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As if the world isn’t already crazy enough, hackers infiltrated the emergency broadcast system of local station KRTV in Great Falls, Montana, a CBS affiliate, and issued a fake zombie alert, the station said on Tuesday.
Viewers were warned of a so-called zombie apocalypse and advised not to tangle with the monstrous creatures, the station said.
Engineers at the station were investigating the incident, which occurred during a Monday afternoon broadcast, said Jon Saunders, vice president of the station’s parent company, Cordillera Communications.
Saunders said early reports suggest similar but separate attacks were launched in the past 24 hours against emergency alert systems for TV stations elsewhere, including Michigan.
“It appears to be more widespread than we thought,” he said.
The hoax caused several humorous-minded residents in Great Falls to call authorities to inquire if guns were an adequate defense against zombie hordes.
Dumb hackers. One of these times, it could be for real and we’ll all be dead. Remember “The Boy Who Cried Wolf?”
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-zombie-montanabre91b1ia-20130212,0,5723490.story
They said it would never happen. Pay for Facebook? But nobody said you couldn’t, if you wanted to. Facebook Inc. is letting users in the United States pay a fee to boost the visibility of their postings on the social network, the company’s latest effort to look beyond advertisers for revenue.
The promoted-posts-for-users feature, which Facebook began offering as a test on Wednesday to a limited number of its U.S. users, ensures that a comment or photo shared by a Facebook member gets prominent billing in their friends’ newsfeeds.
The paid postings will be visible on the desktop and mobile versions of the social network. Facebook will place the paid-for postings towards the top of people’s newsfeeds for a limited period of time. Facebook’s newsfeed typically displays content by freshness and relevance.
How much would you pay to be certain your posts are being viewed by your friends? The current test price in the United States is $7, according to a Facebook spokesman. Maybe it’s worth it for everyone to be certain to see your latest post of the family mutt hugging the family cat while in peaceful slumber. Wouldn’t want to miss that.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-facebook-featurebre89219w-20121003,0,6490336.story
Aiming to do away with the need to remember passwords for growing numbers of online services, Intel researchers have put together a tablet with new software and a biometric sensor that recognizes the unique patterns of veins on a person’s palm.
Making laptops, tablets and smartphones responsible for identifying users would take the requirement of remembering passwords away from individual websites. It would do away with the need to individually enter passwords into each of them, said Sridhar Iyengar, Director of Security Research at Intel Labs.
The palm-reading technology, still under development, requires new software and biometric sensors built into consumer devices, but does not require the development of any new kinds of chips.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/intel-hand-password_n_1881811.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
Tony Sly, guitarist and singer for the pop-punk band No Use for a Name, has died, his record label said Wednesday. No cause of death was given.
“It is with great sorrow that we must say goodbye to Tony Sly of No Use For A Name,” the group’s label, Fat Wreck Chords, said on its web site.
“We received a call earlier today of his passing, and are devastated. We have lost an incredible talent, friend, and father – one of the true greats.”
The label’s owner, NOFX frontman “Fat Mike” Burkett, added, “One of my dearest friends and favorite song writers has gone way too soon. Tony, you will be greatly missed.”
Sly joined the San Jose, Calif.-based No Use for a Name in 1989. The group achieved minor mainstream success with the song “Soulmate,” from their 1995 album “Leche Con Carne.” Band members came and went, and Sly focused more on his solo acoustic career in later years, but the group had been working on a new studio album since 2010.
Their last studio album, “Feel Good Record of the Year,” was released in 2008.
http://www.thewrap.com/music/article/tony-sly-no-use-name-frontman-dead-41-50326
Hoarding could pay off big. Keep that in mind as you are tripping over piles of your parent’s treasures, or perhaps even your own. A hoarder finds value in just about EVERYTHING and cannot stand to see ANYTHING go in the trash.
Maybe you or your hoarder have one of these lying around, buried under that sack of empty toilet paper rolls covered with rubber bands. What is it? A rare, still-working Apple I Computer from 1976.
The Apple I Computer from 1976 sold at Sotheby’s auction house on Friday for $374,500, or more than 500 times its original retail price.
The computer, one of only a handful in full working condition, had been estimated to sell for about $150,000 at the auctioneer’s sale of books and manuscripts.
