Why do some CEOs take such ... interesting(?) ... photos? Is it supposed to present him in such a way (other than just me thinking that's odd)?
That looks like an old photo, the dress and hair are very reminiscent of early-mid 00s style.
Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
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#142> Prosecutors showed that each of those shell companies involved the production of notarized affidavits in the names of people who didn’t exist. As a result, the government was able to charge Golestan with 20 counts of wire fraud — one for each payment made by the phony companies that bought the IP addresses from ARIN.
Should have just walked outside and asked some homeless people to be nominees
And plus he changed to a guilty plea and didn’t wait for the trial
That bolsters my opinion that a small clerical change would have nullified prosecutor’s zeal on the criminal side
Most of this kind of clerical stuff is simply making the exact same action legal by paying attention to the clerical structure
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It adds unnecessary overhead to small packets Are you forgetting that NAT exists? IPv4 is barely functional based on how many workarounds we've had to implement over the years
NAT means we can work with IPv4 already and makes IPv6 moot. you just supported my argument. Honestly, all they had to do was add alpha characters. Just doing so would have gave us more IP addresses than we ever needed while keeping it human readable.
Source and destination IP addresses are 32 bit fields in an IP packet.
Where do you propose they put these alpha characters?
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#144I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!" But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect? But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is posi…
If he was instead featured in a haircut magazine on a table in a SuperClips, it’d be less jarring.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
If he had used e.g. the USPS mail service, would it then have been mail fraud instead? Similar sentencing?
Yes. Also, you do not want the Postal Inspectors showing up looking for you. Like, for real.
Yep, don't fuck with Postal Inspectors.
Anecdotal, second-hand story I remembered being told by a former colleague with some significant time working in the Postal service: state or city police pulled over a contracted semi truck carrying mail from one station to the other on suspicion of running un-taxed cigarette shipments from a reservation manufacturer. Because the semi was contracted by the postal service, they had the requisite security: tags, seals and the magical panic button in the cab of the tractor. The driver pushed the button when the state/city police broke the seal and started rummaging through parcels which summoned the inspectors, guns drawn to the scene. Apparently the Postal Inspectors arrested the -police- at that scene on breaking and entering mail facilities.
Some of the details pertaining to why the shipment was actually legal and the police didn't have cause/jurisdiction yadda yadda yadda I don't remember, but still a good story even if the telling of it by my former colleague was more engaging than I can recount.
Re: Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
#146I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!" But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect? But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is posi…
I suspect it's less his physical characteristics, or even his clothing and jewelry, but almost exclusively his body language that is producing this reaction.
No, it's definitely the accoutrements he decides to wrap himself in.
Normal people don't dress or look like that. It's a choice, and he's using it to communicate and signal non-verbally who he is and what he values.
His clothing, accessory, and hair style choices make him appear like he's about to sell me a used car, or muscle me out of my own company.
Re: Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
#147I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!" But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect? But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is posi…
This thread is an almost perfect example of confirmation bias.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDmA2xoIoFU
I mean, if we're going there, there is this comical yet informative and strangely relevant Brooklyn Nine-Nine (thanks djbusby, for the correction) scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5S74kKimFs
Jake (Andy Samberg) and Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) form an unlikely alliance with Jack Danger (Ed Helms), a nerdy lead investigator at the United States Postal Inspection Service, as they embark on a mission to crack the case to bring down a drug dealer.
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#149I find myself looking at the guy's picture and telling myself "of course that is what he looks like!" But on the flip side, we all know it is a bad idea to judge a book by its cover. How many times can we all recall doing this and feeling bad when our snap judgement was incorrect? But look at the guy! What is it we are all picking up on in these comments. I am not the only one. Is there something about how he is posi…
I would wager some of it is from unconscious bias since he is already positioned as a criminal before you even even see the photograph. Your brain wants to tell itself that it can identify such criminals so it picks up on what it can.
The rest is very much "oh, this person is now known as a criminal, let me find the most sinister looking photo of them possible."
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#150If i heard about a system that doesn’t have fraud I think “ yet” or “you probably haven’t bothered to look”
At some point I knew enough people who “lost” things and a kleptomaniac or two and it really called into question what “crime rate” means. It’s things people noticed and that they thought they could get the authorities interested in. What’s the real number?