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Custom-made TARDIS Police Box Refrigerator Decals Now Available

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Bear in mind that image of the TARDIS fridge without other info!.?. !? Well it ends up it was made by artist/engineers B.E. Johnson & Happiness Alyssa Day and they’ll make one to fit your refrigerator for the reduced, low price of$ 185. Plus it doesn’t included the Christmas lights in the windows unless you desire it to. Side decals are$ 65, an ice maker telephone door $ 14, and an audio module$ 12. I desire one, but all I have is the lil compact fridge from my old dormitory space. Personalized refrigerator kit to turn your refrigerator into a very unique Authorities Box. The top section is a separate framework that includes the indicator, the peak roofing system and a working beacon.

The skin incorporates best with a French Door fridge, because of the means the refrigerator doors better match the Police Box. A single door, with or without a separate freezer, likewise looks cool; it just does not open
in the manner of an Authorities Box. There is the option of including a stiffened “little phone door” that can be adapted to make it fit over the top of your ice maker, so the little door swings open to access the ice maker
, but then closes the other time. There is likewise an audio module available that fits inside the refrigerator that can be set to play your favorite Authorities Box seems whenever the doors open. Oh man, I used to have a cat that would constantly come running every time you opened the fridge door then attempt to jump in there prior to you closed it. He was odd. Plus he used to obtain in the back of the tub and looking at me while I showered. Like I said, weird. Rest in peace, Shitmittens. Thanks to PYY, who’s been understood to conceal in the refrigerator during conceal and seek and consume all the string cheese and pudding packs.

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The Problem With Police Scanners

In unfamiliar hands, a familiar breaking news tool can wreak havoc.

For the past 12 hours, much of Twitter’s information torrent surrounding the Boston manhunt has been powered by a familiar source. The only problem is, it's in unfamiliar hands.

For local beat reporters, police scanners are one of the oldest and most reliable tools of the trade, serving as both an early alert system and a virtual ride-along. Now, thanks to a host of easily accessible livestreaming scanner sites and mobile apps, access to this stream of information is everywhere, turning anyone with an internet connection and a Twitter account into their own central dispatch and inundating social streams with false and potentially dangerous information.

It's a disturbing trend that seems to be a new reality in the online age of breaking news. Numerous false reports from police scanners surfaced and were refuted during Hurricane Sandy, and Monday's bombing brought about a rash of disturbing and unconfirmed scanner reports in the marathon's chaotic aftermath. Scanners are a patchwork of unconfirmed information, being relayed by on-the-ground sources using, more often than not, an abundance of caution and broadcasting information without verification.

False scanner reports like this one from Monday’s bombing were all over Twitter:


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The New File-Sharing Police

Third-party vendors will troll peer-to-peer networks looking for copyrighted material, then notify the downloader's Internet Service Provider to issue penalties.

Actor Will Smith speaks at the start of a Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) symposium, The Business of Show Business. The event is designed to educate and inform policymakers about the contributions the American motion picture business brings to the U.S. economy — and get them on board with anti-piracy efforts.

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This week the major and independent music labels and movie and television studios (represented by the RIAA, Motion Picture Association of America, and other groups) launched the latest offensive in the war on illegal downloading: the Copyright Alert System.

In 1999, the recording industry was valued at $ 14 billion. Today what it’s worth is estimated at less than $ 7 billion — a difference the Recording Industry Association of America says is primarily due to pirating of copyrighted music.

The new system is an attempt to combat that loss by identifying individuals who are pirating music, movies, and TV shows using peer-to-peer networks. It rats them out to their Internet Service Provider, who in turn sends them an alert telling them they have been caught downloading illegally.

Jill Lesser is the executive director of the Center for Copyright Information, which designed and implemented the program. Third-party “vendors” enlisted by the entertainment industries, Lesser explains, will patrol peer-to-peer networks looking for copyrighted content.

“Anybody can join those networks. Those vendors join peer-to-peer networks, and they essentially participate in that network,” Lesser says. “They go out and say, 'I'm looking for a copy of Argo,' and anybody on that network who has Argo to offer will make that available.”

