Craigslist Thieves Stealing Cars on Test Drives
Another Craigslist warning: New York City cops says bad guys are inquiring about cars for sale on the site, taking them for test drives—and never returning. No details on how many cars have disappeared this way, but the NYPD issued a warning memo across the five boroughs obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Report: US lacks staff, power to protect networks
WASHINGTON – The federal agency in charge of securing the government's computer systems is unable to monitor the networks or analyze threats in real time, and it lacks the authority and staff it needs to do its job, according to an internal report.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team must share information about threats and trends more quickly and in greater detail with other federal departments so they can better protect themselves, the audit said.
Facebook Photos Show Alleged Zoo Break-In
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --
A break-in at the Albuquerque Bio Park Zoo is under investigation Wednesday.
Police have pictures that someone posted on Facebook of six college-aged kids apparently breaking into the Albuquerque zoo.
The pictures showed them climbing a fence, crawling under a fence, then going into some of the animal's cages and habitats.
Pictures showed them with giraffes and sea lions. Police said the youths even went into the rhinoceros cage.
The zoo had no idea that anyone had broken in, until an anonymous source came forward and gave the pictures to police and city officials.
No one has been arrested, but the zoo director said this is pretty uncommon.
"I've been at the zoo for 25 years and this is only the second breach I can recall," said Albuquerque Bio Park director Rick Jancer. "The last one was about 20 years ago where we had another breach of the perimeter fence."
Police are continuing their investigation and said they want to talk to the people in the pictures.
Be Careful When Ordering Online
You have to be careful wen ordering online because the products might not match the description. But don't do what this idiot did.
A man who paid for a woman he contacted via Craigslist to come over and perform a "sexy dance" had second thoughts after he said she appeared older than her ad indicated: He asked for his $200 back and ultimately called police when she didn't give up the refund.
The girl that arrived was older than the girl in the picture, "causing the informant to reconsider," the log states. When he told the girl to keep $20 for gas and give him back the rest of his money, the girl refused and left with the entire $200.
The man – whose mother was there and was "angry about it as well" – decided not to file a report.
Police said no one was arrested because there is no law against a "sexy dance." Deputies did not make contact with the woman from the ad, and it appears she kept the money, police said.
Here is a summary of other calls made from Ladera Ranch to the sheriff's department over the last several days:
MySpace Co-President Jason Hirschhorn Calls it Quits
Less than a month ago I asked the MySpace Co-Presidents, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn (pictured left), if it was possible to effectively run a company with two equal leaders. Their answer – they’ve made it work. I asked if they were both there for the long term. Jones said “Assuming News Corp. will have us we’re going to stay heavily engaged.” I’ve added the video clip below.
Well, you know what they say about assumptions. Tomorrow MySpace will announce the departure of Jason Hirschhorn, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside and outside of MySpace. And we’ve also heard that Jones will be named CEO sometime soon, although likely not tomorrow.
The two were promoted to co-presidents in February when previous CEO Owen Van Natta was fired. Van Natta held the CEO spot for less than a year – he was hired to replace founding CEO Chris DeWolfe in April 2009.
AT&T Hacker Released on Bail after Drug Arrest
AT&T Hacker Released on Bail after Drug Arrest
Apparently the judge gave that AT&T / Apple hacker dude a really low bail because the likelihood of the guy leaving his mom's basement is low. Even funnier, the guy vehemently denies everything…except being an "internet troll."
Drexel’s Digital Media Students Do Something Pretty Cool.
And to think, I actually graduated from this god forsaken university.
Uh-oh. Tweets have just grown from 140 characters to seven stories. Digital-media students at Philadelphia's Drexel University have found a way to turn the microblogging messages into 36x62-foot animations projected onto the surface of a campus building. That's a whole lot of tweet.
Using the "Social Graffiti" system, anyone can digitally tag Twitter messages with @digmGraffiti to be projected onto Nesbitt Hall. Drexel seniors Matthew Morton and Chad Porche then combine the tweets with their own animations (shot in 1080p HD), and broadcast the images onto Nesbitt via a projector located on the fourth floor of a building across the street.
Morton and Porche developed the system (essentially a custom-made Twitter application built using the open-source Twitter API) for their senior project as a way to combine architecture, design, and technology--and explore the reach of social networking. Cara Schroeder, Burak Ozmucar, Kurt Gawinowicz, and Kerry Russo also contributed to the project.
Anyone with a Twitter account can send a message to the building, but if their tweet contains profanity or other words or phrases that trigger a third-party filtering system, the entire message gets deleted and never sees the light of night.
Foxconn Suicide Troubles…
Man it's getting bad....
Lets view the history of events going from the oldest to the newest news.
Four Suicide Attempts in a Month at Foxconn
Foxconn Defends Labor Practices After 8th Suicide
New Transistor Built From Just Seven Atoms
It is the building block of electronics: the transistor. There are millions of them on the microchip powering your computer, and without them we’d still be digging insects out of vacuum tubes in computers the size of a small villa.
Keeping transistors small — and making them ever smaller — is how raw computer power has increased over the years, because the smaller they are, the more transistors you can pack onto a chip.
Now researchers have managed to achieve an exponential jump, shrinking transistors down smaller than ever before: Australian engineers have built a transistor out of just seven atoms, AFP reports.
The ultimate goal is to create a transistor composed of a single atom. That’s been achieved in the lab, but so-called quantum computers are probably decades away from reality.
Facebook Sent User Data to Advertisers
The practice, which most of the companies defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By Thursday morning Facebook had rewritten some of the offending computer code.