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Re:Dumb Like Me: A Year Low On Oxygen on Saturday May 19, 2012 @04:29AM (#3995460)
So hey, Russell or anyone. My father has had sleep apnea for some years and due to 2008 finance fuckery the loss of most of his retirement funds and loss of his career, his health has been in a downward spiral. In particular his mental health worries me. Just reading the title of this post I feel strong emotions about this issue. Imgur.com and getting him the fuck off television has been a godsend as its more than a one way street, but without massive financial help all the needed care is impossible. Jesus christ this post is sad fuck the USA.
Re:Dumb Like Me: A Year Low On Oxygen on Saturday May 19, 2012 @04:17AM (#3995438)
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Re:Dumb Like Me: A Year Low On Oxygen on Saturday May 19, 2012 @04:16AM (#3995437)
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Re:GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. on Monday March 05, 2012 @09:12AM (#3666517)
"On a Sunday morning when you're fixing a security hole and you know who penetrated it you suspend that person's account."

Haha what. Do you maintain any sites? Tell us what ones. I want to warn all of your users that the admin is someone who will disable an account of someone who committed to master on a project that is not theirs and feel he has accomplished something.

Re:Http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to/random on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @09:03AM (#3616436)
My face when reading the title: :|

My face when I tried http://kittens.jpg.to/ :D

My face when the next random stab yielded a http://bucketofkittens.jpg.to/ :O \o/ :O INTERNETS WOO :D

"The other extreme is standing over the ripped carcass of the machine case, triumphantly raising an unencrypted hard disk over your head, and blowing a kiss to the receptionist on your way out through the main lobby."

Added to the bucket list.

Re:Year of the storm on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @07:06AM (#3537587)
Paste of it for the dutch visually impaired that can't visit TPB anymore..: http://pastebin.com/WeKPQUK6

edit: dem words aint right. :)

Re:Year of the storm on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @06:56AM (#3537558)
To burnt timber with the corporations and their enablers who press so hard to suck each of us all of our life's potential while wielding the profits as a weapon against those they dislike. This includes the justice system and their precedents.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using Blekko instead of Google? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @06:53AM (#3532863)
That is where Google crossed the line into being evil, bypassing their own internal checks and regulations accepting cash for ads to sites that never were associated with any real pharmacy or any product at all. Judging by Glavmed's success and shadier sites with shop fronts calling themselves "Canadian" this is totally not isolated to one paid snitch.

These rogue pharmas source from India for generics, wherever they can to buy branded narcotics, and lord knows where for counterfeit opiates/benzos. Real Canadian pharmacies used to be more directly involved selling to the US, including narcotics, but that was years ago. The dirty bit is not at the pharmacy selling to people with prescriptions but those knowingly diverting to unscripted use, or the mules who use doctors to fill out scripts that then get sold. Then at the pharma affiliate networks paying spammers for traffic. Spammers paying google for adverts pointing to shop fronts. GOOGLE ACCEPTING CASH AND BYPASSING THEIR CHECKS THAT SEE IF ALL THE ACTORS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY ARE LEGIT who then post the adverts to the shop fronts who may or may not be listed as Canadian who may or may not be sourcing via legal means from what may or may not be a Canadian pharmacy.

Krebsonsecurity.com has multiple write-ups on these types of operations which use advertisers like Google for traffic. In this case though Google employees at multiple levels went beyond just being a provider of traffic to being an co-partner in the conspiracy.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using Blekko instead of Google? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:20AM (#3532367)
Apparently you have a hard time reading since I posted the link to the story I am refering to along with the quote in the comment you replied to that is totally contrary to what you stated. So here we go for a second time:

"By the end of the operation in mid-2009, agents were buying Google ads for sites purportedly selling such prescription-only narcotics as oxycodone and hydrocodone. Agents also got Google's sales office in China to approve a site selling Prozac and Valium to U.S. customers without a prescription."

Google wasn't posting ads for 'heroine' alright, they were posting ads for what they thought were suppliers of opiates who were selling without prescription. Illicit pharma opiates are in the same catagory as illicit black market opiates or, heroin as its called. If you cared to actually read before responding you would know that this was all included in the article.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using Blekko instead of Google? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:16AM (#3532354)
When medication does not go through legit supply channels you cannot trust the product, accountability is gone. Trusting illicit pharma spammers to source legit medication is laughable.

Edit: Not laughable, horrific and sad.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using Blekko instead of Google? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @12:50AM (#3532050)
No its rather apt in my opinion.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020462420...

"Google acknowledged in the settlement that it had improperly and knowingly assisted online pharmacy advertisers allegedly based in Canada to run advertisements for illicit pharmacy sales targeting U.S. customers."

Oh hello whats this? Google execs knowingly assisting illegal operations peddling illicit drugs from manufactures unknown? Since when does their 'lets not be evil overlords' policy include knowingly taking cash to help peddle drugs coming from illicit sources.

"By the end of the operation in mid-2009, agents were buying Google ads for sites purportedly selling such prescription-only narcotics as oxycodone and hydrocodone. Agents also got Google's sales office in China to approve a site selling Prozac and Valium to U.S. customers without a prescription.

"Google's employees were instrumental in bypassing policy regarding pharmacy verification," Mr. Whitaker told the Journal. "The websites were blatantly illegal."

At the agents' direction, Mr. Whitaker said he signaled his illegal intent to Google ad executives, including Google's top manager in Mexico. As a tape recorder ran, he walked Google executives through the illegal parts of the websites. He said he told ad executives that U.S. Customs had seized shipments, for example, and that one client wanted to be "the biggest steroid dealer in the United States.""

Seriously what the fuck? The anti-google sentiment is nonsense?

"The government's case also contained potentially embarrassing allegations that top Google executives, including co-founder Larry Page, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.

Mr. Page, now Google's chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who led the multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting. "We simply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on," he said in an interview after the August settlement.

Mr. Neronha declined to detail the evidence, which was presented in secret to a federal grand jury. Other people familiar with the case said internal emails showed Sheryl Sandberg, a former top Google executive who left in 2008 for Facebook Inc., had raised concerns about the ads."

I'm sure it was just a rogue employee of one of their far off subsids, oh wait nevermind I guess it went to the top, lulz. Sorry for posting so much of the article but your simple ignorant line deserves all the filth contained in the url, I'd rather not depend on you clicking to read it.

The actions listed in that article even at their most innocent leaves me with such a foul feeling that it can be nothing else but Evil.