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Re: VPN providers and any providers in general...


From: Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:11:33 -0700

On 10/3/2011 7:10 AM, Darren Martyn wrote:
Nothing "wrong" with it per se, I was known to enjoy large bottles of rum during extended coding sessions. Now I can attest to the massive fall-off in "epic skillz" associated with too much alcohol - my code starts OK, gets better, then becomes an epic mess of typoes. I stopped doing that a while back as I realized that it impaired my judgement too much.

Computer crimes are far easier to commit when ones judgement is sufficiently impaired - a lot of people I used to associate with took some form of intoxicant and claimed it made them a "better hacker". (cannabis often being one of the drugs of choice, some claim it allowed them to "visualize" it all better...). I personally reckon that the real reason for this is that it makes it easier to ignore the fact you are doing something "wrong".

TL;DR, intoxicants + misguided computer hackers = bad.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org <mailto:laurelai () oneechan org>> wrote:

    On 10/3/2011 4:56 AM, Darren Martyn wrote:
    > True, I know some hackers who really apply the "Ballmers Peak"
    > (http://xkcd.com/323/) principle... They simply need to dry up :)
    >
    Yeah i know quite a few of those myself.

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