When Global Warming Kills Your God
Twenty-three Alaskan tribesmen broke the law when they overfished king salmon, but they claim their faith gave them no other choice.
Hasnain says:
" But now the seasons are out of balance, and the Yup’ik can't stop hold the sea back. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an estimated 86 percent of indigenous villages in Alaska will need to move within the next 50 years, at a cost of $200 to $500 million per village. Newtok is preparing to move to a new site, across the water to Nelson Island, but a struggle against the village leadership has recently stalled the relocation effort."
Posted on 2014-09-27T04:14:23+0000
Mammoth earthquake swarm is the largest in nearly a decade
More than 600 small earthquakes have rattled the Mammoth Lakes region in less than 36 hours as ripple effects continued across one of the most seismically active volcanic regions in California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey .
Meeting strangers in the street
A story about the time I became obsessed with a mobile game that requires you to meet strangers
Hasnain says:
This is really well written and really interesting.
Posted on 2014-09-26T17:43:52+0000
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero. The robberies started again on a Wednesday. A masked man drove a stolen van through the qu…
Hasnain says:
Really interesting read.
"He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero."
Posted on 2014-09-26T05:36:02+0000
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy - IEEE Spectrum
The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence
Hasnain says:
"How exactly did the cartel pull off this engineering feat? It wasn’t just a matter of making an inferior or sloppy product; anybody could have done that. But to create one that reliably failed after an agreed-upon 1,000 hours took some doing over a number of years. The household lightbulb in 1924 was already technologically sophisticated: The light yield was considerable; the burning time was easily 2,500 hours or more. By striving for something less, the cartel would systematically reverse decades of progress."
Posted on 2014-09-25T22:59:05+0000
Shellshock DHCP RCE Proof of Concept -
DHCP bash shellshock POC: 1) Just about any DHCP string value should work for the exploit. Value 114 is URL, which is a string and should be reliable for use 2) start a DHCP server on the network And set the string value for 114 to: () { ignored;}; echo ‘foo’ Replace the portion...»Read the full art…
Announcing Clasp
Hello, everyone! Clasp github repository Today I am happy to make the first release of the Common Lisp implementation “Clasp”. Clasp uses LLVM as its back-end and generates native code. Clasp is a ...
Airlines crack down on ‘mileage runs’
Some travelers take very long flights on low-priced tickets to earn frequent-flier miles and elite status.
Troy Hunt: Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug
Remember Heartbleed? If you believe the hype today, Shellshock is in that league and with an equally awesome name albeit bereft of a cool logo (someone in the marketing department of these vulns needs to get on that). But in all seriousness, it does have the potential to be a biggie and as I did wit…
Americans are renouncing citizenship after being forced out of bank accounts
Thousands of US Citizens abroad are giving up their citizenship as a new tax law holds foreign banks and its expatriates ransom.
Hasnain says:
"To avoid breaking any laws, Welch will have to renounce his US citizenship and file five years’ worth of tax returns as well as possibly thousands of dollars to the US government in taxes on income he earned in Canada. He will have to foot bills for airplane flights and miss out on wages – and that’s not counting the $2,350 fee to renounce a citizenship he never assumed in the first place."
This is nuts.
Posted on 2014-09-25T17:36:20+0000