i love living in a sci-fi dystopia

Unclebaldrick

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It typically was until you know who starts spamming shit posts about all things Tesla.
I have no problem with his Tesla love. But I love Pinworm. He is one of the most insightful people I have ever encountered here and he brought up a good point. We are living in a sci-fi dystopia and some of us, myself included, actually kind of love it in a sick sort of way.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Here's the main problem with crypto currencies, the energy cost for floating point calculations used for "mining" the currency using current technology. If you are caught holding a lot of bitcoin when someone announces a break through in the energy cost of calculations, after making a fortune mining cryptocurrency, you'll be fucked as it's real world value crashes through the floor. It might be fun and profitable to speculate for now, but beware of the reaper, in the form a quantum computing! The very first secret project for the technology at a place like MIT might involve making hundreds of billions, or even trillions of dollars. There are billionaires who could fund this kind of project in the near future with pocket change.
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MIT Turns "Magic" Superconducting Material Into Versatile Electronic Devices (scitechdaily.com)

MIT Turns “Magic” Superconducting Material Into Versatile Electronic Devices

Work on three graphene-based devices may yield new insights into superconductivity.

MIT researchers and colleagues have turned a “magic” material composed of atomically thin layers of carbon into three useful electronic devices. Normally, such devices, all key to the quantum electronics industry, are created using a variety of materials that require multiple fabrication steps. The MIT approach automatically solves a variety of problems associated with those more complicated processes.

As a result, the work could usher in a new generation of quantum electronic devices for applications including quantum computing. Further, the devices can be superconducting, or conduct electricity without resistance. They do so, however, through an unconventional mechanism that, with further study, could give new insights into the physics of superconductivity. The researchers reported their results in the May 3, 2021, issue of Nature Nanotechnology.

“In this work we have demonstrated that magic-angle graphene is the most versatile of all superconducting materials, allowing us to realize in a single system a multitude of quantum electronic devices. Using this advanced platform, we have been able to explore for the first time novel superconducting physics that only appears in two dimensions,” says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT and leader of the work. Jarillo-Herrero is also affiliated with MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory.
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HGCC

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So, I'm alright with the domino's pizza robots. The 'noid sealed the deal. This dystopia is turning out to be a-ok.
 

CunningCanuk

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Damn.

That woman is ferocious. Dumb stunt, but that woman withstood the test. The guy, well, let's just say his deck isn't full.
She was awesome and should have said no.

I hope they don’t have children. A gender reveal party could include some kind of fake amphibious assault.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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A New Ransomware Attack Hits Hundreds Of U.S. Companies : NPR

A 'Colossal' Ransomware Attack Hits Hundreds Of U.S. Companies, A Security Firm Says

WASHINGTON (AP) — A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.

The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. He said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya, using its network-management package as a conduit to spread the ransomware through cloud-service providers. Other researchers agreed with Hammond's assessment.

"Kaseya handles large enterprise all the way to small businesses globally, so ultimately, (this) has the potential to spread to any size or scale business," Hammond said in a direct message on Twitter. "This is a colossal and devastating supply chain attack."

Such cyberattacks typically infiltrate widely used software and spread malware as it updates automatically.

It was not immediately clear how many Kaseya customers might be affected or who they might be. Kaseya urged customers in a statement on its website to immediately shut down servers running the affected software. It said the attack was limited to a "small number" of its customers.

Brett Callow, a ransomware expert at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, said he was unaware of any previous ransomware supply-chain attack on this scale. There have been others, but they were fairly minor, he said.

"This is SolarWinds with ransomware," he said. He was referring to a Russian cyberespionage hacking campaign discovered in December that spread by infecting network management software to infiltrate U.S. federal agencies and scores of corporations.

The attack seems timed to the July 4th weekend
Cybersecurity researcher Jake Williams, president of Rendition Infosec, said he was already working with six companies hit by the ransomware. It's no accident that this happened before the Fourth of July weekend, when IT staffing is generally thin, he added.

"There's zero doubt in my mind that the timing here was intentional," he said.

Hammond of Huntress said he was aware of four managed-services providers — companies that host IT infrastructure for multiple customers — being hit by the ransomware, which encrypts networks until the victims pay off attackers. He said thousand of computers were hit.

