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"Tumblr convention" a total disaster

DashCon2014 , a gathering of tumblr users and celebrities, “descended into chaos” this weekend , with the chaos including an alleged $17, 000 friday night shakedown by the Marriot-owned hotel.

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Murderer buried victim in concrete and sold off his Magic: The Gathering trading cards, then blamed twin

William Cormier III was convicted this week of killing journalist Sean Dugas, burying his body in a concrete-covered pit in Georgia, then selling off his rare Magic: The Gathering playing cards , part of a set valued at $100,000. Defense attorneys said during closing arguments that prosecutors didn’t prove that Cormier killed Dugas, and instead suggested his twin was responsible. Cormier’s twin brother, Christopher, pleaded no contest to charges of helping his brother move Dugas’ body from Florida to Georgia. Christopher Cormier has not been sentenced yet. Dugas’ body was unearthed more than a month after his 2012 death in the backyard of Cormier’s father’s home in Winder, Ga., which is about 300 miles northeast of Pensacola. Cormier was the only witness to testify for the defense. He told jurors Wednesday he was acting under the direction of his twin and that he did not know Dugas’ was dead when he sold more than $12,000 of his cards and cleaned out his home.        

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Man loses rare Twitter handle after PayPal and GoDaddy inadvertently help scammer

Naoki Hiroshima had a rare and valuable Twitter handle, @N . It was extorted from him , he claims, by a scammer who figured out that PayPal reveals part of one’s credit card number during security verification—and that GoDaddy accepts the same part of the number during security verification. I asked the attacker how my GoDaddy account was compromised and received this response: From: SOCIAL MEDIA KING To: Naoki Hiroshima Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:53:52 -0800 Subject: RE: …hello – I called paypal and used some very simple engineering tactics to obtain the last four of your card (avoid this by calling paypal and asking the agent to add a note to your account to not release any details via phone) – I called godaddy and told them I had lost the card but I remembered the last four, the agent then allowed me to try a range of numbers (00-09 in your case) I have not found a way to heighten godaddy account security, however if you’d like me to recommend a more secure registrar i recommend: NameCheap or eNom (not network solutions but enom.com) GoDaddy outright refused to help him at first, too. It’s shocking how weak account security is there, and at PayPal: “Don’t let companies such as PayPal and GoDaddy store your credit card information,” Hiroshima writes.        

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Google turns in child porn owner who used its cloud services

Google turned in a man who copied child pornography to his cellphone using Picasa. Raul Gonzales, 40, was charged with possessing more than 3,000 pornographic pictures of children on the phone. The FBI says the investigation began in March when Google’s hashing technology found two child porn pictures in his Picasa library. Picasa is a cloud-sharing platform for images owned by Google. From there, the company notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which says it found more images on a Tumblr account owned by Gonzalez. That’s when the feds took over. Agents say they also found pictures of a 9-year-old who is close to the family, and that Gonzales admitted to sexually assaulting the child. “When an image is found,” Google assured CBS, “an employee will inspect it to make sure it’s actual abuse and not just a picture of a child at bathtime.” It’s good to know that an alleged sexual predator was identified and dealt with, and it’s good to know that Google assigns individual humans to inspect our naked children for the authorities’ consideration.        

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Hanging Gardens of Bablyon "found" … at Nineveh

Oxford University academic Dr Stephanie Dalley believes she has identified the precise location of the fabled Hanging Gardens of Bablyon : near Nineveh, hundreds of miles north. Dalley’s hypothesis has the gardens built not by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, but by Assyrians under Sennacherib about 2,700 years ago. Nineveh’s ruins now lie on the city limits of modern-day Mosul.        

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Cable customers pay $5.54 a month for ESPN whether they want it or not

Cable bundling, whereby we have to pay for channels we don’t want to get ones that we do, hits us in the pocket harder than we realize .        

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