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1%?? Lol they charge 150% where I live until the regulators clamped down on them and class action lawsuits happened. Now it's $50 maximum per week they can charge, but they get around this with NSF fees and late charges.

They also hit bank accounts with EFT withdrawal up to 3x per day if the first one didn't clear, which is $40 NSF charge each time. Unfortunately because these lenders signed a piece of paper allowing for automatic withdrawal, the payday loan company then steals all your money the day before you are paid, so your account will be debited -$200 for a $100 loan you missed a payment for, factoring in all the NSF and late charges. Since most people are paid with direct deposit nothing they could do to stop this. Bank will also charge interest on the overdraft.

So on payday you have nothing, and are forced to go back to the payday loan company just to survive but are now paying even higher interest, because you defaulted once. Sounds like they are well regulated where you live but not here they are still loan sharks.

The poor also make bad financial emergency decisions like using payday loan companies and loansharks, so a significant amount of their actual income just goes to paying off debts.

I lived in the "poorest postal code in Canada" and it was full of guys who traded food to each other like they were still in prison. If you didn't pay the huge interest payments you found yourself assaulted, unable to work, and deeper in the hole

true, I also don't like these articles when the guy magically has a rice cooker, strainer, pots/pans and all cooking utensils ready to go.

these articles should be done starting in a single room occupancy hotel with a hot plate and nothing else, because that's what you get when you are poor: nothing.

Bush seems pretty smart, after all he got away with warcrimes http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/16/us-torture-priso...

aaaaaand it's gone. my horrible government has now decided to regulate Wi-Fi.com signals as they do radio, because of fears over some sort of revolution happening here with access to free and uncensored information.

it was championed by the telecom monopoly lobbyists, who are fearful with so much free data around they wouldn't be able to charge excessive fees anymore once the masses discover free and encrypted voip.

Canada is handing out citizenship for anybody with a Ph.D right now, so are a lot of other countries. If you don't want to move write books or self publish ebooks, or write articles for industry journals or mailing lists and watch offers come in. This is what a girl I know with a doctorate in anthropology did: write endless articles for some academic publication, she had a job offer in Israel after the first few months because another graduate somewhere was doing research into what she was writing about.

John Ralston Saul has written extensively about the dictatorship of vocabulary and how it is important to write in clear everyday language instead of the technocratic babble of an expert. Voltaire didn't write crypto books only the elite could understand

should've made it 9 books

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul a critical essay of how the age of reason was distorted to trample all over modern democracy

Yep, I've always assumed if it's not encrypted by a key you yourself hold privately (and not feudal security cloud encryption) wherever that data is kept is subject to some sort of backdoor shady process by either copyright lawyers, US feds or even worse some dangerous government posing as the US and spoofing some faxes that look legit to steal all your emails and data.

They did in the movie Battlefield Earth lol

Same psycho freedom stealing prosecutor also had to grovel to the courts a few days ago that her office arrested the wrong guy in a high profile gang case because he kind of looked like who they were after. Innocent guy enjoyed almost a month in prison and legal bills

http://reason.com/24-7/2013/01/30/carmen-ortiz-blew-a-gang-a...

They do not provide real isolation only the illusion of isolation.

Remember software engineers have been stamping out bugs in the x86/64 arch for decades and they still find new bugs all the time. ARM arch is no different, they'll be stamping out bugs for decades too. By adding a hypervisor and virtual machines you're layering a whole new set of bugs on top like a bug sandwich. Complexity skyrockets, security is the first casualty.

As for not having root on a proprietary device it's a double edged sword. On one hand you're firmly in the land of feudal security leaving everything up to the developers, on the other hand if you root the device you're now opening up priv escalation and NFC exploits galore.

He's pushing for same review system MS uses to be implemented into public schools in order to increase their school rankings, which is apparently riddled with corruption and ineffective according to ex employees like this guy: http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_mic...

"Microsoft's review system, in which a mid-level manager has significant control over all the review scores within a 100+ person group (so it's in your best interest to get on his/her good side), and conversely needs only a fraction of that group's total support to succeed as a manager (so it's in his/her best interest to cultivate a loyal fanclub to provide that support). The cult gives the manager the appearance of broad support, and makes the few people who speak out against him/her look like sour grapes unrepresentative of a larger majority. After a string of successes, the manager is nearly invincible."

all the bike shops in my city are also repair places which is where they make all their money charging crazy hourly rates to change a tire or for tuning, and from triple marked up accessories. they all know each other too and will collectively bulk buy everything to get a cheaper wholesale price

I bet that kid that went to jail for DDOSing Amazon back in the day would've liked to have this engineer's comment for his defence when they claimed he did 'millions' in damages

Yep. Though you may eventually be found not guilty by the courts when there is no other evidence around that still doesn't mean the prosecutor won't try to invent evidence, like finding out you used Tor once upon a time through your ISP logs, or something else minor they will blow up to make you look like Scarface.

Also you'll have to spend a huge amount of money on a lawyer, and most likely will be refused bail so could languish in pretrial prison for a year or so.

