Laptop and Terrorism

Today I came across a headline about this fella from my home town Dallas, Texas which apparently he got busted for having a load of cash and some rather menacing information in his laptop hard drive and it wasn't porn, here is detail from the Associate Press.

A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.

Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files. At a court hearing Wednesday, Dinssa was ordered held in custody until at least until Monday at the request of prosecutors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller argued Dinssa was a potential risk to the community and federal agents want to get a warrant to search his computer more thoroughly, The Detroit News reported Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Donald Scheer approved Feller's request to detain him. Dinssa, who is from Dallas, arrived in Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and was headed for Phoenix, Feller said. He is charged with concealing more than $10,000 in his luggage, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported.

It is tragic that poor fella might has been mistaken for a terrorist, because for all we know he might just felt like going to blow some change in Vegas or perhaps heading off to an Islamic wedding and I know they do give a generous amount of cash in those kind of occasion. Though to many people who've read this article might be terrifying about the fact that the home grown terrorism is on the rise in the Western countries, especially in Europe where social prejudice against Islamic community is still being tolerated as a collateral damage by their respective government. As for United States where many corporate workers are using laptop on their daily means to support their livelihood this has become a rising concern among the regular IT folks like me. To further elaborate this, here is the article about the United States custom will now have the rights to seize any laptop equipment without your permission at the port of entry for an indefinite detainment.

Laptops Have No Right To Privacy At U.S. Borders
Until recently, their biggest concern was that someone might steal the laptop. But now there’s a new worry — that the laptop will be seized or its contents scrutinized at United States customs and immigration checkpoints upon entering the United States from abroad.

So what does all these related to any person who lives are depending on carrying their electronic devices for a legitimate reason ? Well you're all getting screwed royally big time in the name of "War on Terror". First we all have to give up our freedom of expression and the Constitution protection of the American citizens because very low tech terrorist thugs ram two planes into the Word Trade tower. Despite promise of progress on the War on Terrorism the US government has invested over a trillion dollar on high tech gadgetries and man power with an obscene war drama of Shock and Awe, still at the end of day most of terrorist around the world from September 11th to the bombing of the London subway all the terrorist didn't even bother to carry a damm laptop to carry out their successful attacks. Obviously the folks at the Homeland Security are spending too much time watching 24 contemplating the next high-tech attack from the people that hiding out in places barely has a descent phone connection in some godforsaken desserts.

Alright let's entertain the US government the thought of technologically advance terrorist for a movement. Imagine there was this Middle Eastern second generation immigrant who was educated in the Ivy League college had the American dream of life, however one day he went back to his homeland and mysteriously got brain washed to be a jihadist bending on destroying the infidels in the West. Most of you might think this idea might only be viable in the realm of the Hollywood fantasy but I can assure that a significant amount of destructive intelligent scholar who are aiding the top terrorist organization in the world, majority of them happen to be US Ivy League college graduates. And if god forbids he is thinking about carrying very important information about the plans and implementations, he would never even bother to be stupid enough having them on his damm laptop heading back to the States ! Here is only three items that he needs to carry out his devious plan of knowledge transfers and they only involve in freely available open source technology.(Don't worry I'm not going to show you the DYI process I'm not a supporter of those fucking nut case)

1. Google - he could just easily turn his Gmail account into a digital storage medium which he will have the ability to access them anywhere in the word for free.

2. Stegonagraphy -There are plenty of free available tools online which can turn any documents and schematic and hide them completely out of sight in any pictures and video files.

3. Airfare - once all the digital cotent has been hiding in the internet cloud(which ironically could be at some server farms in the US), that mentally sadistic individual cold just easily fly back to the United States with his student visa pretending that he just came back from his pilgrimage vacation visiting in the Middle East. Or heck he could just have his buddies in America carry out the coordination by just a mere download on another receiving end.

So Now I hope that you all would understand the very nature of terrorism it has nothing to do with who got the best electronic equipments or the most precise GPS guided bombs the very idea of all destructive force against a society is base upon an improvise creative tactics. Instead of the Homeland security twisting their thumbs on methodology of scrutinizing hightech detection pattern of a potential terrorist by either randomly seize some tourist laptop just because he just got a little nervous twitch.

The Reverse Engineer Axiom

OK lets get along to the part two of this survival guide of any technology mercenary who is about to venture out on the promising road of globalization. Many will definitely fail for several reasons, let it be cultural differences, technical deficiency, or just shear stupidity. Even though there is no actual guarantee in conducting a successful deal out there in the wilderness outside the United States, however there is a definite universal common sense that one can feel and ride out the eventual success. And without the further delayed let's embark.

