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by victorhooi 8y ago
Umm, surely you can see that's a little crazy? I'm all for environmental awareness - but it's a bit like the people saying, oh, why do you not use re-usable containers for everything, or do you really need to dishwash everyth
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I appreciate the work you did to run those rough calculations. Unfortunately, it completely ignores the most salient point. Empirically, most people seem to vastly prefer seeing the occasional (ideally targeted) advertisement, versus paying
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by victorhooi 9y ago
People say this - but they rarely put their money where their mouth is. History has shown time and time again that people are cheapskate. I know I'm guilty of this as well. We like to signal that oh yes, we have money, and we'll p
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Sorry, but this is just being shifty and irresponsible. And how are they using littering as a business model? The bloody twats who are picking these up without paying and dumping them in a creek are the ones littering - it's like blami
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by victorhooi 9y ago
No, Aussies have a bit of a "larrikin" streak, to use the polite term. As an Aussie, I'd term is as bordering on obnoxious and irresponsible at times - and it saddens me to write this. Whether in Europe, South America, or Asi
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by victorhooi 9y ago
No, that's not accurate. If you read the article you quoted: > We are posting before an originally coordinated disclosure date of January 9, 2018 because of existing public reports and growing speculation in the press and security r
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "hpme" - do you mean "home"? If so, I suspect you're just commenting without basis, and have no actual inkling what this content is really like. I work for a large internet company
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I'll be honest - I don't respect people who tailgate or follow too closely. I think they're selfish and self-conceited. People who think - I"m more important than you, I don't care if I kill you, as long as you don&
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I was tempted to buy this - howevever, what turned me away was the subscription fee - it says: > No subscriptions to cancel—this is a 1-time charge. > Access lasts (3 months) 1 year. So sure - the fee may not automatically renew - but
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Are you actually sure it affects battery life that much? I'm a bit dubious about this - in fact, turning off WiFi would actually harm battery life, surely, compared to LTE?
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by victorhooi 9y ago
The issue isn't buying over the limit. The issue is making it seem like your account is hijacked, or part of a bot-net, or committing payment fraud (e.g. stolen credit cards). Say you create 100 email accounts - john001@gmail.com, john
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by victorhooi 9y ago
That website (Inc.) doesn't cite any sources for your quotation at all. It simply appears to be their personal speculation. To me that's rather disingenuous. I actually work in a support org at Google (on the Enterprise side, admi
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by victorhooi 9y ago
AFAIK, nothing was permanently or irrevocably deleted. From all the public statements at the time, all that happened were the accounts were suspended.They would then need to reach out via the recovery link to prove they were really a person
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Thanks for bringing that up. I suspect you and I are talking about two different things however. I'm using fraud as an ordinary layman would use it - that is - deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain. In this case, I thi
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Sure, let me fix the typo. However, I'm still unclear about your main point. If you're not talking about a "literal" Chromebook...what are you talking about?
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I'm only speaking in general terms here, not specifics. However, reselling phones is usually against the ToS of pretty much every retailer. This isn't unique to Google. Here are our ToS - https://store.google.com&#x2F
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by victorhooi 9y ago
The third - the author had already kickstarted a normal recovery process by https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery . However, these things take a while to process. As I commented elsewhere - if your account got hij
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Yeah, I tried the Ubuntu desktop experience for them as well. Unfortunately, even though I wish it was the year of the Linux desktop it's still not quite there yet for the non-tech savvy. New devices are a pain, websites that don&#x2
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by victorhooi 9y ago
AFAIK, the two things are orthogonal. My understanding was he'd already kickstarted a normal recovery process https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery And he wanted more details, so I assume he spoke to somebod
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by victorhooi 9y ago
To your first point - The natural counterpoint is - there are billions of Google account there. Yet, the number of cases you hear about this is in the handful. To your second point - scalping phones is most definitely against ToS. This is
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by victorhooi 9y ago
It wasn't necessarily the publicity. He reached out through normal channels, but these things normally take some time to process, since they normally have to be reviewed by humans. It's one of those things where you want to tread
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Um, you realise you uploaded a bunch of (presumedly) copyrighted material to a public video sharing site? That would normally raise a bunch of red flags. If you're stuck, there are dedicated support channels to actually talk to people
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I actually dissected the authors example above - and they actually don't really help prove his/her point. The first example - was basically fraud, that probably got picked up in hijacking/bot-net detection (based on public st
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Yes, this is usually the more common story - Google does a lot of things to protect users (from themselves, and from external attack). I suspect a lot of people who get locked out are for fairly pedestrian reasons like password reuse across
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Thanks for bringing that up. However, te truth is often a bit more nuanced (although it doesn't make for as good headlines). Dissecting your three examples. In the first case, (and based on their own statements) those people were buyin
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Your comment seems like a troll...lol. I'm not sure how a Chromebook could "wipe out the network". In fact, if anything, I'd argue it's less likely to than a Window laptop since Chromebooks are so secure out of the
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by victorhooi 9y ago
So my reading here is that the main issue is Firebase was undercharging customers, due to a bug. They didn't go back retroactively and ask for back payments, but just started charging them accurately going forward. Of course, that bi
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by victorhooi 9y ago
They're not logging any wifi traffic. They're storing a hash of your MAC address and timestamp - the idea is to log foot traffic over time. I think this issue has been blown up somewhat by people who don't understand the tech
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by victorhooi 9y ago
You do realise this is a government body that runs public transport, right? Public transport which is notoriously bad at making profits, all around the world. Sorry, but this comes across as a bit of a silly conspiracy theory, by people who
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Hi, I actually work in the GSuite support organisation you refer to . Firstly, I'm sorry if you feel that you weren't provided with an appropriate level of support. Or that troubleshooting took inordinate effort/time on your

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