Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Administration
High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, because in so doing, they messed the annotations he’d created to the text for class (the annotations say things like “remember this paragraph for class” but the paragraph in question has been deleted)…
The case is intended to become a [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Administration
A former British fraud cop has assembled a database of 4,000,000 British identities, including credit card numbers and PINs, seemingly by buying data from hackers and phishers. Now he’s selling access to the database to panicked members of the public who want to know if their identities have been stolen.
Highly sensitive financial information, including credit [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Administration
I clicked on this and while I was reading a helicopter flew overhead and landed on the army range up the road.
On the plus side it was probably time to change my underwear anyway.
This website is under investigation
This web site belonged to a recently prosecuted criminal pharmaceuticals dealer and is being used as a tool [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Administration
Get excited, America! Because as of this fall, you’ll be able to consume cheap, watered-down swill out of a box. The future of beer consumption is now! The $20, 1.5-gallon boxes of beer are designed for the paradoxical beer drinkers who prefer their beer to come from the tap but also don’t care if said [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
On Thursday, two researchers plan to reveal an unpatched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS.
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
Last week the world watched in wonder as Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz’s wedding party transformed a familiar and predictable tradition into something spontaneous and just flat-out fun. The video, set to R&B star Chris Brown’s hypnotic dance jam “Forever,” became an overnight sensation, accumulating more than 10 million views on YouTube in less than [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
Porn star Stormy Daniels‘ potential senatorial campaign was rocked yesterday by an explosion that blew up her political advisor’s car in New Orleans, according to local news reports.
The advisor, Brian Welch, was not injured in the explosion.
In surveillance footage aired on TV affiliate ABC-26, a man is seen opening the drivers’-side door, throwing an object [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
I hate to see this kinda of bad fellowship between FOSS developers… especially with a Linux distribution as popular as CentOS.
July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC
This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers
It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left with no other options. For [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
The crack is available in the wild, including information and components download.
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
Two DeKalb County Officers are being investigated for allegedly performing a background check on President Barack Obama.
Filed under: lulz, obama, privacy, wtf | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Administration
Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Administration
Network Solutions is investigating a breach on its servers that may have led to the theft of credit card data of 573,928 people who made purchases on Web sites hosted by the company.
Networks Solutions notified 4,343 of its nearly 10,000 e-commerce merchant customers on Friday about the breach. It affects 573,928 cardholders whose name, address, [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Administration
If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you’ll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Administration
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, is today announcing an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the OS through the organization’s initiatives. Reading the press release announcing the new credit card made me raise my eyebrows, but after giving it a [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Administration
Antonio Fernandez Martinez, driving a Ford Crown Victoria with flashing lights, attempted to pull over a car in Oakland last week. The problem is, Martinez isn’t a police officer. But the man he tried to pull over is. From the Associated Press:
Martinez, a convicted car thief, will have his felony probation revoked and could face [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Administration
Ninja Assassin is directed by Australian filmmaker James McTeigue, who previously worked as the first assistant director for all three Matrix movies and Speed Racer and also directed V for Vendetta himself. The screenplay was co-written by newcomer Matthew Sand and comic book veteran J. Michael Straczynski, of the “Babylon 5″ TV show and the [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Administration
Irwin Chusid called this promo video for fans of Insane Clown Posse and other bands of its ilk, “14 minutes of the world’s worst fonts.”
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Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Administration
Here’s an Australian physics teacher using principles of molecular physics (the “packing fraction”) to “shark” games where you are asked to guess the number of M&Ms (or, presumably, other ellipsoid candy) in a jar.
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Posted on July 26th, 2009 by Administration
You hear a lot of talk about piracy in the developing world, about Nigerian markets filled with bootleg DVDs or Chinese iPod knockoffs.
But if you want to see what real piracy looks like, look at the bio-pirates, people and corporations who receive patents on common life-forms from the developing world (abetted by the sleepy and [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2009 by Administration
Miles Fisher makes a nearly perfect mixture of The Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place” and “American Psycho.” It’s about to become a personal favorite of mine.
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