Ethics of Reverse Engineering

To many people the practice of reverse engineer might seems unethical , I can assure its a load of crap the corporate world has bestow upon anyone in the bottom of the power food chain. Systematically impose a delusional guideline to keep the power balance in control. The definition of reverse engineer is the process of discovering the technological principles of a mechanical application through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g., a mechanical device, an electronic component, a software program) apart and analyzing its workings in detail, usually with the intention to construct a new device or program that does the same thing without actually copying anything from the original. So according to this axiom, reverse engineer is merely a rediscover of knowledge through modularized analysis, hence it is your rights to hack into anything which simply is the process of the natural evolution, from the order of creation lead to the chaotic entropy. From the disarray of the elementary knowledge you can reverse the process, integrating what is better eventually in the end, a better standard comes out from the process of rediscovery. So reverse engineering is pretty much a lot like sex, only your parent tell you about many taboos that is forbidden just because they are start losing the grip of the modern contemporary. Morality is just a ton of ever changing standard according to time or the social acceptance. Lift up your inhibition, and its a guarantee pleasurable adventure just like sex.

Net and Jet Effect

These days are the golden age of a reverse engineer, affordable airfare allow you to venture of to anyway a mission beckon on any desire notice. Establishing allegiance and residency is nothing but an archaic idea, now you can be anywhere without a permission from the corporate masters, the very idea that the Ronin themselves shall be envy. The Net will let you do business and always stay in touch without borders, hence you can be everywhere and yet your presence is no where. Only the free shall escape the home bound oppression and taste the joy of a mobile society, while the Net expose the new ideas and customs underpinning that social order. These effects will be viral and ubiquitous like a wild fire. Globalization of technology makes assimilation of a particular knowledge redundant and old-fashioned.

10:30 Rules

This particular rule is the number that shall save you rear for many times to come in the future, venturing into new territories. Fortune shall favor the bold and the creative, however many would fail to realized that money bring many evils from men. Do not believe that once your work has been fulfilled, your employer always will live up to the expectation. It is your duty to take 30 percent of the profit of the entire assignment, for that 10 percent more than likely you will have to accept it as a loss for paying your ways to the corrupt officials or saving one own life. It is better to lose 10 percent of your sweat then to lose 100 percent of you life.

The 10 Best Dystopias

Well hello there again, there is nothing like work related insomnia to get my mind on a belligerent acid trip. Any how just got done with 20 hours work on reading and analyzing Parallel Cluster Storage solution so I came up with a good list. What if the end of the world is coming, for whatever the reason might be I would really wanted to visit this list of hellish wastelands, hey Sodomy Sex, enchancement drugs, and kick-ass super weapons comparing to this dystopia of the real, the fictional one is quite a welcoming change.

The 10 Best Dystopias

10. London from V for Vendetta

Homosexuality and bad British comedy is outlawed, gratuitous explosion and beat down by the man in black make South Central seems like a Disneyland. So if you are down to follow a masked protagonist psychopath, this definitely can be your super gothic neighborhood.

9. Australia from The Road Warrior

All you need to live the good life here is a full tank of gas for your armor-plated muscle car. Sure, that Lord Humungus guy seems a little worrisome, but there is still a bright side of the alternative lifestyles, a heaven for the fetish community.

8. 1999 from The Matrix

On the dessert of the real, you are nothing but a cannibalistic battery cell in a cocoon field. In the digital wonderland you are in slave into an eternal perpetual bubble economy. And if you pop the right pill, you get to run around in a leather dress up with guns - lots of guns.

7.Htrae aka Bizzaro World from Superman

On this planet, everything is backward and ugly, Alarm clocks tell you to go to bed and the dog will walk you butts every evening. Everyone on this planet is so happy they cry all the time !

6. 25th Century from THX 1138

Can you say pill orgies ! if you love taking pills and have no purpose to exist in life then this subterranean resort of the 25th century is for you. Life is highly regulated, sex is illegal, and daily ingestion of sedatives is required by law. For entertainment people watch holograms engage in activities that range from sadism to meaningless verbal discourse. Sound like a bad night out at Club One

5. Tatoonie from Star Wars

It may be far from the civilized Republic in the outer rim of the galaxy, however you can score droids, sex slaves, or a kid slave who soon to be the most sadistic dictator the galaxy has ever seen. Then just get your hustling skill to the test with them Jawas and if you manage to be on Jabbas shit list then sorry you are fucked !

