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ryanl0l
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About ryanl0l
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Comment #11827112
I've been on the phone with PayPal on far too many occasions, and they definitely know how to handle these issues quick. Although, you wouldn't even really have to call them. You c…
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Comment #11827086
Most paypal fraud, like credit card fraud happens at a very small scale. A fraudster pays $50 for 50 accounts and then spends a day with them and maybe walks out with $300. The guy…
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Comment #11827024
RDP at home is certainly difficult, but I have to disagree on the performance bit. In fact, RDP is probably by far the best such protocol in use right now.
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Comment #11826954
Why would you care? You can call in and reverse the payment in minutes.
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Comment #11826894
>Of the hundreds of support requests I've responded to post-attack, all except one attack was carried out over TeamViewer. And my experiences with repeatedly calling these guys had…
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Comment #11826861
On paypal or TV? Needs clarification.
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Comment #11826853
I'm aware. But even tens of thousands of affected people wouldn't qualify as "an extremely wide spread malware". If you spin up an exploit pack and can't get 50k hits in a day you'…
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Comment #11821370
I can't see how you could possibly describe his behavior as "childish" here. Pangu straight up stole his code and sold it.
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Comment #11810768
I'd imagine it's more about not driving all the domestic companies away.
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Comment #11810740
The citations do not support your original claim.
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Comment #11810051
Subsidiaries in countries with low tax rates certainly aren't against the spirit of the law.
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Comment #11810034
That's not what you said though. >Actions that are deemed to have been taken solely for their tax effects are clearly and explicitly deemed tax evasion by the IRS What you said wou…
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Comment #11810006
You should reconsider whatever client program you're using if it's causing issues.
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Comment #11809367
>Actions that are deemed to have been taken solely for their tax effects are clearly and explicitly deemed tax evasion by the IRS This is just not true.
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Comment #11809042
No? Could you expand on that a little please. Based on my reading there certainly exists such a duty when it's beneficial, obviously tax avoidance isn't explicitly beneficial thoug…
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Comment #11808942
I suggest you reread my comments as I never made such a connection. tax avoidance=/=tax evasion
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Comment #11788118
>If your story is true, then you were, as it appears, wrongfully and unlawfully imprisoned. I think you should at least try contacting press and some lawyers -- if what you are say…
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Comment #11787547
Honestly, going after the FBI for lying to the Finnish police would probably be a pretty hard case to win. Especially considering how blatantly unreasonable the behaviour of the .f…
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Comment #11787368
Not at all, the key in weevs case was intent.
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Comment #11787356
Not necessarily. I've spent the last few years fighting various hacking charges in Finland and will most likely continue to do so for several years to come. The law enforcement her…
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Comment #11786168
>Or major driver changes, huh? Never ever ever had I a working device driver turn nonfunctional overnight. Before this "upgrade," that is. Blame your OEM, they're responsible for k…
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Comment #11786125
Haha, that's a good idea. But no, the "ryanlol" account has rather restrictive ratelimiting in place.
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Comment #11785529
>Microsoft can disclose, what you keep on your own machine. Want to expand on that a little? Presumably the above quote is regarding skydrive etc.
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Comment #11785502
>Go to "speech, inking & typing" settings. The dialog literally says they will collect your typing history. And until someone bothers to do a MITM we really don't know what that me…
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Comment #11785475
>No, that's explicitly not how MS updates worked: up to now, they were updates to existing OS, not automatic reinstall. A semantical difference really, previous windows updates jus…