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Comment Re:How can we explain your imaginary world? (Score 1) 219

The viking farms were not under ice.

"What does seem to have contributed to the abandonment of the Western Settlements, archaeologists said, is climate change. The onset of a ''little ice age'' made living halfway up Greenland's coast untenable in the mid-1300's, argues Dr. Charles Schweger, an archaeology professor at the University of Alberta, who has studied soils around the Farm Beneath the Sand.

Dr. Schweger said the Norse were no match for cooling temperatures, which caused a glacier several miles up a valley to expand. As this glacier grew, it also released more water every summer into the valley, causing turbidity in drinking water and raging floods that blanketed meadows with sand and gravel. Today the edge of Greenland's ice cap is only six miles from the old farm site. But in the mid-14th century, it probably was far closer."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05...

Comment Re:China is not where investments are made now (Score 1) 261

I don't know about moron - I happen to know very well about those mining centres in Iceland and Sweden for example. I do like my facts a bit sourced though.

The country accounts for more than two-thirds of the world’s processing power devoted to bitcoin mining.

(from 4 days ago)

https://qz.com/1172632/chinas-...

These mining companies started making contingency plans earlier this year to move their operations to other countries. I do not see a sudden drop of 66% of the hash rate, no.

A Beijing-based mining firm told Quartz in November that it is scouting for backup options in Sweden and Canada for the tens of thousands of mining machines it currently operates in Xinjiang

(from the same article)

Comment Re:only a local privilege escalation (Score 1) 62

I don't think it's patched.

From the description (regarding the kernel slide part only):

The technique explained below has for some reason stopped working on macOS High Sierra 10.13.2. I don’t know why and I didn’t bother to investigate, but the IOHIDFamily vulnerability is still there all the same. So while the hid binary in its current state will only work up to 10.13.1, you could just patch together hid and leak to get everything working on 10.13.2 - or even write a mach-port-based exploit out of leak, I hear mach ports are the real deal. :P

Comment Airport (Score 1) 294

The monorail is nice, I've used it several times. Last time we stayed in an airbnb at the very north end of the monorail.

However, the solution to the problem is obvious. Extend it to the airport.

(The reason that doesn't happen is that Vegas doesn't want to anger all the cab drivers ... )

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