On a more serious note, yes it's horrible Russia is doing this and it could set a nasty precedent for them to do it elsewhere in the former Soviet States. If they get away with this, what would keep them from say, invading East Ukraine, which has a high population of Pro-Russian supporters? Sadly, I don't see any Western Countries comming to the aid of the opposing forces against Russia. No one out there seems to want to upset Russia.
Also, I'm pretty sure this article was accepted to/. because of the tech (humorous) side of it, not for the poltical reasons. That's what the BBC is for.
It's like the war on drugs in that they don't reach the acutal source of the problem. The real backers of much of this are in countries the US cannot get to, just like the war on drugs. Instead, law enforcment ends up mostly picking up the lower level criminals in the US and Western nations, which might be a small setback for the ones pulling the strings, but there's always those out there ready to take the place of those arrested.
Note when I said "they," that was a pronoun for the 2 INFORMANTS, not criminals in general, jeeze. And seriously, you can't obviously say they should have allowed the one informant to have basically "free reign" of law enforcment computers and databases to conduct his own personal criminal activity. There is a line between allowing some criminal activity to catch other criminals and then there's just outright crime (in this case, the later). Both were obviously conducting criminal activity while informing, which carries the same sort of implications as being on probation because that's the time when someone is most likely to lapse back into crime. They monitor you when you're on probation in an effort to detour it. However, whatever you do afterwards is that person's own problem and they suffer the consequence when caught. LE has no obligation to monitor after that point (probation) without probable cause.
The people arrested were in several nations. What is unusual and a bit frightening is that it seems like they were able to get arrest warrants or whatever was needed crossing international lines really quickly. It almost seems like some uber government organization was at work on this affair.
Only seems to be the case if they happen to cross over into a pro-western country. If you want to break the law, appearently it's relative safe in the former Soviet states.
Suspects seem to be relatively safe so far in much of the former Soviet Union. From the cases I've read, the only ones caught were entrapped somehow (convinced by the feds undercover to come to the US or elsewhere) or in this case, on vacation.
Then, you have cases where the feds try to make an arrest in former soviet states and this happens They capture the guy, know it's him and then two most likely corrupt members of their paliament "vouch" for him, lol. Pretty certain he had or was working with mafia connections. Most likely, he's back in the scene now stealing more credit cards. In many ways, this is exactly like the war on drugs.
I'm not really getting the thrust of your argument. Informants are, by definition, most likely to be criminals or criminal accessories. What's your point?
I believe his point is, they were supposed to be former criminals, in the past tense. Law enforcement's job is to see that they stay that way, not to go run amok with 40+ million credit cards.
In the case of the other informant he linked, the guy stole information directly from the Secret Service office's computers while the agents are on duty (though probably off viewing porn while the informant conducts non-authorized criminal activity). Mind you, they had a huge monitor displaying whatever the informant was doing on there aside from keylogging. Seriously, that's a huge lax on monitoring, if they can't even watch an informant in their own office. Makes you wonder if they are even capable of doing their jobs.
He's basically saying that this bust is just a front for the US government cleaning up a mess they created in 2003 by not initially locking this guy up or restricting his computer access/monitoring him more closely.
One other thing, the informant did absolutely no time for all previous criminal activity he conducted before turning informant, after his initial arrest in 2003 (which according to the FBOP inmate tracker, he is 27). Thus, he could have been doing this for some time. Basically, he got a free pass on whatever crime he did before his intial arrest, plus almost five more years of reeking havoc on the banking system. This is in sharp contrast to what most people would assume "informing" is, where a criminal cuts a deal for reduced time or perhaps probation/house arrest, but still gets charged. This guy however has not been charged, until now.
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It doesnt exactly take much to kill something that was barely alive anyways (mostly just have to pull out the plug from the resperator). There's also geeks out there who have put together their own segways for far less than what the actual company wants. IMHO, if I didnt think it looked so douchey to ride one, I'd think it would be pretty awesome to build something like that at home for fun.
