This is the initial article in July about sending and it is long BEFORE the really disastrous fires of August. Further to this the Greeks could not use plane shown in it and it went to Serbia which had a suitable staging airport capable of taking a 76 and with a good water supply with the Serbians sending their craft in exchange. I have also mentioned this article.
It is after it, during the actual August disaster when things get really interesting.
In August the BBC was claiming that NATO is doing such a great job, while it was actually those Greek, Russians, French and Serbians who did the dirty work. Every time one of their planes sneaked onto a picture the picture was withdrawn in under 30 minutes. I counted at least 4 occurances (I bet there were more). At that time most NATO planes at best did not have insurance, at worst were not even sent by the offering country.
I have noted the SPAM, but I have yet to see how they can do any of that without your (or other person in-country) cooperation. The most common use for this ruse is using stolen data or credentials to transfer all the money to the account in control of the person who has fallen for the "investment" ruse and from there push it out of the country. Considering that most consumers are currently way into the red ink and have very little in the way of cash in their accounts you cannot really make a killing by plundering their accounts this way. A thousand here or a thousand there and this is about it.
You have to dip into their credit. In order to do that you have to pretend being them. Hence, I think my point is still valid. In order to steal an identity you have to be in the country. All the stuff you can do from outside the country is small change and does not get past the credit card processor/bank/insurance stage.
They cannot apply for a mortgage or loan in an American's name while in China.
Russian or Chinese steal your DATA, not your identity. This DATA may be used to steal your identity later on. In order to do so, the criminal has to be in the same country as the victim. Otherwise he cannot draw benefits or apply for a loan. As a result, the person committing the actual felony of identity theft is usually a national or permanent resident.
Not likely. More likely your certificate will have to be signed by Apple which may in revoke it at any time. I would not be surprised if part of the delay is an integrating OSCP or some other form of pervasive certificate management into whatever goes for an app installer as well as preparing an OS update with this functionality.
CRL checking at install is not something present in current OSX so they will have to add it to be ready to ship.
By Country in order of deployment size (comments on BBC impeccable news reporting at the end):
H - helicopter, P firefighting plane, S - support aircraft
Russia 5+6+2H, 2P, one more P offered, but the Greek did not have a suitable airfield for it (Il76 based super waterbomber which went to Serbia instead allowing Serbs to offer their craft). Serbia 6H, 1P Austria 2H, 2P, 1S - IIRC a bit too late on the scene France 4P Switzerland 4H Germany 3H Israel 3H Italy 3H Netherlands 3H Croatia - 2P Romania 1P, 1H Slovenia 1P Spain 2P Norway 1H Portugal 1P Turkey 1P Sweden 1H
Unused (mostly too late) offers.
Canada - 0H, 5P, 2S - offer made too late so not used. Czech Republic 1H - unused Finland 3H - unused
First 3 on this list were not mentioned in a single news dispatch (after the initial story about the MCHs sending planes to Greece in June). Several pictures (mostly Mi-26 and Mi-8 helicopters, some french craft as well) were posted in the picture galleries on initial upload. Every single occurence of these aircraft in pictures was carefully removed on average within 15-30 minutes after posting and are not present in any of the final versions of the articles.
Do not think that anything else needs to be said about BBC reporting and how truthful and represenative it is. This is by the way not the only example. Plenty of others.
I got bored with it in 2 weeks. Now Forth in its GraphForth incarnation for the Apple was a completely different story. This was a totally awesome language. In the lineup of things available for the original apple basic, lego and the like looked like cripples compared to it.
Column 1. Firefighting aircraft present and actively fighting fires by country Column 2. Firefighting aircraft shown on BBC photos in the initial revision after posting Column 3. Firefighting aircraft shown and mentioned in the final article revision after the politically incorrect aircraft have been removed.
Spot the difference.
Nuff said. That is just one example. Or ask a greek.
Just do not get me started there. The Beeb nowdays is a well behaved and obedient UK govt lapdog. Just read the coverage of this summer fires in Greece on the beeb and in other non-UK media and spot the differences. They are very interesting.
The current "cool of the day" amidst this form of sociopaths is to do "rallies" in Eastern Europe where your speed limit is expressed in Euros per hour. So unless you kill someone (which happens on casual basis) all you need is to answer correctly the question "how many euros per hour have you been driving mate" and place those folded in your driving license.
