Hmmmm. Cancer.gov as in U.S. government as in the most trusted source in studies.
Here is a simple analogy for you, to help you understand your position and how studies work in general.
I am making brownies for my friends. A trace amount of Dog Poo gets into the mix. I ask a friend to study the effects of this trace amount of Dog Poo on my friends and he concludes it is negligible. I tell all my friends they are safe.
What I don't tell my friends is that I am not the only one mixing the ingredients, and that as the Brownies were being mixed by numerous individuals throughout the day, each has added their own trace amount of Dog Poo. I won't tell you how many individuals, because there are too many variables, but rest assured, I CAN provide you with a wonderful and conclusive study that TRULY states, a single trace amount of Dog Poo in my Brownies is TOTALLY SAFE.
My astrology reading says I should make a prediction today, so here it is...
This study will NOT measure all the cumulative wireless frequency you and i experience every day and night. That would be too tooo hard. So instead, I am betting they just based the study on the weakest signal they could find (not from your mobile phone but rather the super weak signal from the base stations that send signals to your mobile).
So rather than doing a study on a typical human, they will study the safe and wonderful effects of these signals that could only possibly relate to your cat, who stays at home 24/7 and is exposed to base station signals... oh wait, I forgot about TV signals, Radio signals, WiFi signals, etc...
Ok, I am off to read the report...
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Yep, another pointless study that is so narrow and specific that it can not possibly relate to a normal typical human on the planet, Except for that desert bedoiun that live near a cell tower I suppose.
Bank Kiting is almost impossible to do now-a-days with a physical check, because clearing the checks through a "Clearing House" is sooo fast.
But let's pretend things are as they were in the 70's and 80's and your check is getting cleared with a much slower process.
You need three banks to make it work, open an account in all three. Let's call them Bank A,B, and C respectively spread a ways apart across town. Go make deposit for $10K into Bank A FROM Bank B, then goto Bank B and deposit a $15K check FROM Bank C. Finally, go into Bank C again and deposit a $20K check FROM Bank A.
Are you confused yet??? You shouldn't be you're a slashdot reader!!!!
Remember the only thing that exists thus far are CHECKS, no cash. When Bank A sends a check to clear from Bank B, Bank B shows a nice fat deposit of $15K, so it clears it. Now, Bank B needs to clear it's deposit check and finds a nice fat account of $20K, so it clears it.
Now, in the mean time you have gone back into Bank A and withdrew 10K in CASH. Then you run across town and withdrawl $15K from Bank B in cash. Unfortunately, it is Bank C, when they go to clear a check for $20K from Bank A that gets stung.
Disclaimer: No, I haven't done this myself... I actually attended one of Franks Gig's as a Bank Teller (Mandatory training for security) in the 80's... He is REAL, the schemes back then ARE ALL plausible, and if HE hadn't gotten caught, many more banking institutions would have been stung!!
What happens when one hacks a computer system and exposes the weakness???? If the system admins have any intelligence they put effort into fixing and improving the system so that it doesn't happen again.
This is exactly what Frank did! Not only did I get to meet him at one of his "Banking Security" conference gigs I immediately started cleaning up my own act as a Bank Teller in the 80's.
As the lightbulb went on (it's rare but delightful) the criminal mind made sense. In the following months I *personally* stopped three "Bank Kiting" operations in excess of 30K. I was only 21 at the time and still in college. Read the book if you don't know what "Kiting" is.
His book made quite an impression on me, however, I too noticed the discrepencies between his story on tape and the book.
IMO - exposing the crime builds a better system! Hell, if I hadn't been caught stealing that Star Wars Light Saber when I was in junior high... where would I be now? I wasn't smart enough back then to learn to make a profit out of it;-)
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God Poo is yuck!
Hmmmm. Cancer.gov as in U.S. government as in the most trusted source in studies.
Here is a simple analogy for you, to help you understand your position and how studies work in general.
I am making brownies for my friends. A trace amount of Dog Poo gets into the mix. I ask a friend to study the effects of this trace amount of Dog Poo on my friends and he concludes it is negligible. I tell all my friends they are safe.
What I don't tell my friends is that I am not the only one mixing the ingredients, and that as the Brownies were being mixed by numerous individuals throughout the day, each has added their own trace amount of Dog Poo. I won't tell you how many individuals, because there are too many variables, but rest assured, I CAN provide you with a wonderful and conclusive study that TRULY states, a single trace amount of Dog Poo in my Brownies is TOTALLY SAFE.
I am off to make some yummy and safe Brownies!
My astrology reading says I should make a prediction today, so here it is...
This study will NOT measure all the cumulative wireless frequency you and i experience every day and night. That would be too tooo hard. So instead, I am betting they just based the study on the weakest signal they could find (not from your mobile phone but rather the super weak signal from the base stations that send signals to your mobile).
So rather than doing a study on a typical human, they will study the safe and wonderful effects of these signals that could only possibly relate to your cat, who stays at home 24/7 and is exposed to base station signals... oh wait, I forgot about TV signals, Radio signals, WiFi signals, etc...
Ok, I am off to read the report...
Back
Yep, another pointless study that is so narrow and specific that it can not possibly relate to a normal typical human on the planet, Except for that desert bedoiun that live near a cell tower I suppose.
Bank Kiting is almost impossible to do now-a-days with a physical check, because clearing the checks through a "Clearing House" is sooo fast.
But let's pretend things are as they were in the 70's and 80's and your check is getting cleared with a much slower process.
You need three banks to make it work, open an account in all three. Let's call them Bank A,B, and C respectively spread a ways apart across town. Go make deposit for $10K into Bank A FROM Bank B, then goto Bank B and deposit a $15K check FROM Bank C. Finally, go into Bank C again and deposit a $20K check FROM Bank A.
Are you confused yet??? You shouldn't be you're a slashdot reader!!!!
Remember the only thing that exists thus far are CHECKS, no cash. When Bank A sends a check to clear from Bank B, Bank B shows a nice fat deposit of $15K, so it clears it. Now, Bank B needs to clear it's deposit check and finds a nice fat account of $20K, so it clears it.
Now, in the mean time you have gone back into Bank A and withdrew 10K in CASH. Then you run across town and withdrawl $15K from Bank B in cash. Unfortunately, it is Bank C, when they go to clear a check for $20K from Bank A that gets stung.
Disclaimer: No, I haven't done this myself... I actually attended one of Franks Gig's as a Bank Teller (Mandatory training for security) in the 80's... He is REAL, the schemes back then ARE ALL plausible, and if HE hadn't gotten caught, many more banking institutions would have been stung!!
What happens when one hacks a computer system and exposes the weakness???? If the system admins have any intelligence they put effort into fixing and improving the system so that it doesn't happen again. This is exactly what Frank did! Not only did I get to meet him at one of his "Banking Security" conference gigs I immediately started cleaning up my own act as a Bank Teller in the 80's. As the lightbulb went on (it's rare but delightful) the criminal mind made sense. In the following months I *personally* stopped three "Bank Kiting" operations in excess of 30K. I was only 21 at the time and still in college. Read the book if you don't know what "Kiting" is. His book made quite an impression on me, however, I too noticed the discrepencies between his story on tape and the book. IMO - exposing the crime builds a better system! Hell, if I hadn't been caught stealing that Star Wars Light Saber when I was in junior high... where would I be now? I wasn't smart enough back then to learn to make a profit out of it ;-)