How on earth isn't this on the front page? This is the biggest tech related story in quite some time. Nothing to be seen in Slashdot. Are people running Slashdot are also rabidly anti-Trump so much so that they in the tank for a corrupt politician and his crime family?

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.

You inserted your little smear against president Trump there. Well played sir. It guaranteed your post the ever elusive â+5 Insightful.â Maybe Iâ(TM)m of some dying minority or old or something but I remember when the raiting system was meant to prevent this kind of offtopic ranting, not to encourage it.

There used to be free tampoons at ladies bathroom at Facebook offices. That changed a couple of years ago. Now there are tampoons also at mens bathroom. Think about it. Tampoons at mens bathroom.

Really think about it. People at Facebook have abandoned all sense of reason and reasonability. Expect more of these demonstrations of group think and virtue signaling.

statistical significance of 18 -- well beyond the 5 threshold"

This is some grade A science speech mumbo jumbo. Get this guy to write some Star Trek dialog!

What! I came to see how nerd are glamouring over such a huge pile of pure AWESOMENESS but I just find bunch of whiners about arms race and burecracy and shit.

It's called SPACE FORCE and it sounds funking awesome. Like Death Star or something.

Nerds! It's you time to ENJOY the moment.

Yes, all that poop on the streets, used syringes everywhere, crazy bums assaulting people at the BART station and living in the elevators, we'll deal with those later, we need to address the critical issues first.

Maybe, just maybe, if all Twitter and Uber employees et al. are forced to leave the offices to eat, they would notice the homeless people squatting the nearby BART stations. And maybe, just maybe, they would consider doing something about it. They are quite rich and powerful people.

I think in the coming decades, the current "Russian puppet" hysteria will be studied as a case of media induced mass delusion.

The sad thing is that believe in such cospiratorial theories is, in fact, something that Russians would like to see in West: They don't care so much who is in power but would like to see West consumed by internal discord such as a wide-spread belive that POTUS is not legimate. At best, it will render the office impotent. At worst, it will lead to civil war.

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.