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Entries for January, 2008

Remote-Controlled Bank Heist

You don’t always need guns or masks to rob a bank - sometimes you don’t even have to be physically there. This happened in Sweden, only to be foiled by an alert bank employee.

Fort Knox Secrets Revealed

“This building is a top secret fortress. Locked inside it’s vault is 100 billion U.S. Dollars worth of solid gold. This is Fort Knox. Only once has the gold vault ever been filmed. It’s secured by over 10 000 soldiers and 300 tanks.”
Very interesting documentary about Fort Knox (officially known as United States Bullion Depository) [...]

Largest Bank Fraud in the History?

31-year old french futures trader Jerome Kerviel is suspected of fraud and causing a 4,9 billion euro (7.1 bn USD) damage to France’s second largest bank, Société Générale. If these allegations are true, the losses at the bank would be the largest ever caused by an individual trader and over five times amount of losses [...]

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret History of Silicon Valley

On December 18th, 2007 Steve Blank gave a presentation in Google campus about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies ( including CIA and NSA ) to set up companies in this area [...]

I Feel APMID.

I had a weird dream. I was a TCP/IP syn packet travelling from my PC through my router into DFN network, then exiting to fiber into APMID network and the dusty cables turned into pure gold.

I Bet You!

Poker players are well known to bet on most bizarre things one could imagine. Earlier this year, Matt “hazards21″ Giannetti , a tournament poker regular, won upwards of $20,000 for spending 12 hours in a hotel pool. 1996 World Series of Poker main event winner Huck Seed once lost $50,000 for trying and failing to [...]

The Money Trap - How the Banks Lure You into Debt

“Panorama has fresh revelations about the lending practices of the high street banks. An insider reveals an industry driven by ambitious targets to sell borrowing to customers.”

Review: Get Google Ads Free! -ebook

“Everyday Google sells several $10 million’s in pay-per-clicks. But I get all mine absolutely FREE – and now I am going to show you how to get yours FREE also!“ and blahblah.

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