You know what else? Californians move to where I live in droves driving up the prices here. Every new semester I go to school, the teacher often has an "introduction session" and it turns out in almost all of my classes that I'm the one and only person in the class who is actually from Arizona. Just over half are usually from California, and the other half are from anywhere else in the US.
You know what else? Rent is still reasonable. Hell, most people out here own their property. I just used Miami as an example, there are plenty of other places in California that aren't SF level prices.
Anyways, I don't consider myself more important than a typical Google employee, or anybody else for that matter. Unlike you and those people you support, I'm actually not very selfish at all. If the prices went way up here, I'd take advantage of that by selling the property I'm living in, take the capital gains, and move. I've been eyeing League City, Texas or Boca Raton, Florida.
Most of us "desk jockeys" started out that way. Hell, right out of high school I started in the Army in a combat arms MOS, which some job indices consider to be one of the worst jobs you can possibly have. I lost that job after a year due to problems with my eyesight. Without even counting that, I can guarantee you I've seen much worse hardship than you have. I'm not bitter over it; quite the opposite as it made me stronger. The difference between people like you and people like me is that we find our way around these problems instead of taking that bitterness out on other people and smashing their bus windows in.
Can't afford a small apartment in New York? No shit, it's because it's expensive as hell to live there. If you crave the city, try some place like Miami which is much cheaper. Sure it's not New York, but I can almost guarantee you a better quality of life because you'll be living within your means.
Exactly. If it's not Google or Apple employees, somebody else is going to want to live there. Popular living destinations always attract high costs of living...this isn't even a new thing, it's been going on for centuries, get over it.
Effectively these people are saying that just because they're poorer they're somehow more entitled to live there than somebody else who is willing to pay more. It's the 99% syndrome where you believe that because you are a member of a larger group means you're automatically more important.
You don't necessarily have to live in Nowhere, Montana either. Places like Phoenix and Houston are probably easier to find jobs in than SF and the cost of living is MUCH lower (both places are just slightly below the national average of cost of living, whereas SF is about two and a half times the national average.)
The really good (as in clever) malware don't do any of those things. It's best not to in order to avoid unwanted attention so that your ultimate goal (whatever it be) can be achieved.
I'm a libertarian myself and I always advise everybody against buying gold. Silver *maybe* if its in small denominations, and even then only keep tiny amounts of it.
Bitcoin is interesting though. I don't advise investing into it, but it is a currency worth holding on to if you can mine it. I've already made purchases with bitcoins myself (all coins that I mined using GPU's purchased for gaming.)
The transaction fee was about $10 and some change to sell. So far I've made about $500 in profit, not counting the bitcoins I spent to buy humble bundles and some silver coins (probably about $200 worth.) This is including the costs of GPU's that I bought for gaming and used for mining (and gaming) in addition to an ASIC I purchased with both cash and bitcoins. It also includes the cost of electricity.
I have not purchased any bitcoins, rather I've only sold them and/or bought stuff with them....mostly video games. Kind of fitting that my graphics cards do work which gets me more games.
I think the problem the government has with bitcoin is that bitcoin has the potential of destroying the US government. In fact, any currency other than the US dollar does actually.
The government currently has a habit of going perpetually further into debt (spending exceeds income every year for the last few decades, the only exception being during the economic bubble of the late 90's where tax revenues were artificially high.)
So long as the government maintains control of the value of the dollars that it spends with, it can simply devaluate the dollar to make up for its losses (which comes at the expense of you and me, as well as encouraging consumer borrowing instead of saving.) Of course, that house of cards will come crashing down should the dollar ever run into any serious trouble. Bitcoin has the greatest potential of causing that to happen than any other currency.
Then again, every time bitcoin bubbles and pops, it rises to unexpected levels later.
People like you were saying exactly this when it dropped from a high of $200 to a low of $50, and said the same thing in the bubble prior to that. My only regret at the time was that I believed it. Not long after, it began trading at $1300.
Anyways, I've actually profited rather well off of bitcoin; in fact the whole thing could collapse tomorrow and I'd still have made a profit. The silly thing is that while you've been rolling on the floor laughing at me, I've been rolling in cash.
To be honest, if you have student debt, you probably aren't smart enough to truly deserve college to begin with. I'm literally getting paid to go to school, and it isn't even hard to do; you don't even need good grades. (Though I do have a 4.0 GPA, it had no bearing on the fact that after all expenses, the school cuts me a check for $1,250 per semester just for attending their institution.)
