Sapere Aude
Tag: crime
An impressive group of police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, district attorneys, and attorneys general from across the US came together to announce a joint crackdown effort on mass incarceration. You might be thinking, “Wait, but aren’t they the ones who lock people up?”
this is some seriously good news. now let’s end the war on drugs too. of course, lost cases like st. louis aren’t in the list.
since face recognition (imagenet) is superhuman as of 2014 it would be useful to define a new challenge where the goal for AI is to beat super recognizers. after that point, you’re clearly in the realm of the superhuman.
using anti-racketeering to bring down the climate denier cabal. an intriguing idea.
At the rate things are going, these wicked old men might be glad to be in a nice safe white-collar prison instead of a climate-crisis refugee camp. The following is the text of a letter written by a number of scientists asking for a federal investigation of climate science denial under the RICO statute.
all bankers are fundamentally banksters. this scam did 10s of billions of damage.
Was Tom Hayes Running the Biggest Financial Conspiracy in History?
Since the 18th century, the peat bogs of Northern Europe have yielded 100s of human corpses dating from as far back as 10 ka BP. Like Tollund Man, many of these so-called bog bodies are exquisitely preserved—their skin, intestines, internal organs, nails, hair, and even the contents of their stomachs and some of their clothes left in remarkable condition. Despite their great diversity—they comprise men and women, adults and children, kings and commoners—a surprising number seem to have been violently dispatched and deliberately placed in bogs, leading some experts to conclude that the bogs served as mass graves for offed outcasts and religious sacrifices. Tollund Man, for example, had evidently been hanged.
We should hire sinaloa to finish the NYC subway tunnels. They’d be able to get it done decades faster.
Sinaloa specializes instead in infrastructural marvels that federal agents call supertunnels. Agents estimate that a single supertunnel takes several months and more than $1M to build. Many include elevators, electric lights, ventilation ducts, and cleverly disguised entry and exit shafts.
It was a brilliant idea: Buy the original, then commission and sell forgeries. It almost worked
To make sure he couldn’t be caught, Ely Sakhai bought the original first—a Rembrandt of enormous value. This “incredibly brazen” con almost worked, writes Anthony M. Amore. The authenticity of his Rembrandt, The Apostle James, was not questioned. Nor was the fact that it was purchased by Ely Sakhai from a reputable source. So when he would offer what he purported to be the painting for sale, it didn’t raise questions about authenticity, if only because those interested in the painting perhaps failed to imagine the nefarious scheme of the seller. Thanks in large measure to his travels in the Far East with his wife, Sakhai made it his mission to establish a steady clientele in Tokyo and Taiwan too. and in June 1997, he sold his Rembrandt to the Japanese businessman and art collector Yoichi Takeuchi.
“I don’t know what happened,” James said of the initial summons. She kept one pink earbud in as we talked outside the church. She had just successfully cleared her warrant. In March, she recounted, she was sitting on a bench with her cousin in Fulton Park when a police officer approached. “She gave us both tickets for public drinking, but I wasn’t even holding anything”. She stretched the length of the earbud wire across her stomach. She thought her pregnancy must have been visible to the officer that night. James was unable to travel to the summons court, in lower Manhattan, the day she had been assigned to answer the citation. As generally happens with unanswered summonses, a warrant was put out for her arrest.
an overview of the nest of vipers doing 0day business with hacking team. all these companies are good targets for being taken down.
The recent compromise of Hacking Team’s email archive offers 1 of the first public case studies of the market for 0days. Because of its secretive nature, this market has been the source of endless debates on the ethics of its participants. The archive also offers insight into the capabilities and limits of offensive-intrusion software developers.
Miss? Miss?” He doesn’t sound particularly confrontational and I give him my best blank smile, hoping he has some kind of mundane procedural question.
“I don’t mean to like bother you or anything, but if you’re not busy, and a beautiful lady such as yourself is probably busy, but if you’re not busy I’d love to buy you a cup of coffee.”
Now I have to grin. This is my new favorite person in the world. What chutzpah! I’m so delighted by this guy that I almost chuck him on the shoulder. Then it hits me. He doesn’t recognize me, at all. He has no idea that I’m the person who arrested him 2 nights before.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 