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Comment · 5 years ago
As the author you can always re-release the code under MIT but once it's released under MIT corporations can whole sale rip your work off for their own profit. If you keep it closed source or GPL it then you maintain some breathing room from another company just swooping in and monetizing you code for their profit.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm still confused on why facebook needs to be an app at all. They should just make the mobile browser version of their website the best way to experience facebook and then have people add the facebook mobile website to their home screen.
Comment · 5 years ago
CEO's do this all the time with the US dollar and no one blinks an eye.
Comment · 6 years ago
Uploading to Sia's Skynet, then emailing or texting the link.
Comment · 6 years ago
ScPrime has been looking really good too!
Comment · 6 years ago
Hopefully something like DTube (https://d.tube/) is able to disrupt the Youtube market soon. This google censorship stuff is getting ridiculous.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
The app store is a worse monopoly than IE ever was on Windows and should be treated with in the same fashion.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah, so the problem is that the account number plus short code had no checksum validation. This is the banks fault for implementing a rubbish account system. A proper system would look more like this sudo code:

1234567890-1234-checksum(1234567890-1234).substring(0, 6)

where 1234567890 is the account number, 1234 is the short code, and then 6 characters are typed in at the end are a checksum.

The short code is unique. So if you type in the correct checksum but not the correct short-code the fully-qualified unique identifier does not pass the validation step. Like-wise, if you type in the correct short-code but not the checksum then the unique identifier also does not pass the validation step. Thus, the user is protected against typing in an incorrect short code.

Comment · 7 years ago
This is why all account numbers should end in a 6 to 12 digit checksum verification, to protect against human input error. If this bank had implemented this simple precaution then the entire situation would have never occurred.
Comment · 7 years ago
> If you are a drug dealer it is an occasion to hide your supply extra hard.

I suspect he did. Most likely the police planted the glass pipe that was found when searching for the tracking device so that they could obtain permission from the judge for the second search.

Comment · 7 years ago
100% this. Original evidence found was probably planted.
Comment · 7 years ago
Right or wrong aside, this is already illegal where I live by the same reason it is illegal to be sober and leave a bar as the designated decoy (ie: pretend to be drunk to distract an officer watching the bar for drunk drivers).

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