Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

Dan O. said:
What is it with most people's aversion to doing science?

Here is the first piece to answering if the police could use cell tower data to identify the phone being used by the suspect before the bombings:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2013/04/11/boston-marathon-monday-guide/
"About 500,000 spectators line up along the 26.2-mile course each year to watch the marathon"
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
 
Magenta said:
Their actions that night do seem a bit ad hoc...

There's a recent and detailed account in the Boston Globe from the carjack victim. Seems the poor guy was held for about 90 minutes. And yes, it was the Mercedes that was nearly out of gas - the victim escaped when they stopped at the gas station. Dzhokhar took cash to pay (do you have to pay first before filling?) and the victim made a dash for it while Tamerlan was distracted.
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Thanks for the link. That was quite an interesting read. Poor guy must have been so scared.
 
re:http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9179651#post9179651 this might be a long wait
 
Dan O. said:
Here is the first piece to answering if the police could use cell tower data to identify the phone being used by the suspect before the bombings:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2013/04/11/boston-marathon-monday-guide/
"About 500,000 spectators line up along the 26.2-mile course each year to watch the marathon"
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Another number that might be usefull is from a Seattle study that found that 2% of pedestrians were talking or listening to cell phones while crossing the street at 20 of the city's most dangerous intersections. That would be an estimated 10,000 concurrent conversations if the entire marithon crowd followed the same ratio.
 
JihadJane said:
No.


"On December 18, 2012, Twitter announced it had surpassed 200 million monthly active users" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Population of the world: Over seven billion.
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Riiiiight. Okay, want to tell me how that affects this statement?:

Not sure if anyone came across this or not, as I haven't been posting for the past few pages - but the Brown University student that everyone was so many were hot on accusing is dead.
 
Perhaps I should clarify before this turns ridiculous, though it already looks too late:

I have no opinion on the internet sleuths. I simply saw the article and thought people in this thread, who had been hot on the topic a few days ago when I was still keeping up, might be interested. I was reading an entirely different article, saw that one, and thought "Oh, the people in that thread might want to know." So, insinuating that I'm spinning numbers by saying "everyone" is pointless, though a little bit funny from my perspective.
 
RemieV said:
Perhaps I should clarify before this turns ridiculous, though it already looks too late:

I have no opinion on the internet sleuths. I simply saw the article and thought people in this thread, who had been hot on the topic a few days ago when I was still keeping up, might be interested. I was reading an entirely different article, saw that one, and thought "Oh, the people in that thread might want to know." So, insinuating that I'm spinning numbers by saying "everyone" is pointless, though a little bit funny from my perspective.
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It's old news and exaggeration is misleading.

How did he die?
 
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JihadJane said:
It's old news and exaggeration is misleading.

How did he die?
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That would be why I said the words "Not sure if anyone came across this or not". As for how he died, I don't recall if it was in that article because, one more time here, I wasn't interested. I'm also not going to Google for it because I am still not interested.

Lovely chat, though. Cheerio.
 
Sunil's death is a suspected suicide at this point.

Very sad for his family and friends.

ETA: That's "the guy" Remie referred to - and yes, it had already been mentioned in this thread.
 
phiwum said:
Why would it be cheaper? Does a Firearms ID cost a lot in MA?

According to this page (different town, but shouldn't matter), the costs are only $100 plus a Firearms Safety Certificate.

I could see that the process is a pain in the ass, and maybe leaves a paper trail when you buy the black powder (do they keep records of such purchases?), but I'd bet the mark-up on fireworks is more.

Boy. If my redneck family only knew the hoops gun-owners have to jump through in this state.
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Well, he would have needed to apply to the Cambridge Police Department to get an FID, and the police would have checked with the state Firearms Records Bureau at that point. Would he have wanted to draw attention to himself by entering into the application process?

I know that firearms/ammo/reloading dealers are often restricted by fire department rules from carrying more than a certain amount of powder in stock, so the easiest way to get a large amount of low-grade powder would be to drive a few extra miles up to New Hampshire and buy some fireworks: no permit needed, no restrictions on amounts you can buy (except the size of your bank account), no attention of state agencies drawn to you.
 
Dan O. said:
Getting the right answer is not nearly as important as being able to show your work.
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Uncanny intuition, coupled with the courage to be wrong in public and a high threshold for tolerating abuse from those who think I should have more respect for authority.
 
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