the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards.
He hacked the Gibson or something...
But I would be so bold to say that he might have left the same limit on the card. Instead, he/she/or it - just changed the codes for banknotes inside the machine. You know.. Like couple of years ago with those Tranaxes...
So... you just tell the ATM that its 100s are 5s - and then repeatedly ask for 5s. $500 limit coughs up $100.000 +/- couple of actual 5s.
They don't look like someone who just won a lottery to me.
They look more like homeless people. Which brings up the question - why aren't there more homeless people robbing banks out there?
I mean... they are in a clear advantage. They are invisible AND they have nothing to lose. Worst case scenario - they get sent to a jail. HA! 3 meals a day, clothing, housing and health-care at the cost of the society.
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
Article DOES NOT say what their per-withdrawal limit was. What if DOES SAY is that they were able to withdraw money multiple times, with the daily sum being over $500.
It also says that the writer of the article has a daily limit of $500 but that is besides the point.
A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The organization of flash mobs is generally accepted as being limited to the social media or viral emails, rather than organized by public relations firms or for a stunt. Also flash mobs are not politically or commercially motivated as described by Bill Wasik's in where he said, they serve no purpose.
NOT "large" group. Probably well under 100 people.
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
What I'm talking about is a dandy opportunity to "round up the usual suspects" (whether as harrassment or as fishing expeditions)... and then if they're not a match when actual samples are found, well, so sad about the lost wages and embarrassment... and possibly lost parole for those whose condition of parole includes "NO arrests for any reason"... you can see the potential for abuse.
What does that have to do with DNA samples? You yourself state that DNA gathering/comparison takes place AFTER they round up the usual suspects.
Cops do that all the time. Either pick on something small that is otherwise a forgivable offense, like a parking ticket or even jaywalking or use the magical "probable cause".
Besides the need for several layers of security clearance NOT available to your average beat-cop (Cops don't gather or handle the DNA evidence. If we were supposed to learn one thing from all those CSI shows - that should be it.), not to think of actual computer and genetics knowledge...
There are only two DNA samples of importance here.
DNA left at the scene. Found, gathered and analyzed according to very strict procedures and by trained experts. That DNA is then called "evidence". Usually, it is in a form of hair, tissue or blood samples. Stuff that sticks around for a couple of days at least. And usually - there is enough of it there to be used in a DNA test AND for some of it to remain in the archive - at least until the end of the trial.
The other DNA sample is the one gathered from the suspect. Again... procedures, experts and all that.
You can't fake the second sample, cause... well... it is too easy to just take a new one. So, we are left with faking the first sample.
Now, if the "original physical sample becomes conveniently lost" - only thing the suspect's lawyer needs to do is ask for a neutral expert's opinion. Evidence being lost in the meantime - it can't be used in the trial.
Replacing a sealed, numbered, marked, cataloged and locked up sample on the other hand would require FAR more then just a text editor.
You get your hair cut, don't you? Don't mind me as I follow you into the barber shop next time you go.
Feel free to do so.
If it is ever brought up in a trial my lawyer will just ask for the hair to be checked for scissor marks. Being that I use one single barber for last... umm... 8 years - they could probably even match the particular scissors to the cuts. Might even get a testimony from my barber and people in the shop that day that would prove how long ago I had a haircut - matching that to the state of decomposition of the "DNA sample" found at the scene.
Oh... I do believe that we are BEYOND the reasonable doubt there.
And what do you think... when they call my barber to testify at the trial - will he more easily remember me having a haircut, or you tucking a large ball of other people's hair under your shirt?
They swab the inside of a person's cheek. They don't take a lock of hair or a vial of blood. DNA is spent in the process of analyzing it. They just keep the data.
DNA itself, as any other organic sample, would require far more storage space in a very controlled environment. You just stack more hard drives on top of the old pile when you run out of space.
Under the bill, authorities would supposedly destroy samples and DNA profiles from people who weren't charged, were found not guilty or whose convictions were overturned.
They already do far less with fingerprints they gather the same way.
Only, you CAN fake those.
You can't fake someone's DNA. It is not like you can print it out or copy it to a portable media and then just sprinkle it later.
I've read about that looong time ago. I even remember that they added wooden fins to the torpedoes which allowed their use in the shallow water. And that the torpedo nets were referred to as crinolines.
I just couldn't for the life of me remember WHERE the battle took place. OR who was actually doing the fighting. XD Like I said... I was... maybe 10 when I read about it.
