It describes how in 1986 the compute time accounting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was off by 75 cents - literal theft of compute time, in other words. Long story short: it was a hacker in Germany, compromising a large number of US government computer systems in order to spy for the KGB.
I just learned that a documentary on this topic with Cliff Stoll exists: The KGB, the Computer and Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHNVNRQTJg - I haven't watched it yet, though.
I'm going to start flying JSX Airlines whenever possible to avoid this crap.
Arainach•6mo ago
Shorter flights should generally be rail anyway.
The math on "no longer makes sense" isn't run, but short flights were never cheaper - the benefit is that I either don't have to pay attention and drive for hours or that I don't need to be on a slower bus for more hours.