That wasn't the worst of it. The worst was that some kids were trapped on school buses overnight. The National Guard had to go out Wednesday to rescue multiple busloads of kid who had spent the night stuck on the highways...
It was even worse than that. The bus drivers were not allowed to let kids off their buses for safety reasons, so they ended up having to use the back row of seats as toilets.
(1) The storm did not seem to effect the US Postal Service. My mail was delivered yesterday and today, at its normal time.
(2) The local TV Meteorologists are all defending the National Weather Service. The on-air TV personalities have created fabulous graphics showing what the NWS announced prior to the storm and how accurate it was. They are going out of their way to defend the NWS. A meteorologist on the local FOX affiliate even said he is dependent on the NWS -- the NWS does the forecasting that the broadcasters use. He then said that what he does as a broadcaster is to explain to the public how weather conditions are changing; he does not do forecasts himself. (In his first press conference, Georgia Governor Deal claimed that local meteorologists he had talked to had done a better job forecasting the storm than the National Weather Service.)
I think it is AWESOME that the popular on-air TV personalities are all standing up and defending the NWS geeks. (I presume the term 'geek' is appropriate given how much data collection and computer modeling the NWS does.)
There are actually two Atlantas: (1) The City of Atlanta and (2) The Atlanta Metropolitan Area.
The City of Atlanta has a population of 432,000 and its mayor is Kasim Reed. Reed is an up-and-coming politician in the Democratic Party; he has been on "Meet the Press" and other Sunday morning talk shows a lot. Reed looked very bad during the 2011 Snowstorm, so since then the City has purchased approximately 70 snowplows & salt trucks. It has also trained its crews to operate that equipment. City crews were out and about on Tuesday and City-owned arterial streets were pretty passable.
The City of Atlanta also owns the Atlanta airport, so the City actually has weather forecasters on its payroll.
The Atlanta metropolitian region that surrounds the City of Atlanta has a population of 4.5 million spread over 20 suburban counties and a couple dozen small cities. The majority of these suburbs are very Republican and are the base of voters that elected Governor Deal. For example, Cobb County, where the Atlanta Braves professional baseball team are planning to move to, is the home of former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. The Suburban counties and cities have not invested in snowplows and instead rely of the statewide Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). GDOT does a really good job given what they have to work with -- they only have something like 120 snowplows for the *entire* state of Georgia. It never snows all over Georgia at once, so GDOT just moves its plows to where they are needed.
The other complicating factor is that about 1.2 million of the 4.5 million suburbanites commute into the City of Atlanta every day.
What happened Tuesday was the perfect clusterf---. About noon, all of the 1.2 million commuters all attempted to leave Atlanta at about the same time.... this was actually documented by the Georgia Navigator traffic system (http://www.511ga.org). These commuters managed to leave the City of Atlanta because the City had treated its roads, but then they hit the Interstate highways and expressways that are plowed and sanded by the GDOT..... GDOT simply could not keep up because GDOT's statewide crews were also being used elsewhere around the state. The roads clogged and then what GDOT snowplows and sanders that were out got stuck in that traffic.
A 12 year old that didn't know better sure enjoyed his PCJr
My parents bought a PC/AT when I was 14 or 15. It had a 1.2 meg floppy and a 20 meg harddrive. I learned a lot on that machine and was very happy with it because I just didn't know better. I lost my innocence in 1988 or 1989, when I saw the (discontinued by then) Amiga 1000 in person for the first time.
It is still hard for me to believe that the first Amiga came out only 18 months after the PC Jr.
All the government needs to do to make it worthless is to ask the NSA to mine with their resources for a while. That would quickly make the government the richest in terms of Bitcoin, and therefore gain even more power!
What makes you sure that Satoshi Nakamoto was *not* actually the NSA?
