Posted on 16 May 2008
LAA Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted a woman for her alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide.
Lori Drew of St Louis, Missouri was indicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information to […]
Tags: Drew, Megan, MySpace, suicide
Posted on 16 May 2008
A British space scientist has found that it is much more costly to send a message by cell phone than to transmit data from the Hubble space telescope to Earth.
Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester in England calculated that one megabyte of SMS texting costs $730.63 to transmit based on U.K. rates. Hubble […]
Tags: data, research, scientist, sms, telescope
Posted on 16 May 2008
A bar in Hartlepool is being renamed after back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin.
Sinatra’s Bar, near Darwin’s home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, is changing its name to The Seaton Canoe.
Customers were challenged to come up with a new name for the pub and win £100, but no one came up with the name owners Richard and Angie […]
Tags: bar, canoeist, Darwin, seaton Carew