Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 12, 2004 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
Man Escapes Jail, Returned Wrapped in Duct Tape And Beaten
An Omaha man who jumped bail in Iowa was delivered to the Harrison County Jail - beaten and wrapped in duct tape - by the woman who originally posted his bail, authorities said.
The woman and another man now sit in the jail, accused in the beating, and the woman might not get her money back.
The 40-year-old Omaha woman forfeited $5,000 after the man failed to appear at a court hearing on an attempted burglary charge, Sheriff Terry Baxter said Thursday. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
But authorities said someone else got to him first.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 12, 2004 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Police find acre of pot
Police on Thursday found an estimated $1 million worth of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
The 1,000-plant marijuana garden covered about an acre south of Spee-Bi-Dah beach, Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force Sgt. John Flood said.
Thick underbrush and fallen trees made the plants impossible to spot from Marine Drive, but the bright green leaves were easily visible from the air, Flood said.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 12, 2004 at 10:22:00 AM CEST
Cops hitch ride to catch alleged robbers
It was the talk of the town on Friday: two policemen trying to catch two bank robbers hopped on a streetcar because they lacked a car. The scene could have been taken from a funny movie ridiculing police: two pursuing cops riding a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, as the two fleeing robbers with $9,800 turn into a side street. The two helpless officers could only watch as the robbers disappeared in a crowd. Neither the money nor the robbers have been found.
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Topic: SPORT - on September 12, 2004 at 12:35:00 AM CEST
Racing Pigeons Face Dope Testing
Britain's pigeon racers are being subjected to random dope tests as the sport's ruling body clamps down on suspected foul play.
The Royal Pigeon Racing Association has sent test kits to 60 race organizers across England after complaints some birds have been given performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids and synthetic hormones.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:33:00 AM CEST
The Chinese Firewall
proxy help
I was wondering why so many of my favorite feeds weren't coming into my news reader and I realized (duh!) that I'm in China and Blogger and TypePad are blocked. It's one thing blogging about it from Japan, it's another thing actually being blocked and realizing how much of my world just sort of disappears.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:30:00 AM CEST
Gizza job, virus writers ask AV industry
The unknown authors of the latest variant of the MyDoom email worm have embedded a hidden message inside their code, asking for a job in the anti-virus industry.
Like previous variants, the MyDoom-U and MyDoom-V worms spread via email with a malicious file attachment. Opening the attachment results in the activation of the worm and an attempt to download a backdoor Trojan horse called Surila onto infected machines.
Hidden inside these worms' code is a message that states "We searching 4 work in AV industry". No contact details and any other information is appended to the curious message. Neither of the new variants is spreading in large numbers since their appearance on the Net yesterday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:27:00 AM CEST
Going price for network of zombie PCs: $2,000-$3,000
In the calculus of Internet crime, two of the most sought-after commodities are zombie PCs and valid e-mail addresses.
One indication of the going rate for zombie PCs comes from a June 11 posting on SpecialHam.com, an electronic forum for spammers. The asking price for use of a network of 20,000 zombie PCs: $2,000 to $3,000. Such networks typically are used to broadcast spam and phishing scams and to spread e-mail viruses designed mainly to create yet more zombies.
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Topic: SEX - on September 12, 2004 at 12:17:00 AM CEST
Having Sex Until the Cows Come Home
What's a big cud-chewing Scottish cow have to do with preserving public decency?
According to the mayor of a small Dutch town, allowing Highland heifers to graze in a nearby nature reserve will help deter couples who have scandalized the upright citizens of Spaarnwoude with their open-air sex antics.
Mayor Ellen van Hoogdalem-Arkema said the brazen behavior of amorous outdoor enthusiasts has angered and embarrassed people walking their dogs in the reserve or taking their grandchildren for a stroll.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:09:00 AM CEST
Apple lovers start attack against Cornell's Napster trial
A small revolt has broken out at Cornell University over the school's use of the Napster music subscription service.
The Cornell Daily Sun has been bombarded with letters from current and past students with many of the missives complaining about the anti-Apple stance of Napster. Cornell is currently running a trial of the Napster service, which leaves close to 20 percent of its students without access to the free music downloads. Napster only supports the Windows 2000 and XP operating systems.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:06:00 AM CEST
Hitachi SANRISE 32 Petabyte Array
Using Hitachi's "world's first" virtual disk array system, this device can manage up to 32PB (Petabytes) of external storage. Those of you not in the know about storage will now learn that a petabyte is approximately 10^15 (one quadrillion) bytes, and is quite step up from the terabytes following gigabytes. Got all that? To put it in consumer-ese, 32PB can hold nearly 7 billion MP3s (assuming 5MB per). This would be about 49 million movies, if they are encoded to 700 megabytes. In comparison, imdb.com currently lists a mere 411,447 titles.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 12, 2004 at 12:05:00 AM CEST
GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).
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Topic: e-bay - on September 12, 2004 at 12:03:00 AM CEST
PayPal to Levy Fines for Gambling, Porn
PayPal, the online payments arm of eBay Inc., on Friday said it will soon fine people up to $500 for uses related to gambling, adult content or services, and buying or selling prescription drugs from noncertified sellers. The new policy, which takes effect Sept. 24 and applies to both buyers and sellers, marks the first time PayPal has imposed fines for violations of its use policy, spokeswoman Amanda Pires said.
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