Cracked Archive - Tech
5 Things We All Do That Make Hackers' Lives Incredibly Easy
Hollywood portrays hackers as superpowered math geniuses who can intimidate computers into giving them whatever they want through intense keyboard mashing. But in reality, it's so much easier. And that's because computers are secure, and never will be.
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- By Stuart P. Bentley
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850 Why Modern War FPS Games All Look the Same [CHART]
As we've pointed out before, the gaming industry is out of ideas, and the modern war FPS is probably the best place to go for proof. To truly get a handle on the system while making us all billionaires, we figured out the formula behind the game development process. It wasn't that hard, actually.
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- By Tom Flock, Leo Dukes
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8 Stupid Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews
Everybody is a comedian these days, and the internet has given them a stage. Maybe the best example is Amazon.com. It's very simple: anybody can write a review, on any product, whether they have bought it or not. So it's just a matter of finding a baffling/ridiculous/useless product and watching the internet's sarcasm run wild.
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- By Christina H
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The 8 Most WTF Ideas In the History of Transportation
Invent the next great innovation in transportation technology, and you'll be living in a house made of platinum. The problem, of course, is that your innovation has to actually, you know, work.
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- By Danny Vittore
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- 699
7 Insanely Advanced Weapons History Somehow Forgot About
Some ancient weapons were literally centuries ahead of their time yet wound up in the trash when society decided they were simply too awesome for their time.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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7 Silver Linings Now That You've Lost Your Job
We present to you the lighter side of being forcibly unemployed. We hope these will help you get on with your life, or at least stop crying in your car.
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- By Chris Bucholz
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6 Shocking Ways TV Rewires Your Brain
Watching enough television rewires your brain in a bunch of unexpected ways. The science for it is pretty much overwhelming.
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- By Sam Cooper
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6 Video Game Heroes Made Useless By Supporting Characters
Just because you're the star of your very own video game doesn't automatically mean you deserve the lead role. In most cases, we wish we could control the far-better sidekick instead.
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- By Jason Iannone
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The 5 Hardest, Most Pointless World of Warcraft Achievements
So some achievements are meaningless, and some achievements are insanely difficult. The World of Warcraft developers thought it would be funny to make some that were both. Like these.
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- By Christina H
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7 Planes Perfectly Designed (To Kill The People Flying Them)
Building military aircraft is really, really hard. Sometimes, though, they just sort of slap something together and send the pilot off to die.
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- By Patrick Riordan
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- 596
5 Creepy Ways Humans Are Plunging Into the Uncanny Valley
What is the uncanny valley? Something that's horrifying and happening right now.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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5 Reasons Bowser Is The Most Successful Video Game Character
The most depressingly one-sided rivalry in the history of not just video games, but possibly the world.
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- By Luke McKinney
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5 Awesome Vehicles for the Extremely Wealthy (And Insane)
Apparently the rich supervillain demographic is not limited to fictional settings. Just ask whoever built these ridiculous modes of transportation.
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- By Sam Blitz
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- 500
The 7 Most Unintentionally Creepy Places on the Internet
Seven websites that prove the internet can still make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end
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- By Nick Coffin, Derek James
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5 Multiplayer Video Games That Will Destroy Your Marriage
The dating site eHarmony claims to match prospective couples based on 29 dimensions of compatibility, not one of them being video game skill level. This is an enormous mistake
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- By Christina H
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- 750
