I've been running Debian on my SheevaPlug and DockStars since they showed up at my door step. I haven't run into many (if any) applications that weren't compiled for ARM but were for i386 or amd_64.
It's bare bones, it's not always pretty, but apt has never failed me. It just works. Sid is almost always more up to date than the latest 'stable' release. They don't hard lock any packages to any release (unlike Ubuntu where if you don't want to go past 10.04, you're either stuck with back ports, adding in additional PPAs or dealing with bugs). - Debian / Ubuntu reminds me of a joke an old Rugby player told me. A young bull and an old bull are sitting up on a hill over looking a valley of sweet cows. The young bull gets excited and says, "Lets run down there and fuck one of those cows!". The old bull quiets him down and says, "Lets walk down there and fuck all of those cows."
Neither are most of the others in the slide show. The one guy who actually did to jail time actually did something quite illegal. Figuring out how to pair your Wii mote via bluetooth, not so much.
Peter Hajas is the creator of uber-popular iOS jailbreak app MobileNotifier, a notification system that resembles Google Android’s in that it seamlessly layers and stacks your mobile notifications on top of running apps
Johnny Chung Lee is more of a modder than a hacker (which some would argue is just a matter of shades of grey). Lee is a computer scientist who famously hacked a Nintendo Wiimote in 2008 using a few ballpoint pens and infrared lights. He was then hired by Microsoft to develop the Kinect.
Jeff Moss is the founder of the Black Hat and DEF CON computer hacker conferences, but back in the pre-bubble 1980s he ran underground bulletin board systems for hackers.
During his early college years at Georgia Southern University, Chris Putnam and his friends created an XSS-based worm on Facebook and modified infected pages to look just like MySpace profiles.
In 2009, a then 21-year-old Australian named Ashley Towns stayed up late one night downloading iOS app development programs, and unwittingly created the first known iPhone worm. The virus automatically set a photo of singer Rick Astley’s face as your mobile wallpaper, possibly the ultimate "Rickroll."
Also in 2009, a 17-year-old high school student from Brooklyn named Michael “Mikeyy" Mooney coded a Twitter worm that sent tweets from hundreds of accounts, mostly with links to a spam website or Mooney’s phone number. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone likened Mooney’s worm to the Samy worm that hit MySpace in 2005 and vowed to press charges.
Kevin Poulsen hacked into L.A.’s KIIS-FM radio station to rig a competition that eventually scored him a Porsche. He followed up with breaches into FBI computers. Naturally this put the federal agency in hot pursuit of the black hat hacker. He was arrested in 1991 and served five years in prison in addition to paying a $56,000 fine for charges of mail, wire, and computer fraud. Upon serving his sentence, Poulsen became a journalist, and is now a senior editor at Wired magazine. One of his most notable achievements was creating a program that identified hundreds of sex offenders on MySpace.
Sweet jesus. I thought it was me. I wrote a small php application that uploaded photos via the command line after resizing locally with Image/GraphicsMagick.
Yesterday I was in the middle of uploading weekend photos and my API key just died.
Sure enough, ALL the photos I've uploaded are gone. The entire reason I wrote the application was to quickly upload photos I've already sorted on my local file system. Hundreds, if not thousands of family photos that I've scanned in the last year and sorted by year were uploaded and then auto tagged by Face.com. I also shoot Rugby photos. After a weekend it's not unusual to upload a few hundred game photos. Every Single One is gone. My guess is someone screwed up on their metric for spam (Uploading photos? That's spam) and killed a BUNCH of photo uploading scripts.
I filed an appeal: I just did. I don't have many (if any) users. I'm probably the primary user of my app. It's a php script to quickly upload numerous photos from the command line.
Got this reply: Thanks for your inquiry. To help keep Platform policies simple while delivering great Platform experiences to users, our automated systems remove apps providing poor user experiences. Our systems use a variety of signals to assess user experience, such as user feedback on an app's communications (Stream stories, etc.) and on the app itself.
