ALBERTVILLE, Ala. – An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top. Smith said the woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down.
Smith said the mother told officers it was safe because she had the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.
The 13-year-old daughter wasn’t harmed and was turned over to a relative. A jail worker said the mother was out on bond Monday.
A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit.
The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.
There, he calmly asked a court officer “which way is out?” and the guard – mistaking the escapee for a lawyer – directed him to the lobby.
The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother’s Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.
“I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up,” she said.
Swedish fertility clinics are suffering a backlog due to demand from lesbian couples. As a result of the law change, waiting time has jumped from 3 to 18 months.
Back on July 1st, 2005, female same-sex couples were granted the right to artificial insemination at Swedish hospitals. Before that, lesbians had to seek help abroad as the law did not allow it – unless they said they were heterosexual and not actually a couple – sounds like Don’t Ask Don’t Tell doesn’t it?
Also, poor sperm quality is not helping the situation – come on Swedes, masturbate like your like depends on it!
PeerBlock was a “spin off” from PeerGuardian, a program that completely blocks access to certain IP addresses at the network level making it completely impossible to connect to them (or from people on those IP addresses to connect to you.) The reason I love this program so much is it blocks access to known spyware and adware computers making your PC that bit more secure.
PeerBlock 1.0 has just been released, marking the first “stable” version, and one big feature is Windows x64 (Vista and 7) now have a signed driver meaning you no longer have to go into “Ignore Driver Signature” mode at boot-up.
Of course it is also a great piece of software for people who use P2P networks with poor intent as it also can block access to/from known monitoring servers and government addresses.
It’s been 5 days since I became ill and two days since I found out it was H1N1 and after taking tamiflu for the 3rd day now, I am feeling a lot better, it really clears up the symptoms very well; actually it just hides the symptoms like most over-the-counter cold/flu remedies but it’s stronger! I did find out after I received them you’re supposed to try and get them within 24 hours of contracting the virus as they’re most effective then, I was only 48 hours out. Annoyingly though my nose is still driving me nuts, it’s better but it’s still all flu-like – should be enough detail to explain what I mean there.
On other news, the American government, on the same day Obama stated to the UN “… Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone …” has self-declared themselves the regulators of “net-neutrality” and whatever that may mean now: more specifically, it’s the FCC wing of the government.
But what is net-neutrality now? Part of the speech yesterday actually turned into a debate about what it means; the phrase has been thrown around so much since 2006 when it was first used in the public domain that its actual meaning seems to have been lost. So much is the abstraction around the statement now that it was actually brought up to mean Apple cannot restrict apps in its own App Store.
That’s the name of the video “Good News – Windows 7.” The little kid is called Kelly and she believes “seven” is a happy word – it does stand for “togetherness” in China though so maybe that’s the underlying message here – “with Windows 7, we’re together again and I’m stealing your soul.”
At the same time I feel I must point out I just downloaded iTunes 9, at almost 90mb it’s starting to feel more like an OS than a music player, where’s iTunes Lite? Which then leads on nicely to Apple’s latest OS 3.1 for the iPhone, another beautiful idea from Apple in the form of security when syncing with Microsoft Exchange, until the latest OS all iPhone’s could sync with Exchange even if it required hardware security; that is no longer the case now as anything before the 3GS doesn’t truly support this requirement and will now no longer work with any exchange server that requires it – Apple’s response to this? “Tell your administrator to lower the security requirements” – I kid you not. You can read more here. This is yet another reason I’m happy I don’t have an iPhone, I love owning my own phone and not renting like Apple basically make you do. If I don’t like something on my phone, I change it and am allowed to without fear of my phone being bricked for breaking the ToS; if I want an app, I can download it from anywhere and install it without having to jailbreak my phone. But that’s my ranting over for now, until Apple do something else their sheeple will follow blindly.
The days of true weightlessness on earth are drawing ever closer. NASA has created an anti-gravity field! …just it only works on mice for now. In the picture below, mouse b is floating without the use of anything but magnets – yes magnets.
It turns out superconducting magnets can repel water without almost absolute-zero temperatures. The scale so far is only big enough to levitate small creatures though. Mice, not being the brightest creatures in the world though aren’t sure what to do in this situation, apparently the “first mouse actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster” according to one of the researchers. That would make for an amusing party trick though.
Few more years though and those hoverboards from Back to the Future may just become a reality, that or we’ll all be spinning around in circles in the air wondering how the hell to get down.
Smith said the woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down.
It turns out superconducting magnets can repel water without almost absolute-zero temperatures. The scale so far is only big enough to levitate small creatures though. Mice, not being the brightest creatures in the world though aren’t sure what to do in this situation, apparently the “first mouse actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster” according to one of the researchers. That would make for an amusing party trick though.