"According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers."
The NY Times also did a profile on Andrew Wylie this week, by the excellent interviewer David Marchese. I got more from the NY Times piece than the Guardian one:
That might be dangerous. At least in Germany there's a difference between the service agreement and the payment. As long as you don't cancel the service, if you are not paying you just amass more and more money that you owe them.
This story reminds me of the giraffes that were sent from Malindi (in modern day Kenya) as tribute to the Forbidden City in China in the early 1400's. (1)
Here is a short video of caver Rick Hunter squeezing through one of the tunnels to the Dinaledi Chamber. Not for the claustrophobic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTPRx8xVafE
Taking a tour through the mines in Potosi, Bolivia, was enough to convince me to never enter an enclosed, underground space again. I can't imagine how these people deal with the claustrophobia, oppressive heat, and painfully conspicuous lack of oxygen their work entails.
Caves and mines are different. Most caves in northern US are at 46-49F all year around which is quite comfortable for strenuous activities. There is never lack of oxygen. Caving is likely the second most demanding physical activity I was involved in (most demanding being mountaineering). For most people being in complete dark, surrounded by rock on all sides is probably even bigger psychological challenge than physical one. I have known few cavers who likes to spent entire week inside caves exploring, mapping, reflecting. It certainly requires different type of personality. One caver described being in cave as getting back to womb and coming out of Earth as re-born just like baby comes out squeezing in through birth canal. My own experiences are varied depending on caves. Caves are some of the very rare places where you can feel completely utterly almost impossibly disconnected from rest of the world. BTW, I'm not talking about those commercial gigantic caves, I'm talking about those little holes on Earth that are unknown outside caving communities such as NSS and local grottos. I can say that caving is likely one of 5 most important things I got in to. A very important part of caving is the people (you never go caving alone!). Mountaineering folks are typically very introverts but cavers are just some of the wildest awesome bunch out there. Look up organizations called "grottos" in your state or country and go out on beginners trip.
A hard-core caving buddy of mine once took me on a couple cave expeditions of increasing difficulty, though they were easy for him. As a newbie, I was more than a little uncomfortable. It is a totally new way of seeing the world around you, and by no means a natural experience. I have much respect for those who do it regularly. Just make sure you don't call them spelunkers, which is a much tamer tourists-only approach. When doing real caving, even the "simple" caves, the psychological and physical requirements are much more than you'd at first expect.
> For most people being in complete dark, surrounded by rock on all sides is probably even bigger psychological challenge than physical one
Just last week, while riding to the airport we went through a large and long tunnel. I suddenly felt trapped (a first), and then my brain got confused by the lack of light thinking the black 'ceiling' was a night open sky. I imagine being in a cave might trigger similar sensations.
Never had a caver without helmet in any of my trips. Taking it off is big no no and I have seen people going smaller holes then this one. My guess is that this cave wasn't too long and he just wanted to get in fast.
How do we know that this is the official website, and not simply a clone with (possibly) malicious content. The official popcornti.me site had that exact issue back in March:
We know it is a legit fork because it is sanctioned by isra17, one of the two official developers. We know it's him because he updated the readme on his own personal github fork to lead people to this new fork [1].
The other developer (jduncanator) went completely missing, and took both the github repo and the website with him.
Well, it's certainly not an exact copy of the old website; I remember that it had ASCII art of the "mascot" in the source. This one doesn't. Which is an odd difference; the new "owners" appear to be a little less cute about it.
It is because I'm using cloudflare plugin to minify everything. Source used by the server are available at https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-site. Pochoclín is still present in index.html!
Exactly, and without some explanation by the maintainers of what happened this could be malicious in a number of ways (heck, they could be cooperating with authorities for all we know).
I wasn't making a legal or moral judgement, but a practical one: applications designed for downloading copyrighted content disproportionately tend to contain malware.
Nonsense. For every legitimate example of such a malware-infected program you can think of or find, the community can point you to at least X others that are completely clean.
Your suggestion is not a practical one, but rather an opinionated one.
Maybe it's because I'm on linux, but torrented content never gave me any viruses. So as far as I'm concerned, the legal stuff is more likely to infect your system with malware.
eli is referring to the binary downloaded from the website possibly containing malware. Not that the website might possible infect you through a drive-by-download.
For very weak values of "safely". If, for example, the app has an auto-update feature, like many apps have, then they can simply push malware onto you at some point down the road. Even if they don't have an official one, it wouldn't be too hard to hide one in the code.
"According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link