Thanks for throwing more info: I got as far as looking at 41173 from ATT and Linx looking glass yesterday and looking at RIPE records. Did not really trace it as I had to go and do other stuff.
Yes, it does look like that, though my guess will be that the actual location is not in Russia. There are plenty of countries with democractic (that can be optionally put in quotes) regimes between Russian And Europe which are considerably more friendly to shady business than mainland Russia nowdays. Their officials are also cheaper to bribe. So quite a lot of Russian business (both shady and legit) has been moving out there.
In addition to that 20ms out of Prague will actually put it in Eastern Europe, not in Russia "proper".
First upstream ISP - 41173 which is a provider in the Seichelles (so they either run a VPN tunnel to there or have a SAT link). So the article may be actually full of shit. I somehow suspect that they are not hopping back to Russia and the servers are outside Russian jurisdiction in the first place.
Primary upstream transit ISP is 3257 which is Tiscali. Now this does not surprise me in the slightest. No further comment.
Other transit ISPs are : 25577 - C4L (???), 8928 Interoute (again, this one is no surprise).
1. It does not look like Russian hosting to me. The Russians are laughing their arse off at the inept article (and other similar musings). The servers may actually be in Europe (or on an the Seyshelles where you can do diddly squat about them).
2. The hosting is truly bulletproof. Applause. They have most likely bought wholesale all relevant officials in a small nation telecoms operator. So all requests regarding their business activities will go straight to/dev/null. Add to that the fact that their upstream providers are not known to be particularly caring about fraud, spam and the like and the picture is complete.
1. It is a Nissan for the USA market (Infinity EX35). A target so big that it is hard to miss even for a very clueless bird. That is beside the fact that crap on top of crap is really hard to notice.
2. Nissan has been trying to compensate for the abissmal visibility by cameras for a while now. The Primera in EU was released this way. It was a majestic flop. While the old Primera was one of the most popular family saloons, the new one did not achieve even 10% of the old model sales (more likely 5).
3. In order to park in tight spaces in a city you actually over-steer all the time. To parallel park in reverse you actually go backwards the kerb and turn at the last moment. Similarly to park when going forward your best bet is to "french-park" - climb the kerb with the front wheel and use part of the pavement to complete the turn (not something you are supposed to do, but works a treat). In order to do both maneuvers you need to know where you car will end up if you turn your steering wheel all the way to the side "right now", not where it will end if you continue on the same trajectory. So, the Nissan gimmick showing you where you car will continue to go if continuing on its trajectory is of little help. If you guide yourself by that you are never going to squeeze it in a EU parking space.
Definitely. Though for many broadband setups you do not need the second ether because you can use a PPTP, PPPoE or L2TP relay if supported on the modem.
As far as the article is concerned it is a demo how not to use such a system. What a bunch of clueless wankers.
Xterm, pulseaudio (reminds me I should put the instructions for setting it on my website) and run the damn thing diskless booting over the network. All of my machines in the house run this way booting of a dedicated server which holds the disk space and runs the applications. Even the laptop when in the house is booted this way and not off its own disk. As a result even something as slow as a Transmeta @800 or Via@400 is more than enough. My firewall and my development boxes also operate this way. I have used this approach for nearly 5 years now and while it takes some effort to setup the maintenance is many times less compared to anything else. You set it once and after that it just works.
Each country is given a piece of the cake to a grand total of X and each country can use it in any way it likes and submit request for the approval of a specific redress to the WTO.
The most common punishment is punitive tarifs for the total of the "fine" closely followed by intellectual property suspension and the like.
Most of "your" traffic does not. All of your data does.
Due to the very low capacity available on the direct Eu to India route around the Arabian peninsula most traffic between EU and India traverses USA. Considering how much of your data processing is being outsourced you can guess from there on.
Which reminds me, frankly, the data EU commissioners should start requiring compliance statements for all transit communication traffic, not just processing entities abroad the way they do now.
Or the country simply voiding the patent on national security grounds. Same way USA voided the Right's brothers patents on aircraft design when they proved to be insufficiently cooperative in WWI. Case of been there, dunnit will do it again.
While the congress and administration critters could not quite justify that in the RIM case, in this one they may end up doing it.
