The Edge of I-Hacked

from consumerist

The Consumerist’s 3-month sting operation snared a Geek Squad technician stealing porn from our hard drive, and we’ve got the work-safe video and logfiles to prove it.

Ok, if you watch the apple iPhone demo (below) real close, you will see phone numbers..

Looks like Johnny Appleseeds phone number is: 408-550-3542

GIVE IT A CALL! =)

digg story

from Engadget

A diabolical ring of super-thieves has been terrorizing the good people of Tulsa, OK., by conducting elaborate burglaries of stores like Best Buy and Office Depot. In their most recent exploit, the robbers cut two holes in the roof of a Best Buy, rappelled into the store, disabled the alarm system, and then stole more than 40 laptops, a number of plasma TVs and the store’s safe. A local crime reporter claims they “leave behind no fingerprints, no witnesses and no surveillance tapes”. They also reportedly have super-human strength, psionic powers, and can all fly at nearly supersonic speeds.

from Consumerist

 

A new mom in Palatine, IL turned her baby monitor on and, rather than her baby, she saw two men floating in space. She was viewing images of astronauts in the international space station. She also saw mission control and a map of the station’s trajectory.

The mom called the manufacturer to ask if they knew why she was viewing the space station. They didn’t. According to the mom, the CSR at the baby monitor company told her that she “really shouldn’t be seeing anything past 150 feet.”

Creepy. Sounds like the beginning of a Steven Spielberg movie back when his movies were still good.—MEGHANN MARCO

from aprilfools.urgo.org

Ah, April Fools Day — The day that you simply cannot trust ANYTHING on the web. Check this site for some of the best April fools day jokes going around. Got to tell you, I actually fell for a couple of them this morning.

customsoftwareconsult.com Too good to be true Firefox extension
lotro.com Turbine Unveils 1st Update for The Lord of the Rings Online?
thinkgeek.com Multiple fake ‘Geek Toys’ Including Wii Helmet and 8-bit tie
mail.google.com Gmail Paper
woot.com Random Crap for $1,000,001.00 (see front page for full details)
tattooyourtoddler.com tattoos for toddlers

From Buy Sealand

ACFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are now working on the Micronation of Sealand.

Recently it was made clear that this country is for sale. To make sure the owners will be kopimistic and that the country won’t be governed by people that do not care about it’s future, we have come up with a plan.

With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizien.

We’ve set up a forum to discuss how the country is supposed to function. It should be a great place for everybody, with high-speed Internets access, no copyright laws and vip accounts to The Pirate Bay.

Register and let us write history together.

Plan B: If we do not get enough money required to buy the micronation of Sealand, we will try to buy another small island somwhere and claim it as our own country (prices start from USD 50 000).

from engadget.com

Oh no they didn’t! By now you already know it’s on, and the latest round in the iPhone v. iPhone dance-off comes from Apple spokesman Steve Dowling, who was quoted as saying the Cisco lawsuit is “silly” and that several companies are already using the term iPhone for VoIP products. He called Cisco’s trademark “tenuous at best” and noted his company was the first to ever use the name for a cellphone. He goes on to boast that Cisco is gonna totally get served: “if Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we’re very confident we’ll prevail.” Oh yeah — Apple to Cisco: let’s see you dance, sucka!

from torrentfreak.com

It turns out that Wal-Mart is running targeted banner campaigns on The Pirate Bay to promote their DVDs. They hereby contribute to the estimated $75,000 in ad revenues the Pirate Bay generates every month.

According to Variety, Wal-Mart placed targeted ads for DVDs of “The Sopranos”, “Smallville”, “Desperate Housewives” and the movie “Office Space” and other DVDs. The ads appeared on pages that linked to corresponding torrents.

Last year there was some controversy surrounding an Australia Bank that accidentally advertised on The Pirate Bay. The Bank first denied it had advertised on world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, but later admitted the “mistake”.

Another big sponsor of TPB is broadband provider Verizon. They advertise their “high speed connections” to the bandwidth craving pirates. It’s all about targeted advertising.

from torrentfreak.com

In a recent interview with the UK’s Sunday Times, Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay calls the MPAA a bunch of “rabid, obsessed lunatics.”

The Sunday Times article titled “Yo ho ho – buccanerds give studios a broadside” is all about The Pirate Bay, its founders, the problems it’s faced and how it all started. If you’re wondering how it did, the two co-founders first met in 2001 at the HAL (Hackers at Large) conference in the Netherlands. The rest is a Wikipedia entry (as opposed to the long-outmoded history).

Svartholm talks about how The Pirate Bay, and other BitTorrent sites’ popularity is a clear indication of “civil disobedience against the current copyright legislation, on a huge scale.”

But the real highlight of the interview is his opinion on how publishers are afraid, due to lack of knowledge about BitTorrent and filesharing, of how their content is being stolen. He says, “Some publishers are afraid — out of ignorance — but even though they are wrong I can respect that. Some, however, like the MPAA can most accurately be described as rabid, obsessed lunatics.”

Rabid, obsessed lunatics? I’m not sure too many people would disagree. In the past few years, the MPAA have single-handedly done some of the most outrageous things to prevent their movies from being “stolen”. They’ve sued a company for pre-loading legally purchased movie DVDs onto iPods, Stalked Svartholm, bred anti-piracy, DVD-sniffing dogs and banned Americans from inviting more than a certain number of people over to watch movies on a larger-than-29″ screen Home Theatre system. Oh wait, that last one didn’t happen. What’s really sad is that if they did actually do something like that, it wouldn’t surprise anyone!

Creative Commons photograph by David Wise.

from instructables
Things you will need:
A teabag.
Fire source

step 11
First take everything out of teabag and open it up
Remove the metal thing that connects both sides.
Make it like a tunnel or cylinder.
Don’t brake anything.

step 2)Put the raped teabag vertical,
and
light the TOP OF IT!
wait.
If everything went well it should go straight up.