‘After being hit by a denial of service attack that downed the Million Dollar Homepage site, British student Alex Tew now faces a lawsuit from one of the advertisers on the site.
The winner of the last 1,000 pixels, which sold for US$38,100 on eBay, is threatening to sue because the Web site was offline for six days until Wednesday, the Financial Times reported in its online edition on Thursday.’
follow-up to Hackers blackmail milliondollar site.
`Spain’s most important modern art museum has confessed it has lost a 38-tonne sculpture by the prestigious American artist Richard Serra. [..]
The museum admitted on Wednesday that the last document it had relating to the piece and the payments made for its storage was dated 1992. [..]
When the museum’s new director, Ana Martinez, told her staff to produce an inventory last year, they discovered that the storage company had gone into receivership in 1998 and the blocks had disappeared. The owner of the company said he did not know where the sculpture had gone.’
Don’t worry about the URL. It’s safe for work.
Unless it is actually a hack and has reverted to the original page in the time since I’ve posted this. In which case, do worry about the URL. It may not be safe for work. 🙂
You’ll never know if you don’t click..
`The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. [..]
In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
The Mountain View-based search engine opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents.
Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government’s effort “vigorously.”‘
`People who took their cars to work were 13 per cent more likely to be overweight or obese than those who walked, cycled or used public transport, regardless of their income level, the survey of 6810 employed people found. The further people had to drive each day, the greater their weight increase. [..]
The NSW study revealed that even short, regular car trips significantly reduced people’s opportunity to get sufficient exercise in the course of their working week. [..]
Overall, 49 per cent of the workers in the health survey were overweight or obese, and two-thirds drove their car to work. Seven per cent walked, 2 per cent cycled and 6 per cent worked at home.’
`Oval Office
You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States. You knew Scalia would pull through for you.
There is a large desk here, along with a few chairs and couches. The presidential seal is in the middle of the room and there is a full-length mirror upon the wall.
What do you want to do now?
> INVADE IRAQ
You are not able to do that, yet.
> LOOK MIRROR
Self-reflection is not your strong suit.
> PET SEAL
It’s not that kind of seal.’
`Windows has encountered and unknown error.
The error is unknown because the guy who wrote this part of the code quit a while back and he was like really really smart and the rest of us are not really sure how this works or what to do.
BTW, if you are that guy, please give us a call and let us know what to do.’
`A British dentist has been banned from working after allowing her unqualified boyfriend to carry out dental work on patients in her surgery, the profession’s U.K. regulatory body said on Tuesday. [..]
The boyfriend worked on more than 600 people, drilling out cavities without local anaesthetic and installing expensive fillings that crumbled within days, often leaving patients in agony, the BBC said.’
`A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part of his GCSE science project. [..]
“I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine,” he said.
“Every two minutes Elvis spends on his wheel gives me about thirty minutes talk time on my phone.”
The teenage inventor was given a C for his project and has been awarded a D overall for the course.’
`Darren Brothers reports that Alex Polyakov, the target of his Kick a Spammer in the Nuts Daily retaliatory campaign, has cried uncle.
Brothers says he got a call early this morning from Polyakov. [..] On the tape, an excited Polyakov complains that Brothers’ “Refi Retaliator” program is “killing my business.”
“How much money do I have to pay you? Surely we can work out something together!” says Polyakov.’
`A Central Florida man was arrested on charges he exposed himself to a child at a Wal-Mart store, according to a Local 6 News.
Brian Williams was supposed to face a judge on drug charges Tuesday from a previous arrest, but he is now being held on $30,000 bond for allegedly flashing a child at the Fruitland Park Wal-Mart.’
with an amusing mugshot.
`State investigators have stumbled onto a basement office in the West Virginia Capitol outfitted with computers, video and audio gear, and software used to pirate movies and music recordings, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.
“Specifically, one hard drive contained approximately 40 full-length motion videos,” state Chief Technology Officer Kyle Schafer said in the Jan. 5 memo to Administration Secretary Robert Ferguson. “Two other hard drives contained over 3,500 MP3 music files consuming more than 14 [gigabytes] of hard drive space.”
Hundreds of blank DVDs, CDs and jacket covers were also found, as was software “commonly used to crack header codes on copyrighted materials such as movies and music to allow duplication,” Schafer’s memo said.’
`Investigators say a North Carolina woman instructed her two young children to stay on the bed as she fled the family’s burning home.
That woman is now charged with murder. Lisa Louise Greene, 40, is being held without bond. [..]
Addison Macemore, 8, and her 10-year-old brother, Daniel, died in the Jan. 10 fire.
Greene is also charged with arson, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.’
`Nervous TV bosses have axed an episode of South Park which outs a fictional Tom Cruise character as gay — because they are scared the real actor will sue. [..]
His ex-wife Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta are portrayed as trying to coax him out.
Nicole, 38, tells him: “Don’t you think this has gone on long enough?
“It’s time for you to come out of the closet. You’re not fooling anyone.”
The episode, called Trapped in the Closet, also features Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard criticising Cruise’s acting skills.’
‘Tony Danza reads some random Chuck Norris facts to Chuck Norris!! Sorry for the bad quality, it was a spur of the moment thing so it’s recorded on my digital camera. Oh, and sorry for the shakiness, it’s hard to hold still when you’re trying not to laugh!’
(3.4meg Flash video)
`A big brown cockroach crawls across the table in the laboratory of Japan’s most prestigious university. The researcher eyes it nervously, but he doesn’t go for the bug spray. He grabs the remote. This is no ordinary under-the-refrigerator type bug. This roach has been surgically implanted with a micro-robotic backpack that allows researchers to control its movements. This is Robo-roach.
