Pirate
by Posted on 23-02-2012 03:14 PM
A Brisbane woman fleeced Nigerian scam artists by stealing more than $30,000 from their internet car sales racket, a court has been told.
Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey, 23, was employed by the Nigerians as an "agent" in March 2010 but was unaware they were scam artists, the Brisbane District Court heard today.
Her job was to provide an Australian bank account through which they could funnel any payments they received through their dodgy account on a popular car sales website.
Cochrane-Ramsey was to keep eight per cent of all money paid into her account and forward the rest to the Nigerian scammers.
However, the court heard she kept the two payments she received - totalling $33,350 - and spent most of it on herself.
Source ...by Posted on 23-02-2012 12:59 PM
People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.
According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600.
The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS.
Cool idea. But. Would you trust Google not to record your every move and now, what you look at? Fuck no.
Source ...by Posted on 23-02-2012 12:52 PM
Stolen from Boing Boing. This is long, retarded and full of Derp.
What is it with bible and conspiracy theorist? The Earth is not moving, the Earth is hollow etc??
At least most bibletards have thicker skins. Most conspiracy nuts I have met are pussies and can't even argue their points.
...by Posted on 23-02-2012 11:15 AM
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.
Source <-- This also has an easy step by step guide on how to remove your history and stop Google collecting it. ...by Posted on 23-02-2012 08:09 AM
MechWarrior Tactics is the latest evolution of turn-based strategy and blends tactical gameplay, deep collectability, and unique online features, and is set against visually stunning environments for the supreme MechWarrior battle experience. Players earn, collect, and purchase combat and aesthetic resources to outfit each Mech and prepare for the next online battle.
Ohh, I love Mechwarrior and a turn based strategy game based on it gives me a boner.
Source ...by Posted on 23-02-2012 08:02 AM
US owner proves that tree hugging and gun toting aren’t mutually exclusive pastimes.
United States presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is off target with his claim that you can’t fit a gun rack to a Chevrolet Volt hybrid.
Volt owner John McDole has proven him wrong, using a collection of cheap, off-the-hardware-store-shelf items to build a three-gun rack that snugly hugs the back of the hybrid’s rear seat.
Sometimes, I love America's crazy gun lovers. Sometimes.
Source with thanks to the boss. ...by Posted on 23-02-2012 07:55 AM
Amnesty International says Australia must scrap remote immigration detention centres and take other measures, in order to meet human rights standards.
In a highly-critical ...by Posted on 23-02-2012 07:51 AM
Scientologists have asked the Federal Government for an exemption to the Fair Work Act so they do not have to pay workers the minimum wage.
In a submission to the Fair Work review, public affairs director Reverend Mary Anderson said the Church of Scientology, which believes Earth was founded 75 million years ago by an alien tyrant called Xenu, should be exempt from workplace law because it was a legitimate religion.
"There is nothing wrong with the concept 'a fair day's pay for a fair day's work' but it is misdirected when applied to religious volunteers whose focus is not on pay but on service to a spiritual cause," Ms Anderson wrote.
Source ...by Posted on 22-02-2012 09:51 PM
A man has been arrested after he stayed in a motel room with his girlfriend's corpse for two days.
Rather than alerting authorities when Nancy Johnston died, Derek Tanke, 47, allegedly stole her debit card to buy vodka and pay for two more days in the Joliet, Illinois motel.
He called 911 minutes before he was due to check out and when police arrived, they noted 'a significant odour of decomposition'.
Tanke, who has been arrested on six occasions for beating Johnston, admitted to punching her several times in the face days before her death.
Source ...by Posted on 22-02-2012 09:47 PM
...by Posted on 22-02-2012 12:55 PM
The plant owes its miraculous resurrection to a team of scientists led by David Gilichinsky, and an enterprising ground squirrel. Back in the Upper Pleistocene, the squirrel buried the plant’s fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze.
Over millennia, the squirrel’s burrow fossilized and was buried under increasing layers of ice. The plants within were kept at a nippy -7 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permanently frozen soil and the petrifying bones of mammoths and woolly rhinos. They never thawed. They weren’t disturbed. By the time they were found and defrosted by scientists, they had been buried to a depth of 38 metros, and frozen for around 31,800 years…
Unfortunately the plant is growing at a rate of 2 meters per day and is consuming the flesh of any being it touches. Oh science.
Source ...by Posted on 22-02-2012 12:50 PM
In a small clean room tucked into the back of San Diego–based startup Organovo, Chirag Khatiwala is building a thin layer of human skeletal muscle. He inserts a cartridge of specially prepared muscle cells into a 3-D printer, which then deposits them in uniform, closely spaced lines in a petri dish. This arrangement allows the cells to grow and interact until they form working muscle tissue that is nearly indistinguishable from something removed from a human subject.
Source ...by Posted on 22-02-2012 12:33 PM
Online auction site eBay has withdrawn the Snowtown Bank from sale less than 24 hours after real estate agent Nigel Christie listed it.
