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The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
What do Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell, David Beckham and Denzel Washington all have in common. According to FT Alphaville , they all invested in get rich quick schemes in Dubai. So did banks like HSBC ($17 billion), Standard Chartered ($7.8billion), Barclays ($3.6 billion), Citi...
Seen that? - Strip Searches Limited in The Philippines
in Global Mobility Report, on November 22, 2009
Strip Searches Limited in The Philippines at Global Mobility Report A new "no touch" policy should halt strip searches by Philippine immigration officials of Japanese visitors. It's not that they like or dislike tattoos. The justific...
最终幻想 13 主题曲 君がいるから [菅原紗由理] 320kbps MP3 下载
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-03
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Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
It was just a matter of time. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read through it and then think of how low some people can get. It beggars belief.
第13届好莱坞电影节好莱坞电影奖获奖名单
in YuleGuan, on 2009-10-17
第13届好莱坞电影节（The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival）近期陆陆续续公布了今年好莱坞电影奖（Hollywood Awards）的获奖名单，尽管还有两个主要奖项没有宣布，但90%的名单都已经揭晓了，以下就是获奖名单，我们还会在今后不断更新。今年的好莱坞电影奖颁奖典礼将于10月26日在好莱坞贝弗利山希尔顿酒店举行：
年度电影：待公布
年度动画片：飞屋环游记（Up）
年度男主角：罗伯特·德尼罗《人人都很好/天伦之旅》/ Robert De Niro, Everybody's Fine
年度女主角：希拉里·斯旺克《艾米莉娅》/ H...
Wesley Snipes and the Ponzi scheme
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
Wesley Snipes last year was pinged for tax evasion . The only reason he is not yet in jail is that he is appealing against the sentence. Now we have reports that he lost millions of dollars in an alleged Ponzi scheme which is now before the courts. As the CMR movie review blog says, ...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...o monitor and because they are happening in poor countries, they will be easy picking for organized crime. Peter Younger, Interpol environment crimes specialist has warned: "Alarm bells are ringi...
Small Business Security Strategies
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on September 21, 2009
...U. S. Chamber of Commerce has a security tool kit you can download to help protect you from cyber crime.
What are some other ways a small business can feel secure? ...
Cyber crime pandemic
in Sox First, on September 18, 2009
We are in a cyber crime pandemic and it's getting worse with US federal authorities telling the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee this week that the crooks are now turning their attention to small businesses, a much easier hit than larger more secure corporations...
今年秋季几个关注的美剧开播时间
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-15
9 月 10 日
• Supernatural，9 p.m. [CW]
• The Vampire Diaries，8 p.m. [CW]
9 月 21 日
• Heroes，8 p.m. [NBC]
9 月 24 日
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation，9 p.m. [CBS]
9 月 25 日
• Numb3rs，10 p.m. [CBS]
9 月 28 日
• Lie to Me，9 p.m. [Fox]
10 月 2 日
• Stargate Universe，9 p.m. [Syfy]
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
Of all the ridiculous sentences handed down, this one has to be the worst. UBS private banker Bradley Birkenfeld was this week sentenced to three years four months for conspiring to defraud the US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actually the w...
Cocaine dollars
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
It's nothing to sniff at. US currency is drug money, literally. We now have reports has found that 95% of dollar bills in Washington DC bear traces of cocaine. Significantly, that's up 20% over the last two years. In other words, more people are using dollar bills to snort the st...
No bail for Black
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
You have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's chance in hell of getting it, he wasn't listening. He still maintains he is innocent. Now ...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
The big accounting fraud news this week was the Security and Exchange Commission announcing that conglomerate GE had cooked the books, boosting its earnings by $785 million and its revenues by $370 million. One of the alleged violations involved GE accounting for sales of locomotives as done ...
Joel Tenenbaum Owes the RIAA $675,000
in P2P File Sharing, on August 7, 2009
Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum has been ordered to pay $675,000 to four record labels after he admitted in federal court that he had downloaded and distributed more than 30 songs.
"Unfortunately for Tenenbaum, the messages appears to be the same one sent by jurors...
au secours, mon ordinateur m'espionne...
in Business Computer Blog (FR), on juillet 27, 2009
© Marcus Vegas
... et d'autres à travers lui ! Deux articles parus le même jour viennent éclairer la question de la protection des données installées sur votre ordinateur :
* l'enquête réalisée par la chaîne britannique skynews, qui a piégé des réparateurs informatiques trop curieux...
Recession-fuelled crime wave
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
Is there a link between the rise in crime and the recession? In Spain, bank robberies are reportedly running 20% ahead of the previous year's figures and it's been blamed on that country's unemployment rate hitting a gob-smacking 20%, the highest in Europe, and the Spanish economy...
