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Scorpion Brings the Stupidest, Most Batshit Insane Hacker Scene Ever
Scorpion Brings the Stupidest, Most Batshit Insane Hacker Scene Ever:
So Scorpion debuted last night on CBS, bringing us the thrilling tale of “geniuses” who help DHS by setting up wifi access points in restaurants. Yes, that is a true plot point. It all leads to this scene, whose true meaning I will unfold for you so that you can appreciate the full amazing awfulness.
Surprise! (Not a surprise.)
From ad one for this series I knew it looked terrible. It was: let’s take all of the shitty stereotyping of ‘geeks’, intelligent people, scientists, etc… from Big Bang Theory and double-down on it by making all the characters less able to function in reality (because geniuses can only be “relatable” if we render them non-threatening by making them totally socially inept, otherwise: oh noes, intelligent people, we hate functional intelligent people. Yay keeping up the anti-intellectualism in America, that will never have consequences.) and throw in a network-TV-producer’s level of intelligence about how computers work.
It’s not like I intended to watch it, but I’m glad to be wholly reinforced in that assumption.
As is appropriate for its 1337th comic, XKCD has an elaborate Hackers joke today.
As is appropriate for its 1337th comic, XKCD has an elaborate Hackers joke today.:
Hack the Planet
Meetup struggles under huge DDoS attack.
Meetup struggles under huge DDoS attack.:
No doubt, this has been a tough weekend for Meetup. Since Thursday, we faced a massive attack on our servers — a DDoS attack, which is a barrage of traffic intended to make service unavailable. We’ve had many hours of downtime over several days, a first for us in 12 years of growing the…
This is an attack on everyone who believes that people are powerful together.