Agreed. At the very least, this needs a small description of each distro, like you find at Linux.org. Primary language, purpose (firewall, general, app development, etc). This appears to be a good BT place to get what you already know about.
Hezbollah and Hamas sympathizers, conducting highly profitable, illegal operations. Where do YOU think all that money is going? They're not making donations to the local PTA.
From the article: "...stop of a suspect at LAX by U.S. Customs Officers.
Strapped to the suspect's body was more than $230,000 in cash. The suspect told the
Customs Officers that she was enroute to Lebanon for "vacation." Information was developed
that the suspect owned a chain of cigarette shops. Service of search warrants led to the
seizure of more than 1,000 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes, an additional $70,000 in cash as
well as wire transfers to banks throughout the world."
"...in 2004, detectives served a multi-location IPR related search warrant. During the course
of the investigation, detectives located a photo album. Within the photo album were dozens of
pictures of attendees at a fund raising event for the Holy Land Foundation. When questioned
about the album, the suspect said that the Holy Land Foundation was not a terrorist funding
operation. When I informed the suspect that the United States government had shut down the
charity because of its alleged support of Hamas, the suspect replied that the United States
government was stupid and would do anything the Jews told them."
That looks like a pretty good start to me. Note that this is no different than illegal operations in Boston sending money to the IRA. Or Basque sympathizers in Madrid sending money to ETA.
It's probably not the actual 'terrorists' standing on the street corner selling bootleg DVD's or smokes to fund their operations. But you can bet that some of that money finds it's way to Hamas, via useful fools.
I've ridden a couple of these elec bikes, and currently they are less than ideal as compared to a regular bike.
Weight - at 70-80 lbs, parking becomes much more of an issue. I can take my regular bike up a flight of stairs to my office. One of these might well have to live outside. That can be fixed by inventive parking areas, but it is still a concern.
Range - pray you're not out somewhere and run out of battery. The aforementioned battery and motor weight then becomes a real bear. In the right environment, though, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Just don't go too far.
As battery and motor tech improves, these concerns will fade. But I'll continue to ride my regular bike for now.
What does it matter if the source is legal or illegal?
It requires different solutions. In the context of this article by the police Lt., he is concerned with the counterfeit goods being sold and that money being funneled to [whomever]. There is nothing he personally can do about Middle East government money being funneled to terrorists. He can, however, arrest people selling counterfeit goods.
But if your argument is that the terrorist revenue from black market DVDs sold on street corners is even close to equal the revenue from illegal drug sales, then you're high. On illegal drugs. Which means YOU are the terrorist!
No idea how you got that from what I said. Hell yes some oil revenue gets funneled to terrorists. And I'd be very surprised if it didn't dwarf any funds from oil. But stopping that requires a completely different solution. At a level far about a policemans paygrade.
Oh yeah...very true. There have a wide range of funding sources.
But also, look at their recent record. No large scale operations outside of their local area. Are they that crippled (organizationally and financially) or are they just saving up for the next big one?
More than money drives terrorism. But as with any other organization, they need money to oeprate.
What the police Lt is talking about is high gain, low risk illegal funding operations. Selling CD, dvd, video cassettes, counterfeit clothing, cigarettes. The guy on the corner with a rack of 'new releases'.
Did his task force catch some pretty large organizations? Evidently so. Links to 'terrorism'? Tenuous at best, and then only as a funding source by 'sympathizers'. Much as the IRA was/is funded in part by 'sympathizers' in Boston.
Do these clowns need to be busted? Yes, of course. Flying to Lebanon with $230,000 in cash strapped to your body is more than a bit suspicious. But these operations are already illegal. We don't need further laws to catch these guys, just enforce the ones on the books already.
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I've done similar with the family, and it's just a matter of organization and familial compromise.
"Meet us at X at 4:30."
And if you have to carry some sort of receiver (phone, GPS, PDA) to show where the other party is, why not a cell phone or walkie talkie? Convey far more information than just knowing 'where'.
As a parent of 4 (2 ex teens and two current teens): Nope. Not a chance I'd ever consider using something like this.
Up until that 'certain age', they are either with you, at school, or at a friends. They are not generally out roaming by themselves.
So, you trust yourself and the people they are with, or you don't. And if you don't, why are the kids with those people?
Do kidnappings happen? Sure, rarely. But if these things become common, all the bad guy has to do is take the kids clothes off. Unless you implant it under the skin.
