In 2013, a US IT worker outsourced his own job to a man in China. He paid the man 1/5 of his salary and then he sat at his desk browsing the internet. He was found out after a security audit discovered some suspicious VPN activity.
Interesting Facts About the Desert
Deserts are locations that receive very little rainfall throughout the year. Due to such conditions, animal and plant life is inhibited. About a third of the world’s land surface is either arid or semi-arid. There are different types of deserts and they can be classified in terms of temperature, amount of rainfall, the amount of humidity and a combination of other additional factors. The main types of deserts are: cold winter, polar deserts, cool coastal deserts and subtropical deserts. The polar deserts are the largest and are found in Antarctica. Hot deserts are the main types and they receive little
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During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally lead the desperate…
During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally lead the desperate defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son, the 14 year-old Crown Prince enlisted in the infantry as a private.
‘Art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold…
‘Art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold, silver and bronze medals for architecture, painting, sculpture, music and literature across multiple Summer Olympics in the early 20th Century. The ‘arts’ were dropped from the Games because they drew too many professional artists.
The computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing….
The computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968.
1-3% of the population are known as the sleepless elite…
1-3% of the population are known as the sleepless elite. This group of people routinely get 6 hours or less of sleep daily and remain totally functional.
There is a resident in MIT’s Random Hall called…
There is a resident in MIT’s Random Hall called “The Milk” that is an expired carton of milk coming up on 22 years past its expiration date.
Scientists in the Netherlands are developing…
Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
For most states in the U.S. you don’t need….
For most states in the U.S. you don’t need to commit an arrestable offense in order to be lawfully accused of resisting arrest.
During Civil War, a person can pay $300 to escape…
During Civil War, a person can pay $300 to escape the draft. The rationalization for this was that unwilling troops were ineffective so the government might as well extract funds to be used as war funds from the unwilling if it got poor service.