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Hackers reportedly have embedded code in power grid
This sounds like a real-life Live Free or Die Hard.
12:11 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: computers, newsHackers attack Large Hadron Collider
This is not what the world needs.
Do they really want to possibly destroy Earth?
01:16 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: science, computers, news
Well, its official, the world record for most downloads in a 24 hour period has been created and broken by the same organization.
The Spread Firefox site also has a page of other peculiar world records for your viewing pleasure.
With the release of Firefox 3, the Mozilla Foundation decided to try and create break the Guinness World Record for most downloads in 24 hours. I can’t blame them, Firefox is still trying to obtain a large market share in the internet browsing world, this is great publicity for them. Starting at 2:16PM EST yesterday, the timer started, and I downloaded it last night somewhere around 7PM, so I guess I was downloader 2,000,000 or something, who knows.
Earlier today though, I discovered that Mozilla had been publicly tracking downloads across the world, with detailed numbers for each country. After browsing the map, I noticed that quite a few countries (Chad, Turkmenistan, and Somalia, just to name some) had download numbers in single or double digits only. After some very slow mousing, I stopped on French Guiana and was surprised to see that their download total was at 0. What gives?
Don’t worry, I’m not picking on French Guiana, I also could have chosen from North Korea, Guinea-bissau, South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands, Timor-leste, Western Sahara, or Svalbard And Jan Mayen, whatever the hell that is.