“I told the cashier, ‘Do something, they’re leaving.’ And she couldn’t do anything, so I just told her, ‘Watch my purse,'” said Lawless.
Tag: crime
Electronic Pickpocketing
Coolest new mode of theft in awhile:
Credit card issuers, along with the U.S. State Department, have begun installing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in credit cards and passports because the technology holds more data than magnetic stripes and can be read quicker.
But, that convenience, experts warn, can also put people at risk of having their information taken.
“I wouldn’t walk around in public with my cards exposed like that,” said Walt Augustinowicz, founder of ID Stronghold. “It’s too easy to do.”
RFID chips are commonly found in cards used to raise gates in parking garages and unlock doors at businesses. All one has to do is simply swipe the card in front of a reader.
Within the last few years, that same technology has been introduced to credit cards and U.S. passports, potentially putting holders at risk of being ripped off.
It doesn’t matter if the cards are kept in a wallet or a purse since they can transmit through them when prompted by a RFID reader, which are for sale on eBay.
Augustinowicz said it amounts to electronic pickpocketing.
“[At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport], where you’ve got lots of crowds and a lot of people moving back and forth, no one is going to think anything of you walking by them with a briefcase with a higher-powered reader in it,” he said.
Using free software, he showed what hackers when using a RFID reader on a credit card. The account number and expiration date pop up on the computer screen almost instantaneously after the reader gets within a few inches of the card.
The only credit cards that are vulnerable are those that allow users to tap or pass a reader to pay rather than swiping. Some might also have a symbol on them that indicate they transmit.
Good News: “Minority Report” (Movie) reality might be coming soon
Alternate Headline: Scientific Study suggests precognition may be possible.
If you never saw Minority Report, it’s a Tom Cruise movie where he plays a cop who arrests people before they commit the crime they’re being arrested for based on reports printed from data mined from 3 physics kept in a pool. yeay!
In one experiment subjects, all of whom were students, were briefly shown a word list and then asked to recall as many as they could. Later, they were asked to copy a list of words randomly selected from the same list by a computer. The surprising result of this experiment was that in the recall section of the experiment the subjects recalled at a significantly higher rate words they were later asked to type, even though they had no way of knowing which words would be on the list.
In another experiment subjects were shown images of two curtains alongside each other on a computer screen and told one was concealing a picture (sometimes of an erotic nature), while the other concealed a blank screen. They were then asked to click on the one they “felt” was hiding the picture. When the curtain was selected it was opened to reveal what was behind it. This was repeated 36 times for each subject, and the picture positions were computer-selected and random.
In the 100 sessions subjects consistently selected the correct curtain 53.1 percent of the time for the erotic pictures, significantly over the 50 percent expected by pure chance. For the non-erotic pictures, the success rate was only 49.8 percent.
In a third experiment Bem reversed a common test in which subjects are shown one of the words “Ugly” or “Beautiful,” and then shown a picture of something unpleasant (such as a snake), or pleasant (such as a puppy or kitten), and the subject is asked to quickly decide if the picture is pleasant or unpleasant. In Bem’s reversal experiment the subject was shown the picture first and was required to respond as fast as possible and was then shown the word, which was randomly selected by the computer.
Ghetto manhunt for attempted rapist turns into comedy gold
A poor girl (no pun intended) was attacked by some idiot in the projects who climbed into her bedroom and tried to rape her. watch the video…its funnier than the story sounds…
He’s climbin in yo windows tryin to rape people! hide yo kids and hide yo wife cuz they be rapin EVERYBODY out hea. don’t worry though cuz we gon fiiiiiiiyndjyu HOME BOY!
so you can run and tell that.
Thank goodness theres a song for this dude:
Here he is reacting to his internet celebrity status:
Antoine does not care about being an overnight internet sensation, he just wants to make sure that you get caught for trying to rape errybody in the community or so he can beat your ass.
Lohan cries in court
? Li-Lo, Li-Lo, it’s off to jail you go… ?Lindsay Lohan is facing three months behind bars after she violated her 3-year-long probation on a drunk driving charge. In 2007 the actress pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug charges and three driving charges and spent 84 minutes in prison before her release. A judge in California said Lohan had failed to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes. The actress burst into tears as the verdict was announced. The surrender date is July 20, 2010.
Good for you Judge Judy lady judge… it’s so bizarre to see Lohans defense of why she didn’t comply with the loose terms of her probation because “i was working” and “with children” no less. then when the ruling is read she does the whole “are you serious??” shock reaction. jail?? for breaking the law that was placed on me after i was allowed to not go to jail after breaking the law?? omfg!!!11. on the other hand though, i think its really fkked up that news cameras are allowed in the court room. seems like a big invasion of privacy (says the guy who embeds the video directly the below this sentence)…
not enough for you? here’s the extended footage. 11 minutes of…yikesness…
Throat stabber notes his “concern for life”
Makes sense to me…
Jacob M. Christine says if he was slashed with a razor, he’d be happy to be slashed the way his alleged victim was.
Speaking at his preliminary hearing Thursday on charges he cut a fellow Northampton County Prison inmate across the throat, Christine insisted that the wound showed the assailant — whoever he was — took care to try to not kill.
”Whoever attacked him had a high regard for life,” said Christine, 21, who acted as his own attorney after, District Judge Gay Elwell of Easton said, he refused to request a public defender. ”Because the cut isn’t deep at all: It’s on his neck. It’s not on his face.”
