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Cedric2008 Posted 18 years ago
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my interpretations.

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01b00In the past year,entrepreneurs, many of them based in Russia, have begun to create criminal hacking enterprises aimed not at stealing but at providing services to help others steal. Business has quickly taken off. Per unit of risk-01del00of apprehension, prosecution,and incarceration02del00-enabling online crime pays better than perpetrating it directly.02b02br
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001. how to put "Per unit of risk" in a more understandable way.02br
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00 2. why Per unit of risk make online crime pays better than perpetrating it directly?02br
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01b00Cybercrime services are so sophisticated and powerful that they make one pine for days of simple website defacements and e-mail viruses with cute embedded messages.02b02br
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00the following is my interpretation, which does make sense to me:02br
00"they make one pine for days of simple website defacements and e-mail viruses with cute embedded messages." means "they make one pine(a program) and e-mail viruses with cute embedded messages deface website not seriously for a long time."0-
  

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01. weighing up the risks against the benefits - per unit of risk - for each risk taken, 02br 02br 002. Cybercrime has a lower rate of risk compared to the potential benefits (money you can get) than direct crime.

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  • weighing up the risks against the benefits - per unit of risk - for each risk taken, 02br 02br 002.
  • Cybercrime has a lower rate of risk compared to the potential benefits (money you can get) than direct crime.
  • 02br 02br 00You have musunderstood 'pine for'.
  • This means 'long for' or 'wish this was still happening'.
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01. weighing up the risks against the benefits - per unit of risk - for each risk taken, 02br
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002. Cybercrime has a lower rate of risk compared to the potential benefits (money you can get) than direct crime. You are more likely to be caught doing direct crime.02br
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00You have musunderstood 'pine for'. This means 'long for' or 'wish this was still
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0I got it. nona the brit,thank you! I devided wrongly "pine" and "for". thanks 050010id1

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