When it was launched in December 2001 the annual sales target was 40,000 units, [38] and the company expected to sell 50,000 to 100,000 units in the first 13 months[39]. Segway Inc's investors were optimistic. Inventor Dean Kamen predicted that the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy"[40] and John Doerr, a venture capitalist who invested in the company,[41] predicted that Segway Inc would be the fastest company to reach $1 billion in sales.[40] In fact only about 30,000 Segways were sold from 2001 to 2007.[41]
Critics point to Segway Inc's silence over its financial performance as an indication that the company is still not profitable, as about $100 million was spent developing the Segway.[40]
Actually, you can develop games for the xbox360 relatively cheap. For 99 bucks, they will give you the license. The XNA development kit is free for anyone (at least the express version, which is partially stripped down).
Last I knew, MS was giving a one year membership license to XNA away for free on their dreamspark site for students. They were also giving away the XNA 2.0 development kit (full version). It's worth at least checking out if you have an interest in console development (even if it's the xbox360 and not the PS3).
Just imagine - something as innocent as lolcats could be a potential minefield. God only knows what goatse would do
There's no actual pictures involed though, just a java applet masquerading as a gif file to the browser (so no kitties harmed). Now, they could give a user a link saying, "Here bez sum picz of lolcatz, come lookz," which would then cause them to "download" what they think is a gif (though it will never show an image). I'm not sure about others, but I tell my browsers to ignore java. Anything written as a java applet is not worth viewing anyways, aside from security risks.
Leavenworth is a federal prison. If you have bothered to watch the news there have been more than a few murder/rapist types that have been going there. I don't know where you get the idea that Federal prison is soft or how you managed to get modded informative for that patently false nonsense.
Leavenworth, like most Federal prisons, has a camp (aka club fed) attached to it, which is probably where he will go. Currently the former mayor of Camden, NJ is in a camp attached to the FCI in Loretto, PA.
The point you missed is that their net worth was that high before they became Senators.
I think another important point was missed that most of them were congressmen or involved in some other way in the government before they were US Sentators.
I think the Vikings/Erik the Red named it that to try to con people into living there after realizing Iceland wasn't such a great name for people seeking warmer temperatures or a better place to live than Scandinavia. It wasn't like you could just log onto the web or visit a travel agent back then to check the regional climate of Greenland, heh heh.
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On a more serious note, yes it's horrible Russia is doing this and it could set a nasty precedent for them to do it elsewhere in the former Soviet States. If they get away with this, what would keep them from say, invading East Ukraine, which has a high population of Pro-Russian supporters? Sadly, I don't see any Western Countries comming to the aid of the opposing forces against Russia. No one out there seems to want to upset Russia.
Also, I'm pretty sure this article was accepted to /. because of the tech (humorous) side of it, not for the poltical reasons. That's what the BBC is for.
Make sure you ask for the mother whale's name (mwn), I hear that's pretty important.
Let me get you started, 4111 1111 1111 1111. It even passes the mod 10 check!!
It's like the war on drugs in that they don't reach the acutal source of the problem. The real backers of much of this are in countries the US cannot get to, just like the war on drugs. Instead, law enforcment ends up mostly picking up the lower level criminals in the US and Western nations, which might be a small setback for the ones pulling the strings, but there's always those out there ready to take the place of those arrested.
Note when I said "they," that was a pronoun for the 2 INFORMANTS, not criminals in general, jeeze. And seriously, you can't obviously say they should have allowed the one informant to have basically "free reign" of law enforcment computers and databases to conduct his own personal criminal activity. There is a line between allowing some criminal activity to catch other criminals and then there's just outright crime (in this case, the later). Both were obviously conducting criminal activity while informing, which carries the same sort of implications as being on probation because that's the time when someone is most likely to lapse back into crime. They monitor you when you're on probation in an effort to detour it. However, whatever you do afterwards is that person's own problem and they suffer the consequence when caught. LE has no obligation to monitor after that point (probation) without probable cause.
Only seems to be the case if they happen to cross over into a pro-western country. If you want to break the law, appearently it's relative safe in the former Soviet states.
Suspects seem to be relatively safe so far in much of the former Soviet Union. From the cases I've read, the only ones caught were entrapped somehow (convinced by the feds undercover to come to the US or elsewhere) or in this case, on vacation.
