Sorry I'm replying late to a couple stories back. Oh, Elfie! How utterly horrible.
So many lives have changed here in an innocent instant. So much to think and feel. I'm so sorry for the boy, your friend, his family and even you! I know this has affected you because you are a kind and caring man with more empathy than the entire body of Congress.
My heart goes out to them.
As far as smoking Mother Nature...I have no problem with it. Encourage it medically. Am even jealous but I could never take the stuff as it did something "funny" to me and my reaction was much the same as a paranoid acid trip or something. But I think I've said that here before.
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Oh dear. The actual headline:
With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2 ... printer=1/
With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2 ... printer=1/
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Note that the protest group discussed in the article is called "Recreate 68". When you read about what happened at the Democrat Convention in 1968, you can see why they're so concerned with the group that wants to recreate it.awip2062 wrote:They surely don't think much of the protesters and what they might do, do they?
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11 charged in connection with credit card fraud
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer
5 HOURS AGO
NEW YORK - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had charged 11 people in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers.
It is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice. The charges include conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft.
The indictment returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston alleges that the people charged hacked into the wireless computer networks of retailers including TJX Cos., BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW.
"While technology has made our lives much easier it has also created new vulnerabilities," U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said in a statement. "This case clearly shows how strokes on a keyboard with a criminal purpose can have costly results."
The indictment alleges that the hackers installed programs to capture card numbers, passwords and account information, and then concealed the data in computer servers that they controlled in the U.S. and Eastern Europe.
"They used sophisticated computer hacking techniques, that would allow them to breach security systems and install programs that gathered enormous quantities of personal financial data, which they then allegedly either sold to others or used themselves," said Attorney General Michael Mukasey in a press conference. "And in total, they caused widespread loses by banks, retailers, and consumers."
Mukasey said the total dollar amount of the alleged theft is "impossible to quantify at this point." Sullivan said officials still haven't identified all the victims who had a credit or debit card number stolen.
"I suspect that a lot of people are unaware that their identifying information has been compromised," he said.
Sullivan said the alleged thieves weren't computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a laptop computer and looking for accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they located a vulnerable network, they installed so-called "sniffer programs" that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a retailer's processing networks.
The information was stored on two servers in Ukraine and Latvia _ one with more than 25 million credit and debit card numbers and another with more than 16 million numbers, Sullivan said.
The heist was a black eye for retailers like TJX. The company, which initially disclosed the data breach in January 2007, said a few months later that at least 45.7 million cards were exposed to possible fraud in a breach of its computer systems that began in July 2005. Court filings by some banks that sued TJX put the number of cards affected at more than 100 million, based on estimates by officials with Visa and MasterCard, who were deposed in the suit.
In May, TJX said it won support from Mastercard-issuing banks for a settlement that will pay them as much as $24 million to cover costs from the data breach. A similar agreement reached last November with Visa-card issuing banks also was overwhelmingly approved. That agreement set aside as much as $40.9 million to help banks cover costs including replacing customers payment cards and covering fraudulent charges.
Under the indictments unsealed Tuesday, three of the defendants are U.S. citizens, one is from Estonia, three are from Ukraine, two are from China and one is from Belarus. One individual is only known by an alias online, and his place of origin is unknown.
In the Boston indictment, Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez of Miami, who is accused of leading the scheme, was charged with computer fraud, wire fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy. Gonzalez, who is in custody in New York, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if he is convicted of all the charges.
Indictments were unsealed Tuesday in San Diego against Maksym "Maksik" Yastremskiy of Kharkov, Ukraine, and Aleksandr "Jonny Hell" Suvorov of Sillamae, Estonia. The indictments charge them with crimes related to the sale of the stolen credit card data.
Furthermore, indictments against Hung-Ming Chiu and Zhi Zhi Wang, both of China, and a person known only by the online nickname "Delpiero" were also unsealed in San Diego.
Officials did not say whether any other suspects were in custody, or give an arraignment date for Gonzalez.
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Associated Press writer Rodrique Ngowi contributed to this story from Boston.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer
5 HOURS AGO
NEW YORK - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had charged 11 people in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers.
It is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice. The charges include conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft.
The indictment returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston alleges that the people charged hacked into the wireless computer networks of retailers including TJX Cos., BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW.
"While technology has made our lives much easier it has also created new vulnerabilities," U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said in a statement. "This case clearly shows how strokes on a keyboard with a criminal purpose can have costly results."
The indictment alleges that the hackers installed programs to capture card numbers, passwords and account information, and then concealed the data in computer servers that they controlled in the U.S. and Eastern Europe.
"They used sophisticated computer hacking techniques, that would allow them to breach security systems and install programs that gathered enormous quantities of personal financial data, which they then allegedly either sold to others or used themselves," said Attorney General Michael Mukasey in a press conference. "And in total, they caused widespread loses by banks, retailers, and consumers."
