Second cup of Coffee Talk

[Comeds]

im going to hold off and visit them in a couple years when i can get my gas from a working gas refinery on site ... kill 2 birds with 1 stone and I will surely bring plenty o bags!

That's a sound idea but the ones you really want to visit are the ones that are just abandoned. That can really up the creep factor.

 

[Comeds]

There won't be any birds...

That's going to be the best thing I read all day.

 

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For decades Hanford made plutonium for nuclear weapons, including for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

It is now the largest repository of radioactive waste in the United States.

Hanford has about 211 million litres of waste stored in underground tanks. Some tanks date back to World War II and are leaking.

The sprawling Hanford site is about half the size of Rhode Island.

Also, I believe the Columbia River is right nearby as well.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

For decades Hanford made plutonium for nuclear weapons, including for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

It is now the largest repository of radioactive waste in the United States.

Hanford has about 211 million litres of waste stored in underground tanks. Some tanks date back to World War II and are leaking.

The sprawling Hanford site is about half the size of Rhode Island.

Also, I believe the Columbia River is right nearby as well.

Well it's gotta be sitting on some river or lake.

Funny, I was just discussing Love Canal with someone last week.

 

[dare2be]

For decades Hanford made plutonium for nuclear weapons, including for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

It is now the largest repository of radioactive waste in the United States.

Hanford has about 211 million litres of waste stored in underground tanks. Some tanks date back to World War II and are leaking.

The sprawling Hanford site is about half the size of Rhode Island.

Also, I believe the Columbia River is right nearby as well.

Hawking's 100-year prediction doesn't look so far-fetched now, does it?

 

[Comeds]

Hawking's 100-year prediction doesn't look so far-fetched now, does it?

We've had a good run. Cheers.

 

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From coal to code: Out-of-work miners being retrained as computer programmers

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

From coal to code: Out-of-work miners being retrained as computer programmers

There's always a fucking Chad at fault.

 

[dare2be]

From coal to code: Out-of-work miners being retrained as computer programmers

But what about all the poor out-of-work programmers displaced by cheap COALBOL programmer labor???

 

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But what about all the poor out-of-work programmers displaced by cheap COALBOL programmer labor???

Not to steal comeds thunder, but that's the best thing I will read all day.

 

[scoutyjones2]

For decades Hanford made plutonium for nuclear weapons, including for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

It is now the largest repository of radioactive waste in the United States.

Hanford has about 211 million litres of waste stored in underground tanks. Some tanks date back to World War II and are leaking.

The sprawling Hanford site is about half the size of Rhode Island.

Also, I believe the Columbia River is right nearby as well.

It is...sadly. This area is a bunch of blah...high mountain prairie. Looks like shit

 

[dare2be]

It is...sadly. This area is a bunch of blah...high mountain prairie. Looks like shit

Yep, but like shit, radioactive waste flows downhill.

 

[Comeds]

Checking into the rumor (rumour) that Starbucks is rushing toward Hanford for new Twister Frappacino ingredients.

 

[scoutyjones2]

Checking into the rumor (rumour) that Starbucks is rushing toward Hanford for new Twister Frappacino ingredients.

They decided against it...can't have man bunns on their barista's if their hair keeps falling out!

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Checking into the rumor (rumour) that Starbucks is rushing toward Hanford for new Twister Frappacino ingredients.

They decided against it...can't have man bunns on their barista's if their hair keeps falling out!

but how good would it be to have a unicorn frappuccino served to you by an actual unicorn

 

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So, three weeks ago, Gizmodo Media Group’s Special Projects Desk launched a security preparedness test directed at Giuliani and 14 other people associated with the Trump Administration. We sent them an email that mimicked an invitation to view a spreadsheet in Google Docs. The emails came from the address [email protected], but the sender name each one displayed was that of someone who might plausibly email the recipient, such as a colleague, friend, or family member.

The link in the document would take them to what looked like a Google sign-in page, asking them to submit their Google credentials. The url of the page included the word “test.” The page was not set up to actually record or retain the text of their passwords, just to register who had attempted to submit login information.

Some of the Trump Administration people completely ignored our email, the right move. But it appears that more than half the recipients clicked the link: Eight different unique devices visited the site, one of them multiple times. There’s no way to tell for sure if the recipients themselves did all the clicking (as opposed to, say, an IT specialist they’d forwarded it to), but seven of the connections occurred within 10 minutes of the emails being sent.

At least the recipients didn’t go farther. Our testing setup—which included disclaimers for careful readers at each step—did not induce anyone to go all the way and try to hand over their credentials.

Two of the people we reached—informal presidential advisor Newt Gingrich and FBI director James Comey—replied to the emails they’d gotten, apparently taking the sender’s identity at face value. Comey, apparently believing that he was writing to his friend, Lawfare.com editor-in-chief Ben Wittes, wrote: “Don’t want to open without care. What is it?” And Gingrich, apparently under the impression he was responding to an email from his wife, Callista, wrote: “What is this?”

http://gizmodo.com/heres-how-easy-it-is-to-get-trump-officials-to-click-on-1794963635

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

So, three weeks ago, Gizmodo Media Group’s Special Projects Desk launched a security preparedness test directed at Giuliani and 14 other people associated with the Trump Administration. We sent them an email that mimicked an invitation to view a spreadsheet in Google Docs. The emails came from the address [email protected], but the sender name each one displayed was that of someone who might plausibly email the recipient, such as a colleague, friend, or family member.

The link in the document would take them to what looked like a Google sign-in page, asking them to submit their Google credentials. The url of the page included the word “test.” The page was not set up to actually record or retain the text of their passwords, just to register who had attempted to submit login information.

Some of the Trump Administration people completely ignored our email, the right move. But it appears that more than half the recipients clicked the link: Eight different unique devices visited the site, one of them multiple times. There’s no way to tell for sure if the recipients themselves did all the clicking (as opposed to, say, an IT specialist they’d forwarded it to), but seven of the connections occurred within 10 minutes of the emails being sent.

At least the recipients didn’t go farther. Our testing setup—which included disclaimers for careful readers at each step—did not induce anyone to go all the way and try to hand over their credentials.

Two of the people we reached—informal presidential advisor Newt Gingrich and FBI director James Comey—replied to the emails they’d gotten, apparently taking the sender’s identity at face value. Comey, apparently believing that he was writing to his friend, Lawfare.com editor-in-chief Ben Wittes, wrote: “Don’t want to open without care. What is it?” And Gingrich, apparently under the impression he was responding to an email from his wife, Callista, wrote: “What is this?”

http://gizmodo.com/heres-how-easy-it-is-to-get-trump-officials-to-click-on-1794963635

Well, ain't gotta worry about Comey no more.

 

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Well, ain't gotta worry about Comey no more.

 

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I wonder how many times he misspelled "hereby" until he got it right