these are lame.....



Employee charged with child pornography possession

Washington County � A custodian at White Bear Lake Central Middle School is facing child pornography charges after images were found on his hard drive.

In August 2007, the Washington County Sheriff�s Office received reports that a hard drive sent to the Best Buy Geek Squad in Maplewood for data recovery contained child pornography.

Geek Squad employees viewed over 800 images contained in a folder titled XXXYOUNGS.

Editor Coment: Well, there goes a career. Think of the years of fighting the corporate battle to climb your way to the top and be a middle school janitor, and to lose it all because of this.

Ok wait a minute... the article ended with:

The penalty for possession of pornographic work is five years in prison and $5,000 for a first offense.

Is that any pornographic material... I understand the context but I was under the impression that regular porn was legal. The sentence above is misleading. Either that or I've got some format'in to do.

FTA: Geek Squad employees viewed over 800 images contained in a folder titled XXXYOUNGS. Data recovery doesn't require they look at anything. Its all automated and transferring from one drive to another. Are they required to look for illicit material Patriot Act style?

Now we gotta make sure none of those guys decided to save some of the images for 'safekeeping'.

Shouldn't the geek squad be arrested and charged with viewing child pornography?

Does no one know how to use BitLocker anymore?

People that send hard drives to Best But for data recovery are probably not very bright to begin with.

If you send your hard drive to Best Buy for data recovery, it's best not to have a folder on it named XXXYOUNGS.

Guess he never heard of UNDELETE or any of the other data recovery methods that easily pull deleted files off your drive? If not, you might want to stay out of Best Buy.

Anyone who intentionally keeps senstitive stuff in an open computer is secretly wanting other people to read it, in my opinion.

The important lesson here: Always put your porn in an innocuous directory.

That's why I hide my pornography in
C:Nothing_to_see_here_-_Probably_Just_Some_Taxes_or_some_shit_but_definitely_not_anything_illegal

I would never, ever take my computer anywhere, let alone the 'Geek Squad (fucking thieves!) for data recovery, or for any repairs for that matter. Back up your porn data! If you HD crashes, buy a new one and reinstall your stuff. It's not that hard, a pain in the ass, but not rocket science.

One of my friends suggested smashing the old HDD with a hammer.

A hammer. That's cute, and useless. smashing it with a hammer really doesn't do much. The data is still there. Disassemble it and physically destroy the platters. Cut them into pieces if you can. If you stick with laptop hard drives for "delicate" data a hammer does wonders as the platters in those things tend to be glass.

Demagnatizers don't do squat. You can't buy one strong enough to reach through the enclosure and do any damage. And even if you open it up you won't do much damage.

As far as floppies, Zip disks and tapes go: cut the media into tiny pieces.

CDs and DVDs? A few seconds in the microwave will melt the metal layer and render it unreadable. But put them in plastic bags first. Otherwise your microwave will smell like the glue they bond those things together with for months.

USB thumb drives? I have no idea. Those things are rugged.

For the best advice on how to handle secret stuff, Always look to the government. They have the most experience. The US gov sometimes uses shredders for HDs that may have sensitive data. The result is mostly metal dust.

Some compulsions should always remain verboten, and this is one of them. It's just too destructive to toy with or even contemplate.

The government already knows what every person has downloaded anyway. It's only a matter of time before said information is used to discredit anyone that opposes their agenda.

Privacy? Right, there is a reason the governemnt is tying into the internet backbone and logging everything.

This guy may or may not be a sick fuck.

The way sex laws and porn laws have expanded unchecked and can run roughshod over people is even sicker.

Just because something is in bad taste doesn't make it wrong. That's all I'm saying.



Cats relocated by cat-napper

Police are hunting a cat-napper who has taunted owners with a letter claiming their pets have been "relocated." In the letter the abductor says their pets have been dumped at least 25 miles away as punishment for "invading" his garden.

So far seven cats have vanished from the same road in Southampton, Hants.

Editor Coment: This is England we're talking about. Gardening to the English is like a combination of church, baseball, mom, apple pie, the flag, and charcoal-grilled burgers to Americans. Of course this guy is pissed about his garden.

One of my friends lives in South Hampton. I'll have to drop them a line and see if they've lost or relocated any cats recently.

