> conceptual meaning consistent across all accounts.
Except programmers quite often get the conceptual meaning wrong and incorrectly generalize further. Credit and debit just mean increase or decrease in account balance. You cannot know how it affects liabilities or assets without knowing what type of account is being modified.
> When an account is CREDITED, this always represents an increase in liabilities[0] (or equivalently, a decrease in assets).
> When an account is DEBITED, this always represents an increase in assets (or equivalently, a decrease in liabilities).
This is where you're wrong. You can credit and debit Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. If you credit AP, you're increasing liability, if you credit AR, you're increasing assets.
Your link shows that AR is a subaccount of Assets and AP is a subaccount of Liabilities, so credits to each have the opposite effect with respect to a balance sheet. GP has a different understanding of the "polarity" of debits and credits, but if anything this seems to support rather than undermine proposition "A" above?
"so credits to each do indeed have the opposite effect with respect to a balance sheet"
I think what you mean here is that a debit balance in an asset account is presented as a positive amount, whereas a debit balance in a liability account would show as a negative amount.
This is true, but that doesn't mean a credit has the opposite effect depending on whether it's applied to an asset or liability account. Consider that you have two different accounts with your bank:
- a current account (usually the bank owes you money, i.e. usually a credit balance from the bank's POV)
- a loan account (you bought a car on credit, and owe the bank money, i.e. a debit balance from bank's POV)
For the bank, the current account is a liability ($1,000) and the loan account is an asset ($25,000).
When you deliver a bag containing $5,000 to the bank, the bank will credit one of these two accounts. They'll either increase the current account to $6,000, or decrease the loan account to $19,000.
In either case, the credit has the same effect: your net debt to the bank is decreased by $5k.
rahimnathwani is correct here and has explained himself well. I generally don’t think of equity as a liability, but if you think of it is money owed to shareholders, then a credit can indeed be seen as an increase in money owed. Since debits always equal credits,
I want to run a honeypot for doing more research on bots and the economics for them, but I get bogged down quickly in the planning stages. I should just start with a vulnerable wordpress site or something.
Just make a site with a Contact page, with a comment form that logs the details of every request (IP address, timestamp, message content, email provided). You'll get plenty of data for research, once the page has been indexed into the database the comment form spammers use. For bonus points, put the contact form at the bottom of every page of your website.
A couple of my toy/project websites accidentally became honeypots. Rather than shut down the comment forms, I now have those sites generate summary logfiles that I can upload daily to AbuseIPDB.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, also log the Referer field and User-Agent on each request. Very, very useful information for research and detection.
God, yes. If all you know is reboot & reinstall (bad habits probably brought from the windows world where you generally can't do anything else), you'll never get past the basics.
Reinstalling broken Linux systems has been my go-to technique for 20-odd years. It shouldn't take any time at all to get them back up and running, because all the installation and deployment is automated.
I've never tried Windows but I've heard it's a faff to do this. Good to hear it's catching up, though!
Thank you for the source - it was surprising to me that the word "violent" was used in the original article but the behavior was not elaborated on in any way.
I'm not sure why people keep asking about this -- it was a transparently desperate ploy by the defendant to portray themselves as victims, and it didn't work.
People kept asking because the original article doesn't address the "violence" accusation at all. It does link to one that does, but while I do think it's reasonable to expect commenters to have read the article, I don't think it's reasonable to expect that they also followed every link and read all of those articles too. The other article link that provides the information came after the thread had already developed quite a bit. It might be helpful to look at the time timestamps on the comments.
It does sound like the violence accusation was a BS excuse, so the original anger is justified. But gathering all information before grabbing a pitchfork is a responsible thing to do.
I’m curious: what was the issue? I’ve used python 2.7 with Unicode pretty extensively, in a wide range of languages, and have never had problems that weren’t my own fault.
I have memories of the Python compatibility issues causing huge headaches. We're back to using Python due to ML requirements now, but it kept me away for years.
That's not true. If you read what Google wrote regarding BeyondCorp the argument is that firewalls and VPNs were perimeter defences for weak internal networks and this is the main complaint, that breaching this defence would allow lateral movements as well as of course internal attacks. They have no issue with strong internal zero-trust networks.
So as I said previously, for most organizations, it would be crazy to the point of lunacy of their infosec team to allow the internet access to internal corporate systems and just rely on those to have been individually secured.
I would dare to say that nobody does this or I'll ask you to please give me the IP address of Google's internal DVCS server.
Except programmers quite often get the conceptual meaning wrong and incorrectly generalize further. Credit and debit just mean increase or decrease in account balance. You cannot know how it affects liabilities or assets without knowing what type of account is being modified.