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More like 2 $5k bounties a year for me. Where I live in the U.S., I could rent a house for $500/mo ($6,000 a year), and I eat about $200 of food per month ($2,400 a year). So the cost of living per year is $8,400.
But yes, it entirely depends on where you live. For me, I specifically chose this place so that I could live comfortably on bug bounty income
Ug. I've submitted 2 bugs to Vimeo that gave this exact response. I even followed up a few months later to see if they'd patch it and they responded, "the developers are aware and working on it" ...
Seriously? Leaving 2 XSS bugs open on your website that you run a bug bounty program for?? for a year?
I really wish hackerone would punish this sort of behavior as it's a waste of every hacker's time to find a bug, write a report, only to be told it's a year old known bug so it's not eligible for a bounty.
There's a great scene from a Michael Winterbottom movie called Jude where --spoiler-- a child asks his parents why they had him if they could not afford him and his siblings. The child doesn't like the answer and ends up hanging himself and his siblings.
I don't know if there is a solution. People want to have kids, even if they can't - in my opinion - afford them. Some religions encourage having lots of children - it's a big thing in the catholic community, at least where I grew up.
Anecdote: My cousin is married to a catholic latina, he's already struggling to make ends meet taking care of the one kid they have. He lives with her grandparents and cousins in a tiny apartment in a low income neighborhood. There is no way I could talk him out of having another child, even though I know it's fiscally irresponsible in my opinion.
I think it's a conversation worth having but I just don't know how it can go anywhere, and I have struggled to come up with an answer that isn't just me being upset with the parents.
This is likely being studied already, but I wonder what this means in regards to depression.
2 things that stood out
> Hanssen [...] is serving his sentence at the ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day.
The guy made a deal to avoid the death penalty, but from what I've read about solitary confinement this can't be much better.
and this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames
>U.S. mole hunters investigated 90 employees at WTC for almost a year and came up with ten suspects, although the lead investigator noted that "there are so many problem personalities that no one stands out"
The best thing I did was move from San Francisco to the northwoods near lake superior. You can buy a house out here for <$30k. After that, all you have to pay are utility + food bills, which is like $300 a month (vs $1800/mo rent in CA).
With cost of living being so low, you can a single one-off tech job and not have to worry about working for the next few months.
It is fantastic to be so free.
Just my experience but maybe you can gain something from it?
It seems like a no-brainer that an enemy force (Russia in this instance) would want to disarm the people they plan to attack/control.
The OP asked what I'd expect from a Russian Agent as President, and that's what I'd expect one of the first steps to be. I _wouldn't_ expect a russian agent who became president of the U.S. to fight for the 2nd Amendment/arming of citizens and to push for the EU to increase their military spending.
Sure, it could happen, but I wouldn't expect it.
If a Russian agent became President of the USA, I would expect him to disarm american citizens and to reduce the power of the U.S. military.
e: if you're downvoting please explain why.
Anyone who uses Apple's FCPX or Logic knows we'll have to update to Mojave because eventually we'll try to open the latest version of said software and be told "You must be running Mojave to open this"
I'd really ditch Apple because of stunts like this, but I really love Logic and FCPX so I'm stuck with it.
> Some small-town residents say it’s nearly impossible to do simple tasks like check email and stream videos. Eric Pelka, a post office employee in Julian, Pa., told Fox News at times they had to turn seven to eight people away a day because of poor Internet connection.
I'd also wager that it stops some people from moving to the area. I recently was looking to move to a rural area and a make or break factor was internet. I passed on so many beautiful locations because there was no internet available.
says a lot about a company who makes that their motto doesn't it?
A web server is Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, etc. What you just described is a Web Application, which I develop all the time on python -> uwsgi -> nginx stack.
For the record, I'm not blaming you, but the author for the confusing language. The title says "Web Development in Go" -- web dev is traditionally web applications/html/css etc, not typically including servers. Then their opening sentence is "You should write your next web SERVER in Go"
/pedant
Are people writing their own web servers these days? is that a thing? Seems like everyone uses nginx.
I thought this bit was neat. I'd heard that sleep deprivation can bring on a feeling of euphoria, and anecdotally, it has worked for me
This is how I go about life no matter what the obstacle.
From quitting smoking to making it rich (I've done one of these so far...)
"Just do it." It's a pretty simple, definitely hard though & certainly worth it.
No, he literally is not.
"Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything." != "I forcefully grab women by the vagina"
but I can see this is a losing battle.
> That's true whether or not there is evidence of his words being true.
Ah, the old "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" defense.
This is my point exactly. Yet somehow I've gotten 4 downvotes for stating so. To be fair, I was prepared to be downvoted for that comment. Anything remotely pro-trump here is downvoted to hell.
> Trump has, of course, faced the leaks of his 1995 tax returns and a [1]damning video where he brags about sexual assault
The author links to an article with this headline: [1] "Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005"
!= "Trump brags about sexual assault" (implying guilt)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-havin...
I do not like the opinion/politicization going on in the article. There is no evidence of sexual assault in the tape the author links.
Makes me question the bias of this whole article...
It's hard because you have to really be on top of security, but it's worth it.
> You might say that this is a bit of a cop out, since this all runs on a virtual machine, which itself runs on someone else’s computer. I would agree, however it’s a nice middle ground between going all out with your own servers and running everything in the cloud. To me the reality that the VPS is in the cloud is obscured by the ability to control every detail of its running software.
Hmm. Contrarily, this part convinced me to completely self-host all aspects of my internet life.
Also, sorry about your blog going down! What was the cause of that?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey
* born in 1992 in Long Beach, CA (really average city with pockets of extreme poverty)
* community college courses when he was 14
* originally majored in Journalism
> From ages 11 to 16, he experimented with a variety of high-voltage electronics projects including coil guns, Tesla coils, and lasers
> To fund these projects, he earned at least US$36,000 by fixing and reselling damaged iPhones,[1] and was also a sailing coach and did boat repair.
* Net Worth: US$700 million (2015)
I think he's entitled to his opinion.
You have to wonder if all those grumbling whitehats were on to something when they said bug bounties should pay a lot more than what they do and that there IS a black market interest for them.
Everything is breached. From websites to software to hardware, I would estimate the majority of them can be/have been exploited by advanced hackers.
I'm awaiting the time when we all acknowledge that computers are fundamentally insecure.
You said it eloquently.
Less scientifically stated: I personally see it as more of a point & click gesture coupled with a lot of 'Alpha' tendencies. It's a simple as "this is wrong. shut up. Make it this way which is the right way, and, do it now."
speaking as a bad-tempered, high earning person.
relevant part of the article:
> The truth is, pondering the worst has some clear advantages. Cranks may be superior negotiators, more discerning decision-makers and cut their risk of having a heart attack. Cynics can expect more stable marriages, higher earnings and longer lives – though, of course, they’ll anticipate the opposite.
also shout out to Elizabeth Hurley who was mentioned in the article :)
> To his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley's friends he was apparently known as ‘Grumpelstiltskin’.
> Hugh Grant may be famed for being moody and a little challenging to work with. But could a grumpy attitude be the secret to his success?
why not?