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Marijuana can also cause vivid recollection of forgotten memories. In my experience it's closer to reliving a moment than remembering; overall a very interesting experience.

From what we've been told, Greenwald has a giant cache of classified documents, and the people who actually know say this is the tip of the iceberg. I highly doubt he's shown all his cards yet, if only to milk this story as long as possible. Personally, my money is on another bombshell this Friday.

So what if you use something like a Russian VPN or Tor? It seems like that would only be vulnerable to attacks based on exact connection times and to traffic volume analysis, both of which could be avoided by generating fake traffic.

"White middle/upper class" are statistically much less likely to be personally affected by these prison policies. Nothing about Weev's treatment is unusual; it's just that nobody cares when it happens to "normal criminals" who are disproportionately not white or rich.

Humans are likely to ignore a problem that doesn't affect anyone they know or identify with.

I believe the differentiation is that Skype routes calls p2p by default, so wiretapping them is hard. It may be possible for Skype to record calls, but only when it's routed through Supernodes - a mode usually reserved for when firewalls prevent a p2p connection.

Call metadata like to/from, time, and call length are stored - as is all text.

It seems pretty clear that this guy was running a dime-a-dozen "buy a ddos" service and was caught by the FBI due to very lax security - like openly posting name/work/age/city. According to a post on webhostingtalk [1] on Dec 10 2013, he may also control the hosting for viphackforums.net.

His story ("now working for the FBI") superficially checks out - there is a Special Agent Stephen Lies who works at the Memphis, TN FBI branch. Here is a similar op this agent took part in: https://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/oct/10/predators-...

1. https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8462751&po...

Wifi authentication frames aren't encrypted, so you can craft bogus de-auth packets to disconnect clients. This has a lot of uses - you can DoS a client indefinitely, force them to reveal a hidden access point when reconnecting, or force them to disconnect and then reconnect to a rogue access point.

new standards encrypt management frames, though.

FTA: 'Loneliness “is not synonymous with being alone, nor does being with others guarantee protection from feelings of loneliness,” writes John Cacioppo, the leading psychologist on the subject. Cacioppo privileges the emotion over the social fact because—remarkably—he’s sure that it’s the feeling that wreaks havoc on the body and brain. Not everyone agrees with him, of course. Another school of thought insists that loneliness is a failure of social networks. The lonely get sicker than the non-lonely, because they don’t have people to take care of them; they don’t have social support.'

From experience I definitely agree that having very little/no social interaction is not synonymous with loneliness.

I'm curious whether the social interaction/suicide relation is correlation or causation.

> The culture doesn't encourage innovation and curiosity is shunned in most of the schools. Kids get into this rat race of scoring high grades without even realizing it.

I'm not trying to take anything from what you're saying, but my experience is that applies just as well to US school (high school, at least.)

I used to enjoy sleep deprivation. In hindsight, that was me self-treating depression.

I think they only realized it happened after name.com was mentioned as a hacked site in HTP5.

http://www.exploit-db.com/papers/25306/

I'd like to clarify that I am not personally offended by the quoted comment. I'm an atheist and know nobody who was affected in this way by the Holocaust/WW2.

I also think it's in very bad taste to speculate on why someone chose specific coping mechanisms to live with themselves after being one of the few to survive a horrific ordeal.

My primary complaint is not that someone said something like this, but that it was acceptable enough to everyone else in the community that it ended up one of the very first posts in the discussion.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to respond more fully; I didn't realize this would be so controversial.

I agree "hate group" is stronger wording than would be appropriate (at any rate I don't want to quibble over a definition of that term) but I personally dislike intolerance - and I avoid forums[1] where it is considered upvote-worthy rhetoric.

There are insensitive and caustic comments everywhere - but when they are promoted through upvotes they discourage participation from affected individuals, breeding an environment where people only feel welcome if they subscribe to the dominant opinions. This results in a hollow echo chamber, which is not a satisfactory equilibrium for any forum trying to encourage healthy discussion.

1. Pre-internet definition of forum.

OK, easy example. Top item right now on r/atheism (only sample taken, you couldn't pay me to visit that subreddit):

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1e0vcv/if_there_is_...

A few comments down (above the fold on even a tiny monitor) we have this exchange:

Poster talking about his Holocaust-surviving grandfather (32 upvotes):

"My grandfather became a believer, but he didn't go all orthodox. He just believed. His reasoning was that if it weren't for god - he would have died many times during the war."

The reply, with 100 upvotes:

"Explanations like that are precisely what makes me hate religion. When people tell themselves these things, they betray an inner conviction that they are somehow better and more special than the countless men women and children who died at the hands of the Nazis. Makes me sick when people say things like that."

Link to comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1e0vcv/if_there_is_...

A lot of those memes start off at 4chan or elsewhere before arriving on Reddit.

It is also gamed regularly, although I'm not sure how it compares to other popular sites. Upvotes are cheap to buy, and the type of feel-good stories that propagate are easy to mimic. Early up/down votes also have a hugely disproportionate effect, so cheating by getting friends/employees/social group to upvote your content is very effective - and has been abused blatantly enough by some companies to get banned altogether from the site.

I wonder if it would be possible to phish 2factor while you're at it... Something like:

1- get target to enter google credentials

2- log into target's account using those credentials with a proxy/controlled IP that shows up nearby in geoip DBs

3- display a credible message, asking for 2factor code (something something DHCP something something more buzzwords - dummy mode on)

Any reason this wouldn't work?