Ok You're Right [50 Cent]
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-12
ok ok ok
ok ok ok *screwed*
ok ok ok
ok ok ok *screwed*
Hook:
when they talk about me, they say i be tripping
what they say about doesn't make me mad
i think they hating 'cause they see me when I'm rolling
man, i can't help it that they really doing bad
ok, alright (they sick)
...
Madoff's tough spell
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...tims, each family might find solace in knowing the criminal received a specific punishment for each crime. Second, the prosecutor might want multiple sentences on the books in case some were overturne...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
So as expected, Bernard Madoff got the max : 150 years in the slammer for perpetrating his vile Ponzi Scheme. For his part, Madoff delivered a big apology to the victims. But interesting questions remain. Was there money laundering involved? And if so, wouldn't that make some of his vict...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
... and heart-breaking. Read through the stuff and it hits how hard these people have been hurt by the crime. Consider this: "We are in our mid 60s and began investing directly with Madoff in 1993 ...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
With the World Health Organisation on the brink of declaring swine flu an official pandemic, Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim director general for health, safety and the environment has told Time Magazine that the fallout could be devastating with panic setting in and the "worried w...
Health care and the US economy
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
More evidence that the most powerful nation on the planet has a completely dysfunctional health system. And another illustration of how second rate health care is hurting the US economy. It makes a mockery of its excellent doctors and medical technology. First we have reports that bankrup...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
...areholders and if they renege on that, they have withheld honest services and therefore committed a crime. As the piece says: "If the Supreme Court accepts the concept, it will give prosecutors ...
Harvard Law Professor Says P2P Is Fair Use
in P2P File Sharing, on May 22, 2009
Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson , in his defense of accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum, says P2P filesharing is "fair use."
"In court filings, Nesson spelled out his defense strategy, which doesn't appear to involve claims that his client 'didn't do it,'...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 10, 2009
...orneys and commission bureaucrats, it's easy to see how Madoff was allowed to get away with his crime. The issue is whether others have been let off the hook that haven't yet come to light....
Climate scientist sacked for talking
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
In an extraordinary development this week, a pioneering climate change scientist Jim Salinger has been sacked from his post in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald , his great crime was talking to a TV weatherman about flooding rivers. As you do. Salinger was part of the Intergover...
Taiwan Approves Three-Strikes Law
in P2P File Sharing, on April 30, 2009
© Erik Charlton
The Taiwanese government this week approved an amendment to its copyright laws, targeted specifically at P2P users.
"The amendment makes it a crime to use P2P technology to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted works online, which sounds like pretty bad news for...
Budget Mistakes to Avoid
in The Flyaway Weblog, on April 30, 2009
Mark Kahler had a good post recently on mistakes people make when they're trying to travel cheap. His first tip highlights one of the most common mistakes budget travels make. Mark says don't feel like you have to trade either safety or cleanliness for a good deal. Budget travelers a...
Italy in the Spotlight Over Hardline Immigration Policies
in Global Mobility Report, on April 24, 2009
Human rights groups are expressing concern over new immigration policies in Italy that seem designed to target Europe's Roma and Sinti Gypsy populations. Europe's top human rights watchdog on Thursday expressed "deep concern" over the conservative Italian government's hardlin...
ATM Skimmers are High Tech Robbery
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 10, 2009
© *saxon*
I know about ATM skimmers, and in general I know they are a bad thing. What I didn't know is that their use across the globe and throughout the US is dramatically on the rise. If you aren't familiar with ATM skimmers, they are a ATM/credit card reader that fit over the card ...
G20 protest meltdown
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
London is bracing itself for the G20 protests with warnings from one of the organizers that there could be "real bankers hanging from lamp posts". Regardless of the hyperbole, it's another sign of how polarized the world has become in the wake of the financial meltdown with anti-ca...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
Is this a warning of things to come? An alarming story out of the Los Angeles Times about looting in a supermarket in Israel that went bankrupt. According to the piece, ex-employees took their revenge first helping themselves to crates of groceries. Then came the creditors who walked in and m...
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
It's funny, usually the criminals and malcontents on the Internet are among the first to adopt new technology trends. But we had them beat with the whole aaS (as a Service) phenomena... until now.
IT News Australia reports on a talk given by Vasco Bank technical account manager Vlado Vajdic...
RFID to Thieves: Just stay away from Saguaros
in The RFID Weblog, on March 13, 2009
...everal tones but these thieves didn't seem to realize that walking off with park property was a crime.
Since it's nearly impossible to keep a manual watch on nearly one million saguaros at th...
The 25 Most Dangerous Places for Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 26, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 288691
An interesting article popped up in Network World today highlighting the 25 most dangerous places for outsourcing . In addition to simply listing 25 areas with high crime or high risk of terrorist attack, the list also broke down the list the risks...
