Minnesota State Patrol has a "Drug Recognition Evaluation" course, intended to teach officers how to recognize individuals under the influence of various intoxicants. But, hey, experience is the best teacher, right? It's alleged that two officers involved with the program provided marijuana to individuals who had been lawfully detained during " ( Read more... )

A vice-president in charge of of German-based SAP's Integration and Certification Center in Palo Alto, CA, has been charged with stealing LEGO sets.

(Thomas) Langenbach was formally charged with four counts of burglary totaling seven boxes of LEGOs worth about $1,000 ( Read more... )

"Hacktivist Collective" Anonymous has shut down over 40 underground ("DarkNet") websites dealing in child pornography, and "outed" a list of the account details of 1589 members ( Read more... )

News today from Symantec that members of "hacktivist" group Anonymous may have themselves been hacked, exposing them to the risk of revealing e-mail logins or even Internet banking credentials.

It seems that some clever monkey has modified the group's PasteBin guide (which members use to download and install their "Slowloris" denial-of-service ( Read more... )

A woman in Florida recently survived a stabbing attempt from her ex's new girlfriend, and her surgeon reckons it was her recently-enhanced cleavage which saved her life.

He said of the saline mambooster: "When you stab it, it gives a little. It probably gave and couldn't get through it, then it went through it and couldn't go through the back wall ( Read more... )

Hobbyist "hackers" have created their own aerial drone, chock full of hacking tools and capable of breaching wi-fi or cellular networks to transmit the data who-knows-where. The WASP (Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform) is a bunch of off-the-shelf hardware and software in a small remote-controlled airplane, controlled via 4G cellular networks ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, I linked to a story about "Operation Fast and Furious", an ATF-DoJ operation to knowingly allow firearms (including handguns, assault rifles, and .50-calibre sniper rifles capable of cracking the engine block in most standard vehicles) to be smuggled into Mexico for use by drug cartels in shooting at each other, the Mexican ( Read more... )

What would you say if I told you that the US government was basically smuggling thousands of guns (including .50 caliber sniper rifles) into Mexico (without informing that country's government) for use by drug lords, which could be construed as an act of war under international law? And that these guns were apparently used in the death of Border ( Read more... )

A Brazilian man is claiming that his wife tried to poison him by dousing her "lady bits" in poison and then encouraging him to "eat at the Y", as they say.

Talk about unsafe sex!

Suppose you're a drug lord down in Columbia. You've got to move your product up to where your consumers are (basically, the United States). It's bulky and heavy. How do you move it?

Well, lately, they've been using submarines. Not crappy little things that get dragged behind a boat, either, but diesel-electric boats with a Kevlar-and-carbon- ( Read more... )