Oh please. That chain of events is so silly as to be worse than the current SCO antics.
Certain spreadsheets... Which ones? Identified how? You have specific information of exactly how they compute cost/earnings?
Buy a small manufacturer of CDROMS Uh, yeah. OK.
Sell the resultant equipment... How many corps buy individual CDROM drives? How do you convince them to buy yours? Keep other companies from buying your borked CDROM drives?
Wait four years... By which time they will most likely have changed Excel versions
until the target co. thinks it's solvent What? No discrepancy noticed by the accounting office? An outside financial evaluation? No accountant working at home on an unborked drive? Right.
Invest $10M to be able to blackmail another company? Sure...that'll work well.
You forgot Step 4.5: Pay off everyone involved so someone doesn't spill the beans.
+1 Interesting? Only if you think SCO or Enron's actions are viable corporate strategies.
My point was if you use mainly Linux apps, why not actually jump to Linux?
Open source is not Linux. Open source applications such as Firefox, Apache, GIMP, are applications, that happen to run on a variety of operating systems.
Then, if they are going to host the data, why bother pressing the physical CD in the first place. Just sell the data via download...:)
Topps does this sort of thing with their 'limited edition' sports trading cards. You can buy a 'card' and they 'keep it in their warehouse'. You can buy, sell, trade, whatever. Yeah right. You are buying a row in a db, until you want it actually printed out and mailed. (I have no verification of this, but if I were the eTopps guy, that's what I would do. And that's what it looks like.)
Yep, with draconian laws like the DMCA in place, people being sued through quasi-legal methods by the **AA, and DRM that is increasinly becoming more restrictive (and in many cases denying the consumer the right of fair use,)
Is any of that stuff working? Have any of their idiotic DRM schemes not been circumvented? Has file swapping ceased and I didn't notice?
It's fine for them to protect their content but it's also fine for citizens of the United States to practice fair-use. There has to be a balance whether the music industry likes it or not.
Very true. There has to be a balance. Currently, the balance is in favor of file swappers, via ever more inventive technology. The music industry is trying (and failing) to restrict that through various DRM schemes and lawsuits.
Overly restrictive DRM goes against fair use. And so does wholesale file swapping with everyone online. A sustainable balance means both sides are going to have to give a little.
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Agreed. At the very least, this needs a small description of each distro, like you find at Linux.org. Primary language, purpose (firewall, general, app development, etc). This appears to be a good BT place to get what you already know about.
Where do YOU think all that money is going? They're not making donations to the local PTA.
From the article:
"...stop of a suspect at LAX by U.S. Customs Officers. Strapped to the suspect's body was more than $230,000 in cash. The suspect told the Customs Officers that she was enroute to Lebanon for "vacation." Information was developed that the suspect owned a chain of cigarette shops. Service of search warrants led to the seizure of more than 1,000 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes, an additional $70,000 in cash as well as wire transfers to banks throughout the world."
"...in 2004, detectives served a multi-location IPR related search warrant. During the course of the investigation, detectives located a photo album. Within the photo album were dozens of pictures of attendees at a fund raising event for the Holy Land Foundation. When questioned about the album, the suspect said that the Holy Land Foundation was not a terrorist funding operation. When I informed the suspect that the United States government had shut down the charity because of its alleged support of Hamas, the suspect replied that the United States government was stupid and would do anything the Jews told them."
That looks like a pretty good start to me.
Note that this is no different than illegal operations in Boston sending money to the IRA. Or Basque sympathizers in Madrid sending money to ETA.
It's probably not the actual 'terrorists' standing on the street corner selling bootleg DVD's or smokes to fund their operations. But you can bet that some of that money finds it's way to Hamas, via useful fools.
Weight - at 70-80 lbs, parking becomes much more of an issue. I can take my regular bike up a flight of stairs to my office. One of these might well have to live outside. That can be fixed by inventive parking areas, but it is still a concern.
Range - pray you're not out somewhere and run out of battery. The aforementioned battery and motor weight then becomes a real bear. In the right environment, though, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Just don't go too far.
As battery and motor tech improves, these concerns will fade. But I'll continue to ride my regular bike for now.
Because it requires a completely different approach to stopping it. Something completely outside the sphere of influence of a police Lt.
Didn't say it was OK, or didn't need to be stopped. Just realize that this particular guy can't do anything about it.