Two bidders competed for the machine, the first compact computer to allow casual users to type on a keyboard and operate basic programs. An anonymous telephone bidder prevailed for a final cost of just under $375,000 including commission.
The Apple founders created the personal computer in 1976 and presented it at a Palo Alto computer club, but there were few takers at the time. Paul Terrell, owner of a retail chain called Byte Shop, placed an order for 50 of the machines and sold them for $666.66 retail – once Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs agreed to assemble the circuit boards rather than offer them as kits, Sotheby’s said.
The pair then produced 150 more and sold them to friends and other vendors. Sotheby’s said fewer than 50 original Apple 1s are believed to survive, with only six known to be in working condition.
You probably DON’T have one. But if it is possible you do, wouldn’t that be a great incentive to clean out your own house?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/chi-apple-i-computer-fetches-374500-at-ny-auction-20120615,0,3689860.story
“Forgetting” your newborn baby on the roof of a car? Awful. NOT REALIZING YOU FORGOT about the baby until getting home? Appalling.
A marijuana-smoking woman was arrested on Saturday in Phoenix after she accidentally drove away with her five-week-old son in a child safety seat on the roof of her vehicle, police said.
The baby fell off the car in the middle of an intersection and was found unharmed and strapped into the seat, said Phoenix police spokesman James Holmes.
The mother Catalina Clouser, 19, was booked into jail on child abuse and aggravated assault charges, he said. The infant was taken to a local hospital as a precaution and is in the custody of state Child Protective Services.
“It appears the suspect put the baby on the roof of the car and drove off, forgetting he was still on the roof,” Holmes said in a written statement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/03/catalina-clouser-pot-baby-roof-car_n_1565487.html?ref=mostpopular
Paul Thomas Anderson has finally given audiences a look at his next picture “The Master,” a sure-to-be-controversial look at the origins of a religion that sounds a whole lot like Scientology.
Brent Lang of Reuters gives details. The sneak peek features a zonked-out Joaquin Phoenix being grilled by a naval officer about his misbehavior while off-kilter music plays on the soundtrack. The whole thing is mighty unsettling.
Phoenix, who is seen drinking from a torpedo and wrestling on a beach, comes off like a more unhinged version of Daniel Plainview, the demented oil baron who loomed large over Anderson’s previous film ”There Will Be Blood” (2007).
Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead is composing the score for the film. This is the second time Greenwood has scored an Anderson film.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-themasterbre84k165-20120521,0,1330258.story
Fugitives from the law can now “kinda” breathe a sigh of relief. If they get caught by Dog and his posse, there will be no cameras to shy away from. “Dog the Bounty Hunter” has been cancelled by A & E after eight seasons.
A & E has given no reason for the show’s cancellation. However, there has been much controversy and headaches for A & E surrounding the show.
Last year, Hoang Minh Phung Nguyen — who was presented as a fugitive on the show — sued Chapman and his crew for defamation.
According to the suit, Chapman’s crew accused Nguyen of firing a gun at them, leading to his arrest for suspicion of attempted murder and menacing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/sns-rt-dog-the-bounty-hunter-cancelled-dog-the-bounty-hun-20120521,0,199076.story
This is ONE way to avoid paying capital gains taxes. Evidently, the desire to keep a few extra billion dollars is a small price to pay for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report, just days before the company’s initial public offering.
He now lives in the Asian city-state of Singapore, which has no capital-gains tax. That compares with a minimum 15 percent rate for long-term capital gains in the United States for people in higher income brackets.
The Brazil-born Saverin was educated in the U.S. at Harvard, where he co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and others.
Giving up citizenship is an irrevocable act, the State Department says. I hope it’s worth it to Severin.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-facebook-cofounder-renounces-citizenship-before-ipo-20120511,0,3837012.story
Move over Octomom, you’ve been “outdid”! A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies – six girls and three boys – the country’s main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night. She already has a set of triplets. If her family plays baseball later in life, they could form their own team. If three of the players suck, the triplets could sub in the bottom of the fourth and still keep the team true to one and ONLY one gene pool.
The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report.
Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility treatment leading to the multiple pregnancy, it said. Ya think? Due date is May 20.
Source: Reuters
Reporting: Reporting By Ioan Grillo; editing by Todd Eastham
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