If you are not dumb, you do this kind of job only once or twice. You cover all tracks. And, holy Moses, you don't use your own company to send out e-mails and CDs with the malware.
1.The author of these trojans tried to sell them to police (and was turned down because police found out that he was selling cracker stuff). 2.He sold his trojan package to couple of "security" agencies who went ahead and stole data from several rich companies to re-sell them to the highest bidder. 3. The trojan author also used his "expertise" to steal and publish a book from his ex-father-in law.
Clearly, this guy must have been eager to get in jail. He was lucky - he could have got whacked instead.
Do you have your vision fully conceptualized? Do you have defined clear go-nogo checkpoints on your flowchart to facilitate your decision-making process? You may need a consultant.
Imagination is not enough, the bad guys need the actual expertise. Islamists have so far demonstrated expertise in blowing things up and slaying the hosties. What I have seen about their computer skills and their attempts to build biological, chemical and nuclear weapons left me very unimpressed.
Net security is important - but for God sake first make secure the liquified natural gas terminals! There are proposals for building several new giant port terminals in US which would accept tanker-sized ships filled with cryogenic liquid natural gas. It is not that difficult to invade such a tanker and blow holes in the tanks to spill the content into the port.
Unlike oil or gasoline fire, liquified gas fire cannot be extinguished - the stuff has to burn out by itself. Also, burning liquified gas spills over water surface with incredible speed. Any port where the liquified tanker was spilled would be fried crisp. Nothing virtual about this kind of Pearl Harbor.
but my shiny aluminized home keeps the neighbours away. They used to come complaining about my stereo a lot when I was playing "Careful with the axe, Eugene"
Anyone who worked for a large corporation can tell you just that: People with lobotomy are not funny.
(Some of them are scary, too. When you hear "de-emphasize, bottleneck, go-nogo and cutting-edge" you run: it means that some zombies got "outside the box" and are looking for victims to infect.)
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Comparison to US is misleading.
The average salaries in Europe are lower compared to US but overall cost is higher because of HUGE hidden taxes. It works like this: A company wants to give your employee a bonus, say 1000 euro, but the company will have to pay additional 800 euro to the government also. If the real taxation was included in the paystub, the average salary taxation level would be around 60-70%.
Kids in a second grade class in Brunswick, Germany were asked to sum all integers from 1 to 100. That should have kept them busy for a while but some 8-year old boy - son of a peasant gardener - said in bored voice: "the result is 5050 of course, 50 times 101 ". His name was Gauss.
"UK government's latest policy to tackle obesity - through... pioneering scheme, which utilises the newly introduced wipe-card latrines to create a system of the 'better you eat, the bigger the treat'."
in school cantina, you often do not want to eat stuff that looks like it dropped on the bottom of the food pyramid. Haver you seen what goes there under name of fruit, salad?
In Limburg, Belgium, they have pilot program trying to swich kids from Cola to...beer. Low alcohol low calory version of it. The dark kidbeer is especialy popular. iPods are not included.
There are so many things that makes your drinking unpleasurable: wild mushrooms (of the wrong kind), dithiuram (rubber chemical additive now used to treat alcoholics) but the problem is that all these agents do nothing about alcohol craving. People who are supposed to use them learn soon to avoid them so that they can continue drinking without feeling miserable from it.
Also, giving a mega dose of flavone plant extract to alcoholics seems like trench warfare waged on patient's liver.
I am more interested in IR spectroscopy probes. In old times you had to take (a moisture-sensitive) cell out from a dessicator and fill it up with your sample to take IR spectra. The sample had to be completely filtered and reasonably transparent.
Now they sell instruments with a pen-like probe that you can stick into a murky sludge, even a boiling nasty corrosive one - you don't have to take any sample out, you just monitor your chemistry on the fly. The only problem is the cost - these probes use a window made from a high-grade colorless diamond. Not every natural diamond has a good IR transparency so they have to be selected. Cheap synthetics made by vapor deposition is the way to go.
