Oct 18, 2007 12 am
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Washington man accused of faking emergency call that sent armed response to unsuspecting Lake Forest family’s home.
SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple, but found they were only a part of a false emergency call caused by a teenager who hacked into the county’s emergency response system, authorities said.
As officers swarmed the home with assault rifles, dogs and a helicopter, a Lake Forest couple and their two toddlers inside their home slept unsuspectingly.
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Oct 16, 2007 10 pm
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A Washington woman has pleaded guilty to placing a Craigslist ad that caused her aunt’s vacant house to be ransacked.
Nichole Marie Blackwell placed the ad on March 24th which stated that anyone could come and take “whatever you want”. Even though the ad was only up for less than two hours, people came and stole everything from the home – they even took the kitchen sink and windows.
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Oct 15, 2007 1 pm
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The government is taking another look at the effect that wireless networks have on health.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced it will carry out “systematic” research into how wireless networks are being used.
The research will aim to establish average exposure to the low level radiation emitted by wi-fi access points and wireless links on computers.
The HPA said it expected the results of the research to be “reassuring”.
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Oct 8, 2007 11 pm
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The Minnesota woman who last week was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for copyright violations related to sharing songs, has decided to appeal the verdict.
Thomas announced her decision Monday morning on cable news channel CNN and on her MySpace.com page.
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Oct 6, 2007 12 pm
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“They used a shotgun to kill a flea”
In what one California official characterized as a case of overkill, U.S. officials disrupted access to all state government Web sites this week after a county Web page was hacked.
The federal government stepped in after learning that a Marin County, California, Web page redirected users to a pornographic Web site. Federal authorities, who have ultimate authority over most local and state Web sites, attempted to block all domains ending in ca.gov on Tuesday, Hanacek said.
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Oct 5, 2007 7 pm
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She has been ordered to pay statutory damages of $220,000 or $9250 per song.
30-year-old Jammie Thomas lost big in the nation’s jury decision for a file sharing case. The single mother of two was found liable in sharing 24 songs from six record companies and has been ordered to pay statutory damages of $220,000 or $9250 per song.
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Oct 4, 2007 2 pm
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On October 4, Microsoft finally provided an official gameplan of what it’s readying on the healthcare software and services front.
The open beta of HealthVault, is a client application plus a Live service that will allow consumers to build and maintain a personal health record. One of the inputs into this health record will be results from Microsoft’s health search-engine, also known as HealthVault, which is based on the MedStory search technology Microsoft bought a year ago.
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Oct 4, 2007 1 pm
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YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley.
The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web’s No.1 video-sharing site.
Berkeley officials claimed in a statement that the university is the first to make full course lectures available on YouTube. The school said that over 300 hours of videotaped courses will be available at youtube.com/ucberkeley.
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Oct 2, 2007 3 pm
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The TPB team is currently working on a more efficient Open Source tracker system that, among other things, will guarantee better protection against anti-piracy outfits.
Some of you might have noticed that the Pirate Bay trackers were down for a couple of hours today. The reason for the downtime is not related to an anti-piracy organization this time, on the contrary. TPB has moved its servers to a new datacenter and added some extra servers to their already pretty impressive server lineup. The tracker currently runs on 12 servers, and 4 brand new ones will be added later today.
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Oct 1, 2007 7 pm
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The new ToS that attempts to give AT&T the right to disconnect its own customers who criticize the company on blogs or in other online settings.
AT&T has rolled out new Terms of Service for its DSL service that leave plenty of room for interpretation.
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