Brazilian hackers blamed for aiding Amazon deforestation
looks very familiar... #
Posted Friday 12th December 2008 20:22 GMT
To the scam that was found in Portugal by the finances...
Some restaurants where using some simple tools to erase from the databases of their POS programs some huge percentage of tickets not printed as invoices...
If there is a way to tally something and there where no safegards against tampering what do you expect to happen?
Snowfall in the summer! Correct!
Nice to know... #
Posted Friday 12th December 2008 20:22 GMT
they're using the "correct" system of measurements, as defined by El Reg!
Or perhaps... #
Posted Friday 12th December 2008 22:42 GMT
...the fault lies with whoever put crappy security on the allocation system?
If they were serious about protecting the environment #
Posted Friday 12th December 2008 22:42 GMT
They'd also curtail the companies' logging activities until the forest/jungle had sufficient opportunity to recover from the additional logging.
olympic fun #
Posted Friday 12th December 2008 22:42 GMT
I prefer to think of that as enough timber to make 1,140,210,678 very, very durable Bulgarian funbags. Mind the splinters!
@AC #
Posted Saturday 13th December 2008 00:25 GMT
"Some restaurants where using some simple tools to erase from the databases of their POS programs some huge percentage of tickets not printed as invoices..."
And some get nailed for it:
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Cooking+books/1061260/story.html
Hey - am I the only person who read the headline on this story and got confused trying to guess how Amazon.com was reakted to deforestration?
yawn... #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:17 GMT
but hold on just a minute!
SO..... brazil cuts and sells trees,
which might make the GREENHOUSE effect,
which in turn helps their trees to grow faster!
(clue is in the name surely, or has the greenhouse effect been rebadged under a more scary name nowadays)
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