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A pretty thorough look at the whole Silk Road shut down. This story is crazy. Why would you run a site like Silk Road in the United States of America?

By 2013, Silk Road had nearly one million user accounts. In the 2.5 years the site operated, it facilitated 1.2 million transactions worth 9.5 million Bitcoins—or about $1.2 billion in total money exchanged. (Bitcoin values varied widely over this period.) Roberts picked up a cool $80 million in commissions.

Crazy.

I guess she still has something to say. (She was in prison for 3 months for tax evasion.)

The U.S. government obtained a secret court order demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over its private SSL key, which would have allowed the FBI to wiretap the service’s users.

He shut down the service to avoid paying $5000 in fines. America brings the creepy-ass-creepy.

Me and my friend Rishi were carded like this a couple of times when we were in high school or university, back when we’d hangout in front of the public school in my neighbourhood at night drinking bubble tea. On the memories. The Star also has also posted online an article from a former police officer.

The government has partially shutdown because Republicans wants Democrats to further compromise on Obamacare by delaying it a year. Here’s my own healthcare compromise from the time I guest vlogged on Jay Smooth’s brilliant ILL DOCTRINE.

Congress shutdown the US government. Seriously.

He replaced your typical runway models with ladies from various step teams.

With a Dirty Dancing soundtrack to boot. No one does public speaking like Ballmer. He’s like a pro-wrestler.

A pretty fascinating article on the ups and downs of RIM.

Are Warhammer miniatures art?

This guy is god damn amazing. He apparently got famous remixing television and movies into music. For example, here is a song made of sounds from the Wizard of Oz, and this one is made out of sounds from the Fresh Prince of Bell Air.

What’s going on in Colorado is an outstanding case study in what happens when a black market becomes a legal one, and it’s something we probably won’t see again in any of our lifetimes.

“Subways for the people least likely to use them continue to unite politicians of all stripes.”

This video is fantastic.

All about the backdoor in the random number generator Dual_EC_DRBG.

The one linked is pretty amazing. I have no vision for chess anymore. I had no idea what was happening till the dude one.

A video game.

This is crazy.

The Conservatives know how to play the game. They are coughing up about half has much as the province is for this stupid subway to my parents’ house, but somehow the Liberals look like the assholes. This whole story is actually pretty disappointing.

We must dispense with the fantasy that the decision-making process around transit will ever again be driven by technical, financial, planning or consultative considerations. For the foreseeable future, major transit investment moves in Toronto will be entirely determined by council and its electoral politics, and by the narrative that Ford has provided, which is that we should settle for nothing less than subways — cost, efficacy, and planning considerations be damned.

Sounds about right. They are building this subway in two years, apparently. I’ll believe it when I see it. I wonder if LRTs as a viable transit option are more or less dead in this city?

My cousin’s cousin is working on an iOS app to help teach kids to be multilingual. My plan is to get Mythilli to learn Tamil, so she can in turn teach it to me. They’re currently beta-testing the app right now.