genericuser (u/genericuser)

genericuser commented on PayPal does not know how to detect fraud tooltrainer.com/blog/payp... · Posted by u/tooltrainer

tooltrainer · 10 years ago

I never said I was a squatter, and I'm not. I buy domains that are very low value to basically everyone but me, because I know how to drive traffic and monetize it effectively. And I almost exclusively buy new domains (less than 0.5% of my portfolio is pre-owned domains). shop.com would have been a VERY unusual purchase for me, I've only bought a domain for more than registration costs once before and it was also $500 (though that transaction went flawlessly).

genericuser · 10 years ago

So you run those crappy sites that totally aren't squatting domains but just have a useless collection of links using referrals and affiliate marketing and ads but no actual content on domains that are places people accidentally wind up either due to typos or clicking your link in search results for something you are linking to?

The rest of us call the people who run websites like that domain squatters, because they are adding zero value to the internet and simply tie up a domain which they would likely sell for the 'right' offer.

genericuser commented on PayPal does not know how to detect fraud tooltrainer.com/blog/payp... · Posted by u/tooltrainer

BogusIKnow · 10 years ago

As www.shop.com is obviously running a website, the domain would have been stolen to be sold on eBay.

So the author was fine taking part in a crime.

"No Mr. Judge, I did not know that large diamond could not cost $10."

genericuser · 10 years ago

Yeah I feel like if he actually cared about things being fair and honest he would of become upset when he saw this obvious scam taking place, which he more or less recognizes as such.

However all he does is attempt to confirm is that he won't be the party to lose money in this scam. He does it thinking well either he will get shop.com and win (at the cost of the owners of shop.com), or it will be a scam and he will get his money back from Paypal and Paypal may or may not get the money back from the seller, in which case either Paypal loses money or everything is back where it began.

He try's to find a no-lose position in someone else's scam, basically trying to scam a scammer. You know what I could respect that, but whining about how you failed to scam the scammer is just annoying.

genericuser commented on Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories arstechnica.co.uk/tech-po... · Posted by u/PretzelFisch

kuschku · 10 years ago

The idea is that, if you search for it with determination, it becomes legally something completely different than if you stumble upon it "accidentally" while doing a "standard google search of the new job candidate"

genericuser · 10 years ago

Eh I say if people honestly can't learn to accept that things about other people from a significant time ago might no longer be relevant, then have SEO become a more personal service, and if people want to have their search results managed, because of whatever, they can manage it themselves or hire a professional, much like they would a lawyer, accountant, plumber, electrician, realtor, or agent. I mean they are having to hire lawyers presumably to get forgotten.

It won't be hard to bury a 6 year old photo of a random person shitting on the beach under all the new content.

genericuser commented on Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories arstechnica.co.uk/tech-po... · Posted by u/PretzelFisch

alain94040 · 10 years ago

The article is misleading and incorrect, possibly written to inflame smart geeks into noticing a crazy recursive loop.

Those news articles about the right to be forgotten mention some private people by name, who have exercised their "right to be forgotten." The only request is that Google doesn't find a hit when someone searches for those people's names. If your search terms don't include those names, then it's ok to find those articles. Just not if you are specifically searching for info on those particular people by name.

It's sad that a journalist would forget to mention the key point. Then people get justifiably upset, and no one wins.

genericuser · 10 years ago

Yes, but it is effectively saying that the "right to be forgotten" means that the right extends to the topic/event covered on the pages as it relates to that person not the pages themselves.

Hopefully this will not extend to all new content created about the past events and the person, because there could at times be a reason for new content on an old topic to be relevant to the public and people should be able to find it then. I fear it will however.

genericuser commented on Crowdfunding Is Driving a Board Game Renaissance fivethirtyeight.com/featu... · Posted by u/EtienneK

bradbeattie · 10 years ago

The boardgames renaissance that I've seen grow ever the past 15 years has gone hand in hand with the increased fickleness of video games. I can't establish causation, but I'd wager that there's an appeal to a physical offline social game in contrast to the mandatory online, anonymity-fueled abrasive, potentially-unplayable-in-5-years digital games.

I like the idea that the boardgames I buy, barring physical abuse, will be playable by future generations in 20 years time. You can't "end-of-life" a physical product.

genericuser · 10 years ago

I'd tie it more to the popularity of video games among adults(as I see adults, and younger people introduced to them by adults as the main driving force behind this board game resurgence), and the idea that there are always people looking to do things which are novel to them, and that things do not stay novel forever so there are people which shift to new or out of favor things which will be novel to them.

NBC I feel nailed it down with their tagline "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you"

genericuser commented on Ship of Theseus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi... · Posted by u/BudVVeezer

genericuser · 10 years ago

I think of it like a band (Could well apply to a company too) which occasionally replaces members. So long as they replace few enough members each time that people can associate it with its previous roster, people will accept it as the same band.

Even if after 20 years of incremental changes to the band none of the original members are left it will still be considered by many to be the same band (although they will all likely lament the loss of such and such member) By being recognized as the same band it inherits many of the same rights such as performing the same songs as the previous incarnations of the band (assuming of course it owns, or pays royalties to the right holders, but that is an unrelated topic).

However if too many members change at once, or they lose a member whose presence independently defined the band then people will likely not consider it the same band.

The identity is a label applied to the set, as the set changes so does the definition of the label. For the most part assuming members of the original set do not get placed in different new sets all identifying as the original label, people will generally accept the label as applying to the new set which was formed.

I would chalk it up to people being stupid, or language being imprecise. The alternative seems to be to consider every change to the set to require a new label and be identified as a new set.

genericuser commented on VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

jessaustin · 10 years ago

Not everyone buys only new cars. Besides, in a world in which research was not censored, do you really expect that VW would have been slower to fix the issue?

genericuser · 10 years ago

No but I don't think they would of been faster either was my point.

Hence, to answer to the question posed "So how many vulnerable cars are on the roads of the world right now because the UK High Court wanted to "protect consumers""

I would answer 'possibly zero, BECAUSE of that' and once they are manufactured and sold they exist regardless of the owner, till they are destroyed.

genericuser commented on VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

vilhelm_s · 10 years ago

Is it the same redacted version? Maybe Volkswagen asked more more extensive redactions back then, and they now reached a compromise?

genericuser · 10 years ago

It sounds like the same thing was redacted from this version that they asked be redacted from that version as this one doesn't have the specific codes necessary to make it work.

genericuser commented on How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button medium.com/@edwardbenson/... · Posted by u/hodgesmr

haswell · 10 years ago

I could see this being a useful tool when trying to form good habits. Brush teeth? push the button. Get a fresh glass of water from the fridge? push the button.

When analyzing other aspects of my life such as spending, I have tools to show me what I've done in the past, and those tools can help me improve (e.g. spending reports). This is admittedly reactionary, but I find it useful nonetheless. Track enough other "stuff about stuff", and I think the data could become interesting over time, providing similar "hindsight" that in turn can be used to improve oneself.

Of course, this means it will be necessary to have button things all over the place...

genericuser · 10 years ago

Take your PRN medication, press button.