Forgot - if you serve in advance you serve half of the term. Instead of 12 years - 6 for murder. So you get a 50% discount for telling the society what you intend to do.
As I said - read the novel and remember the maxima "The revenge is a meal that is best served cold".
Err... No. Read the original novel. It is so controversial that it is has not been reprinted for the last 15+ years so you need to dig through the library. I will provide some of the key points in order not to spoil it here and suggest you think again:
First of all - it is not unhindered. It is unpunished. So there is nothing ridiculous. If we consider 12 years worth of building civilisation in a lethal environment to be a fitting punishment for a crime there should be no difference if the punishment is administered before or after.
Second, the person serving the term in advance can quit at any time, but his term will not count at all. If you quit 1 day before the 12 years which you are supposed to serve you get zilch. You do not get the right to commit a crime which fits a lesser punishment.
Coming back to the unhindered one - once you have served your "term in advance" you have 6 months to commit the crime and what crime you have served in advance is a matter of the public record. If your victim blows your head off in selfdefence - your problem. If you get blown into bits when robbing a bank because every bank in the world has your face loaded in their security system as "served a bank robbery in advance" - your problem. If your mark manages to hide successfully for the 6 months in question - your problem again.
I suggest you think again. The idea is weird, but it definitely has a lot of merit (same as replacing the Victorian Australia with whatever we now have closest to it).
Sorry mate, your idea is stupid, unproductive and without actual benefit to society.
There are plenty of other things around the world which will make a fine place for a criminal to work off his due to society. My personal favourites are clearing the mines and toxic dumps in Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia and other countries in Africa. In fact, all criminals with more than 6 month terms should be sent there. This will give the rest of the world a very nice and quick crime rate drop.
In fact, I am in great favour of the William Tan idea from his "Term in Advance" novel. Criminals should be allowed to serve their term in advance. Want to kill someone, fine. Serve 12 years making the most inhospitable places on earth part of the human civilisation (it is off-world planets in the original story). If you still want to do that 12 years later (which you most likely will not) the society should allow you to do that.
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Read carefully what I said.
This is the initial article in July about sending and it is long BEFORE the really disastrous fires of August. Further to this the Greeks could not use plane shown in it and it went to Serbia which had a suitable staging airport capable of taking a 76 and with a good water supply with the Serbians sending their craft in exchange. I have also mentioned this article.
It is after it, during the actual August disaster when things get really interesting.
In August the BBC was claiming that NATO is doing such a great job, while it was actually those Greek, Russians, French and Serbians who did the dirty work. Every time one of their planes sneaked onto a picture the picture was withdrawn in under 30 minutes. I counted at least 4 occurances (I bet there were more). At that time most NATO planes at best did not have insurance, at worst were not even sent by the offering country.
I have noted the SPAM, but I have yet to see how they can do any of that without your (or other person in-country) cooperation. The most common use for this ruse is using stolen data or credentials to transfer all the money to the account in control of the person who has fallen for the "investment" ruse and from there push it out of the country. Considering that most consumers are currently way into the red ink and have very little in the way of cash in their accounts you cannot really make a killing by plundering their accounts this way. A thousand here or a thousand there and this is about it.
You have to dip into their credit. In order to do that you have to pretend being them. Hence, I think my point is still valid. In order to steal an identity you have to be in the country. All the stuff you can do from outside the country is small change and does not get past the credit card processor/bank/insurance stage.
Can't quite see your point.
They cannot apply for a mortgage or loan in an American's name while in China.
Russian or Chinese steal your DATA, not your identity. This DATA may be used to steal your identity later on. In order to do so, the criminal has to be in the same country as the victim. Otherwise he cannot draw benefits or apply for a loan. As a result, the person committing the actual felony of identity theft is usually a national or permanent resident.
Not likely. More likely your certificate will have to be signed by Apple which may in revoke it at any time. I would not be surprised if part of the delay is an integrating OSCP or some other form of pervasive certificate management into whatever goes for an app installer as well as preparing an OS update with this functionality. CRL checking at install is not something present in current OSX so they will have to add it to be ready to ship.
I think you should spell "surrender" instead.
By Country in order of deployment size (comments on BBC impeccable news reporting at the end):
H - helicopter, P firefighting plane, S - support aircraft
Russia 5+6+2H, 2P, one more P offered, but the Greek did not have a suitable airfield for it (Il76 based super waterbomber which went to Serbia instead allowing Serbs to offer their craft).
