Hitman: Sniper Spam

So if you get an email from a purported assassin threatening to ice you (or a loved one), rest assured that it's not Agent 47, but a garden-variety spammer.""The online Hitman scammer, who threatens to kill...

Man loses fight to keep painted flag on garage door

If he had just put the ol' Maple leaf next to it, he'd be ok. " MONTREAL _ A Quebec superior court told Theodore Antonopoulos last week that he had to remove the large Greek flag painted on his garage door. But...

Apple Sued over "Defective" iPhone 3G

A disgruntled customer is suing Apple over reportedly poor performance from her 3G iPhone. For whatever reason, no mention is made of AT&T, which actually delivers and manages the service. I don't like the...

Terror Suspect Had New York Target List

This story is another reminder of the constant threat the we face from extremists everyday, regardless of whether we are American or German. In the following story, Aafia Siddique, a 36 year old graduate of MIT, was...

Judge Elizabeth Halverson is taken ill

UPDATE: 11:13PM EST - Saturday August 9Judge Elizabeth Halverson became ill yesterday in the middle of her testimony, in what was day five of the hearings. " Judge Halverson suffered what her attorney called a...

Facebook Was in Talks to Buy German Social Site

"When Facebook sued the German leader in social networking, StudiVZ, last month, it contended that the company had illegally copied Facebook’s “look and feel” with similar graphics and features. “A great deal, if not all, of StudiVZ’s success is due to its copying...

POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS...THEN IS FIRED

"By MEGAN PILLOW Mooresville Tribune Thursday, August 7, 2008   John Crone resigned Thursday as Mooresville police chief      ...

Stinky poker player kicked out of casino

If you stink – get out!  An Atlantic City casino kicked out a 440 lb man from their poker room after receiving complaints he smelled really really bad. The 54-year old said the odor was from playing poker for...

Barclays Bank policy of silence. A credit card fraud story.

Once upon a time in Portugal there was this big international bank, the Barclays Bank. And there was this Client, Pedro. Although a low budget Client, living in a place where Barclays Bank is frequently understood as...

Clinton Supporters claim Obama not a Natural Born Citizen, ineligible to be P...

Clinton Supporters claim Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen and was registered as a Muslim several times during his lifetime. By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com There is a group that continues to spread...

Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture

Should the cases be heard in the courts it could expose even more details of the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The plaintiff's lawyers keep the door open for more CACI workers being sued and more former prisoners adding to...

Parliamentary complaint over birthday party

PC is spreading as can be seen from this latest story from Sweden."A heated debate is raging in Sweden after an eight-year-old boy's failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament. Nearly 200 outraged comments have been...

Publicly humiliate neighbors into behaving

A new website called Rottenneighbor.com allows disgruntled homeowners to post anonymous, nasty comments about neighbours, and then catalogue them on a big Google map of the neighborhood. The idea is to "Help yourself...

Mass. regulators file fraud charges against UBS

"Massachusetts regulators filed civil fraud charges Thursday against UBS Financial Services for allegedly selling investments it knew were extremely risky, but portrayed as safe. The complaint by the...

Bell defends throttling practices

Ars Technica does a great job of looking into Bell Canada's defence of its throttling policies.  Bell is now claiming that in spite of appearances, that congestion levels on its networks are high.  "The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)...

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