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> Unfortunately, most non-profits are notorious for money-laundering and illegal activity

That's quite a claim you make. Can you support that with facts?

You could contact a well known security expert that does this kind of stuff professionally, unless you want to make a name for yourself.

PHP is actively being developed with ton of new features added. It has a lively framework landscape with new versions released all the time. You can't get more modern than that.

My answer is always this. If I write a line of code, discover a bug, and fix it right away, it's part of the normal coding process and covered by the hourly/daily rate I've quoted the client. What difference does it make that the bug was found later or by another person?

It's a regional thing. Amazon.com usest "laptop", Amazon.de uses notebook.

I run a couple of short URL websites and this kind of short URLs along with links to phishing and spam sites is what you'll get on a very regular basis in this business.

Those short URLs are often being used in mass mailings, guestbooks, comment forms etc. and they'll get reported pretty quickly to URL blacklists. That gives you the chance to disable the shady short URls before too many people come across them.

Here is a list of URL blacklist providers that you should check each URL against, both before accepting it into your database and again before you deliver it to the user:

multi.surbl.org, uribl.swinog.ch, dbl.spamhaus.org, url.rbl.jp, uribl.spameatingmonkey.net, iadb.isipp.com, dnsbl.sorbs.net

You can find out more about this stuff on http://www.surbl.org/

Since I've implemented these checks I only receive complaint emails every other month and no contact from the authorities so far (in contrast to the disposable email services I run).

When you get a complaint about a URL, your software should allow you to disable all the URLs of the reported domain. There are times when the spammers have taken over a forum (or any site really) and created a large amount of spammy content.

Hope this helps.

Pebble Steel: I like the look and I don't have to pull my six inch phone out of my pocket every time I receive a message.

Pardon my cynicism but you're trying to get support from a company that offers a free service and has millions of users. Providing direct support to individual users is not part of their business model. If the past has taught us anything, it's that the normal user is screwed when something goes awry. Unless you know someone important or the company decides it's good PR to help you, things look pretty bleak.

Apart from that I hope you can solve the problem.

I've noticed the same thing. I guess that they've stopped using cookies and are using some kind of "super cookie" that uses the visitors computer environment to create a individual id.

I've read advice from someone a while ago about this topic. The gist was that you have to ease your bosses into letting you work from home.

Start with the odd day like when you're sick or when there is a single day between weekend and holiday. Prove that you can do the same or more work this way.

Once you convinced them that your remote working does no harm or even helps, you can extend things.

I omitted indeed characters I didn't like. Those are not necessarily the villains. There a quite a few of them in there as well.

Can't. Haven't read the book yet and was unimpressed with the movie. Sorry. ;-)

Thanks. Added.

> If the goal is testing, an improvement would be to add some internationalization.

The goal is rather to be using some fun names during development. For example, when I work on our appointment scheduling software, I often need to walk through the scheduling and registration process in order to check the user experience. Instead of using the tired old John Smith123 and john123@example.com I can use some names that I fondly remember from a book or movie.

LOL yes.

> I like to manually choose names from movies/tv-shows

I knew I couldn't be the only one. And using family members to illustrate different user roles is quite clever.

> it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields.

Yes, I need that for a simple script that generates email addresses and links.

> May I ask if you collected those manually?

Yes, whenever I read a book or watched a movie I've added some of the characters to the list.

> It appears that my first reaction to cool things is now not wonder but 'I need to engineer the shit out of fit'.

Imagination and creativity. Nothing wrong with that. And nobody can blame you if you haven't the time to realize the idea.

I edited the order of names before creating the repo on Github, to be honest. :-)

> Does that worth to be shared in this community?

Since it has been starred and forked on Github I think the answer is yes.

> has that ever been a problem worth mention to someone?

It has been to me. When I work I want to write lines and not think what name I use when testing. I have a simple script that creates a link to my applications so that the registration forms get pre-filled.

I run a couple of temporary email websites like fakeinbox.com and wegwerfemail.de. Earned a total of $3.153 with AdSense and cost about $655 (server, domains) since January 1st.

> there's even a commandline client

This totally speaks to me but I imagine saying to my buddies at the club: "You should use Telegram. It's free, you don't need an account, and best of all there is even a command line client.". That'll convince them right away. ;-)

Thanks. This is better than nothing. Telegram not requiring an account and being free of charge will probably help a bit.

> pushing my friends to telegram

Do you have any suggestions on how to do that? The People I know either think Whatsapp is gods gift to mankind and won't switch or they can't use anything else because the people they interact with think it's gods gift to mankind and won't switch. I find it pretty hard to break that cycle.

This looks neat but the loading time needs improvement.

Normal? No, but neither surprising.

There are people who have a hard time learning to read and some who never manage it despite making every effort. Why is it so hard to believe that there are people at the other end of the spectrum who are able to learn to read as an infant?

Some people mature earlier than others without being foced.

For some the ideal childhood is playing outside, playng games or playing sports. For others it's technology and science.

No. France has very far reaching mass surveillance laws and still they weren't capable of prevent the last two terrorist attacks. Mass surveillance does nothing to prevent this. Only change in politics does.

> We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them'

The really couldn't figure out by themselves that they shouldn't throw away the visual evidence of one of the most important events in human history?