Italian police have seized at least two Psion PDAs from members of the Red Brigades terrorist organisation. But the major investigative breakthrough they were hoping for as a result of the information contained on the devices has failed to materialise — thwarted by PGP encryption software used by the left-wing revolutionaries — via PCWorld
This morning when getting into may car before heading off to the train station I noticed that both my number plates had been stolen. This obviously happened yesterday when I left my car at the station and I hadn’t noticed they had been gone when I got into my car last night. ( I mean who the fuck checks to see if their number plates are still there! I guess I’ll have to start doing this.)
What pisses me off even more is that they ripped the number plate holders off too. Before this I also had two badges swiped from my car ( while parked at said station). GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Don’t get me wrong I don’t love my car, I know that the occasional dent and scratch is inevitable, but I can’t stand intentional vandalism. I guess this is what I get for driving a reasonably new holden astra. This stuff never to my previous car, a purple charade (girly hatchback), which I loved and still do.
Well I think I’ll go rob a bank with my car now. I figure well hey no one can get my plate number, and if a witness sees the heist they’ll be describing the car as a dark blue Astra
. Gee there aren’t a bazillion of those around the Holsworthy / Liverpool area.
For your info, train station which has indirectly caused me frustration: Holsworthy.
Grrrr!!!
Thanks to the availability of low cost high quality inkjet printers, crooks are now able to produce currency indistinguishable from the real banknotes, at least under dim lighting conditions like that in a bar or a nightclub — via Slashdot
SkyLinc are floating balloons connected to a fibre optic pole which, they say, can deliver broadband access at more than double the speed of most broadband services currently available. Apparently only 18 balloons would be necessarily to blow BT out the water
Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at neutralising
— through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture — the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying final solution
that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality
Consumers will be able to buy free-standing 3D televisions in the next five years, according to an Australian company, VR21, bringing out the new product
The University of Dundee has been accused of putting pressure on a whistleblower not to publicise concerns about the Breast Cancer Research charity that is alleged to have spent just £1.5 million of £13 million raised on good causes
Lions once kept in a private zoo by the son of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will be moved out of Baghdad to start a new life in the South African bush
A wrist computer that tracks and calculates safe diving times and limits for SCUBA divers had a dangerous software bug that may have been covered up by company executives for years
The man behind the no-frills airline easyJet is opening a low-cost cinema — easyCinema — along the same lines. But you won’t be able to see the hotly-awaited Matrix sequel there, yet
The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications is looking at scientific computing on the Sony PlayStation 2. They’ve set up a cluster with 65 compute nodes. They’re running Linux for PlayStation 2. What will they think of next? — via Slashdot
Kevin Rose was trying to figure out a case mod that would shock the mod community. He finally gave up and resorted to his backup plan: I decided to put an ant farm in his PC case
A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000 volt electric shock. Dubbed exo-electric armour
, the No-Contact Jacket looks like an ordinary fashionable women’s coat. But an inner layer of conductive fibre carries a low-amp charge that delivers a nasty but non-lethal shock to anyone who messes with its wearer
A former chairman of the Tasmanian Racing Authority and the Launceston General Hospital will spend six months in jail after being found guilty of dishonestly using his position as a director
The European Union has pledged to stamp its identify firmly on the internet, setting up its own .eu top-level domain for use by individuals and businesses across the continent
Australia’s famous School of the Air has launched its new satellite teaching service that will bring video lessons to some of the most remote parts of Australia
Hewlett-Packard is working on a new consumer photography system that could casually capture terabytes of images from a person’s daily life and store them in data centres, where they could later be retrieved for conventional printing
The popularity of ethical investment funds has been increasing by nearly 40% per year over the last few years, according to US research company The Social Investment Forum. A rising number of investors want their money to earn a return, but in a socially responsible way
With just 0.6% difference in the most critical DNA sites, the new work suggests chimps should not only be part of the same taxonomic family, but also the same genus as humans
Imagine if superheroes insisted on weekly production meetings before saving the city…
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