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  1. Re:Fraudulent asylum applications != Refugees on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nation states acting in their own interest? Fucking hell, stop the presses!

    It's not a common problem anyway. EU fucking law states that refugees should seek asylum in the first EU country they reach, so why the fuck aren't Italy and Greece dealing with this themselves?

  2. Re:Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This high risk dangerous journey you describe: Wouldn't it be lower risk and safer if you stopped as soon as you reached a safe haven, instead of further travelling across an expensive and dangerous sea voyage and multiple countries?

  3. Re:Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting distinction. A refugee is implicitly seeking refuge; a migrant is merely migrating.

    As written the headline very much conflates the two and in legal terms that's nonsensical. Refugees need support, migrants need to obey immigration laws.

  4. Re:Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There has been a lot of news and discussion around migrants in their 20s claiming to be under 18. That changes their status and how they're treated, and so finding their correct age should indeed mean deporting their lying arse.

  5. Re:Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Fuck humanity. Humanitarian precepts mandate that I hand 99% of my wealth to people in Africa. It's not going to happen.

    What matters here is assuring that refugees get the protection and support they require, and other migrants get told to fuck off and do it legally.

  6. Re:About that... on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In the US we allow about 1.1 million legal immigrants per year, which is generous in comparison to any other country.

    Is it fuck. That's 0.34% of your population a year; the UK allowed legal immigration of 0.7% of its population last year, and that's reduced from the year before (and doesn't include British citizens returning from abroad).

    Putting it another way: The US accepted twice the number of legal immigrants that the UK did, despite have forty times the space in which to put them.

    Generous my arse.

  7. Why would they be refugees? They might be migrating in search of male companionship but that doesn't make them refugees.

    If anything they'd be perceived as dangerous attackers. Someone killed all those men..

  8. Re: this sounds soooo 19th Century on Could Electrically Stimulating Criminals' Brains Prevent Crime? (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I decided long ago that anybody using ECT on me suffers dramatically reduced life expectancy.

  9. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why yes, yes I did. You were nonsensically comparing SMS and MMS costs, and although it would be a pain in the arse, it's significantly cheaper to use SMS.

  10. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Base 64 encoding? I haven't tried.

  11. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. However the phone doesn't differentiate between photographs I've taken and things like the book covers for the multiple ebooks I have on it.

  12. they're dangerous mostly just because of their size & strength. Temperamentally, a tiger who's born in captivity, raised by humans, and lives a life of pampered indulgence won't end up being fundamentally different from a housecat

    So they'll let you know you've stroked them too much by pinning your arm down with claws?
    They'll lie down in a 'please play with me' way then bite you?
    They'll mock fight with you, using claws to pull your hand towards their mouth while their rear legs kick repeatedly at it?

    My cats are lovely but there's a reason tigers aren't common pets.

  13. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I can send several thousand SMS messages this month and it wont cost me a penny.

    Each MMS message will cost me 50p. Automatically sending all the images from my phone via MMS to even a single recipient would cost me a three digit sum.

    I can imagine for some people you could add a digit with ease.

  14. Re:Simple argument... on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather fewer of me, but enough to fool Google.

    I did though get the personalised url on LinkedIn.

  15. Re:The transactions are high risk on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it's only £20 but I'll save £20 by using my credit card instead.

    I've never encountered insured bank transfers in the UK, I'm not sure that's an available product. Do they provide cover for non-fraudulent failure to provide the goods/services too?

  16. Re:The transactions are high risk on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    What the fuck do merchant agreements have to do with company ownership?

  17. Re:It's time for the madness to end on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is SWIF?

    Also, this single use token you think should be used. How do I validate that it's legitimate? Are the funds embedded within the token, and if not how do I validate the source? If so, how do I comply with AML laws and regulations such as financial sanctions against Russian oligarchs? Is the payee embedded within the token because if not it's now a transferable instrument and not single use at all.

    Sounds like you're going to be terribly rich if you can make this work.

  18. You want to run your business as independently as possible? Don't build it on top of things like Facebook or YouTube or Patreon. Build it on top of things like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. If you don't want to learn these skills, hire someone who can do these things for you

    Hmm. Why go to that expense when you can easily just outsource to someone that's already done this. Such as Patreon.

    Sure, you'll save money in the short term by just dumping everything on a "free" platform, but then they own you

    Patreon is not free, and they do not own the people that use their services.

    Further to that, most people raising funds on Patreon are earning tens of dollars a month at most. That's not going to cover much bespoke development.

  19. Re:The transactions are high risk on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At the end of the week I'm going to make a payment of round 4k GBP online.

    I could use my debit card, I could use a direct bank transfer, I could be a total fuckwit and use paypal.

    Instead I'm going to use the payment mechanism that includes free fraud protection, so that in the event I'm totally fucked up and transferred 4k to a scammer I'll get my money back.

  20. Re:The transactions are high risk on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's a curious 'correction', given that it's unfortunately very wrong.

    VISA and Mastercard are both in public ownership and are very different companies.

  21. Re:North Carolina on US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    the holes you shit from

    Wait, there's more than one? I must be doing it wrong.

  22. Re: Is it worth it? on US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately by ignoring people like you things like cholera are causing problems to a dozen people a year in the US instead of killing several tens of thousands.

  23. Ooh, let me think this through for a moment. Should I believe CDC or are they in fact entirely wrong and I need to listen to someone anonymous on the internet.

    On reflection I think I may need something a little more evidence oriented.

  24. Re:Give Europe what it wants. on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    For the two weeks it'll take the European population to demand a reverse to this inane law? Yes.

    Politicians may not care about the internet working correctly but the rest of those 500 million people do.

  25. Re: Also, if you don't give us $2500... on Tesla Opens Orders To All US and Canadian Model 3 Reservation Holders (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly are you expecting him to prove that he hasn't shorted Tesla stock?

    Perhaps you could provide some evidence that he has? Just that he's not the one slinging around accusations here.

    I too have no shorted Tesla stock, despite feeling they're overpriced. I'm also sure as fuck not handing over $2500 for a car that I'd have no confidence of ever receiviung.

    Luckily my financial acumen greatly exceeds my ability to type the word receivinng.