An Air force pilot? really ? no history ? nothing anywhere on the web including the seclists/waves hand....charlatans everywhere
AC's allegation about Raj Shah being a charlatan really intrigued me, so I just wasted two hours doing a little digging... and I now suspect Raj Shah is lying about having been a USAF F-16 pilot. Here are a few different versions of Raj Shah's CV:
Raj Shah is among 31 finalists in the 10th annual competition for the Paul & Diasy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (immigrants and children of immigrants). They were selected from over 800 applicants representing 141 nationalities and 360 colleges and universities. Shah is currently the Special Assistant to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security in the US Department of Defense. He plans to attend Wharton in the fall to study business. Shah holds an AB from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Upon graduating from Princeton, he took a job at McKinsey and Company but left 4 months after 9/11 to join the United States Air Force. Shah flew eighteen combat missions in Iraq as a captain and F-16 pilot. After four years of active duty, he transitioned to the reserves and rejoined McKinsey & Co.; from there he embarked on his present work.
He flew US Air force F-16 over Iraqi air space in 2006 and as recently as in March to May in 2010 for nearly 200 hours in 38 combat missions at a speed of Mac 2 (twice the speed of sound). Thirty-three-year-old Gujarati American Raj Shah, then a combat pilot, said, "The biggest fear in a pilot's mind is the fear of making a mistake. If we err, innocent people die." This Wharton School MBA, now vice-president of a defence focused investment firm, is a battle hardened soldier turned business executive.
"From 500 feet above the sea level to 50,000 feet, I flew as per the requirement. The altitude depended on the targets and in Iraq we flew very low for precision target hitting," said Raj, who joined the US Air Force in 2000 and took his first flight school in December, 2001.
He flew every third day on missions in Iraq and volunteered himself at Airport Theatre Hospital at Bagdad to help out the medical teams.
"In January 2006, it was 3 am in Bagdad when the US Air Force base sirens went off. I was sleeping in my flight suit. I ran to the jet and and in five minutes was flying 500 feet over Bagdad where a number of people were trying to block the path of US-Iraqi troops, who were on rescue mission," he said.
Those quotes about his missions are really strange.... and the the timeline in the 1st article (joined USAF 4 months after 9/1) contradicts the timeline in the 2nd (joined USAF in 2000). Also, in the first article (from 2007), he is described as having flow 18 combat missions, but in the next piece, posted four years later, he claims he flew 38 combat missions:
A reserve F-16 Pilot in the US Air Force, Raj is also is the Vice President of Federal Systems, a defense-focused investment firm. Now in its 6th year, Nanubhai impacts 8,000 students in rural India and has sent over 25 American teachers to India. In the USAF, Raj served two tours of duty in Iraq flying 38 combat missions. Raj has also worked as a Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Previously Raj worked at McKinsey & Co. serving both private and public s
In general, bamboo that is not thoroughly dried and is therefore still capable of propagation is prohibited entry into the United States.
Bamboo that is thoroughly dried and split or cut lengthwise (rendering it incapable of propagation) will be inspected upon entry and released.
Unsplit dried bamboo canes/stakes/poles also are allowed entry into the United States after inspection: however, if the bamboo canes/stakes/poles are intended for garden or nursery use, the shipment must be fumigated (T404-d treatment extended to 24 hours) upon arrival at the U.S. port of entry.
Bamboo furniture, bamboo cloth, and other manufactured products made of bamboo do not require fumigation and will be released upon inspection.
For more information on Bamboo products, see Table 3-22 in the APHIS Miscellaneous and Processed Products Manual.
If you have further questions regarding requirements for importing agricultural products, please contact the USDA/APHIS Customer Support Center at (301) 851-2046.
His flutes should have been allowed as "unsplit dried bamboo canes".
Does this mean that OpenBSD has suffered a 3rd remote hole in its default installation? (http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/03/15/0045207/remote-exploit-discovered-for-openbsd)
(I don't understand the implications of Aris' blog above, so I'm hoping someone can explain it to me & other OpenBSD users.)
What about any detail at all about this? What "weak" encryption do they use? How was it broken? What was the value of the fraud? Can these cards be used for anything else, or cashed out, or does this fraud require very extensive MARTA ridership?