Unfortunately spammers are emailing the roaches when they broadcast to cell phones. “We had an incident last week where we sent a roach into an duct to test for an air leak, when we asked the roach to turn right, it responded by asking for our email addresses and offered to send us viagra in return.” said Assistant Professor Isao Shimoyama, head of the bio-robot research team at Tokyo University.’
`Bacteria in yogurt have been modified to deliver a drug that blocks HIV infection.
In their natural state, the bacteria (Lactococcus lactis) produce lactic acid and are used to make cheese and yogurt. It is not harmful to humans.
Research based at Brown Medical School in Rhode Island altered the genetics of the bacteria so they generate cyanovirin, a drug that has prevented HIV infection in monkeys and human cells, according to a report at news@nature.com.
Cyanovirin binds to sugar molecules that are attached to the HIV virus, blocking a receptor used by HIV to infect cells.’
Safe for work because art is always safe for work.
If your boss complains, tell them they’re a philistine. They’ll have no option but to agree with you and apologise for being ignorant and uncultured.
`James Zadroga spent 16 hours a day toiling in the World Trade Center ruins for a month, breathing in debris-choked air. Timothy Keller said he coughed up bits of gravel from his lungs after the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Felix Hernandez spent days at the site helping to search for victims.
All three men died in the past seven months of what their families and colleagues say were persistent respiratory illnesses directly caused by their work at ground zero. [..]
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” [an attorney] said. “Many, many more people are going to die from the aftermath of the toxicity.”‘
`Smashing, (but not totally P.C. nowadays!) 10 Little Nigger Boys sticker book.
It would have originally come with a sheet 48 sticky back pictures to stick on the relevant pages. These have all been stuck in the book correctly so the book is complete.
It is in good condition for its age.’
`Lightbulb explores two phenomena I find interesting, the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback systems often levitate objects, stabilize inverted pendulums, and the like. Wireless power transmission has been around since Tesla’s invention a century ago, although it is still not widely utilized. I wanted to explore these effects together.’
`In a sensational rant to a Serbian newspaper, Damir Dokic has vowed revenge against Australia for conspiring to return the 2000 Wimbledon semi-finalist to the country. [..]
“Australia with the help of Croatia and the Vatican have brainwashed my daughter,” Damir told Serbian daily Kurir.
“I have thought about dropping a nuclear bomb on Sydney since Jelena lost in the first round this week, for which Australia is to blame.
“I have even thought about killing an Australian in revenge, but I wouldn’t gain anything from it.” [..]
“I’m not crazy when I say this, they are the crazy ones who give you hot sausages before the match when it’s 40 degrees celsius outside.”‘
`”Stupid in America” is a nasty title for a program about public education, but some nasty things are going on in America’s public schools and it’s about time we face up to it. [..]
To give you an idea of how competitive American schools are and how U.S. students performed compared with their European counterparts, we gave parts of an international test to some high school students in Belgium and in New Jersey.
Belgian kids cleaned the American kids’ clocks, and called them “stupid.” [..]
The Belgian students didn’t perform better because they’re smarter than American students. They performed better because their schools are better. At age 10, American students take an international test and score well above the international average. But by age 15, when students from 40 countries are tested, the Americans place 25th.’
`The world’s first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.
“It is a problem,” Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who led the team that performed the pioneering transplant in France on Nov. 27, acknowledged on Wednesday. [..]
The 38-year-old Frenchwoman received a new nose, chin and lips from a brain-dead donor after being mauled by her dog last spring. The woman has been identified only as Isabelle because of French privacy laws.
The woman suffered a tissue-rejection episode last month but is now doing well, her doctors said. However, they said she has resumed smoking, which besides being bad in general for health is especially a problem after surgery because it impairs circulation to tissues and could raise the risk of rejection.’
`The FBI is investigating the hijacking of milliondollarhomepage.com – the website that earned $1m (£566,000) for its British creator Alex Tew by hosting micro-advertisements – by hackers who demanded a ransom to restore the site.
Mr Tew was sent a demand for $50,000 by e-mail by a hacker, believed to be Russian. When he refused, the website crashed.
The e-mail, which was made available exclusively to the Financial Times, read: “Hello u website is under us atack to stop the DDoS send us 50000$.”‘
Follow-up to The Million Dollar Homepage.
`A 53-year-old woman was so depressed and desperate to end her life that she agreed to pay a friend to arrange for a hitman to kill her, a court heard.
Christine Ryder ended up handing over a total of £20,000 to Kevin Reeves after he agreed to murder her himself.
But Reeves, 40, of Saltings Road, Snodland, near Rochester, failed to keep his side of the bargain and she shopped him to the police.
Now he has been jailed for 15 months after being convicted of deception.’
`A school assignment on Internet porn was canceled after parents complained.
Supt. Jeff Lampert said the teacher’s apparent goal — to discuss the harmful effects of pornography — was well-intentioned, but the assignment was inappropriate for high school freshmen. Students were supposed to research porn online and list eight facts about it.’
`A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover’s name, British media reported Tuesday.
The African grey parrot kept squawking “I love you, Gary” as his owner, Chris Taylor, sat with girlfriend Suzy Collins on the sofa of their shared flat in Leeds, northern England. [..]
Taylor said he had also been forced to part with Ziggy after the bird continued to call out Gary’s name and refused to stop squawking the phrases in his ex-girlfriend’s voice, media reports said.’
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