pakled_engineer

ISIS prefers foreign recruits, local recruits often want money, have to go home every year to help the harvest, and aren't willing to follow genocidal orders against their own people. This is all explained in the docs Der Spiegal got a hold of http://m.spiegel.de/international/world/a-1029274.html

ISIS is primarily made up of ex Saddam Hussein henchmen who know a lot about running a state.

Took about 2 years to catch them all but that was only due to the criminals having no idea how to fence their stolen loot http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spectacular-3...

There's still the occasional massive European airport heist http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/robbers-seize-50m... and other airport heists http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28770199

Big heists don't happen as much mainly due to benefit denial. Banks and armored cars don't carry the kinds of cash they used to, so robbing them isn't worth the risk, however it still is worth robbing an airport or shipping docks if you have inside help so that crime persists.

Here most advanced criminals just get into money laundering or counterfeiting, like that guy who served exactly zero time in prison for being caught with 100s of millions worth of phony USD http://www.gq.com/long-form/the-great-paper-caper

Differences in criminal supply chains are normal. In Canada it's mainly South Asian diaspora criminal networks who import heroin, so they source from India (Afghan heroin) as they have influence in India. US it's mainly Latino networks who import heroin and have influence in Mexico and Colombia to bribe police and dockworkers thus source from there.

Isn't this what they do in Germany? http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro...

You would have to triple welfare payments in order to test if idle people do great things as currently most people can't live off the paltry payments welfare gives. There's also hoops galore to jump through every month like applying for X amount of jobs and getting the interviewers to vouch you did in order to receive another cheque.

BI means you can afford to live. Welfare gives you a spot on a waiting list to get into a SRO dump full of drug addicts and $100 remainder to eat, buy hygiene products, and transportation for a month. Nobody can live off that so going to loan sharks, doing under the table exploitative labor and daily hustling are needed at least here in Canada.

Dudes trying to get swole inside usually trade junk food for more prison chow and milk with other inmates who cant get commissary, also weight stacks were removed in most state and fed yards like California, so they fill laundry bags with water in their cells as makeshift weights when guards aren't around.

There's apps that can read Qualcomm debugging to detect GSM encryption has changed like SnoopSnitch maybe CM has their own built in version but last I heard their kernel removed many proprietary drivers needed for the Nexus 5 to access Qualcomm DIAG.

Slightly offtopic but they use commissary food for currency in prisons as smoking was banned years ago. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122290720439096481

Mackerel was chosen since it's cost was closest to $1USD, and nobody wants to eat it. It also has unique markings so they can track down theft from each other.

It's basically (the older Samsung models) a Stingray detector, plus will shut down the device if activity is detected in the baseband CPU while the application CPU is dormant meaning shenanigans like SMS 'stealth' spamming is going on or evil OTA update.

You can always walk around with a portable hotspot and leave the phone on airplane mode. Only use textsecure/signal and download a free software reversed clone of Google services app to use GCM. If going to all this trouble to avoid targeted spying probably easier to just buy a chromebook with RockChip instead and use OTR or Signal whenever it comes out with desktop client (if not already, I haven't kept up with their current status of porting).

I use TAOCP on a regular basis where I work, I started writing DSLs for industrial systems then learned from TAOCP how to optimize memory of these embedded systems. We leaf through the pages whenever we can and always find something relevant to what we're working on. We also used just a few LOC for hand rolled Knuth in a customer app field engineers use to quickly find documentation that is so fast and accurate we get offers to buy it. As a result these corps all keep their ancient embedded systems that would cost multi millions to replace as we keep making them faster and more reliable.

Knuth is also a fan of abstracted programming languages like Literate programming which he claims without it he wouldn't have been able to create a lot of the exercises in recent TAOCP volumes so anybody declaring that if you're "just" a Java programmer you won't get any use out of the books are likely incorrect.

Cohen and Navin made a deal with the MPAA to remove links to illegal content on the official BitTorrent website which opened the door for 3rd party tracker sites like the piratebay to do so.

I imagine this will happen with OB the official app will be crippled by lawsuits but of course this all depends what they have told each other in private unencrypted emails and the dev mailing list. There's already a thread where Patterson advocates to recommend suggesting that developers talking about OpenBazaar with the public cite example products that are “illicit but socially acceptable" such as Fireworks and Radar Detectors. “Stuff that people wouldn’t disagree with but is technically illegal to sell because of stupid laws.” Seems nobody has learned from the Megaupload case how you can talk yourself into problems with overzealous prosecutors.

Of course the 'money' in this is abstracting away the complexities of Open Bazaar with your own app since their example GUI is pretty confounding. For example create a designer clothing app that only lists other designer clothing listings (to not scare away customers who discover a bunch of heroin for sale on OB with the regular GUI), then sell the ranking they appear in your app, or in app ads as a small example.

I don't like the Moderator rating system though, seems too easy to game and has too many worthless stages 1-5. Bitcoin-OTC ratings are more clear. The rating "This is a scam avoid at all costs" opens the door for legal issues of people trying to sue the developers like when Ebay gave up on negative feedback due to too many lawsuits. Of course there is also issues of governments trying to shut down this completely due to weapons and narcotics undoubtedly being sold on OB in the future, I assume the creators have a plan for dealing with that inevitable gov harassment.

The creators/maintainers should also be careful where they travel, if they fly to say, China, Indonesia or Turkey for any reasons they could be arrested there and pushed through a kangaroo court.

