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Matthew S. Kichinka, 25, of Strongsville, Ohio, has been charged with fifty counts of wire fraud.
| "...Part of the scheme, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, was to transmit about 50 interstate electronic funds transfers (EFTs) from various banks to Ameritrade and E*Trade totaling approximately $3,348,000. The indictment alleges that after opening the online accounts, Kichinka placed stock purchase orders for hundreds of thousands of shares of stock before the EFTs were returned by the issuing bank as fraudulent, forcing Ameritrade and E*Trade to suffer losses of $341,113.63..." |
Yet another take on Speculative Generality (or YAGNI)
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"... The fundamental nature of coding is that our task, as programmers, is to recognize that every decision we make is a trade-off. To be a master programmer is to understand the nature of these trade-offs, and be conscious of them in everything we write ... If you find yourself writing a class for your "library," then: (a) You're not writing your application, which is where you make your money, |
read an article by Wil Shipley
Interesting idea - testing as a way to learn a new language:
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"... That's pretty much everything I know about Ruby, give or take. It's a living repository of knowledge; the test suite grows each time I learn something new. Promptly after installing a new version of Ruby, I run the test suite. I do that not necessarily because I think the tests will find a bug, but rather to get a heads-up when something has changed and I need to reset my expectations. It's also a good way to identify when something has been deprecated. But the real value of writing these tests was less about testing, and more about learning. Through trial and error they taught me how Ruby and its rich set of libraries really work. Not surprisingly, typing in code and running it makes you remember. Indeed, writing learning tests is a fun way to poke and prod any new language or API. And with every test you write you're investing in an executable knowledge base..." |
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"...The reason we find ourselves Soft Coding is because we fear change. Not the normal Fear of Change, but the fear that the code we write will have to be changed as a result of a business rule change. It’s a pretty silly fear to have. The whole point of software (hence, the “soft”) is that it can change that it will change. The only way to insulate your software from business rule changes is to build a completely generic program that’s devoid of all business rules yet can implement any rule. Oh, and they’ve already built that tool. It’s called C++. And Java. And C#. And Basic. And, dare I say, COBOL..." |
| "...A survey of 500 information security professionals conducted by the Ponemon Institute found that more than 80 per cent of firms have put critical data at risk by losing a laptop containing sensitive information in the past 12 months..." |
| "...I like to think of myself as an outside observer, not too deeply steeped in the day-to-day travails of programmers and not too keenly focused on the minutiae of standardization, yet familiar with both. This series of articles, then, summarizes what this self-proclaimed outside observer thinks have been the most important contributions to C++ since its inception..." |
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"...According to Dillinger, he obtained at least 450 numbers from a Russian hacker he met online, then used them to withdraw thousands of dollars from ATM machines before banks canceled the cards and issued new ones to customers...
...Authorities arrested Dillinger while he was driving with a friend who had an outstanding warrant. Police were after the friend but found a briefcase in the car containing a stash of credit cards and driver's licenses with Dillinger's photo and various names. He's been charged with 10 counts of identity theft and nine counts of possession of a forged driver's license. He's being held on $1 million bail... ...It was his mother who introduced him to the online world of card thieves. In 2002, after completing a stint in drug rehab, his mother, "a big-time eBay seller," sent him a link to Counterfeit Library, a website that catered to fraud artists..." |
"...A laptop computer belonging to the US Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General (OIG) was stolen from a government-owned vehicle on July 27, 2006 in Doral, Florida. The computer, which is password protected, was assigned to a Special Agent in OIG's Miami office. The laptop did not contain financial or medical information. However, it contained personally identifiable information pertaining to approximately 133,000 Florida residents including:
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| A potentially deadly illness, clinically referred to as UML (Unified Modeling Language) fever, is plaguing many software-engineering efforts today. This fever has many different strains that vary in levels of lethality and contagion. A number of these strains are symptomatically related, however. Rigorous laboratory analysis has revealed that each is unique in origin and makeup. A particularly insidious characteristic of UML fever, common to most of its assorted strains, is the difficulty individuals and organizations have in self-diagnosing the affliction. A consequence is that many cases of the fever go untreated and often evolve into more complex and lethal strains. |
