Topic: born rich - on July 17, 2007 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Man-made island up for sale
A Victorian sea fort off the coast of Portsmouth is on the market for £4 million.
No Man's Land Fort, a mile from the mainland, was originally built to house nearly 80 soldiers to fend off an attack from the French navy.
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Topic: ART - on July 17, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Find The Cult Movie Visual References
Crazy 4 Cult is a new exhibit coming to Gallery 1988, the Los Angeles art gallery that hosts the annual (and always great) IAm8Bit exhibit. Just as IAm8Bit uses videogames of the 1980s as the theme for the artists, Crazy 4 Cult is using Cult movies. For fun, the exhbit poster features a huge number of movie references - can you catch them all?
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Topic: WEB - on July 17, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Crazy cyber-jihadi emails planned death for Mayport, FL
Younis Tsouli - irhabi007 - was earlier this month jailed for ten years. It's a good sentence for the cyber-jihad twit, someone who became fodder for television news shows like 60 Minutes. Wishing to show how al Qaeda was beating the pants off the good guys on the Internet, Tsouli was the perfect example for them, one of fearmongering at its finest.
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Topic: WEB - on July 17, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Italian police net 26 in phishing takedown
Italian police have arrested 26 people allegedly involved in an international phishing operation.
The Guardia di Finanza (Military Financial Police) cuffed 18 Italian citizens and eight Eastern Europeans as part of "Phish and Chip", an operation aimed at dismantling a gang targeting users of Poste Italiane's home banking services.
The gang allegedly mounted a spamming campaign directing prospective marks towards overseas websites that mimicked the real Italian Post Office website. Victims were duped into handing over login credentials by bogus emails posing as security alerts.
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Topic: WEB - on July 17, 2007 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
Global broadband prices revealed
Broadband users in 30 of the world's most developed countries are getting greatly differing speeds and prices, according to a report.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report says 60% of its member countries net users are now on broadband.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on July 17, 2007 at 11:28:00 AM CEST
The Man Who Could Kill YouTube
Bob Tur is the little guy who is suing one giant (Google) to do what another giant (Viacom) probably never will -- shut YouTube down.
A single bottle broke the calm, shattering in the late-afternoon sun. Then another...and another. A few men walked into Tom's Liquor and walked out quicker than would be possible if they'd paid. A family followed, tossing groceries into the intersection of Florence and Normandie in the heart of South Central Los Angeles. Bob Tur, a pilot and photojournalist, hovered above the unfolding chaos in his helicopter, along with his copilot, his camerawoman wife, his lawyer, and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol. Fifteen years later, he still recalls the details of the scene with the precision of a war memory. There was Larry Tarvin, who was pulled from his truck and kicked in the ribs, shoulder, and face. That's when the shots started. Tur's chopper began taking hits as the throng below pummeled another trucker, Reginald Denny, with a cement block, a tire iron, and a fire extinguisher.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on July 17, 2007 at 10:47:00 AM CEST
Google cookies will 'auto delete'
Google has said that its cookies, tiny files stored on a computer when a user visits a website, will auto delete after two years.
They will be deleted unless the user returns to a Google site within the two-year period, prompting a re-setting of the file's lifespan.
The company's cookies are used to store preference data for sites, such as default language and to track searches.
All search engines and most websites store cookies on a computer.
Currently, Google's are set to delete after 2039.
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