Prior to... well... now... nobody tried to hijack an airplane putting all the passengers to sleep using colorless, odorless narcotic gas hidden inside laptops, then tying every single passenger to their seat, flying off to an island somewhere and eating passengers one by one. Properly storaged, passengers and crew of a 757 could last for over a year to a crew of 5 cannibals. If they choose to head North, beyond the arctic circle, they can just store them all on ice.
Just because it didn't happen YET it does not mean that it can't happen.
And if you are more in the mood for a boring old story... Prior to Pearl Harbor Japan never attacked and sunk most of the USA fleet with a surprise aerial attack. Then again... some say that the US government had prior knowledge about that. Some say they also let 9/11 happen just so they could invade Iraq.
9/11 happened because 4 guys with box-cutters could commandeer an airplane.
9/11 happened because:
a) US government secret services and law enforcement agencies failed to do their job. b) because the entire plane of passengers just sat there and allowed it to happen. c) because they were able to just waltz in into the cockpit. d) because Arnold, Bruce, Sly and Steven were busy elsewhere.
The terrorists could have just as well held a large clock and claim that they have a bomb. Forget the clock - they could have held a bag and claim there is a bomb inside.
Listen kid, (It is kid right? Your age still ends with -een, right?) why don't you go and take some red, green and blue paint. You might find some in your mother's makeup case - but remember to ask her first if you can use some of it. Then, go and mix them in equal amounts - until you get bright white out of those three. (RGB: 255-255-255)
After you gave a little thought to the results of your little experiment you may come back to this or any other discussion regarding colors. Until then... you are not even on the level of "lets make fun of him".
Your monitor, unless it is a monochromatic 1980s wonder, can manage FAR more colors than can fit into CMYK color space.
You can't just - "convert at print stage". Unless you are working with CMYK values from the start you are risking your printouts looking nothing like they "should". A very simple test to explain is printing basic RGB Red, Green and Blue (255-0-0, 0-255-0, 0-0-255). No printer in the world can reproduce those colors accurately. It is because you screen works with light, while your printer works with pigments. Closest you might get is with the red. Green and Blue... Well.. just try it.
Think of it this way... RGB is like Float - CMYK is like Integer.
2+2 will be 4 using both values, but 2.4 + 2.4 wont.
So... Please... don't ever speak about this subject again. If and when color spaces come up as a subject - excuse yourself and leave the room for at least 20 minutes. If they are still speaking about color spaces when you return - pick up your coat and go home.
Since you brought up music analogies.. It is like saying that acoustic and electric guitar are the same thing - just a guitar. You hold it in your hand, pick around the wires a little - and music comes out. Anyone claiming that there is any difference between the two is either uber-audio-sensitive or is just bulshitting cause it is clearly just music. Maybe we need some double blind tests?
The United States has confirmed that Iran launched a low-earth orbit satellite on Monday night, two U.S. officials told CNN's Barbara Starr. There were no indications of any weapons activity on the two-stage rocket, although the rocket is capable of launching long-range weapons, the officials said.
... always trying to frame honest Iranian folk, just so they could find a casus belli so they could get their grubby little hands on their sweet, sweet oil.
The United States has confirmed that Iran launched a low-earth orbit satellite on Monday night, two U.S. officials told CNN's Barbara Starr. There were no indications of any weapons activity on the two-stage rocket, although the rocket is capable of launching long-range weapons, the officials said.
Do I need to point out that I am being sarcastic, or is someone just going to slap me with a flame/troll combo?
Why not go with the more controllable clit mouse. Much more pleasurable to use - for both the user and the computer.
Newsflash. The naked lady on your notebook's desktop background? Not real - just a picture. Also - clit mouse? Not real clitoris. Neither your computer nor the woman in the photo feel anything when you fondle it.
It is just you... being perverted in a very sad way at your place of occupation.
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the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards.
He hacked the Gibson or something...
But I would be so bold to say that he might have left the same limit on the card.
Instead, he/she/or it - just changed the codes for banknotes inside the machine. You know.. Like couple of years ago with those Tranaxes...
So... you just tell the ATM that its 100s are 5s - and then repeatedly ask for 5s.
$500 limit coughs up $100.000 +/- couple of actual 5s.
They don't look like someone who just won a lottery to me.
They look more like homeless people.
Which brings up the question - why aren't there more homeless people robbing banks out there?
I mean... they are in a clear advantage.
They are invisible AND they have nothing to lose.
Worst case scenario - they get sent to a jail. HA!
3 meals a day, clothing, housing and health-care at the cost of the society.
