It might have worked with primitive explosives, but it certainly won't work with modern stuff. The shotgun technique or using the controlled explosive has been in use for over thirty years.
My money is on the fact that he saw the Arabic transfers on the keycaps and saw the fact she had photographed some graffiti on her phone. He knew exactly who the owner was so he was being a dickhead. I just hope she gets comped for her laptop at Israeli prices (they have some serious import duty there).
It might depend on the bank but the regulations specifies that they need a lot of information on both the source and the beneficiary of a payment. If you are the source and account holder, theoretically they already have information but may ask you for ID.
They will ask you who you are paying (including address) and the reason for transfer. The latter usually doesn't get checked but they are supposed to capture it. What will get checked is the payment itself and if it exceeds certain limits, then it will get flagged as suspicious and the authorities quietly informed.
First, an operable macbook has is fairly small inside. If it turns on, you aren't going to get more than a very small firecracker inside.
A normal bullet has a tendency to pass through things quite cleanly, particularly a lump of Semtex which has the consistency of marzipan and is about as explosive unless detonated.
Detonators are small about a couple of cm long and maybe 5mm in diameter difficult to hit - but if you do, the bomb will probabaly detonate. This is why shotguns are used, less kinetic energy in any one place but more likely to obliterate the trigger mechanism and to break up the charge.
My military friends, some of whom have had to deal with IEDs tell ms that shooting normal rounds is pretty stupid, it won't set off the explosive and probabaly won't disrupt the detonation device.
Doesn't work in the UK. The banks give the excuse that as these are ultimately Euro payments not sterling, the transfer goes via another system (CHAPS) which is geared to commercial customers and you pay per transfer significantly more than you would moving sterling around within the UK. Also the UK requires some absolutely insane AML/KYC paperwork for overseas transfers with the excuse being international terrorism and preservation of bureaucratic jobs.
There simply is no way to produce any rational decisions based on the data and hand, which is hardly surprising given that no-one was allowed to peer review.
The paper was peer reviewed. In case of any doubts, the reviewers may challenge the authors to back up their claims with original data. The clowns who were demanding access to the data could hardly be called 'peers'.
The technique with a robot controlled shotgun comes from Northern Ireland. The concept is to disrupt any detonation mechanism. A bullet will likely as not pass straight through the explosive not detonating it or disrupting the comparitive small trigger mechanism.
The laptop was apparently returned by the soldier thug to the student after the shooting. So she can recycle the explosive into another bomb? The soldier clearly shot at the laptop to cause inconvenience to the student not to disrupt any bomb.
I would mention Bletchley Park, a mecca for geeks, particularly with their computer collection as well as the less usual cryptography collection. They have kit not just from WW2 but also from the cold war including from Warsaw Pact countries. It is essentially a day trip from London by Rail. When I was there they did a demo run of the Colossus replica - quite impressive and presented by Tony Sale, who led the reconstruction effort and is very knowledgeable. Oh, and he used to work as a technical officer for MI5 and is quite happy to talk about the relative merits of parallel processing with vacuum tube computers against Java on a modern PC. I don't know how things are now, but it is probably better to get on a tour as some of the bits weren't that well labeled when I was there.
As a genral point, book your rail tickets in advance. the further in advance you book your tickets (you can do it from outside the UK), the cheaper they will be.
Some WiFi channels are not available everywhere due to local frequency allocation issues. However these tend to be at the end of the spectrum and aren't that widely used by public access points.
He's flying with Baggage Anywhere and probably via Thiefrow, his baggage problems will be solved in no time.
Actually, my luggage used to regularly fail to make connecting flights with BA. The plus side of this was that the baggage would generally be delivered via taxi the next day to my preferred location (even at work).
Last time I bought a car, it came as a package. No separate agreement from Michelin or Goodyear about their tires. I buy the car. Outright. I do not 'license' the car.
Most people outside the UK (or countries with UK style sockets) with toddlers/young-kids buy socket covers. Some of which are quite fiddly to insert and remove but do provide safety.
Had a D810 and now have an 830. The 810 had dual external fans but the 820/830 has just one. My issue relevant to this is that the cooling system is an incredibly efficient vacuum cleaner for the desk. All the shit gets sucked up and ends up in a general pile of crud which usually lodges in the heat sink. The tip I got from a Dell tech after the first such incident is to put a vacuum cleaner on max to the air intake on the bottom - with the machine switched off. This seems to successfully uncruft the heat sink.
A construction site would qualify. Normal laptops can't really go outside site offices because of the copious quantities of general shit floating around (dust, water, temperature extremes, etc).
>except that it's not a phone.
Please don't tell that to my VoIP client. Yep it isn't a cellular phone but it works nicely in my WiFI coverage area. I really think that Nokia was thinking about a full phone all the way along and the Maemo 3/4 were the user interface prototypes.
It does annoy me that Gmail gives me more storage and much better uptime than Outlook/Exchange server in most environments.
I have the *luxury* of 80MB of storage. On a previous role I managed to get 450MB (that was Lotus Notes though) and it was only by saying that given my role, it was vital I kept back emails to cover myself and the company in case of a regulatory inspection.