All you have to do is sign up for FAFSA. That lands you the federal pell grant in most cases, and many universities themselves offer their own grant that they give to you based on your FAFSA results.
I'll be finishing school with a cash surplus, not a debt.
Not caring isn't antisocial, nor is it even defined as any type of disorder by any competent psychologist.
If a moose dies in the woods, nobody will really give a shit. Sure, they might say "oh yeah that's sad" or whatever, but they aren't going to dig a hole to bury it.
Two days ago I went the whole day without eating mostly because I just didn't feel like getting up and going to the store. That was mostly just a problem of me being lazy and ultimately I got over it. I don't think anybody else gives a shit about that any more than I give a shit about some guy who doesn't want to work at all and chooses to be homeless. Hell, unlike me he doesn't even have to pay for his food, he can just go down to a shelter and some college student being forced to do community service will serve him with a silver platter (well, stainless steel to be more precise.)
I've been doing it for years, and nobody has kicked me. Further I've even gotten it automated (sickbeard, couchpotato, and transmission) and don't even need to subscribe to usenet or a seedbox.
I tried going the legit route in the beginning but the cable company CCI flags all channels so, short of using Windows Media Center, nothing works. Paid $250 for a cablecard tuner that I can't even use.
The pay TV industry brought this problem upon themselves, and given their hostility I don't see why I should care.
Notice something else about these is that they require actual effort to participate in.
Meanwhile a DDoS can be performed by some derp running a script while he watches game of thrones. "Oh I hate what that guy said, I think I'm going to disrupt the infrastructure for a service I never use anyways. Fuck everybody else, only my opinion matters, I get to play god here, and I say nobody should use that website while I go do something else."
It's a total dick move. If you want to protest them, then fucking picket them or something. Personally I think even picketing is stupid. I remember when PETA was picketing a local KFC once - I went inside to buy some chicken because of them. Now how am I supposed to counter-protest PETA if they decided to DDoS a website where you buy exotic meat? Oh yeah I can't, because the website is completely offline.
I never said they should be able to do that. In fact if you read my post history, I've been rather supportive of websites deemed illegal by the US government. It made me laugh when chuck schumer demanded that the DOJ seize the silk road's domain name, because for once there was a major website that the US government hated so much yet they couldn't touch it.
BoA, Wells Fargo, and Chase are the douche banks. Most banks will do better but not much, but some are pretty good.
I'm with USAA myself - haven't ever had to pay a single fee for anything I get from them. My checking account even yields interest, and features that the 3 douches charge money for are included for free. USAA was actually the first bank to offer deposits using smartphones in fact, and it always has been free.
Yes, it would just be awesome to live in a world where websites could disappear without notice because some activist didn't like something they said.
I really don't get this mentality on slashdot that DDoS is civil disobedience. It isn't. It's censorship. A sit in allows the speaker to still be able to speak, a DDoS on the other hand is like the gestapo coming in and taking you away because you said something they didn't like. If there was no recourse for it, then how the fuck is the internet supposed to last long term? And worse is that it won't be just the people you like doing it against the people you don't like. Imagine the RIAA/MPAA DDoSing every website that had a picture of Johnny Depp in a pirate suit. If you think anonymous DDoS'es are effective, wait until somebody with actual resources does it. Right now it doesn't happen because people with actual resources other than two-bit botnets are quite visible and have to obey the law, much as I think everybody else should. And on that same token anonymous should never be above the law.
There's also the concept of risk vs reward. If the risk for committing a grave offense is too low, then the penalty when caught usually rises. So long as it doesn't become cruel and unusual the constitution doesn't have a problem with it.
As for this, who really cares about 5 cents? Sure the cop can issue a ticket if it is against the law, but you also need to find a prosecutor willing to prosecute it, and assuming can find that, then find a judge who won't throw it out when presented with the reasonable person standard, i.e. a reasonable person wouldn't assume there to be a crime in plugging in anything for a brief period of time.
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You know what else? Californians move to where I live in droves driving up the prices here. Every new semester I go to school, the teacher often has an "introduction session" and it turns out in almost all of my classes that I'm the one and only person in the class who is actually from Arizona. Just over half are usually from California, and the other half are from anywhere else in the US.
You know what else? Rent is still reasonable. Hell, most people out here own their property. I just used Miami as an example, there are plenty of other places in California that aren't SF level prices.