Seven people have been charged with fairly serious crimes, but I can't see the value of the fraud being more than a few hundred or few thousand dollars. It's like counterfeiting $1 bills, what's the point?
MARTA says the thieves spent $1 to buy the Breeze card, then reprogrammed the data on it to turn it into a 30-day pass. They then sold it to riders for $40, a deep discount of the real price of $96. That meant the thieves got to pocket $39, and the buyers got a cheap ride.
and
MARTA police chief Wanda Dunham says the cards were sold at MARTA stations and on Craigslist. But it was a suspicious buyer who purchased one at an area mall that contacted police. "He knew that wasn't the right fare so he called us, asked us to check into it," said Dunham.
As they investigated, the agency's Revenue Department noticed in November, a large number of cards were sold at its Chamblee and Lenox stations for only a dollar. Police started reviewing surveillance video to create a list of suspects.
MARTA won't say how many counterfeit cards the group sold, but says during the arrests it confiscated 400 fraudulent cards. Had the thieves sold them, their $400 initial investment, would have earned them $16,000.
MARTA says it's never had something like this happen before, but security expert Gregory Evans says MARTA needs to act fast, if wants to keep it from happening again. He says the hackers likely got away with their scheme using a simple card writer that costs just a few hundred dollars. "The crazy part, the scary part about this? MARTA would have never known if some had not gone back and told them what was happening. That's it," said Evans.
Evans says the data on the card could be encrypted and an alert built into their software system.
"If I go to use this card somewhere and all the sudden there's $100 on this card, their system should have caught that and said hold up," Evans said.
Delta, to their PR benefit, have swallowed the losses, and the lucky customers have shared their delight via social media
What losses does Delta have to swallow? They're going to make up for it by charging those "lucky" customers change fees, luggage fees, "Economy Comfort" fees, and for onboard entertainment, Gogo internet and food served onboard. Also, good luck getting full frequent flyer credit for the discounted flights.
National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/19/255415230/breach-at-target-stores-may-affect-40-million-card-accounts) says that the story was first reported by Brian Krebs, who writes the "Krebs on Security" blog. (http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/)
NPR and other news outlets are only reporting the story because Target put out a press release (http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-confirms-unauthorized-access-to-payment-card-data-in-u-s-stores) that confirmed that the breech happened.
OMFG how ever will you survive on 1.5mbps?
5 years ago where I live finally got DSL at 768bps. 2 years ago it actually got bumped to a maximum of 3mbps. WTF are you whining about?
+1
I live within 4 miles of the center of a major US City and the best DSL I can get is 0.65 Mbps down and 0.10 Mbps up.
He should turn over all of his submission records, in essence handing over the information on hundreds of men who could be charged for posting the photos. They would probably offer him quite the plea deal if he were to do this.
There are 31 Felony Counts listed in it. He's not going to get much of a plea deal; the police seized his computers, so they already have "all of his submission records."
For deeper comentary, this was on On The Media last week (http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/dec/). My favorite part is when Bollaert said he wouldn't post pics of his Mom or sister because that was gross....
On the Media interviewed Hunter Moore, a different douchebag. Like Bollaert, Hunter Moore ran a revenge porn site, but Moore (apparently) honored removal requests.... then he took down his entire site.
"A team of engineers at Microsoft Research have developed a high-tech bra that's intended to monitor women's stress levels and dissuade them from emotional over-eating.
Actually, the team's original idea was to monitor the CEO's excitement levels and dissuade him from dancing..... so they created the "Bramer".
The reason Facebook has any advertising income, and therefore value as a company, is that the people purchasing FB advertisements believe it has the ability to provide very directed advertising.
I've never seen USAA do it. I'll be a customer for life. From their insurance products to their banking and my mortgage they've always acted with nothing but the highest standards of customer service.
My understanding is that USAA is a Federal Savings Bank, a savings and loan association federally chartered in the United States, which is different than how other banks are chartered. That's why they haven't screwed you like a regular bank would have!
