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Comment Re:Languages or intelligence? (Score 1) 100

Well, perhaps the way you think it works is very regional instead. Besides, in my 13 years of different schools (primary and secondary) I had to learn 5 foreign languages. Two of them were required for graduating and I kept practicing these two during the following years and at some point attained fluency.

Comment Booking.com (Score 4, Interesting) 54

I got a phishing message in the last week from a WhatsApp business account claiming to be the hotel company that I'm going to be staying with in a couple of days. They wanted me to do some kind of confirmation process and warned that if I didn't do it within 24 hours I might lose the reservation. There were a couple of things that were odd, but it's not the first time that a hotel company has made me jump through hoops to do a pre-check-in. It was only when I saw that the link they sent me (which I opened in a private browsing session, of course) was to a page which had a booking.com header but wasn't a booking.com URL that I got suspicious, and they had a UI for card details with no clear explanation of what they wanted them for. At that point I opened the actual booking.com and sent a message to the hotel to double-check, and after sending that message I remembered reading a few months ago that booking.com had a data leak, but I bet the phishers who wrote to me have had some successes.

Comment Re:Full Circle (Score 1) 108

The Spanish Wikipedia article does say that some comms took three days to restore, because after the power came back the configurations of some devices, I presume routers, had been lost. Specifically it cites newspaper articles about remote assistance buttons, but the journalists either didn't understand the technical details or didn't want to explain in detail. So the misunderstanding is probably that it took a few days for everything to get back to normal, even though the actual blackout lasted 18 hours or less. (It was about 10 hours for me, but I'm in a major city).

Comment Re:Full Circle (Score 2) 108

And the fact that this was in response to a blackout that lasted days

Either you're confusing it with a different blackout or this needs clarification. The power was back to 99% of users after about 18 hours, and although I can't access the primary sources I see citations that it was fully restored within 24 hours. Your main point still stands.

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