In 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (the author of The Little Prince) took off on a routine mission and vanished. Rumours and speculations ran rampart, amongst which there was a talk of suicide and not wanting to be ever found. Over 50 years later the wreckage of his plane was found in a location very different from the route he was supposed to take, with no additional damage besides that caused by the crash (World War II was raging at the time, just FYI), adding credence to the suicide theory.
Hopefully, this will not be the case on this occasion.
The idea is to carry out a commercial transaction that looks legit so you (the seller) can say "I got this income from selling that" or you (the buyer) "I spent that amount buying this", notwithstanding that a hammer was bought for $4,000 (oops, wrong example, that's the military, sorry;) ).
Didn't you hear about the Chinese-turned-Mexican that's giving the Mexican Government major headaches and how the FBI nabbed him after he requested political asylum in the USA? Seems the Feds caught wind that the drug cartels were giving the man big wads of money to go to Las Vegas and LOSE in the casinos. Of course, not just any casino...
We've been hashing out how Joe McThief is pawning off the stuff he stole using eBay's gullible bidders.
How about money laundering?
Here's a quick example: USB flash drives. Small or large, we all have one, right? Nowadays, 1GB are going for around $15, 2GB around $25, 4GB around $40, 8GB around $55, 16GB around $75, a few 32GB for $100: there's a linear progression of the prices as the devices double in size. However, suddenly some "shop" starts offering 64GB drives for $5,000!!! FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Heck, you can buy a high-end portable with 180GB of internal HD for that kind of money!
Try and convince me that this is not some sort of money laundering scheme...
Will Hugo Chavez' stated goal of dragging Venezuela into a socialist/communist 'heaven' alter Verizon's focus and plans of dumping "low profit" rural business?
After all, he has stated that amongst the first steps he plans to take is expropiating/nationalizing the phone company, which is owned by Verizon (first financial hit) and we know how dictator wannabes never pay fair or full market price for the stuff they appropiate (second financial hit).
Or is the Venezuelan telco small peanuts to Verizon's global interests?
> American born students don't generally tolerate that sort of uninspiring data entry job.
Nope, it's much worse. The average American teen of the MTV generation is quite incapable of focusing their attention to anything for more than a couple of minutes, so any such mental endeavour is quite beyond their grasp.
What percentage of the population is given to reading profound books (not mind-numbing shit like the Harry Potter series)? Sit, listen and comprehend a full Beethoven symphony? Not to mention doing an in-depth analysis of the latest technological trends for, say, long term data storage, without just popping up a cliche and buzzword strewn, PowerPoint-bullet riddled presentation?
Nah, it's more "fun" to sit and watch yet another brain-cell decaying reality show featuring morons just like yourself.
While some high-end GPS receivers, especially those for outdoor use, come with magnetic compass functionality, most will give you a heading compass that will tell you where you are going. It only works when you are in motion but is far more accurate than a magnetic, since it is not offset by magnetic anomalies along the way.
After the initial shock & awe, a few brewskys later and a cooler
head, the "cataclismic" event that really happened to Apple a few years
back and was just announced today is of little consequence.
Really !
By the time the "transitioning" is over, we'll have passed the Hubbert oil peak for sure and
having the very latest in high speed portable computing will not matter
anymore to most of us, since we will be more preoccupied with finding
enough rats and stray dogs to eat and survive one more
miserable day.
So relax, play some good vibes on your iPod, download some of the good
OSS software around and enjoy. Heck, if you've a few extra bucks,
indulge yourself and buy the best and biggest PPC Mac you've been
craving. After we go over the edge, it all won't matter anymore...
Yeah, I'm tired of all this b.s. as well. Just had to pay $140 bucks on a new OSX because it was supposed to be the Next Best Thing, only to discover that it is incompatible with about 4/5ths of the software that I use AND I now have to pay again to upgrade all those (adding up, will be much more than $140.).
Now comes little Stevie and tells me that all this is going down the crapper in two years and get my wallet ready for it. Ok, I'm buying DELL from now on and getting all my students to contribute at least ONE significant piece of code to Open Source projects if they plan on passing my classes AND convincing my other CS colleagues this is the way to go. Apple will be irrelevant in a couple of years: Gil Amelio will be so pleased.
