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NSFW: Mexican Drug Gangs Taunt Each Other On YouTube By Showing Dead Rivals
Two rival Mexican drug gangs ar taunting each other by posting videos on YouTube of their bloody victims on YouTube, according to Reuters. The war between the north eastern Mexico’s “Gulf Cartel”and “traffickers based in the western state of Sinaloa” headed by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman - last year claimed more than 2,000 victims.
16Feb2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
I’ve Really Lost Faith In The Digg Community Now
Some of the idiots who stalk Digg and leave inane comments have gone too far now in my view. Spencer H. Kim, father of James Kim who tragically died last year, posted a story in the Washington Post laying out some criticisms of the way the search was conducted for his son and family.
The story [...]
Four Million UK Users Hit By ID Theft
Figures released by Sainsbury’s Bank have shown that 4.1 million Britons have fallen foul of identity theft. The average cost of the theft was £3,039 and six per cent claimed to have lost more than £10,000.
I got stung myself last year. I suddenly started seeing charges for hotel stays and petrol on my credit card [...]
The Guardian Experimenting With Letting Users Add Un-moderated Content
The Guardian newspaper started an experiment today that is just asking for trouble in my view. They’ve setup a shared del.icio.us account that will allow users to post links directly to the Guardian website.
This is definitely going to be abused by spammers, as the only way they can remove a link is after it has [...]
Whoops! TimesOnline Caught Linking Through To Porn Site
There’s been a lot of coverage today about the top 10 viral videos online. At number 1 is the classic Star Wars Kid video, that has been remixed literally hundreds of times.
I first spotted this story on The Times when I woke up this morning. What made me laugh was that whoever wrote [...]
SETI@home Hacked By Aliens!
Well it hasn’t happened yet, but The Guardian Unlimited reports that particle physicist Richard Carrigan has warned that ET and his buddies could use SETI@home to infect Earth’s computers with malicious code.
If ET is out there I’m sure he’s got better things to do with his time like getting his spaceship kitted out with [...]
Skype To Remain Independent
There has been a lot of speculation that Skype is up for sale, with News Corp featuring in most of the rumours. However, it looks like Skype will remain independent with US venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which owns between 10 and 20% of Skype, saying:
“The company is worth a lot more independent.”
Man Dies Playing Computer Games
Aqute discovered an interesting story of a 28 year old man who died of heart failure due to exhaustion after playing video games for a solid 50 hours, only stopping for toilet breaks.
Some of my colleagues come into work on Mondays bragging about spending 30 hours plus playing World of Warcraft. Although their enthausism for [...]
News Corp Buys Intermix Media/Myspace.com For $580 Mill
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, is buying the online company Intermix Media Inc., owner of the social networking site MySpace.com, for $580 million in cash.
At the same time it is being acquired by News Corp., Intermix is also buying the other 47 percent of MySpace.com that it doesn’t already own.
More on [...]
Silicon Valley Sleuth Please Read!
I’m posting this here as I know you read my blog as you’ve linked to me a few times and I couldn’t find anyway to contact the person within vnunet who runs the blog.
For the last couple of days I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of traffic from your site which I don’t think is [...]
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