4. Hell from Dante's Inferno

Chill out in the outer circle, admiring the view of the dammed kicking your rhetorical rhythm with Homer and Virgil, break dancing is optional. As the night falls, drop down few circles to hangout with Uncle Lu himself, however the real after party is in the gamblers and the fornicators section. Can you say Eternal Damnation Yahweh !

3. San Andrea from Grand Theft Auto

Want a ride? Jack one. Drive it through anything that moves and you feel happy that you can run over the cops without getting a ticket. The downside is eventually the cops will kill you, but the afterlife is the damm reset button over and over again.

2. Los Angeles from Blade Runner

Cheap exotic animal knockoff and love bots that look worse than a beat down hook from Harry Hines. The whole world turn Japanese and yes just like the damm song too, can somebody go hurl some sushi with Harrison Ford in the back alley.

1. London from The Brave New World

Sexual freedom and sodomy are encouraged, the gratuitous consumerism will make your black American Express card melt. Drug abuse aren't just tolerated, they are encourage through your social network. Sound a lot like Dallas to me well takes a Soma and you will agree !

   

Disneyland with the Death Penalty

Today I came across this article on engadget.com which left me utter less with a mild case of nostalgia. Here is the headline.

Singapore teen facing jail for surfing with NeighborFi

Seventeen-year-old Garyl Tan Jia Luo has the distinct honor of being the first person charged under Singapore's new Computer Misuse Act. The alleged crime? Piggybacking on his neighbor's WiFi connection without permission. This apparently wouldn't have gone so far had the neighbor (we'll call him Mr. Wilson) not lodged a complaint against the teen. While Tan was released on bail after a grilling by police, he's facing some serious consequences for enjoying his free ride, including up to 10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,425) in fines and up to three years in jail. Given Signapore's plans to blanket the entire country in free WiFi, however, you'd think they'd go a little easy on him for jumping the gun.

Apparently a little joy wardriving has run this little minor into some deep trouble of with the law. Plus the Singaporean government was so eager to put their first sacrificial lamb on the alter, they didn't hesitate to open a can of smack down on this little poor fella. It is true that nobody can tolerate a free loader in a LAN party, but pushing a minor to be your public enemy number one for a newly enact law is definitely "Unique" in Singapore. Only this place where a minor can be incarcerated for using somebody else internet, but it's quite alright by the state to be a prostitute while you're still a minor.

Though I really have to admit that Singapore is a place full of contrast which will make "The Brave New World" really proud of. The skylines of mega structure city-state sure are the testament to their economic achievements. And now the financial market growth has surpass HongKong as a crown jewel of the Asian fianancial market. As I watch my daily morning CNBC news, Singapore will periodically emerge from the market data every 10 minutes or so, plus the bombardment of "Uniquely Singapore" tourism campaign which basically promote "be happy or die" message to the masses really bewildered me at some point. Additionally the whole society are kept under a disillusions civic obedience not by a Somers like substance in the book but by a thing call "Fine". One thing is certain, Singapore is sure a "fine" city. Everything from smoking to durians are banned on Singapore's public places, if you don't know what the heck is durians not to worry cause what kind of country would ban fruit in public places anyway(no matter how rank it might be it's a damm fruit !). To further elaborate this uniquely sadistic legal system I have listed below some of Singapore's ridiculous laws that might land your butt in their holding cell while the cop is literally raping your wallet.

Uniquely Singapore Law

CHEWING GUM - shit is that niccorate ?
The sale of chewing gum was forbidden for 12 years until May 2004, where the sale of chewing gum for medical or dental purposes from a pharmacist was approved by the government, although gum sold as candy still remains prohibited.

SPITTING - not hot fire
Heavy fines and Corrective Work Order are levied on people who spit or litter in public areas.

ANAL SEX - none here
Currently, pornography, oral sex when not a precursor to regular sexual intercourse, and anal sex are illegal in Singapore. Magazines, movies and TV shows have to undergo government classification before being released to the general public and sales of several kinds of newspapers and magazines have been banned or restricted.

PROSTITUTION - Barely legal action
Prostitution is legal in Singapore but pimping and public solicitation are not. Licensed brothels operate in designated areas, some of them catering to the large community of foreign male workers. Plus if you're looking for a barely legal type of action just set your sail right over there.


