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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi -
Show the tape Nike. We want to see the "King" in action.
Report: Tests suggest murder-suicide
ESPN.com news services
A Tennessee state medical examiner says preliminary testing suggests the deaths of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and girlfriend Sahel Kazemi were a murder-suicide, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported Wednesday.
Kazemi and McNair, a former NFL co-MVP, were found shot to death in a Nashville condo on July 4. Police have already ruled McNair's death a homicide.
Feng Li, an assistant medical examiner who conducted the autopsies, said he will wait for the investigation to be closed before he completes the death certificate.
"The results were very consistent in supporting our decision," Li said, according to the report.
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"Study the past if you would define the future."
- Confucius -
Today on all the major networks the Michael Jackson Memorial was aired from approx. 1:00pm - 3:45pm EDT. I watched the entire service on CNN and I have to say it was the most moving service I have ever seen. I laughed, cried and sung along the entire time. Jennifer Hudson, Jermaine Jackson, Shaheen Jafargholi and Usher's performances stood out the most in my mind and I will remember them for a long time.
R.I.P. Michael Joseph Jackson
August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009
Report: Social Security numbers can be predicted
(CNET) -- It is possible to use publicly available data on state and date of birth to predict someone's Social Security number, particularly if they were born after 1988 and in smaller states, according to an article published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The ability to use statistic inference to predict the sensitive data exposes the Social Security numbers to identity fraud risks on "mass scales," the article said.
Social Security numbers "were designed as identifiers at a time when personal computers and identity theft were unthinkable; today, abused as authentication devices, they enable an 'architecture of vulnerability,' in which losses are incurred even in absence of fraud, because of costs caused by attempts to defend, and exploit, the system," the article concluded.
The researchers from Carnegie Mellon University analyzed Social Security numbers of people who have died to detect statistical patterns in the assignment of numbers. They were then able to use those patterns to predict a range of values likely to include a living person's Social Security number.
Birth data, meanwhile, can be inferred from data brokers, voter registration lists, online white pages, and social-networking profiles, the report said.
The researchers identified in a single attempt the first five Social Security digits for 44 percent of the records of the people listed as dead from 1989 to 2003 and the complete Social Security numbers in fewer than 1,000 attempts for 8.5 percent of those records.
On average, the researchers matched on the first attempt the first five digits for 7 percent of all records for people born nationwide between 1973 and 1988.
"Extrapolating to the U.S. living population, this would imply the potential identification of millions of SSNs for individuals whose birth data were available," the article says.
The report goes on to give an example of how someone could get the entire Social Security number by renting a botnet to apply for credit cards impersonating 18-year-old West Virginia-born residents.
Following numerous assumptions, including that the attacker can find birth data for 50 percent of the potential targets and that inquiries with the correct first seven of nine digits are sufficient for a credit reporting agency to answer a positive match in half of the cases, an attacker could potentially harvest credentials at rates as high as 47 per minute, obtaining 4,000 credentials within two hours before the IP addresses used in the botnet were blacklisted, the article said.
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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
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Stolen wallet found in cherry tree after more than quarter century
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Nearly 27 years ago, amid a crowd of people in Central Park, Ruth Bendik's wallet was stolen. The culprit is still at large, but the wallet has been found -- in the hollow trunk of a cherry tree.
The wallet was snatched on October 24, 1982, while Bendik, now 69, was in Central Park watching the New York marathon. She went to greet runners at the end of the race and, "when I got out of the crush of people, I realized my purse was much lighter," Bendik told CNN. "I was just so grateful not to have been harmed."
Last week, Josh Galiley, tree-care supervisor for the Central Park Conservancy, was chopping down a hazardous black cherry tree near Rumsey Playfield when he discovered her blue leather wallet in the trunk of the tree, which he estimates is around 65 years old and 50 feet high.
"I started poking in the soft stuff and this wallet turned up. Having been that low in the tree ... the location indicated it had been there for quite some time," Galiley told CNN.
The old wallet was a unique find, he said. "When you're cutting a tree and it's hollow, you expect stuff inside, shreds of material, old marbles, really just knickknacks compared to this," he said, "Nothing with a story. ... We peeked in and there were dates from the early '80s. We figured this was different."
