A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The answer is 'yes if they come from approved third party servers'. Otherwise they have to be first-party.
After further looking into it, I think Better Ads is a much larger coalition and has a better potential for bigger change. Still, though.
If Web advertisers would adhere to two simple rules, I would not have any problems with their ads:
- No video, animation, or sound of any kind, for any reason
- No JavaScript of any kind, for any reason
For example, I don't run Adblock on StackOverflow, which curates ads and enforces this policy.
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@polygeekery Did you grab his wallet address? You can see what his take was.
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@anotherusername said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The rise in this sort of thing almost makes me want to figure out how Javascript crypto miner scripts work well enough to write a userscript that can either detect them using heuristics and block them, or just simply break Javascript in such a way that they won't work.
I actually think it shows that if everything relies on JS today, the web as currently is is fundamentally broken. It's just like ActiveX back in the day, but this time it's sandboxed. Which makes it not obviously stupid but still kind of stupid.
Sure, if the sandbox doesn't have holes and you're not executing side channel attacks (cough Spectre) it's "secure". And yet it uses my CPU for malicious reasons.
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@blakeyrat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@polygeekery Did you grab his wallet address? You can see what his take was.
No, the instructions were to email strongman@cock.li and provide a reference ID. I can give it to you guys if anyone wants to engage the cretin.
I also found it funny that the bottom of the notification said not to try any third-party decryption programs because if you did you might become a victim of a scam.
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@polygeekery Nice to see criminals have standards. He wants to make the distinction that he is blackmailing you, he isn't scamming you. Unless he doesn't provide the decryption key if you pay him, then it becomes also a scam.
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@masonwheeler said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
For example, I don't run Adblock on StackOverflow, which curates ads and enforces this policy.
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@dkf It appears that they'll continue to curate the ads, and the two highest-rated responses are both about not letting ads run JavaScript. So this doesn't worry me all that much.
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@masonwheeler This is one of the few times when a Slippery Slope argument would seem more valid.
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Perfectly legitimate investment vehicle, nothing to see here, just a glitch:
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Coinbase is one of a few reputable shops that allow users to hook up their bank accounts and buy virtual currencies with fiat (government-backed) money including the US dollar, euro, and British pound sterling. For that reason, itâs the go-to site for purchasing cryptocurrencies; Google âHow to buy Bitcoin,â and youâll get a CNBC article explaining how to use Coinbase.
However, the company is still new, and stories about disappearing account balances could damage its reputation.
No. Shit.
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@masonwheeler said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dkf It appears that they'll continue to curate the ads, and the two highest-rated responses are both about not letting ads run JavaScript. So this doesn't worry me all that much.
So you are skeptical of every company in the world...except for the one that Jeff founded?
Allllllllrighty then.
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@polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@masonwheeler said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dkf It appears that they'll continue to curate the ads, and the two highest-rated responses are both about not letting ads run JavaScript. So this doesn't worry me all that much.
So you are skeptical of every company in the world...except for the one that Jeff founded?
Allllllllrighty then.
He's got some theories on hand-picking ads, so sometimes he can get it right?
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@polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So you are skeptical of every company in the world...except for the one that Jeff founded?
Jeff founded Hyperloop and Tesla?
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Perfectly legitimate investment vehicle, nothing to see here, just a glitch:
And they attempted to blame VISA when it's
clearbeing suggested that what actually happened was a spectacularly botched attempt to reprocess old payments to avoid extra fees for an MCC change. VISA seems to have noticed what's going on though:"Visa has not made any systems changes that would result in the duplicate transactions that are being reported. We are also not aware of any other merchants who are experiencing this issue. We are reaching out to this merchant's acquiring financial institution to offer assistance and to ensure cardholders are protected from unauthorized transactions."
Isn't fraud a felony...
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@cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Isn't fraud a felony...
Not in the banking industry.
And sadly, that's not even a response
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Isn't fraud a felony...
Not in the banking industry.
And sadly, that's not even a response
It's not cheating, it's creative use of game mechanics?
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My colleague who is heavily into cryptocurrencies is doing his best to defend Coinbase after I linked him the news.
It's only a few people affected, it's not a big deal.
If this would be a big problem this would be all over the cryptocurrency forums.
It's just a bug, it wasn't made on purpose.
Coinbase did send a mail january 22nd informing that they know about the issues stating they are working on a solution.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Perfectly legitimate investment vehicle, nothing to see here, just a glitch:
Just to sum things up:
People are hyping this great new world of cryptocurrencies, where you have cryptographically secured, distributed ledgers and solve all those problems like double spending or one company/bank/central bank having too much control. And this new, awesome system works so well that, instead of actually using it and trading on that ledger, people instead hand over they crypto crap to exchange sites who do fuck-knows-what to handle the actual trading.They're using up so much irony, soon there might be none left. Maybe that's actually the sparse resource backing things.
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@topspin I have a coworker that put some money on crypto, and I tried to explain to him how wrongheaded the very concept of a centralized trading site that keeps the bitcoins in one wallet and trades on virtual accounts is, but he didn't seem to quite grasp the issue.
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@kian I bought some crypto but I keep the vast majority in my personal wallet that Coinbase doesn't have access to. It's stupid, with how many exchanges have crashed and burned, to use them for long-term storage of any currency.
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@kian said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
he didn't seem to quite grasp the issue
It's the Dunning-Krugerrand effectâŚ
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@bb36e Atari isn't really a "game maker" anymore, and hasn't been since, what, Neverwinter Nights? (And even then it wasn't the Atari. But at least the logo was put on games.)
Now it's mostly that French company sitting on the name and using it periodically for nostalgia projects.
Which is a shame, because Atari is an amazing brand. They should give it to Bethesda or some other company that actually still makes quality games.
