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by goatsi 9y ago
Further reading indicates that it just someone posting on their forum. User-generated content is hard. Cloudflare users should make sure to censor what gets posted on their sites if it refers to the political opinions of Matthew Prince. ht
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by goatsi 9y ago
Ransomware seemly pretty solidly illegal. It existed before bitcoin (mainly using ucash/paysafe/greendot codes) but bitcoin is what enabled it to scale.
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by goatsi 9y ago
I'm not sure what the author wants bitcoin to be. They are correct in pointing out the various scams that litter bitcoin, but they also seem to want to shut out crime (silkroad et al) with better analysis tools and centralization. With
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by goatsi 9y ago
Decentralized projects never seem to gain steam until mainstream users are forced away from centralized services. Take a look at this recent article looking at why the majority of mastodon users are from Japan: http://www.ethanzu
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by goatsi 9y ago
The AI isn't the only problem, Syrian government supporters are actively reporting evidence of war crimes in an attempt to get it removed. https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/898496719125700608
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by goatsi 9y ago
Betamonkey was someone different. The reason he disappeared without a trace was that he was so bad at PHP that people got sent to prison (his support site was owned by a whitehat and all the customer information was harvested and distribute
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by goatsi 9y ago
He ran a carding forum in the past, malkit.ws and then malkit.su. Virustotal passive DNS shows that it was hosted for a time on the same server as his old irc, irc.voidptr.cz https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address&#x2
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by goatsi 9y ago
People who are merely exploring the country to learn more about it rarely feel the need to intensively document it using a professional media team.
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by goatsi 9y ago
With this AWS might eventually be able to shrink their snowmobile from a 45ft shipping container on a semi-trailer truck to the more traditional station wagon size.
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by goatsi 9y ago
The US government has interests beyond preventing terrorism. Do you think it should be purposefully blind to facts such as the energy security of other countries, or the capabilities of their space programs? Space programs have a very clear
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by goatsi 9y ago
Tell a work friend or someone you know causally about 23andme. If they show interest suggest buying the kits together to save on shipping costs. Mention that you have a few friends who would be interested as well and give them the cash for
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by goatsi 10y ago
Malware will often detect the presence of a VM and refuse to run, requiring you to identify and defeat the VM checks or more insidiously appear to run normally but modify the actions it takes. [0] Generally these problems are solved by modi
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by goatsi 10y ago
Very little. The Swiss discovered that they actually saved nearly enough money to cover the cost of the entire program by opening heroin clinics, as they dramatically reduced the amount of crime committed by heroin users (as they no longer
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by goatsi 10y ago
Most of those issues are discussed in the podcast. The real advantage of it seems to be the head mounting and voice control, allowing the doctor's hands to be free (and washed/gloved) at all times.
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by goatsi 10y ago
Another area where Google Glass has shown to be very useful is in medicine. You can put a pair on and have a specialist walk you through a interview or examination. The poison review toxicology podcast had an interview with a who had signif
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by goatsi 10y ago
Much safer. This Swiss have implemented this and have published the results. There were large improvements in almost every public health/safety issue caused by heroin use [0]. > Crime Issues: 60% drop in felony crimes by patients (8
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by goatsi 10y ago
I'm curious, what police force is it that reports the ISIS videos? Is there once in particular that seems to be hunting for them or do you get notices from a bunch of different ones that have had the videos reported to them?
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by goatsi 10y ago
The vice video rwmj posted is all about homeless spice users in the the UK.
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by goatsi 10y ago
Whenever this comes up it's important to realize how much addicts are already costing us. It's hard to know exactly how much because the costs are born by already existing systems - home insurance to cover burglaries, auto insuran
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by goatsi 10y ago
Indeed. Everything that crypto-currency touches gets an automatic bug bounty. With rewards that are much nicer than limited editions t-shirts.
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by goatsi 10y ago
Artificial cannabinoids are also highly used in homeless populations because of how cheap and powerful they are. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/synthetic-weed-is-a-scour...
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by goatsi 10y ago
Heroin clinics can be very helpful for that. By providing the heroin and requiring that it be used on site they take it out of the community. Nobody sees their friends using and gets offered a bit to try. Starting drug use is often a very s
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by goatsi 10y ago
http://sciencenordic.com/heroin-clinics-improve-addicts-live... >Reduced the number of days spent on crimes to a third Not all crime is committed by heroin addicts so the programs won't stop burglaries completely bu
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by goatsi 10y ago
Often companies find that people don't "need" their products. When this happens they turn to advertising and sales people to correct the problem. https://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opia
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by goatsi 10y ago
If someone did give up their login voluntarily insisting that it must have been phished would be a good way to avoid some of those repercussions.
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by goatsi 10y ago
There is a difference between a number managed by a traditional carrier using VOIP and a number from a free/low cost VOIP provider, especially when you are using text verification as a anti-spam measure. >We find that miscreants ra
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by goatsi 10y ago
Go to Alphabay and purchase some drugs. Buy MDMA at $9-20/g, sell it at $80-100/g. Buy LSD at $1/blotter, sell it at $10 a blotter. Buy Xanax at $0.90/pill, sell it at $2-5/pill. Obviously you need to make some conn
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by goatsi 10y ago
That isn't any different than what gets sent out of a "normal" email provider. VC has just been willing to post the law enforcement subpoenas so we can actually see what is going on in the background.
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by goatsi 10y ago
It would be illegal to collect that data. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/08/17/a-thorny-history... >Fantino, then head of 31 Division, told North York’s committee on community, race and et
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by goatsi 10y ago
The danger of the combination should be much more widely publicized, as drugs like oxycodone and xanax are among the most widely prescribed in the US. There have been thousands of overdoses attributed to the combination but the FDA has only

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