We've checked out the circumstances of your app's removal, and we found that your app received strong negative feedback from users and their friends. Here are some types of feedback that our systems look for when users interact with apps: removing content generated by your app from the News Feed, labeling content by your app as 'spam', uninstalling or blocking your app, and not granting extended permissions requested by your app. These signals denote a poor user experience and amount to a violation of our Facebook Platform Principles, which is why your app was removed.
Accordingly, we will not be able to restore your app. However, if you'd like to launch a new version of your app with a new app ID and canvas URL, please first make adjustments to ensure you're providing a good user experience and meeting our policies. You can monitor your app's user feedback here: http://www.facebook.com/insights. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with your original canvas URL.
I replied with: Can you at least give me SOME examples? I haven't gotten ANY feedback. And like I said I'm pretty sure I was the only person that used my app.
System Preferences.... > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts.
You can choose to move focus to the menu bar, dock, cycle through window focus, focus on the tool bar, next window in the application, status menu (the right part of the menu bar). Also lets you change tab settings at the bottom. If it's a menu option in an app, you can assign a key to it. Should look like this
Also in dialog boxes: A "Command-$$" will select the dialog entry starting with $$ letter. Say the save dialog box shows up: "Save" "Don't Save" "Cancel". Save is highlighted. So hitting enter will save it. Command-D will "Don't Save" it" Command-C will "Cancel" Command-S will "Save"
Yes, better to use Android, where there are no restrictions on downgrading.
I hope you're @(*$ joking. It took me 10x as long to 'root' my Optimus V as it did to get my iPod Touch jailbroken.
My girlfriend can't get rid (easily) of her "i" Sprint button on her home screen. Mine at least links to something useful like my browser. Look at how Motorola, et al are locking down their Android devices so you can't put custom stuff on them.
Android is more 'open' but it is not this magical mecca that people on Slashdot keep proclaiming it to be.
There's a certain limit of diminishing returns where it'll take more energy to cool down after a period of letting it heat up than to just keep it cool.
Maybe switching the AC to 80 instead of 'off' would have saved the most energy.It's not as cut and dried as "turn off the AC"
Start with what ever you have. RosettaCode has a ton of different tasks for 385 (and growing) languages. Find one (python, perl, php, bash, c, c++) that you can get for free and then
The biggest problem isn't syntax (IMHO) it's that people (at least mechanical engineers) don't grasp the concept of what a for loop, while loop, if statement, etc DO. If you break it down and explain it to them they "get it" a bit, but most are lost on their own. So pick something that you 'get'. Find a language that you think makes sense in your head and go from there.
I cut my teeth on TI-89 Basic. That's where I 'learned' to program. From there it was MATlab, Java, PHP, C, C++. I still use most of those rather extensively.
Apple does this. You can even schedule a best time to call or ASAP. You fill out all your info. Serial number, description of the problem, etc. And when they call you they've already read it. It's also probably why Apple ranks near the top in terms of customer service.
If you miss your call more than 2x, they'll let you go log back in and reschedule.
I know my sister gets serieus omgwtfbbq reactions when she mentions she's off to a lan party with some friends to play (among other things) Unreal Tournament.
THIS is a big part of the problem too. A story about this just showed up on Fark recently: http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2011/06/20/fat-ugly-or-slutty/ is a very good read. When I was first shown the offensive messages that my friend Jaspir received, I laughed. Their crudeness was so hilariously over-the-top that it was nothing short of ridiculous. I had been told many times by people I know and trust that online games are a wild and untamed jungle, with pictures of genitalia hiding around every corner. But it wasn’t until I was actually shown the messages that I really understood. Something finally clicked.
I thought I was alone in this misunderstanding. I figured every gamer must have already known how horrible the world of multiplayer gaming was, and that I’d only missed it because I don’t play online all that much. I figured the lewd content and insults were accepted by everyone as a hazard of the hobby – it’s just trashtalk, right?
So, when my friends and I started Fat, Ugly or Slutty to collect examples of this rude banter we didn’t think it would shock anyone. We wanted to gather all this horribleness in one place and have a chuckle about how stupid and ridiculous it was; the FailBlog of gaming.
The US does a few things very right - why must it get some things so wrong?)
We rank up there with Mexico and Turkey as the only developed country without universal health care. And with such industrious countries as Liberia & Myanmar that aren't on Metric yet.
