"The National Security Agency operates the world's most popular child pornography web site, originally founded by Chris Poole. Let's all listen to what he has to say."
It's baffling that I'm being downvoted so much. Apparently most hackernews users are devoted fans of 4chan who use that site to get their child pornography fix.
I'm baffled that you'd make such a blanket statement without expecting to get downvoted. There are a lot of things that can be said about 4chan, many of which are certainly not flattering. But you're not going to get away with saying "most users" in conjunction with child porn, without some strong evidence.
Of course that doesn't say NSA but my tinfoil is strong.
Seriously, if you don't believe that these large social sites that popped out of nowhere with no obvious need and no chance of profitability haven't at least been very happily ushered along the path to success by an all-too-eager network of governments that give not two shits about their population for anything but their perverse amusement and enrichment, you're a complete moron and a prime example of why the founding fathers knew you can't trust the people to run a country. Because you're morons.
That paste doesn't pass even the most basic of sniff tests.
"it has brought bans and thread/post deletions on /b/ for anything except CSA trafficking to a screeching halt"
Is trivially false, and the statement:
"When I knew only guilty people used 4chan (and primarily /b/), knowledge of the ongoing sting operation wasn't terribly concerning to me. But now, 4chan is going completely mainstream."
Is absurd. Nobody with any sort of familiarity with the place years ago would ever believe "only guilty people used 4chan". That shit is and always has been the minority. Furthermore, anybody involved in such an operation would realize that "innocent mainstream" type people stumbling across that isn't going to get those people hauled into court.
No. That paste is a troll, and either you've been trolled, or you are a troll and I've been trolled.
Now, do I believe 4chan is cooperating with government investigations? Of course I do.. but that ain't evidence of it.
These who advise to read this article better read it in full themselves. Especially part where it is explaining jumps from futures contract to options and back. And how this affect price.
Hopefully Anonymous will use their new capability to destroy morally bankrupt companies, such as the financial companies that refused to handle funds for Wikileaks.
Interesting that you use website as a synonym for company. The web site of this company is nothing more than a front end for interfacing with the public for marketing and customer service. Presumably, the company also has their actual VPN structure which they use to deliver their service to their customers, offices (optional), bank accounts, etc.
I believe ssh-agent has always written it's socket files to /tmp, in directories readable only by the user. If you disagree with this, criticize the program, not the user.
Most people want to believe their brand is as special as Coke or Apple, but they usually aren't. Most people will not know what a Verisign logo on a web site means in terms of actual security measures, they'll only see it as a label saying "hey we claim to be secure!" And those who are familiar with Verisign will associate the logo with their misdeeds, and wonder why they should do business with a site that does business with such a company.
That's because you're not having a conversation, you're filling in fields in a form. You're lucky they let you use email instead of redirecting you to a web form that more rigidly enforces the method of interaction with them (which needs to die even more).
Not always true. I have had conversations with a lot of companies and they genuinely wanted to talk and help but the top posting kept messing up the flow.
There certainly are companies that don't want to engage in conversations but there are quite a few out there that do care.
