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Pest controllers were called to an office in Kennington, south London, used by weapons and technology experts at the Metropolitan Police after reports of ‘mice everywhere’.
According to internal police reports, a family of mice even set up home in one police worker’s desk – burying themselves in his paperwork.
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“Action was taken to remove the mice from the premises and there have not been any sighting of mice since.”A spokeswoman for the Met said that the ‘paperwork home’ set up on one desk by mice consisted of ‘paperwork that did not relate to operational police matters’.
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Lambeth cops spend more than £25,000 on vermin exterminators last year, including £4,299 to get rid of ‘unwanted birds’ and £12,018 on ‘rodent or mammal extermination’.The sum also included £108 for ‘getting rid of geese’, although a police spokesman could not shed any further light on this particular expense.
Har!
Good work, guys! Now he won’t be able to load up his underwear and come into the US to do anything dastardly. I feel so much safer!
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said it had revoked the visa it had given a Nigerian man after his alleged attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day with explosives hidden in his underwear.
Skype’s new strategy for 2010: Your flat-screen TV in your living room can now be your phone. Or, if your tastes run more toward “The Twilight Zone,” think of it as your TV watching you — as you watch TV.
The makers of popular software that allows users to make free phone and video calls via the Internet announced new deals Tuesday with LG and Panasonic that put Skype inside new Web-connected versions of their HDTVs. Starting sometime in mid-2010, consumers who buy new Panasonic Viera TVs and LG sets with NetCast Access will be able to plug in special webcams (sold separately) and enjoy face-to-face conversations with family and friends.
Skype earned its reputation as a low-cost alternative to traditional phone calls via your PC, and that particular platform wasn’t ignored in Tuesday’s spate of announcements. The company also said it is now supporting 720p high-definition video calls over computers, and those attending this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will get a chance to check out new HD webcams from Skype partners faceVsion and In Store Solutions that do all the software encoding within the cameras.
Discovery, Imax and Sony confirmed on Tuesday that they are forming a joint venture for a 3-D television channel.
The announcement was timed to coincide with this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where 3-D television is expected to be a hot topic.
Discovery Communications, which operates the Discovery Channel, TLC and other cable channels, will distribute the channel, which has a 2011 start date. It is expected to showcase a mix of 3-D content, including entertainment and sports. It will also show some of the natural history programming for which Discovery is well known.
The three companies will own equal stakes in the channel, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
In a statement Tuesday morning, the Sony Corporation chairman Howard Stringer called it a “groundbreaking new venture.”
They will need this in order to sell 3-D television sets.
 
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(CNN) — A dating site that markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a “strict ban on ugly people” has axed about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the holiday season.
The international site BeautifulPeople.com threw out members after they posted photos “revealing that they have let themselves go,” according to a company statement.
“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld,” said Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”
Har!
We knew it was coming, but we had to wait for Google to spill the news before we could talk about it with authority. And the company did so Tuesday morning at a press conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif.
As expected, the Nexus One is a new Google Android phone that offers an inside designed by Google and an outside designed by HTC. According to Google’s Mario Queiroz, the Nexus One is a “super phone” where the Web meets the cell phone. “It’s an exemplar of what mobile phones can do with Android,” he said. The handset will be available first for GSM carriers like T-Mobile, but a Verizon version will follow.
Though its slim (0.45 inches), lightweight (4.58 ounces) touch-screen design doesn’t stand out from the current Android crowd, it offers a loaded feature set with a few notable offerings, including a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor.
The primary interface is a 3.7-inch AMOLED display with five customizable home screens. The Nexus One runs the Android 2.1 OS and the WVGA display can show 3G graphics. The trackball below the display lets you navigate menus, but also lights up to alert you to new messages. We’re pleased that HTC added a 3.5mm headset jack.
I’m due for a new phone… I’m still watching and waiting.
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death.
The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The “bird-flu”-campaign (2005/06) combined with the “swine-flu”-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies.”[2]
This episode in “pandemic” history had all the earmarks of a scam from day one. The media should be ever so proud of playing along.
Found by Ron Harlev.
There have been child suicide bombers in the Mideast, so if you exempt those under 18 from going through…
The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.
Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved.
Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography laws.
They also face demands from civil liberties groups for safeguards to ensure that images from the £80,000 scanners, including those of celebrities, do not end up on the internet.
Yup, he’s a credit to his race and just the kind of person I would want fronting my organization trying to improve government.
And then there’s everybody’s favorite Congressional moran, Michelle Bachmann, who once again put her foot in her mouth last summer when she said she and her constituents shouldn’t comply with the upcoming census until she realized that meant she might lose her district and seat. Now she’s a census go-getter!
Long arm of law reaches into World of Warcraft – kokomo persepective.com — Was Blizzard right to give the users info to the police?
Two weeks ago, Howard County Sheriff’s Department deputy Matt Roberson tracked down a wanted fugitive through one of the most popular games on the Internet — World of Warcraft. And he got his man.
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“We received information that this guy was a regular player of an online game, which was referred to as ‘some warlock and witches’ game,” said Roberson. “None of that information was sound enough to pursue on its own, but putting everything we had together gave me enough evidence to send a subpoena to Blizzard Entertainment. I knew exactly what he was playing — World of Warcraft. I used to play it. It’s one of the largest online games in the world.”
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“They don’t have to respond to us, and I was under the assumption that they wouldn’t,” said Roberson. “It had been three or four months since I had sent the subpoena. I just put it in the back of my mind and went on to do other things. Then I finally got a response from them. They sent me a package of information. They were very cooperative. It was nice that they were that willing to provide information.”Blizzard did more than cooperate. It gave Roberson everything he needed to track down Hightower, including his IP address, his account information and history, his billing address, and even his online screen name and preferred server. From there it was a simple matter to zero in on the suspect’s location.
All over the news here in Vegas all day. Guy who lost a lawsuit earlier this year over Social Security benefit cuts went into the Federal Courthouse and opened fire killing a former cop and injuring a deputy U.S. marshal. At least 50 shots fired between him and police as he crossed Las Vegas Blvd. before being killed.
A man who opened fire at a court in Las Vegas – killing one man and wounding another – had been upset about cuts to his social security benefits.
Officials said Johnny Lee Wicks, 66, was killed in a shootout with officers soon after 8am (local time) on Monday.
Court records show Wicks sued the Social Security Administration in 2008 but the case was thrown out and formally closed in September 2009.
Watching the local news at 6pm, many people they’ve interviewed say this sort of thing may happen more in the future around the country as Social Security benefits are cut.
Dear God, In 2009 you took my favorite singer – Michael Jackson, my favorite actress – Farrah Fawcett, my favorite actor – Patrick Swayze, my favorite voice – Neda.
Please, please, don’t forget my favorite politician – Ahmadinejad and my favorite dictator – Khamenei
in the year 2010. Thank you.
And according to the Gateway Pundit blog (which is quite right-wing and religious), this image was being shown for a couple of minutes:
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