November, 2014 archive
Flip This House . . . 0
. . . even though you don’t own it. My local rag describes the scam; here’s a snippet:
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Pam Day, owner of Day Title Services in Richmond, said technology is making such crimes even easier. Land records are now on the Internet, enabling thieves to electronically lift and replicate signatures. It could get worse if the industry starts using one electronic signature for closing, which she said some people advocate because buyers and sellers wouldn’t need to sign huge stacks of paper.
“That’s where we are going in the future,” she said, “but unfortunately, you’ve got the World Wide Web of crooks out there.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
The other child involved in the accident is just four years old. It is not yet clear how or why the three-year-old was shot, or even how the four-year-old child may have gotten a hold of the gun.
How Stuff Works 0
Jim Wright sums in up (follow the link for the full post–you’ll be glad you did):
And as expected, this morning Republicans are going apeshit.
Because going apeshit is the only thing Republicans can agree on.
Graphic via TPM.
“A Nation of Immigrants,” Reprise 0
Colbert:
Folks, my great grandfather did not come here from Ireland to see this country overrun by immigrants.
Video below the fold in case it autoplays.
Smoked 0
Giving new meaning to the term “vaporware” . . . .
“The made in China e-cigarette had malware hardcoded into the charger, and when plugged into a computer’s USB port the malware phoned home and infected the system.”
Rik Ferguson, a security consultant for Trend Micro, says the story is entirely plausible. “Production line malware has been around for a few years, infecting photo frames, MP3 players and more,” he says. In 2008, for instance, a photo frame produced by Samsung shipped with malware on the product’s install disc.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Picturing politeness at Florida State.
Via PoliticalProf, who wonders, “Is this the society we have created?”
Demonstrably, it is.
Light Bloggery 0
Family affairs.
True Colors 2
By their own acts they show their true colors.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Afterthought:
Hate makes persons do stupid stuff. The stupid stuff is transient, but the hate goes on . . . .
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
Will Wheaton’s Panorama Ephemera Mashupa. From the YouTube page:
This work was created by combining audio and visual works obtained from the Internet Archive, at archive.org. The visuals are from Panorama Ephemera, which was found in the Prelinger Archives. The audio was remixed and processed in Audacity, and comes from several different sources, also originally found at the Internet Archive.
Betcha can’t watch it all the way through.
The Process 0
Yastreblyansky explains how David Brooks does it.
The Keystone to the Kingdom 0
Jon Stewart discusses the Republican Party’s efforts to benefit Canadian oil, because Big Money is, after all, Big Money.
Video below the fold in case it autoplays.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to customer service.