But the basic copyright bargain makes as much sense as it did 200 years ago: giving people greater protections for the fruits of their creative labor is one powerful way to give them a greater incentive to invest in it.
But then you end up with the reverse situation whereby innovation becomes stifled because copyright protects for so long. The rights tend to go off to 'enforcement' companies that then collect. See the history of "Happy Birthday" as an example, and that one makes (still) $2M per year.
A friend of mine was in a small band and cooperated writing a song when he was younger, but the band split up and he went on into IT. His co-writer made it big in another band (Madness, I believe) and he used the song and giving full credits. For a very long time the friend was making $500/year or so off his share of the one song.
The 30 years war (1640 onwards) was pretty brutal if you lived in central Europe. It was fought on religious grounds with villages and towns being systematically destroyed (about 30% of German towns and villages) with a massive impact on the civilian population.
When I worked in London on a project, I was living as many do well outside the centre. To go home and back would take 90 minutes to two hours so if I wanted to catch a movie, I would go as I am directly from work, with laptop bag, etc. The laptop has no camera but I often carry a webcam for video-conferencing.
You *can* go private in the UK. You can pay to circumvent queues but you probably won't get a much better service.
This is the real reason that PPP/BUPA and so on are concentrating on so-called 'hotel-services'. The state doesn't monopolize, but because they are more efficient than the private sector and have economies of size, that is why private insurers are hamstrung there.
Note, I have lived in the UK, I do not work there now and am heartily sick of the fortune that I have to pay on basic health care.
This is a failure of the recommended procedure. SWIFT systems are supposed to implement a payment queue and a confirmation queue and not to do anything unless the outgoing payment is confirmed (i.e., four-eyes principle). However both processes may be automated and typically are to a greater or lesser extent.
At a large German bank, a contractor was given the job of DBA. As he was the contractor, he was the one willing to run things out of hours (he got overtime). All proceeded nicely.
Then along came 9/11. The very next day, he turned up in Luxembourg trying to withdraw around a million or so DM. In cash. The manager was suspicious given the sudden attempt to withdraw money (especially after 9/11) and delayed him whilst calling the police.
So it seems that the DBA picked up the job of managing both the international payments database (SWIFT) and the General Ledger (which would normally used to balance the payments). By creating entries in both databases, the books balanced so he was undetected. What happened? Well most of the money was recovered and his contract was terminated. However, he probably still works somewhere in banking and the bank did not want to bring charges.
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It might have worked with primitive explosives, but it certainly won't work with modern stuff. The shotgun technique or using the controlled explosive has been in use for over thirty years.
My money is on the fact that he saw the Arabic transfers on the keycaps and saw the fact she had photographed some graffiti on her phone. He knew exactly who the owner was so he was being a dickhead. I just hope she gets comped for her laptop at Israeli prices (they have some serious import duty there).
It might depend on the bank but the regulations specifies that they need a lot of information on both the source and the beneficiary of a payment. If you are the source and account holder, theoretically they already have information but may ask you for ID.
They will ask you who you are paying (including address) and the reason for transfer. The latter usually doesn't get checked but they are supposed to capture it. What will get checked is the payment itself and if it exceeds certain limits, then it will get flagged as suspicious and the authorities quietly informed.
First, an operable macbook has is fairly small inside. If it turns on, you aren't going to get more than a very small firecracker inside.
A normal bullet has a tendency to pass through things quite cleanly, particularly a lump of Semtex which has the consistency of marzipan and is about as explosive unless detonated.
Detonators are small about a couple of cm long and maybe 5mm in diameter difficult to hit - but if you do, the bomb will probabaly detonate. This is why shotguns are used, less kinetic energy in any one place but more likely to obliterate the trigger mechanism and to break up the charge.
My military friends, some of whom have had to deal with IEDs tell ms that shooting normal rounds is pretty stupid, it won't set off the explosive and probabaly won't disrupt the detonation device.
The Israeli was being a dickhead, that is all.
The issue is that your local bank branch has no direct access to SWIFT, TARGET or whatever and the inter-branch system didn't cover foreign payments.
Doesn't work in the UK. The banks give the excuse that as these are ultimately Euro payments not sterling, the transfer goes via another system (CHAPS) which is geared to commercial customers and you pay per transfer significantly more than you would moving sterling around within the UK. Also the UK requires some absolutely insane AML/KYC paperwork for overseas transfers with the excuse being international terrorism and preservation of bureaucratic jobs.
The paper was peer reviewed. In case of any doubts, the reviewers may challenge the authors to back up their claims with original data. The clowns who were demanding access to the data could hardly be called 'peers'.
The technique with a robot controlled shotgun comes from Northern Ireland. The concept is to disrupt any detonation mechanism. A bullet will likely as not pass straight through the explosive not detonating it or disrupting the comparitive small trigger mechanism. The laptop was apparently returned by the soldier thug to the student after the shooting. So she can recycle the explosive into another bomb? The soldier clearly shot at the laptop to cause inconvenience to the student not to disrupt any bomb.
