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литература — в массы
7 March 2010 | Crime, Literature | 1 Comment
реальность, как всегда, оказывается почище иного вымысла:
Argentinian police are hunting a 30-year-old former lingerie model accused of running an all-women cocaine-smuggling gang, Argentina’s La Nación reports.
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Her Charlie Angels – recruited by a 25-year-old male model known as Ariel L – earned £3,200 for every smuggling flight. Mr L received £1,300 for arranging each trip.
The wheels came off the plan on 13 December, when Ariel L’s 21-year-old girlfriend, María N, was cuffed at Buenos Aires’s Ezeiza International Airport with 55kg of cocaine on open display in her suitcase.
чистая “Гламорама”, @BretEastonEllis должен быть в восторге.
сотрудничество
31 December 2009 | Crime, Security | 1 Comment
Брюс Шнайер, как всегда, прав:
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more we’re doing the terrorists’ job for them.
именно так овец и загонят в загон.
защищайте свои инвестиции
3 December 2009 | Crime, Economics, Lifeform | No Comments
сомалийские пираты все теснее интегрируются в жизнь:
One wealthy former pirate named Mohammed took Reuters around the small facility and said it had proved to be an important way for the pirates to win support from the local community for their operations, despite the dangers involved.
“Four months ago, during the monsoon rains, we decided to set up this stock exchange. We started with 15 ‘maritime companies’ and now we are hosting 72. Ten of them have so far been successful at hijacking,” Mohammed said.
“The shares are open to all and everybody can take part, whether personally at sea or on land by providing cash, weapons or useful materials … we’ve made piracy a community activity.”
ну, и как тут снова не подумать о “Барочном цикле”?
via.
он сказал: “поехали!”
9 November 2009 | Crime, Internet, Jurisprudence | No Comments
среди общего маразма, кстати, случаются и проблески здравого смысла:
Earlier this year, the IFPI gave Norwegian ISP Telenor an ultimatum – block access to The Pirate Bay within days or get taken to court. Telenor refused, IFPI followed through with its threat and the case was heard earlier this month. The decision was announced today. IFPI lost the case and Telenor will not have to block The Pirate Bay.
via.
на месте преступления
9 November 2009 | Crime, Internet, Sex | No Comments
уже давно ждал нечто подобное:
Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it’s your reputation that’s stolen.
и вот наконец-то: любой (и любая for sure) теперь может оказаться подсуден, любого можно отправить шагать по этапу.
поливуд
28 September 2009 | Cinematograph, Crime, Jurisprudence | No Comments
свободу Юрию Деточкину, кстати. Роману Поланскому, то есть!
цитируемая фамилия “Деточкин” приобретает в этой истории особенный вкус.
новости с полей
19 September 2009 | Copyright, Crime, Culturology, Internet, Software | No Comments
теперь уже и программы:
After an earlier decision failed to reach its objective, this week a Brazilian court made an unprecedented ruling against file-sharing clients. Following legal action by anti-piracy groups against a website offering a file-sharing client for download, the court decided that software which allows users to share music via P2P is illegal.
чем дальше, тем больше похоже на правду:
Do we really want to alienate a whole generation? Are there good reasons to?
доброе утро, sinners of internet.
время собирать
17 September 2009 | Crime, Ecology, Literature | No Comments
реальность, по обыкновению, страшнее любого вымысла:
A shipwreck apparently containing toxic waste is being investigated by authorities in Italy amid claims that it was deliberately sunk by the mafia.
одна могила за другой, так и живем в морге (Калабрия — это абсолютно сказочное место, к слову):
The ship’s location was revealed by Francesco Fonti, an ex-member of Calabria’s feared ‘Ndrangheta crime group, who confessed to using explosives to sink this vessel and two others.
[Silvestro] Greco (head of Calabria’s environment agency) said investigators believed there were 32 ships carrying toxic waste sunk by the mafia since the introduction of tighter environmental legislation in the 1980s made illegal waste disposal a lucrative business for crime groups.
“The Mediterranean is 0.7 percent of the world’s seas. If in this tiny portion there are more than 30 (toxic waste) shipwrecks, imagine what there could be elsewhere,” he said.
via.
компромат
8 April 2009 | Copyright, Crime, Internet | 1 Comment
стоило увлечься весной, как тут же оказалось, что творятся вокруг совершенно замечательные дела. во-первых, использование торрент-сетей в Российской Федерации вот-вот превратится в глобальный правительственный крючок для всех и каждого. во-вторых, кто бы мог подумать, но в Швеции происходит то же самое. в-третьих, англичане заодно собираются просматривать различный социальный (Facebook, MySpace, итд) траффик. и в-четвертых, директива 2006/24/EC все-таки начинает действовать.
приятных снов.
осторожность
6 March 2009 | Crime, Culturology, Hardware, Literature, Science | No Comments
A man about 43 years of age giving the name Joshua Coppersmith has been arrested for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires. He calls the instrument a ‘telephone,’ which is obviously intended to imitate the word ‘telegraph’ and win the confidence of those who know the success of the latter instrument. Well informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires, as may be done by dots and dashes and signals of the Morse Code. The authorities who apprehended this criminal are to be congratulated and it is hoped that punishment will be prompt and fitting, and that it may serve as an example to other conscienceless schemers who enrich themselves at the expense of their fellow creatures.
Boston newspaper, 1865, quoted by Edison’s assistant Francis Jehl in Menlo Park Reminiscences, 1937
готовый рекламный проспект: “будьте бдительны!”
Бостон, Провиденс, Иннсмаут… я всегда чувствовал.