Tbf that could have been done by tenants who figured the landlord would use that damage to argue they should lose their entire deposit despite not costing nearly that much to repair properly.
Not that it wouldn’t be plausible that the landlord did it themselves or hired someone who didn’t know what they were doing but were willing to do it cheap, like Ricky.
Glass would also be better for heating it to melt crystals.
Do we really need to define things in terms of what the average person is capable of? Especially when the biggest barrier seems to be “willingness to put a small amount of effort into learning a simple process”?
A surprising number of big names on there.
All that energy has to come from somewhere. That particular spell just used up all of the energy contained in each flower in a 100m radius. And the spell that gathered that energy merely required all of the energy contained in every worm in a 30m radius. And the spell that gathered that energy required a granola bar.
Oh speaking of which, this winter being more of an actual winter probably means the maple syrup stores will be replenished.
They said that in the broader context of saying they don’t think American cheese deserves the hate it gets. It was qualifying their defense of American cheese by saying they aren’t just blindly defending any criticism of America but honestly like the cheese.
Probably owns a portion of Arkham and gets tax payer dividends for each person he sends there.
Step 1: find phishing site
Step 2: find/write brute force script that doesn’t stop on successful login but has longer random delay between attempts (so it isn’t obvious it’s a form of a DOS attack)
Step 3: poison phishing site data
Use proxies from areas that would normally use the service the phishing site is mimicking.
Bonus step: in case the phishers use the same proxies source, make enough invalid login attempts to the actual service to get the proxies IP blocked so they can’t use them to test the large number of invalid logins to find if any are valid.
This is different from the old man angry at change meme. The change isn’t the problem; personally I like change and seeing evolutionary and revolutionary improvements.
The problem is that so many of these changes are for the benefit of the corporations involved in the product at the expense of anyone who ends up using it or is near enough to be affected collaterally.
The idea of a smart TV is nice. Except they put the underpowered hardware in it that struggles to display a menu. Maybe because of all the data it is gathering and sending home or the time it spends making sure the latest ads are downloaded.
Smart appliances are also a nice idea. Except most just want to connect to some proprietary web service so they can middle man every interaction to sell your data or a subscription.
A smart car also sounds cool. Except they are also designed to just make more money either via more expensive repairs, possibly even forced to go through a manufacturer approved mechanic because they use security features to protect them from competition, or by the usual selling your data and ads. Oh and also they can save money by sticking a bunch of controls into the software and not needing to make physical buttons. Also they save even more by also using underpowered hardware and probably not even bothering with UX design. Maybe even deliberately because bad experiences can be upsellers. Oh they also want to sell subscriptions to whatever they can, including to things that don’t even benefit from going through their services.
It’s all just rent seeking.
I wonder how they handle people signing up to prime for a shipping discount and then immediately cancelling it, only to do so again for their next order…
I remember the very first time I saw that was a thing and wondering why the fuck would anyone ever want that? Can’t remember if that was before or after I started the habit of disabling autorun on any inserted media, too, though I do know that that was my reaction to learning about Sony’s rootkit.
Though I might be one of the few that didn’t like UAC because it wasn’t strict enough instead of because it was annoying. I wish it had a setting where every action required permission and the dialog included the specific thing it was currently tying to do instead of the vague “it wants to change things on your computer”.
An installer is likely going to trigger that prompt whether it’s legit or not, I’d like to know if it’s triggered because it’s trying to associate its filetype with its application or trying to overwrite a dll in an unrelated program’s files.