Serbia 6H, 1P
Austria 2H, 2P, 1S - IIRC a bit too late on the scene
France 4P
Switzerland 4H
Germany 3H
Israel 3H
Italy 3H
Netherlands 3H
Croatia - 2P
Romania 1P, 1H
Slovenia 1P
Spain 2P
Norway 1H
Portugal 1P
Turkey 1P
Sweden 1H
Unused (mostly too late) offers.
Canada - 0H, 5P, 2S - offer made too late so not used.
Czech Republic 1H - unused
Finland 3H - unused
First 3 on this list were not mentioned in a single news dispatch (after the initial story about the MCHs sending planes to Greece in June). Several pictures (mostly Mi-26 and Mi-8 helicopters, some french craft as well) were posted in the picture galleries on initial upload. Every single occurence of these aircraft in pictures was carefully removed on average within 15-30 minutes after posting and are not present in any of the final versions of the articles.
Do not think that anything else needs to be said about BBC reporting and how truthful and represenative it is. This is by the way not the only example. Plenty of others.
I got bored with it in 2 weeks. Now Forth in its GraphForth incarnation for the Apple was a completely different story. This was a totally awesome language. In the lineup of things available for the original apple basic, lego and the like looked like cripples compared to it.
Write a small table and fill it up:
Column 1. Firefighting aircraft present and actively fighting fires by country
Column 2. Firefighting aircraft shown on BBC photos in the initial revision after posting
Column 3. Firefighting aircraft shown and mentioned in the final article revision after the politically incorrect aircraft have been removed.
Spot the difference.
Nuff said. That is just one example. Or ask a greek.
Plenty of others.
Just do not get me started there. The Beeb nowdays is a well behaved and obedient UK govt lapdog. Just read the coverage of this summer fires in Greece on the beeb and in other non-UK media and spot the differences. They are very interesting.
Well... He did it in the US.
The current "cool of the day" amidst this form of sociopaths is to do "rallies" in Eastern Europe where your speed limit is expressed in Euros per hour. So unless you kill someone (which happens on casual basis) all you need is to answer correctly the question "how many euros per hour have you been driving mate" and place those folded in your driving license.
Nope it does not. I guess I will have to put that in phonetic transcription:
Tovarish Dave: Otkroj luk skotina.
Tovarish HAL: Pshel na huj
I wonder how you sing "Daisy Daisy" in Russian?
Margaritka, margaritka pshla na huj
That is modern Russian, the wonderful language of Pushkin and Chehov may slightly differ..
Duct tape is like the Force, it has a Light side, a Dark side and it binds the Universe together
Thanks for throwing more info: I got as far as looking at 41173 from ATT and Linx looking glass yesterday and looking at RIPE records. Did not really trace it as I had to go and do other stuff.
Yes, it does look like that, though my guess will be that the actual location is not in Russia. There are plenty of countries with democractic (that can be optionally put in quotes) regimes between Russian And Europe which are considerably more friendly to shady business than mainland Russia nowdays. Their officials are also cheaper to bribe. So quite a lot of Russian business (both shady and legit) has been moving out there.
In addition to that 20ms out of Prague will actually put it in Eastern Europe, not in Russia "proper".
Much easier - Autonomous system 40989.
/dev/null. Add to that the fact that their upstream providers are not known to be particularly caring about fraud, spam and the like and the picture is complete.
Networks - 81.95.144.0/22, 81.95.148.0/22, 81.95.154.0/24, 81.95.155.0/24.
First upstream ISP - 41173 which is a provider in the Seichelles (so they either run a VPN tunnel to there or have a SAT link). So the article may be actually full of shit. I somehow suspect that they are not hopping back to Russia and the servers are outside Russian jurisdiction in the first place.
Primary upstream transit ISP is 3257 which is Tiscali. Now this does not surprise me in the slightest. No further comment.
Other transit ISPs are : 25577 - C4L (???), 8928 Interoute (again, this one is no surprise).
1. It does not look like Russian hosting to me. The Russians are laughing their arse off at the inept article (and other similar musings). The servers may actually be in Europe (or on an the Seyshelles where you can do diddly squat about them).