I applaud the homeowner, personally. I get tired of people thinking that, somehow, it's ok for cats to just roam the neighborhood and cause damage because they're pets. In our area, dogs have to be leashed at all times because they're a risk to humans - it doesn't occur to most people that the same idea might be appropriate for cats and small children (especially those with "skate shoes"), as well. Not getting off the lawn? Junior's going for a ride in the trunk.

I have no problem with this story. If you're going to let your animal out of your supervision, bad things will happen to it. They're like children, you're responsible for them and since they don't know any better, you better be watching out for their safety.

You wouldn't let your dog or ferret or python go freely running around the neighborhood, so don't let your cat.

When it's supervised or on your property, it's a pet.

When it's unsupervised and on my prperty, it's vermin.

If I wanted a cat in my yard, I would own one.

Should the owners have been more responsible? Yes, The cat owners that are assholes here, it is their responsibility to take care of them, not the whole nieghborhoods. They probably wouldn't even have noticed the cats were missing if the guy hadn't put up the sign.

Should person who "relocated" cats have done so? No, I can see how roaming cats would be annoying, but relocating them is a little extreme. Amusing nonetheless. He should have just shot them rather than putting them in unknown territory.

He should have started relocating the cat shit back to the cat owners yard. Then if that doesn't work then you relocate the bastards.

I would just get a pet bigger than the trespassing pets to protect my lawn. An alligator should do nicely, or

Just set out a little bowl of anti freeze. Cats love the stuff even though it kills them. Ususally they won't die right away either, so they may have time to hop back over the fence into the owners yard. If not just toss them over.

Relocation would be the least of the cats' worries.

OK, I will admit the guy shouldn't have "relocated" the cats. But I don't understand the mindset that cats should have free reign over this earth, even to the detriment of their own health.

The choice, to a level headed grown up, should be obvious. Talk to the neighbor people.

If my cat escapes and does damage, be a man and come tell me how much the bill is so I can pay it, and buy you some beer for having to deal with it.

But in my experience, the cat owners pretty much always node smile, thank me for bringing the cat back, then promptly continue to let it out, where it ends up back in my yard.

Then it's trapping time.

Here are some of the comments I received from some readers with my responses:

Comment:
When was the last time you read about someone being mauled to death by a cat.

I am pretty sure the reason animals are leashed is not due to death mauling.

Comment:
They will be confused and hungry.

No, they just think "hmm, new area. Who can I get to feed me?"

Comment:
It is a free animal, with free will, and doesn't care what some deed in some office somewhere says about "property lines".

You're right, the cat doesn't care about property lines. So it should be perfectly happy being in new ones 25 miles away. After all, the cats aren't complaining, the irresponsible people are.

Why should I have to buy a fence because you own a cat? How about I put up a fence and send you a bill?



Britney Spears loses custody of her children

Britney Spears continuing downward spiral took a devastating turn Monday when she was ordered to relinquish custody of her children by a judge who had cited her drug-and-alcohol-fueled lifestyle.

Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon ruled that that ex-husband Kevin Federline will take the boys, until further order of the court.

Editor Coment: Her kids are still alive?

She lost custody of her kids in a jurisdiction that let Michael Jackson keep his kids...

Fox is calling it Breaking News, so I guess it must be true.

Guess justice has prevailed, but Kevin Federline come on....

How the fark do you lose to Kevin Federline?!? How fucked up does a person have to be to make Cletus look decent?

Even Courtney Love and Anna Nicole Smith never managed to lose custody of their children.

There are lots of other children in way worse situations... believe it or not.

While we all know that KFed lacks talent as a performer, do we really know that he's a bad person?

I don't think the kids are in a 'just as bad' position having to stay with KFed full-time. He's removed a few layers of douchebag film from himself since the divorce started.

Shar Jackson has said more than once that Federline is not a bad person or father. She has also said she would never leave her kids alone with Britny.

Federline was the one who took the kids home when Britny abandoned them with the nanny to party for two days straight and when she sobered up just enough to realize that the kids were gone, refused to even let her near his kids. You all do remember that episode with the crazed umbrella attack.

Seriously, when has Federline ever shown that he was a bad parent who only wants custody for the money? If I remember it correctly, he could have snatched them away from her permenently a few months back but came to an agreement with her that, he would wait until she went to rehab and cleaned herself up. She didn't.