Then, you have cases where the feds try to make an arrest in former soviet states and this happens They capture the guy, know it's him and then two most likely corrupt members of their paliament "vouch" for him, lol. Pretty certain he had or was working with mafia connections. Most likely, he's back in the scene now stealing more credit cards. In many ways, this is exactly like the war on drugs.
I believe his point is, they were supposed to be former criminals, in the past tense. Law enforcement's job is to see that they stay that way, not to go run amok with 40+ million credit cards.
In the case of the other informant he linked, the guy stole information directly from the Secret Service office's computers while the agents are on duty (though probably off viewing porn while the informant conducts non-authorized criminal activity). Mind you, they had a huge monitor displaying whatever the informant was doing on there aside from keylogging. Seriously, that's a huge lax on monitoring, if they can't even watch an informant in their own office. Makes you wonder if they are even capable of doing their jobs.
He's basically saying that this bust is just a front for the US government cleaning up a mess they created in 2003 by not initially locking this guy up or restricting his computer access/monitoring him more closely.
One other thing, the informant did absolutely no time for all previous criminal activity he conducted before turning informant, after his initial arrest in 2003 (which according to the FBOP inmate tracker, he is 27). Thus, he could have been doing this for some time. Basically, he got a free pass on whatever crime he did before his intial arrest, plus almost five more years of reeking havoc on the banking system. This is in sharp contrast to what most people would assume "informing" is, where a criminal cuts a deal for reduced time or perhaps probation/house arrest, but still gets charged. This guy however has not been charged, until now.
Links to the indictments of the top two suspects:
suspect 1
suspect 2
Ahhh...so that explains why my cell phone company keeps tacking on extra charges, they know I'll value their service more.
They offer total 256bit AES disk encryption with DriveCrypt Plus Pack. It requires pre-boot authetication before you can do anything. It also comes with stronger container encryption, like 1344bit triple blowfish.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
It doesnt exactly take much to kill something that was barely alive anyways (mostly just have to pull out the plug from the resperator). There's also geeks out there who have put together their own segways for far less than what the actual company wants. IMHO, if I didnt think it looked so douchey to ride one, I'd think it would be pretty awesome to build something like that at home for fun.
From wiki:
Actually, you can develop games for the xbox360 relatively cheap. For 99 bucks, they will give you the license. The XNA development kit is free for anyone (at least the express version, which is partially stripped down).
Last I knew, MS was giving a one year membership license to XNA away for free on their dreamspark site for students. They were also giving away the XNA 2.0 development kit (full version). It's worth at least checking out if you have an interest in console development (even if it's the xbox360 and not the PS3).
There's no actual pictures involed though, just a java applet masquerading as a gif file to the browser (so no kitties harmed). Now, they could give a user a link saying, "Here bez sum picz of lolcatz, come lookz," which would then cause them to "download" what they think is a gif (though it will never show an image). I'm not sure about others, but I tell my browsers to ignore java. Anything written as a java applet is not worth viewing anyways, aside from security risks.
Slashdot Links. Without saying, "You must be new here," is anyone suprised?
Perhaps you were just conducting an experiment to see who really RTFA, right?
Sureee...let me guess, you would have contacted Oracle, but you were too much of a coward and figured they might find out who you were.
it would be funny if he hadnt already used this, say 20+ times
Leavenworth, like most Federal prisons, has a camp (aka club fed) attached to it, which is probably where he will go. Currently the former mayor of Camden, NJ is in a camp attached to the FCI in Loretto, PA.
I think another important point was missed that most of them were congressmen or involved in some other way in the government before they were US Sentators.
Seems like a suitable tag for the article. If not, you can lose calories while chasing me down to beat me with your keyboards.
Seems to work for xkcd guy
I'd guess the cameras would most likely be programmed to identify the subject(s) as mentally disturbed, but most likely harmless.
I just was just viewing this right before logging onto slashdot and seeing this topic.
I think the Vikings/Erik the Red named it that to try to con people into living there after realizing Iceland wasn't such a great name for people seeking warmer temperatures or a better place to live than Scandinavia. It wasn't like you could just log onto the web or visit a travel agent back then to check the regional climate of Greenland, heh heh.