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I am not even close to a designer by any means but the scheme you are using on your site is an absolute no go.

Use literally anything else except neon green on dark grey

doubt_meon Lower Back Issues

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/3sxhpl/here_is_an_...

Getting a better chair is just a band-aid

doubt_meon Ask HN: Is it possible to get help from a Google employee?(for G+)

I already tried reporting the page for sexual content over 3 months ago so I assumed that didn't work.

I had just submitted a DMCA complaint with their automated form a few days ago and with google being so big I can't imagine that getting anywhere.

I asked reddit.com/r/legaladvice if I had any ground to stand on by getting a lawyer involved and they pretty much just told me oh well there is nothing I can technically do. But I am not done looking into it

doubt_meon Ask HN: Is it possible to get help from a Google employee?(for G+)

I successfully signed up for google apps and talked with support where pretty much they have zero access to general google accounts and are only there for supporting google apps.

It was very much worth a shot though thanks for the idea again

doubt_meon Ask HN: Is it possible to get help from a Google employee?(for G+)

Its a regular gmail account that I haven't accessed for over 4 years.

Thanks for the suggestion I am going to try it right now. (I literally have no other options)

doubt_meon Ask HN: Is it possible to get help from a Google employee?(for G+)

https://plus.google.com/+TariqGhrayyib/posts/NpvCexzHEGw

doubt_meon Google and Microsoft make patent peace

Well I am not at all knowledgeable about the different types of lawyers out there but in general the problem doesn't even begin to start with them. Its all the USPTOs fault for even allowing software (zeros and ones) to be patented in the first place (There are probably very legitimate reasons for this that I don't know about). I don't even know how many resources and time are wasted in courts but I imagine it would be pretty shocking.

I haven't heard anything about patent trolls for a while but their entire existence is based on bullshit lawyers and wasting the courts resources. (kinda getting off topic I guess I am done here)

doubt_meon How I Ended Up Purchasing and Owning Google.com via Google Domains

A strange thing happened at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29. I was learning more about the Google Domains interface, and typed google.com and clicked search domains. To my surprise, Google.com was showing as available!

I clicked the add to cart icon beside the domain (which should not appear if the domain is not available for sale). The domain actually got added to my cart as seen by the green check-box, and the domain appeared in my cart.

I was hoping I would get an error at sometime saying transaction did not go through, but I was able to complete purchase, and my credit card was actually charged!

As soon as I completed purchase, I received two emails, one from sc-noreply@google.com, and one from wmt-noreply@google.com, which is not the norm when you book domains via Google Domains as I have booked new, previously un-registered domains before, and I have never received emails from the above aliases on booking the domains. I will not share the contents of the emails here given they relate to the Google.com domain. The domain also successfully appeared in my Google Domains order history.

Additionally, my Google Search Console (aka Google Webmaster Tools) was auto-updated with webmaster related messages for the Google.com domain which actually means ownership was transferred to me! One gets the below messages in Search Console only for those domains for which one is the verified admin/verified owner (of course access was removed when domain was taken back by Google).

Additionally, I started receiving notifications, for when ownership changed (along with new owner details etc.) in the Google Search Console for websites (I will not name them) that are powered by Google Sites (which makes sense given that websites powered by Google Sites rest on the master domain Google.com). Quite clearly, ownership had been granted to me. Order was successful.

Though purchase had successfully gone through, and domain now belonged to me as evident above, the purchase was followed by an order cancellation email from Google Domains. Google could do this given the registration service used by me (aka Google Domains) belonged to Google, unlike the 2003 event in which Microsoft forgot to renew their Hotmail UK domain which was registered with Nominet UK. As a result, the Hotmail UK domain was returned to the open market for pickup by anybody who fancied it. Somebody else picked it up, and as Microsoft wasn't the registrar themselves, Microsoft wasn't able to cancel the order, and take it back automatically. In my case, I don't know what caused Google to lose ownership of the domain Google.com as a result of which it was available in the open market.

The purchase got completed and the card was charged (which would not have happened unless I actually successfully completed checkout, as otherwise I would have received an error). The charge was not a pre-auth.

The order history page auto-updated itself with a new message (missed taking a screenshot when the canceled message was not appearing).

On searching again for the domain Google.com, it now finally shows as unavailable.

