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The context: he was on a PR tour of a farm (or factory or something), and grabbed it from a pile and just started eating it like it was an apple, whilst continuing the tour. It caught the public attention at how normal he made eating a raw onion look.
> grabbed it from a pile and just started eating it like it was an apple, Sounds like a sociopath.
Some Grade A zingers in there: > The man in question is Tony Abbott, one of Australia’s many former Prime Ministers. > For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites. > Harold Holt was another former Prime Minster and we… lost him? He disappeared while going for a swim one morning. This is not a joke. We named Harold Holt Memor…
"...I called up and was all like “yeah bloody g’day, day for it ay, hot enough for ya?”. Once the formalities were out of the way..."
His skills at hacking are only matched by his wit at writing.
I still find it strange you can manage a booking with just a reference and name. About ~5 years ago someone I follow on twitter posted their boarding pass and I replied to them with a screen shot asking if I should cancel the booking. They removed their post and I removed mine. But all it took was the reference on the boarding pass and their last name...
I mean in this particular case, they could have Abbott create an account on their website first, but then, someone else booked the ticket for him so that makes things more complicated (because they don't have an e-mail address), and then there's tickets being booked all over the world, and then loads of people don't have computers or e-mail.
It escalates quickly.
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Your advice is good, and I agree that you didn't use specialized software to reverse the blur, but this > I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Mathematica with its built-in ImageDeconvolve function with guessed parameters for the Gaussian kernel. is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :)
Reminds me of the Simpson's 3D episode. Professor Frink's >"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology..."
Great read. I really like the bit about learn "the IT", there's no book or anything to be good at computers you just gotta fuck around and find out a bunch. > Like, when a toddler uses a spoon for the first time, they don’t know what a spoon is, where they are, or who the current Prime Minister is. But they see the spoon, and they see the cereal, and their dumb baby brain is just like “yeA” and they have a red hot go…
I mean the IT books section of the charity shops is a good example of this, there's so many there for older versions of Office, operating systems, etc.
That said, I had a school book (Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum) that explains a lot of the basics of computers. Sure, it's about the Pentium architecture and early JVM and doesn't cover multi-core architecture or using GPU's to crunch numbers, but it goes through a lot of the basics.
Careless or unwitting information disclosure from APIs—sometimes sensitive, sometimes not—is a real problem.
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Sure, this is the guy who knighted a prince and ate a raw onion. What did you expect? Abbott was Australia's Trump. Thankfully he lasted in office an even shorter time than the people he replaced.
Since hired as a UK trade advisor: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54027762