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A "sick wannabe Blackmirror power play" is a little much. This is probably the cheapest ransomware unlock that's ever been put out there (unless you're based in the US, then good fucking luck on the medical care clause). If you're a company whose security policies are too terrible to survive a ransomware attack, then you'd rather be hit with this one than any of the others.
Right. Picking up random children from the street and taking them to a restaurant comes at almost no cost. In fact if anyone sees this and calls the authorities they are likely to give you free lodging and food at a state owned facility top of it :)
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment. (Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)
I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
Look at the people who make laws, they dont have the intelligence or morality to even teach a TL;DR to everyone at school. Talk about set up to fail!
And when they upgrade the laws they dont even inform each and every member of the public, let alone let the public debate whether its a good law or not.
Democracy is the ultimate criminal act because people are tricked into having laws forced upon them by a small minority of criminals who decide what is best for you. Democracy is parenting of adults.
And yet the stupid keep holding up the law as an example of righteousness without knowing ALL the laws. What is the definition of stupid? A law abiding citizen.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. Your sample is probably biased in some way. I've met many who feel trapped in wage slavery, here in the USA.
agree. the freelancer / gig economy is dominate by script kiddie / template churner companies in India for whom $2/hr is a good wage. there's no competing with that
On a related note (and I get negative feedback whenever i say this, but) this is the future of all software developers as i see it. If you can do your entire job remotely, then "remote" is going to get optimized over time.
It does not make sense to spend your time in USA (for example) coding when you can stop at developing the specs and send it overseas to be coded for half the cost or less. Architects dont lay bricks, and brick layers dont need to understand architecture. Accumulating knowledge of many different types of syntax for expressing the same principles is something that is only going to depreciate in value over time.
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#194Right now, most people in the US work for free 3-4 months out of the year via taxes. This is theft as well, but interestingly enough it has a smaller overhead then taxes, which nearly all of the funds are transferred to the 1%.
It is wild how many folks on HN think they shouldn’t have to pay taxes
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I was thinking the exact same thing, as former (and reformed) lightweight teen hacker. My motivations? Employment? More like for the sheer joy of discovery and fascination with working through ideas. And maybe the slightly sketchier teen hackers: lulz.
I just wanted to know what was out there, and most importantly what actual aliens looked like. I cringe now.
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#196This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#197This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
What do you expect when the world is run by criminals? Seriously!?! Look at the people who make laws, they dont have the intelligence or morality to even teach a TL;DR to everyone at school. Talk about set up to fail! And when they upgrade the laws they dont even inform each and every member of the public, let alone let the public debate whether its a good law or not. Democracy is the ultimate criminal act because pe…
A fully participatory democracy where every citizen votes on everything? Or authoritarianism?
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#199Right now, most people in the US work for free 3-4 months out of the year via taxes. This is theft as well, but interestingly enough it has a smaller overhead then taxes, which nearly all of the funds are transferred to the 1%.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you expect when the world is run by criminals? Seriously!?! Look at the people who make laws, they dont have the intelligence or morality to even teach a TL;DR to everyone at school. Talk about set up to fail! And when they upgrade the laws they dont even inform each and every member of the public, let alone let the public debate whether its a good law or not. Democracy is the ultimate criminal act because pe…
So what would you have instead? A fully participatory democracy where every citizen votes on everything? Or authoritarianism?
What like Switzerland?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy#Refere...