This is one 21 year old who knows his anatomy. it’s a common myth that the neck is a more vulnerable place to be stabbed than the face. whenever im faced with a knife wielding attacker i always say “not the face!” and offer my throat instead not because of my vanity, but because i know that getting stabbed in or across my throat is much less life threatening than a slash across my cheek.
Besides, what about the was this 22 year old “victim”, testified he was eating dinner in his cell block June 8 when an inmate called him over to a cell and asked if he had tobacco.
this man is being unjustly charged and i think should be absolved of this crime and pardoned for the original crime that put him in prison in the first place. we need more citizens like him who show such a concern for life when they’re attacking people with razors.
Non-Chicago Olympics & the end of the World
Obama dealt with the fact that Chicago is a crime ridden ghetto shithole with a deft and brilliant strategy: Shhhhhhhhhh.
Back in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago, Illinois, some members of the black community are incensed at the president for not personally speaking out about the murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old boy who was beaten to death last week in a predominantly African-American neighborhood.
What really set them off was that Obama, in an awkward case of bad timing, instead flew to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago to the International Olympics Committee as the ideal city to host the games in 2016. And as it turned out, it didn’t put Chicago over the top. The city didn’t even make it to the final round in Friday’s voting.
Chicago did not deserve the Olympics. Really, no other city in America deserved it either, but Chicago super-double didn’t deserve it.
What exactly made anyone think that our nations top 3 competitor for “most violent and crime ridden city” would be an awesome choice worthy of hosting the Olympics? Of course, Rio has a huge drug and crime problem, but that’s on the Olympic committee. I’m pointing my “wtf, really?” finger back at America and American’s who thought a non-Chicago Olympics was a bad thing.
Judging from what’s being said on talk radio, Web sites and blogs frequented by residents of Chicago, the fact that Obama put the Olympics ahead of responding to the breakdown of the social order in Chi-Town is a slap in the face.
Just yesterday, a self-identified African-American called into “The Rush Limbaugh Show” and complained about how Obama flew off to “a foreign country” while black kids in Chicago are being consumed by violence. The caller wondered when other African-Americans were going to realize that Obama wasn’t like them, because he’s an elitist living an extraordinary life and breathing rarified air.
That sentiment was all over black-oriented blogs. One blogger wrote: “More children died violent deaths in Chicago this year than in any other city in America. But all Obama cares about is bringing the Olympics to a city where basic services like water, sanitation and power often don’t work. … If Chicago does win the bid there will be plenty of police and National Guard on hand to protect the international visitors. That’s more than they are willing to do for their own residents.”
Despite Michelle Obama’s assurance that the violent crime in Chicago ain’t no biggie… erm, it’s kindov a biggie.
And then there’s the question of whether 2012 deserves your movie-going patronage or not. Some critics, basing only on the trailer, saying not:
It looked, however, as if the CGI experts have been given a completely free hand designing this apocalypse – with the net result that the trailer bordered on laughable.
Then the second trailer hit, which starts with a peaceful domestic scene between Cusack and Peet and ends up showing us more of that dramatic plane ride through a city which plunges into the depths of Hell as they fly by
Critics in the U.S. are already beginning to describe the movie as a disaster in itself.
The OTT effects and over-dramatic story has come in for some criticism even before the film hits the big screen.
If the trailer is anything to go by, we’re likely to see every kind of disaster imaginable, all crammed into one big turkey of a film created by a director reknowned for his overboard use of effects.
One critic says of the trailer: ‘The 2012 The Worst is Over Movie Clip that recently found its way online is full of the absurd action and grand special effects audiences have come to expect from a Roland Emmerich film.
”At the beginning of the clip we are given a glimpse of the Curtis’ family dynamic present in 2012. As the clip continues, the delivered action is so over-the-top it almost looks like an cartoon.’
Famous Friends: Elizabeth Smart
In the news: Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped on June 5, 2002 when she was abducted from her Salt Lake City, Utah, bedroom at the age of 14. She was found nine months later on March 12, 2003, in Sandy, Utah, about 18 miles from her home.
In richardland: Elizabeth has apparently been living under the pseudonym “Carly” since at least 2004 when I met her. All this time, I had no idea this Carly person was actually an undercover kidnapping victim.
Proof below: Smart on the left. Carly on the right…
Denver cops rough up ABC reporter on public sidewalk, push him into traffic
Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.
(click to watch the video that abc doesn’t allow to be embedded)
A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker’s neck, then twisted the producer’s arm behind him to put on handcuffs.
A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. He also said the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel.
Massachusetts Woman Faces Three Years in Prison for Switching Flintstones Vitamins with Candy
A Woburn woman has admitted she switched Flintstones vitamins with candy in stores, saying she was angry that vitamins she bought had been tampered with.
Denise Shannon told federal investigators she substituted the chewable vitamins with red-hot candy, jelly beans, M&Ms and gumballs eight to 10 times in 2004 and 2005 at various supermarkets in the Woburn area.
According to a plea agreement, the 38-year-old Shannon said she did it because she felt “violated” after she bought Flintstones vitamins that were tampered with in 2004.
Shannon was indicted on federal charges of tainting consumer products with intent to cause serious injury to a business.
Her plea agreement has not yet been accepted by a judge. She faces up to three years in prison.