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Knives, Fake Serial Killers, The Living Computer Museum is not Alive, Microsoft Authenticator
You want me to somehow assist you in covertly smuggling a knife aboard an airplane; is this correct? You want me to subvert the security procedures for air travel safety for what reason, exactly? Are you asking me to help you break the law? How about this: I can refer you to the nearest FBI office or Homeland Security.
The Phantom of Heilbronn, often alternatively referred to as the "Woman Without a Face", was a hypothesized unknown female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at numerous crime scenes in Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009…
March 2009, the case took a new turn when, while trying to identify a corpse, investigators found the Phantom's female DNA in fingerprints on a male asylum seeker's application. They subsequently came to the conclusion that there was no mysterious criminal.
Please Disinfet Hands - Honolulu, HI
Traffic Cam Photobooth is a website that allows anybody to locate their nearest publicly available traffic camera and use it to take pictures of themselves. (NYC)
As I was sorting through the boxes of books from Haugh of Urr, I came across a copy of Collins French Phrasebook in a box. You really would have to be on the most dismal holiday to find the following phrases useful:
‘Someone has fallen in the water.’
‘Can you make a splint?’
‘She has been run over.’
‘Help me carry him.’
‘I wish to be X-rayed.’
‘Leave me alone.’
‘I do not like this.’
‘The chambermaid never comes when I ring.’
‘I was here in 1940.’
‘Eleven hostages were shot here.’
I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It
I tried to answer at least every day. It was a minor annoyance when I wasn't working full-time. But when I had to do this after a full day of work, and I got yet another email asking to add some magical method for determining take profit levels that was invented by a crypto-trading YouTuber with 50 followers, I had enough.
This was Paul [Allen]’s collection of computers, aided by friends and fans. It was always that. The Living Computer Museum, it turns out, cost millions, over ten million a year, to operate as it was set up, and it never came close to making that amount of income from door sales and t-shirts. It never came close to even figuring out how it would… And now it’s time to sell the collection.
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It was when playing squash that I truly began to appreciate the power of allowing my opponent to play on hard mode. I was clearly not as good as John, which was something I was comfortable with. I don't mind winning only 25% of my games. I was very much a fan of playing on hard mode in games versus other players — but I saw little appeal in making things easier for myself. After all, if I began with an edge, even if I won I hadn't REALLY won, right?
When I tried it, I was instantly converted. There was an immense pleasure in actually making John work. I had always had to give everything I had — and now John did also if he wanted a chance to win.
Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
Microsoft Authenticator will overwrite an account with the same username. Given the prominent use of email addresses for usernames, most users’ apps share the same username.
“When you scan a QR code, the Authenticator app uses a label given by the vendor to set up your Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) account. However, some sites or vendors don’t include the issuer — the site name or Identity provider name — in the label. This may result in a situation where a user may already have an account with the same label and the app attempts to overwrite the existing TOTP account with the new one they are scanning.”