We should've seen it coming, when it was apparent they were going to run out of cats. Is Lion going to be the last PPC OSX ?
Amen to that! Or, it just may be that his post is only the ceremonial position of "official scapegoat" that takes the fall when the poop really hits the propeller blades...
Short recipe for the cure (provided he IS the admin):
Get an extra PC on the backbone of the network, so it can monitor
all the traffic. Anything bigger than a x486 is good enough, say with
128MB or more of RAM.
Install OpenBSD ( http://www.openbsd.org/ ) on it (most hardened
free OS around, so the hackers can't take you down so easily).
Install SNORT ( http://www.snort.org/ ) on it. Configure to work
as a network IDS and keep it up to date with the latest
vulnerability/virus plugins.
Once SNORT gets wind of an infected machine, set it to do one of
three things:
If you have the tech skills to set it up, have SNORT block out
the switch port where the offending PC is plugged in AND send you a
message. When the owner cleans up their act, reactivate the port and
restore connectivity.
Else, have SNORT send you a message with all the details and
YOU do the port blocking, if you can. The rest proceeds as above.
Else, have SNORT send you a message so you can bitch whomever
has the capability to block the port. The rest proceeds as above.
If your authority is so puny that you cannot do any of these
things, you could resort to sending out a mail to all the rest of the
users of the network, and letting them know who the miscreant screwing
up their connectivity is, and let peer pressure do its thing...
I guess the post speaks for itself. Poster can't even spell correctly and rambles all over the place. The late, great Edsger Dijkstra, without whom Computer Sciences wouldn't be were they are today, steadfastly rejected word processors and the like, firmly convinced that they lead to intellectual decay and turn you into a mental sloth.
Rather than getting your thoughts in order, really thinking thru what you need to express in its entirety, you mindlessly type away whatever pops into your head along the way, since after all you can always "can come back a day later" and "maybe rewrite that entire sentance as it is currently redundant". Sure, if you're handwriting something and you don't want to do it over, YOU HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. That takes discipline, focus and concentration, which many people today are sadly incapable of doing.
But, heck, cheer up! We're the MTV Generation! Who wants to concentrate longer than a 80-second sound bite?
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In 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (the author of The Little Prince) took off on a routine mission and vanished. Rumours and speculations ran rampart, amongst which there was a talk of suicide and not wanting to be ever found. Over 50 years later the wreckage of his plane was found in a location very different from the route he was supposed to take, with no additional damage besides that caused by the crash (World War II was raging at the time, just FYI), adding credence to the suicide theory.
Hopefully, this will not be the case on this occasion.
Missed the point entirely.
;) ).
The idea is to carry out a commercial transaction that looks legit so you (the seller) can say "I got this income from selling that" or you (the buyer) "I spent that amount buying this", notwithstanding that a hammer was bought for $4,000 (oops, wrong example, that's the military, sorry
Didn't you hear about the Chinese-turned-Mexican that's giving the Mexican Government major headaches and how the FBI nabbed him after he requested political asylum in the USA? Seems the Feds caught wind that the drug cartels were giving the man big wads of money to go to Las Vegas and LOSE in the casinos. Of course, not just any casino...
We've been hashing out how Joe McThief is pawning off the stuff he stole using eBay's gullible bidders. How about money laundering? Here's a quick example: USB flash drives. Small or large, we all have one, right? Nowadays, 1GB are going for around $15, 2GB around $25, 4GB around $40, 8GB around $55, 16GB around $75, a few 32GB for $100: there's a linear progression of the prices as the devices double in size. However, suddenly some "shop" starts offering 64GB drives for $5,000!!! FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Heck, you can buy a high-end portable with 180GB of internal HD for that kind of money! Try and convince me that this is not some sort of money laundering scheme...
Will Hugo Chavez' stated goal of dragging Venezuela into a socialist/communist 'heaven' alter Verizon's focus and plans of dumping "low profit" rural business?
After all, he has stated that amongst the first steps he plans to take is expropiating/nationalizing the phone company, which is owned by Verizon (first financial hit) and we know how dictator wannabes never pay fair or full market price for the stuff they appropiate (second financial hit).
Or is the Venezuelan telco small peanuts to Verizon's global interests?
> American born students don't generally tolerate that sort of uninspiring data entry job.