Mafiosi Heart Skype
in The VoIP Weblog, on February 16, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3727368
Web-savvy Italian mafiosi have apparently learned to cover their tracks using VoIP...
"Police in Milan have issued a warning that criminals of all kinds have been turning to Internet VoIP calls, rather than mobiles, to make arrangement...
Judges Caught Taking Money For Sending Kids To Jail
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 12, 2009
Two Pennsylvania Judges of the Court of Common Pleas plead guilty to charges that they took payoffs for incarcerating juveniles.
A pair of detention centers for children were kicking back substantial sums of money to the judges in exchange for sentencing kids to longer than normal sentences.
The d...
Winter of discontent: will the Paris riots spread?
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
... in the destruction of 50 million jobs around the world, could lead to widespread turmoil and urban crime. "We are on the road to serious social instability, which could be extremely dangerous in...
Executives targeted in trojan attack
in The CIO Weblog, on January 12, 2009
At a time when most of us have finally become accustomed to big, bot-generated, impersonal attacks becoming the primary threat vector for malicious external attacks on corporate IT systems, it appears that some criminals are going old school and giving penetration attempts the personal touch aga...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-01-09
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Small ISP Says RIAA Has to Pay
in P2P File Sharing, on January 1, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3833410
Following the RIAA's recent announcement that it's going to stop suing individuals for pirating music and will instead ask ISPs to crack down on file sharers, Jerry Scroggin, who runs the small ISP Bayou Internet and Communications , s...
Protecting Your Online Privacy
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 26, 2008
Search engine privacy has gotten its fair share of attention in the media recently, partly because Congress took an interest in the matter during an election year.
If you don't fully understand the situation, it's simple. You're sitting there in your own den or livingroom in your PJ...
Adobe CS4 Photoshop and Illustrator Review
in Wangtam, on 2008-12-20
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Will there be more Madoffs?
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
Is Bernard Madoff a sign of things to come? Will there be more like him? Is Madoff's $50 billion fraud a sign of things to come? These are valid questions because Madoff was the product of a dysfunctional system, one that had the regulator doing nothing to protect investors because it was a...
Cleaning Up Amsterdam...
in The Flyaway Weblog, on December 9, 2008
If you're planning a trip to Amsterdam in the near future for some partying and general debauchery, you should know that the Dutch government has decided to clean the city up. The Associated Press is among news sources reporting that the brothels, sex shops, and marijuana cafe's in the cen...
Vermont is Healthiest State
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 3, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Ugur Evirgen
Mississipi used to be the most obese State in the U.S. Now it has been trumped by Louisiana while Vermont is now called the healthiest state based on obesity and smoking rates.
Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state an...
Internet Anonymity and the MySpace Case
in Web 2.0, on November 19, 2008
Most of the time, I really don't care who you are. My little portion of the blogosphere is about ideas and information - and it doesn't matter whether you're really a 60 year old gay Republican from South Carolina or a dock worker in Oakland who just likes to pretend they teach at a coll...
The Lori Drew Case and the Future of Anonymity on the Web
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 18, 2008
Steven Hodson at The Inquisitr published an interesting piece yesterday on the Lori Drew case and the legal implications it may eventually have for anonymity on the web.
Lori Drew's trial began today.
Hodson (along with Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins over at Mashable) wants you to thin...
Bulletproof Polo Shirt Might Be a Good Buy
in The Gadgets Weblog, on October 13, 2008
There is a scientific link between bad economic times complete economic meltdowns like the one we are currently having and crime rates. To put it simply, when times are tough, violent crime skyrockets. Well, in times like these, it looks like you could use a bulletproof polo shirt.
This shir...
Tatort Ruhr
in BiblioBlog, on 17.09.08
© nyki_m
Mit einem Großaufgebot geht das Krimifestival "Mord am Hellweg - Tatort Ruhr" vom 13. 9. bis 8. 11. über die Bühne.
Bereits zum vierten Mal, das erste Festival fand 2002 statt, finden sich in der Hellweg-Region (von Dortmund über Unna bis Lippstadt, von Hamm bis Schwerte...
Hitman Spammer Returns
in I got Spam?!, on September 16, 2008
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Brandon Rose Just when you thought spammers had thought of everything, the FBI is warning that a particularly disturbing spammer is back. Called the Hit Man Spammer, he first showed up back in 2006. Unlike most spam, which Hawks such things fake pharma...
Fingerabdruck verrät Diabetesrisiko
in Mein Diabetes Blog, on 10.09.08
Amerikanische Forscher vom Center for Disease Control and Prevention fanden kürzlich heraus, dass anhand des Fingerabdrucks erkennbar ist, ob ein Mensch Gefahr läuft im Laufe seines Lebens an Diabetes zu erkranken.
Je unterschiedlicher die Rillen und Windungen an Daumen und kleinem Finger sin...