But those mutations and adaptions (unless unseen) will probably not be 'allowed' by doctors. Say 6 fingers is where we're 'supposed' to be headed. Except at birth the extra digits are usually removed, giving a person with that trait no more advantage than anyone else.
On the other side of the coin: Not all mutations are good for the group as a whole with the technology we have available today. Sickle cell anemia carriers are effectively immune to malaria. Even people with sickle cell anemia don't die off until 20-40, well after the time to reproduce. So sickle cell anemia is an evolutionary advantage in places where malaria is prevalent, even if they do get killed off.
Or as I like to think of it: If the USA were around when the Grand Canyon started, there would be no Grand Canyon. The local government would be concerned about an elevated amount of erosion. They'd contract the corp of engineers to construct a damn and sediment retainer. They'd put concrete pylons in to stop any erosion. River front property owners would keep getting bailed out by the federal government to live right next to the river.
Sure we have these mutations, but in our desire to control everything, will anything ever come of them?
Very Very depressing (but good) movie. Don't expect to come out of it in a good mood.
From its opening scene, where a terminally ill cancer patient takes a lethal dose of Seconal and literally dies on camera, it becomes shockingly clear that How to Die in Oregon is a special film. In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands.
In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson (Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival) gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether—and when—to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity.
"Last week’s E. coli outbreak in Germany - potentially traced to an organic farm - was more deadly than the largest nuclear disaster of the last quarter-century." - "According to World Health Organization statistics on E. coli deaths, in just the past two years, more people have been killed by the disease than all fission-related events since the dawn of the nuclear age - even if you include the use of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
You can still directly into any X app if you want.
I just checked and ">console" login still works on Snow Leopard. 1) Edit login options to display the login window as "Name and password" 2) Logout of all accounts and login with the username ">console" 3) Enjoy your Darwin shell.
It's not much different at all than the Linux shell. If you install Gnome, XFCE, KDE, etc. You can launch them with startx. If you want to boot straight into another application edit your startx scripts (.xinitrc, etc).
I'm sure you can compile Chrome, Firefox, and the like to not use Aqua and just the X11 libraries.
I love playing Minecraft it's fun and mindless. But after an hour or so (even if I just leave it open and complete other stuff) it'll start eating into my ram (8GB) and start using 50% CPU at idle. I know OS X's Java implementation is a bit to blame, but something this 'simple' could be done in GTK and use almost no CPU.
They can't fire you. But they don't have to bargain with you. And you can go on strike and strike as long as you please but since it's a new union I doubt you'll get much comp pay.
PayPal is hands down one of the worst companies out there.
Back in the day when I was young and naive I bought a computer on eBay. The guy gave me the run around. I got nothing. Since I was young and dumb (and trusting) I let them debit my checking account. So I had 0 recourse with my bank (It's also the day I signed up with a credit card because every other person that bought from the guy. PayPal was 'only able to recover' $100 of the $1600 I paid.
Fast forward 5 months. I sell some Amazon gift cards. PayPal green lights the transaction as an 'authorized buyer', everything is good to go... then they come back that the card is stolen. Debit my account $900 and say that I owe them that much. Thankfully I didn't link it to my checking account. So they locked it.
It's been a cat and mouse game since then since some places on eBay ONLY accept PayPal. I'll open an account. Register a disposable card with them. Then they'll figure out that it's me. Remind me about what I 'owe' them and close the account.
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Hey, not all of us can have watched every second of TV/Movies ever. Nice to know what it's from. Although I feel like the joke is older than that.
I've been running Debian on my SheevaPlug and DockStars since they showed up at my door step. I haven't run into many (if any) applications that weren't compiled for ARM but were for i386 or amd_64.
Sure enough, there's Compbiz.
It's bare bones, it's not always pretty, but apt has never failed me. It just works. Sid is almost always more up to date than the latest 'stable' release. They don't hard lock any packages to any release (unlike Ubuntu where if you don't want to go past 10.04, you're either stuck with back ports, adding in additional PPAs or dealing with bugs).