Nope, it's much worse. The average American teen of the MTV generation is quite incapable of focusing their attention to anything for more than a couple of minutes, so any such mental endeavour is quite beyond their grasp.
What percentage of the population is given to reading profound books (not mind-numbing shit like the Harry Potter series)? Sit, listen and comprehend a full Beethoven symphony? Not to mention doing an in-depth analysis of the latest technological trends for, say, long term data storage, without just popping up a cliche and buzzword strewn, PowerPoint-bullet riddled presentation?
Nah, it's more "fun" to sit and watch yet another brain-cell decaying reality show featuring morons just like yourself.
While some high-end GPS receivers, especially those for outdoor use, come with magnetic compass functionality, most will give you a heading compass that will tell you where you are going. It only works when you are in motion but is far more accurate than a magnetic, since it is not offset by magnetic anomalies along the way.
After the initial shock & awe, a few brewskys later and a cooler head, the "cataclismic" event that really happened to Apple a few years back and was just announced today is of little consequence.
Really !
By the time the "transitioning" is over, we'll have passed the Hubbert oil peak for sure and having the very latest in high speed portable computing will not matter anymore to most of us, since we will be more preoccupied with finding enough rats and stray dogs to eat and survive one more miserable day.
So relax, play some good vibes on your iPod, download some of the good OSS software around and enjoy. Heck, if you've a few extra bucks, indulge yourself and buy the best and biggest PPC Mac you've been craving. After we go over the edge, it all won't matter anymore...
Yeah, I'm tired of all this b.s. as well. Just had to pay $140 bucks on a new OSX because it was supposed to be the Next Best Thing, only to discover that it is incompatible with about 4/5ths of the software that I use AND I now have to pay again to upgrade all those (adding up, will be much more than $140.). Now comes little Stevie and tells me that all this is going down the crapper in two years and get my wallet ready for it. Ok, I'm buying DELL from now on and getting all my students to contribute at least ONE significant piece of code to Open Source projects if they plan on passing my classes AND convincing my other CS colleagues this is the way to go. Apple will be irrelevant in a couple of years: Gil Amelio will be so pleased. We should've seen it coming, when it was apparent they were going to run out of cats. Is Lion going to be the last PPC OSX ?
- Get an extra PC on the backbone of the network, so it can monitor
all the traffic. Anything bigger than a x486 is good enough, say with
128MB or more of RAM.
- Install OpenBSD ( http://www.openbsd.org/ ) on it (most hardened
free OS around, so the hackers can't take you down so easily).
- Install SNORT ( http://www.snort.org/ ) on it. Configure to work
as a network IDS and keep it up to date with the latest
vulnerability/virus plugins.
- Once SNORT gets wind of an infected machine, set it to do one of
three things:
-
- If you have the tech skills to set it up, have SNORT block out
the switch port where the offending PC is plugged in AND send you a
message. When the owner cleans up their act, reactivate the port and
restore connectivity.
- Else, have SNORT send you a message with all the details and
YOU do the port blocking, if you can. The rest proceeds as above.
- Else, have SNORT send you a message so you can bitch whomever
has the capability to block the port. The rest proceeds as above.
- If your authority is so puny that you cannot do any of these
things, you could resort to sending out a mail to all the rest of the
users of the network, and letting them know who the miscreant screwing
up their connectivity is, and let peer pressure do its thing...
Good luck!I guess the post speaks for itself. Poster can't even spell correctly and rambles all over the place. The late, great Edsger Dijkstra, without whom Computer Sciences wouldn't be were they are today, steadfastly rejected word processors and the like, firmly convinced that they lead to intellectual decay and turn you into a mental sloth.
Rather than getting your thoughts in order, really thinking thru what you need to express in its entirety, you mindlessly type away whatever pops into your head along the way, since after all you can always "can come back a day later" and "maybe rewrite that entire sentance as it is currently redundant". Sure, if you're handwriting something and you don't want to do it over, YOU HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. That takes discipline, focus and concentration, which many people today are sadly incapable of doing.
But, heck, cheer up! We're the MTV Generation! Who wants to concentrate longer than a 80-second sound bite?
You also have the option of using the Network Security Toolkit, which is based on Fedora Core 2, and is available here: http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.ht ml
They've just released an update, v1.2.0.