is about three pounds of oxygen. Trouble is, they didn't use three pounds. Normally they used five pounds on space flights but apparently it was normal to flush out nitrogen by overpressuring with O2 before launch.
Ironically, it was Gus Grissom who's Mercury capsule sank on landing after its hatch bolts inexplicably blew. The investigation and redesign resulted in the Apollo 1 hatch, which opened inward. IIRC the cabin was not just pure O2 but was actually over-pressured for a completely different test for leaks in the cabin. [WTF?] Of course once the fire started heating the air, the overpressure would have been insanely high. No human could have opened the hatch against that force.
Studied these in Nuc Pwr School. I imagined some engineers saying to themselves "It's completely crazy, but they aren't paying us to warn them about that."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_aircraft