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D9u

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I'm a 50 year old, megalomaniacal, 98th percentile, schizophrenic, whose hobbies include pizza, beer, and vulva.

The internet is my favorite drug.

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D9u··on Stuxnet's Secret Twin
That link also presents a registration form. Thanks anyway.
D9u··on Why China is leading the global rise of Bitcoin

     #include <speculation.h>
         Why cash out on USD when you can avoid doing so?
         As BTC becomes more widely accepted the ubiquity of BTC acceptance will grow
D9u··on Show HN: IP Lookup
I've been using http://freegeoip.net/

It's not perfect, but it seems to be good enough for my purposes.

     $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
     $ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
        $ch = curl_init();
        // set url
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "freegeoip.net/csv/"    . $ip);
        //return the transfer as a string
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        // $output contains the output string
        $ip = curl_exec($ch);
        // close curl resource to free up system resources
        curl_close($ch);    
     $array = explode(',', $ip);
D9u··on Show HN: IP Lookup
Mine was about 12 miles away from my actual location. It depends on your ISP, as well as your location.

I'm in a rural area, whereas you are most likely in a more metropolitan location.

D9u··on Why The Value of Bitcoin is Skyrocketing
Now I'm kicking myself for not buying into BTC last week!
D9u··on Don't use 1234 as your password
Why not disable password logins completely, use PKI for all connections, and while we're at it, restrict logins to known hosts?

Also, don't use passwordless keys.

Then there's moving sshd off of port 22 to provide some obscurity.

Yada yada yada... How many times will we have to go over this subject?

D9u··on Read less HN
I rarely read every article on page one, and many of those that I do look at I only read a couple of paragraphs, as was the case with this article.

Ergo, I disagree with the premise of this article.

D9u··on Eben Moglen on Privacy: The Union, May it Be Preserved
I concur with the appreciative comments here, and thank the OP for sharing this, as the speaker touches on aspects of the privacy issue in ways that I had not yet considered.

The ecology of privacy, and the tendency for some to convey said privacy into a transaction is an aspect I find fascinating.

Many thanks!

D9u··on FBI warns hacking spree on government agencies is a “widespread problem”
Welcome to the real world...

Even my VPS with no public facing content sees a great many attempts at unauthorized access.

So the problem then, is not any "hacking spree" on government agencies, the real problem is government agencies failure to implement acceptable security measures.

D9u··on Terminal Cornucopia
There already have been such attacks...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html?_r=0

D9u··on Terminal Cornucopia
My experience is that many Private Aircraft terminals, such as private jets, private helicopters, etc, don't screen passengers, or their luggage, the way the public is searched in "Commercial Aircraft" pre-flight screening.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/private-...

http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2011/01/is-ga-a-menace/

The above links discuss the matter further.

D9u··on Bitcoin Companies and Entrepreneurs Can't Get Bank Accounts
I seem to recall several big banks (Wachovia, et al) being found to have facilitated money laundering of billions in drug cartel profits, yet these big banks were punished by fines amounting to tiny fractions of the amounts laundered...

No one spent a day in prison for these acts, no bank was disbanded as a result, no bank officials were reprimanded, which seems to be blatantly unequal when the big picture is taken into consideration.

Then there is the fact that the USD is backed by nothing other than military might...

D9u··on Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak
If not "Kilroy" then how about "Emmanuel Goldstein?"
D9u··on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review
The article states that Kleargear hands off delinquent accounts to a collection agency... Kleargear generates a fraudulent invoice for the alleged breach of contract, and if no payment has been remitted in the 30 day interim, the account goes to collections.

You, and I, could do the same. (hopefully without the fraud)

D9u··on Terminal Cornucopia
The real travesty here is that "General Aviation" flights (private aircraft) face no such TSA screening as we see in "Commercial Aviation" flight terminals.

So anyone who has the money to charter a private jet is also able to carry whatever they want onto an aircraft, which illustrates the double standard inherent in most tyrannical systems.

D9u··on F-Secure Launches A Dropbox For the Dark Web And A VPN
Unfortunately Younited doesn't support unix-like systems which aren't Mac... We'll see how it goes, but I'm not going to install Windows or OS X.
D9u··on Show HN: Moon by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson
This is really cool! I like the message. Aloha!
D9u··on Google BBS Terminal
http://goosh.org/
D9u··on Fastmail: Increased storage quotas and other service level changes
I definitely don't speak for anyone but myself... However, some of us have been using Fastmail for several years, as even before Opera took over, Fastmail was a mobile friendly service, pre iPhone era, so we like this service regardless of their physical location.

Powerusers who value their privacy will have already taken steps to encrypt their communications before sending into the wild.

Then there are those whose accounts are free because they joined up back when free accounts were available to all; those accounts are still free! <(;-)

D9u··on Why I’ll Never Return to Singapore
If you seek fulfillment from within it matters not where you are situated.
D9u··on Stop the NSA "Fake Fix" Bill
It is plain to see that our government servants are serving interests which are against "We the People."
D9u··on $100K traded through Vancouver's Bitcoin ATM in one week [video]
I'm still kicking myself for not buying into BTC back when the exchange rate was $0.50 per BTC.

That said, I keep wondering when the crooks in the "District of Criminals" will raid Bitcoin the way they did Liberty Reserve.

D9u··on Why Teenagers Are Fleeing Facebook

    one of his biggest issues with Facebook is that “it’s normal to be friends with people you don’t know.” 
There was a time when the rules stated that you had to actually know the people on your friends list in real life... This was before FB went commercial...

This is one of the reasons why I deleted my FB account.

D9u··on Fix Ubuntu
The other versions within the Ubuntu family also connect to Canonical servers.

I see connections to "...golem.canonical.com" in Etherape when using Lubuntu 13.10.

D9u··on Archive.org: Play Castle Wolfenstein in your browser
20 years ago I was playing Castle Wolfenstein 3D on a 486 DX2 66, and the game was not like this one at all.

Back then the thought of playing over a wide area network was unthinkable, now it's expected... Amazing how far things have come since then.

D9u··on Archive.org: Play Castle Wolfenstein in your browser
The key bindings for movement are:

Left = a

Right = d

Up = w

Down = x

Stop = s

I've been unable to figure out how to fire weapon.

The Enter key gives ammo summary.

D9u··on Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts
No 1's to compare against upper case "I" and lower case "l." No 0's to compare against upper case "O."

I don't see any differences.

D9u··on iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life
200 MB is nothing... I have a prepaid T-Mobile "Mobile Hotspot" and it's $50 for 5 GB which runs out in 2 months from the date of purchase. I was spending $100 a month and it was a burn. I stopped using it because it appeared that my connection was being throttled, as when I first got the device I was getting download speeds of nearly 1 MB/s, but after awhile (2 weeks?) I noticed that I rarely saw download speeds greater than 100 KBytes/s. When I complained to customer care they said some BS about "Backhaul" (NSA Back Hall?) and that my area was a fringe coverage zone, which I doubt due to my initial assessment of speeds.

I also had a Sprint PCS phone on an "Unlimited Talk Text & Web" prepaid plan ($45 monthly) which I would tether to my netbook. (against ToU) Sprint cut me off after they noticed that I used 20+ GB data in less than 3 weeks, but it took them awhile to notice that I was tethering.

D9u··on US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time
http://www.brightplanet.com/bluejay/

No one remembers the article about BlueJay and access to Twitter's "Firehose?"

D9u··on The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science
Since gold is allegedly the most inert element, why wasn't the the prototype made of gold?
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