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by slivanes 8y ago
A lot of students have buyer remorse when they realize the money they just spent online could have been used more wisely. Unfortunately, when a network has a small percent of bad actors, the network as a whole is punished.
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by slivanes 8y ago
Unfortunately those carriers are also heavily used by fraudsters.
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by slivanes 8y ago
The problem I see is NewEgg handled it poorly, it doesn't sound right that there wasn't anything they could do. That's NewEgg's problem and nothing wrong with actually flagging a transaction that requires a manual inves
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by slivanes 8y ago
I see it differently. A merchant who takes fraud seriously is someone I would trust more.
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by slivanes 8y ago
You could use a service that detects if a phone number is prepaid or voip.
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by slivanes 9y ago
We've found that fraud vs. genuine closely matches the percentage of assholes and psychopaths in the general population, somewhere ~1% to 2%. And just like in meat-space these people are the cause for increased prices and frustrating
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by slivanes 9y ago
"What's a computer?". But now Apple want it to behave like a computer in the classroom?
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The search for the perfect door(youtube.com)
2 points by slivanes 9y ago|0 comments
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by slivanes 9y ago
Lucky I just happened to be on HN to read this comment, otherwise I wouldn't have known I needed other skills to take advantage of opportunities that arise.
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by slivanes 9y ago
After CrashPlan closed their Home user plan this month, I have moved to using Arq Backup. I now only pay a few pennies every month and I still get to have versioned backup of my household shared network drive.
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by slivanes 9y ago
How about the Certificate Store? The ability to access the system root store in iOS is not a public API - it's hidden behind the implementation details of SecTrustEvaluate which only the Apple system apps can access. This affects the
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by slivanes 9y ago
Anti-consumer doesn't have to mean against the law, it can also mean not consumer friendly too.
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by slivanes 9y ago
Lack of common ports on MacBook Pro requiring extra (paid) dongle hardware to make it similar in function to previous generation. Apple led the way on lack of repairability and expandability on their devices. Sadly other manufacturers slow
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by slivanes 9y ago
Good.
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by slivanes 9y ago
It could be a solution to the stolen lunches problem I continually read about. Or to catch the person who fails to clean/replace the coffee machine.
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Phantom Debt – One Victim Fought Back, with a Vengeance(msn.com)
4 points by slivanes 9y ago|0 comments
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by slivanes 9y ago
How about the Skype before it was bought by MS? You know, the one that was actually good, lean, and without ads.
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by slivanes 9y ago
I remember using Firebug for the first time and being blown away by the real-time editing of the DOM/CSS, it saved my F5 key from certain destruction.
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Encryption: Key pair explained(abc.net.au)
3 points by slivanes 9y ago|1 comments
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by slivanes 9y ago
Bonus point task: . Get leaked info for Donald Trump . Used said info to access recent tax returns
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by slivanes 9y ago
When we notice it exploding it would have actually exploded 600 years prior.
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by slivanes 9y ago
Raising a DMCA notice to their hosting provider should be one of your first actions.
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by slivanes 9y ago
Now when my wife asks me if a piece of clothing makes her look fat, I can safely run out of the room and declare "Ask Alexa".
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by slivanes 10y ago
Right now, nginx 1.13.x requires compiling against OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer to get TLSv1.3 supported in browsers. You need to compile the "draft-18" branch of OpenSSL as current browsers are on draft-18 (master is on draft-19).