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Italian police have arrested an alleged hacker who is accused of defrauding banks and mobile phone operators out of several million dollars.
Italian police have arrested an alleged hacker who is accused of defrauding banks and mobile phone operators out of several million dollars.
You've just stolen thousands of iPhones, worth several million dollars, from a Belgian warehouse by an ingenious plan involving cutting through the ceiling: what...
Entries so far range from flying to a festival in Europe, having your favorite band play a private party, building a recording studio, etc. But there’s no limit on what you can ask for. The entry mediums are pretty open-ended too. YouTube videos, essays, photo journals. You have until December 23rd to get yours in. The winner will be picked sometime in January 2010 by a panel of Sennheiser executives based on the following criteria.
But wait! There’s more! You can go and vote for other submissions that you like, entering you in a weekly drawing for a pair of Sennheiser headphones. As for me, I’d probably buy an analog Neve 88R console. Ten grand should be enough to buy maybe one channel strip.
Remember a few days ago when I hinted at some exciting Tekken news? No? Well, today I can reveal what I was talking about: thanks to the fine folks at Namco Bandai (its publicists, to be exact) we now have three Tekken art books to give away. You can win one! This will be a very easy contest, believe me.
What do you have to do to win the art book? Just leave a comment right here in this post. I’m running this contest, so I’m not going to make you do anything ridiculous. The contest will run through the weekend, and I’ll announce the winners on Monday. So to recap: • You can win one of three Tekken art books. That means three people will win. Each book contains drawings, sketches, etc. of the game’s characters. You know, an art book. • Leave a comment IN THIS POST to be considered. I’ll run the comments through a random number generator on Monday (comment number one is 1, comment number two is 2, etc.) to select the winners. Presumably we’ll have more than three entrants. • The contest runs till Monday, November 16 at noon EST. • You need to be a U.S. resident. I’m not paying $8 million dollars to ship this stuff to Manila or Curitiba. Sorry.
I hope I’ve made this clear. Good luck~!
From Lucky Day Award 2009 Please place a comment in the box below including your social security number, PIN number, FAX Machine, Home Address! Mother’s Name and Email Address. All information is optional. 10 winners will be picked from a random drawing by Lucky Day Award! OK! We will pick ten random winners Thursday at noon. Greetings of the season.
Never one to be ahead of the curve, the AAM (Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers) announced today that they are are supporting the ban on “text messaging using a hand-held device or calling using a hand-held device while driving a motor vehicle.” They’ve come to this conclusion after the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute conducted a “100 Car Study” that found that minimizing eye-off-the-road time is critical to the design of any feature added to car. This study apparently took
A bit of an update to that whole AT&T-linked senators story from the other day. Well, our complaining must have worked because the senators will no longer try to block Net Neutrality. USA! A Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (that’s where Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who first made the proposal, resides) staffer told this to the Washington Post:
So, a small victory for Net Neutrality for the time being. I’m hesitant to dance in the streets because they’re still “generally opposed” to the regulation. And why wouldn’t they be? When you’ve got the likes of AT&T funding your campaigns to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, you better damn well know what side your bread is buttered, so to speak. That’s the beauty of lobbying: AT&T makes how many million dollars per year, and yet it only takes a couple thousand to totally skew the legislative process to its favor. Amazing political process we’ve got here. via DailyFinance
A US court of appeals has overturned a judgment in a patent dispute case of Alcatel-Lucent vs. Microsoft. The case, based around a patent for entering information into the calendar on Microsoft Outlook, originally ruled that Microsoft did infringe on this patent and awarded $358 million dollars to Alcatel-Lucent. The appeals court overturned the ruling by saying that "Microsoft did indirectly infringe Alcatel's patents, but said the damages awarded against the firm were not justified and must be retried" according to Yahoo. The result is the damages that were initially awarded to Alcatel-Lucent were unjustly high and that a more reasonable amount needs to be administered.
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Many years ago (like 1992ish), I subscribed to some sort of Dinosaur magazine. It had all sorts of dinosaur facts and stories that any young child with an interest in science and/or biology. Every issue (it was a monthly publication) came with a single piece of a rather large dinosaur puzzle. Buy all 12 issues, and you have a dinosaur model on your hands. Never did I imagine that, one day, I’d be able to own my very own dinosaur fossil. Granted, it’ll cost anywhere from $2 to $8 million dollars to buy a T-rex, so unless you’re Manchester City rich, you’re going to walk home disappointed. The auction takes place in Las Vegas, and will be conducted by Bonhams & Butterfields, a pretty famous auctioneer. All of this goes down on October 3. Some info on the T-rex: it’s known as Samson, and was unearthed in South Dakota more than 15 years ago, probably right around the time that I was reading all those dinosaur magazines. It’s one of the most complete T-rex skeletons known to man, and was prepared by the Carnegie Museum. How great would that be to display at your house? Deer head, bear head, elephant head, DINOSAUR HEAD. via Slashdot
The classic board game of Monopoly has been played for years in homes all over the world. But what if you could literally play Monopoly on the world against thousands of other players? The makers of Monopoly have launched a version of Monopoly that you play on Google Maps against thousands of other players online. The game can be found at http://www.monopolycitystreets.com but currently the site is being hammered and is slow at best. The game plays slightly differently as you start with three million dollars and can purchase streets or homes and earn rent for each establishment that you own. From there the details are slim as the site is painfully slow.
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Seriously. Twenty million dollars. I hope the people in this class action lawsuit get mugged over and over. What a pathetic spectacle.
The shuttles that NASA uses to fly to space currently use measurements in the form of pounds and feet as opposed to the more widely adopted meters and newtons. The upcoming shuttle replacement will continue to use the imperial measurement system because it would cost NASA $370 million dollars to convert to the "'International System' of units". In 2009 a launch to put a shuttle into orbit costs approximately $759 million dollars and to spend half the budget of a launch to convert units of measure can not be justified because it will produce no gain for the agency or the shuttle occupants. To convert to a new system of measurement is not as easy as it sounds.
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This just in: the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers thinks it’s a bad idea for you to talk on your phone while driving if you’re not using a headset. They also think that you shouldn’t text while driving, because that causes you to take your eyes off the road. Well duh?
