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san francisco

San Francisco's Disgruntled IT Worker Shared the Secret Password With Mayor Newsom

After having seen The Dark Knight three times over the last weekend I can't help but think this would be a great scene for the next film (which had better not be called Caped Crusader): A city municipal worker in the IT department changed some very important passwords and refused to give them up, even after jailed. Strangely, from his cell, he divulged the code to just one man, the city mayor, in a secret meeting that even the DA and police didn't know about. The IT tech, Terry Childs, wasn't up to any nefarious deeds, or so he says, he just didn't want his co-workers to mess up his huge system, and can anyone who's ever worked in IT blame him? [SFGate]

11:30 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Matt Hickey
7,091 views, 45 comments

Latest by shenanigans: I just finished reading the article. This part piqued my interest however: "In her motion to reduce bail, Crane said Childs had been the victim of a "bad faith" effort to force him out of his post by incompetent city officials more »

i'm stunned

Guy Who Uses Stun Gun on Son to Toughen Him Up Jailed, Unsurprisingly

The father of an 18-month-old child is off to jail for four years after being found guilty of using a stun gun on the boy. His reason for using the 100,000-volt Dragonfire, which resulted in muscle damage to the kid's heart, was because he wanted his son to be "the toughest cage fighter ever." Yeah, the toughest heart-damaged, cage-fighting 18-month-old ever. More »

8:40 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Kit Eaton
12,781 views, 77 comments

roundup

Afternoon News: Daily Dose of Harry Potter, Brit Drivers Going To Jail For Talking, Microsoft & Freetards Makin' Deals and More

• Warner Bros. set up a hotline to replace HD DVDs found in Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire Blu-ray packages. I love Harry Potter news. [HD Digest]
• British drivers caught using their cellphones may be sent to jail for two years and face an extremely scary sounding "unlimited fine" under new laws published today. [Reuters]
• Samsung is shipping a 320GB 2.5" hard drive for notebooks. It retails for $250. [Tom's Hardware]
• Microsoft signed a deal with open source software company Samba as a result of sanctions for anti-trust violations from the European Commission. The Borg and freetards together? Someone check to make sure Fake Steve is still breathing. [NYT]

3:59 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Benny Goldman
1,897 views, 14 comments

Latest by GOKOR: @diverguy: Really, the majority of US readers refer to it as the Philosopher's Stone? That's news to me...meaning I've never heard anyone call it that before. Not even a fuss that they used a different name. Are you sure more »

jail

Dietrich of Gizmondo Ferrari Crash Fame Sentenced to 30 Days

Trevor Michael Karney, or the make-believe Dietrich of Gizmondo fame, has just been sentenced to 30 days in prison plus 3 years probation for giving false information to the popos. Bo Stefan Eriksson, the other man in the car at the time of the 162mph Ferrari Enzo crash, is still serving his 3-year prison sentence—undoubtedly making shivs and other self- defense weaponry as opposed to lousy handheld consoles. [Boston]

12:55 PM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By Jason Chen
4,265 views, 8 comments

gadgets

Boy Jailed over Daylight Saving Time Mix-up

Cory Webb, 15-year-old kid from Pittsburgh, spent a super-fun-happy 12 days in jail over something he had no control over: daylight saving time. He was arrested last month after calling into a school phone hotline. A non-related bomb threat was also called into the phone hotline one hour before Webb's call was made and the school officials assumed the caller ID had reflected the daylight saving time change (but it hadn't) and Webb's call was linked to the bomb threat. He was thrown in jail for 12 days before the mistake was realized. All of the charges have been dropped, but Webb will never get those 12 days of his life back (or be able to forget the soap-dropping experience). –Travis Hudson More »

2:40 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By Travis Hudson
7,761 views, 50 comments

Latest by nutbastard: erockO said: "It's okay to temporarily lose some civil liberties if it keeps people out of harm. " Jesus fucking christ no it isn't. And that's not what happened here. He didn't make the bomb threat. Someone else did. So explain more »