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  • Five Terror Suspects Flown to US from Britain

    10/06/2012 4:00:03 AM PDT · by Cindy · 14 replies
    VOA News - VOICE OF AMERICA ^ | Posted October 6th, 2012 at 5:35 am (UTC-4) | n/a
    SNIPPET: "Two U.S. planes have flown radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other suspected terrorists to the United States, hours after Britain's High Court cleared the way for their extradition. The planes departed a Royal Air Force base immediately after the British High Court rejected last-minute appeals by Hamza and the others. The five had raised legal questions about human rights and prison conditions they expected to face in the United States. In rejecting the appeals, the British court cited an “overwhelming public interest” in seeing the extraditions carried out. Hamza is wanted on U.S. charges that include...
  • The Floppy is Dead: Time to Move Memories to the Cloud

    04/26/2010 8:58:53 PM PDT · by DemforBush · 86 replies · 1,901+ views
    Yahoo/PC Magazine ^ | 4.26.10 | Lance Ulanoff
    Sony's decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data...
  • TX School Bus Driver Faces Charges of Receiving Child Pornography

    06/04/2004 6:36:18 AM PDT · by Theodore R. · 1 replies · 160+ views
    Lubbock, TX, Avalanche-Journal ^ | 06-04-04 | Tolbert, Kellie
    School bus driver faces charges of receiving child pornography By KELLIE TOLBERT AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A Durham School Services school bus driver was recently arrested on charges of receipt of child pornography. Jim Charles Teague, age and hometown unavailable, allegedly downloaded and saved images of a young girl involved in sexual intercourse with an adult man onto a floppy disk in August 2003, according to an affidavit. Teague used his daughter's computer and entered chat rooms disguising himself as a divorced bisexual female with two children, the affidavit states. The affidavit said he used several screen names. When chatting online, Teague and...
  • Laptop burns boffin's penis

    11/21/2002 6:00:07 PM PST · by dep · 78 replies · 239+ views
    SMH Australia ^ | 11/22/02 | AFP
    Doctors are warning that laptop computers may inflict a burn even through clothed skin, after the bizarre case of a Swedish scientist who scorched his penis and testicles while writing a report in his armchair. The unnamed 50-year-old father of two had balanced the computer on his lap while he wrote the report at home, taking about an hour to do it, according to a letter published in the next issue of the British medical weekly The Lancet. The following day, he started to develop painful blisters on his foreskin and scrotum, which became infected but eventually cleared up without...