I'll say it again, douche bag does not equal bad parent. But coked-out , non-carseat using, soda in the bottle - wielding uber slut mamma does.

Brittney better start cranking out some more hits!!!!!

Lindsay, Paris: the ball is in YOUR court now.



Man flips out in Bistro Coffee Shop (video)

Dude flips out in Bistro Coffee Shop, loses wifi connection, laptop not working, program problems, mental problems, temper problems, maybe the case of super-aids and adhd crippled. Click here to watch the video

Editor Coment: Sheesh... my DSL dies every time it rains 3 miles to the west of me (in the local town where the phone office is). That guy would go nuts trying to get a stock order in with 5 minutes left before the close of the market on Friday when the stock is dropping like a stone and the DSL is flicking on and off like a Christmas tree with a short.

Submitter deserves a cockpunch for that 3 fps POS video. You would be better off posting a series of sketches and letting us animate them manually.

That just makes me feel sorry for the guy, he's obviously over stressed. Never like to see that, even to people who don't handle it well.

Time to switch to decaf.

At least they didn't taze him.

It sounded more like his hard drive might have crashed, because he mentions having pictures and a novel and shit on the laptop.

What can I say, back your stuff up.

I could understand exiting the establishment if there was someone dangerous in there but one whiny nerd with a laptop?

A simple STFD & STFU usually suffices.

Though I agree with almost everyone, this seems fake and (badly) staged.



Kevin James Magic (video)

Master Magician Kevin James performing at the Las Vegas "callbacks" on America's Got Talent. How did he do that? Click here to watch the video

Editor Coment: WTF is wrong with you people???

He clearly cuts that man in two with the plastic chainsaw, then staples him back together.
I can do it, except for the moving around part after I cut them in two. And the moving around part after I staple them back together again. Except for those parts, I have it down. I just need a little more practice. And I need another volunteer.

I was hoping that he would cut the chick in half... guess I'm a little twisted

/not that there's anything wrong with that

Ok so a lot of people want to know how its done.

I'm not sure if they'd use camera trickery on a judged talent show, unless this was simply a "for the audience" scene. That'd be like allowing some of the contestants on American Idol to lip sync, while everyone else has to actually sing.

The judges witnessing it live don't mean much. Hasselhoff's probably drunk, Osbourne's probably high, and that other guy, I don't even know who he is, but he's probably got a contact buzz from the other two.

I think you're looking at it from a way too complicated mindset in trying to figure out what you think is complicated when in reality it's pretty simple. It's a straightforward switcheroo made even more impressive by video editing.

It's a simple trick. Whenever body illusions are done, usually it's an amputee, or someone born with a body 'disorder', such as Johnny Eck, who had no lower body.

This is used in part one - the person 'standing' before being chopped. The chopped person on the table.

And then part two is the real illusion, where the upper torsed person is quicky switched for a real person at the end on that trolley thing, hence the ability to jump and stuff.

The main part, where the switch occurs is replaced by reaction shots with the judges.

It's two people, and basically, two illusions.

Now resurrect David Hasselhoff's career!

Here's a variation on the trick, without the leg reattachment but with a shorter skirt on the nurse.
Click here to watch this video.

Apparently he does some sort of magic trick too, but I wasn't really watching.



John Rambo Trailer (video)

John Rambo movie trailer (2008) Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. Click here to watch the video

Editor Coment: Crap, I thought this was a joke.

I kept waiting for a Predator to show up.
Killing chinks in those movies is just too simple.

This is the first release approved and one of the most violent trailers I have ever seen.

stallone is great and First Blood is still one of my favorite movies.

How many of you have served in the Military and or been to a Third World Country? Stallone did this film to let us unappraciative Americans know what is going on in Burma right now, today! Genocide and we do nothing because there is no money in it.

Burma does have vast amounts of precious metals and natural gas fields but the communist Chinese already lay claim to it. It's also no surprise that the communist Chinese are the chief supporters and suppliers of the Burmese junta. It takes a brutal dictatorship lacking any concept of human rights to prop up another with the same godless traits.

When you think about it, how many of us knew what was really happening in Burma before?

Yes this an extremely violent movie, it was supposed to reveal the horrors of war with all the violence.

Most people have the blessed life of not knowing the horrors like the Rambo movied portrayed.

