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Except, this time, there is no Reddit to fall back to.

It seems that people enjoy making a quick buck

Damnit I remember when they were less than $1 and thinking to myself "this will never take off". If I had invested $100, I could have sold today for $1K.

There are a lot of people offering 1000 Facebook page likes for just $5 on websites like Fiverr. I've seen profiles that have had no status updates but has 5k pages liked. There is a LOT of social media spam on Facebook

Oh god that is very embarrassing. How does someone so incompetent get to such a high position?

I guess Digg is aimed more towards general crowd now that it only allows for login with Facebook. In thier FAQ they mention it is to cut down on spam but something tells me we will never see User registration. What about people like me who do not have Facebook. I certainly do not want to make a Facebook account to use this service. Furthermore, there are a _lot_ of people who do not use it, why did they not consider this?

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't Same origin policy block that?

Edit: looking through the javascript, it seems that it pretty much just refreshes the page on a interval and the server gets the data from twitter

Unrelated: I just remembered about a hacker called Tiger-M@te who defaced 700k websites in one day and took over a datacenter. Mad stuff.

Good to see I'm not the only person who plans on using .rs domains! The application looks great!

But why would you bother hashing if there are only 26+10 possible combinations?

Tried this on Crunchbang Linux with Chromium, seems to be working fine.

What are some good open source alternatives for skype?

I was using nightly firefox build so that is probably why it submitted twice. I have updated my profile with my e-mail now. Thanks!

For some I can only see my comment when I'm logged in. Is it because it got flagged or something?

Also: *your

I've lost count of how many times they have been breached. Why don't they get independent pen testers and get them to test their system? Surely paying a pen tester $5k is much better than the amount of negative publicity you get when you lose $350K

Hate to say this but if this sort of sloppiness continues, the bitcoin brand will be trampled so badly it will never get off the ground.

Yeah I know what you mean, the B looks really really stretched!

I wonder if OP is going to go to that place. I'm sure there will be a lot of other Redditors there

Ironic how the website is down for me.

Its probably people trolling the internet users in those countries using an iframe because they couldn't replicate the crash or couldn't be bothered hosting it. Internet Explorer is still the main browser in China and Japan

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201105-201205

You should dump a copy of the database somewhere so we can all take a look at it and perhaps analyse it.

Hey, I would like to have some more information on exactly what type of data you have?

>just about anything that would come up in a game of "20

I don't feel like that is clear enough.

Programmer here, I usually start to procrastinate when I find something difficult/too tedious to do. Whenever something like this happens, I find that taking my dog out for a 20 minute walk really refreshes me up and motivates me to do the task!

Hmm, however unlikely, it seems that the hacker is aware of a 0-day in wordpress. Almost all of the websites compromised were using WordPress. Weird.

There are CSRF vulns everywhere. Infact, It was a CSRF that got me into the Google Hall of Fame!

I know a lot of people always seem to be complaining that mysql is not powerful enough in a production environment, specially the people with large websites complaining that it is not scalable enough. Personally, I feel that that is not the case in most instances. Only a very little amount of people ever have to deal with these issues and mysql is performs really well for rapid development, which, in most cases is what people want and need to get their idea up and ready.

Web application with Java? Oh high school.

>buying links

People who have a high PR website may sell a link (usually in the footer, on all pages) to websites in a similar niche to help them rank better. However, for some people its not blackhat enough. Spammers nowadays tend to use automated software like the following:

-xrumer - Developed by a few russian people and primarily used by russian pharmacies for fraud, this is the most powerful "spammer" too out there. You can literally spend $1k and get 1million backlinks within a matter of days and have your site in the #1 position for whatever keyword you're aiming for.

-scrapebox - Similar to xrumer, but while xrumer targets forums (vbulletin etc), scrapebox specializes in harvesting large lists of wordpress blogs (throught google + proxies/botnets) and then posts comments on them (usually all those generic comments you see on wordpress blogs such as "nice post" "good advice, bookmarked" etc).

I could literally go on for hours and hours on how people are exploiting search engines, I think that its prime time for Google to develop an AI for this rather then just relying on algorithms. There needs to be a better PageRank alternative that needs to be implemented.

>benefits

In the most basic terms, for spammers, more links = better search rankings = more traffic = more $$$

I found it hilarious the way Stallman simply brought down any argument presented to him, I'm sure he mentioned proprietary software not respecting our freedom atleast 20 times, no matter what the argument was. It is safe to say that this man is a true idealist. I wonder what Hacker News' opinion is on this.

As a matter of fact, so did I, how interesting! I started web development a few years back running a little site providing anime, however, I had to close it down because it got too popular and there were a lot of DMCA complaints and such, I was one of the main competitors of Crunchyroll, but I guess Shinji took the legal initiative before I did.