Bleach. Quite normal Chlorox bleach but less alkaline, less salty and more diluted. As alkalinity of common chlorine bleach is what keeps bleach stable and alkaline desinfectant is undesireable, they had to come up with way to stabilize bleach at neutral pH.
Most of the "scientific" explanation of their technology is a nice example of salesman gobledygook:
"Microcyn(TM) technology is a pH-neutral, super-oxidized water that contains "oxidizing species" generated by the electrolysis of sodium chloride and water. During this patented multi-chamber electrolysis process, these molecules are pulled apart and ions are formed. While this process in the past would typically produce an effective, yet unstable product, the revolutionary Microcyn(TM) technology enhances this process by selectively retaining specific species to produce super-oxidized water that has an extended shelf life. The ions retained by the Microcyn(TM) technology are the basis for innovative wound management products."
Basicaly, they found a useful formulation of a common bleach. Since using bleach for wound disinfection is not patentable, they have to dress it up as a magic technology.
If you look up the background of the management and advisory board, they have a lot of people from surgery and wound infection involved, so I think they maybe have something useful. Also, they are moving ahead with a cancer drug candidate - my guess is that they have licenced this drug in. Maybe they are just one of these virtual companies with a management/scientist ratio >10:1.
With UFO sighting in decline, I think one should be able to make something more high-tech than crop circles.
Metallized kevlar high altitude baloons were probably responsible for most UFO sightings. Airforce used lot of them from late 40s to analyse radioisotope falout from Soviet nukes. Close to sunset, metalized baloons make for realy impresive sightings.
That is correct. I have a koala bear with orange ears because of 3 small girls and a bag of cheetos.
We had a party at home, some friends brought their kids and the kids got bored with us. So they took a bag of cheetos and a stuffed koala into our bed. They called the koala Jonatan and I think they had good time. Next day, I brought some peroxide from the lab to bleech the bed sheets but Jonatan has to stay orange.
Tritium is the most expensive material (by weight) in modern nukes and the only reason why it is used there is that it greatly boosts the efficiency of the fission primaries. I don't know how much tritium costs, but one can produce by weight about 50times more weapon plutonium than tritium using the same neutron flux in the reactor.
In fact, tritium is so expensive that US some years back was selling few hundreds gramms of tritium to UK (so that they could replace decayed tritium in their nukes) and it was a big deal.
And the radiation safety: tritium is a real mess when ingested, it has high emission rate and looks just like regular hydrogen so it gets incorporated into tissues. And it is hard to detect because the produced beta is very soft - I worked in a lab where a colleague was using miligram quantities of tritiated (radiolabeled) chemicals and we were all pretty nervous about it. Each week we run swabs in the lab, putting it into scintilation mix to find out if places in the lab got contaminated, etc. Tritium-powered device does not belong into hands of public.
Pure (de-salted) water is *poorly* conductive but it will still conduct, depending on the voltage. I would suggest trying pure ethylene glycol (not antifreeze grade, more pure, without phosphate stabilisers)) - it should be less corrosive to metal parts than water. The stuff is unhealthy and will work only for low voltages. Polyfluorinated hydrocarbons have been mentioned before - the advantage is that they are great insulators and are unlikely to dissolve any plastics, and they are nontoxic The cost >1000$/kg is a problem. I worked also with some low-density silicone oil as heat transfer fluid but the stuff was pretty expensive too (about $100/L).
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Yes, the secret is out and Eval is dealing with the situation...And yes, the MIBs are mostly people.
It is happening elsewhere. With less publicity.
If you are not dumb, you do this kind of job only once or twice. You cover all tracks. And, holy Moses, you don't use your own company to send out e-mails and CDs with the malware.
1.The author of these trojans tried to sell them to police (and was turned down because police found out that he was selling cracker stuff).
2.He sold his trojan package to couple of "security" agencies who went ahead and stole data from several rich companies to re-sell them to the highest bidder.
3. The trojan author also used his "expertise" to steal and publish a book from his ex-father-in law.
Clearly, this guy must have been eager to get in jail. He was lucky - he could have got whacked instead.
