Even better, the movie ends with everyone getting vaccinated.

No, it's ambiguous and badly written. Many people will perceive "5.6 microseconds" as the subject of the following clause. I just showed this to two other people who also misread it. It's natural to perceive "equal to one microsecond" as written to be referring to "5.6 microseconds", which is utterly jarring.

It may be that people accustomed to thinking of measurements (scientists? engineers?) do not readily separate the units from the quantity but automatically think of "x units" as a single idea and not a pair of separable, parseable words.

All Buterin has to show is that he believed Wright was a fraud at the time he said it. Since Wright was making an extraordinary claim with no evidence, it would be normal to assume that Wright was a fraud. Buterin did not state anything than was not already assumed by most people familiar with the details, so it is hard to claim that Buterin lied to hurt Wright's reputation when it seems he merely publicized his own reasonable evaluation.

Imagine if movie studios could sue movie critics for bad reviews.

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.