Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
“Or, maybe nothing, and this is all a coincidence.”
February 22nd, 2014Via: Daring Fireball: According to slide 6 in the leaked PowerPoint deck on NSA’s PRISM program, Apple was “added” in October 2012. These three facts prove nothing; it’s purely circumstantial. But the shoe fits. Sure would be interesting to know who added that spurious line of code to the file. Conspiratorially, one could suppose the […]
Reporter Claims Computer Self Deleted Text While He Tried to Write Book About Snowden
February 22nd, 2014My first question would be: Was the system really offline? Was he using a computer with a wi-fi network adapter (pretty much any laptop made in the last decade)? If yes, then it’s probably safe to assume that he wasn’t actually offline. Whatever rootkit was running on the system could simply turn on the wi-fi […]
Google’s Project Tango: Indoor 3D Mapping and Tracking
February 20th, 2014Because tracking you outside is so 1990s. It’s not enough for the Legion of Doom to be able to track your every move outside. It now wants to map your indoor world, in 3D, and where you are in it. NSA/NGA will love this. Coincidence: Tango: Tango (U.S.) NATO phonetic alphabet for the letter “T” […]
Ryan Crane, JPMorgan Equities Trading Executive, Dies at 37
February 15th, 2014Another one. Via: Bloomberg: Ryan Crane, a JPMorgan (JPM) Chase & Co. employee who in a 14-year career at the New York-based bank rose to executive director of a unit that trades blocks of stocks for clients, has died. He was 37. He died on Feb. 3 at his Stamford, Connecticut, home, according to the […]
Eerie Parallels: Chart of Dow Jones Industrial Average 1928-1929 vs. Today
February 12th, 2014Queue your Twilight Zone mood music… Via: CBS: There are eerie parallels between the stock market’s recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash. That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market’s recent performance on […]
CEO of American Title Services Found Dead; “Self-Inflicted Wounds from a Nail Gun”
February 10th, 2014Via: Denver Post: The founder and CEO of American Title Services in Centennial was found dead in his home this week, the result of self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun, according to the Arapahoe County coroner. Richard Talley, 57, and the company he founded in 2001 were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the […]
‘What I’ve Been Doing Out Here’
February 8th, 2014Becky and I were into our 30s before we started to execute our exit strategy. Our neighbors, Thomas and Catherine, pulled it off and they are only in their mid 20s. I think that it’s a beautiful coincidence that people with core values that are so similar to ours happen to live across the road […]
Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us
February 6th, 2014See Fiber Optic Cables Cut in California (2009) for commentary that applies here as well. They called that one vandalism. Oh sure. That one happened in April too. Hmm. Via: sfist: Around 1 a.m. on April 16th last year, a team of attackers cut phone likes and took out 17 power transformers at a PG&E […]
A Rash of Deaths and a Missing Reporter — With Ties to Wall Street Investigations
February 4th, 2014Via: Wall Street on Parade: In a span of four days last week, two current executives and one recently retired top ranking executive of major financial firms were found dead. Both media and police have been quick to label the deaths as likely suicides. Missing from the reports is the salient fact that all three […]
Third Banker Suicided
January 31st, 2014We have Gabriel Magee and William ‘Bill’ Broeksmit from a couple of days ago and now Mike Dueker. Any more? Via: Bloomberg: Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s […]
