If you haven’t seen this already, this guy got stuck in the Vegas airport overnight. So he made a video with his phone…
Author: fish1964
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Modern Extortion
I stay on top of a variety of subjects via RSS feeds. I used to be a Google Reader guy and when Google shut that down I moved to Feedly. Feedly became very popular with Google Reader gone.
So now someone is trying to extort money from them. There’s a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack currently going on. If you don’t know what that means, hackers have a network of machines they’ve hacked flooding Feedly with so many requests that the site can’t handle it. The Distributed part is important because that makes it harder to fight. You can block traffic from specific addresses, but if there are a ton of addresses that keep changing it’s difficult to fight. So Feedly is down at the moment.
The attackers want money. It’s an old fashioned shake down. Nice little web site you got there, it’d be a shame if something happened to it…
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Everyone Likes Really Good Cheese
From conservative RedState.com:
The Nanny State Hates Your Cheese
From the NY Times Editorial Board:
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Cheese
From relatively liberal Slate.com
The FDA’s Misguided War on Bacteria That MakeCheese Taste Good
As a Wisconsin guy, it’s easy for me to say that cheese is a good thing.
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FBI Surveillance Van #345
I’m a connoisseur of amusing Wi-Fi network names. While connecting to the free Dumbo Wi-Fi I couldn’t help noticing this one.
Bravo.
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Secretariat
As we approach the Belmont with California Chrome as a possible Triple Crown winner for the first time in 30 years, I can’t help think back to Secretariat. I was 9. My parents grew up in Louisville, so Derby Day was an event and we always watched. I wasn’t particularly a horse racing fan and I’m still not, but Secretariat was something to watch.
His winning time in the Belmont is still the record. I heard someone say today that the next closest time in history would have lost by 10 lengths (Secretariat won by a ridiculous 31 lengths).
I still remember watching that race, simply because it was no contest. How often do you see a horse race where not only is the winner the only horse visible on the screen, but the camera man has to pan left quite a bit to see the runner up.
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John Oliver brings down the FCC
Well, their website anyway.
Following my previous post, where John Oliver asks internet trolls to go wild on the FCC comments section, they apparently brought down the site…
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John Oliver on Net Neutrality
A hilarious (but NSFW) take:
The internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that.
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