onetimeonly

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by onetimeonly 13y ago
What do you mean by chemicals? all food production uses chemicals. If you want to reduce monoculture, then monoculture is a bad idea :)
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
http://pastebin.com/dFSHy3b1
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
I only ever search for lyrics if I want to understand a nuance I think I'm missing. RapGenius has always been my go-to for that.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
It's worth noting that in the UK, convictions become 'spent' (so that you don't have to disclose them when asked) after a certain period of time that varies with the severity of the original sentence. But for some crimes
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Ever since the mental health institutions were mostly shut down in the 1970s and 80s, and the focus for treatment of criminals with mental health problems became "care in the community", the UK prison system has become a dumping g
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
I'm a hacker who served 4.5 months of a 9 month sentence 5 years ago. I was in two jails in that time, spending the majority of the time in the second, lower security place. The experience totally changed me, but in a positive way. Fir
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Prison works for a very small minority of people who are reasonably intelligent and curious, but lacking direction or drive. Being incarcerated for a short time is a hell of a wake-up call, and for me, Shon Hopwood, and a few others ever, l
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Sorry didn't see this comment for a while. I ran a black-hat collective between the ages of 13 and about 17. That led to getting lots of offers to hack for money, and through discussion with the people making those offers, eventually t
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
I wish I'd read this before going inside. It's very detailed, insightful and in some places poignant.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
At night the guards occasionally walk around with some sort of signal detector, so something like this already happens. Don't think they can intercept, but they can tell who's using a phone.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
You get stripped of all metal when you enter visiting rooms in UK prisons.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
You can stab people with almost anything. Toothbrush, piece of paper carefully folded, shoelaces melted into a soap mould... stopping one more thing getting in won't matter. I think the idea was to make it easier to notice them, as par
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Cells in UK jails are not barren concrete-and-metal things like in the movies. They have a sink, a desk, a kettle, a TV, a (usually padded) chair and a bed. You charge your phone by plugging it in :). Another fact many people don't kno
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
I've been to jail in the UK. I served 4.5 months in B and C category prisons. Phones are so easy to get hold of, I don't think most people would believe it. During my time I emailed photos from inside the prison to friends outside
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Yeah I've thought about it a few times. Maybe when I finish my current commitment, I'll think about it more seriously. Some of the people involved went on to be very famous for their crimes.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
It's not the toupee fallacy - in this case I started with a large sample of fraudsters in my circle and know the outcome for all of them.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Yeah, there are a few hard parts that I left out. Making it 'good enough' is hard, but for a reason I found surprising when developing the methods. Making the design look exactly right is quite easy, but making it feel perfect i
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Well, I just disagree. My experience is that recovering your bank account after fraud is trivial. Fixing fraudulently obtained credit takes longer, but basically just involves going through a formal process with credit reference agencies an
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
I have a large sample size of the people I worked with over 8 years. Seriously, everyone went down eventually.
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Actually my biggest lesson about identity theft is that most people just don't need to worry. The negative effect of identity theft in 9999/1000 cases is just the inconvenience of correcting the mistakes by informing various insti
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by onetimeonly 13y ago
Source: at 17 I was running a black-hat hacker collective and had, through a series of bad choices, got pretty deep into the 'real-world' side of that business: fraud. The day after my 19th birthday my house was raided by the US S