Do you have your vision fully conceptualized? Do you have defined clear go-nogo checkpoints on your flowchart to facilitate your decision-making process? You may need a consultant.
Imagination is not enough, the bad guys need the actual expertise. Islamists have so far demonstrated expertise in blowing things up and slaying the hosties. What I have seen about their computer skills and their attempts to build biological, chemical and nuclear weapons left me very unimpressed.
Net security is important - but for God sake first make secure the liquified natural gas terminals! There are proposals for building several new giant port terminals in US which would accept tanker-sized ships filled with cryogenic liquid natural gas. It is not that difficult to invade such a tanker and blow holes in the tanks to spill the content into the port.
Unlike oil or gasoline fire, liquified gas fire cannot be extinguished - the stuff has to burn out by itself. Also, burning liquified gas spills over water surface with incredible speed. Any port where the liquified tanker was spilled would be fried crisp. Nothing virtual about this kind of Pearl Harbor.
but my shiny aluminized home keeps the neighbours away. They used to come complaining about my stereo a lot when I was playing "Careful with the axe, Eugene"
I don't like the sound of this. And the picture in the article - it is not a moon, Luke.
Anyone who worked for a large corporation can tell you just that: People with lobotomy are not funny.
(Some of them are scary, too. When you hear "de-emphasize, bottleneck, go-nogo and cutting-edge" you run: it means that some zombies got "outside the box" and are looking for victims to infect.)
Comparison to US is misleading.
The average salaries in Europe are lower compared to US but overall cost is higher because of HUGE hidden taxes. It works like this: A company wants to give your employee a bonus, say 1000 euro, but the company will have to pay additional 800 euro to the government also. If the real taxation was included in the paystub, the average salary taxation level would be around 60-70%.
Kids in a second grade class in Brunswick, Germany were asked to sum all integers from 1 to 100. That should have kept them busy for a while but some 8-year old boy - son of a peasant gardener - said in bored voice: "the result is 5050 of course, 50 times 101 ". His name was Gauss.
"UK government's latest policy to tackle obesity - through ... pioneering scheme, which utilises the newly introduced wipe-card latrines to create a system of the 'better you eat, the bigger the treat'."
"Ah, the pleasure of shutting down ads with nuclear weapons... It gives the concept of zapping an entirely new meaning!"
..... ......, concave satelite addboards are zapping you!
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in school cantina, you often do not want to eat stuff that looks like it dropped on the bottom of the food pyramid. Haver you seen what goes there under name of fruit, salad?
...beer. Low alcohol low calory version of it. The dark kidbeer is especialy popular. iPods are not included.
In Limburg, Belgium, they have pilot program trying to swich kids from Cola to
another possibility: a third-world farmer milking their cattle remotely by means of inexpensive, solar-powered Linux box
There are so many things that makes your drinking unpleasurable: wild mushrooms (of the wrong kind), dithiuram (rubber chemical additive now used to treat alcoholics) but the problem is that all these agents do nothing about alcohol craving. People who are supposed to use them learn soon to avoid them so that they can continue drinking without feeling miserable from it.
Also, giving a mega dose of flavone plant extract to alcoholics seems like trench warfare waged on patient's liver.
Real news would be if a hangover cure was found.
There is a sabotage that actualy works. It is legit, and it also helps your friends:
1)Go to a better place (in the same city if possible)
2) Hire away all productive people remaining in your former company.
There are 2 categories of employees. The sugary HR will eventualy find out that they now have only one.
I think he's doing fine - he can say: "We started with just 2 major flops and we are in the teraflop range now"
I am more interested in IR spectroscopy probes. In old times you had to take (a moisture-sensitive) cell out from a dessicator and fill it up with your sample to take IR spectra. The sample had to be completely filtered and reasonably transparent.
