Bob Morris @ May 26th 2007 14:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
The new US embassy in the Green Zone has been completed, but they neglected to build enough armored housing so hundreds of embassy employees are sleeping in “tin-can trailers” with “no overhead protection.” Some have taken to wrapping themselves in Kevlar blankets when they sleep. Sweet dreams?
Bob Morris @ May 26th 2007 09:59 - Category: Unfiled ;
The US announced a new strategy to combat money laundering but seems unaware of the recent developments in the field.
Yet the latest digital advances open to criminals and terrorists — mobile phones or other mobile devices to secretly transfer money globally, or M-payments; gambling; and transfer of virtual money through online role-playing games, or RPGs — are missing from this long-awaited government strategy.
Transferring money via online games like Second Life is difficult to track, the servers might not even be on US soil, there are no applicable laws governing such transfers, and the games allow any amount of money to flow in and out of the game.
This would also appear to be a swell way to transfer bribe money to corrupt politicians. How could local investigators discover the esteemed council member got $20,000 from a local contractor in exchange for a favorable vote when the money was transferred from DeathSkull93 to NinjaMan in a RPG hosted on servers in Europe?
Hmm, I wonder, will we see rogue RPGs appear? That while they will provide a game for people to play, their real purpose will be to launder money?
Bob Morris @ May 26th 2007 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ May 26th 2007 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Multiple kites flown by a master of the art.
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