Apparently they didn’t include the single quote at the beginning because they wanted to hint at the exploit without actually triggering it.

(and Lemmy seems to combine two dashes into one)

With an address in 's-Hertogenbosch to help people who are lazy about escaping.

Just noticed that the listing for ; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”; – LTD has been redacted by the government website‽

It’s like everyone has given up on making plans for the future, and is just trying to hoard as much short-to-medium-term wealth as they can while it collapses? (countries and individuals)

This guy seemed to be campaigning on not prosecuting war criminals, so military lawyers might be the first ones with difficult decisions to make.

Seems excessive to convert everything to rust when you can use std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr to eliminate the memory safety issue?

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And not just burning them for power/transport - a lot of this is coming from forest fires.

There’s a UK scheme called Flood Re that does this kind of thing. If you’re more than a certain probability of flooding, you need to go with an insurer that’s backed by the government’s reinsurance policy.

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Agnes Nutter, Good Omens.

Alternatively, “The most powerful person in Discworld is Granny Weatherwax”

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O’Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn’t actually happened yet.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

This computer.

The Blues Brothers - it’s literally stringing together performances from famous musicians, and the soundtrack was wildly successful as an album.

• Ray Charles
• James Brown
• Aretha Franklin
• Cab Galloway
• etc.

Tron Legacy, but that’s cheating as it’s essentially a Daft Punk music video.

That was so insane - “we need a unique number, let’s just use the MAC” - it was like people didn’t even think through any of the implications when making ipv6 address schemes.

Similar with the address proposals that ignored the need to minimise the size of core internet routing tables.

The End of Eternity (Asimov) might be short enough for you, and has some interesting ideas about the implications of time travel.