Because they are in one country and try and defraud people in a second country.

To put them in jail it would be necessary for the police in the target country to do a lot of paperwork and liaise with the police in the source country.

As each crime is only for a couple of hundred dollars each time the police probably can't be bothered with making the effort.

You must be new here. This is Slashdot, people don't read the articles before posting.

I was 6 years old and I was so scared of the Daleks I had to watch from behind my mother's chair.

In the 70s I was a teenager & the show was still pretty juvenile and had become self referential so not only did I outgrow it but it sowed the seeds of its own demise.

The 200x-201x version is much more aimed at an adult audience. I'd suggest starting with it.

Strangely enough there used to be which is why to this day my mobile has a confidential, unlisted number.

Sometime around 1993 to 1995 I bought my first mobile. The telephone company had this weird idea of publishing a paper white pages directory of mobile numbers and as in their minds mobiles were only for business use back then wanted me to pay to be in this directory.

When I said I wasn't prepared to pay the nice lady at the phone company call centre discovered that the only way to drop me from this directory was to make my phone confidential & unlisted where it stays to this day.

This means caller-id doesn't work on voice calls, but does show up on text messages. I suppose one day there could be a negative to this but until then I can't be bothered spending an hour on hold to have it done.

BTW I don't have the same phone, nor exactly the same number but somehow the setting always transfers

If an information site carries advertising but does not control that advertising (e.g. through a hands off use of adsense) and does not have a pressure to maximize advertising revenue then there is no reason I can see why it should affect information or bias.

This is especially so on Wikipedia where the editors and the foundation largely interact at arms length and nearly all communications and discussions are in public.

Wikipedia is run by a non-profit. I am a Wikipedia editor (same name there as here), and I would happily continue editing if Wikipedia had a small amount of advertising to pay server costs and the costs of running the foundation. Just as I make other donations to charities I support.

I'd rather see small Google style ads every day than those ugly banners for a couple of months a year solid

He's been researching cyber jihadists for 3 years.

Those guys don't normally disappear their enemies, bombs are more their style.

Agreee totally, if facebook want to read everyone's emails they should have to finance their own Streetview cars.

The manufacturers don't have an obligation under the GPL to supply you or any other member of the general public with the source code. They only have an obligation to supply Telstra with the source code.

Telstra, in turn, have an obligation to supply their customers with the source code on request and for a price that covers their actual costs of supplying that source code.

Branding is irrelevant here.

Maybe, but if you hadn't made your post I never would have thought of mine which we both got a good laugh out of. So teamwork strikes again and we both win.

After all, she can see outer space from her back porch.

I think this is all overblown and unnecessary paranoia.

I've got a lot of domains registered and don't get much more spam on the email addresses I use for registration than I do on my personal email address (Which has never been publicly used on a web-site or for domain registrations)

My partner is a cuddly lady who does fatagrams (partial nudity at stag and birthday parties) and we have the domain name fatagrams.com registered. We've never had any problems related to the domain name.

One C++ shop I worked in we used to have a short sample C++ program (~~ 2 pages long) that was deliberately written to contain a large number of problems, many obvious and some quite subtle. It was an "Animals" style example program so manifestly not production code. We asked candidates to examine the program and find as many of these problems as they could then suggest better ways of achieving the same thing.

We weren't terribly interested in how many problems they actually found but were vitally interested in how they approached the analysis and how deeply they understood object orientated design and the C++ version of that paradigm.

It was great fun to write and we eliminated quite a few posers with this tool.

I can see to this puppy are the low weight and the fact you can fold it up into a small parcel, otherwise it might as well be a Sinclair C5. I commute by pushbike and wouldn't use something like this for commuting myself, but a few years back I used to commute by public transport to a point 2 or 3 km from work then used a child's folding scooter for the final leg, so in a city like London where people travel ridiculous distances by train to somewhere near their work I can see a slight advantage on both fine days of the English summer. They need to get the price down and increase the range to be taken seriously though.