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by ceol 13y ago
As an aside, you can't be self-taught in psychology. It's like being a self-taught doctor: Being educated in psychology is predicated upon you having a degree in psychology, because it's a very certification-heavy field. I wo
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by ceol 13y ago
Why do you think VW would do anything when you admit your own car manufacturer hasn't done anything, despite that information being out for years?
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by ceol 13y ago
There is no American comparison to a chaebol, especially Samsung. Fanboy arguments aside, you can't compare the two. It would be like if Apple built your car, held your insurance policy, and owned the apartment complex you lived in. No
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by ceol 13y ago
What's the point in protecting the one US city where hundreds of the most important political figures gather each and every day?
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by ceol 13y ago
Exactly. The reason they fight it is because talking about legalizing drugs is a sure way to lose votes. Opposite of how we all like to think of the tech industry, politics are slow, clunky, and bureaucratic — for good reason. It takes a lo
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by ceol 13y ago
Their only gross incompetence was not informing customers in a timely manner, which I could forgive them for. Having a security breach is something that happens to, quite literally, every hosting provider. I say all this as someone who
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by ceol 13y ago
Ahh, Wordpress. You have my deepest sympathies. If you don't mind my asking, is there some key feature of Wordpress or its plugins that holds you to it? I'm always interested to hear why people stick with it.
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by ceol 13y ago
I was about to come back here and yell at you for making a post about accessibility unaccessible to the hard-of-hearing (and those of us who browse with SOs sleeping right next to us that we never, ever, ever want to wake.) Then I saw the
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by ceol 13y ago
I think we're passed the point where someone on the internet needs to clarify they made a 1984 reference.
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by ceol 13y ago
It sounds like you should have moved from MySQL to PostgreSQL instead of switching hosting providers.
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by ceol 13y ago
At that point, you should be using S3 or something similar.
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by ceol 13y ago
From what I remember, it was a 17 year old kid who built and ran the site, and it was his first time ever handling financial transactions (there was another bitcoin-related hacking around the same time, so I might be confusing them.) It was
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by ceol 13y ago
The message isn't for the attackers but for the customers. Tim Cook sneezes and there's 50 different blog posts about his snot; what do you think would happen if an Apple developer site when down with a message that said, "Th
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by ceol 13y ago
Every hosting service will have at least one security breach, especially if someone is doing something reckless like storing $230,000 worth of digital money on one of their servers. Leaving a provider because of a breach just means you&#x
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by ceol 13y ago
> you will be rewarded for doing things that SEEM frugal and cheap. It's exactly this. Temps are used because they appear to be saving money when reported to The Boss (whoever that may be.) People seem to forget the majority of
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by ceol 13y ago
> we need to question it every time it appears We really don't. You playing armchair internet detective will not stop people from getting more attention than you. What do all of those things hurt? Nothing. There is absolutely noth
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by ceol 13y ago
In case anyone misses my other reply to this troll, her initial commit[0] was the default Rails app, which most any newbie can get up on GitHub in a single day. She didn't even touch the app/ directory, where all the Rails-speci
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by ceol 13y ago
Did you see her initial commit?[0] It's the default Rails app. Any tech-savvy person can throw that up on github in a day if they know nothing about it. The next time she changes the app/ directory, where all the actual Ruby cod
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by ceol 13y ago
These guys tend to come out of the woodwork when the focus of the article is of a certain gender, if you catch my drift.
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by ceol 13y ago
Translation: "I know what I'm saying is coming from a place of extreme bitterness, but I don't want search results for my name showing these comments to my potential employers." If you're going out of your way to cr
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by ceol 13y ago
Trying to define "talking to your friends about how you're going to sell stolen information" as being equivalent to "daydream" is the tortuous logic I was responding to. Please read the entire thread and not just
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by ceol 13y ago
I think that's fair. AT&T should be reprimanded for a serious lack of security — how much they should be reprimanded would be another topic for debate. But it doesn't take away from weev's crime (both this one and his pre
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by ceol 13y ago
> "Breaking in" suggests that there is access control (locks, doors, walls, etc) in place. No, it doesn't. See, this is what happens when you start talking about crimes on the internet when you really shouldn't be.
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by ceol 13y ago
What weev did crossed many times into criminal territory. He harassed a lot of people in ways that made it either hard or unlikely to press charges. Seriously, save the reaching argument for people who aren't complete scumbags.
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by ceol 13y ago
It is in fact illegal to "daydream" (i.e. make solid plans) about doing certain crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)
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by ceol 13y ago
You don't get to break into a bank because you want to see if you can exploit a security hole. What you're talking about is more akin to wiggling the bank's door handle and then leaving. What weev did is break in, steal a bun
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by ceol 13y ago
This is something the majority of HN has absolutely no experience with, so they either a) try to relate it to the tech industry (and fail, see most of the terrible analogies in this thread), or b) reduce it to the most blackest and whitest
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by ceol 13y ago
Nonpology, followed by linking to a video of a straight, white, male comedian telling people why being offended at something is stupid? Please, go back to reddit.
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by ceol 13y ago
I didn't take a screenshot, but I can confirm there was a message. Viewing my browser history, it apparently linked to this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/signaturepics/Sput.html The top was a splash image that lin
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by ceol 13y ago
According to the article, all they did was send him a cease an desist order (albeit a rather long one.) That's pretty standard. Just sounds like the public got riled up for no good reason.

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