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
Article DOES NOT say what their per-withdrawal limit was.
What if DOES SAY is that they were able to withdraw money multiple times, with the daily sum being over $500.
It also says that the writer of the article has a daily limit of $500 but that is besides the point.
A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The organization of flash mobs is generally accepted as being limited to the social media or viral emails, rather than organized by public relations firms or for a stunt. Also flash mobs are not politically or commercially motivated as described by Bill Wasik's in where he said, they serve no purpose.
NOT "large" group. Probably well under 100 people.
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
NOT an unusual action - they took money from an ATM. Not exactly pillow fighting in the middle of the street.
WAS organized with one specific goal and purpose in mind - getting away with 9 million dollars.
MOST DEFINITELY commercially motivated.
NOT A FLASH MOB! A well organized group of CRI-MI-NAL-S!
Then again, article WAS linked from myfoxny.com - that famous source of unbiased and non-sensationalistic information.
Its called TELE-PHONE.
Googling into someone's bedsheets and/or underwear and/or hot tub?
You my friend are a kind of visionary one can only expect to find on Slashdot.
I foresee great things in store for you should you patent that idea.
What I'm talking about is a dandy opportunity to "round up the usual suspects" (whether as harrassment or as fishing expeditions) ... and then if they're not a match when actual samples are found, well, so sad about the lost wages and embarrassment ... and possibly lost parole for those whose condition of parole includes "NO arrests for any reason" ... you can see the potential for abuse.
What does that have to do with DNA samples?
You yourself state that DNA gathering/comparison takes place AFTER they round up the usual suspects.
Cops do that all the time.
Either pick on something small that is otherwise a forgivable offense, like a parking ticket or even jaywalking or use the magical "probable cause".
"... it takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante -- more vehicles, more destruction and more team play."
And a monkey or a pony - whichever you prefer more.
Besides the need for several layers of security clearance NOT available to your average beat-cop (Cops don't gather or handle the DNA evidence. If we were supposed to learn one thing from all those CSI shows - that should be it.), not to think of actual computer and genetics knowledge...
There are only two DNA samples of importance here.
DNA left at the scene. Found, gathered and analyzed according to very strict procedures and by trained experts. That DNA is then called "evidence".
Usually, it is in a form of hair, tissue or blood samples. Stuff that sticks around for a couple of days at least.
And usually - there is enough of it there to be used in a DNA test AND for some of it to remain in the archive - at least until the end of the trial.
The other DNA sample is the one gathered from the suspect. Again... procedures, experts and all that.
You can't fake the second sample, cause... well... it is too easy to just take a new one.
So, we are left with faking the first sample.
Now, if the "original physical sample becomes conveniently lost" - only thing the suspect's lawyer needs to do is ask for a neutral expert's opinion.
Evidence being lost in the meantime - it can't be used in the trial.
Replacing a sealed, numbered, marked, cataloged and locked up sample on the other hand would require FAR more then just a text editor.
You get your hair cut, don't you? Don't mind me as I follow you into the barber shop next time you go.
Feel free to do so.
If it is ever brought up in a trial my lawyer will just ask for the hair to be checked for scissor marks.
Being that I use one single barber for last... umm... 8 years - they could probably even match the particular scissors to the cuts.
Might even get a testimony from my barber and people in the shop that day that would prove how long ago I had a haircut - matching that to the state of decomposition of the "DNA sample" found at the scene.
Oh... I do believe that we are BEYOND the reasonable doubt there.
And what do you think... when they call my barber to testify at the trial - will he more easily remember me having a haircut, or you tucking a large ball of other people's hair under your shirt?
From what?
They swab the inside of a person's cheek.
They don't take a lock of hair or a vial of blood.
DNA is spent in the process of analyzing it. They just keep the data.
DNA itself, as any other organic sample, would require far more storage space in a very controlled environment.
You just stack more hard drives on top of the old pile when you run out of space.
Under the bill, authorities would supposedly destroy samples and DNA profiles from people who weren't charged, were found not guilty or whose convictions were overturned.
They already do far less with fingerprints they gather the same way.
Only, you CAN fake those.
You can't fake someone's DNA.
It is not like you can print it out or copy it to a portable media and then just sprinkle it later.
I've read about that looong time ago.
I even remember that they added wooden fins to the torpedoes which allowed their use in the shallow water.
And that the torpedo nets were referred to as crinolines.
I just couldn't for the life of me remember WHERE the battle took place. OR who was actually doing the fighting. XD
Like I said... I was... maybe 10 when I read about it.
