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Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store
Fluffeh writes "Federal authorities have arrested eight men accused of distributing more than $1 million worth of LSD, ecstasy, and other narcotics with an online storefront called 'The Farmer's Market' that used the Tor anonymity service to mask their Internet addresses. Prosecutors said in a press release that the charges were the result of a two-year investigation led by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles field division. 'Operation Adam Bomb, ' as the investigation was dubbed, also involved law enforcement agents from several U.S. states and several countries, including Colombia, the Netherlands, and Scotland. The arrests come about a year after Gawker documented the existence of Silk Road, an online narcotics storefront that was available only to Tor users. The site sold LSD, Afghani hashish, tar heroin and other controlled substances and allowed customers to pay using the virtual currency known as Bitcoin."
Someone's finally found a good reason to use bitcoin
Obviously, the feds used a narcotics store to shut down Tor.
Feds Shut Down For Using Narcotics Store.
Hooray I thought.
I should lay off the Narcotics......
The reverse classic is obviously
Panda: Eats, shoots and leaves.
Putting commas in without thinking about them can be just as bad as leaving them out. Thus they *are* a vital part of communication.
You should be ashamed... Because I really was wondering how using a narcotics store could shut down Tor.
Just another example of the job killing regulations enacted by the Obama administration. When will the federal government get out of the way of small business owners and job creators?
wow all this posting over a missing hyphen. If only we could turn our energetic posting into solving cold-fusion then the world would be a happier place. Come to think of it we can skip the cold-fusion and just use the hot air on this forum. Don't mark me Troll - I'm a nice person!
This is what hyphens are for.
You mean they could have shut down Tor using hyphens?
Ezekiel 23:20
>> Tor-Using Narcotics Store
I tried Tor once. That shit will fuck you up. One hit and I was running around the parking lot naked, dueling with gnomes (or the Pasadena Police Dept, depending on what astral plane you were on at the time).
Missing just one piece punctuation can ruin your whole day. Just think of how much you'd miss your colon. And on a more typical note, for the lack of one period... Anyway, you can't have hyphenation if you lose your hyphen.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You mean they could have shut down Tor using hyphens?
No. That particular vulnerability was fixed a long time ago.
Except that there are rules in English writing that say that headlines must omit as much sentence elements as possibly to be as short and possible, and the ambiguity is welcome as publicity can never be bad, right? Seriously, you'd want to deprive us of such marvelous headlines as "Iraqi Head Seeks Arms", "Prostitutes Appeal to Pope", "Include Children When Baking Cookies", "Miners Refuse to Work After Death", "Eye Drops Off The Shelf", "Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim", "Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant", "Queen Mary Gets Bottom Painted", "British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply", "Hospitals Sued by Seven Foot Doctors", and many others?
Ezekiel 23:20
Actually, a hyphen would fix it:
Feds shut down Tor-using narcotics store.
A friend of mine had to have surgery. His is only a semicolon now.
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