The copyright police then note the IP address of the individual sharing a copy of Argo, and they send it to that person's Internet Service Provider (ISP). “At that point, the ISP looks at the IP address and says, 'OK, who was using this IP address at that time?' It sends that customer an alert,” she explains.

Lesser stresses, “No activity that the user is engaged in on his or her ISP can be seen by the content owners — this is all tracking what's happening on public peer-to-peer network.”

The ISP sends a first alert, and if that person continues downloading copyrighted music and movies illegally, each alert will become progressively more annoying. “They are intended to say, 'You have now received five or six notices and you are not responding and you are continuing to engage in copyright infringement so we do want to take this opportunity to reemphasize the seriousness of it,'” Lesser says.

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The type of alert will vary between ISPs. “Some ISPs are putting people through educational tutorials, some are restricting access to the top 500 sites for a very short period of time, one ISP is reducing the speed for 48 hours,” Lesser says.

Comcast will be sending in-browser alerts and emails. Verizon will also send alerts, and if they are ignored, will eventually throttle the user’s internet speed for a time.

Each alert will also include a link to one of two sites where users can find television shows, movies and music legally — WheretoWatch and MusicMatters.

The system kicked off this week and, Lesser says, so far, so good. “The alerts that have been sent, they have gotten to the right subscribers; the ISPs are not getting flooded with customer service calls; everything has gone smoothly.”

The studios and labels, and the groups that represent them, are hopeful the new system will work — but to different degrees.

“The launch of the Copyright Alert System marks a major development in the kind of voluntary partnership that can best address the needs of consumers for better information about the tremendous growth in legal online sites for movies, TV, and music,” Michael O'Leary, senior executive vice president at the MPAA said in a statement.

Cara Duckworth of the RIAA was slightly more restrained in her optimism. “Piracy will always evolve in different forms — and we think this is a really innovative approach to dealing with the problem today,” she said.


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Australian police raid next-generation Xbox leaker who tried to sell Durango dev kit

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Australian police officers appear to have raided the home of an infamous leaker of next-generation Xbox information. Known as SuperDaE, Dan Henry supplied over 20 next-generation Durango Xbox documents to gaming site Kotaku recently, detailing new controllers, a mandatory Kinect option, and the ability for Durango to run more than one game or application at one time. SuperDaE tweeted earlier this week revealing that police had raided his premises, allegedly alongside an FBI officer and local Australian law enforcement.

SuperDaE supplied The Tech Game with a copy of his warrant, which lists Microsoft, PayPal, and eBay as part of a criminal investigation. The Verge reached out to the West Australian Police and a spokesperson confirmed the…

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Police refute Samsung’s claim that fatal gas leak was contained

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Korean police have today accused Samsung of lying about the containment of a fatal gas leakage at one of the manufacturer’s semiconductor plants. At the time of the occurrence, the business informed press that “the possibility of a crack past [ Samsung property ] is no,” however brand-new evidence reveals that this could not hold true. The authorities cite CCTV footage from within the plant’s control room that shows upkeep workers discharging a few of the hazardous hydrofluoric acid with a ventilation system outside the factory walls. Ecological teams have actually declared that levels of the acid have been greater than typical up to 2 kilometers away from the plant, although neither the authorities nor Samsung have actually verified those cases.

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Greek police Photoshop away bruises in mug shots, prompting public outcry

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A Greek district attorney has requested an examination into whether retouched mug shots are covering up evidence of authorities brutality, Reuters reports. Earlier in February, 4 young guys were arrested throughout a tried armed bank burglary, and photos taken at the time of their arrest show heavy bruises or split lips. Mug shots launched shortly afterwards, however, didn’t compare– they ‘d been improperly Photoshopped, with injuries obviously gone.

Critics have actually accused authorities of singling out and beating the suspects, then altering pictures to downplay the degree of their injuries. “My son– and the others apprehended– was not treated like every various other law violator however with particular hatred because he is an anarchist,” states the mom of …

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The App That Watches The Police Has More Eyes Than Ever

The NYCLU's Stop and Frisk Watch app is coming to the iPhone after successfully documenting 200 stop-and-frisk incidents in NYC.

The New York Police Department clearly has a message for the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Stop and Frisk Watch app, which makes it easy for anyone to record and report police misconduct.

The app, which launched for Android in June arrives today for the iPhone.