DRUGS - please don't bother to ask "Do you Party"
Anyone caught with more than or equal to 15 g (0.5 ounces) of heroin, 28 g (1 ounce) of morphine or 480 g (17 ounces) of cannabis faces mandatory capital punishment, as they are deemed to be trafficking in these substances. The stated quantities are the nett weight of the substances after they have been isolated by laboratory analysis. From 1991-2004, 400 people have been hanged in Singapore, mostly for drug trafficking.

As a result, Singapore has one of the highest execution rates in the world relative to population. Science fiction writer William Gibson once has described Singapore as "Disneyland with the death penalty". So next time you ever wonder how those future dystopia might be envision in the world of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell just pack you bags and head to the Uniquely Singapore.

Guide for a good Panda Chasing in Thailand

Today Ive received a message from Mr. Nasty Raps

So check this out. One of the guys I work with goes to Bangkok a few times every year. He ended up getting an apt for his girls there, and has now married one of them! He's in the process of getting her over here. Is that shit normal? Is it that good over there? Is that like her hitting the lottery?

Another guy here just booked a ticket there for this fall. Any advice for him? Say something that leads him not to marry a Thai prostitute.

Let me know
Nasty

Well when the subject from the land of the smile show up why I'm always been appointed to be an expert about the Thai contemporary culture? I can assure you that I would not be the ultimate source on anything Thai. However I'm confident that throughout the time that I have been hanging out with a few Robin hoods here in D town throughout 15 plus years I have accumulated enough knowledge on the inner working of the modern Thai social behavior through the eyes of an Asian Thai, me. On this particular topic of intercontinental Panda Chasing I do feel certain obligation to prevent my fellow American Panda Chaser from falling victim to rent a girlfriend. To Mr. Nasty Raps defense I really do believe there are certain group of American men often falls madly in love with the first Thai girl they meet - even if she's a rough street prostitute who doesn't speak English. Love-sick farang men are queuing up at the altar to tie the knot with their dubious Thai girls, which can lead to VDs, paying for her green card to pursue her own pleasurable entrepreneurship, or lost of entire life saving. If you don't want to believe me, statistically when normal couple marries with the best intentions, the chances of success are barely 50/50. Mixed race marriages are even more fragile. Throw a Thai con-woman into the mix and your misery is guaranteed. If she is an ex-hooker, the divorce courts won't reproach her for fucking your friends, neighbors and teenage sons either.

Kirk Sato's guide for a good Panda Chasing in Thailand

10. Never pickup a college student that hangout around RCA and Pat Pong on a school night. Common you know why they are there for a reason.

9. Massage parlor and Go-Go bar is not a productive dating place no matter how

drunk and delusional you might be.

8. Do prepare that more then likely youre making way more money then her because I don't need to remind you that its still a third world nation. So prepare to pay up on the dates. However, if you noticed how often she talks about her financial problems. If you didn't get the hint, she will have to ask you for money more bluntly. So bail!

7. If she got an expensive cell and it rings constantly chances are its her Gig calling. (Thai Slang for fuck buddies) Thai girls do not have close male friends - western or Thai - only suitors and punters.

6. Fluent colloquial English is a bad sign. If she understands "get your kit off" but not "balance of payments deficit" then she probably learned it between the love making sessions. Ordinary Thais do not speak English well. However the upper class is extremely well adapt to the linguistic set of American Urban Language.

5. Your girl may be plausible for a Virgin Mary but her friends might give the game away. If her girlfriends drink, smoke, play pool, have tattoos or just seem a bit rough then they are hookers and so too is your girl.

4. Many guys seem to leave their brain behind when they go to Thailand. The media loves to stereotype the daft old git who believes that a stunning Thai babe is crazy for him. So know thy ugly ass self be true.

3. Do not succumb to the White Knight Syndrome, no matter how lonely, kind-hearted person you are. Arriving in Bangkok with plenty of damsels apparently in distress to choose from. It is a false belief that hookers want to be saved, they all have enough money to save themselves.

2. Thai girls differ from their respectable western sisters only in their approachability, sunny disposition, striking good looks and devious nature. They are similar in that they enjoy casual sex with the best looking guy they can find.

1. A sincere, marriage-minded man should avoid hookers at all costs.

For a complete definitive guide to anything Thai without the bullshit tourism bias go to www.mangosauce.com

Disclaimer Of all women I ever been with Asians, Blondies, Bonitas, and Brown Sugars the woman that ever loved me the most happen to be a Thai woman.