Anyways, I don't consider myself more important than a typical Google employee, or anybody else for that matter. Unlike you and those people you support, I'm actually not very selfish at all. If the prices went way up here, I'd take advantage of that by selling the property I'm living in, take the capital gains, and move. I've been eyeing League City, Texas or Boca Raton, Florida.
Apparently you stopped reading after the sentence about the Army.
Most of us "desk jockeys" started out that way. Hell, right out of high school I started in the Army in a combat arms MOS, which some job indices consider to be one of the worst jobs you can possibly have. I lost that job after a year due to problems with my eyesight. Without even counting that, I can guarantee you I've seen much worse hardship than you have. I'm not bitter over it; quite the opposite as it made me stronger. The difference between people like you and people like me is that we find our way around these problems instead of taking that bitterness out on other people and smashing their bus windows in.
Can't afford a small apartment in New York? No shit, it's because it's expensive as hell to live there. If you crave the city, try some place like Miami which is much cheaper. Sure it's not New York, but I can almost guarantee you a better quality of life because you'll be living within your means.
Exactly. If it's not Google or Apple employees, somebody else is going to want to live there. Popular living destinations always attract high costs of living...this isn't even a new thing, it's been going on for centuries, get over it.
Effectively these people are saying that just because they're poorer they're somehow more entitled to live there than somebody else who is willing to pay more. It's the 99% syndrome where you believe that because you are a member of a larger group means you're automatically more important.
You don't necessarily have to live in Nowhere, Montana either. Places like Phoenix and Houston are probably easier to find jobs in than SF and the cost of living is MUCH lower (both places are just slightly below the national average of cost of living, whereas SF is about two and a half times the national average.)
The really good (as in clever) malware don't do any of those things. It's best not to in order to avoid unwanted attention so that your ultimate goal (whatever it be) can be achieved.
I'm a libertarian myself and I always advise everybody against buying gold. Silver *maybe* if its in small denominations, and even then only keep tiny amounts of it.
Bitcoin is interesting though. I don't advise investing into it, but it is a currency worth holding on to if you can mine it. I've already made purchases with bitcoins myself (all coins that I mined using GPU's purchased for gaming.)
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
You mean like Steve Wozniak?
http://slashdot.org/~SteveWoz
Coinbase.
The transaction fee was about $10 and some change to sell. So far I've made about $500 in profit, not counting the bitcoins I spent to buy humble bundles and some silver coins (probably about $200 worth.) This is including the costs of GPU's that I bought for gaming and used for mining (and gaming) in addition to an ASIC I purchased with both cash and bitcoins. It also includes the cost of electricity.
I have not purchased any bitcoins, rather I've only sold them and/or bought stuff with them....mostly video games. Kind of fitting that my graphics cards do work which gets me more games.
I think the problem the government has with bitcoin is that bitcoin has the potential of destroying the US government. In fact, any currency other than the US dollar does actually.
The government currently has a habit of going perpetually further into debt (spending exceeds income every year for the last few decades, the only exception being during the economic bubble of the late 90's where tax revenues were artificially high.)
So long as the government maintains control of the value of the dollars that it spends with, it can simply devaluate the dollar to make up for its losses (which comes at the expense of you and me, as well as encouraging consumer borrowing instead of saving.) Of course, that house of cards will come crashing down should the dollar ever run into any serious trouble. Bitcoin has the greatest potential of causing that to happen than any other currency.
Then again, every time bitcoin bubbles and pops, it rises to unexpected levels later.
People like you were saying exactly this when it dropped from a high of $200 to a low of $50, and said the same thing in the bubble prior to that. My only regret at the time was that I believed it. Not long after, it began trading at $1300.
Anyways, I've actually profited rather well off of bitcoin; in fact the whole thing could collapse tomorrow and I'd still have made a profit. The silly thing is that while you've been rolling on the floor laughing at me, I've been rolling in cash.
To be honest, if you have student debt, you probably aren't smart enough to truly deserve college to begin with. I'm literally getting paid to go to school, and it isn't even hard to do; you don't even need good grades. (Though I do have a 4.0 GPA, it had no bearing on the fact that after all expenses, the school cuts me a check for $1,250 per semester just for attending their institution.)
All you have to do is sign up for FAFSA. That lands you the federal pell grant in most cases, and many universities themselves offer their own grant that they give to you based on your FAFSA results.
