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"It appears that Liu may have gotten hold of the hotel chain's data when a developer accidentally uploaded part of its database on GitHub." zdnet.com/article/chinese-poli

LB: Langoliers, skill level, "That wasn't a nightmare, *this* is a nightmare!"

You get on a plane and fall asleep after takeoff, but when you wake up, everyone has mysteriously disappeared and you are the only person on board. No one is flying the plane.
#writingprompts #writing

Well, that's a new one... I left it alone for a while, then when I went back, it was doing this weird coloring thing. I started a game then took a photo:

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Tilted Goldeneye carts aside, computers generally don't like it when parts of the memory map suddenly go missing.

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I can see why the RAM pack is bolted on now. The case top standoffs look okayish, but the case bottom standoffs that are supposed to meet the motherboard & let the screws hold it on are completely missing, filed & sanded down to nothing. The motherboard is now so misaligned that the pack is actually suspended in the air, held on only by the edge connector & the weird support bracket. Any movement of the bracket makes an edge connector pin break contact.

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I should look at the RF modulator in the nicer-looking one next.

But for the desperately modded one... Woohoo!

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The trouble with trying to keep a desk organized is that everything suddenly grows legs and wanders off.

*whew* After inspection and testing, I can't find anything new wrong. The motherboard screws aren't original, and one of them just dug into the plastic standoff wrong.

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TFW you hear an unsettling *crunch* after you line up all the motherboard's mounting holes and start turning the first screw in.

After so much Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, & who remembers what else, when I think of starships, I still think of these real-world proposals shown in Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

Microsoft counts to ten 

1
2
2.1
3
3.1
3.3
4
5
6
6.22

Perfect!
Wait, that's not right.
We can count!

1
2/286
2/386
3
3.1
for Workgroups
95
98
Second Edition
Millennium Edition

Perf--!
Wait, that's still not right.
Let's start counting again!

3.1
3.5
4
2000
XP
Vista
7
8
8.1
10

Nailed it!
Yay!

kigu TF 

Okay, I think I just found the kind of pajamas I want for xmas. Does anyone know who sells these? deviantart.com/blackshirtboy/a

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