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That's the message from the founders of Please Rob Me, a website launched on Tuesday that illustrates just how easy it is to rob people blind on the basis of the information they're posting on the Web. The site uses streams of data from Foursquare, an increasingly popular location-based social network that is based on a game-like premise. Players use smart phones or laptops to "check in" to a location, recording their position on a map for friends using the service to see. The more often you check in, the better your chances of being declared...
This was evident in a heated e-mail chain that circulated on the Cabot-open mailing list early Tuesday morning. Titled "Is there a right to watch porn?", the thread debated the moral, ethical, and economic grounds of pornography. We've got a run-down on the action...
...Granted, in snowboard cross, the Olympic sport in which athletes race four at a time down a mountain on a narrow, twisting track that's filled with perilous jumps, crashes are part of the game. But on Tuesday, things were getting ridiculous. Riders weren't just wiping out during their races (incidental contact with other athletes is bound to cause some spills); they were falling even during their qualifying runs, in which boarders speed to the finish line alone to determine their seeding for the actual contest. (Watch a video about training for snowboard cross...
...admit that their sport was unsafe, pointing out that the weather was beyond their control. But if inclement conditions put Olympians at risk, doesn't that make their sport inherently perilous? Two World Cup athletes have died competing in snowboard cross over the past five years. The winner of Tuesday's women's race, Maelle Ricker of home country Canada, had to be airlifted to a hospital after crashing during the final of the 2006 Games (she suffered no serious injuries...
...pastime so central to the culture that it's akin to Americans saying they would give up television. More ominously, though it has yet to be directly linked to the financial crisis, a bomb exploded outside a JPMorgan Chase office in Athens on Tuesday night. No one was injured. (See "E.U. Comes to Greece's Rescue, with Strings...