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GameStop is one of the biggest gaming related chains of stores out there. They really have some interesting services but the most talked about is the buy-back one. Essentially, you can come with an old game you own and, in exchange, the store will buy it from you. Although many have argued that the money offered by ... |
2 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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A man is facing two years in prison after pleading guilty to sending a threatening email to a medical resort back in 2005. Andrew Burroughs, a 30-year-old Lompoc man, decided to blackmail the Catholic Healthcare West, the parent company of Saint John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard. Three years before that,... |
28 August 2008
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A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t... |
28 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Kimberly Jernigan, a 33-year-old woman from North Carolina, was arrested by the New Castle County Detectives after she tried to kidnap her ex-boyfriend using a gun, duct tape and a pair of handcuffs. The two had engaged in a relationship after virtually meeting in the social network Second Life. Jernigan, whose avata... |
26 August 2008
10:02 GMT |
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The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit arrested a 19-year-old man from the Netherlands, as he was trying to sell the Shadow botnet that he had created to a Brazilian. International special forces, including the F.B.I., are collaborating for the extradition of the South American, who was also arrested, to the U.S.The botnet s... |
15 August 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Freedom of speech was, once again, violated by the Chinese state, as the association Reporters without Borders claims. The human rights group reports about the arrest of Du Daobin, a cyber-dissident who is accused of publishing more than 100 articles defying China on the Internet. This is not Daobin's first enc... |
23 July 2008
08:28 GMT |
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Celebrity justice strikes again. This time, the lucky offender who gets to walk away without doing any time and without trying on the famed orange jumpsuit is neither Nicole Richie, nor Lindsay Lohan, but the former O.C. alumn Mischa Barton. The actress was arrested in L.A. last December for driving under the influen... |
8 April 2008
10:19 GMT |
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If you thought supermodels with severe anger management problems had long ceased to pose a danger to air traveling around the world, think again. The Blackberry-throwing hissy fit queen Naomi Campbell once again proved that she can't possibly be reasoned with, and that it will probably take a lot more than profe... |
4 April 2008
02:58 GMT |
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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora gives sobriety a bad name - and now it looks like the musician may have gotten himself into an even bigger mess than we originally suspected. Sambora was pulled over last night after policemen noticed his Hummer was "weaving within lanes". After failing several field sobriety tests, ... |
27 March 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Hacking has become more and more organized in the past years. Very rarely will a computer geek be seen sending spam and phishing all by himself, organizations have been formed and there's even a black market dealing with acquiring security vulnerabilities, paying up to one hundred grand depending on how severe t... |
21 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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The numbers above might sound stellar, but let's not forget that we're talking about spam here, and the quality-over-quality rule doesn't quite apply: ask any spammer and he'll tell you that the more, the merrier. The Tokyo police found one of these merry men today and arrested him for sending nin... |
15 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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The Hiltons must be just about the most delightful family in the world. Only trouble is, they seem to have very lax standards when it comes to drinking - or maybe they simply don't teach their children that alcohol is bad. Or maybe their children simply don't pay any attention to their parents, which would ... |
13 February 2008
03:12 GMT |
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I have a feeling 2008 will be the year of major-league celebrity trainwrecks. Britney kick-started it in style with her police standoff and taking one of her kids hostage, now there's talk of rapper Eminem spiraling out of control, Amy Winehouse has been stirring things up in Britain and now another British hott... |
11 January 2008
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Following the SEO news for a couple of years (which I'm assuming you have been doing), you must remember that at some point, in August 2005, Google publicly confirmed that they had penalized a site. What was so special about it was that it had been the first time ever when they came clean about it, in a trial ag... |
4 January 2008
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I've been trying very hard not to get into the "retrospective" mood these days - mainly because everyone is doing it and frankly, I'm starting to find it pretty annoying. It looks like every time you turn on the TV there's someone out there really willing and able to tell you all about what happened th... |
28 December 2007
06:13 GMT |
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It has been a while since people and scientists started to blame the gaming industry. Actually, these are the times when everybody tries to find proofs that video games are the reason for all the bad things that happen in this world. Right now, we have another story: the real life. It's about a 4 year-old boy wh... |
14 December 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Politics is a tricky and slippery slope to go down on, tempers inflame and fists are being raised all the time. I know it, you know it, hell, even the infants that have passed through the room during a live debate know it. There's nothing new under the sun. It's just that sensation of fists being pushed dow... |
5 December 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Everybody steer clear - the Wino has reportedly been cleared to come into the States, and we all know what that means: drugs, booze and a string of midnight fights in bloody ballet pumps. The singer who brought back the magic of "go drunk on stage then forget the lyrics and fall on you're a*s" charm finally seem... |
