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Not the parent comment but in the Netherlands where I live you have to pay tax on your savings once it exceeds about 21K EUR.

The government then makes up that you must be at least getting 4% (up to 9% if you have up to 1M) interest, and it wants 30% of that interest of anything over that 21K EUR limit.

Meanwhile the current interest at banks is anywhere from 0.05% to 1% here (most major banks are around 0.2%).

You couldn't tell from being asked your gender?

If I could take a guess I'd say its likely to be Avast, which has multiple browser extensions that send all your browsing activity to them, while simultaneously offering a service to remove other browser extensions.

They'll even set their own search engine as your default homepage.

Well damn

No I haven't created or sold malware.

But i have this; A middle-eastern last name, I use Tor, I use Linux, and I use Telegram, I am active in the field of IT and especially enjoy IT security.

I know that I can be held indefinitely if I visit the USA. In the USA you're guilty until proven innocent, unlike the rest of the western world. Simply going to the USA is more risk than it is for practically every other country. Well, for me, and a lot of people like me.

That's what my comment was about.

EDIT: How is it relevant to the article? Well, he is an IT security specialist who wanted to visit DEFCON. Yes, I understand what he did was wrong, it was his own risk.

They said "Del Rio noted that while hospitals treat many patients initially, most are then treated at home for a couple of months, so the lower hospital price doesn’t help."

This just states that people at home, after being treated at a hospital, still need the medicine. Hospitals get 50% off, which is what your unrelated statement is about.

The medicine is a cure, you need to go through about 100 pills of it. The cost of people at home is paid by insurance. This has nothing to do with the medicine being available literally for free if you contact the company.

Sad to see it confirmed that it's not worth the risk going to America to visit DEFCON. I hope they'll host it in Europe someday.. To see no statement by DEFCON on this whole thing is almost equally sad.

This is not true. The drug was given away for free to people who could not afford it. Are there any cases of what you're saying actually happening?

Funny. Beside looking at Google Trends, this trigger was the same for me,

The 16 year old brother of a friend of mine suddenly wanted to buy Ethereum but didn't know what it was. A month before that he wanted to get rich with binary option websites.

I sold him the amount he wanted (30 eur worth at around 380USD/ETH) and then sold all of my ETH.

This is just when there's tech news on Bitcoin. If you want to get ready for bubbles just keep an eye on google trends "how to buy bitcoin". Worked for me, admittedly only once though.

> the Romans greatly preferred the simpler IIII to IV, XXXX to XL, and so on. (The IIII-for-4 notation survives today on the faces of clocks.)

looks at watch

Well, damn, it's IIII. However my watch does use IX over VIIII, what's up with that?

Gitlab's UI is absolutely awful and incredibly slow. Would you say the same for other tools, like email, or your IDE or editor? They literally copied every functionality and UI of GitHub when they started out, and the only difference at the time was that Gitlab was a slower version of Github.

I'm glad you can self-host it, and that they're open source, they've got that going. But if GitHub would ever open source their tool, it's over.

"Gitlab dominates self-hosted git"

Dont you mean, Gitlab,

"2/3 of people surveyed by Bitrise, a CI service you may have never heard of, which is free, are using Gitlab, which is also free"

"We're making progress connecting the world, and now let's bring the world closer together."

.. Making the world, a better place!

What I meant is the people mentioned in the article who sell the software, are based in Israel.

Same shit as with Hacking Team..

They're Israeli's who also sell to the UAE. Lol.

Slightly easier to read: https://blog.qualys.com/securitylabs/2017/06/19/the-stack-cl...

"The Stack Clash is a vulnerability in the memory management of several operating systems. (...) It can be exploited by attackers to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code."

"If you are using Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris, on i386 or amd64, you are affected. Other operating systems and architectures may be vulnerable too, but we have not researched any of them yet: please refer to your vendor’s official statement about the Stack Clash for more information."

