Patrick Havens on March 12th, 2007

This has to be a photoshop. But there is no “anything,” in the flickr photostream that says so. If it isn’t, then where was the freaking parents.

I figured the photo deserved quality engrish.

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Patrick Havens on January 30th, 2007

Thus was the beginning of Thomas’ turn to the other side. For 18 months beginning in April 2003, Thomas worked as a “paid asset” for the FBI running a website for identity and credit card thieves from a government-supplied apartment in the tony Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle.From bedrise to bedrest, seven days a week, [...]

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The kid in the picture (to the right) doesn’t look very harmful, right? He’s reasonably well-dressed, anyway. But actually, he is quite a large fellow, and likes to assault random women with the help of an equally vile friend of his.
I’ve just spent hours with the police (after a nearly two hour wait to [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 26th, 2006

Veteran malware researcher Joe Stewart was fairly sure he’d seen it all until he started poking at the SpamThru Trojan—a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer.
The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 6th, 2006

When the sky darkened and lightning began to flash, Kane Quinnell grabbed his new digital camera, hoping to snap some pictures of the approaching storm.
Not having a tripod, he balanced the camera on his car, parked under the carport of his then Old Toongabbie home, and aimed the lens southward.
It never occurred to Mr Quinnell [...]

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Techcrunch » Google Presents Code Search
Google have today launched Code Search, a search engine and index of source code that is collected from publicly available sources. Google claims that the new code search engine will be able to find almost any code that it’s crawler can find, but in a few specific searches I did [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 2nd, 2006

Sure, the odds are slim that you’d ever be faced with an atomic device ticking down to zero. But think of how Jack Bauer it’d be if you were. And then who’re you going to trust? Us or some do-gooder rock band?

Disconnect the wires leading from the battery or the trigger/timer to the detonator. The [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 26th, 2006

Stealth Clock Camera Connects Over Powerlines
The $329.99 LukWerks Spy Camera has got to be the SNEAKIEST SPY GADGET YET It’s built into a standard-looking alarm clock, and has a motion-detector. Here’s the unique part: It connects to your PC over your home powerline through the alarm clock’s plug. I’m sure there are legitimate, ethical uses [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 8th, 2006

Can a python bite off more than it can chew? Ewe bet
A LITTLE bloating after a big meal is an occupational hazard for pythons. But this unfortunate creature found itself unable to slink away and sleep it off.
In fact, after swallowing a pregnant sheep, it couldn’t move at all.
Firemen in the Malaysian village of [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 29th, 2006

World of Warcraft fingered in iPod aircraft terror alert | The Register
A World of Warcraft aficionado travelling from Chicago to Canada earlier this month to hook up with fellow gamers sparked an airborne terror alert after accidently flushing his iPod down the toilet.
A short report in the Ottawa Citizen states: “A suspicious package found in [...]

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