In the U.S., bills over $100 haven't been printed since the series of 1934. Back in the day, there were bills up to $100,000. (Woodrow Wilson's portrait was on it.)
I suspect that the government didn't want people to be able to easily move millions of dollars in cash. Now, particularly with inflation, it takes a briefcase or a truck to move the amounts of money associated with contraband.
Unforunantly, this method has become more widespread, so it was time to move on. Now, using an offset printing press, a magnetic encoder, and an embosser, I can create fake credit cards in a matter of a half hour or so. Go to the store, swipe for a few laptops, and sell.
This said, I have NEVER counterfeitted money because all of these methods are just so much easier. Why bother having the Secret Service breathing down your back for that, when you can just utilize the same techniques to make large amounts of cash?
I call bullshit. Either that, or you're in for a rude awakening when you find that the Secret Service investigates counterfeit credit cards, too. Interesting post, regardless.
The corporate/law enforcement security community is fairly tight-knit, and suspicious of newcomers. Attempting to "break in" (no pun intended) to that community will be met with suspicion.
And, interestingly, getting a job in network security requires a knowledge of network security, but having knowledge of network security without previous employment in the field can make you suspect.
Worst of all is to admit knowledge of security in a corporate environment by pointing out flaws--then you're an easy mark for those "in charge" of security, whom you've made look bad. Like a bad "in Soviet Russia" joke, security problem report you.
Fortunately, I haven't learned any of this by experience, only by obeservation.
you might be able to use a copy of both discs (first is copyright Sony, and the second is GNU)
Is that some kind of end run around the GPL? Or is the first disk something that locks you out of most of the hardware, then allows the booting of Linux?
I am even going to go out on a limb here, and say I support Spamcop.
I used to, but it's a waste of time. The ISPs almost to a man ignore their reports (see my.sig, for example). I stopped paying and went to client-side filtering.
The G.I. Bill started the job of opening up college for the hoi polloi--folks that served in the military as enlisted men. (After that, the Higher Education Act of 1965 ushered in federal financial aid, which has made college even more accessible to ordinary folks.)
The O.P. is apparently bemoaning the fact that the gates to the campus have been opened to the non-Brahmin among us.
The wolf is always at the door. These are the types that come to power when individual rights are destroyed and the power of the state is unchecked. Remember that the next time the left-wingers start in with their little song and dance.
Left wingers?! Right now, the right wingers are making me pretty damned nervous with regard to the destruction of individual rights, since they're the ones using 9/11 as an excuse to erode them. I consider myself a centrist, have military service, and love this country--but I'm considering getting a passport now so there's less friction if I have to leave later.
Yep. You can always tell the franchise stores. They're the ones that keep the ketchup and napkins behind the counter and want a quarter for an extra plastic tub of McNugget(TM) sauce.
This lawsuit doesn't mean a thing in the long term. Either SCO will end up (finally) dead or as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. They figured out that selling something available for free didn't work, and now they're about to discover that trying to gouge former customers for license fees doesn't work either. And it's about time.
Watch for any attempt to impose digital certificates or other revenue generating schemes--wouldn't Verisign love it if now not only those who wanted SSL to work without presenting dire warnings to customers but everyone who wanted to be able to send email at all had to pay Verisign's extortion money for a certificate recognized by MSIE.
3) Doesn't anyone else feel that "just use the web version" is NOT an option due to privacy concerns? (I don't know about you, but I sure don't want my private financial information stored on someone else's web server...)
If you plan on filing electronically, your information is in a database either way, not much difference. That being the case, you could use H&R Block's service, and not give the DRM-wielding, spamware selling bastards at Intuit any of your hard-earned money.
And if we assume that "extiniction level events" are exponentially distributed, then by the memoryless process, it's just as unlikely we'll get hit in the next 100 years as it was in the hundred years after the last one:)!
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Jesus. Scan to get out? Glad there wasn't a fire! (Yeah, sure, it'll fail open. We think.)
I suspect that the government didn't want people to be able to easily move millions of dollars in cash. Now, particularly with inflation, it takes a briefcase or a truck to move the amounts of money associated with contraband.
This said, I have NEVER counterfeitted money because all of these methods are just so much easier. Why bother having the Secret Service breathing down your back for that, when you can just utilize the same techniques to make large amounts of cash?
I call bullshit. Either that, or you're in for a rude awakening when you find that the Secret Service investigates counterfeit credit cards, too. Interesting post, regardless.
And, interestingly, getting a job in network security requires a knowledge of network security, but having knowledge of network security without previous employment in the field can make you suspect.
Worst of all is to admit knowledge of security in a corporate environment by pointing out flaws--then you're an easy mark for those "in charge" of security, whom you've made look bad. Like a bad "in Soviet Russia" joke, security problem report you.
Fortunately, I haven't learned any of this by experience, only by obeservation.
I don't know what everyone's one about. I just built one of these. I'm monitoring my heart rate in a window right now and it works gr9'0wrtup
Is that some kind of end run around the GPL? Or is the first disk something that locks you out of most of the hardware, then allows the booting of Linux?
I used to, but it's a waste of time. The ISPs almost to a man ignore their reports (see my .sig, for example). I stopped paying and went to client-side filtering.
The O.P. is apparently bemoaning the fact that the gates to the campus have been opened to the non-Brahmin among us.
Apparently, the slashbot mods don't like facing the truth. I've got karma to burn, bring it on!
The DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs didn't see a dime from me since the bnetd assault, either, and never will.
Left wingers?! Right now, the right wingers are making me pretty damned nervous with regard to the destruction of individual rights, since they're the ones using 9/11 as an excuse to erode them. I consider myself a centrist, have military service, and love this country--but I'm considering getting a passport now so there's less friction if I have to leave later.
Dude, trolling the Jobs-worshipping Apple fundamentalist faithful is like shooting fish in a barrel. Try something more challenging :).
I hope you're right!
But since he's no longer useful, he may not live to enjoy the $25MM.
Yep. You can always tell the franchise stores. They're the ones that keep the ketchup and napkins behind the counter and want a quarter for an extra plastic tub of McNugget(TM) sauce.
So it would seem. Of course, the intelligence services know where he is, and he's no longer useful . . .
This lawsuit doesn't mean a thing in the long term. Either SCO will end up (finally) dead or as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. They figured out that selling something available for free didn't work, and now they're about to discover that trying to gouge former customers for license fees doesn't work either. And it's about time.
Watch for any attempt to impose digital certificates or other revenue generating schemes--wouldn't Verisign love it if now not only those who wanted SSL to work without presenting dire warnings to customers but everyone who wanted to be able to send email at all had to pay Verisign's extortion money for a certificate recognized by MSIE.
It'll be a cold day in hell that I run any machine capable of connecting to the net without my telling it to explicitly.
. . . that a real programmer would never be caught dead saying "software programmer."
For those that deserve a bitch listing but don't have one yet, a search for 'ispname "bitch list"' on Google groups often produces a nice list.
It's also fun (maybe not effective, but fun) to add addresses of spam ISP admins to the footer of all your posts :).
If you plan on filing electronically, your information is in a database either way, not much difference. That being the case, you could use H&R Block's service, and not give the DRM-wielding, spamware selling bastards at Intuit any of your hard-earned money.
And if we assume that "extiniction level events" are exponentially distributed, then by the memoryless process, it's just as unlikely we'll get hit in the next 100 years as it was in the hundred years after the last one :)!
If that's not modded up, there is no justice.
Here's a nice addition to the "Linux Gay Conspiracy" troll if there ever was one!