2. The hosting is truly bulletproof. Applause. They have most likely bought wholesale all relevant officials in a small nation telecoms operator. So all requests regarding their business activities will go straight to
You do not like the fact that it has a f*** 16 hour built in UPS? Would you mind sharing whatever is that you are smoking...
1. It is a Nissan for the USA market (Infinity EX35). A target so big that it is hard to miss even for a very clueless bird. That is beside the fact that crap on top of crap is really hard to notice.
2. Nissan has been trying to compensate for the abissmal visibility by cameras for a while now. The Primera in EU was released this way. It was a majestic flop. While the old Primera was one of the most popular family saloons, the new one did not achieve even 10% of the old model sales (more likely 5).
3. In order to park in tight spaces in a city you actually over-steer all the time. To parallel park in reverse you actually go backwards the kerb and turn at the last moment. Similarly to park when going forward your best bet is to "french-park" - climb the kerb with the front wheel and use part of the pavement to complete the turn (not something you are supposed to do, but works a treat). In order to do both maneuvers you need to know where you car will end up if you turn your steering wheel all the way to the side "right now", not where it will end if you continue on the same trajectory. So, the Nissan gimmick showing you where you car will continue to go if continuing on its trajectory is of little help. If you guide yourself by that you are never going to squeeze it in a EU parking space.
Definitely. Though for many broadband setups you do not need the second ether because you can use a PPTP, PPPoE or L2TP relay if supported on the modem.
As far as the article is concerned it is a demo how not to use such a system. What a bunch of clueless wankers.
Xterm, pulseaudio (reminds me I should put the instructions for setting it on my website) and run the damn thing diskless booting over the network. All of my machines in the house run this way booting of a dedicated server which holds the disk space and runs the applications. Even the laptop when in the house is booted this way and not off its own disk. As a result even something as slow as a Transmeta @800 or Via@400 is more than enough. My firewall and my development boxes also operate this way. I have used this approach for nearly 5 years now and while it takes some effort to setup the maintenance is many times less compared to anything else. You set it once and after that it just works.
There is no total fine.
Each country is given a piece of the cake to a grand total of X and each country can use it in any way it likes and submit request for the approval of a specific redress to the WTO.
The most common punishment is punitive tarifs for the total of the "fine" closely followed by intellectual property suspension and the like.
Following this logic the USA should not be allowed to sign any economic or trade treaties as they are not enforceable. States should sign them.
Ahem. My thought exactly. I bet it does not recognise administrator versus user rights.
Most of "your" traffic does not. All of your data does.
Due to the very low capacity available on the direct Eu to India route around the Arabian peninsula most traffic between EU and India traverses USA. Considering how much of your data processing is being outsourced you can guess from there on.
Which reminds me, frankly, the data EU commissioners should start requiring compliance statements for all transit communication traffic, not just processing entities abroad the way they do now.
Or the country simply voiding the patent on national security grounds. Same way USA voided the Right's brothers patents on aircraft design when they proved to be insufficiently cooperative in WWI. Case of been there, dunnit will do it again. While the congress and administration critters could not quite justify that in the RIM case, in this one they may end up doing it.
Forgot - if you serve in advance you serve half of the term. Instead of 12 years - 6 for murder. So you get a 50% discount for telling the society what you intend to do.
As I said - read the novel and remember the maxima "The revenge is a meal that is best served cold".
to commit the crime unhindered
Err... No. Read the original novel. It is so controversial that it is has not been reprinted for the last 15+ years so you need to dig through the library. I will provide some of the key points in order not to spoil it here and suggest you think again:
I suggest you think again. The idea is weird, but it definitely has a lot of merit (same as replacing the Victorian Australia with whatever we now have closest to it).
Sorry mate, your idea is stupid, unproductive and without actual benefit to society.
There are plenty of other things around the world which will make a fine place for a criminal to work off his due to society. My personal favourites are clearing the mines and toxic dumps in Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia and other countries in Africa. In fact, all criminals with more than 6 month terms should be sent there. This will give the rest of the world a very nice and quick crime rate drop.
In fact, I am in great favour of the William Tan idea from his "Term in Advance" novel. Criminals should be allowed to serve their term in advance. Want to kill someone, fine. Serve 12 years making the most inhospitable places on earth part of the human civilisation (it is off-world planets in the original story). If you still want to do that 12 years later (which you most likely will not) the society should allow you to do that.