An Australian man has managed to escape a jail sentence despite admitting to stealing nearly AU$30,000 (around US $27,700) from ATMs. According to the prosecutors, he devised the attacks using information from an ATM repair manual found on the Web. Brian Sommer, 23, from Bundaberg, Queensland, used to work in a pizz... |
24 October 2009
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A Nottingham court decided to fine a former BNP senior official with £200 ($323) for leaking the political party's membership list onto the Internet last year. The man's action is likely to have indirectly caused 160 attacks on BNP members and/or their properties.The British National Party (BNP) is a ... |
2 September 2009
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Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., also known as T.I. or T.I.P. / Tip, has just been sentenced to one year and a day in prison following weapons charges stemming from his arrest in October 2007. The rapper must present himself voluntarily to prison to start serving his sentence within six to eight weeks, the presiding judge... |
28 March 2009
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Boy George was a “drug-crazed idiot,” as his own attorney said in court a couple of hours ago, when he picked up a male escort in April 2007, handcuffed him to the wall, and lashed out at him with a chain while shouting insults. However, not even this defense could save the former Culture Club star fr... |
17 January 2009
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Victor Faur from Arad, Romania, caught the international headlines in 2006, when he was indicted in the U.S. for one count of conspiracy and nine of computer intrusion, for obtaining unauthorized access to systems belonging to several government institutions. After a trial that lasted almost a year, a local Romanian ... |
11 November 2008
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Wikileaks.org is the site that blows the whistle on any corporate malpractice, or at least that's what it alleges itself to be. On the 14th of February, it was forced to shut down its primary domain after the Swiss Bank Julius Baer & Co had filed a complaint against it. Copies of documents showing that the bank ... |
4 March 2008
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Earlier this month, I covered the joke that Fouad Mourtada had played by creating a Facebook profile and claiming he was King Mohammed VI's brother, Prince Moulay Rachid. He was swiftly arrested and the jury didn't take its time before coming up with a sentence. And it was a harsh one at that: 3 years in j... |
26 February 2008
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I will always remember Kiefer Sutherland as a melancholic musketeer in a movie in which he starred long before he became a household name by playing Jack Bauer on the hit TV series "24". His character was drunk for about half the movie, and I always imagined he was a great actor for faking it so well. But judging fro... |
6 December 2007
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What I'm going to write next is about to astonish you, I sure know it made my jaw drop when I first got a hold of the news. Perhaps you've already read the material about the boy who shut down Internet access in Marshfield. If you didn't or you don't remember it too well, allow me to say it briefl... |
3 September 2007
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America is an interesting democracy, still White and Christian. At least at the level of justice. Blacks convicted of killing whites have a higher likelihood than other killers to receive a death penalty, and even higher to actually get executed. A new research also shows African Americans on death row for killing no... |
3 August 2007
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