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Ok, this guy has to be one of the dumbest people alive. He filmed himself lying on the tracks while a train rolls over top.

He comes away from it all okay, but just think of everything that could have gone wrong with this stunt! He is very lucky not to have hurt himself.

Via Spluch

Sometimes people are just too stupid for their own good. It seems that some officers in the Japanese defense forces decided that storing top secret documents in with their porn collections was a good idea. Those collections were later shared with other officers who did not have clearance for the classified information. No one noticed until later that the top secret documents were in the same folder with the porn.
There are so many things wrong with this situation.
Why in the world did they think that their porn collection was a good place to hide secret documents? If a hacker ever got a hold of one of those computers you can be sure they would at least look at the porn folders.
Why were the officers keeping their collections on military computers in the first place? Seems like your own personal documents and porn collections shouldn’t be on government computers in the first place.
Why were the classified documents not encrypted in some way? Really, having them in the clear is a big security risk.
I would say that the Japanese military is obviously not very good at protecting secrets, but here in the US we seem to be just as stupid. It seems that the National Nuclear Security Agency whose job is to protect our nuclear secrets lost a whole bunch of its desktop computers recently.

Check out the story: Porn swap tied to Aegis info leak

Denning McTague, an antiques and rare books dealer was interning for the national Archives in Philadelphia last summer. It seems that while he was working there, he walked out with at least 165 civil war documents. Including the official War Department’s announcement of President Lincoln’s death. He then sold them on Ebay to private collectors. It seems that one of the items he sold, aroused suspicion and got the FBI involved in an investigation. McTague was working with the Archives arranging and organizing documents for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
He’s now been caught and arrested, but has been cooperating with law enforcement on retrieving the items he stole. Most of the documents have been retrieved already.

What caught me about this story, was how he was able to simply walk out of the archives taking the documents. He wasn’t caught stealing them, he was caught after the fact when he was selling them. Seems like the Archives should have had better security and accounting of it’s documents.

The guy has a website where he sells books, but the site seems to be down. I’m not sure if that is because of the extra traffic this story has generated, or because he took the site down himself.
Check out his site here assuming that it ever comes back up,
and the story here

Found this interesting story about a teacher who was trying to buy marijuana. It seems that she was trying to set up a meeting with her dealer but got the number wrong. instead of her dealers number, she ended up messaging the cell phone of an offduty cop. The cop thought the messages were a joke at first, but then decided they were real. So he set up a meeting with her. When she came to pick up her drugs, she was arrested instead. The best thing about the article was the statement by the cop at the end. “She learned her lesson. Program your dealers into your phone”

You can check out the story here.

There is a big story floating around the Internet right now about Jesus’ tomb. Director James Cameron has just finished a documentary in which he claims to have found Jesus’ tomb and his immediate family. Furthermore, he claims that Jesus is still in the tomb along with his alleged wife, Mary Magdalene, and son Judah.
What proof does he have? Basically none.
He claims that the names on the coffins are too significant to be coincidence. The names inscribed are Jesua and Mariameme. He claims that Mariameme means Mary Magdalene and Jesua means Jesus. He further mentions DNA evidence as proving this conclusively. But if you read his own press site and all the news stories, it becomes clear that the only thing his DNA tests proved was that Jesua was related to people buried in the tomb. Which is not the same thing as proving that he was the Jesus in the Bible.
According to the chief archaeologist who excavated the site, Amos Kloner, the names listed were common at that time. Furthermore, while the name Jesua is a known alternate name for Jesus, the name Mariameme is not considered an alternate for Mary. So basically, this is nothing but a sensationalist stunt to get publicity for his film. No one who sees the evidence is going to be swayed in either direction by it.
You can read the BBC story here.
The official Discovery Channel Documentary page here.