Archive for April, 2009
FBI Shuts Down Entire Hosting Provider Because of Alleged Activity of a Single Customer
April 4th, 2009Via: PCWorld: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided a Dallas ISP, knocking the company and almost 50 of its clients offline. The early morning Thursday raid closed down the operations of Core IP Networks, which operated out of two floors of a Telx collocation facility at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas. The raid […]
Should Obama Control the Internet?
April 4th, 2009Via: Mother Jones: Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast […]
The Detroit Public School Supply Building
April 4th, 2009The trees are growing out of piles of composting schoolbooks on the upper floors of the building.
My Manhattan Project: How I Helped Build the Bomb That Blew Up Wall Street
April 4th, 2009Via: New York Magazine: I have been called the devil by strangers and “the Facilitator” by friends. It’s not uncommon for people, when I tell them what I used to do, to ask if I feel guilty. I do, somewhat, and it nags at me. When I put it out of mind, it inevitably resurfaces, […]
G20 Supports IMF’s Plan to Sell 403 Tons of Gold
April 3rd, 2009Via: MarketWatch: Leaders from the Group of 20 nations Thursday endorsed the International Monetary Fund’s plan to sell 403 tons of gold to raise funds to support the world’s poorest countries. The announcement from G20 leaders helped add pressures to Thursday’s gold trading. Gold futures fell $20.30, or 2.2%, to $905.80 an ounce in recent […]
Art Nadel’s ‘Ponzi Pal’ Linked to 5-Ton Coke Bust
April 3rd, 2009Via: Mad Cow Productions: A hedge fund partner of accused Ponzi Fraudster Arthur G. Nadel, the current owner of what used to be terror flight school Huffman Aviation, was well-known in the New York Tri-State area as the “Garbage King of New Jersey,” the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Louis D. Paolino is also involved in the […]
U.S. Unemployment Rate Reaches 25-Year High of 8.5%
April 3rd, 2009To find actual rate, multiply the government number by 2 or 3. Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. unemployment rate jumped in March to the highest level since 1983 as the economy lost 663,000 jobs, threatening to keep spending subdued for months and delay any recovery. The jobless rate increased to 8.5 percent from 8.1 percent in […]
Residents Challenge Google Camera
April 3rd, 2009Rather than stopping the car, people should have held up signs that said adblockplus.org as it drove past. That way, Google would go on to blindly promote its own destruction. Sixty foot long penis optional. Via: BBC: Angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking […]
Phoenix Police Raid Home of Blogger Critical of Department
April 3rd, 2009Via: Carlos Miller: In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department. Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, […]
