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Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years 741

Posted by Soulskill from the throw-out-your-old-cookbooks dept.
chrb writes "Asim Kauser, a 25-year-old British man, has been jailed for two years and three months for downloading recipes on how to make bombs and the toxin ricin. Police discovered the materials on a USB stick Asim's father gave to them following a burglary at the Kauser family home. Asim pled guilty and claimed that he only downloaded the materials because he was curious. A North West Counter-Terrorism Unit spokesman said, 'I also want to stress that this case is not about policing people's freedom to browse the Internet. The materials that were downloaded were not stumbled upon by chance — these had to be searched for and contained very dangerous information that could have led to an explosive device being built.'"
Businesses

Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood 388

Posted by timothy from the everything's-more-sanguinary-in-texas dept.
Presto Vivace writes "Carlton Purvis of Security Management News reports that a tip from an amateur UAV enthusiast 'is what led Texas authorities to open a major criminal investigation into the waste practices of a Dallas meat packing plant.' The photo shows a river of blood."

Comment Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment (Score 1) 941

by galaad2 (#38796855) Attached to: Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA

(oh... i guess it shows that i'm european here... haven't visited US since 1995 and actively avoided it since the TSA craziness started.)

however, "privatized" doesn't mean the same thing as "elimination".

this is what i see when "privatization" comes up, and such a "privatized" TSA is no different than the current one IMHO

http://consumerist.com/2010/11/armed-walmart-guard-swipes-my-property-because-i-wouldnt-show-receipt.html

http://consumerist.com/2011/07/lawsuit-walmart-falsely-arrested-me-made-me-lose-my-job-had-husband-deported-over-290-worth-of-chick.html

http://consumerist.com/2011/10/child-seized-after-fainting-mother-forgot-to-pay-for-sandwich.html

and many others...

Submission + - Di jual tanah perkebunan cengkeh dan durian | Tana (griyakita.com)

Submitted by
web4ukm
web4ukm writes: "Di jual tanah perkebunan cengkeh (sktr 200 phn) dan durian ,luas 30.000m2 ,ada sebuah villa(krg terawat) di perkebunan tersebut, shm ,lokasi di sumber podang, kediri. hrg 15milyar (nego). Alamat Properti : sumber podang, kediri, jawa timur."
Privacy

Submission + - Supreme Court say Warrant Required for GPS Trackin (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by chill
chill writes: The SCOTUS ruled unanimously Monday the authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move.

“We hold that the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search,’” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote.

A shorter summary is available at the Washington Post.

Comment Re:9-0 (Score 1) 2

by galaad2 (#38792499) Attached to: Supreme Court: GPS devices equivalent of a search,

they don't need an executive order because if you read the decision carefully you'll see it says:
===
We hold that the Government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a “search.”
===
thus they only need to outsource the "installation" part to a third party and they can continue with the search. Mobile phone (preferably with carrierIQ) looks like the most promising candidate since ciq is already installed on a lot of mobile phones and is only waiting for a trigger to start reporting.
Privacy

Submission + - Supreme Court: GPS devices equivalent of a search, (wired.com) 2

Submitted by
gambit3
gambit3 writes: "The Supreme Court says police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.

The court ruled in the case of Washington, D.C., nightclub owner Antoine Jones. A federal appeals court in Washington overturned his drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant when they installed a GPS device on his vehicle and then tracked his movements for a month."

Comment Re:Returns (Score 1) 265

by galaad2 (#38745956) Attached to: Fake IPad 2s Made of Clay Sold At Canadian Stores

It sucks for the store too. So you get a socket set and find it's full of rocks rather than sockets. You go back and complain. The store has too choices.

1: they assume you are telling the truth. This means they are stuck with the loss and for all they know you may be the one trying to screw them.
2: they accuse you of lying. This means they will likely lose you as a customer and may well get badmouthed all over the internet


i vote for #3
3: do both 1 & 2, just as futuresop did in this case.

Comment Re:ThinkPenguin.gom DD-WRT Router (Score 2) 332

by galaad2 (#38712590) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

actually, they are linked on the site but not on each particular model's page in the database (i think they gave up on updating the links)

1) on the front page click "router database"
2) then on the sub-menu that opens, above the line where you type the router model, click on "Other downloads" ( http://dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads )
result: you're now viewing the ftp space, mapped on the website
e.g.
ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2011/
is mapped on http at:
http://dd-wrt.com/site/support/other-downloads?path=others%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F2011%2F

Comment Re:ThinkPenguin.gom DD-WRT Router (Score 1) 332

by galaad2 (#38712390) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

NOT the Dead DD-WRT project.

DD-WRT has not had a release even for their beta for over 2 years now.

that is not true at all...

ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/others/eko/V24_TNG/
ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/others/eko/V24-K26/

ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2011/
ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2010/

release quality though... that is another matter... e.g. release 18000 causes bricking in tp-link wr1043nd routers... :(
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=148172
Google

Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup 383

Posted by Soulskill from the hand-in-cookie-jar dept.
An anonymous reader sends in an interesting story from Mocality, a company that painstakingly built a business directory in Kenya. When they discovered that somebody was systematically harvesting the contact information they'd collected (and after a few very odd phone calls from confused Kenyan business owners), they set up a sting to see what was really going on. They swapped out the phone numbers listed for a few businesses with phone numbers in their own call centers, and then waited to see who called. Mocality was shocked to discover it was Google Kenya, who falsely claimed a business collaboration with Mocality, and then lied about Mocality's business practices.

Submission + - Seagate replaces RMA'd 1TB drives with 250GB ones (seagate.com) 2

Submitted by galaad2
galaad2 writes: After announcing the purchase of Samsung's HDD division in April 2011 (and completing the acquisition in December 2011), Seagate is now "managing" the Samsung warranty process by sending 250GB drives as replacement for 1TB Samsung RMA'd hard drives. The Samsung section on the Seagate support forum has some examples, such as
this
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Samsung-Internal-Drives/23-dec-2012-No-Progress-here-for-SAMSUNG-HDD-RMA/td-p/143015

or this
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Samsung-Internal-Drives/Warranty-RMA-FAIL/td-p/144969

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