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Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 12:40 PM 09/11/2008
Category: Other Comments: 8 Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls Submitted by ev1l0ne September 9, 2008 - A former Verizon technician racked up $220,000 in phone-sex calls by tapping into the land lines of nearly 950 customers, authorities charged on Tuesday. Joseph Vaccarelli, 45, of Nutley, made approximately 5,000 calls, resulting in 45,000 minutes of call time, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a news release. Vaccarelli placed the calls in about 30 municipalities in Bergen County, according to the release. Verizon estimated that out of a 40-week period... (More)

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 12:40 PM 09/11/2008

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Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls
Submitted by ev1l0ne

September 9, 2008 - A former Verizon technician racked up $220,000 in phone-sex calls by tapping into the land lines of nearly 950 customers, authorities charged on Tuesday.

Joseph Vaccarelli, 45, of Nutley, made approximately 5,000 calls, resulting in 45,000 minutes of call time, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a news release.

Vaccarelli placed the calls in about 30 municipalities in Bergen County, according to the release.

Verizon estimated that out of a 40-week period... (More)

Wounded Soldier Forced to Sleep in Car After Hotel Denies Him a Room

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 12:34 PM 09/11/2008
Category: Other Comments: 18 Wounded Soldier Forced to Sleep in Car After Hotel Denies Him a Room Submitted by Diode September 4, 2008 - A wounded British soldier home from Afghanistan on sick leave was forced to spend the night in his car after a hotel refused him a room. Corporal Tomos Stringer was told by staff at Metro Hotel, in Woking, that it was company policy not to accept members of the armed forces as guests. The 24-year-old had traveled to the Surrey town to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action. It was so late that Cpl Stringer, who had broken his wrist jumping off an Army truck as it ... (More)

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 12:34 PM 09/11/2008

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Wounded Soldier Forced to Sleep in Car After Hotel Denies Him a Room
Submitted by Diode

September 4, 2008 - A wounded British soldier home from Afghanistan on sick leave was forced to spend the night in his car after a hotel refused him a room.

Corporal Tomos Stringer was told by staff at Metro Hotel, in Woking, that it was company policy not to accept members of the armed forces as guests. The 24-year-old had traveled to the Surrey town to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action.

It was so late that Cpl Stringer, who had broken his wrist jumping off an Army truck as it ... (More)

[Video] Switzerland scientists create atom-smashing experiment - The Large Hadron Collider

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 12:19 PM 09/11/2008
Category: Gadgets Comments: 6 [Video] Switzerland scientists create atom-smashing experiment - The Large Hadron Collider September 9, 2008 - Scientists will launch an experiment in a tunnel deep beneath the French-Swiss border Wednesday, hoping to find evidence of extra dimensions, invisible "dark matter," and an elusive particle called the "Higgs boson." And although leading physicists such as Stephen Hawking say the atom-smashing experiment will be absolutely safe, some skeptics fear the proton collisions could unleash microscopic black holes that would eventually doom the Earth. The most powerful atom-smasher ever built will produce collisions of ... (More)

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 12:19 PM 09/11/2008

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[Video] Switzerland scientists create atom-smashing experiment - The Large Hadron Collider

September 9, 2008 - Scientists will launch an experiment in a tunnel deep beneath the French-Swiss border Wednesday, hoping to find evidence of extra dimensions, invisible "dark matter," and an elusive particle called the "Higgs boson."

And although leading physicists such as Stephen Hawking say the atom-smashing experiment will be absolutely safe, some skeptics fear the proton collisions could unleash microscopic black holes that would eventually doom the Earth.

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built will produce collisions of ... (More)

Google launching its own navy?

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 11:56 AM 09/11/2008
Category: Gadgets Comments: 6 Google launching its own navy? September 8, 2008 - About 70 per cent of the Earth is covered by water. So Google's thinking it had better build some data centers that can float. With a recently-released patent application, the search giant cum world power seeks exclusive rights to what it calls a "water-based data center". This modular collection of processing, storage, and network resources would sit on a ship anchored somewhere offshore, using the crashing waves for both power and cooling. Google envisions its seaworthy data center serving land-bound humans in... (More)

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 11:56 AM 09/11/2008

Category: Gadgets
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Google launching its own navy?

September 8, 2008 - About 70 per cent of the Earth is covered by water. So Google's thinking it had better build some data centers that can float.

With a recently-released patent application, the search giant cum world power seeks exclusive rights to what it calls a "water-based data center". This modular collection of processing, storage, and network resources would sit on a ship anchored somewhere offshore, using the crashing waves for both power and cooling.

Google envisions its seaworthy data center serving land-bound humans in... (More)

JetBlue To Auction Over 300 Flights On eBay

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 11:47 AM 09/11/2008
Category: Other Comments: 1 JetBlue To Auction Over 300 Flights On eBay September 7, 2008 - JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents. The flights are to more than 20 destinations, including four "mystery" JetBlue Getaways Vacation packages to undisclosed locations. The three-, five- and seven-day auctions include one- and two-person roundtrip, weekend flights in September from cities including Boston, Chicago, New York, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Fort Lauderdale and Southern California... (More)

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 11:47 AM 09/11/2008

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JetBlue To Auction Over 300 Flights On eBay

September 7, 2008 - JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents.

The flights are to more than 20 destinations, including four "mystery" JetBlue Getaways Vacation packages to undisclosed locations.

The three-, five- and seven-day auctions include one- and two-person roundtrip, weekend flights in September from cities including Boston, Chicago, New York, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Fort Lauderdale and Southern California... (More)

Malaysian man gets nut stuck in delicate place

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 11:27 AM 09/11/2008
Category: Other Comments: 5 Malaysian man gets nut stuck in delicate place August 31, 2008 - A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday. The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in southern Johor state. Staff from the Sultanah Aminah hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before the object could be removed, the newspaper said. ... (More)

Posted by FeFeHumHum on 11:27 AM 09/11/2008

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Malaysian man gets nut stuck in delicate place

August 31, 2008 - A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday.

The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in southern Johor state.

Staff from the Sultanah Aminah hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before the object could be removed, the newspaper said.

... (More)

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