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Nigerian Spammers Up the Ante 7

Posted by samzenpus
It seems the Nigerian spammers have learned you can't always kill them with kindness. Now they just threaten to kill you. A woman in St. Louis received a mail that said, in part, "Am very sorry for you my friend, is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don't comply. ... I don't have any business with you, my duty as I am mailing you now is just to KILL/ASSASINATE you and I have to do it as I have already been paid for that. Get back to me now if you are ready to pay some fees to spare your life, If you are not ready for my help, then I will carry on with my job straight-up."
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Quarter of Brits Think Churchill Was Myth 3

Posted by samzenpus
Just so you don't think Americans are the only people who have no clue when it comes to their history, a recent survey found a fair number of British people believe that Churchill, Charles Dickens, and Mahatma Gandhi were fictional characters. Who made the "real people" list? Over half the people asked thought Sherlock Holmes was real. Many people were surprised to find out that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was not a documentary.
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Submission + - SPAM: The Man Who Ate an Automobile

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rinkjustice writes: "How did Dick Miller eat a 2800 lb car? The same way you'd tackle a major goal in life. It goes to show you that achieving any goal is possible — if you break it up and shave it down into Oreo sized pieces first."
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Submission + - SPAM: Your Optimal State of Arousal

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rinkjustice
rinkjustice writes: "Being in the zone means better body control, heightened focus, and increased visual clarity. Even time itself seems to slow down as your beats per minute ascend. But too much of a good thing can be disasterous in times of crisis."
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Submission + - RIAA Website Wiped Clean by Hackers 2

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An anonymous reader writes: Apparently the RIAA forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all the content from their website has been wiped from the site.
It started out on the social news website Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site's entire database with just a simple SQL injection.
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Submission + - To The Rich, From America

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theodp
theodp writes: "Newsweek's Daniel Gross reminds The Rich that in return for massive tax rate cuts on their income, dividends and capital gains, they were supposed to spend and invest the resulting windfall close to home. But America's private-equity firms are instead plowing cash into India, China, Asia and Latin America, and private bankers are urging wealthy clients to drop the home bias."
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Submission + - The Way to Look for A Best Life Insurance Deal (blogspot.com)

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