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Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" 571

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 01, 2010 @09:38AM from the mr.-terrorist-wizard dept.

formfeed writes "Police were called to a house in Omaha where a 14-year-old made some 'dry ice bombs' (dry ice in soda bottles). Since his mom knew about it, she is now facing felony charges for child endangment and possession of a destructive device. From the article: 'Assistant Douglas County Attorney Eric Wells said the boy admitted to making the bomb and that his mother knew he was doing so. The boy was set to appear Tuesday afternoon in juvenile court, accused of possessing a destructive device.'" She's lucky they didn't find the baking soda volcano in the basement.

Comment Keep Users...just Users (Score 1) 932

by bitbreaker on Thursday November 12, 2009 @01:23PM (#30074942) Attached to: Easing the Job of Family Tech Support?

I'm in the same situation and I limited the dead-scenario by keeping user accounts in the Users Group (and NOT Administrators). Normally, a non-tech user, doesn't need any other things than Mail Client (sometimes, they even check emails thru the Web), Web Browser and Office suite. As soon as you installed such Apps with YOUR SUPER-SECRET Administrator Account, keep them in the Users Group. It's a feasible way: contract with them: "Do you prefer Virus or Administrator Account?". The other way to speed up things is keeping an hard disk image of the last clean installation: with software like Clonezilla, you can restore PCs in a faster way. Unfortunately, I'm looking for some videos to let my parents know what a malware is, how to avoid and so on...and I'm an Italian Guy: videos in such native language is harder to find.

Comment Both Ham Operator and "Hacker" (Score 1) 207

by bitbreaker on Thursday November 11, 2004 @01:13PM (#10789133) Attached to: Ham and Software - Communities of Creativity?

As a lot of people here in Italy, I'm both an Ham operator with Ham Licence (IW7DQB) and Professional Developer. When Internet access was not so cheap, I tried to connect thru my 144Mhz-transceiver and an homebuilt packet radio modem...at the wonderful speed of 1200baud/2400baud... Since then, both electronics and Computer science made my life more ... happy. ;)))

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