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@polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
For that matter, I don't understand people who watch Netflix using a computer. Yuck.
What if said person is in their office and watching Netflix instead of working?
Fire them for not watching porn.
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Hey, speaking of gargling camel cock and razor wire that shouldn't have been moved out of the thread... I just for kicks did a Google search for "Cryptocurrency stolen" to see what dumb shit happened today, and lookie this:
http://fortune.com/2018/02/14/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-blockchain-wallet-hack/
The report explains how thieves preyed upon their victims using a âvery simpleâ yet treacherous technique: Buying Google ads on popular search keywords related to cryptocurrency âto poison user search resultsâ and snatch the contents of crypto wallets. This meant people Googling terms like âblockchainâ or âbitcoin wallet,â saw links to malicious websites masquerading as legitimate domains for Blockchain.info wallets.
For example, the poison ads included âspoofedâ links with small types like âblokchien.info/walletâ and âblock-clain.info,â which sent visitors to a landing page that mirrored actual websites of the company Blockchain, which runs both the domains Blockchain.info and blockchain.com. (The legitimate sites appeared lower in results than the âpoisonedâ links, according to Ciscoâs report.)
So what have we learned today?
- People who run crypto sites are so incompetent at everything that they don't know how to SEO their own goddamn site higher in the index
- This might also be because their sites are so fucktard-bad that they're being legitimately punished in the index
- People who "iz reel smarter than banks" who use these crypto still haven't learned the absolute basics of anti-phishing awareness that even your grandmother has known since 2010. (Yes, even if your grandmother is dead)
- They don't know how to check the URL
- They don't know to realize that Autocomplete didn't fill in their username
- They don't know how to use BOOKMARKSbolded text****, because they are Googling "where is my bitcoin wallet site" and blindly clicking on links
It's shockingly negligent stupidity top to bottom.
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@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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Whenever I'm feeling down and depressed like that, I cheer myself up with a jolly-wet round of "your mom". You should try it. She might even give you the "friends & family" discount.
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@lorne-kates I assume you're referring to licensed massage therapy?
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates I assume you're referring to licensed massage therapy?
I didn't know you needed a license for that kind of massage. I'm glad the government is finally regulating the industry, it'll make it safer. (Though kinda cuts into my hobby a bit)
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@lorne-kates My mother would probably strangle you for implying that licensed massage therapists practice prostitution.
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@lorne-kates You should check out the Coinbase subreddit.
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates My mother would probably strangle you for implying that licensed massage therapists practice prostitution.
They don't? I mean, I've read so many... articles.... about it!
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It's 2 AM. Do you know what your server farm is doing?
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@dcoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Do you know what your server
farmis doing?Running on a LAN.
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@dcoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Do you know what your server farm is doing?
Something something dwarf dfhack fortress lojban golang alien swarm
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@polygeekery said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
For that matter, I don't understand people who watch Netflix using a computer. Yuck.
What if said person is in their office and watching Netflix instead of working?
Then kudos to them!
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@anotherusername said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you needed another reason to tell Salon to fuck off
The rise in this sort of thing almost makes me want to figure out how Javascript crypto miner scripts work well enough to write a userscript that can either detect them using heuristics and block them, or just simply break Javascript in such a way that they won't work.
Norton 360 blocks them. I see from time to time a notification that JSCoinminer 6 or 8 was blocked.
So, good AV will help you. ;)
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates My mother would probably strangle you for implying that licensed massage therapists practice prostitution.
Good to see she's branching out into Dominatrix. It's always good to diversify in case of an industry-slump.
And no, I'm not implying that licensed massage therapists practice prostitution. Just your mom.
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@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, good AV will help you.
How long before a scandal breaks that mining software is being packaged into popular AVs?
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@kian said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So, good AV will help you.
How long before a scandal breaks that mining software is being packaged into popular AVs?
Could have fooled me. Windos Defender cleverly hides its mining activities as soon as I do anything dealing with network traffic or disk activities.
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@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@anotherusername said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you needed another reason to tell Salon to fuck off
The rise in this sort of thing almost makes me want to figure out how Javascript crypto miner scripts work well enough to write a userscript that can either detect them using heuristics and block them, or just simply break Javascript in such a way that they won't work.
Norton 360 blocks them. I see from time to time a notification that JSCoinminer 6 or 8 was blocked.
So, good AV will help you. ;)
I really donât understand why this post was downvotedâŚ
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@kt_ Norton
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@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates My mother would probably strangle you for implying that licensed massage therapists practice prostitution.
Good to see she's branching out into Dominatrix. It's always good to diversify in case of an industry-slump.
And no, I'm not implying that licensed massage therapists practice prostitution. Just your mom.
You really just don't say that sort of thing about the once president of the AMTA.
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
You really just don't say that sort of thing about the once president of the AMTA.
I just did.
Also, how doxxy do you want your posts to be?
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@lorne-kates Ah, but you don't know whether I'm talking about the national one, the California chapter, or the chapter of the state I moved to California from, and you probably don't know which state that is either.
Not that I care in the least.
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates Ah, but you don't know whether I'm talking about the national one, the California chapter, or the chapter of the state I moved to California from, and you probably don't know which state that is either.
Not that I care in the least.
So now you've narrowed down to 2 states, which should be trivial to find out based on your posting history.
I mean, I'm already well acquainted with all of your mother's "personal information"-- but you probably don't want to be spreading it all over the Internet.
The way she spreads her legs.
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Will you two just fuck already
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@bb36e said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Will you two just fuck already
That could be messy... I'd... Almost be down with that.
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@bb36e said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@kt_ Norton
Norton is cool, dude! Itâs got nice pop ups.
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@bb36e said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
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