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Well it was a curious program to say the least. We had to battle a rather large technical problem 10 minutes before we went on air. BTR decided to dump callers coming in to the program. Those callers were the panel! After resetting the program and switchboard three times I was faced with the situation […]
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is (Special Weapons and Tactics). Caller ID spoofing technologies are used […]
Our democracy is doomed because voters and elected office holders are solely concerned with their own self interests. Professor Alexander Taylor’s prediction, in the 1780s, that democracies can’t last was prescient. He maintained that “[Democracy] can only exist until voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on […]
It begins, as many in this series do, in the classic way of a new client visiting the office of the private investigator. This October morning finds attorney Elizabeth Shaw at Spenser’s office. Referred to him by a mutual friend, Rita Fiore, she seeks Spenser’s help on behalf of a group of women who are […]
All Catholic Filipinos have a devotion to “Mama Mary”. It’s a cultural thing. Americans tend to be individualistic in their approch to religion, so tend to parse Bible verses. But the Philippines, until recently, was still a country of peasants, where religion was taught to children by stories and fiestas. So Jesus was “Kuya Jesus”, […]
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