Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Seattle Police stated the robbery happened around 10:10 a.m. at a Wells Fargo Bank in the 2300 block of California Avenue in West Seattle.
The FBI says one man wearing a black dress and a wig and carrying a gun jumped the counter. He took off to a waiting gold SUV ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Over at Cyde Weys Musings, Cyde draws attention to Erik Moller's unusual views on pedophilia. Here are some of the ideas held by Mr. Moller, the second in command over at Wikimedia:
Valleywag quotes Erik as saying “What is my position on pedophilia, then? It’s ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
Imagine this: On his next trip to Japan, President Bush visits the vault at the Bank of Japan, where that country's $712 billion in United States government bonds is stored. There, as the cameras roll, he announces that the bonds, backed by the full faith and credit of the United ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
http://news.com.com/Trill...37029&subj=news
I use Trillian everyday to chat with my colleagues who choose a selection of IM clients that have become a veritable Tower of Babble. But, according to C|Net LogicLibrary has discovered vulnerabilities in Trillian that could allow someone to execute malicious code on your machine.
According to LogicLibrary, the vulnerability ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk...1438982,00.html
Reported in the Guardian:
At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what US military investigators have concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, the New York Times reported today. Citing military officials, the paper said the killings took place both inside ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/Tec...Story?id=538132
An Indian teenager from one of the country's most disadvantaged states appears to have fooled governments, the media and even the president.
17-year-old Saurabh Singh was treated as a national hero after announcing he had won NASA's "International Scientist Discovery" examination, which he said he took at Oxford University.
However, there is ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/C...ch/blog/3082956
Via the Houston Chronicle's TechBlog, AOL says that regardless of the recent flare up caused by the posting of parts TOS throughout the blogosphere, AOL Instant Messenger's terms of service do not imply that the company has the right to use private IM communications, and the section quoted applies only ...
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Saturday, March 12th, 2005
http://www.benstanfield.c...avesdrops_.html
Our company uses AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) continuously. We're a small firm spread throughout the country, and the IM conversations we have make it possible for us to have real-time conversations with each other on the cheap. That may all change with AOL's recent change to the terms of ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
http://www.gizmodo.com/ga...llet-035056.php
AllofMP3.com was under investigation recently, but has been let off the hook by the Russian DA of the South-West district, who denied IPFI’s request to open a criminal case against Allofmp3.com., because of a loophole in Russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request.
Even though the ...
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Sunday, February 20th, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin.../w220353S67.DTL
The ACLU has discovered that the army has destroyed additional photographic evidence of the mock executions and torture of prisoners-- similar to those found of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib-- in an effort to avoid another round of public outrage.
An Army specialist told investigators that similar photographs were destroyed ...
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