I don't like being data mined, full stop. Advertisers don't get a free pass; I would much rather pay for any service than have companies I don't even know the names of compile mile-long paper trails of my online (and possibly offline) activities.

after re-reading it, you do appear to be correct. Thanks for the correction.

Oregon [Senator] Jeff Merkley said he voted no "because the citizens of Oregon have said nine times that we don’t want our families or small businesses burdened with sales taxes."

"It’s a regressive tax. It’s an inefficient tax," he said. "And this bill would force our Oregon retailers to collect this regressive, inefficient tax for other states and municipalities. That is just wrong. I hope the House does the right thing and stops this legislation from trampling on Oregon small businesses.” [1]

The other Oregon Senator (Ron Wyden) was one of the co-authors of the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act[2] and is similarly opposed to this bill.

"Today the senate is voting to take a few more inches off the little guy," said Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who has fought the bill hard. "You saw ads taken out by some of the biggest businesses in the country. It's easy to see why, Mr. President. With this vote, what you have is big businesses being given the ability to force new regulations onto the start-ups, onto the small businesses."[3]

1. http://www.ktvz.com/news/wyden-merkley-vote-no-on-internet-s...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act

3. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/senate-passes-int...

EDIT: don't forget to send a message to your house representative at https://house.gov/ if you haven't already.

> and you don't get terrible nightmares from it

Whoa, melatonin makes you dream? Sounds interesting. I can count on one hand the number of dreams I'm aware of having over the past 10 years.

> If someone has a beef with society, there are plenty of honest and constructive ways of "sticking it to the man" without resorting to violating people's property.

People say this all the time, but always fail to give examples of what sort of activities they think would be a constructive alternative. Would you mind sharing what you envision as alternative activities?

I'm curious how you would classify China's crack teams engaging in industrial espionage. Is that black hat activity, or legitimate cyberwarfare by a nation-state?

wouldn't searching for

  "debian 7"

with the quote marks fix that issue?

I definitely agree about the War on Drugs, and I think the disparity in who gets busted for it is explained in large part by just where police departments focus their efforts. In a rich neighborhood you can get away with stuff that would be stupid to try in poorer areas - for example, walking down the street at high noon smoking a blunt. Good luck getting away with that in the poorer areas where you'll find a cop who's trying to fill quotas around every corner. Related to this is the fact that you're likely to find higher numbers of police officers stationed at schools in poorer areas.

I agree with a lot of what you say here, but I really have no authority to comment on long term effects of welfare or the state of huge cities like NYC (as well as the East Coast in general).

Thanks for a well-reasoned reply!

First of all, gangster rap is still extremely popular among youth.

> Well I could share statistics which clearly show a major rise in violent crime by urban youth in the 90s, with a major decline afterwards, and there could be several explanations for that.

Several easy to spot deterrents of youth crime implemented in the 90s:

- Zero Tolerance in schools (automatic expulsion if you have anything that even looks like a weapon)

- If you commit a violent crime as a juvenile these days you're likely to get tried and sentenced as an adult (specifics depending on state)

As for teen mothers, I can't contribute much to that discussion - but the CDC's data on 15-19 year olds shows a marked and consistent drop in birth rates from 1990 to 2010. [1]

> violence, drug use and drug dealing... done by chronically unemployed males who are feeling disenfranchised and without a purpose.

Although not socially accepted, it is often treated as a job; I'd also advise caution in trying to limit drug use and dealing to specific demographics.

On the topic of welfare, you'd probably be surprised how many college students make use of food stamps these days.

1. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6118a8.htm?s_cid=...

The definitive version of that which printed vast bucketloads of internet money was the JC Shuffle.

buy ore (direct from farmers aka botters) -> prospect ore -> craft green rings (I think? been a while) -> disenchant -> sell enchanting scrolls and cut rare gems left over from prospecting

In Guild Wars 2 I found some other interesting arbitrage opportunities - for example, Mystic Coins (available from monthly and daily tasks) had very predictable price cycles due to supply spikes on the first few days when it became possible to complete the monthly task.

I'm guessing the only reason people don't spend a larger percentage of their income on rent is that most landlords require, as an absolute minimum, 3x rent as income per month.

Speaking of which, that rule will probably force me to get a job that I don't need just to rent an apartment as a student.

Depending on what you want to do and how overqualified for school you are, a GED is a valid alternative to graduating IMO. That said, you potentially lose a lot of social interaction and sports/clubs which I found to be the most valuable parts of high school.

Personally I was easily able to get 3650 on the GED (out of 4000) which is enough to automatically get into state schools. I have no clue how it would work at a more prestigious school, but at the time that really wasn't something I was concerned with.

I don't feel qualified to say whether it was a good idea because I dropped out after I ended up in foster care (long story, my parents kicked me out after I told DHS about some incidents). Regrettably I wasted several years after this doing nothing but smoking weed and playing video games due to a general lack of motivation. I'm back working on stuff now after quitting games altogether - splitting focus is apparently an impossible task for me.

Introductory (aka prerequisite) computer science classes seem to be aimed at people who're learning from nothing. If you already know C++ in depth (or whatever language is used), a lot of it is just language-specific feature review.

YMMV, this is judged from local state college/community college.

about the education system, I'm of the opinion that high school is mostly a waste of time; I dropped out 2 years early and got a GED instead. (Don't try this at home.)

Nice to see that others appreciate Crank as well! I always wondered why it was so underrated.