The city is putting efforts into fighting the emerald ash borer, a tiny green beetle whose larvae damage and eventually destroy ash trees. There are 150,000 ash trees along the streets of this city.
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OpenFile has a report on how the STM’s portable OPUS recharger is completely resistant to hacking. But “what one man can invent another can discover,” as Sherlock Holmes says. We shall see.
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jeather
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Chris
hahaha. Such a claim alone will inspirer hackers. It’ll be hacked within a week of its release.
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Tux
Haha, yeahhhhhh. Everything with electronic locks gets circumvented eventually. Someone’s gonna crack it wide open and then those “it’s anti-fraud” claims about OPUS are gonna look even more ridiculous than they already do.
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Faiz Imam
Not that it matters, but the Titanic was never claimed to be unsinkable. That claim was added by journalists after the fact to make a better story of out the whole disaster.
Makes for a irresistible cautionary tale though.
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I hear there was this huge ocean liner that was completely resistant to sinking. So resistant, in fact, that we still talk about it today, one hundred years later.