Now they sell instruments with a pen-like probe that you can stick into a murky sludge, even a boiling nasty corrosive one - you don't have to take any sample out, you just monitor your chemistry on the fly. The only problem is the cost - these probes use a window made from a high-grade colorless diamond. Not every natural diamond has a good IR transparency so they have to be selected. Cheap synthetics made by vapor deposition is the way to go.
Bleach. Quite normal Chlorox bleach but less alkaline, less salty and more diluted. As alkalinity of common chlorine bleach is what keeps bleach stable and alkaline desinfectant is undesireable, they had to come up with way to stabilize bleach at neutral pH.
Most of the "scientific" explanation of their technology is a nice example of salesman gobledygook:
"Microcyn(TM) technology is a pH-neutral, super-oxidized water that contains "oxidizing species" generated by the electrolysis of sodium chloride and water. During this patented multi-chamber electrolysis process, these molecules are pulled apart and ions are formed. While this process in the past would typically produce an effective, yet unstable product, the revolutionary Microcyn(TM) technology enhances this process by selectively retaining specific species to produce super-oxidized water that has an extended shelf life. The ions retained by the Microcyn(TM) technology are the basis for innovative wound management products."
Basicaly, they found a useful formulation of a common bleach. Since using bleach for wound disinfection is not patentable, they have to dress it up as a magic technology.
If you look up the background of the management and advisory board, they have a lot of people from surgery and wound infection involved, so I think they maybe have something useful. Also, they are moving ahead with a cancer drug candidate - my guess is that they have licenced this drug in. Maybe they are just one of these virtual companies with a management/scientist ratio >10:1.
With UFO sighting in decline, I think one should be able to make something more high-tech than crop circles.
Metallized kevlar high altitude baloons were probably responsible for most UFO sightings. Airforce used lot of them from late 40s to analyse radioisotope falout from Soviet nukes. Close to sunset, metalized baloons make for realy impresive sightings.
That is correct. I have a koala bear with orange ears because of 3 small girls and a bag of cheetos.
We had a party at home, some friends brought their kids and the kids got bored with us. So they took a bag of cheetos and a stuffed koala into our bed. They called the koala Jonatan and I think they had good time. Next day, I brought some peroxide from the lab to bleech the bed sheets but Jonatan has to stay orange.
The auroras were observed all the way to Arizona and California. That's pretty south. Look up the NOAA page.
I miss Arizona - the desert night sky there is the best that I have seen.
Tritium is the most expensive material (by weight) in modern nukes and the only reason why it is used there is that it greatly boosts the efficiency of the fission primaries. I don't know how much tritium costs, but one can produce by weight about 50times more weapon plutonium than tritium using the same neutron flux in the reactor.
In fact, tritium is so expensive that US some years back was selling few hundreds gramms of tritium to UK (so that they could replace decayed tritium in their nukes) and it was a big deal.
And the radiation safety: tritium is a real mess when ingested, it has high emission rate and looks just like regular hydrogen so it gets incorporated into tissues. And it is hard to detect because the produced beta is very soft - I worked in a lab where a colleague was using miligram quantities of tritiated (radiolabeled) chemicals and we were all pretty nervous about it. Each week we run swabs in the lab, putting it into scintilation mix to find out if places in the lab got contaminated, etc. Tritium-powered device does not belong into hands of public.
Pure (de-salted) water is *poorly* conductive but it will still conduct, depending on the voltage. I would suggest trying pure ethylene glycol (not antifreeze grade, more pure, without phosphate stabilisers)) - it should be less corrosive to metal parts than water. The stuff is unhealthy and will work only for low voltages. Polyfluorinated hydrocarbons have been mentioned before - the advantage is that they are great insulators and are unlikely to dissolve any plastics, and they are nontoxic The cost >1000$/kg is a problem. I worked also with some low-density silicone oil as heat transfer fluid but the stuff was pretty expensive too (about $100/L).
"Watch out for the next few centuries though. They'll be among the most exciting highlights of the entire multi-billion-year record."
Maybe I'm just lazy, but I like to leave it to my grandchildren. I can buy them a hill to build their house on.