I should go through each and every 1000+ star project on Github, sometime. Stuff like this is really great.

Hahaha, this reminded me of a The Onion video.

I'm sure it would eliminate smoking among kids almost entirely; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjsSVCLxcZ4

Python? There's tools for this, like oclHashcat/cudaHashcat

"The company reportedly has about 5 million daily active users, with 1.5 million of those paying for the service." * https://slack.com/pricing

At least 10 million a month, I assume?

Edit: "Slack has 5 million daily active users -- 1.5 million of whom pay to use the service -- and had $150 million in annual recurring revenue as of Jan. 31." from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/messaging...

Jetbrains product users make more money? ;^)

Hah, I was thinking of this story when reading the justice.gov page.. They actually put an update on the bottom of the blog with a link to the justice.gov page. Looks like it's the same person.

The stats are from their own website btw; https://dashboard.stellar.org/

> Stellar Lumens Cons: "No mining available. 95% of Lumens were given out"

95% were given out? Maybe I'm misreading this but only 9.66B/102.94B XLM has been given out. (To people who own BTC or XRP. It's basically a living advertisement for XRP.)

The creators still own 93.28B XLM. They own approx. 90% of all XLM.

> Our results indicate that alt-right communities within 4chan and Reddit can have a surprising level of influence on Twitter

It's also common for 4chan users to have accounts elsewhere, just to force memes or opinions. It's super easy to create multiple Twitter accounts and just start posting away.

You can't do this on 4chan with the same level of effectiveness. You can't target a user directly, and there's a lot of obscure culture that you will have to understand to properly communicate and not be outed as a shill by the community. Plus, there's no incentive to post for people who are used to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. You're not gaining followers, you'll never get upvotes, you'll never get likes. I believe this is why the other networks will never influence 4chan the same way.

Plus, people are just plain offensive on 4chan, which can be scary if you're not used to it. I remember when there were raids on Tumblr with gore images, and Tumblr users responded by going to 4chan and posting back gore. They only ended up traumatizing themselves.

Not completely. However is commits or line changes mean anything, you can see at https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/graphs/contributors that 1 person did approx 90%+ of the work on the code itself.

I used the Warcraft 3 map editor a lot(13+ years ago) to teach myself programming. So maybe I can shed some light..

Dota 1 was originally a Warcraft 3 (a Blizzard game) custom map, built with the Warcraft 3 map editor. In Dota 2, practically every character is just a copy of a Blizzard character, because well, Dota 1 was made with Blizzard assets. They've since changed a lot of names to get around Blizzard IP. For example a character named "Windrunner" became "Windranger", "Skeleton King" became "Wraith King", etc..

One of the things I remember is when you open the application, you're first faced with a GIANT warning popup that stays open for 5-10 seconds. You have to agree to it in order to use the map editor, which includes the EULA.

They've based their entire game on Blizzard assets & have agreed to those terms over a thousand times... I think this is not going to be easy for them.

There are some payment solutions where you don't even need to fill in the CVC. (I've ordered on Amazon a few years ago without needing to fill it in) Besides that, there were a couple people last year(s) who showed that you can obtain the CVC in an instant by submitting CVC's from 0 to 999, with the same credit card info, to many websites. (This was tested for Visa I believe)

Edit: See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/criminals-guess-v... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099949

Reminds me of getting Bait-and-Switch'd by Google App Engine in 2011. From 10's of euros to 1000's.

> They have no phone number to contact, no way to dispute this other than email — which they have ignored us for over a month now without replying to our continued requests. Trapped. Doomed. We have no further options.

Sounds like Google did a great job with Firebase. Definitely gives you that Google-feel of unresponsive support and no hope when you have problems with any of their services. I bet they also have a "community" support forum or Google Group full of helpless people talking to a virtual wall. (Edit: Yep, they recommend Stack Overflow, Quora, and then their Google Group.. lol. Some things never change)