Highest Rated Comments


Beer_Is_Food1014 karma

This is the best thing I've read ever. Thank you.

Beer_Is_Food597 karma

Have you guys ever thought about bringing a frog as a mascot and calling it a Battle Toad?

Beer_Is_Food233 karma

Would you say, as a professor, that you believe this is a case of just bad citing practices, or purposeful plagiarization?

If my professors allowed (reasonably) long quotes, I always was happy to cite references. If you're going to count the 1/3 page I basically copied from someone else as a part of my 10 page paper, I'd never act like it was my knowledge anyway. Why would I? Ego issues?

I mean unless these people are writing new, undiscovered research material, they're always just regurgitating content anyway. I never wrote a lot of papers where I was supposed to create a new theory of historical evolution, I was just expected to barf out what I was always taught.

Beer_Is_Food90 karma

Firstly, thank you for your work in improving our technological infrastructure. I aspire to do something similar the same with email verification tech.

1) How do you feel about the general white/grey hat work? It seems that it sucks you're basically giving free tech support to companies and you're lucky to avoid a lawsuit.

2) As a layman, what's the best way to support these types of folks. What do we do? Send angry mail to google? Write a mean letter to the FBI?

3) I would imagine a big hurdle is the lack of understanding of the infrastructure of the internet, from the general public to (more importantly) those who represent us. I'm with you, but to play devils advocate, how does breaking the box help fix the machine?

Beer_Is_Food22 karma

I'm suddenly a big fan of this guy.