Prior to... well... now... nobody tried to hijack an airplane putting all the passengers to sleep using colorless, odorless narcotic gas hidden inside laptops, then tying every single passenger to their seat, flying off to an island somewhere and eating passengers one by one.
Properly storaged, passengers and crew of a 757 could last for over a year to a crew of 5 cannibals.
If they choose to head North, beyond the arctic circle, they can just store them all on ice.
Just because it didn't happen YET it does not mean that it can't happen.
And if you are more in the mood for a boring old story...
Prior to Pearl Harbor Japan never attacked and sunk most of the USA fleet with a surprise aerial attack.
Then again... some say that the US government had prior knowledge about that.
Some say they also let 9/11 happen just so they could invade Iraq.
9/11 happened because 4 guys with box-cutters could commandeer an airplane.
9/11 happened because:
a) US government secret services and law enforcement agencies failed to do their job.
b) because the entire plane of passengers just sat there and allowed it to happen.
c) because they were able to just waltz in into the cockpit.
d) because Arnold, Bruce, Sly and Steven were busy elsewhere.
The terrorists could have just as well held a large clock and claim that they have a bomb.
Forget the clock - they could have held a bag and claim there is a bomb inside.
A better class of criminal Joker promised us.
At last someone with some style.
Listen kid, (It is kid right? Your age still ends with -een, right?) why don't you go and take some red, green and blue paint.
You might find some in your mother's makeup case - but remember to ask her first if you can use some of it.
Then, go and mix them in equal amounts - until you get bright white out of those three. (RGB: 255-255-255)
After you gave a little thought to the results of your little experiment you may come back to this or any other discussion regarding colors.
Until then... you are not even on the level of "lets make fun of him".
... 2.4 + 2.4 wont be 4.8 when added using Integer for number values instead of Float.
Since it WILL be 4 when using Integers, that last sentence actually makes sense - only not in the way it was supposed to.
Your monitor, unless it is a monochromatic 1980s wonder, can manage FAR more colors than can fit into CMYK color space.
You can't just - "convert at print stage".
Unless you are working with CMYK values from the start you are risking your printouts looking nothing like they "should".
A very simple test to explain is printing basic RGB Red, Green and Blue (255-0-0, 0-255-0, 0-0-255).
No printer in the world can reproduce those colors accurately. It is because you screen works with light, while your printer works with pigments.
Closest you might get is with the red. Green and Blue... Well.. just try it.
Think of it this way...
RGB is like Float - CMYK is like Integer.
2+2 will be 4 using both values, but 2.4 + 2.4 wont.
So... Please... don't ever speak about this subject again.
If and when color spaces come up as a subject - excuse yourself and leave the room for at least 20 minutes.
If they are still speaking about color spaces when you return - pick up your coat and go home.
Since you brought up music analogies..
It is like saying that acoustic and electric guitar are the same thing - just a guitar.
You hold it in your hand, pick around the wires a little - and music comes out.
Anyone claiming that there is any difference between the two is either uber-audio-sensitive or is just bulshitting cause it is clearly just music.
Maybe we need some double blind tests?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/03/iran.satellite/index.html [cnn.com]
The United States has confirmed that Iran launched a low-earth orbit satellite on Monday night, two U.S. officials told CNN's Barbara Starr.
There were no indications of any weapons activity on the two-stage rocket, although the rocket is capable of launching long-range weapons, the officials said.
... always trying to frame honest Iranian folk, just so they could find a casus belli so they could get their grubby little hands on their sweet, sweet oil.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/03/iran.satellite/index.html
The United States has confirmed that Iran launched a low-earth orbit satellite on Monday night, two U.S. officials told CNN's Barbara Starr. There were no indications of any weapons activity on the two-stage rocket, although the rocket is capable of launching long-range weapons, the officials said.
Do I need to point out that I am being sarcastic, or is someone just going to slap me with a flame/troll combo?
or is it an incompatible unit?
Of course it is incompatible silly... You can't eat a library.
I love my 701 weighing in at just over 900 grams, I'd prefer a model weighing 1.3 kg or less.
And 1.3 kg vs. 1.45 kg is about 2-3 Mars bars, depending on which Mars bar we are talking about.
Why not go with the more controllable clit mouse. Much more pleasurable to use - for both the user and the computer.
Newsflash.
The naked lady on your notebook's desktop background? Not real - just a picture.
Also - clit mouse? Not real clitoris.
Neither your computer nor the woman in the photo feel anything when you fondle it.
It is just you... being perverted in a very sad way at your place of occupation.