Yes it may be unrealistic in parts, but it's Rambo for fucks sake.

so before you comment, watch the film.

I haven't seen the film yet, but I'm going to see it soon!!



Jena Six

The Case of the Jena Six: Black High School Students Charged with Attempted Murder for Schoolyard Fight After Nooses Are Hung from Tree.

Six black students at Jena High School in Central Louisiana were arrested last December after a school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises. The six black students were charged with attempted murder and conspiracy. They face up to 100 years in prison without parole. The fight took place amid mounting racial tension after a black student sat under a tree in the schoolyard where only white students sat. The next day three nooses were hanging from the tree.

Editor Coment: What year does the south live in?

violence isn't ever the proper response to words. Seems like we should have moved beyond this by now.

Segregation, even unofficial should not be tolerated.

Do the blacks really want to be around a "whites only tree" when racial issues are coming up. Given the history of the South, you'd think they would be glad there wasn't a tree for them.

Cut the tree down. That way no one gets to enjoy it.

I agree with the sentiment of the black kids; having a "whites only" tree is just fuckking ridiculous. But I do not agree with beating anyone like this over something so petty.

What exactly did they hope to accomplish?

Racism is inappropriate and hurtful, but it shouldn't be met with violence...

There is no law, anywhere, that entitles anyone to answer offensive speech with assault.

there's no justification for violence unless you're facing violence yourself, and even then one should be looking for exits from such a confrontation.

The boys who hung the nooses were suspended from school for a few days. The school administration chalked it up as a harmless prank, but Jena's black population didn't take it so lightly. Fights and unrest started breaking out at school.

Sounds like the blacks blew things out of proportion and turned it into a race war.

You know, this would be funny except some kid was relly hurt.

TFA doesn't say whether the kid who got pounded was among those who hung the nooses around the tree. Sounds like the attackers just wanted to gang up and beat on a white person... any white person.

For all we know, this kid had nothing to do with the incident. Probably wanted nothing to do with the situation, seeing he was outnumbered and with the recent tensions and all that; hell, he probably just wanted to go find a place to pork his girlfriend and were walking away from trouble by avoiding the blacks. That doesn't justify beating some white kid for turning away from you and your group of friends.

A white kid walking away from black people is "extreme non-physical provocation?"

I would still like to see someone address why this wasn't considered a hate crime. The kid was beat up because he just hapened to be white, if it was the other way around there would be riots in the streets and the ACLU and Al Sharpton would be calling for their heads.

This is a hate crime committed by black offenders. Blacks are so used to using the hate crime legislation for them, that they have, what seems, a very hard time accepting the same law when it is used against them.

Remember folks, when they do it, it's pride. When we do it, it's racist.

Those of you saying the white kid "deserved it" are racist. You're basically saying that blacks can't be held to the same standards as normal humans, because their animalistic tendancies are so strong they must beat up a kid that insulted them.

You don't have a legal right to vengence. You don't automatically get the right to destroy a human life just because your great great grand dad was underpaid.

People are petty and quarrelsome animals and everybody on every side will continue to claim racism no matter what the actual facts are in most every circumstance.

contrary to popular belief blacks are more racist than whites.

They could have gotten more positive publicity by using suit against the school, but chose the Gansta' approach.

Blacks make up 15% of the population but are responsible for 50% of violent crime. Just thought I'd point that out.

Anyway, its no big deal. Theyre black kids in the south, the stats pretty much guarantee theyre going to prison sooner or later.

We have a white prosecutor charging these kids with offenses that are way beyond what they would be charged with under similar non racist circumstances, and being convicted by an all-white jury after the kid's defense attorney does jack and squat. This is literally a stereotype of "southern justice".

I hope this gets a lot more press attention, because the black kids need to be punished, but with a punishment that fits the crime, and meanwhile it sounds like the Feds need to lay the smack down on the whole town.

Fine group of people they got livin' down there.

The adults should have stepped in and stepped up a LONG time before this happened.

I'm surprised the media even bothered reporting on a black on white hate crime, it usually takes a pretty brutal murder before any reporter will even lift a pencil.

Asshats all around. Asshats for the beating and asshats for the nooses hanging from the tree. I think we just need to get rid of the place entirely. If only there were some natural disaster that could take care of that for us.