But sending this guy to jail as a scammer? Laughable. He gave people what they paid for.

The fraud charge sounds like it was defrauding the university rather than his clients. The CPS press release which all of the media reports seem to be based on doesn't break down the sentencing among the three charges of fraud by false representation, accessing a computer system without authorisation, and money laundering. The case doesn't appear to be available (yet?) at caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

It's been done. Quite messy.

No, they aren't. A percolator cycles water through the grounds continuously. A moka pot forces water through the grounds once.

If you're spending $250,000 for a joyride, you should do some risk analysis of your own.
Home made submarines are mostly unnecessarily complicated ways of drowning as should be scrutinized with a jaundiced eye.

That's an Elon Musk smear, as in the Elon Musk who claimed in court that calling someone a paedophile is just a generic insult and not defamatory. It's not wise to believe or repeat anything he says.

No one can possibly think that a one-time tax like this is a good idea. Even if you want higher taxes on the wealthy surely (a) you want recurring revenue not a one-off (b) you want to actually collect the taxes not just scare the tax base out of state.

But this is the key part:

The way the ballot process in California works is you can propose terrible legislation, pay for signatures, then get what you want in return for withdrawing it (which you can do even after submitting signatures, which is ridiculous).

It's become a very broken system.

Well I am sure they are not wrong in that they have legal cover to refuse the bounty.

I think they probably are wrong in excluding all config related bugs from their bounty program. Chained exploits are becoming increasing attack vectors so "you need elevated privileges" is not the moat it used to be. And GCP takeover is a big cost to bear. "We can prove it was your fault for not reading our docs carefully enough" will probably not be the salve their customers want in case of exploit. Security is hard and protecting customers from footguns is often worth doing.

But if Google doesn't want to know about these kinds of issues that's up to them. Keep it in mind before purchasing their services, however.

What is happening in Russia right now is what you get if you allow unrestricted drone activity. Of course the Chinese authorities don't want that to happen.

Forcing the UK to join Schengen would either force Ireland to join it too or create problems with the Good Friday agreement. Maybe the current "border in the Irish Sea" would be adapted, but it's not unthinkable that an exception would be made. The EU is quite pragmatic when it needs to be.

"Freedom of movement" in the context of the EU doesn't mean open borders. It's really freedom of residence provided that you get a job, or are a student or retired.

No problemo, the agent can use your crypto to buy more tokens./jk (as of 6/12/2026)


Are the cryptobros that stoopid or do they think we're that stupid?!!

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You gave Ukraine security guarantees in exchange for Ukraine not keeping the nuclear weapons that were on its soil after the breakup of the USSR. There's an argument that the real mistake the US (and the UK and France) made was not getting involved in 2014 when Russia decided to unilaterally revoke Stalin's transfer of the Crimea to the Ukraine. The resulting lesson, which is also the lesson that the current war in Iran teaches, is that a state should do all it can to acquire nuclear weapons and then not give them up under any circumstances.

It's well documented that on entering a theme park most people turn right, but that is consistent with this research: turning right on entering a room means that you walk anticlockwise around it.

Come on " Patchocalypse " was right there, Chris!