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  • More arrests coming in Dunbar Village case

    More arrests sought in Dunbar Village gang rape case:

    Police have asked the State Attorney’s Office to issue arrest warrants for two more juveniles in the notorious Dunbar Village rape case, where a mother and son were brutalized for hours, West Palm Beach police said Friday.

    One of the four teens arrested, Jakaris Taylor, accepted a plea deal that required his testimony. He identified two other juvenile defendants and police filed the charges with the State Attorney’s Office.

    Hopefully, those arrest warrants will be issued and all scumbags involved will be brought to justice.

  • craigslist CEO reacts to Conn. AG

    Dipping once again into the well of craigslist’s ugly ass blog we come across this missive from craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster about Conn. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

    While I think AG Blumenthal is out of his ever-lovin’ mind I do want to take Mr. Buckmaster to task for a quote in his post.

    Unlike the telephone yellow pages, many newspapers, and countless websites, which for many years have profited from “erotic service” ads, craigslist derives no revenue (let alone profit) from “erotic services”, and in fact we incur significant costs in enforcing our terms of use regarding these ads.

    It’s not about the cash Jim. It’s about the anonymity. Newspapers, phone books, etc can easily trace back to their clients if need be. On the other hand, you can not. It’s not just about the erotic services either, at least not with me. The anonymity of craigslist provides all types of criminals to prey upon the law-abiding users of craigslist.

  • craigslist CEO on erotic services

    Speaking of craigslist’s ugly ass official blog, CEO Jim Buckmaster posted this entry the other day about craigslist’s new phone verification system for their erotic services section. I have yet to check it out but I’m sure I can find numerous ways that it can be circumvented. Anyway, he claims that it cut down on the number of erotic service ads by 80%. That’s still 20% too many. Even one instance of child prostitution or human trafficking is still too many.

    Mr. Buckmaster also said that they are looking for additional ways to eliminate criminal activity on craigslist. I’ve got two ways that would eliminate most if not all the crime on craigslist. Take away the anonymity and do away with the erotic services section.

    I’ll be awaiting my consultant’s check Jim.

  • Underwood gets death

    Judge sentences Underwood to die:

    The convicted killer of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin has been officially sentenced to death. A jury had recommended the death penalty for Kevin Ray Underwood bit today a judge made it official.

    Underwood killed and raped Jamie Rose Bolin, unfortunately in that order, in order to consume her flesh because of a cannibalistic fantasy he had.

    The death penalty couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

  • Hostage taker wants his life back

    When the bullied becomes the bully: What made Mesa teen snap?:

    It’s been almost a year since I’ve posted anything about Brent Clark. He’s the kid from Powell Junior High in Mesa, AZ who took a 14-year-old girl hostage at knifepoint. She’s been mentally scarred but we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because he was allegedly bullied?

    “I’m not a bad kid. I just lost it,” he said. “I just want my old life back.”

    He said he was the victim of nine long months of bullying.

    “I was suffering continuous bullying from a kid. Every once in a while he would say, ‘Sir, yes, Sir,’ because I was in the young marines and it really bothered me.”

    So if you really were bullied and ‘snapped’ as so many people have claimed why did you follow this girl from the school to her apartment complex? That doesn’t sound like snapping to me. That sounds rather methodical. And again why pick a victim that had nothing to do with your alleged bullying?

    The school denies that Clark reported any bullying but his mom sticks up for him…

    “He was screaming for help,” said his mom, Denette Reid.

    “I never thought to address the issue before this happened. My feeling is that if my child has to go to a school, the adults there have a responsibility to him that he feel safe,” said Reid.

    “I don’t think my son is a martyr, ” Reid said. “I do know that taking his entire future away isn’t right. And that’s not opinion. That’s fact. It’s not right.”

    This is why bullying runs even more rampant in schools then it ever has. Parents are not willing to take responsibility when their kids are criminals. They’ve been taught that no matter what they do they’re never wrong.

  • Trench Reynolds, journalist

    I’m a journalist.

    Not that I mind but they must have a pretty loose definition of a journalist.

    The correct definition of me would be ‘guy with some websites and a big internet mouth’.

  • Zarate has no mental defect says prosecutor

    Prosecutor: Accused Randolph killer not impaired:

    Morris County, NJ assistant prosecutor Robert Lane told a judge Tuesday that accused killer Jonathan Zarate bragged to other inmates that he wasn’t mentally diminished when he killed and dismembered his 16-year-old neighbor Jennifer Parks. This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.

    It seems that Zarate has a new lawyer as well. Richard S. Mazawey replaces Anthony Fusco as Zarate’s attorney. No reason was given why Fusco is no longer his attorney. Mazawey plans to use the same diminished capacity defense that Fusco was pursuing.

  • Linux Mint

    If anybody cares what OS I’m running at home I use Linux Mint. It’s like Ubuntu only not as ugly.

  • Child porn found on craigslist killer’s computer

    Cops: Child pornography found on accused Craigslist killer’s computer:

    While investigating the murder of Katherine Ann Olson police found child porn on the computer of her accused killer, Michael John Anderson.

    In the affidavit for the search warrant, a BCA agent described it as “a photograph of two pre-teen boys, clearly under the age of 18, in the nude.” It describes the boys engaged in a sex act.

    Anderson is accused of placing a phony ad for a nanny job on craigslist. When Olson responded to the ad at Anderson’s house he allegedly killed her.

  • FastMail FTW revisited

    On yesterday’s post about FastMail I made sort of a jargon related error when talking about aliasing.

    When I speak of aliasing I mean being able to send out your e-mail as any e-mail address you wish. With the account I have at FastMail that allows me to have 8 ‘personas’ in FastMail’s parlance. However, Rob, one of the top dogs at FastMail was kind enough to send me the following tips…

    Do you know about sub-domain addresses? If you have the username sam@fastmail.fm, or even an alias myalias@fastmail.fm, then you can send email to:

    anything@sam.fastmail.fm

    or

    anything@myalias.fastmail.fm

    And it will go to your account. Whenever I have a webform to fill in, I use an address of the form:

    companyname@robm.fastmail.fm

    Over time, I can see which companies have been selling my email addresses, and if needed, block them via a rule. Unfortunately it’s usually not an issue, the spam filter gets it all anyway.

    Additionally, if you send to:

    xyz@sam.fastmail.fm

    And if you have a folder named “xyz” (or “XYZ” or “xYz”, eg capitalisation not important), then email will go straight to that folder. Useful for mailing lists.

    There are hundreds of other little tricks like that in FastMail, it’s just hard to document + find them all sometimes! 🙂

    Thanks, Rob. Not only are these tips extremely useful it also shows how great FastMail’s customer service is. I don’t think I’ve ever heard from anybody at Gmail.