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by razakel 9y ago
They're even targeting kids here in Britain. Gangs post pictures on social media of huge wads of cash, then tell the kids that all they need to do is move a bank transfer. And suddenly you've duped a dopey 14-year-old into money l
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by razakel 9y ago
CEO fraud. Some companies have lost millions that way, including Ubiquiti.
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by razakel 9y ago
>By removing controversial posts you also step on it. We're not talking about "controversial posts" here. It's perfectly legal to be a Nazi, even if Facebook might prefer you not be a Nazi on their platform. This is a
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>I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out. The police normally rotate staff on and off the analyst post every few months. I was speaking to a detectiv
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No mention of their arrested employee...
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by razakel 9y ago
Yes, it's called the "mempool". A higher fee means it'll be executed more quickly, because miners prioritise transactions with higher fees for obvious reasons. It's possible for a transaction to get stuck and never
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by razakel 9y ago
>What story is that? Google didn't return anything. I'm not able to find a definitive source, but it could be the following, which I have also heard from a retired BT employee: "It's common practice in England to ring
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by razakel 9y ago
In the UK, there are usually two streams of masters programs - those aimed at people with the necessary background, and conversion courses aimed at people who don't. Assuming you're in the US, though, you probably had to study all
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Not every country (Islamic ones, for instance) actually teach kids about the Holocaust.
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by razakel 9y ago
The secret to fast-food "quality" is the same as any other restaurant: fat, sugar and salt.
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by razakel 9y ago
>very well known and delightful children's programmes for the BBC in the 1950s to 1980s. That's an understatement! The Clangers and Bagpuss are up there with the Daleks for recognisability in Britain.
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The title and description say "Fabrice Beillard", so, no.
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>Should businesses not be able to keep and share records saying "This person owes us money but refuses to pay"? No, because you would have practically no recourse if you were wrongly on such a list, and might not be able to pro
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by razakel 9y ago
Or, more likely, he's just an asshole.
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I found this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/families-fined-for-su... as well as this 88-page study: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
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by razakel 9y ago
IIRC the relatives of people who commit suicide on Japanese railways are charged for the disruption caused.
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by razakel 9y ago
>I find it weird that scientists get crap from other scientists for speaking publicly. Simple jealousy doesn't explain the vehemence. I know a physicist who despises Brian Cox with a passion. It's jealousy.
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Exactly. Why did you think Oracle wanted to muscle in on that?
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>Video games are simply abstracted skinner boxes to begin with; loot boxes with their carefully tuned Vegas-esque lights, sounds, and reward percentages just amp up the "push a button, maybe get a reward" to the Nth degree. My
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by razakel 9y ago
Getting your credit card out is only a "game mechanic" in dodgy casinos. There's a reason gambling is regulated.
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People don't necessarily do things because they like them or want to. Addiction is a thing.
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They have the option, but you're using psychology to trick them into thinking they don't. You're using a medical science to manipulate people so you can make money. You're disgusting.
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by razakel 9y ago
Wow. That guy's forward-thinking probably saved dozens of lives. Hats off to him.
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by razakel 9y ago
IMO the best way to spot a jerk is how they react to their own screwups. Everyone has been there at some point in their career, whether it's rm -rf / on a production server, or forgetting a WHERE clause in a DELETE query - you WIL
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by razakel 9y ago
The hacker Stoll was tracking, Markus Hess, was affiliated with other hackers that went on to found Chaos Computer Club. One of the people he was working alongside, Karl Koch, was selling military information to the KGB in exchange for coca
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by razakel 9y ago
>thanks for the mental image of clown-terrorists Have you not seen Four Lions?
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by razakel 9y ago
>SAP IIRC the average SAP deployment is in the region of $10 million. Sure, for enterprise-level things that's justifiable, but most businesses don't have that sort of money to throw around.
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>If you are standoffish and unwilling to participate that is quite telling of how you will be when you are given tasks that aren't fun. No, what you're doing is filtering out people who are bad at public speaking or have perfor
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by razakel 9y ago
>If your example actually happened, I think that first, people would ask the person claiming "XAA RAPES CHILDREN" for evidence. This has happened. A national newspaper (yes, the one involved in phone hacking) began a campaign
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by razakel 9y ago
>See the UK case of Tony Martin, who was convicted of murder for shooting robbers who were in his home Shooting someone in the back whilst they're running away doesn't constitute self-defence.

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