I'll be finishing school with a cash surplus, not a debt.
Not caring isn't antisocial, nor is it even defined as any type of disorder by any competent psychologist.
If a moose dies in the woods, nobody will really give a shit. Sure, they might say "oh yeah that's sad" or whatever, but they aren't going to dig a hole to bury it.
Two days ago I went the whole day without eating mostly because I just didn't feel like getting up and going to the store. That was mostly just a problem of me being lazy and ultimately I got over it. I don't think anybody else gives a shit about that any more than I give a shit about some guy who doesn't want to work at all and chooses to be homeless. Hell, unlike me he doesn't even have to pay for his food, he can just go down to a shelter and some college student being forced to do community service will serve him with a silver platter (well, stainless steel to be more precise.)
This libertarian actually says "fuck the government sponsored monopoly" and pirates it instead.
I've been doing it for years, and nobody has kicked me. Further I've even gotten it automated (sickbeard, couchpotato, and transmission) and don't even need to subscribe to usenet or a seedbox.
I tried going the legit route in the beginning but the cable company CCI flags all channels so, short of using Windows Media Center, nothing works. Paid $250 for a cablecard tuner that I can't even use.
The pay TV industry brought this problem upon themselves, and given their hostility I don't see why I should care.
Actually it was more of a swipe against the Nobel prize...Obama isn't the only lemon it's been issued to.
Well if it takes a Nobel then it sounds like there's an easy fix for people like him: Just run for office as a democrat.
If that were really the case, then Morse should have won the Colorado recall by a landslide. His side literally outspent the opposition 11 to 1.
Notice something else about these is that they require actual effort to participate in.
Meanwhile a DDoS can be performed by some derp running a script while he watches game of thrones. "Oh I hate what that guy said, I think I'm going to disrupt the infrastructure for a service I never use anyways. Fuck everybody else, only my opinion matters, I get to play god here, and I say nobody should use that website while I go do something else."
It's a total dick move. If you want to protest them, then fucking picket them or something. Personally I think even picketing is stupid. I remember when PETA was picketing a local KFC once - I went inside to buy some chicken because of them. Now how am I supposed to counter-protest PETA if they decided to DDoS a website where you buy exotic meat? Oh yeah I can't, because the website is completely offline.
I never said they should be able to do that. In fact if you read my post history, I've been rather supportive of websites deemed illegal by the US government. It made me laugh when chuck schumer demanded that the DOJ seize the silk road's domain name, because for once there was a major website that the US government hated so much yet they couldn't touch it.
BoA, Wells Fargo, and Chase are the douche banks. Most banks will do better but not much, but some are pretty good.
I'm with USAA myself - haven't ever had to pay a single fee for anything I get from them. My checking account even yields interest, and features that the 3 douches charge money for are included for free. USAA was actually the first bank to offer deposits using smartphones in fact, and it always has been free.
Either way it's wrong. You don't go bring down some website like the gestapo just because they say something you don't like.
Yes, it would just be awesome to live in a world where websites could disappear without notice because some activist didn't like something they said.
I really don't get this mentality on slashdot that DDoS is civil disobedience. It isn't. It's censorship. A sit in allows the speaker to still be able to speak, a DDoS on the other hand is like the gestapo coming in and taking you away because you said something they didn't like. If there was no recourse for it, then how the fuck is the internet supposed to last long term? And worse is that it won't be just the people you like doing it against the people you don't like. Imagine the RIAA/MPAA DDoSing every website that had a picture of Johnny Depp in a pirate suit. If you think anonymous DDoS'es are effective, wait until somebody with actual resources does it. Right now it doesn't happen because people with actual resources other than two-bit botnets are quite visible and have to obey the law, much as I think everybody else should. And on that same token anonymous should never be above the law.
Case law sits at odds with that.
There's also the concept of risk vs reward. If the risk for committing a grave offense is too low, then the penalty when caught usually rises. So long as it doesn't become cruel and unusual the constitution doesn't have a problem with it.
As for this, who really cares about 5 cents? Sure the cop can issue a ticket if it is against the law, but you also need to find a prosecutor willing to prosecute it, and assuming can find that, then find a judge who won't throw it out when presented with the reasonable person standard, i.e. a reasonable person wouldn't assume there to be a crime in plugging in anything for a brief period of time.
I think there have been plenty of times, though not necessarily everywhere within the US at any one period.