Day: November 12, 2019💾

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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster – Los Angeles Times

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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster – Los Angeles Times

Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a massive, aging and weathered concrete dome bobs up and down with the tide.

Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium. Nowhere else has the United States saddled another country with so much of its nuclear waste, a product of its Cold War atomic testing program.

2019 County Comptroller Democratic Primary

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The Albany County Comptroller Democratic Primary played out as many observers of Albany politics would have expected. Darius Shanifar won Delmar - Elsmere and some of the more progressive neighborhoods in Albany, while Susan Rizzo won the more conservative and ethnically diverse parts of the county, including the South End, the Hilltowns and Green Island.

Purple - Won by Susan A. Rizzo
White - Vote split by Rizzo/Shahinfar
Green - Won by Darius Shahinfar

Data Source: Final 2019 Albany County Election June Primary Results, ED Breakdown.

CDTA Adds Real-Time Bus Maps to Website

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Screenshot of CDTA Website

I am very thrilled to see that CDTA has added maps that show the estimated real-time position of buses on all routes on their website. It might not be all that much more useful then the time estimates, but psychologically, to be able to pull up your phone, and watch the icon creep towards you makes you feel better.

The data isn’t perfect, it all depends on the access to GPS signals — which ain’t always possible downtown with the big buildings — and how many of the minute-by-minute beacons are not always successfully returned to CDTA World Headquarters in Albany and processed by the computer, but it’s certainly better then nothing, and makes you feel more like a bus actually coming.

Here is an example on CDTA Route 18 Schedule page.

The most hacked band password is ‘Blink-182’

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The most hacked band password is ‘Blink-182’

The world is awash in '90s nostalgia — and it's even showing up in our passwords.

A new study from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed the world's most easily hacked passwords, CNN reports. The top no-brainer passwords overall are impersonal number combinations, like 12345. But in the category of "bands," the most breached password is the name of the popular '90s pop-punk outfit, Blink-182.
Terrain Map: Mahanoy Mountain