The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that one of the world’s leading fine wine collectors, Rudy Kurniawan, was arrested for wine fraud (well, they didn’t actually say “wine fraud”), apparently, the guy was arrested for mail and wire fraud related to fraudulently obtaining loans and attempting to sell counterfeit bottles of French Burgundy. Turning a wonderful […]
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Supreme Court Decides Setser: And the Last Word on Sentencing Goes to . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court recently addressed the roles of two entities that often have a substantial impact on the sentence actually served by a federal criminal defendant—state courts and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). District court judges have discretion to impose sentences that are either consecutive to or concurrent with a federal sentence that […]
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The Strokes’ most infamous song, “New York City Cops” was pulled from America’s release of “Is This It” because of one line: “New York City cops They ain’t too smart.” The song is hardly the incendiary piece of anti-authoritarian polemic it was made out to be, and the line about New York cops could easily […]
READ MOREHackers crack more than 60% of breached LinkedIn passwords
Speed of hackers to crack passwords shows weakness of security scheme used by LinkedIn, researchers say. More than 60% of the unique hashed passwords that were accessed by hackers from a LinkedIn password database and posted online this week have already been cracked, according to security firm Sophos. It’s very likely the remaining passwords have […]
READ MOREPerpetual War on Methamphetamine as Status Quo
A New York paper, the Star-Gazette of Elmira/Corning, has aneditorial today that is an unwittingly accurate description of the mindset of contemporary drug warriors. The piece is titled as follows: Crusade to Fight Methamphetamine Never Ends Setting aside the interesting use of the word “crusade” to describe drug policy, it’s remarkable that this paper seems […]
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