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There are options for persistent connections, with logs and detachment, etc. ZNC/PsyBNC/Quassel come to mind. ZNC, in particular, is extendable via Perl or Python (or TCL if you're…

What's wrong with IRC? It still works a treat, and has ever since the early-mid 90's.

I'd be interested to know what folks in your field think of the newly developed substance [1]'Vantablack'. Thin carbon tubes that apparently absorb 99.965% of visible light. Are th…

THIS is a not-insignificant part of the problem. right here. You jumped straight out of the gate with calling the OP stupid. Not even a feigned attempt at some sort of discussion o…

I mean I cannot link you to a direct source, it was just something everyone knew, ya know 'common knowledge'. This was on both coasts as well as the midwest. And it was explained t…

It is incredibly, incredibly dangerous to mix benzodiazepines (Xanax, Ativan, etc.) with Methadone. This is common knowledge amongst opiate addicts, at least everywhere I ever went…

>> "With Blind, users are completely anonymous, but are required to submit a verified work email to join a company channel." That sentence doesn't make sense. How can it be "comple…

homeless citizens and needles I understand, but 'human excrement' -- what? Is people shitting in the streets as common and as noticeable as homelessness? WTF is that about, I thoug…

We hear about these mis-configurations leading to publicly-viewable things that shouldn't be publicly viewable all the time. This makes me wonder what is the default security setti…

No, I don't realize. And neither should you, because you honestly cannot. It runs closed-source software and communicates with servers out of your control. Unless you are an engine…

You're willing to give up the personal privacy of you, your family, and any guests in exchange for turning off light switches without getting up?

I'd take it even one step further and say people shouldn't even have an Alexa (or Google Home, et. al.) in their home at all. There are so many downsides, and after you get past th…

Wow, really? Am i reading that right, that without an active WAN connection, the internal LAN connections don't work on Google WiFi hardware? That sounds more like an "Internet app…

Digi-Key has what has to be a top contender for fastest order processing & shipment of any company that does e-commerce ever. No exaggeration, it's almost inconceivable how quickly…

You have a point there the rich folks wouldn't want to be seen as gullible. Maybe I should have said "more reported cases of VCs being defrauded." > "If you were a VC would you wan…

I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of VC folks being defrauded (Theranos aside). The way those people like to just throw hundreds of thousands of dollars or more …

Not much beats out The Ocular Penetration Restriction Act of 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee8n-xvYETg No one is born a skull fucker.

Prostitution is the oldest career there is in the United States (also one of the very few that is genuinely recession-proof). There have always been, and always will be, people wil…

No man, there's so much more exposure that way. And remember, this is a criminal enterprise. Those people who run your fronts could just as easily rob/kill you and take it for them…

And how may I ask did you come to this conclusion? Have you ever actually laundered dirty money?

That's not how dirty money works if you want to get away with it. You need to launder it -- put it into something legitimate and, most importantly, get something back out of it tha…

If I'm moving stolen money (or magic math coins or whatever) I don't give a damn about the fees - it's 100% profit either way. It costs money to have it laundered, whether that goe…

Is it? I don't think it would be. In fact, extortion and coercion are fairly easy because there are no rules (this I can attest to from both sides of the equation). The easiest wea…