Raise the Crime Rate
From 1980 to 2007, the number of prisoners held in the United States quadrupled to 2.3 million, with an additional 5 million on probation or parole. What Ayn Rand once called the “freest, noblest country in the history of the world” is now the most incarcerated,and the second-most incarcerated count...
Hasnain says:
"After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women."
This is from 2012, but wow.
Posted on 2013-08-31T21:26:05+0000
Moserware: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Jeff Moser on software development
How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man
Daniel Taylor didn't commit murder — and the author, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, proved it in The Chicago Tribune. But it took the justice system more than a decade to catch up.
Hasnain says:
"A check showed that, in fact, Daniel had been arrested for fighting in a park that night at about 6:45 p.m., and jail records showed he was released about 10 p.m. and the murders occurred at 8:43 p.m."
But he went to jail for 20 years.
Posted on 2013-08-31T11:26:36+0000
What Colour are your bits? - Ansuz - mskala's home page
There's a classic adventure game called Paranoia which is set in an extremely repressive Utopian futuristic world run by The Computer, who is Your Friend. Looking at a recent LawMeme posting and related discussion, it occurred to me that the concept of colour-coded security clearances in Paranoia p...
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Posted on 2013-08-18T16:20:15+0000
Rejection, tragedy and billions of dollars - The story of FIFA
The biggest video game franchise in the world almost never happened. We jump back in time 20 years to unearth the true story of the first FIFA
Hasnain says:
"For this first game EA had to go without [licensing]. And so the dev team decided to put themselves in the game. Matt Webster went upfront for England. Joey Della-Savia was in the Italian squad. Assistant producer Marc Aubanel became a striker for French team."
Posted on 2013-08-18T14:14:31+0000
Inman Twins, Doris Duke Heirs: The Poorest Rich Kids in the World | Culture News | Rolling Stone
Why did the heirs to one of the largest fortunes in America grow up horribly neglected and abused?
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Posted on 2013-08-18T12:43:51+0000
Of Wizards and Magical Machines
People want things to be cheaper and easier and faster than they are. That doesn't seem very extraordinary, does it? I mean, it's not really news. In fact, the opposite would be news--if people wan...
Hasnain says:
These articles [about developer shortages] are greatly amusing to me, partly because I have this romantic notion of characterizing my fruitless search for a $1.50 car as a “car shortage” and being called for comment by NYT reporters.
Posted on 2013-08-18T12:25:43+0000
Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?
Walter Keller had nearly lost his battle with leukemia when he went to Penn's Carl June and his group of researchers for a radical new cancer treatment. What happened next may change medicine forever.
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Posted on 2013-08-18T12:10:40+0000
How Bloomberg Reshaped New York
From buildings to bike lanes to painting over Broadway, how the city changed in 12 years of Bloomberg.
The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America | Politics News |...
The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education - saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy
Hasnain says:
"We're doing the worst thing people can do: lying to our young. Nobody, not even this president, who was swept to victory in large part by the raw enthusiasm of college kids, has the stones to tell the truth: that a lot of them will end up being pawns in a predatory con game designed to extract the equivalent of home-mortgage commitment from 17-year-olds dreaming of impossible careers as nautical archaeologists or orchestra conductors."
Posted on 2013-08-16T17:19:08+0000