That's why you never sign for anything if you don't know what it is, in court they claim because you signed for it you ordered it

alas waiting list

doubt i'll switch from scheme but still interested

irssi http://www.irssi.org/

Or looked at your ISP logs. Did you use Obfsproxy every single time or tunnel Tor through a VPN to your bridge node? probably not

No I think they saw his posts on the forum, then contacted him pretending to be a customer or the guy just blabbed when they picked him up. He's not exactly a master criminal I'm sure he told them his user name and everything which is why he got such a low sentence

SR is .onion you don't use exit nodes to get to it. The only way they could get you by running infrastructre is if they controlled enough entrance and internal nodes they could do a timing attack, especially with SMF telling the world when everybody is logged in but why bother, everybody just eventually drops dimes on themselves through massive opsec violations like this one guy who announced the tiny town he lived in and that "cops will never suspect my packages because the place is so small" /facepalm. He's probably the only Tor user for 100 miles

They didn't circumvent anything.

(1) over 10,700 clear text msgs about drug dealing (2) announced to a forum probably watched by every police outfit in the world he was in Australia and about to start importing a lot of product and selling locally, basically inviting Aus feds to contact him and set up stings (3) imported drugs directly from a known drug exporting country (netherlands) through probably the toughest customs on earth who scan every package, who no doubt flag everything including envelopes from there for investigation.

I do like his defence of being the village idiot though. Seems to have worked since he's only getting 2-3yrs, which means 1yr and parole.

"Mr Jassar told Judge Murphy that Ms Ormsby was in court and that her piece – Silk Road: The eBay of Illegal Drugs – was the first views on the website by a journalist." lol Adrien Chen, your thunder stolen.

The CPC simply wanted the names of whoever was leaking their corruption to the foreign press to 'fix the leak' by rounding these people up for unpleasant interrogation.

lol western orchestrated arab spring in China. I don't think so.

Hey China, you guy's stop buying our debt, floating our consumer economy with a giant pool of near slave labor we can exploit, and stop giving us billions for our resources or we will promote a rebellion so all your nuclear weapons can wind up in the hands of breakaway republics that might be hostile like nuclear Uyghurstan

Or just learn how to do it properly

Getting Code Right And Secure, The OpenBSD Way http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/172.en.html

I live in Europe now, but before when I was in Canada UBC and SFU would do 'Community roundtable cafe philosophy' and there was often Math and Physics professors there. Here it's all Math professors in the cafes with their own roundtable and it's advertised on the University events page. I believe all these events are sponsored through the University.

Here they mainly talk philosophy and crazy advanced, graduate level mathematics that are way beyond my comprehension and often there are industry programmers, visiting professors on vacation, math self taught geniuses who smoke a pipe with huge unkept beards that look insane, students and even this anarchist group that shows up sometimes to talk game theory.

A few Math dept profs hang out on Sundays here too where all the public chess boards are set up and are fully approachable to answer questions as long as they aren't engrossed in a game.

Clicking on the Events page for the UBC Math dept they always have visiting Math profs give free seminars to anybody who wants to show up, and it's easy to get to the university. Every month at least 5 seminars there's one coming up by a visiting prof from UC Berkeley on Lattice Poisson AKSZ Theory, a bunch of discrete math seminars, and 2 seminars today on chemical distances and shape theorems in percolation models with long-range correlations, and retractions of representation varieties of nilpotent groups.

These guys stick around afterwards and are fully approachable I would talk to them all the time about offtopic theory and went to the student bar with a few of them and other students for a few hours.

I use Redphone almost everyday. They now have global coverage except for most of the Middle East and some parts of Eastern Europe. The Egyptian server apparently doesn't relay so well either last I heard on the mailing list.

Works as advertised in China which is great success for businesses worried about their blackberries or iphones being exploited by industrial espionage.

Another bonus is moxie is considering moving everything over to voip so you won't even need a cell contract (since google voice numbers don't work worldwide). Move around the city like a ninja using wifi

Privacybox.de is a good open source alternative if you need people to email you encrypted and they have no idea about encryption. You can forward it to a nym server or tormail, or just retrieve it from their i2p or tor hidden service though I don't trust tormail whatsoever it could disappear or go down at anytime and lose all your emails.

As for Jitsi from riseup.net "In the past, we have recommended that people avoid Jitsi. It had a flaw that made it easy for an attacker to force Jitsi to use unencrypted connections. Supposedly, this has been fixed, but we are not sure in what version."

According to jitsi-dev mailing list it doesn't work so well with a VPN either.

where I live all the Mathematics professors hang out every month doing a public round table discussion which is free, completely informal and held at a local cafe. anybody can go in and ask questions about anything there is no discussion agenda

you can also show up to public lectures given by visiting math profs and afterwards ask them whatever theoretical background questions you want so long as it's not total spoon feeding

campus walls are also covered in tutor posters for hire and many of them graduate level

I've never had an account, this is from my observations of every single facebook page I've ever seen from coworkers, friends and girlfriends.

Do you guy's enjoy circle jerking around tagging each other's pics and liking stuff? Sounds pretty awesome

a decentralized phone app social network would work to cut down on costs because you'd make no income :P

i prefer to have a private jabber/OTR chatroom open with a bunch of friends in it to talk to each other back and forth like a slow room IRC channel all day. privacy ftw so nobody ends up fired when going on a rant about a project, their company or relationships.