Guns N Roses leaker arrested by the FBI!
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 28, 2008
...ishment for digital music to really take off, but on the other hand it seems just a tad mad for the crime...
...
Robert Zimmermann wundert sich über die Liebe
in Kinoplausch, on 22.08.08
Als ich den Titel des neuen Films von Regisseur Leander Haußmann zum ersten Mal las, war ich fast versucht mit einem "ich auch" zu antworten. Und in der Tat freue ich mich schon sehr auf den 28. August, den Tag, an dem " Robert Zimmermann wundert sich über die Liebe " seine ...
Paul Hogan's tax sham
in Sox First, on August 23, 2008
Last month, I did a blog entry on Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan's battle with tax authorities. Basically, he was challenging the tax man to come and get him. Looks like the authorities are doing exactly that with court papers revealing, according to news reports , that Hogan consp...
The Price of Protest? China Sentences two Old Ladies to Hard Labor
in China Venture News, on August 20, 2008
I'll start by admitting that this has nothing to do with venture capital in China - excepted in the broadest possible sense of being about life in China....
A number of sources including the Huffington Post are reporting on 79-year-old Wu Dianyuan and her 77-year-old neighbor, Wang Xiuyin...
Siemens - a disaster waiting to happen
in Sox First, on August 19, 2008
No surprises here with reports that Siemens had basically set up systems that had its managers aiding and abetting in the corruption. Based on the disclosures, here, it seems that Siemens' widespread corruption was the inevitable result of having an audit office riddled with conflicts of ...
Monitor web pages with PageTiki
in Wangtam, on 2008-08-14
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Mit Spürsinn um die Welt
in BiblioBlog, on 01.08.08
© psd
Dass Krimis boomen, liest man allerorten - höchste Zeit, dass dieses Genre einmal weltumspannend gewürdigt wird. Jonathan Gibbs
(Independent) heißt der unerschrockene Reiseführer, der eine Fährte aus 80 Krimis gelegt hat, die lesend einmal rund um den Globus führen. Eine tolle Idee,...
Wenn der Kaffeeautomat leise röchelt
in BiblioBlog, on 29.07.08
© matt.davis
Der Diogenes-Verlag und Starbucks gehen elf Lesungen lang auf Tuchfühlung: Vom 16. September bis 7. Oktober lädt man gemeinsam in neun deutschen Großstädten zu "Coffee & Crime" . Filialen der umtriebigen Kaffeeröster von Hamburg bis München werden dann zu Vorleseor...
SEC is wrong on short selling
in Sox First, on July 29, 2008
... is so wrong on this. Wrong and irresponsible because aggressive short selling isn't actually a crime. It's just another way of making money out of the market when there's bad news. Nothin...
Black Dahlia Mystery Bus Tours
in The Flyaway Weblog, on July 24, 2008
Here's a bit of an offbeat, albeit maudlin activity for your next vacation in LA. If you've always been a fan of film noir , and if you've always had secret aspirations to become a PI, you might want to consider one of the Esotouric Mystery Bus Tours .
Since January 1947, one ic...
No more corporate crime hardball
in Sox First, on July 10, 2008
In another sign that the administration is easing up on its fight against corporate crime , the US Justice Department is backing off from its hard-line that forces corporations to turn over confidential communications between their attorneys and company executives under scrutiny by prosecu...
Cell phone ticket bonanza
in Tech Without Wires, on July 4, 2008
© Doug Letterman
Well, the new cell phone law in California has come that makes it illegal to talk while driving unless you use some form of hands free device.
So how is the law doing after 24 hours of existance?
Amazingly there were only three tickets issued in the first 24 hours!
So an am...
China investigates Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on June 20, 2008
In a move which surely has Steve Ballmer tossing chairs around the office this week, China has announced that it will be investigating the Redmond company for every other major political entity's crime of choice these days: manipulative monopolistic business practices. In particular, the...
AC Milan pinged for dodgy accounting
in Sox First, on June 14, 2008
Is nothing sacred? My favourite team AC Milan along with Genoa-based Sampdoria have copped a massive fine for false accounting, reports Reuters. The Italian Soccer Federation didn't just fine the clubs for false accounting that included inflating transfer fees. They also fined the di...
Breaking the News About Your Pregnancy
in Next Nine Months, on June 13, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ronnie Comeau
So you've confirmed it, and then just for sure, yet again: you are indeed pregnant. So who do you tell? When? and how?
The "who" I would think is pretty easy. For most women, it would be the "partner-in-crime" that would be...
Mexico and INTERPOL Linking Up
in Latina Viva, on June 11, 2008
© kwerfeldein
INTERPOL is awesome.
I mean the International Police, not the New York Post-punk rock band-although they're pretty cool, too.
The organization runs a global police communications system (I-24/7) that provides police around the world with a common platform they can ...