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Debian / Ubuntu reminds me of a joke an old Rugby player told me. A young bull and an old bull are sitting up on a hill over looking a valley of sweet cows. The young bull gets excited and says, "Lets run down there and fuck one of those cows!". The old bull quiets him down and says, "Lets walk down there and fuck all of those cows."
Of course there's Pachabel's Canon
And who doesn't know how to make a techno song
Neither are most of the others in the slide show. The one guy who actually did to jail time actually did something quite illegal. Figuring out how to pair your Wii mote via bluetooth, not so much.
Peter Hajas is the creator of uber-popular iOS jailbreak app MobileNotifier, a notification system that resembles Google Android’s in that it seamlessly layers and stacks your mobile notifications on top of running apps
Johnny Chung Lee is more of a modder than a hacker (which some would argue is just a matter of shades of grey). Lee is a computer scientist who famously hacked a Nintendo Wiimote in 2008 using a few ballpoint pens and infrared lights. He was then hired by Microsoft to develop the Kinect.
Jeff Moss is the founder of the Black Hat and DEF CON computer hacker conferences, but back in the pre-bubble 1980s he ran underground bulletin board systems for hackers.
During his early college years at Georgia Southern University, Chris Putnam and his friends created an XSS-based worm on Facebook and modified infected pages to look just like MySpace profiles.
In 2009, a then 21-year-old Australian named Ashley Towns stayed up late one night downloading iOS app development programs, and unwittingly created the first known iPhone worm. The virus automatically set a photo of singer Rick Astley’s face as your mobile wallpaper, possibly the ultimate "Rickroll."
Also in 2009, a 17-year-old high school student from Brooklyn named Michael “Mikeyy" Mooney coded a Twitter worm that sent tweets from hundreds of accounts, mostly with links to a spam website or Mooney’s phone number. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone likened Mooney’s worm to the Samy worm that hit MySpace in 2005 and vowed to press charges.
Kevin Poulsen hacked into L.A.’s KIIS-FM radio station to rig a competition that eventually scored him a Porsche. He followed up with breaches into FBI computers. Naturally this put the federal agency in hot pursuit of the black hat hacker. He was arrested in 1991 and served five years in prison in addition to paying a $56,000 fine for charges of mail, wire, and computer fraud. Upon serving his sentence, Poulsen became a journalist, and is now a senior editor at Wired magazine. One of his most notable achievements was creating a program that identified hundreds of sex offenders on MySpace.
EXACT SAME PROBLEM!
Sweet jesus. I thought it was me. I wrote a small php application that uploaded photos via the command line after resizing locally with Image/GraphicsMagick.
Yesterday I was in the middle of uploading weekend photos and my API key just died.
Sure enough, ALL the photos I've uploaded are gone. The entire reason I wrote the application was to quickly upload photos I've already sorted on my local file system. Hundreds, if not thousands of family photos that I've scanned in the last year and sorted by year were uploaded and then auto tagged by Face.com. I also shoot Rugby photos. After a weekend it's not unusual to upload a few hundred game photos. Every Single One is gone. My guess is someone screwed up on their metric for spam (Uploading photos? That's spam) and killed a BUNCH of photo uploading scripts.
I filed an appeal:
I just did. I don't have many (if any) users. I'm probably the primary user of my app. It's a php script to quickly upload numerous photos from the command line.
Got this reply:
Thanks for your inquiry. To help keep Platform policies simple while delivering great Platform experiences to users, our automated systems remove apps providing poor user experiences. Our systems use a variety of signals to assess user experience, such as user feedback on an app's communications (Stream stories, etc.) and on the app itself.
We've checked out the circumstances of your app's removal, and we found that your app received strong negative feedback from users and their friends. Here are some types of feedback that our systems look for when users interact with apps: removing content generated by your app from the News Feed, labeling content by your app as 'spam', uninstalling or blocking your app, and not granting extended permissions requested by your app. These signals denote a poor user experience and amount to a violation of our Facebook Platform Principles, which is why your app was removed.