7 November 2007
09:21 GMT |
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The authorities have arrested Francisc Wonerth after he was caught driving in a stolen car. They were not after him anyway, it was just a routine control. Thing is, the driver was also behind the "Notre Dame Federal Credit Union phish-n-fraud scam" (quite a mouthful). That was just pure luck for the Police to nab him... |
7 September 2007
09:36 GMT |
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The things some people would do to get out of jail... Now, seriously, the fact is that Foxy (by her true name Inga Marchand) is in big trouble again, as her list of run-ins with the law is getting longer and longer. And apparently, her latest offense - driving while on a suspended license - may have just landed her i... |
21 August 2007
10:53 GMT |
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It's sad that Lindsay Lohan is again in trouble with the law and that she is even facing a couple of days in jail, the Paris Hilton style. However, last week, the thought that Lindsay's credibility as a person was totally shattered was somehow bearable, since we were still under the impression that her late... |
30 July 2007
04:34 GMT |
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The man who made possible such cinematographic masterpieces as 'Saved by the Smell' with Screech Dustin Diamond and 'One Night in Paris' with none other than Paris Hilton is now in federal custody! Of course, most of us just know the work of the genius that is David Hans Schmidt and his name doesn... |
27 July 2007
06:09 GMT |
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While Lindsay Lohan has been MIA ever since her Monday night arrest (see all the details HERE and HERE), the media simply can't get enough of her latest drama. Seeing that this was, in fact, her second DUI in as many months and that she even added to it some extra charges of cocaine possession and transporting a... |
27 July 2007
04:27 GMT |
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The famous video sharing platform YouTube has often some another goal than sharing clips with other Internet users. For example, a lot of consumers are using YouTube to publish their stories and require other users' help. But the most interesting purpose of the Google service was revealed by the police officers ... |
23 July 2007
10:44 GMT |
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The Texas authorities managed to arrest seven convicted sex offenders who used the Internet and created MySpace profiles although the parole terms didn't allow them to connect to such websites. Most of them were convicted for rapes, sexual assaults and child abuse. MySpace is a social website that is based on te... |
15 June 2007
06:38 GMT |
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The biggest spammer in the world, Robert Alan Soloway, was finally arrested today after the court charged him for mail fraud, email fraud, identity theft, money laundering and wire fraud. The 27-year-old man was the founder of Newport Internet Marketing, the company that was also used for spamming. Actually, he manag... |
31 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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A 16-year-old student was arrested after he published a clip on YouTube, asking other members of the online video sharing service to kill his math teacher. The Staten Island boy encouraged users to shoot the teacher in the neck and even posted her name and the home address. The main reason? He failed a test and he d... |
4 May 2007
16:11 GMT |
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While this doesn't quite verge on entertainment, it is good to see that even those who break the law know a thing or two about fashion. And, when they do cross paths with law enforcement, they do it in style and looking prettier than, say, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie put together. Of course, we're talkin... |
6 April 2007
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Say what you will about Paris Hilton but she too is just human like the rest of us. Well, not quite like the rest of us because she happens to be filthy rich and with no sense of shame and of the ridicule whatsoever, but still, you can see the resemblance, can't you?Assuming that I haven't offended you by s... |
5 April 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Courtney Smith, a 36-year-old man from Anderson, India, was sentenced to 27 months in prison after he managed to sell pirated software through the online bidding website, eBay. He managed to earn more than $700.000 with counterfeit computer applications distributed on the website and directed to millions of users fro... |
30 March 2007
08:17 GMT |
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Everything that Paris does, she does good. Even more, she does great and that's a logical reasoning since her every move is of such interest for the media. Aside from the obvious things that generate coverage for the talented actress/singer (meaning, her more than confusing interviews, her public appearances - p... |
30 March 2007
07:07 GMT |
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The local authorities arrested a Pike County teen after YouTube published numerous videos with the 18-year-old student vandalizing several stores. It seems like this wasn't the only accusation because the movies showed him breaking church windows and menacing drive-through restaurant workers, as Kentucky.com rep... |
28 March 2007
05:50 GMT |
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An interesting case was reported in New Jersey where a woman who murdered her husband was arrested after Google provided incriminatory evidence discovered on its search technology. PC Advisor reports the woman shot her husband in April 2004 but, ten days before the crime, she searched Google for "how to commit murder... |
21 March 2007
07:31 GMT |
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YouTube is more than a popular video service and this statement is demonstrated periodically by new and interesting cases. As you know, YouTube allows users to upload, share and comment videos with other members of the community. Sometimes, it is more than a video service, allowing authorities to arrest criminals, fi... |
5 March 2007
08:40 GMT |
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YouTube makes victims again! This time, 15 students from Lee County High School were arrested by the police after a video displaying all of them fighting in a boys bathroom was published on Google's video service. The 15 students with ages between 14 and 17 were accused for disorder after several movies were pub... |
1 March 2007
10:38 GMT |
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