It requires different solutions. In the context of this article by the police Lt., he is concerned with the counterfeit goods being sold and that money being funneled to [whomever]. There is nothing he personally can do about Middle East government money being funneled to terrorists. He can, however, arrest people selling counterfeit goods.
But if your argument is that the terrorist revenue from black market DVDs sold on street corners is even close to equal the revenue from illegal drug sales, then you're high. On illegal drugs. Which means YOU are the terrorist!
No idea how you got that from what I said. Hell yes some oil revenue gets funneled to terrorists. And I'd be very surprised if it didn't dwarf any funds from oil. But stopping that requires a completely different solution. At a level far about a policemans paygrade.
But also, look at their recent record. No large scale operations outside of their local area. Are they that crippled (organizationally and financially) or are they just saving up for the next big one?
More than money drives terrorism. But as with any other organization, they need money to oeprate.
Selling oil isn't illegal. Cutting off that source of funding requires a whole different approach.
Some of these operations include selling pirated DVD's on the street corner.
The police Lt is concerned with his little part of the world, which encompasses the sale of illegal goods (DVD, clothing, cigarettes).
As with any other organization...cut off the income, and their operations dry up.
Did his task force catch some pretty large organizations? Evidently so.
Links to 'terrorism'? Tenuous at best, and then only as a funding source by 'sympathizers'. Much as the IRA was/is funded in part by 'sympathizers' in Boston.
Do these clowns need to be busted? Yes, of course. Flying to Lebanon with $230,000 in cash strapped to your body is more than a bit suspicious. But these operations are already illegal. We don't need further laws to catch these guys, just enforce the ones on the books already.
"Meet us at X at 4:30."
And if you have to carry some sort of receiver (phone, GPS, PDA) to show where the other party is, why not a cell phone or walkie talkie? Convey far more information than just knowing 'where'.
Nope. Not a chance I'd ever consider using something like this.
Up until that 'certain age', they are either with you, at school, or at a friends. They are not generally out roaming by themselves.
So, you trust yourself and the people they are with, or you don't. And if you don't, why are the kids with those people?
Do kidnappings happen? Sure, rarely. But if these things become common, all the bad guy has to do is take the kids clothes off. Unless you implant it under the skin.
What they are coded in makes no difference.
'more educated' != smart.
Certain spreadsheets...
Which ones? Identified how? You have specific information of exactly how they compute cost/earnings?
Buy a small manufacturer of CDROMS
Uh, yeah. OK.
Sell the resultant equipment...
How many corps buy individual CDROM drives? How do you convince them to buy yours?
Keep other companies from buying your borked CDROM drives?
Wait four years...
By which time they will most likely have changed Excel versions
until the target co. thinks it's solvent
What? No discrepancy noticed by the accounting office? An outside financial evaluation? No accountant working at home on an unborked drive? Right.
Invest $10M to be able to blackmail another company? Sure...that'll work well.
You forgot Step 4.5: Pay off everyone involved so someone doesn't spill the beans.
+1 Interesting? Only if you think SCO or Enron's actions are viable corporate strategies.
So there is nothing in between Paint and Photoshop? Stand by while I laugh my ass off at that thought.
Open source is not Linux. Open source applications such as Firefox, Apache, GIMP, are applications, that happen to run on a variety of operating systems.
Topps does this sort of thing with their 'limited edition' sports trading cards. You can buy a 'card' and they 'keep it in their warehouse'. You can buy, sell, trade, whatever. Yeah right. You are buying a row in a db, until you want it actually printed out and mailed.
(I have no verification of this, but if I were the eTopps guy, that's what I would do. And that's what it looks like.)
The one who thought that functionality would be perfect for a corporate intranet. (not thinking about the rest of the asshats in the world)
Uh-huh
Sure. (Not technically without an OS, but a floppy in the carton with FreeDOS is about as OS-free as you can get)
Whatever you say.
Is any of that stuff working? Have any of their idiotic DRM schemes not been circumvented? Has file swapping ceased and I didn't notice?
People understand it just fine. They just ignore it for their own convienience.
Very true. There has to be a balance. Currently, the balance is in favor of file swappers, via ever more inventive technology. The music industry is trying (and failing) to restrict that through various DRM schemes and lawsuits.
Overly restrictive DRM goes against fair use. And so does wholesale file swapping with everyone online. A sustainable balance means both sides are going to have to give a little.
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