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    3rrant reacted to mariushm in Wordpress site hacked, but what's the point of the hacking?   
    Correct. In this case, it's just keyword spam to make sites rank better in Google. 
     
    It can also be for the opposite effects ... to hurt competitors by making Google think you're trying to improve rankings with "gray" methods"
     
    There is another scenario, but quite rare.  To give bots updates. 
     
    Some groups make viruses or that act like bots , they don't infect or corrupt anything but can stay hidden / sleep for long periods of time and which can periodically connect to a remote server or website to get commands  (attack a website, send key logs to remote address)  
    Instead of having the addresses of remote computers hardcoded in the virus or bot (and risk getting those blacklisted by organizations) bots can be programmed to search the internet for specific keywords or sequences of keywords in specific days of weeks. The programmer of the bot known the pattern the bot will search in a specific day or week and will prepare in advance a website or subdomain 
     
    So let's say for example that next month pattern is  AAbotHHH100  - i can make a  myblogAAbotHHH100rocks.blogspot.com or  as AAbotHHH100pictures.biz domain I can buy for a few dollars with a stolen credit card  and on the main page have the data I want to give the bot encrypted as a bunch of characters or as a picture. 
    I just have to make sure that these two domains will show up in google search and the bot will pick them up, retrieve the encrypted content which will contain the commands or the addresses for new remote control servers. Once the bot updates, these can be deleted. 
     
     
     
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    3rrant reacted to Spotty in Wordpress site hacked, but what's the point of the hacking?   
    Search engine crawler bots would likely still read the links even if they're not visible and clickable by humans. Seems like they're using the website for backlinks to try and improve the SEO of those websites. Those websites appear to be some sort of medication type spam/scam (very common scam).
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    3rrant reacted to leadeater in Noveto: Are beam-forming speakers about to make headphones obsolete?   
    I'm waiting for the noise canceling version where you get total silence but everyone else in the room gets blasted with inverse noise lol
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    3rrant reacted to Arika in Intels dirty little secret   
    it's almost like intel's compiler is more optimized for their own architecture or something....
     
    no no, surely it MUST be malicious.
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    3rrant got a reaction from Fasauceome in How many Amps will a psu pull out of a wall socket?   
    Watt / Volt = Amp
     
    300W / 220V = 1.36A 
     
    As a rule of thumb if you need it, 1mmq of copper wire is ok for up to 8A-220V for short distances.
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    3rrant got a reaction from Eigenvektor in How many Amps will a psu pull out of a wall socket?   
    Watt / Volt = Amp
     
    300W / 220V = 1.36A 
     
    As a rule of thumb if you need it, 1mmq of copper wire is ok for up to 8A-220V for short distances.
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    3rrant got a reaction from KnightSirius in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from elfensky in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from slippers_ in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from EChondo in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from WereCat in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from Salv8 (sam) in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from Bensemus in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from thechinchinsong in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from DededeKirby in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from gloop in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from Techstorm970 in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from The Benjamins in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from Exprima in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from ne0tic in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant got a reaction from jaslion in Microsoft To Buy Bethesda Studios For $7.5 Billion   
    It's hard to fail harder than Bethesda did by themself, so future is looking brighter now.
     
    This might be a game changer for the NEXT generation of consoles, considering Bethesda's roadmap (2022+ for Starfield and ??? for TES6) but won't really change much for this one.
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    3rrant reacted to Pickles von Brine in IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption   
    Something rather interesting to be honest. The fact you can search a database that is encrpyted for data without actually knowing what that data is is... mind boggling. Some really smart folks over at IBM. Any of you get this stuff? My brain broke halfway through. 

    Source
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    3rrant got a reaction from Tan3l6 in Upgrade from GTX 1060 3GB   
    If you can wait a little longer (couple of months), wait and stock some money up for the new releases from both Nvidia and AMD.
    If not, depending on your budget you might try the used market or an amd 5700.
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