Frank & Oak ships a box full of men's clothing in Canada every season and you return what you don't want. I used to do this before just getting bespoke suits/shirts made. Rogue Territory denim in LA also has a good return policy and free hemming/repairs if you pay return shipping.

I've only been hosed trying to return broken fitness equip from Amazon, since I didn't bother reading the fine print about only allowing US domestic customer returns

Another way to learn is watch Charlie Miller reversing hardware presentations https://youtu.be/_9ErnoLVxCA

For example he notices a pattern, so assumes it must be a return after a function. From there he can reverse their proprietary battery controller

The gov cherry picked whole family refugees from Jordan, who left the fighting early in the civil war. They screened them for health problems, criminal records, education, ect. It's not masses of N African migrants flooding in through lawless Libya.

Christopher Hitchens gave some good speeches in Canada against censorship laws http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2014/09/30/christopher-...

Robert Jan van Pelt's testimony about the architectural plans of Nazi death camps in the David Irving libel trial is pretty fascinating. There is a documentary about his research, he takes the viewer through multiple plan revisions the Nazis made for these camps and shows how they even tried to hide the camp's true purpose from the people building it. http://documentaryaddict.com/films/auschwitz-the-blueprint-o...

Here's one example, cops ask gang to police their members http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=5ccc1c20-c1ef-4dc5-a4f9-... and shortly afterwards said members start "losing status" (getting killed) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/ex-hell... said member also ran a tender corp.

The prison beating lawsuits are all here http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/11/26/violent-attacks-in-...

There's also a well known illegal drugs shack called the "blackdoor" that operates with impunity because before they arrived the streets were a free for all of violence, during the Olympics the police asked them to close so the media wouldn't discover it and embarass them.

Then of course there was all the Quebec mafia corruption probes into illegal city tenders that went nowhere.

I'll post some later tonight when not swamped at work crunch time, what would end this is legalizing most of the black market since all you need to make a million dollars right now is a handful of drug delivery drivers and a couple of guns to shoot at and rob all the other drivers. Cities can then break up the entrenched corruption since they don't need a "boss crew" to keep order. Prisons won't be overcrowded with drug convictions either.

There will always be gangs but they won't have access to millions in capital to fund huge street wars thus less incentive for new recruits to join them.

Bikers have done this too, here they own development corps which are just rackets to exploit city tenders. Nobody else can bid or else you find your yards and equipment robbed or destroyed. Police don't do anything because propping up org crime is part of their management strategy of the failed war on drugs. Young violent upstarts who heat out the city with public shootings are better handled by the dominant org crime group so they let them racketeer it up so long as they promise to reign in the lesser groups that make the police look bad with public violence. Since these young upstarts need the money laundering services only mafia/bikers can provide on that scale they generally fall into line.

They also are propped up in the prison system in turn for helping the guards establish order in overcrowded units. Guards do set ups to make sure the dominant group always has an upper hand in any conflicts, like 4 associates being "accidentally" put in the same class/program with a rival of another group.

His AI strategy that doesn't use IF statements sounds influenced from the Sussman & Radul paper the Art of the Propagator. In this related course you also learn how to program AI decisions based on pattern matching like him giving space to a cyclist and the AI later doing the same https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/

Rojava is experimenting with decentralized power http://thelionsofrojava.com/index.php/what-you-can-do-here/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-uto...

They seldom use OTR, I think infraud (in fraud we trust) still uses a group server in Azerbaijan to cleartext chat on none of these guys really care, some of the boards still use cloudflare.

Tradition, all the Russian/CIS carders have always used jabber or ICQ mainly because they aren't worried about being caught and don't care about the security of their customers either. The bigger fraud outfits like Rescator are likely politically protected being a nephew to a cabinet minister or son of a Novosibirsk police captain. If you are a non connected Russian and try to run a fraud superstore the US feds can bribe lower level police agencies there to go make your life hell.

These fraud shops make you deposit first then you go shopping much like how silk rd worked, so at anytime could have seized the coins.

For all we know this screen upon checkout is random, and whoever doesn't complain to get their money back is the cop. Most fraud outfits have major customers they deal with or cashout teams they offer specific BINs over chat, the online store is for bottom tier thieves on public sites.

The Kurds in Rojava have adopted Murray Bookchin's decentralised and democratic system of “libertarian municipalism” which prevents this kind of opportunistic authoritarianism. Hopefully Turkey's dictator doesn't destroy them and we can see what real democracy looks like.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/50102294-77fd-11e5-a95a-27d368e1dd...

When Herr Harper cut a lot of their funding CBC changed into trying to emulate private media with these political clickbait pieces and celebrity gossip to boost income, haven't seen it since. When I grew up in 80s/90s they would have fascinating documentaries by real scientists most of those disappeared or became political too.

John Ralston Saul argues it was the age of Reason that did this in the book Voltaire's Bastards going all the way back to the Jesuit schools.

http://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/voltaires_b...

Tailgating on the autobahn is also a potential 375Euro fine and 3 month license suspension if you get caught.

We have electric/trolley buses here for most routes, and a computer run train system without any operators, and some buses have their own lanes on busy routes but it still sucks.

Largely this is due to the buffoons who are consistently appointed to transit boards who tender everything to fellow political cronies that drain the budget and accomplish nothing. Transit like traffic is a political problem but running it is considered a patronage position where the CEO and board make over $300k/yr for never showing up to work and get a car allowance so they never have to experience the terrible service they run.