After the wallet was recovered, Galiley said, officials were careful to inform Bendik properly. "We thought she may not want to relive it," he said.
Bendik sang praises for the individuals who returned her wallet, including detective Frank Irizarry, who helped track her down. "The lengths they went to find me, the extent that they went through and the fact that they were concerned about my feelings really impressed me," she said.
The wallet still contained her old driver's license and credit cards, she said, although $20 was missing. "Twenty dollars was a lot of money then," she said.
After two decades, much more has changed. Referring to two of her old bank cards from Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank and Banker's Trust, Bendik said, "I was shocked that both banks had closed."
But some things haven't changed. Bendik continues to have fond memories of Central Park. The Ohio native, who has lived in New York for 40 years, still describes the park as one of her favorite areas in the city. "It's a public place in an impersonal city," she said, "It brings everyone together in a pleasant way of reconnecting with nature and beauty."
Today, Bendik smiles at the idea of her wallet buried in a cherry tree in Central Park for nearly 30 years, and she's happy to have it in her hands again.
"After all these years it's still available as a time capsule of my life."
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Montcourt dies at 24
Associated Press
PARIS -- French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt has died. He was 24.
The French tennis federation said on Tuesday that Montcourt had died overnight but that "the causes of his death are not yet known."
"It is with great sadness that the French tennis federation has learned of the sudden death of Mathieu Montcourt," the French tennis federation said. "Mathieu was an enthusiastic young man, passionate, very endearing, and extremely appreciated for his kindness and politeness."
French media earlier reported that Montcourt, ranked 119, was found dead by his girlfriend in the stairwell of his Paris apartment.
In May, Montcourt was handed a five-week ban and fined $12,000 for betting on other matches. That ban took effect Monday.
Montcourt complained during the French Open that the punishment was too harsh, saying that he never bet more than $3 at any time, and never on his own matches -- a fact confirmed by the ATP which oversees the men's Tour.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Montcourt had wagered a total of $192 on 36 tennis events in 2005. It reduced his suspension on appeal from eight weeks to five.
The issue of betting in tennis drew increased attention from the sport's governing bodies after an online bookmaker voided all wagers on a 2007 match involving Nikolay Davydenko. About $7 million was bet -- 10 times the usual amount for a similar-level match -- and most of the money backed Davydenko's lower-ranked opponent.
Davydenko was cleared in September after a yearlong investigation.
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Mom denies withholding son's meds
SALEM, Mass. - A woman accused of withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son by canceling appointments and not filling prescriptions pleaded not guilty Monday to an attempted murder charge in the boy's death.
Kristen LaBrie was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail during her arraignment Monday in Salem Superior Court. She did not speak during the brief hearing, except to enter the pleas to attempted murder, child endangerment and other charges.
LaBrie's son, Jeremy, had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2006. He was 9 when he died in March.
Prosecutors say LaBrie, 37, canceled appointments for chemotherapy treatment, did not fill at least half her son's prescriptions and tried to deceive doctors into believing she was giving the boy the proper care.
LaBrie's attorney, Kevin James, said Monday that LaBrie was a single mother with "severe financial problems" who bore the burden of taking care of her son, who had a serious form of autism.
"She is a victim. She is the mother who takes care of her child," James said.
Parents were divorced
LaBrie had earlier been charged with child endangerment; a grand jury returned the more serious indictment Friday.
The boy's father, Eric Fraser, was divorced from LaBrie. He said he and LaBrie shared custody of the boy until about a year ago, when she signed over her parental rights and he was given full custody. The alleged medication withholding took place while the boy was mostly in LaBrie's care, authorities said.
LaBrie claimed in probate court documents that Fraser chronically missed visits with his son and did not have contact with his school or doctors during the boy's chemotherapy.
"No assistance with care," she wrote in documents filed in April 2007.
Fraser, 38, of Saugus, said Jeremy was a happy kid who enjoyed riding dirt bikes and swimming at a family cottage in Tamworth, N.H.
Before the arraignment, he declined to speak specifically about the case against LaBrie, other than to say, "I am relieved that it is moving forward."
"In due time I'll be able to speak my piece but for now I'll keep my mouth shut," he said.