“That’s called business, by the way,”
-Donald J. Trump
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I did miss that—couldn’t access the full article through this firewall. Definitely scammy!
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Rack 'em.
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Put a mirror in front of it, problem solved.
Bonus points for writing “Fuck the NSA” on the mirror.
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It’s sometimes tempting to think that the books might just be low-quality but otherwise legitimate junk – say, he’s running a vanity press that publishes anything to get the volume and doesn’t proof it much, so buyer beware. But in practice these scam ebooks are basically:
– Wikipedia articles
– chapters from other books with keywords find-replaced
– public domain stuff
– actual garbage generated by machines
– maybe some actual original material sourced from fanfiction type sites with the author giving permission. Or not.
The legit vanity press/self pub type places will certainly put out an ebook for you! They have the market covered and this guy is surely not part of it.
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These guys are why we can’t have nice things like micropayments. Funny compuserve was able to do something the internet still can’t do.
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Micropayments fail because nobody wants the goods and to monetize every aspect of interaction with the world.
Micropayments do not fail because of the methods and engineering.
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I was under the impression that mackeeper was just malware. I’m surprised to hear that they also have other endeavors outside of just being a malware company.
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If you’re cheating people out of money, then it’s definitely a scam. And yes, I would consider fake ratings and search-engine-“optimization” scams.
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Sometimes there some gems in the dreck, or just enjoyable dreck
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Me, too. I’m almost afraid to Google it, assuming Mackeeper has SEOed the crap out of the top results.
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#WHY DO I NEVER THINK OF THESE THINGS FIRST
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Wait, you are saying there is no money in like-botting the BBS? Pretty sure you thought of that first 
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That’s an easy one to fix.
In ten years, during one of the time hiccups from Rob opening the safe, give yourself a whole bunch of ideas like this before anyone else can capitalise on them.
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It says he is “Vancouver-based”, so I guess the question is whether it is actually illegal in Canada – but after all, a lot of Americans think Canada is exactly like Communist Russia…
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Well they do have that socialized Obamacare and they took away their guns and made them play hockey. Exactly like the Soviet Union!
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No love for curling? I like curling…
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