New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.
—By Kevin Drum
Via: Mother Jones
Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century.
4 months agoJanuary 5, 2013 4 notes Reblog Lead Crime
Part of my job is to cleanup PCs that have been infected with malware, maleware has completely replaced viruses, we rarely see a virus on a PC. This is the introduction to a paper entitled deSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning published by members of the University of Washington Computer Sciences Department. LINK
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The spread of malware through the Internet has increased
dramatically over the past few years. Along with traditional
techniques for spreading malware (such as through
links or attachments in spam emails), attackers are constantly
devising newer and more sophisticated methods
to infect users. A technique that has been gaining prevalence
of late is the use of search engines as a medium for
distributing malware. By gaming the ranking algorithms
used by search engines through search engine optimization
(SEO) techniques, attackers are able to poison the
search results for popular terms so that these results include
links to malicious pages.
A recent study reported that 22.4% of Google searches
contain such links in the top 100 results [23]. Furthermore,
it has been estimated that over 50% of popular keyword
searches (such as queries in Google Trends [9] or
for trending topics on Twitter [20]), the very first page of
results contains at least one link to a malicious page [19].
Using search engines is attractive to attackers because
of its low cost and its legitimate appearance. Malicious
pages are typically hosted on compromised Web servers,
which are effectively free resources for the attackers. As
long as these malicious pages look relevant to search engines,
they will be indexed and presented to end users.
Additionally, users usually trust search engines and often
click on search results without hesitation, whereas they
would be wary of clicking on links that appear in unsolicited
spam emails. It is therefore not surprising that,
despite being a relatively new form of attack, searchresult
poisoning is already a huge phenomenon and has
affected major search engines.
Entire Paper
(Source: twitter.com)
1 year agoJanuary 18, 2012 15 notes Reblog malware crime internet seo
More background information on NOTW scandal.
Via: Reuters.Com
Is Wall Street Journal top executive next to be deeply implicated in News Corp. voicemail scandal? How could he NOT have known? Which inevitably leads to the Murdochs, father and son…
(Source: plus.google.com)
1 year agoJuly 10, 2011 11 notes Reblog NOTW Murdoch Crime
Gretchen Morgenson has done an outstanding job reporting on the economic crisis since the crash of 2008. Once again she covers the lack of accountability, the crony capitalism and financial malfeasance that has not been prosecuted, the reason? Well thats debatable but the guilt brush would tar too many so they won’t pick it up. The actions of the financiers were so immoral and corrupt that is staggers the mind, but the laws that governed their activity were either no longer in place or stripped of any teeth making prosecution unlikely. Anyway read Morgensons account, she is an excellent reporter I am not.
NY Times: an except —
In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY
…several years after the financial crisis, which was caused in large part by reckless lending and excessive risk taking by major financial institutions, no senior executives have been charged or imprisoned, and a collective government effort has not emerged. This stands in stark contrast to the failure of many savings and loan institutions in the late 1980s. In the wake of that debacle, special government task forces referred 1,100 cases to prosecutors, resulting in more than 800 bank officials going to jail. Among the best-known: Charles H. Keating Jr., of Lincoln Savings and Loan in Arizona, and David Paul, of Centrust Bank in Florida.
Instead of criminal investigations the ideological battle taking place in congress strives to worsen the crisis by stripping away the what is left of the state as we have know it for the last 70 years.
Government strengthened and protected “the commons”, the communal parts of our society that made us strong as a nation. Going forward we are all isolated individual entrepreneurs in a nation where criminality is rewarded and theft is institutionalized.
2 years agoApril 14, 2011 1 note Reblog economy politics crime
I have been away in England the police have been busy trying to clean up my neighborhood back home.
3 years agoAugust 26, 2009 Reblog fremont crime
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)
— The Rev. Michael Pfleger has ordered the American flag at St. Sabina Church hung upside-down — a historic sign of distress — to symbolize the growing death toll among the city’s youngsters.
So far this school year, 36 children and teens have been murdered — more than one a week — and Pfleger is among a chorus of weary Chicagoans who say the slayings aren’t getting the attention they deserve.
Had 36 kids died of swine flu this year, “there would be this great influx of resources that say, ‘Let’s stop this, lets deal with this,’ ” Pfleger said.
Instead, because violence is driving the epidemic, “We’re hiding it. We’re ignoring it. We’re denying the problems,” he said.
Betcha drugs are involved with a large percentage of these crimes. Just another symptom of our failed drug policies. End the drug wars, manage the drug epidemic, save lives.
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Максимо4 years agoMay 8, 2009 Reblog crime politics
