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Corvus Crow
The Fireraven
Tuesday, 07. September 2010, 7:47
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Sunday, 11 April 2010
Police arrested Donald Wolfe, 55, after witnesses reported seeing him trying to revive a long dead possum, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.Another reported seeing him give mouth to mouth resuscitation to the carcass on a highway north-east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. If the possum wouldn't have already been roadkill, his breath would probably have killed it anyway.
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Friday, 09 April 2010
"As I'd been paying for over two years to have non-existent cheques cashed, I thought I may as well have something for this outlay, so my last cheque was sent blown up on A3 cardboard.""I've had my solicitor write them several letters, pointing out that they've been paid with a legal cheque, and it's up to them to cash it." The current state of play is that David's solicitor has written to BT threatening to "take them to court if they didn't cash my cheque". That's just awesome.
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Using a doctored passport at a self-serve passport machine, the hacker was cleared for travel after just a few seconds and a picture of the King himself appeared on the monitor's display.But Laurie and Van Beek insist that confidence in technology could be misplaced, because biometric passports can be faked, with pictures and chips that match. The king will never die.
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Sunday, 31 January 2010
Tens of thousands of fraudulent e-mails have been sent out ahead of Sunday's tax return deadline, officials say.HMRC is expecting a massive upsurge in such correspondence following the 31 January deadline when many people will be waiting to hear about genuine tax refunds. Ok, here and there people fall for all sorts of scam, no secret. But seriously, the thought of getting a tax return should tip you off like nothing else. It's more likely to get a few millions from some former Nigerian president who had to flee.
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Saturday, 16 January 2010
A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful, and San Diego police were notified.Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside. A MAST robot took pictures of the device and X-rays were evaluated. About 3 p.m., the device was determined to be harmless, Luque said. The student will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling, the spokesman said. Counseling for doing nothing wrong? It's amazing that sticking some cables into an empty bottle now makes you look like an insanse terrorist. The vice principal should get some serious counseling; he could have simply asked the student instead of throwing a hissy fit and calling in a whole army, only to make himself look like a fool. Seems like this is what the world has turned into: terrorists have won. Sure, you're not going to be bombed away away every day (in fact, chances to die in a terroristic attack are close to zero), but the majority of the population now lives in the fear of attacks (happily fueled by the governments who can easily extent surveillance) and sees threats and danger everywhere.
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Random quote from Philip Greenspun: Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, he can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
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