Chamblee Middle School (http://www.chambleems.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) is part of the Dekalb County (Georgia) School System. DCSS is the most fucked-up school district in the USA. The former Superintendent was arrested for theft by taking, the replacement Superintendent abandoned her job and the current Superintendent is a political hack who lacks the qualifications required to hold a teacher's license. The former COO was just found guilty of racketeering. The DCSS school board was removed by the state Governor and the school system is currently on "Accredited Probation", the only school system in the country with that status.
Some recent news coverage of Dekalb County School System:
In case anyone thinks bob_super is making that up: "The death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, whose body was found in a padlocked sports bag, was probably an accident, police have said." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24927078
Venezuela enacted a complete gun ban several years ago. First they stopped sales of guns, then ammo, then banned ownership. Yes, people griped, but the results have been worth it. 1/1000 as much violent crime as they had before the ban. The streets are safe there.
Criminals don't need guns when the government is their partner in crime, at least when it comes to looting electronics retailers:
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That wasn't the worst of it. The worst was that some kids were trapped on school buses overnight. The National Guard had to go out Wednesday to rescue multiple busloads of kid who had spent the night stuck on the highways...
It was even worse than that. The bus drivers were not allowed to let kids off their buses for safety reasons, so they ended up having to use the back row of seats as toilets.
Two updates:
(1) The storm did not seem to effect the US Postal Service. My mail was delivered yesterday and today, at its normal time.
(2) The local TV Meteorologists are all defending the National Weather Service. The on-air TV personalities have created fabulous graphics showing what the NWS announced prior to the storm and how accurate it was. They are going out of their way to defend the NWS. A meteorologist on the local FOX affiliate even said he is dependent on the NWS -- the NWS does the forecasting that the broadcasters use. He then said that what he does as a broadcaster is to explain to the public how weather conditions are changing; he does not do forecasts himself. (In his first press conference, Georgia Governor Deal claimed that local meteorologists he had talked to had done a better job forecasting the storm than the National Weather Service.)
I think it is AWESOME that the popular on-air TV personalities are all standing up and defending the NWS geeks. (I presume the term 'geek' is appropriate given how much data collection and computer modeling the NWS does.)
There are actually two Atlantas: (1) The City of Atlanta and (2) The Atlanta Metropolitan Area.
The City of Atlanta has a population of 432,000 and its mayor is Kasim Reed. Reed is an up-and-coming politician in the Democratic Party; he has been on "Meet the Press" and other Sunday morning talk shows a lot. Reed looked very bad during the 2011 Snowstorm, so since then the City has purchased approximately 70 snowplows & salt trucks. It has also trained its crews to operate that equipment. City crews were out and about on Tuesday and City-owned arterial streets were pretty passable.
The City of Atlanta also owns the Atlanta airport, so the City actually has weather forecasters on its payroll.
The Atlanta metropolitian region that surrounds the City of Atlanta has a population of 4.5 million spread over 20 suburban counties and a couple dozen small cities. The majority of these suburbs are very Republican and are the base of voters that elected Governor Deal. For example, Cobb County, where the Atlanta Braves professional baseball team are planning to move to, is the home of former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. The Suburban counties and cities have not invested in snowplows and instead rely of the statewide Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). GDOT does a really good job given what they have to work with -- they only have something like 120 snowplows for the *entire* state of Georgia. It never snows all over Georgia at once, so GDOT just moves its plows to where they are needed.
The other complicating factor is that about 1.2 million of the 4.5 million suburbanites commute into the City of Atlanta every day.
What happened Tuesday was the perfect clusterf---. About noon, all of the 1.2 million commuters all attempted to leave Atlanta at about the same time.... this was actually documented by the Georgia Navigator traffic system (http://www.511ga.org). These commuters managed to leave the City of Atlanta because the City had treated its roads, but then they hit the Interstate highways and expressways that are plowed and sanded by the GDOT. .... GDOT simply could not keep up because GDOT's statewide crews were also being used elsewhere around the state. The roads clogged and then what GDOT snowplows and sanders that were out got stuck in that traffic.