Mukasey said the total dollar amount of the alleged theft is "impossible to quantify at this point." Sullivan said officials still haven't identified all the victims who had a credit or debit card number stolen.
"I suspect that a lot of people are unaware that their identifying information has been compromised," he said.
Sullivan said the alleged thieves weren't computer geniuses, just opportunists who used a technique called "wardriving," which involved cruising through different areas with a laptop computer and looking for accessible wireless Internet signals. Once they located a vulnerable network, they installed so-called "sniffer programs" that captured credit and debit card numbers as they moved through a retailer's processing networks.
The information was stored on two servers in Ukraine and Latvia _ one with more than 25 million credit and debit card numbers and another with more than 16 million numbers, Sullivan said.
The heist was a black eye for retailers like TJX. The company, which initially disclosed the data breach in January 2007, said a few months later that at least 45.7 million cards were exposed to possible fraud in a breach of its computer systems that began in July 2005. Court filings by some banks that sued TJX put the number of cards affected at more than 100 million, based on estimates by officials with Visa and MasterCard, who were deposed in the suit.
In May, TJX said it won support from Mastercard-issuing banks for a settlement that will pay them as much as $24 million to cover costs from the data breach. A similar agreement reached last November with Visa-card issuing banks also was overwhelmingly approved. That agreement set aside as much as $40.9 million to help banks cover costs including replacing customers payment cards and covering fraudulent charges.
Under the indictments unsealed Tuesday, three of the defendants are U.S. citizens, one is from Estonia, three are from Ukraine, two are from China and one is from Belarus. One individual is only known by an alias online, and his place of origin is unknown.
In the Boston indictment, Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez of Miami, who is accused of leading the scheme, was charged with computer fraud, wire fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy. Gonzalez, who is in custody in New York, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if he is convicted of all the charges.
Indictments were unsealed Tuesday in San Diego against Maksym "Maksik" Yastremskiy of Kharkov, Ukraine, and Aleksandr "Jonny Hell" Suvorov of Sillamae, Estonia. The indictments charge them with crimes related to the sale of the stolen credit card data.
Furthermore, indictments against Hung-Ming Chiu and Zhi Zhi Wang, both of China, and a person known only by the online nickname "Delpiero" were also unsealed in San Diego.
Officials did not say whether any other suspects were in custody, or give an arraignment date for Gonzalez.
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Associated Press writer Rodrique Ngowi contributed to this story from Boston.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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That was a funny thing to say, anyway.The hearing got personal when Spagnuolo took aim at Councilman Doug Linkhart, who was quoted in the New York Post as saying that a source told him that he knew of a home being used to store urine. "The only feces that I'm concerned about is the (expletive) that comes out of his mouth," Spagnuolo said.
I wouldn't put anything past cretins like this. Ignorant, mushmouth, waste-flinging apes. People pissing in jugs and storing them in a house, waiting for the DNC. Don't those stool-saving morons know that you can spread disease (deadly and otherwise) by splashing others with body fluids? I'm so disgusted right now at low intelligence, bean-shucking shit-for-brains backwoods Deliverance types with their, "Ma n me hain't gonna vote for no gole dang niggra from no tearist cuntree, nohow. Now git me m' jug, I gotta drain the fishbait. That'll show 'em gole durn commie bastids. Drink my pee, demmycats!"
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whatz all that thar fuss about...?Big Blue Owl wrote:I'm so disgusted right now at low intelligence, bean-shucking shit-for-brains backwoods Deliverance types with their, "Ma n me hain't gonna vote for no gole dang niggra from no tearist cuntree, nohow. Now git me m' jug, I gotta drain the fishbait. That'll show 'em gole durn commie bastids. Drink my pee, demmycats!"
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I HATE them so much.
**picks 'Dueling Banjos' guitar parts during rant**
**bites off another piece o' chaw**
**swats the skeeters trying to carry me off the porch**
Don't start none...won't be none.
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Ohhhhh...the sanctuary city itself...the land of fruit and nuts...ElfDude wrote:They're angry San Francisco protestor-type Democrats.
nothing shocking about that.
that Mayor is lucky he doesn't get a big fat corruption charge on him..
stealing city money under the table to protect illegals with CRIMINAL RECORDS..
those people are certifiably INSANE.
Our only hope is that it becomes an island in the next big quake...
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I don't know where they're from... I thought from all over. I was just drawing the contrasting stereotype from the one that was being used.Big Blue Owl wrote:They deserve to be drawn and quartered wherever they are from and whoever they are affiliated with....oh..."In my HUMBLE opinion
And these particular mooks aren't from San Fran. Not that it matters. Poo is poo.
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