A man purchased a first-class ticket on China Eastern Airlines and enjoyed over 300 days of free meals and drinks at the airport’s VIP lounge at Xi’an Airport in Shaanxi, China. He kept changing the itinerary, which allowed him to feast without paying for nearly a year. When the airlines started to look into the matter, he cancelled his ticket and got a refund.
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Man uses first-class airline ticket to get free meals for almost a year
Male employees are suing Archie Comics’ CEO Nancy Silberkleit for gender discrimination. Her alleged workplace behavior, reported in the New York Daily News , is bizarre: – refuses to call male employees by their names and instead refers to all of them as “Penis.” – frequently yells “Penis! Penis! Penis!” in staff meetings. – invites Hell’s Angels into the office to intimidate employees. – frequently inquires about the location of a handgun and 750 rounds of ammunition she believes her late husband kept in the office. – stalking employees and their families “Silberkleit contends that the case should be tossed out because white males are not ‘a protected class.'” (Thanks, chellberty!)
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This ancient Peruvian telephone was unearthed in the 1930s by by Baron Walram V. Von Schoeler, “a shadowy Indiana Jones-type adventurer.” The gourd-and-twine device, created 1,200 to 1,400 years ago, remains tantalizingly functional — and too fragile to test out. “This is unique,” NMAI curator Ramiro Matos, an anthropologist and archaeologist who specializes in the study of the central Andes, tells me. “Only one was ever discovered. It comes from the consciousness of an indigenous society with no written language.” We’ll never know the trial and error that went into its creation. The marvel of acoustic engineering — cunningly constructed of two resin -coated gourd receivers, each three-and-one-half inches long; stretched-hide membranes stitched around the bases of the receivers; and cotton-twine cord extending 75 feet when pulled taut—arose out of the Chimu empire at its height. There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections (Via Daily Grail )
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1,200 year old telephone
oclHashcat-plus is a “password-recovery” tool that chews through 8-million guesses a second. It optimizes its guesses by trying phrases from “the Bible, common literature, and in online discussions, ” and by formulating characters into websites’ required “password-construction protocols.” One security researcher cracked the passphrase “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn1, ” a phrase from an H.P.
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Password-cracking software runs at 8 million guesses per second
[ Video Link ] Collin Cunningham makes excellent educational videos about electronics. Here’s his latest one, about capacitors. (Via Make )
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What is a capacitor?