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.
Arainach•2h 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.