I would mention Bletchley Park, a mecca for geeks, particularly with their computer collection as well as the less usual cryptography collection. They have kit not just from WW2 but also from the cold war including from Warsaw Pact countries. It is essentially a day trip from London by Rail. When I was there they did a demo run of the Colossus replica - quite impressive and presented by Tony Sale, who led the reconstruction effort and is very knowledgeable. Oh, and he used to work as a technical officer for MI5 and is quite happy to talk about the relative merits of parallel processing with vacuum tube computers against Java on a modern PC. I don't know how things are now, but it is probably better to get on a tour as some of the bits weren't that well labeled when I was there.
As a genral point, book your rail tickets in advance. the further in advance you book your tickets (you can do it from outside the UK), the cheaper they will be.
Some WiFi channels are not available everywhere due to local frequency allocation issues. However these tend to be at the end of the spectrum and aren't that widely used by public access points.
He's flying with Baggage Anywhere and probably via Thiefrow, his baggage problems will be solved in no time. Actually, my luggage used to regularly fail to make connecting flights with BA. The plus side of this was that the baggage would generally be delivered via taxi the next day to my preferred location (even at work).
Last time I bought a car, it came as a package. No separate agreement from Michelin or Goodyear about their tires. I buy the car. Outright. I do not 'license' the car.
Most people outside the UK (or countries with UK style sockets) with toddlers/young-kids buy socket covers. Some of which are quite fiddly to insert and remove but do provide safety.
Had a D810 and now have an 830. The 810 had dual external fans but the 820/830 has just one. My issue relevant to this is that the cooling system is an incredibly efficient vacuum cleaner for the desk. All the shit gets sucked up and ends up in a general pile of crud which usually lodges in the heat sink. The tip I got from a Dell tech after the first such incident is to put a vacuum cleaner on max to the air intake on the bottom - with the machine switched off. This seems to successfully uncruft the heat sink.
The Lats aren't at all bad, but for home/office/general light travel only. I wouldn't think of dragging mine up a mountain or something.
A construction site would qualify. Normal laptops can't really go outside site offices because of the copious quantities of general shit floating around (dust, water, temperature extremes, etc).
>except that it's not a phone. Please don't tell that to my VoIP client. Yep it isn't a cellular phone but it works nicely in my WiFI coverage area. I really think that Nokia was thinking about a full phone all the way along and the Maemo 3/4 were the user interface prototypes.
It does annoy me that Gmail gives me more storage and much better uptime than Outlook/Exchange server in most environments.
I have the *luxury* of 80MB of storage. On a previous role I managed to get 450MB (that was Lotus Notes though) and it was only by saying that given my role, it was vital I kept back emails to cover myself and the company in case of a regulatory inspection.
But then you end up with the reverse situation whereby innovation becomes stifled because copyright protects for so long. The rights tend to go off to 'enforcement' companies that then collect. See the history of "Happy Birthday" as an example, and that one makes (still) $2M per year.
A friend of mine was in a small band and cooperated writing a song when he was younger, but the band split up and he went on into IT. His co-writer made it big in another band (Madness, I believe) and he used the song and giving full credits. For a very long time the friend was making $500/year or so off his share of the one song.
The 30 years war (1640 onwards) was pretty brutal if you lived in central Europe. It was fought on religious grounds with villages and towns being systematically destroyed (about 30% of German towns and villages) with a massive impact on the civilian population.
When I worked in London on a project, I was living as many do well outside the centre. To go home and back would take 90 minutes to two hours so if I wanted to catch a movie, I would go as I am directly from work, with laptop bag, etc. The laptop has no camera but I often carry a webcam for video-conferencing.
You *can* go private in the UK. You can pay to circumvent queues but you probably won't get a much better service.
This is the real reason that PPP/BUPA and so on are concentrating on so-called 'hotel-services'. The state doesn't monopolize, but because they are more efficient than the private sector and have economies of size, that is why private insurers are hamstrung there.
Note, I have lived in the UK, I do not work there now and am heartily sick of the fortune that I have to pay on basic health care.
This is a failure of the recommended procedure. SWIFT systems are supposed to implement a payment queue and a confirmation queue and not to do anything unless the outgoing payment is confirmed (i.e., four-eyes principle). However both processes may be automated and typically are to a greater or lesser extent.
At a large German bank, a contractor was given the job of DBA. As he was the contractor, he was the one willing to run things out of hours (he got overtime). All proceeded nicely.
Then along came 9/11. The very next day, he turned up in Luxembourg trying to withdraw around a million or so DM. In cash. The manager was suspicious given the sudden attempt to withdraw money (especially after 9/11) and delayed him whilst calling the police.
So it seems that the DBA picked up the job of managing both the international payments database (SWIFT) and the General Ledger (which would normally used to balance the payments). By creating entries in both databases, the books balanced so he was undetected. What happened? Well most of the money was recovered and his contract was terminated. However, he probably still works somewhere in banking and the bank did not want to bring charges.