Also the sentence. :-)
That was my fault; the word was missing in my Submission
A 12 year old that didn't know better sure enjoyed his PCJr
My parents bought a PC/AT when I was 14 or 15. It had a 1.2 meg floppy and a 20 meg harddrive. I learned a lot on that machine and was very happy with it because I just didn't know better. I lost my innocence in 1988 or 1989, when I saw the (discontinued by then) Amiga 1000 in person for the first time.
It is still hard for me to believe that the first Amiga came out only 18 months after the PC Jr.
In the long run we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes
All the government needs to do to make it worthless is to ask the NSA to mine with their resources for a while. That would quickly make the government the richest in terms of Bitcoin, and therefore gain even more power!
What makes you sure that Satoshi Nakamoto was *not* actually the NSA?
An Air force pilot? really ? no history ? nothing anywhere on the web including the seclists /waves hand....charlatans everywhere
AC's allegation about Raj Shah being a charlatan really intrigued me, so I just wasted two hours doing a little digging... and I now suspect Raj Shah is lying about having been a USAF F-16 pilot. Here are a few different versions of Raj Shah's CV:
Khabar: Georgian Raj Shah Wins Soros Fellowship for New Americans (April 2007)
Raj Shah is among 31 finalists in the 10th annual competition for the Paul & Diasy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (immigrants and children of immigrants). They were selected from over 800 applicants representing 141 nationalities and 360 colleges and universities. Shah is currently the Special Assistant to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security in the US Department of Defense. He plans to attend Wharton in the fall to study business. Shah holds an AB from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Upon graduating from Princeton, he took a job at McKinsey and Company but left 4 months after 9/11 to join the United States Air Force. Shah flew eighteen combat missions in Iraq as a captain and F-16 pilot. After four years of active duty, he transitioned to the reserves and rejoined McKinsey & Co.; from there he embarked on his present work.
Times of India: Business honcho bombed Iraq for US Air Force
He flew US Air force F-16 over Iraqi air space in 2006 and as recently as in March to May in 2010 for nearly 200 hours in 38 combat missions at a speed of Mac 2 (twice the speed of sound). Thirty-three-year-old Gujarati American Raj Shah, then a combat pilot, said, "The biggest fear in a pilot's mind is the fear of making a mistake. If we err, innocent people die." This Wharton School MBA, now vice-president of a defence focused investment firm, is a battle hardened soldier turned business executive.
"From 500 feet above the sea level to 50,000 feet, I flew as per the requirement. The altitude depended on the targets and in Iraq we flew very low for precision target hitting," said Raj, who joined the US Air Force in 2000 and took his first flight school in December, 2001.
He flew every third day on missions in Iraq and volunteered himself at Airport Theatre Hospital at Bagdad to help out the medical teams.
"In January 2006, it was 3 am in Bagdad when the US Air Force base sirens went off. I was sleeping in my flight suit. I ran to the jet and and in five minutes was flying 500 feet over Bagdad where a number of people were trying to block the path of US-Iraqi troops, who were on rescue mission," he said.
Those quotes about his missions are really strange.... and the the timeline in the 1st article (joined USAF 4 months after 9/1) contradicts the timeline in the 2nd (joined USAF in 2000). Also, in the first article (from 2007), he is described as having flow 18 combat missions, but in the next piece, posted four years later, he claims he flew 38 combat missions:
NetIP: Vote for Raj Shah (August 2011)
A reserve F-16 Pilot in the US Air Force, Raj is also is the Vice President of Federal Systems, a defense-focused investment firm. Now in its 6th year, Nanubhai impacts 8,000 students in rural India and has sent over 25 American teachers to India. In the USAF, Raj served two tours of duty in Iraq flying 38 combat missions. Raj has also worked as a Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Previously Raj worked at McKinsey & Co. serving both private and public s
An important sentence was left out of the summary, which explained that customs mistook the instruments for pieces of bamboo.
Actually, US Customs does allow bamboo to be imported, per this page: Importing Bamboo into the US It says:
Is bamboo allowed to be imported to the US?
In general, bamboo that is not thoroughly dried and is therefore still capable of propagation is prohibited entry into the United States.
