Elderly Amish Man Caught on Film With Prostitute, Blackmailed
When a 75-year-old Amish widower slept with a prostitute, he -- we feel certain -- felt pretty bad about it the next morning. As if that guilt weren't enough for the old man, the prostitute and her boyfriend demanded $67,000 from him, claiming that they had filmed the scene with wall-mounted cameras and would upload the recording to the Internet. The pair was later arrested and, we can only imagine, the Amish man abhorred technology more than ever.
Bank Robber Gets Away With the Help of Craiglist
In October, a bank robber -- wearing a safety vest, blue shirt, face mask and goggles -- eluded police with the help of Craiglist. Just outside the bank, while the robbery was in progress, stood a group of men who were responding to a Craiglist day labor opportunity. As the advertisement required, they were all wearing safety vests, blue shirts, face masks and goggles.
Nude New Zealander Arrested After Responding to Fake Sexy Text Message
Late in 2007, a Wellington, New Zealand man received a racy text message from two anonymous "ladies," giving him only an address and a request that he show up naked. Well, he indeed showed up naked... at the home of one appalled, unsuspecting New Zealander. Both the nude Romeo and the sadistic texter were arrested, though neither were prosecuted.
Fake Craiglist Ad Costs Man Most of What He Owns
Last Spring, a post appeared on an Oregon Craigslist board stating that the owner of a specific house was leaving all of his worldly possessions (still in said house) to whoever wanted them. When homeowner Robert Salisbury rushed home -- on a tip from a woman suspicious about the offer of a free horse -- he found his house being ransacked by 30 strangers. We suggest he take that horse and collect some vengeance Clint Eastwood-style.
17-Year-Old Jailed for Stealing Virtual 'Furniture'
When a 17-year-old Dutch boy hacked into several accounts on the Second Life-style site 'Habbo' in 2007, the the law got involved. The boy was discovered to have stolen $5,800 worth of virtual furniture and knick-knacks. Apparently, crime -- whether actual or virtual -- does not pay.
Phishers Going After Your Phones in New 'Vishing' Trend
Over the past year, sneaky spammers have begun to forsake the worn-out territory of e-mail in favor of cell phones' fertile frontier. The result? "Vishing." Get it? Voice mail phishing. It might be more ominous if it didn't sound like a James Bond villain saying, "Wishing."
Burglars Break Into Restaurant, Steal HDTV, Leave Money / Food Behind
Around Halloween of last year, a truckload of thieves drove into -- that's right, into -- a Pennsylvania Mexican restaurant, where they -- apparently uninterested in the cash register -- stole a mid-grade 47-inch HDTV and fled the scene. We've all heard about how this generation is lacking in ambition, but this generation's thieves, too?
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Adam Waggoner said 12:09AM on 7-03-2008
In redefining the sphere, one might be able to redefine how weight is both defined and applied/used. (In applying weight in a balanced way one might reduce the impact of both the weight of the object and the force applied to it to accomplish the same results; i.e. In finding the proper balance of any object it can be moved easier ).
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Ryan said 1:57AM on 7-03-2008
'Takes Triviality to a whole nother meaning, No?'
NO.
It figures that an article from our current media sources would point out the 'triviality' and uselessness of STANDARDS, which can only be achieved through hard, just and dedicated WORK. How would you suggest, you wonderously ignorant article writer, we measure ANYTHING (like success?), without those 'trivial' standards? Such units of measure like the Kilogram, the Mile Per Hour, the Minute, the Nanosecond, Avagadro's Number, The Golden Ratio, Pi, The Speed of Light, Relative GRAVITY, ETC. ETC. ETC. allow the society, which you trash by claiming triviality of standard, to EXIST. Get an Education you Trivial Writer.
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Windo Hutabarat said 6:32AM on 7-03-2008
What was the writer smoking the day he wrote this article? A fundamental research into the kilogram standard "takes trivial to a whole 'nother level"?
Granted, the level of accuracy referred to in the source article is never appropriate when one obtains one's favourite hallucinogenic substance in the form of dried leaves, but a rude surprise is in store if the same regard to metrological standards is applied elsewhere, say, to the sale and consumption of certain white and powdery stuff, which, given the standard of this article, I fear the writer is heading towards.
Aside from the breathtaking display of ignorance, there's disregard of detail too: The Argonne Project people DOES NOT aim to "redefine the kilogram in terms of magnetic fields and electrical forces". That's a "competing approach", printed in bold in the source article.
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Wprzypek said 8:36AM on 7-03-2008
I read the original article and discovered that the writer of this article has no idea what it really says. The primary goal of this project is to create a kilogram standard which is stable and which can be applied in other ways.
THere is very little trivia in science, except in the minds of those who do not understand it.
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