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Geez. What does one have to do to earn 500k/year? Asking for a friend...

Slowloris is HTTP-based, right? In this case I'm not sure they didn't even have to go up to that layer 7, it seems they had some generous time-outs for TCP and SSL idle (or incomplete) sessions

Applied on LinkedIn for about a month, did phone interviews for 5-6 different roles. Failed some and passed some others. From the ones I passed I rejected some, others rejected me after finding a local candidate and finally I accepted an offer.

404 and invalid cert :-/

Most businesses have broken websites. I like to show this to whoever wants to break into IT and thinks there's too many clever people already working on it :)

Yesterday a friend ordered a sofa from a well known online retailer in the UK, then chose to finance it 12 months 0% APR. The retailer site sent him to a very well known bank's website, pre-filing part of the finance form with things they had already like forename and surname. Except he's Spanish and the site wrote his middle name and both surnames in the non-editable surname field.

Once he finishes filing the form with all the addresses he lived in the last 3 years he clicks on "continue" and is greeted with a "surname is in the wrong format" message.

Remember, that filed is non-editable and it's pre-filled by the retailer's website; so he effectively can't do nothing at all about it.

Conclusions?

1) This is living proof that diversity is a business advantage (they lost at least one £1200 sale).

2) The Internet is stupidly broken.

3) People working in IT is as clever or as stupid as anyone else.

Back in the early 2000's there was this driver/library to output any graphics in ASCII instead of framebuffer or whatever.

A colleague had a Linux box at home with a TV Tuner PCI card. We would SSH from the University's lab and watch TV-on-ASCII-over-SSH to the amusement of the people around us.

Sounds so simple and silly today, but it was a fun way to learn back in the day :)

Fair enough, yeah. I only had retail in mind :)

With Revolut cards?

I've got money in GBP, EUR and USD in a Revolut debit card. I've used it on ATMs in mainland Europe and continental US without problems.

It actually got most of the GBPEUR, not just for Poland.

Come on, I have no sympathy for NK's regime, but that's victim blaming.

The threat is "baiting someone into nuclear war" and not "having tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and being ready to use them to kill millions of people"? Give me an effing break mate :)

If there's ever a constitution that should be one of the main guarantees, along decent tea and "milk after, not before".

So the service would be the equivalent of a seedbox?

I find a completely mistake to be independent, because being part of something bigger where people help each other is better

That premise does not necessarily lead to that conclusion. Ask the USSR.

Of course there's no problem. There's no problem with the Catalan either, apart from the fact that it's Catalan.

How do you get VC investment before you have a prototype or a working product? Building those take time. Time which you invest in not working and earning a steady paycheck.

Savings are finite, sadly.

That was very clear, thanks!

Sure it can.

It already meets all the requirements to be a member, EU law is ingrained in Catalan law, it has the ability to negotiate and state structures. It just needs to be an independent country.

It would be better to be in the EU, but meanwhile that happens some bilateral trade deals with the EU should be relatively easy to accomplish.

If you're referring to recognition as a country, that's a separate and huge discussion. If Catalonia is not recognised it can't take its part of Spanish debt with it (might be up to 20% of the total) while being a rebel region not paying taxes and maybe under military occupation. How is Spain, which is still in critical condition with a debt of the size of its GDP, going to fare? This month Spain had to get a loan to pay pensions. This month!

So if Spain loses 20% of its GDP while keeping all the debt, how is it going to survive? And if Spain can't pay and falls, what's going to happen to the EU? You thought Brexit was bad? This is much worse!

A situation were the outcome of a YES vote is negotiated and Catalonia pays his dues is a win-win for every stakeholder: Catalans, Catalonia, Spaniards, Spain and the EU. Striking trade deals after that is pure pragmatism.

Just go through old papers about Slovenia or even the Baltics. It's all about realpolitik at the end and Catalonia has to be able to show its value to the world.

I don't know where you get those ideas from. Literally no one talks about an associate state, no one. Especially after these weeks repressive reactions by the Spanish Government.

That's the thing: The Andalusian hasn't been challenged, while the Catalan is scrutinized to the detail and the party that's now in government gathers 4 million signatures against it: https://elpais.com/elpais/2006/04/25/actualidad/1145953019_8... (They wanted all Spain to vote on the Catalan Estatut!!! Would they do that for all regions???)

Interestingly enough assemblea.cat's legal department has sent letters to the telcos because their site was blocked without a court order or any kind of notice.

Also, some of the operations these days are not actually ordered by TSJC but by a separate judge using an old (almost forgotten) case: http://m.huffingtonpost.es/2017/09/20/el-juez-ha-ordenado-la...

And during the first days of sites blocked no telco provided the court order they were in theory served. In fact, not all the telcos are blocking the sites.

So yeah, western democracy and all that. It all smells incredibly fishy and ad-hoc.

Catalans living elsewhere in Spain are out of luck, which seems to be due to current Estatut (if I read right) and I guess logistic challenges.

My mocking argument is that you're making a wild guess.

Aran has its rights explicitly recognised by Catalan Parliament, including their self determination rights, right now: https://cat.elpais.com/cat/2015/01/23/catalunya/1422013790_5...

Rahola hasn't been a politician for decades. ERC is much better than it was with her and Angel Colom.

Thank you for asking for those :-)

I also expect charges dismissed. A detail about his stuff is that he didn't get a receipt (as per his lawyer that was not yet present), so his things were (in his lawyer's words) "effectively stolen by the police".

This happened before the "where to vote" part of the referendum site existed. It was just an informational static site.

Many other have been called to declare with "no specific crime" in the judge notifications also for mirroring the website, including at least one member of the Catalan branch of the Pirate Party. This has been seen by some as harassment to avoid more people mirroring the website.

It says independent, which means "not associate".

The question couldn't be clearer. I'm not sure where the confusion comes from? Is that how bad are people in Spain informed these days?

Question: Do you want Catalonia to be an independent state in the form of a republic?

I would agree with your reading and at the same time I also think it is morally sound to go to war with the South to free up the slaves from the South.

The point is those other countries would have allowed the vote.

We don't even have to imagine. It happened recently: Scotland. Or if you allow me to jump the pond: Québec.

Also, indyref not ruled illegal yet so it might not be that clear cut.

Some of those can be, though. Logistics definitely is...

Ask them about it :-) but I could guess their logic:

- They don't want people to vote.

- Maybe if it's suspended you should refrain from going on with it until there's a ruling.

- They know what how they want the ruling to be, so they act like it was done already. They're just working on making it legally sound in the meanwhile.

Choose whichever you prefer, all those are guesses. The fact is that there's no ruling and that's easily verifiable.