John Suhrhoff found a Louis Vuitton bag on a park bench in Sausalito, California (USA) and turned it in to police. Inside were a 12-carat diamond ring, pearl and emerald jewelry, a Cartier watch and roughly $500 in cash. The contents were worth $1 million!
The bag belonged to a Canadian woman who’d been in the […]

A few months ago, Capt. Alon Pereg, who was about to command the next 737NG pilot’s course of EL AL airlines, had an idea - the trainees could practice Airliner procedures, 737 automation (FMC) and ATC communications during the ground school stages of the course by flying online.
Now, seven months later, members of VATIL, […]

An article at the Financial Times is analysing the growing impact of internet pornography, the phenomena itself and the problems that it causes to our society. Surveys within Great Britain have shown that more than a half of 9-19 years olds have seen pornography online.
To some men, Haynes argues, clicking on porn is simply a […]

After he had been driving around in the desert for a while. A drunk driver just 100 yards (109 meter) from Australia’s iconic giant monolith, also known as Ayers Rock, stopped police to ask the way to the 1,100-foot (335 meter) high rock.
The headlights of the man’s car were actually shining on Uluru, which has […]

American hostage Jill Carroll (28), a freelance journalist, was finally released Thursday in Iraq after nearly three months in captivity, said she was “treated very well” while she was held.
“They never said they would hit me. They never threatened me in any way,” she said in a TV interview after her release. The interview was […]

Tom Cruises pregnant fiancée Katie Holmes will have signs around the house to remind her to stay silent during childbirth, according to The Sun. The British tabloid reports that giant posters were seen being delivered to their Beverly Hills mansion, one of them reading: “Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable.” The […]

The singer who dressed as a policeman in the flamboyant late 1970s disco band “Village People” has been arrested after disappearing while drug and gun charges against him were pending, officials said on Monday.
Victor Willis, who co-wrote some of the band’s hits such as “In the Navy” and “YMCA” has had a number of run-ins […]

Graceland, the Memphis mansion that Elvis Presley called home for 20 years, was designated a National Historic Landmark on Monday, prompting the late King’s wife, Priscilla Presley, to squelch rumors that their daughter Lisa Marie would ever dispose of the 14-acre estate.
“Nobody is selling Graceland!” Priscilla Presley says. “Lisa is the sole heir to Graceland, […]

The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed “neuro-chips” in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together. The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers […]

…of backwards compatibility. The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor, legacy support, and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product.
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