{"id":3340,"date":"2009-01-31T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2009-01-30T20:06:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:06:59","slug":"follow-the-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/follow-the-code","title":{"rendered":"Follow the code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cuban reminds us that he&#8217;s a tech geek at heart by exploring the Bernie Madoff case from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/2009\/01\/30\/breaking-down-bernie-madoff-p2-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">angle of the computer system Madoff<\/a> used to generate his fraudulent transactions. It&#8217;s a fun post, and hey, his thesis is more sensible and responsible than when Ron Rosenbaum <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/ronrosenbaum\/?s=theresa%2Bduncan\" target=\"_blank\">went kinda bonkers<\/a> after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theresa_Duncan#Controversy\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa Duncan \/ Jeremy Blake suicides<\/a> in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cuban reminds us that he&#8217;s a tech geek at heart by exploring the Bernie Madoff case from the angle of the computer system Madoff used to generate his fraudulent transactions. It&#8217;s a fun post, and hey, his thesis is more sensible and responsible than when Ron Rosenbaum went kinda bonkers after the Theresa Duncan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/follow-the-code\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Follow the code&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[505,86],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","tag-mark-cuban","tag-ron-rosenbaum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-RS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1133,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-4","url_meta":{"origin":3340,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading","author":"Gil","date":"October 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I promised some Unrequired Reading for a Friday morning, so here it is: Jane Galt has a sad post about the economic destruction of Zimbabwae. 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