A video sent by NYPD officers to the NYCLU through its app that looks to document “stop-and-frisk” practices.

It’s easy to use: One tap starts recording, then you shake it to stop. Enter information about what you saw and where, and hit send. The NYCLU reviews every video and report it receives and investigates all submissions representing misconduct to the fullest extent possible. There's an alert system telling you if other app users are recording nearby.

Since the Android version launched last June, users have submitted 200 videos documenting police incidents. With the iPhone version, the NYCLU expects those numbers to increase.

“While we've yet to see a 'Rodney King' moment, Stop and Frisk Watch submissions have confirmed a number of concerns the NYCLU has about stop-and-frisk abuse and has provided New Yorkers with a powerful tool to document police abuse,” announced Donna Lieberman, head of the NYCLU. “We're proud that the app is used every day in New York City and that the attention it has received has encouraged people to document and expose police activity with their smart phones.”

“Stop and frisk,” a controversial NYPD practice of stopping young men — nearly always men, and nearly always minorities — and frisking them on the street in public has been highly controversial. In 2011, NYPD stopped and questioned people 685,724 times. Nine out of ten of those stopped were innocent, and 87% were black or Latino.

The NYCLU received 5,000 video recordings, the majority of which were users trying to test the app. The new version includes a how-to video to alleviate that problem. “But that's a good problem to have,” NYCLU told BuzzFeed. “It's wonderful to know that more than 5,000 people were so focused on the issue and so excited to get involved that they were testing the app and seeing how it works.”

Despite the low number of actual police incidents recorded, the NYCLU has received numerous requests from other groups, including ACLU affiliates, who want to create similar apps of their own.

Proponents of recording police actions on video, like Joseph Hayden of All Things Harlem, claim they've successfully changed the way the NYPD operates. Hayden has been posting videos of stop-and-frisk-related police misconduct since 2008 on his website, which was originally a community news outlet. It's now a leading source of Cop Watch videos.

“The NYPD routinely looks at our videos and responds on YouTube and Facebook,” says Hayden. “It has reached such a point now that they know they are under the microscope and that has had a tremendous impact.”


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Police issue warning after Apple Maps leads drivers astray in Australian wilderness

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Local police in the urban area of Mildura, Australia, have been forced to alert motorists of the inaccuracies consisted of within Apple’s Maps app for iOS 6. Maps listings Mildura in the middle of Murray Sunset National forest, about 70km far from where it should be, and the authorities have had to rescue drivers that ended up in the incorrect place– some stranded without food or water for 24 hours. Others were obliged to walk “long distances with unsafe terrain” in order to get phone reception; since temperatures could reach up to 46 & deg; Celsius (115 & deg; Fahrenheit), the police have actually called it a “possibly deadly concern.”

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The shortcomings of Apple Maps are well-documented, and it’s definitely not the very first time mapping options have triggered …

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AT&T suspends 2G in Oakland after cell towers step on police frequencies

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An $ 18 million buck radio system acquired by the Oakland Police Division has been giving fixed as an alternative of 10-30s in progress, and the meddling party has now been collared– AT&T. Local officials and the FCC informed the mobile network that its towers were shutting out police communication, particularly when patrol vehicles were within a quarter-mile of one. However, some local pundits have said the issue is of the PD’s own producing, claiming it bought an inferior system and didn’t check carefully enough for disturbance before making the buy. As an outcome, AT&T has briefly closed down 2G frequencies around the city– providing the telecom giant an unplanned sneak preview of the upcoming phase-out.

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PlayBook Mobile Responder app puts police tools in a finger-friendly package

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The PlayBook could not have taken off in the consumer market, but its enterprise-friendly functions may assist it discover a residence in other places– especially now that it’s packing a speedy 4G radio. Fresh on the heels of the LTE edition hitting Canadian coasts, Intergraph has unveiled its Mobile Responder application that turns RIM’s slate into a formidable tool for police and additional unexpected emergency responders. The app taps into the business’s Pc Aided Dispatch system, which draws in information from police data sources, keeps dispatch centers simply a tap away and allows the immediate filing of event reports. The suite is getting its first public demo next week at the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Nova Scotia. For even more, check out the PR after the break.

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