Accordingly, we will not be able to restore your app. However, if you'd like to launch a new version of your app with a new app ID and canvas URL, please first make adjustments to ensure you're providing a good user experience and meeting our policies. You can monitor your app's user feedback here: http://www.facebook.com/insights. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with your original canvas URL.
I replied with:
Can you at least give me SOME examples? I haven't gotten ANY feedback. And like I said I'm pretty sure I was the only person that used my app.
I got this shit canned reply:
When testing an app, please place it in sandbox mode and utilize our test user network: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/
This will ensure that you can test the full functionality without being detected as "spammy" by our systems. Please do this for future test apps.
Thanks,
System Preferences .... > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts.
You can choose to move focus to the menu bar, dock, cycle through window focus, focus on the tool bar, next window in the application, status menu (the right part of the menu bar). Also lets you change tab settings at the bottom. If it's a menu option in an app, you can assign a key to it.
Should look like this
Also in dialog boxes: A "Command-$$" will select the dialog entry starting with $$ letter.
Say the save dialog box shows up:
"Save" "Don't Save" "Cancel". Save is highlighted. So hitting enter will save it.
Command-D will "Don't Save" it"
Command-C will "Cancel"
Command-S will "Save"
Yes, better to use Android, where there are no restrictions on downgrading.
I hope you're @(*$ joking. It took me 10x as long to 'root' my Optimus V as it did to get my iPod Touch jailbroken.
My girlfriend can't get rid (easily) of her "i" Sprint button on her home screen. Mine at least links to something useful like my browser. Look at how Motorola, et al are locking down their Android devices so you can't put custom stuff on them.
Android is more 'open' but it is not this magical mecca that people on Slashdot keep proclaiming it to be.
There's a certain limit of diminishing returns where it'll take more energy to cool down after a period of letting it heat up than to just keep it cool.
Maybe switching the AC to 80 instead of 'off' would have saved the most energy.It's not as cut and dried as "turn off the AC"
Start with what ever you have.
RosettaCode has a ton of different tasks for 385 (and growing) languages. Find one (python, perl, php, bash, c, c++) that you can get for free and then
The biggest problem isn't syntax (IMHO) it's that people (at least mechanical engineers) don't grasp the concept of what a for loop, while loop, if statement, etc DO. If you break it down and explain it to them they "get it" a bit, but most are lost on their own. So pick something that you 'get'. Find a language that you think makes sense in your head and go from there.
I cut my teeth on TI-89 Basic. That's where I 'learned' to program. From there it was MATlab, Java, PHP, C, C++. I still use most of those rather extensively.
Apple does this. You can even schedule a best time to call or ASAP. You fill out all your info. Serial number, description of the problem, etc. And when they call you they've already read it. It's also probably why Apple ranks near the top in terms of customer service.
If you miss your call more than 2x, they'll let you go log back in and reschedule.
I know my sister gets serieus omgwtfbbq reactions when she mentions she's off to a lan party with some friends to play (among other things) Unreal Tournament.
THIS is a big part of the problem too. A story about this just showed up on Fark recently:
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2011/06/20/fat-ugly-or-slutty/ is a very good read.
When I was first shown the offensive messages that my friend Jaspir received, I laughed. Their crudeness was so hilariously over-the-top that it was nothing short of ridiculous. I had been told many times by people I know and trust that online games are a wild and untamed jungle, with pictures of genitalia hiding around every corner. But it wasn’t until I was actually shown the messages that I really understood. Something finally clicked.
I thought I was alone in this misunderstanding. I figured every gamer must have already known how horrible the world of multiplayer gaming was, and that I’d only missed it because I don’t play online all that much. I figured the lewd content and insults were accepted by everyone as a hazard of the hobby – it’s just trashtalk, right?
So, when my friends and I started Fat, Ugly or Slutty to collect examples of this rude banter we didn’t think it would shock anyone. We wanted to gather all this horribleness in one place and have a chuckle about how stupid and ridiculous it was; the FailBlog of gaming.
http://fatuglyorslutty.com/
Some girls take that a bit more personal than others and if you start acting like that there's a good chance they won't come back.
The US does a few things very right - why must it get some things so wrong?)
We rank up there with Mexico and Turkey as the only developed country without universal health care.
