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About 3-5 days after each payment was confirmed Paypal would reverse it due to it being unauthorized. More so the payment would show up as confirmed/valid initially, at no point during the process did Paypal make you aware of the possibility of the payment being reversed nor to help you confirm/validate that it was in fact authorized by the account holder.

> Also, as much as we would love to say companies are responsible for the security of our accounts, losing credentials is also a user issue.

Of course it's a user issue at a certain scale, but when it's that prevalent I am inclined to say that company is primarily at fault.

It was just a WoW account, so not a big deal for me, but I'd really hate to be a merchant or someone otherwise relying on Paypal day-to-day, that sounds absolutely horrible.

After they made a payment I would ask for a photo-copy of their ID, or to wait 3-days to make sure the payment went through properly (Paypal's normalized way of handling this was to mark the Payment as confirmed leaving the seller thinking everything was okay only to reverse it say 3 days later, screwing the seller). If I recall one of the buyers even offered to try a different account when I told them the payment got flagged.

In about a week's time I had received $5000 or so worth of transfers (all of them from stolen accounts!) Subsequently Paypal froze my account. I never was able to sell that World of Warcraft account either.

p.s. Will translate syntaxes, $250 per.

The math nerd's winning at Las Vegas casinos probably brings more profit in terms of suckers that read "bringing down the house" and an introductory black-jack counting book then they could cost ever them. The Casino's hard-line against this is some kind of deep-seated and antagonistic mob-mentality more than any actual losses.

I thought you could at least have some kind of primitive rotating water-wheel-like mechanism and a circular flow with the pot integrated along the way.

Yeah some wild-card matching stuff doesn't work, also for example expanding `pkg-config --cflags gobject-2.0` as one would in bash requires calling eval gcc.

On the other-hand it's not like Bash doesn't have weird gotcha's -- for example does anyone remember which of these is a valid conditional?

  string='Foo Bar';
  if [[ *"Foo"* == $string ]]
  if [[ $string == *"Foo"* ]]

Fish has both kinds of completion. You can hit tab to get a list of possible completions (command-list based) if there is more than one, if there is only one possible command it will tab-complete. You can also customize this list.

Yes, Stallman really hasn't done anything. GNU, GCC, GPL and Free-software are really worthless contributions compared to comedy routines, we should all quit working on things that we care about just because you and Joe say we aren't ever going to be popular or important.

a) being dishonest

b) performing an active disservice for the human-race.

To address point a: Take Gawker - it's popular, ok, maybe Gawker is just as good as a well-written article, I'm sure there are at least a few people that would argue that; but eventually that argument reaches a dead-end - you might never want to read an academic paper, but you're probably damn glad someone wrote it if only for the scientific advances which provide for your material comfort. You might prefer to watch a sitcom, to reading about economic policy, but you probably would prefer the president should do the later.

That is no matter how people may argue (e.g. Why is a Video Game any less a work of art than Shakespeare play) the kind of absolutist-populist position, they will eventually back-pedal on that argument when you run it out to its furthest point, I mean hell Hitler was resoundingly popular, and so was slavery in the South.

Since it's on topic consider RMS - he's rather a secular nut now -- and that's after NSA/Snowden revelations -- 20 years ago he must have appeared as a complete crackhead (the new printer at MIT was closed-source and I decided I could no longer participate in that [not-verbatim]) to 99.9% people and significantly less-popular than idk: Tele-Evangelists, who probably have much more compelling presentation and better websites and public image.

The active disservice part is where people that don't want to be educated, and don't want to read, and would rather watch a sitcom (there is nothing wrong with these in an of themselves) argue and promote their intellectual laziness and ignorance as important values, and accuse those who disagree of being out-dated, elitist, or whatever other such bullshit.

So - it as a matter of fact has changed and that you think that this is okay (as I'm sure many people do) is obviously telling of something.

But hey, maybe you'd prefer the 2020 election-debate winner be decided by who can keep a reddit-pun thread going longer.

What you call understanding people is what I call pandering to the least common-denominator.

Most of those web-pages aren't better, they are objectively less informative, and harder to access useful information on - maybe the problem isn't that plain white on black isn't exciting enough but that people are so accustomed to being served low quality content packaged with frivolous design, explosions or 10 second sound-bites.

Here is a good discussion of the topic at large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Well, Kim Dotcom is still kicking it.

As for Ross, the evidence might have been circumstantial at best if his un-encrypted notebook wasn't grabbed.

http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-and...

Do you have any reference to support this? Or is it just personal fantasy? If you look at the fbi.gov article mentioned (I linked it in a lower comment as well), you may notice that the hitchhikers were most often the victims: The victims in these cases are primarily women who are living high-risk, transient lifestyles

That you nevertheless think this statement to be true - I think rather supports my point about it being a question of culturally conditioned fear and stereotypes.

Not a lawyer but quoting from the document.

  COMPLAINT FOR:
  1) VIOLATION OF COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT (18 U.S.C. § 1030, et seq.);
  2) VIOLATION OF FEDERAL WIRETAP ACT (18 U.S.C. § 2510, et seq.);
  3) VIOLATION OF THE STORED COMMUNICATIONS ACT (18 U.S.C. § 2701, et seq.);
  4) VIOLATION OF CALIFORNIA INVASION OF PRIVACY ACT, PENAL CODE §§ 631, 637.2;
  5) VIOLATION OF CALIFORNIA BUS. & PROF. CODE § 17200, et seq.;
  6) TRESPASS TO CHATTELS;
  7) COMMON LAW FRAUD; and
  8) NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION

Am I saying dangerous crack-addicts don't exist? Sure they do, but the idea that you are more likely to be hurt picking up a hitch-hiker than in a convenience store, or by another driver is completely without evidence.

  numbers = ['2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10','J','K','Q','A']
  suits = ['CLUBS', 'SPADES', 'HEARTS', 'DIAMONDS']
  deck = [(num,suit) for num in numbers for suit in suits]
  random.shuffle(deck)
  draw_card = lambda deck: deck.pop()

If I've got 8 hours to spend I'd much rather contribute it to something that someone else will actually benefit from.