Bamboo that is thoroughly dried and split or cut lengthwise (rendering it incapable of propagation) will be inspected upon entry and released.
Unsplit dried bamboo canes/stakes/poles also are allowed entry into the United States after inspection: however, if the bamboo canes/stakes/poles are intended for garden or nursery use, the shipment must be fumigated (T404-d treatment extended to 24 hours) upon arrival at the U.S. port of entry.
Bamboo furniture, bamboo cloth, and other manufactured products made of bamboo do not require fumigation and will be released upon inspection.
For more information on Bamboo products, see Table 3-22 in the APHIS Miscellaneous and Processed Products Manual.
If you have further questions regarding requirements for importing agricultural products, please contact the USDA/APHIS Customer Support Center at (301) 851-2046.
His flutes should have been allowed as "unsplit dried bamboo canes".
Does this mean that OpenBSD has suffered a 3rd remote hole in its default installation? (http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/03/15/0045207/remote-exploit-discovered-for-openbsd)
(I don't understand the implications of Aris' blog above, so I'm hoping someone can explain it to me & other OpenBSD users.)
What about any detail at all about this? What "weak" encryption do they use? How was it broken? What was the value of the fraud? Can these cards be used for anything else, or cashed out, or does this fraud require very extensive MARTA ridership?
Seven people have been charged with fairly serious crimes, but I can't see the value of the fraud being more than a few hundred or few thousand dollars. It's like counterfeiting $1 bills, what's the point?
It appears that MARTA is just discovering the extend of the fraud, based upon the information in this article by the NBC affiliate in Atlanta: Atlanta Channel 11 TV News: 7 arrested for MARTA Breeze Card fraudl
Some detail:
MARTA says the thieves spent $1 to buy the Breeze card, then reprogrammed the data on it to turn it into a 30-day pass. They then sold it to riders for $40, a deep discount of the real price of $96. That meant the thieves got to pocket $39, and the buyers got a cheap ride.
and
MARTA police chief Wanda Dunham says the cards were sold at MARTA stations and on Craigslist. But it was a suspicious buyer who purchased one at an area mall that contacted police. "He knew that wasn't the right fare so he called us, asked us to check into it," said Dunham.
As they investigated, the agency's Revenue Department noticed in November, a large number of cards were sold at its Chamblee and Lenox stations for only a dollar. Police started reviewing surveillance video to create a list of suspects.
MARTA won't say how many counterfeit cards the group sold, but says during the arrests it confiscated 400 fraudulent cards. Had the thieves sold them, their $400 initial investment, would have earned them $16,000.
MARTA says it's never had something like this happen before, but security expert Gregory Evans says MARTA needs to act fast, if wants to keep it from happening again. He says the hackers likely got away with their scheme using a simple card writer that costs just a few hundred dollars. "The crazy part, the scary part about this? MARTA would have never known if some had not gone back and told them what was happening. That's it," said Evans. Evans says the data on the card could be encrypted and an alert built into their software system. "If I go to use this card somewhere and all the sudden there's $100 on this card, their system should have caught that and said hold up," Evans said.
Delta, to their PR benefit, have swallowed the losses, and the lucky customers have shared their delight via social media
What losses does Delta have to swallow? They're going to make up for it by charging those "lucky" customers change fees, luggage fees, "Economy Comfort" fees, and for onboard entertainment, Gogo internet and food served onboard. Also, good luck getting full frequent flyer credit for the discounted flights.
RSA is publicly traded, is it not? Reuters is giving them a full weekend to come up with a PR response before the markets open on Monday.
RSA Security, Inc. was acquired by EMC Corporation (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=emc) in 2006 and is now a division of EMC.
National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/19/255415230/breach-at-target-stores-may-affect-40-million-card-accounts) says that the story was first reported by Brian Krebs, who writes the "Krebs on Security" blog. (http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/)
NPR and other news outlets are only reporting the story because Target put out a press release (http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-confirms-unauthorized-access-to-payment-card-data-in-u-s-stores) that confirmed that the breech happened.
