“I can imagine him becoming as well known and famous as Cousteau,” one investor told Gary Kinder, whose 1998 book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea chronicles the Central America mission. Gary Kinder’s book details Thompson’s early interest in the underwater realm, which extended to sunken ships when he spent a summer after high school working with a group of career treasure hunters in Florida. The so-called “Ship of Gold” was one of the legendary wrecks that beckoned Thompson’s treasure-hunting comrades — it was renowned for the enormity of its loss and infamous for its opulent cargo.

This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. The top bar is the entire mission with two bars below it providing magnification. Closing the Mission Control audio panel will unmute the main audio and continue mission playback.

It’s in this context that the effects of Prohibition deserve another look: If banning alcohol wasn’t as much of a failure as people generally think, perhaps the other, related policies aren’t as ineffective as some assume. Prohibition reduced drinking

For Carry Nation, the battle against alcohol was personal. A 2003 study from economists Angela Dills and Jeffrey Miron, a libertarian critical of prohibiting alcohol and other drugs, found that national Prohibition reduced liver cirrhosis deaths — a commonly used proxy for all drinking at the time — by 10 to 20 percent.

That is, after I took a leap of faith and sent them the money via Western Union

Upon ordering the poker cheating device I kinda expected, based on the screenshots I had seen early on, to get a dedicated piece of hardware that kinda looked like a fake phone. The cool thing is that phone cameras are somewhat sensitive to IR light, so pointing your phone camera at a poker cheating device will show the huge blast of light. The sequence of black spots created by the IR illumination, illustrated in the photo above, is read remotely by the cheating device to infer a card’s suit and value.

The day after her death, Johnson’s body arrived at Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in Montrose, Colorado, a big-box town of 19,000. After Johnson’s body went to the funeral home, Schum said it took seven weeks for the ashes to return in the gift bag. THE AGENTS TOLD SCHUM THAT THEY SUSPECTED Sunset Mesa had sold Johnson’s entire body, potentially one of hundreds to meet a similar end.

A Statement of Work (SOW) is a short document that defines the objective, tasks and deliverables of a task or project. In scope change, the tasks and deliverables of a project as documented in a Statement of Work change. If the scope change stops work on that project, no problem, because each programmer in the team always has several “on the go”, and can switch to working on another in the mean time.

We did our compiler in Rust and my first comparison was with a team that used Haskell, which I expected to be much terser, but their compiler used similar amounts or more code for the same task. The Haskell team was composed of two of my friends who’d written maybe a couple thousand lines of Haskell each before plus reading lots of online Haskell content, and a bunch more in other similar functional languages like OCaml and Lean. I believe that someone like Edward Kmett could write the same compiler in substantially fewer lines of Haskell, in that my friend’s team didn’t use a lot of fancy super advanced abstractions, and weren’t allowed to use fancy combinator libraries like lens.

After a two-hour nationwide outage Saturday, Target’s registers are back online in the retailer’s 1,849 U.S. stores, spokesman Joe Poulos confirmed to USA TODAY. Shoppers posted to social media about long waits at the checkout line and then leaving stores empty-handed Saturday afternoon. Target stores that temporarily closed because of the outage reopened Saturday, Poulos said.

Media reports said the problem had hit Target stores across the country. Customers took to Twitter to complain about the outage under the hashtag #targetdown with many users commending Target employees for handling the situation well. A defect in a network device in June 2014 also caused problems with Target’s payment processing systems, according to media reports.

When General Nakasone took over both Cyber Command and the N.S.A. a year ago, his staff was assessing Russian hackings on targets that included the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, which runs a nuclear power plant near Burlington, Kan., as well as previously unreported attempts to infiltrate Nebraska Public Power District’s Cooper Nuclear Station, near Brownville. In August, General Nakasone used the new authority granted to Cyber Command by the secret presidential directive to overwhelm the computer systems at Russia’s Internet Research Agency — the group at the heart of the hacking during the 2016 election in the United States. As it games out the 2020 elections, Cyber Command has looked at the possibility that Russia might try selective power blackouts in key states, some officials said.