Wild. Besides reading my favorite Compute! magazine and typing in programs in the 80’s and 90’s, Byte magazine was the source of computer information in that era. I was pretty young, so a good bit of it went over my head, but a lot of it was fascinating.
This website provides a visual, zoomable map that shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue to the last page of the last issue at the bottom.
Winning the lottery doesn’t seem like it would be up there in the ‘worst things’ category, but it turns out to be one of the worst thing that ever happened to most folks that win big lotteries. Even already wealthy people who ran multi-million dollar companies find their lives completely destroyed. Murder, constant lawsuits, and bankruptcy.
What are some of those statistics?
Large jackpot winners face double digit risk increases versus the general population to be a victim of:
And triple digit increases versus the general population in:
In a surprising discovery, the worst enemy is usually yourself. Winners often suffer from drug overdoes, tax issues, dissolute and dangerous living that leads to death, or simply frittering it all away. Family, friends, and acquaintances will become an ever-present risk as well. If you win the lottery, you are 120 times more likely to be killed by a family member than before you won.
Even people that don’t know you will come out of the woodwork to sue you. In one case, a man settled multiple claims because husbands in his town had their wives leave them. Even though the lottery winner didn’t even know them. The ex-husbands sued the lottery winner simply because they claimed ‘jealousy’ of the lottery winner made their wives leave them for better prospects. Instead of fighting the frivolous cases, it was simply cheaper to just settle out of court for a few $10,000’s.
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Low Level does a very brief but decent introduction to reverse engineering binaries (on linux).
He doesn’t discuss it, but when reverse engineering it’s always good to start with what your goal is. There’s a variety of reason to reverse engineering at the binary level:
This is important, because each goal often focuses on a different set of reverse-engineering skills.
Real world reverse engineering also carries many possible legal dangers. In the past, companies reverse engineered mechanisms to compete against companies that had monopolies and ended up in massive lawsuits. Atari vs Nintendo lawsuit and Sega v. Accolade are good examples. The methods of doing legal reverse engineering is a complex legal topic that requires very carefully monitored and documented clean-room procedures.
It’s a fascinating world in which big companies to nefarious hackers engage in.
If there’s one thing James Bond has been known for – it’s his style. From cars, to clothes, to watches. Want to live like a modern day James Bond? Now you can at JamesBondLifesytle.com!
In Oct 2021, Turkish TikToker @dr.frex posted a screen recording of messages with a friend where they vocalized a song in the style of the game at different speeds. the ‘oiia oiia’ sound was born. Add a spinning cat, and you’ve created an massive internet meme.
As I have written about before, Bitcoin and similar digital currencies days are numbered with the increasing stability of quantum computers.
A renewed debate has started on exactly when quantum computers will be able to undermine the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and SHA-256 hashing algorithms that secure Bitcoin wallets and transactions. Some suggest may be just a few years while others believe we have several decades – but one thing is certain – the clock is ticking.
Scientists, financial analysts, and economists are watching quantum computing developments very closely as a quantum computing breakthrough would make crypto-currencies, NFTs, and other digital assets worthless overnight.
A nefarious organization/country with a quantum computer functional enough to crack even partial amounts of crypto currency might be able to steal billions in assets in hours or days – before anyone knows what is going on nor have any way to stop them. The effect would be nearly instantaneous drop to 0 for the value of any assets secured in this way.
Six blind people from around the world were given a camera and asked to take photos. The film explores perception, resilience, and creativity.
I think it also clearly challenges the modern excuse that disabled or disadvantaged lives are not worth living.
Not one of them is over 21 years old, and they were already turning out stuff like this.
People today can replicate their sound perfectly, but nobody then (nor really now?) was innovating new sounds at the velocity they were in the 80’s. Every one of their songs were incredible and had all kinds of technical innovations in them.
Who would have thought they would grow up to this:
Remember kids – those ‘boomers’ many young people blame for everything were often much cooler than you and made a lot of the same choices you’re making now. And it’ll happen to YOU:
“At the Drive-in” is a free movie on Youtube about a group of quirky movie buffs work to save a dying drive-in theater. They end up sleeping on the floor, jury-rigging solutions, and holding it together all with their free labor.
Besides saving a theater, it speaks more about a group of individuals that become serious friends and fight to regain a sense of community and simpler times that is increasingly lost. We may be connect to the entire world by the internet but people feel more lonely, isolated, and anxious than ever. One of the folks working there even calls it feeling closer to God – even though he doesn’t know what that is.
Parish communities fill this need for community and belonging – but maybe they should engage social events like this even more. I know that the weekends my parish puts on picnics and events together – they become some of the most joyful and rewarding parts of my week.
In many states (such as California, New York, Oregon, and Illinois) Democrats control all the levers of power from governor, to house of representatives/senate, and even city government. They run the government. They write the laws. Yet, in key areas, many blue states are actually doing worse than red states.
Oregon is one of those states. Despite one of the highest funding rates per student in the country, Portland Public Schools are nearly dead last – much worse than southern red states on all metrics of student achievement. Despite record spending on homelessness, Portland has some of the worst homelessness in the country. Oregon has some of the worst mental health systems in the country. Many blue states are some of the least affordable despite decades of rent programs and development restrictions. The list goes on. What’s going wrong?
New York Times dives in to find out why.