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Legitimate question: how do I get myself some IPv4 address space, and then how do I use it with my AWS, Hetzner, etc.?
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Would like to see Amazon charged with wire fraud for all the counterfeit stuff they sell. It's paid for "by wire" is it not? And almost certainly across state lines which makes it federal.
Fraud is the wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. While counterfeit stuff are sold by sellers in the marketplace that Amazon provides, that is not equivalent to Amazon being the one selling the stuff.
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Was this at MIT?
Yes. Did you happen to work with the AllAdvantage anti-fraud team, or know someone in Course 2 at MIT who dropped out of school writing poker bots and AllAdvantage bots?
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One complaint that I have about ipv6 and mac addresses is that they use hex separated by colons. Not only is it way longer than an ipv4 address, you can't rattle one off using a number pad. Back when I did full time IT, that sounds like a nightmare if in ipv6 land you have to enter addresses as commonly as you have to enter ipv4 addresses.
While I do agree with you, I do think we should be long past the point of needing to manually enter IP addresses. We have several good service discovery protocols, and DHCP and DNS, which are less great but still has pretty good tooling these days
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Quite a bit more boring, but a co-worker once paid a contractor to install some blinds in his house, for a few thousand dollars. Dude took a down payment and then never delivered/installed the product, wouldn’t return their calls, etc. My coworker went to the local police, who wouldn’t do anything, but then his lawyer advised him to go to the postal inspector (he had mailed the check to the contractor.) The contracto…
The US justice system seems very odd to this European. Then I realize that if the EU project ever were to reach its presumed goals (by some), we'd probably end up with something pretty similar in terms of "oddness complexity".
I very much agree. And I live in the US.
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Fraud is the wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. While counterfeit stuff are sold by sellers in the marketplace that Amazon provides, that is not equivalent to Amazon being the one selling the stuff.
In what imaginary world is accepting payment and shipping the item not the same as selling the item?
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At what point does using a fake name turn into a felony? How about creating an email address using a pseudonym? Or does it have to involve money? If someone uses a fake name to order a sex toy delivered (out of embarrassment) is that wire fraud?
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice,…
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In what imaginary world is accepting payment and shipping the item not the same as selling the item?
The difference between being an Amazon Vendor and a Seller: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/01/2...
Substance over form.
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When it's a victimless crime like this?
It's hardly victimless-- when you lie to get something of value that would otherwise go to other people, and then sell it, you're ripping those people off.
That to me is the definition of victimless.
I lost imaginary income that never would have actually existed doesn’t make you a victim.
5 years in jail seems a bit of an overreaction.
They should indeed make an example out of him.