Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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Why they don't put Christmas lights on palm trees
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2.1M views · 24K shares | When your balls are waaayy bigger than your...
When your balls are waaayy bigger than your brain
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@crucial Any of those calculations are the slightest bit out...
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@catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@crucial Any of those calculations are the slightest bit out...
It was the first one that freaked me out. He missed that wharf by fuck all.
When I first saw the clip I thought it was about those freaks that just stand or hang on the edge of high things, so when he dropped i thought I was about to see a splat!
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I thought the one jumping into that narrow jut looked the closest...crazy fecker.
@Crucial have you been to the Piroa Falls on the northern side of the Brynderwyns?
Is a spot there which I've seen people jump from the waterfall which is crazy, I did the higher but slightly less crazy jump here
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You don't want this to happen...
Famous Chinese 'Rooftopper' Falls to Death from 62-Story Building
A well-known Chinese 'rooftopping' photographer fell to his death from the top of a 62-story skyscraper after the stunt he was attempting went horribly
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I thought the one jumping into that narrow jut looked the closest...crazy fecker.
@Crucial have you been to the Piroa Falls on the northern side of the Brynderwyns?
Is a spot there which I've seen people jump from the waterfall which is crazy, I did the higher but slightly less crazy jump here
Haven't been there but the scenery is impressive.
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@bovidae said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
You don't want this to happen...
Famous Chinese 'Rooftopper' Falls to Death from 62-Story Building
A well-known Chinese 'rooftopping' photographer fell to his death from the top of a 62-story skyscraper after the stunt he was attempting went horribly
Probably just me but I would have had somebody else there as a bit of a safe guard. Oh and a harness, and rope. Oh and not be there.
Darwin award stuff really.
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@catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@crucial Any of those calculations are the slightest bit out...
They do seem awfully close.
@bovidae said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
You don't want this to happen...
Famous Chinese 'Rooftopper' Falls to Death from 62-Story Building
A well-known Chinese 'rooftopping' photographer fell to his death from the top of a 62-story skyscraper after the stunt he was attempting went horribly
Should have stopped at one pull-up. Hell of a price to pay to try and lift yourself out of poverty.
@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@bovidae fuuuuuck. I hate to think what goes through his mind after he knows he's fucked
I'm guessing the anguished cry on the video gives it away.
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@antipodean the clip almost looks staged, wonder if there was another ledge to the right as it looks like he tried to jump across...but yeah after that 3rd pull up (why?? surely just hanging and getting back up was sufficient) and he couldn't get any purchase with his shoes, you would start panicking, after which you are basically fooked...just mental!
I guess what makes these thrillseekers famous is the fact they do it all without any safety gear.
If you want the ultimate, you gotta be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I guess what makes these thrillseekers famous is the fact they do it all without any safety gear.
Yes, (and idiots).
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@taniwharugby yeah he definitely pushed off the side of the building and looked to be looking for something.
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It wasn't the dastardly Rooskies... and it weren't the evil North Koreans...
HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET
THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasn’t anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was Minecraft.
It was a hard story to miss last year: In France last September, the telecom provider OVH was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack a hundred times larger than most of its kind. Then, on a Friday afternoon in October 2016, the internet slowed or stopped for nearly the entire eastern United States, as the tech company Dyn, a key part of the internet’s backbone, came under a crippling assault.
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Originally, prosecutors say, the defendants hadn’t intended to bring down the internet—they had been trying to gain an advantage in the computer game Minecraft.
“They didn’t realize the power they were unleashing,” says FBI supervisory special agent Bill Walton. "This was the Manhattan Project."
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How a Dorm Room 'Minecraft' Scam Brought Down the Internet
A DDoS attack that crippled the internet wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working an online gaming hustle.
