'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on
The thing I'm really struggling with is why on Earth would anyone do such a thing
It sounds like a case of Munchausen syndrome
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by proxy!
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That joke was bad and you should feel bad
'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on
The thing I'm really struggling with is why on Earth would anyone do such a thing
As others have pointed out it is possible to deduce where genes are by looking at the sequence however this is by no means straightforward DNA is spaghetti code of the very worst kind.
It is possible to "run the DNA to see what it produces", basically when a (DNA) gene is active copy's of its sequence are made in messenger RNA (mRNA, its like DNA but much less stable) the mRNA copy's are perhaps akin to compiled code as there is a fair amount of rearrangement that goes on before its '3D printed' in protein.
Now its possible to take the mash up cells or tissue extract the mRNA convert it back to DNA (stabilising it) then sequence the different DNA molecules to find out what genes are active in a given tissue.
Mapping the sequences back to the genes is not straight forward, genes can exist in multiple identical or near identical copy's making it hard to map back, some genes never express or only express under very specific circumstances or only in certain people
I guess the sun doesn't work in space...why not create greenhouses and use the sun to grow plants rather than create some overly complex system?
Perhaps its something to do with the 2 week lunar night that a lunar colony would experience.
Because pissing people off is an effective way to get them to leave you alone.
The people being pissed off are already radically pissed off, a little trolling is not going to make much difference... OTOH making them appear aggressive and irrational online should make it harder to groom new recruits.
Sounds very reasonable to me; better than having it go to the profit of some private business.
You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?
You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?
OK so what your saying here is that the banks lose money maintaining my bank account?
Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.
Exactly what liability are the banks taking for the money? This is actual real money, not dependent on the health of the CEO or the wizardary of finance guy. On top of that the capital sum is getting less and less valuable as inflation chips away at it. $1000 in 1912 was a years and a half pay now its a weeks pay. As long as the interest rate is lower than inflation the bank can make a profit because they only have to return the same amount of currency not the same value of currency.
A bulk purchase of low capacity but nice looking keydrives could easily be less than $1 a pop... for that sort of money I could see a mass (snail)mailing of malware being quite feasible...
Targeted advertising data could be used to select young, affluent, non-techical types, perhaps package the drive as a free trial version of a music/movie download service even have a slick looking website with the 'viewing' software there as a free download.
18-25 year olds don't think bad things could happen to them.
On the bright side an 18-25 year old probably doesn't have much worth stealing.
Their credit rating is probably worth a bob or two
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