And with such industrious countries as Liberia & Myanmar that aren't on Metric yet.
USA USA USA.
But those mutations and adaptions (unless unseen) will probably not be 'allowed' by doctors. Say 6 fingers is where we're 'supposed' to be headed. Except at birth the extra digits are usually removed, giving a person with that trait no more advantage than anyone else.
On the other side of the coin: Not all mutations are good for the group as a whole with the technology we have available today. Sickle cell anemia carriers are effectively immune to malaria. Even people with sickle cell anemia don't die off until 20-40, well after the time to reproduce. So sickle cell anemia is an evolutionary advantage in places where malaria is prevalent, even if they do get killed off.
Or as I like to think of it: If the USA were around when the Grand Canyon started, there would be no Grand Canyon. The local government would be concerned about an elevated amount of erosion. They'd contract the corp of engineers to construct a damn and sediment retainer. They'd put concrete pylons in to stop any erosion. River front property owners would keep getting bailed out by the federal government to live right next to the river.
Sure we have these mutations, but in our desire to control everything, will anything ever come of them?
Lets claim that Hitler was killed by a bad Git Merge.
THAT is a godwin.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1 (100%).
Except in the end they'll have something to show for it. A piece of hardware.
Kind of like we did back in the day when the CCC built all those bridges, roads, rail lines, parks, etc.
How to Die in Oregon.
Very Very depressing (but good) movie. Don't expect to come out of it in a good mood.
From its opening scene, where a terminally ill cancer patient takes a lethal dose of Seconal and literally dies on camera, it becomes shockingly clear that How to Die in Oregon is a special film. In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands.
In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson (Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival) gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether—and when—to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity.
Considering google Is offering $1337 it really doesn't seem like a lot.
"Last week’s E. coli outbreak in Germany - potentially traced to an organic farm - was more deadly than the largest nuclear disaster of the last quarter-century."
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"According to World Health Organization statistics on E. coli deaths, in just the past two years, more people have been killed by the disease than all fission-related events since the dawn of the nuclear age - even if you include the use of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
To put it into perspective.
You can still directly into any X app if you want.
I just checked and ">console" login still works on Snow Leopard.
1) Edit login options to display the login window as "Name and password"
2) Logout of all accounts and login with the username ">console"
3) Enjoy your Darwin shell.
It's not much different at all than the Linux shell. If you install Gnome, XFCE, KDE, etc. You can launch them with startx. If you want to boot straight into another application edit your startx scripts (.xinitrc, etc).
I'm sure you can compile Chrome, Firefox, and the like to not use Aqua and just the X11 libraries.
0. It doesn't have a gasoline engine. It's not a hybrid.
I love playing Minecraft it's fun and mindless. But after an hour or so (even if I just leave it open and complete other stuff) it'll start eating into my ram (8GB) and start using 50% CPU at idle. I know OS X's Java implementation is a bit to blame, but something this 'simple' could be done in GTK and use almost no CPU.
They can't fire you. But they don't have to bargain with you. And you can go on strike and strike as long as you please but since it's a new union I doubt you'll get much comp pay.
PayPal is hands down one of the worst companies out there.
Back in the day when I was young and naive I bought a computer on eBay. The guy gave me the run around. I got nothing. Since I was young and dumb (and trusting) I let them debit my checking account. So I had 0 recourse with my bank (It's also the day I signed up with a credit card because every other person that bought from the guy. PayPal was 'only able to recover' $100 of the $1600 I paid.
Fast forward 5 months. I sell some Amazon gift cards. PayPal green lights the transaction as an 'authorized buyer', everything is good to go... then they come back that the card is stolen. Debit my account $900 and say that I owe them that much. Thankfully I didn't link it to my checking account. So they locked it.
It's been a cat and mouse game since then since some places on eBay ONLY accept PayPal. I'll open an account. Register a disposable card with them. Then they'll figure out that it's me. Remind me about what I 'owe' them and close the account.
My hometown paper just implemented a paywall. It's a joke to get around. I just created a new AdBlock rule that blocked the dev id.
Warning, excessive static buildup detected. Attempt to discharge through touching elbows behind back.