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July 26, 2013

Hacker Barnaby Jack dies ahead of Black Hat conference

BOSTON -- Hacker Barnaby Jack has died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to show off techniques for attacking implanted heart devices that he said could kill a man from 30 feet away.

It was not immediately clear what had happened. The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office said that Jack had died in the city on Thursday, but declined to elaborate.
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76804234/

Hmmmmm........

July 26, 2013

Who was used as the model for this logo?


The owner Robert Kraft wanted this face. (From AM ESPN show)
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Elvis.
July 26, 2013

I may have to watch The View today.

Margaret Cho and Dierks Bentley are co-hosting. He is a country music singer.
This could be epic. Or not.

July 26, 2013

Electing Anthony Weiner Isn't As Funny As It Sounds by Matt Taibbi

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Now, weeks later, the inevitable has happened: yet another sexting scandal has popped up involving Weiner and, surprise surprise, this one was still live a good year after he resigned from Congress promising never to flap his hose across the face of the Internet ever again. Predictably, a series of really gross, genuinely Favre-ean dong shots showed up on some Scottsdale, Arizona-based website called TheDirty.com.

It turns out that Weiner was pursuing his usual creepy Internet rubfest with some poor sap of a woman from Princeton, Indiana (which the Daily News noted is "one mouse click and 850 miles away from Weiner&quot using the nom-de-wank of "Carlos Danger," a preposterous title destined to be adopted by a whole generation of hackers and trolls justifiably tired of the whole "Emmanuel Goldstein" meme.

I don't mean to sound like a prude, but what the hell do you have to do to be disqualified from high-level politics in this country? When someone told me a while back that Weiner was running for Mayor, I thought it was a joke. This married politician sent unsolicited pictures of his penis to female strangers on the Internet! It's not a crime, I guess because indecent exposure laws haven't been updated for the cyber age, but basically, he's a 21st-century flasher who used the U.S. Congress as a raincoat. Then he got caught, had to resign from Congress in what normally would be shame and disgrace, only to turn around and start doing it all over again pretty much immediately.
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Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/electing-anthony-weiner-isnt-as-funny-as-it-sounds-20130725#ixzz2a7zRQUaK

And it's just a-ok to cyberflash people according to some here.

This isn't between 2 "consenting" adults. Since Weiner has no idea who he is chatting with, it may not even be another adult. But hey, he'd make a great mayor so who cares?

Can't Dems find someone better than this to represent the party's values? If not, I guess we don't have any.

July 25, 2013

On this day in 1946, the Bikini Atoll Baker nuclear test. Just look at this huge photo of it:


@pourmecoffee: On this day in 1946, the Bikini Atoll Baker nuclear test. Just look at this huge photo of it

Lawd have mercy!
July 25, 2013

A love story:


@Earth_Pics

Heh!

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