Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest

[Eugen Leitl]

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223
Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00

   from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept.
   [1]Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip
   Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards come
   with a huge price. Lyons was arrested last August and charged with
   attempted arson. Police alleged at the time that Lyons tried to set
   fire to his own house while his wife and children were inside.
   According to [2]KOMO-TV and the Seattle Times, a major piece of
   evidence used against Lyons in his arrest [3]was the record of his
   supermarket purchases that he made with his Safeway Club Card. Police
   investigators had discovered that his Club Card was used to buy fire
   starters of the same type used in the arson attempt. For Lyons, the
   story did have a [4]happy ending. All charges were dropped against him
   in January 2005 because another person stepped forward saying he or
   she set the fire and not Lyons."


References

   1. http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com/
   2. http://www.komotv.com/stories/32785.htm
   3. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002055245_arson06m.html
   4. http://heraldnet.com/stories/05/01/28/100loc_arson001.cfm

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Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 04:41 PM 1/28/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>Not really. The P2P assm^H^H^H^H architects are reissuing new systems
with
>holes patched reactively. There's no reason for a P2P system designed
in 1996
>to be water-tight to any threat model of 2010. (Strangely enough, they
had
>IP nazis and lawyers back then, too).

I was surprised to see that the EFF listed ADCs as endangered tech.
Because
the hollywood nazis regard (and damn rightly so) the analog hole as
real.  That a fairly stead
organization as EFF would regard the desparate death-sounds of hollywood

as a serious threat to such basic tech was astounding.

I've had cross-compiled code (for the MMC2107) identified as a virus
(and
therefore erased) by an antivirus program on a PC.  This only lost an
hour or two of work.
Imagine that your medical measurements, or kids'
performances, happen to match an ADC's copy protection codes.

Imagine that all your silicon belongs to us, us=hollywood=congress.

Imagine that all your printing presses belong to the State, for the
protection of
the commercial merde.

--

"Be neither perpetrator, bystander, nor victim" ---a commentator on the
60th anniversary
of Auswitz, coming to a goverment center near you

-
Uranium --the Great Equalizer

Re: Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest

[Justin]

On 2005-01-29T13:16:24+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223
> Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00
> 
>from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept.
>[1]Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip
>Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards come
>with a huge price. Lyons was arrested last August and charged with

They do not verify the information you give them.  They take the sheet
of paper and give you a card.  Make up a name, address, and phone
number.  If they ever discover the fraud (not in a legal sense) and
disable the card, so what?  Get another one.

-- 
"War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as
men; some he makes slaves, others free."  --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53) 

Re: Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic

[Justin]

On 2005-01-28T20:03:22-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> 
> The New York Times
> January 27, 2005
> Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic
>  By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> 
> ``The whole Internet is skewed toward people who speak English,'' said Venu
> Govindaraju, director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors at
> the University at Buffalo, where the software is being developed.

Someone give that man a brain, and a cookie.  I don't live near NY.

The internet has nothing to do with scanning written/printed arabic
texts.

He obviously intended to squeeze a complaint about the internet into an
article about scanning printed/written documents.  The reason the
internet is "skewed" is because these idiots want others to "fix" the
internet to accommodate their languages.  As a result, much of the
non-western-language support in software is done by westerners, and so
doesn't work.

-- 
"War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as
men; some he makes slaves, others free."  --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)