The Indian Prime Minister's visit did work wonders...it ended up convincing Google to sell the most visited domain on the internet to a person from the Kutch region of the Indian Prime Minister's home state...albeit just for a minute or so :)

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Note: I have reported the incident to Google Security. Google has reverted back, and has acknowledged the incident.

all your missing are some screenshots

doubt_meon Google and Microsoft make patent peace

They completely avoided this question in their reddit AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3mzrl9/hi_im_hiroshi_...

doubt_meon Secret Confessions: Google Employees Reveal 13 Things They Hate About Work

orrrrrr you can use this article that isn't blog spam

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-...

^notice how this has been around for 3 years

(sorry I just really hate blog spam)

doubt_meon Newly found TrueCrypt flaws

why the heck is chrome telling me codeplex isn't a secure site

doubt_meon Google and Microsoft make patent peace

I have always had this feeling that patent wars are only around to make the lawyers more money.

Imagine how many firms would lose millions if the major tech companies worked together

EDIT: (nothing against lawyers in general since they are obviously just doing their jobs)

doubt_meon Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

That is a main issue with people who don't know how to look for the right ones. But I get my images by matching the MSDN MD5 hashes (I am not on 10 yet, even though digital river is gone the MSDN images are still out there)

/this forum is a god send

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/index.php

doubt_meon “Direct eye contact” with police cited as reason for ticket

He came up with it on the spot.

This has happened to me personally about 5 times in my life where they stop me and get specifically frustrated that I did nothing wrong and make something up once I ask them. The one and only time it got really bad was when a cop was following me for 2+ miles and finally stopped me took my information and threw it as hard as he could at me when he was done with it with a really bad attitude.

doubt_meon Another government employee, another private account, another crashed hard drive

Western Digital

(obviously don't know, but I have had maybe 3 or 4 failed Segates in my entire career and 50+ dead Western Digital drives)

doubt_meon IBM Devs did an AMA on Reddit and it got ugly, fast

Or just have someone heavily moderate the AMAs?

I am not sure how HN does it here but I assume they have a few

doubt_meon Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality

Reminds me of this Ted Talk from 2014

Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming

www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming

doubt_meon EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

Same developer/ for advanced users

I have been using it since it was HTTP Switchboard and works wonders

doubt_meon Spy Software Gets a Second Life on Wall Street

Nope not at all.

And thanks for the link I appreciate it @witty_username

doubt_meon Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor

I thought HP had been working on it since at least 2008 (when I heard they got it to work)

I just assumed they are integrating it into their new super computer

doubt_meon Ask HN: I'm bored, want exposure to new things but I don't want a job

move out of the US and make apps for a different market

challenge yourself

doubt_meon Comcast Is Threatening to Cut Off Customers Who Use Tor

1. Be comcast

2. How do I get the NSA off my back as much as possible?

3. Oh lets threaten to cut off customers service because of Tor! that will totally work (comcast logic)

4. ....NSA still on our backs guys what do I do?

5. Ban Tor

6. Make NSA happy = TWC merger will happen

7. NSA still not happy

8. Spend millions on trying to kill net neutrality because the survival of comcast/ twc/ NBC universal depends on it

doubt_meon Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

doubt_meon Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840M, Watchdog Finds

So I guess with this bigger picture 840M$ sounds like a cheap mistake now...

doubt_meon Poorly Managed HealthCare.gov Construction Cost $840M, Watchdog Finds

Why the hell does everything the government do have to go through a contract and outsourced/ bid on?

Why don't they contract someone to come up with a better solution?

doubt_meon Ask HN: What would you do in case of a large Ebola outbreak?

apply for a job at the CDC?

doubt_meon Ask HN: Need to interview a hacker for my paper about hacking

Yes I know HN isn't literally for hackers its just that I was hoping maybe some security people are on HN...

If not on HN then I have no idea where to find someone except maybe g+

doubt_meon Ask HN: Is this scam?

If its not I would be seriously ridiculously surprised. But I am 99% sure it is.

The videos from youtube are over a year old. The channel has no staff.com logos or anything at all. all videos are under 500 views. The exact hourly rates for each different person is an exact number.

http://www.freelancer.com/ is not a scam if you are looking for that type of thing

doubt_meon Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account

Well if soundcloud was not around it just wouldn't be possible to keep up with the 600+ people I follow and even then a solid 50% of what is on their page is just stuff they like as well which introduces me to more people.

doubt_meon The Next Big Thing in FOSS, according to the author of Linux Cookbook

can this be integrated with wolfram alphas new language?

Or do I have the wrong idea