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CEO Indicted for DDOSing Competitors
ruland writes "It turns out there was a reason the hosting company CIT/Foonet was raided in February. SecurityFocus.com reports that the CEO of a web-based satellite T.V. retailer has been indicted for allegedly paying Foonet's administrator to arrange denial of service attacks against his competitors, causing outages as long as two weeks at a time, and $2 million in losses. Now he's skipped out on $750,000 bail, while the five packet monkeys who worked for him are left facing felony charges of their own."
perhaps it was a question of uneducated, incompetent and/or overzealous authorities
Are there any other kinds?
A suspicious government will imprison its people in the same way that suspicious parents ground their children.
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Jobless? Okay. Fix that. Go to a temp agency
Legalized indentured servitude. There's nothing ethical about supporting a system of what is, for all practical purposes, opportunistic slavery. They take 30% and treat you in a fashion that my parents would have beaten me half to death for. The only reason why it's not technically "slavery" is because they pay with legalized bank notes.
Go to a fast food place. Go to a 24 hour gas station.
Nobody with a technical skill set gets hired at these places unless you have a connection or you're lucky to interview when the hiring manager is having a bad day. Gas stations and fast food do not want to hire employees who could very well leave in a week for a better job. Additionally, from 1999-present, unemployment is so high that minimum wage jobs have their pick of employees who are dying just to have any income. There's no business sense in hiring people with skills that are marketable outside the realm of minimum wage.
But let's be real. These guys didn't want to work hard for money. They wanted it easy
Who doesn't? Politicians, CEOs, VPs, and executives don't make big bucks with posh benefits and retirement packages because they wanted to work hard.
and didn't think they should be subjected to minimum wage jobs
Most minimum wage jobs probably wouldn't have hired them. It's business. Why hire a guy who could leave next week when there are a dozen single mothers who will stay for a year or more?
I'm not defending their lack of ethics. But, again, let's be real: the upper echelon of our society is rank with a lack of ethics. I'm simply saying that I have sympathy for people who were following the example set by "successful" people and ended up taking the shaft.
+++ATHZ 99:5:80
How does that schoolyard pejorative rate as "insightful"? This businessman perhaps lacks good judgement, but mentally retarded, no. mod parent flamebait...
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