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Yes. Also, you do not want the Postal Inspectors showing up looking for you. Like, for real.
Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
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#122I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!"
But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect?
But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is positioning himself that warrants this? Or do we need to be more aware of our own biases?
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If he had used e.g. the USPS mail service, would it then have been mail fraud instead? Similar sentencing?
Yes. Also, you do not want the Postal Inspectors showing up looking for you. Like, for real.
I once committed mail fraud when I was 17 years old. I had been using the return address as a destination address on envelopes to send mail to places for free without stamps. Finally got caught one day at the local branch. Postal Inspectors said I could face 20 to 30 years in federal prison.
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#124Honest question, why are we not all just on IPV6 now? It seems like at this point almost all the underlying hardware and software should support it? It seems like the only argument for sticking with IPv4 is NAT, but I can't think of a technical reason we couldn't do NAT with IPv6?
I recently switch ISP and the new ISP gives you an IPv6 address and have their router just hand out IPv6 addresses on your LAN as well. It generally works really really well. The only weirdness I've seen is in Firefox when using DoH and IPv6. Sites like Google or Wikipedia just worked, while others simply doesn't and because it's DoH in the browser, you can't actually debug the issue all that well. I believe it may be tied to the combination of a specific DoH service and my ISP, but I haven't tested it fully yet.
Why would you want to use NAT with IPv6 though?
Re: Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
#125I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!" But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect? But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is posi…
I suspect it's less his physical characteristics, or even his clothing and jewelry, but almost exclusively his body language that is producing this reaction.
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#127Why do some CEOs take such ... interesting(?) ... photos? Is it supposed to present him in such a way (other than just me thinking that's odd)?
CEO is a popular career choice for narcissists.
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#128I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!" But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect? But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is posi…
I think judging based on the cover is fine when we're judging what the cover is clearly and intentionally trying to communicate to us about the book within.
The pose, the unbuttoned shirt, the hair, those are all conscious choices to communicate a sleazeball personality that probably plays great with his friend/colleague network.
If we were judging someone from a cultural context that's unfamiliar to us or based on irrelevant characteristics like race or gender that would be incorrect and likely biased. But in this case we're just clearly receiving the message he's trying to communicate with intentionality
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Also, you do not want the Postal Inspectors showing up looking for you. Like, for real.
Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
I don’t but I was surprised to learn they have guns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspect...
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What a smart entrepreneur he was to commit fraud!
messing up and defrauding that way doesn't negate the fact that you still need to be smart on some level(depending on your definition) to create an IT company. We should definitely punish the fraud. But also look at rehabilitation. In this case, we are taking someone that could under the right circumstance be a net positive for society and putting him in jail for 5 years where he will most probably come out as a dest…
> messing up and defrauding ...
When you've created 20 shell companies, I think at this point you've gone beyond "messing up". Just like there's a difference between a crime-of-passion single murder and a serial killer.
Rehabilitation is another issue entirely. I really wish we had a system in place to make that happen, but we don't. Putting him away isn't about revenge at all, at least not to me.