"We currently have three Huntress partners who are impacted with roughly 200 businesses that have been encrypted," Hammond said.

Hammond wrote on Twitter: "Based on everything we are seeing right now, we strongly believe this (is) REvil/Sodinikibi." The FBI linked the same ransomware provider to a May attack on JBS SA, a major global meat processer.

A federal cybersecurity agency and the FBI are assessing the attack
The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a statement late Friday that it is closely monitoring the situation and working with the FBI to collect more information about its impact.

CISA urged anyone who might be affected to "follow Kaseya's guidance to shut down VSA servers immediately." Kaseya runs what's called a virtual system administrator, or VSA, that's used to remotely manage and monitor a customer's network.

The privately held Kaseya says it is based in Dublin, Ireland, with a U.S. headquarters in Miami. The Miami Herald recently described it as "one of Miami's oldest tech companies" in a report about its plans to hire as many as 500 workers by 2022 to staff a recently acquired cybersecurity platform.
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HGCC

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I would be too if Domino's make a pizza worth a damn.
As a gentleman who believes pizza is serious business worth fighting for, a close second to civil rights if you will, gonna have to argue that domino's is better than the other chains, and probably like 25% of local shops. Pizza hut is bottom, papa John's is gross and papa John was a racist, little Caesars is alright for the money but isn't aiming high. I commend them for that campaign to either actually improve their pizza or just get us to think it was better like 10 years back. I try and always order local, but sometimes that shits gross and stl style or whatever, so domino's might be the best game in town.

Shoutout to Casey's gas station pizza, it has hit the spot on many a road trip.
 

Ozumoz66

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As a gentleman who believes pizza is serious business worth fighting for, a close second to civil rights if you will, gonna have to argue that domino's is better than the other chains, and probably like 25% of local shops. Pizza hut is bottom, papa John's is gross and papa John was a racist, little Caesars is alright for the money but isn't aiming high. I commend them for that campaign to either actually improve their pizza or just get us to think it was better like 10 years back. I try and always order local, but sometimes that shits gross and stl style or whatever, so domino's might be the best game in town.

Shoutout to Casey's gas station pizza, it has hit the spot on many a road trip.
Homemade last night on naan bread, a bit of sauce, turkey cabasa, zoomers, onions, 2 year old cheddar and fresh basil after the cheese melts.

A local Italian place has a chewy thin crust pizza that too is divine.

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Fogdog

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As a gentleman who believes pizza is serious business worth fighting for, a close second to civil rights if you will, gonna have to argue that domino's is better than the other chains, and probably like 25% of local shops. Pizza hut is bottom, papa John's is gross and papa John was a racist, little Caesars is alright for the money but isn't aiming high. I commend them for that campaign to either actually improve their pizza or just get us to think it was better like 10 years back. I try and always order local, but sometimes that shits gross and stl style or whatever, so domino's might be the best game in town.

Shoutout to Casey's gas station pizza, it has hit the spot on many a road trip.
When Dominoes is the best in town. That's when I call in for Chinese take-out
 

HGCC

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When Dominoes is the best in town. That's when I call in for Chinese take-out
If Domino's is the best pizza game in town that Chinese food is a risky proposition my man.:bigjoint:

Edit: I get some Naan from Costco that is great for whipping out fast little personal ones. I am a glutton and normally do really hearty thick cast iron pan pizzas or fluffy kinda sweet grandma style sheet pan pizzas.
 
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Fogdog

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If Domino's is the best pizza game in town that Chinese food is a risky proposition my man.:bigjoint:

Edit: I get some Naan from Costco that is great for whipping out fast little personal ones. I am a glutton and normally do really hearty thick cast iron pan pizzas or fluffy kinda sweet grandma style sheet pan pizzas.
I hope @scumrot-derelict doesn't mind his therad being derailed but I wouldn't mind a description of your grandma pizza. It's a style I've fooled around with but I don't think I've gotten close to what I want to make. Looking for ideas.
 

Puff_Dragon

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Take Humans attention away from driving ..and you allow them to get up to all types of mischief.
I'm waiting for an autopsy report stating:
The two Tesla occupants were involved in 'rigourous intercourse', in the backseat.
During which, the mans leg jerked violently upwards and struck the Autopilot disengage.
Death, by misadventure
;-)
 
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