OMFG how ever will you survive on 1.5mbps? 5 years ago where I live finally got DSL at 768bps. 2 years ago it actually got bumped to a maximum of 3mbps. WTF are you whining about?
+1
I live within 4 miles of the center of a major US City and the best DSL I can get is 0.65 Mbps down and 0.10 Mbps up.
He should turn over all of his submission records, in essence handing over the information on hundreds of men who could be charged for posting the photos. They would probably offer him quite the plea deal if he were to do this.
Read the Arrest Warrant: http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Arrest%20warrant_0.pdf
There are 31 Felony Counts listed in it. He's not going to get much of a plea deal; the police seized his computers, so they already have "all of his submission records."
For deeper comentary, this was on On The Media last week (http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/dec/). My favorite part is when Bollaert said he wouldn't post pics of his Mom or sister because that was gross....
On the Media interviewed Hunter Moore, a different douchebag. Like Bollaert, Hunter Moore ran a revenge porn site, but Moore (apparently) honored removal requests.... then he took down his entire site.
Here's the link to the Arrest Warrant: http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Arrest%20warrant_0.pdf
"A team of engineers at Microsoft Research have developed a high-tech bra that's intended to monitor women's stress levels and dissuade them from emotional over-eating.
Actually, the team's original idea was to monitor the CEO's excitement levels and dissuade him from dancing..... so they created the "Bramer".
Then marketing got ahold of it.
Someone listed as working as a lab tech somewhere is obviously going to make more than someone listed as working at McDonald's.
Not if the lab tech is a graduate student in the U.S.
The reason Facebook has any advertising income, and therefore value as a company, is that the people purchasing FB advertisements believe it has the ability to provide very directed advertising.
I've never seen USAA do it. I'll be a customer for life. From their insurance products to their banking and my mortgage they've always acted with nothing but the highest standards of customer service.
My understanding is that USAA is a Federal Savings Bank, a savings and loan association federally chartered in the United States, which is different than how other banks are chartered. That's why they haven't screwed you like a regular bank would have!
Chamblee Middle School (http://www.chambleems.dekalb.k12.ga.us/) is part of the Dekalb County (Georgia) School System. DCSS is the most fucked-up school district in the USA. The former Superintendent was arrested for theft by taking, the replacement Superintendent abandoned her job and the current Superintendent is a political hack who lacks the qualifications required to hold a teacher's license. The former COO was just found guilty of racketeering. The DCSS school board was removed by the state Governor and the school system is currently on "Accredited Probation", the only school system in the country with that status.
Some recent news coverage of Dekalb County School System:
Court upholds law used to suspend DeKalb school board members: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/court-upholds-law-used-to-suspend-dekalb-school-bo/nb4Cx/
Ex-DeKalb school official found guilty of racketeering: http://www.11alive.com/news/article/313666/40/Verdict-reached-in-DeKalb-corruption-trial
DeKalb teacher accused of beating special needs elementary student with stick: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-teacher-accused-beating-special-needs-eleme/nb26M/
School superintendent negotiates settlement in expensive legal battle: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/school-superintendent-negotiates-settlement-in-exp/nb89X/
DeKalb Schools placed on probation: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/dekalb-schools-placed-probation/nTYSp/
DeKalb’s graduation rate under the new state formula: 58.65% (Meaning that 42% of Dekalb Students DO NOT GRADUATE!) http://dekalbschoolwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/dekalbs-graduation-rate-under-the-new-state-formula-58-65/
and padlocked themselves in a gym bag.
In case anyone thinks bob_super is making that up: "The death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, whose body was found in a padlocked sports bag, was probably an accident, police have said." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24927078
Venezuela enacted a complete gun ban several years ago. First they stopped sales of guns, then ammo, then banned ownership. Yes, people griped, but the results have been worth it. 1/1000 as much violent crime as they had before the ban. The streets are safe there.
Criminals don't need guns when the government is their partner in crime, at least when it comes to looting electronics retailers:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/11/13/009248/venezuela-cheap-television-sets-for-all