In emails and conversations with the Hales Real Estate director, eBay said the item was removed because the site deemed it "inappropriate or insensitive to victims of disasters or tragedies".
But Mr Christie said the bank and house were a legitimate sale and questioned why the property was removed when books about the serial killings and DVDs of the film Snowtown, which was partly filmed in the bank, were allowed to remain.
Source ...by Posted on 22-02-2012 12:25 PM
Providing back-up batteries for 11 million phone subscribers to the National Broadband Network will cost taxpayers up to $150 million a year.
Back-up battery units will be made mandatory on the NBN after industry concerns over consumers' ability to place emergency calls during a power outage.
Once the NBN is fully operational, about 2 million to 4 million back-up batteries are expected to be disposed of annually.
The McKinsey-KPMG implementation study into the NBN said it would cost an "additional $90m to $150m each year" to give all phone service users the emergency back-up batteries.
Source ...by Posted on 21-02-2012 10:57 AM
Why? WHY? Because you have not sent in a tune. Don't make me turn this into a Whitney Houston tribute day. Because I fucking will.
Send your tunes. ...by Posted on 21-02-2012 09:02 AM
A window of time just opened in Yosemite National Park when nature photographers wait, as if for an eclipse, until the moment when the sun and earth align to create a fleeting phenomenon.
This marvel of celestial configuration happens in a flash at sunset in mid-February — if the winter weather cooperates. On those days the setting sun illuminates one of the park's lesser-known waterfalls so precisely that it resembles molten lava as it flows over the sheer granite face of the imposing El Capitan.
Every year growing numbers of photographers converge on the park, their necks craned toward the ephemeral Horsetail Fall, hoping the sky will be clear so they can duplicate the spectacle first recorded in colour in 1973 by the late renowned outdoors photographer Galen Rowell.
Source ...by Posted on 21-02-2012 08:03 AM
Jason Lees, a popular private school teacher and successful international rugby referee, his wife Danielle Cara Sutton, a psychologist. Their two-year-old son a normal, well-adjusted boy.
Their seemingly happy life together makes it even harder to understand what could have driven Mr Lees to take his son to Brisbane's Story Bridge in the early hours of yesterday, throw him over the edge, before jumping himself.
It was the second murder-suicide involving a parent and child at the city landmark in just five months.
To murder your child in such a horrific way makes me want to believe hell is real and it has a special place for cunts like this.
Source ...by Posted on 20-02-2012 03:09 PM
Sydney scientists have built the world's tiniest transistor by precisely positioning a single phosphorus atom in a silicon crystal.
The nano device is an important step in the development of quantum computers – super-powerful devices that will use the weird quantum properties of atoms to perform calculations billions of times faster than today's computers.
Michelle Simmons, of the University of NSW, said single atom devices had only been made before by chance and their margin of error for placement of the atom was about 10 nanometres, which affected performance.
Source ...by Posted on 20-02-2012 01:33 PM
"I have just lost my entire business and now they [are] trying to sue me?"
February has not been a good month for Perth journalist Aaron Ryan, owner of the TVCentral.com.au website.
Ryan, who has limited tech knowledge, had only owned the website for about four months when a week ago it was lost forever after a botched attempt to move it to a new server.
And on Friday his web host, VentraIP, threatened to sue him for $150,000 in damages after he claimed the debacle was the company's fault.
Looks Godwins law has been replaced with a lawsuit here in Australia. Fuck everything about this.
Source ...by Posted on 20-02-2012 12:33 PM
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.
Download it here ...
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I'm surprised that he didn't insert the word "chillaxed" somewhere in there.
The Earth is not moving, srs. No, srs.
Phenyx 23-02-2012 06:24 PM
we shall see, internet tough man :fu:
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The Earth is not moving, srs. No, srs.
gothick_666 23-02-2012 05:41 PM
That gothick fuckwit never had any credibility to begin with.
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Nalixor 23-02-2012 05:25 PM
Yes, DSL needs a landline, also when more than one person live somewhere it pays to have a home...
NBN to cost $150 million a year in batteries
That_Bloke 23-02-2012 04:15 PM
Anyone who uses the word 'sheeple' instantly loses any credibility, if they ever had any to begin...
The Earth is not moving, srs. No, srs.
That_Bloke 23-02-2012 04:07 PM
Not for a large part of this afternoon.
Thanks Telstra/Dodo.
NBN to cost $150 million a year in batteries
Scythe 23-02-2012 04:02 PM
Or just make sure you're not logged into anything google-related when searching for your German...
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Scythe 23-02-2012 04:00 PM
Done..................I guess this means my Google + account is deactivated?
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I managed to convince someone of the merits of the NBN and its expense today.
Quite simply, 43bn...
NBN to cost $150 million a year in batteries
Spingo 23-02-2012 07:49 PM