Every month, the FBI loses track of three to four laptop computers, some of which contain classified or sensitive information, according to a report released Monday by the inspector general for the Department of Justice. During a 44-month period from Feb. 1, 2002, to Sept. 30, 2005, the bureau reported 160 lost or stolen laptops, according to the report. In addition, the bureau said 160 weapons had been lost or stolen.
"Dude, where's my gun?"
Inspector General Glenn Fine said that was an improvement for the FBI because, in the previous 28-month period, 317 laptops were reported lost or stolen -- about 11 a month. In the same time frame, officials could not account for 354 weapons. "The FBI has made some progress in improving its controls over weapons and laptops," Fine said. "However, significant deficiencies remain, particularly with regard to the FBI's response to lost or stolen laptops that may contain sensitive information."
Still, I'll wager somebody got a award for improving from totally incompetant to just plain ignorant.
The inspector general's inquiry found that at least 10 of the 160 missing laptops contained sensitive or classified information -- and one of those contained names, addresses and telephone numbers for FBI personnel.
Please let them fall into the hands of idenity thieves
For another 51 missing laptops, the FBI was unable to say whether they contained sensitive or classified data even though seven of them came from counterintelligence and counterterrorism divisions that routinely handle national security information.
This from the people who say Scooter Libby lied to them.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the number of lost weapons and computers is "unacceptable." "Tracking these deadly weapons and computers may seem like it's not worth the time to some in law enforcement," Grassley said. "But it's critical to public safety, national security and the credibility of the FBI and the other agencies that are losing personal information on Americans." Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the losses were "especially troubling" at a time "when Americans are increasingly confronted with reports of major data breaches involving lost or stolen laptops, and with the dangers of identity theft."
When Robert Mueller took over as director of the FBI in 2001, he promised to "restore the public's confidence" in the bureau, which had been embarrassed by its management of documents related to the case against Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the spy scandal involving agent Robert Hanssen, and its chronic loss of weapons and laptops.
Not to mention Ruby Ridge, Waco, Chinese female spies, etc..
The FBI has implemented new requirements for reporting lost or stolen weapons and laptops.
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The FBI has implemented new requirements for reporting lost or stolen weapons and laptops.
Oh yeah, that'll solve the problem. Now they'll be able to tell us exactly how many contained sensitive material and the calibers of all the missing weapons, rather than vague guesses.
Three girls who were imprisoned by their mother in a house of indescribable filth for seven years may never recover from the ordeal, experts said last night. The girls were shut away from the outside world, existing in almost complete darkness, playing only with mice and communicating in their own language.
When they were discovered, their home in a smart, upper middle-class suburb had no running water and was filled with waste and excrement a metre high. The floor was corroded by mice urine.
The case has stunned Austria, still reeling from the Natascha Kampusch kidnapping, and the authorities were struggling last night to explain how such a horror story could have gone unnoticed.
The girls ordeal was apparently sparked by their parents divorce, after which their mother, a 53-year-old lawyer, suffered a breakdown. But she won custody of the girls then aged 7, 11 and 13 and withdrew them from school, claiming that she would give them private tuition at home. Her husband, a local judge in Linz, Upper Austria, named only as Andreas M, was not allowed to see them once, despite his claims for access reaching court nine times.
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explain please , how does a floor corrode from 'mice urine.' unless it is made of metal, corrode is not the word of choice.
on a serious note: how serious was the father really? i mean with him being a judge and all, he should have had access to many strings ready for the pulling in order to see his girls.....if he really wanted to. this smells like a cover ploy.
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I noticed also that the mom is an attorney. Dad's a judge. Should make for a good legal fight over who's going down over this. Actually, I think both parents should be shot!
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If modern Austrian construction is anything like in Germany, the floors were poured concrete. Presumably the ammonia in the urine caused the surface layer to break down, to whatever depth.
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ARLINGTON, VA--Some of our most powerful weapons have been removed from the battlefield--and sent to a shopping center near you. "We hope that the sale of new consumer goods based on military technologies will raise funds to protect America and will help civilians in the little battles they fight each day," said Army General Bradley Moorer.
The spin-off concept is nothing new--civilian technologies as familiar as the Internet and freeze-dried coffee were first cooked up in US military labs. But this is the first time the military has begun to manufacture and market products expressly for consumers.
The first of these products, which will hit store shelves next month, is the TONAR system--a warning device built into bedroom slippers to prevent users from stubbing their toes in the dark. "The system uses ultrasonic pulses to detect hard edges and sharp corners in the wearer's path of travel," Moorer said. "A gentle ping alerts users to tread lightly whenever painful obstacles threaten their feet." TONAR slippers will be available in navy.
Moorer also revealed that military vehicle designers--who introduced the Jeep and the Hummer to the American public--have returned to civilian roads with the new C-5 Galaxy Minivan. "The giant C-5 offers four times more storage space than the largest SUV currently available--enough room to fit three high-school soccer teams and all of their equipment," Moorer said. "And when time is scarce for loading up the C-5, the entire driver's cab--hood, windshield, seats, and all--can be swiveled open for direct access to payload and passenger areas."
Of course, all this convenience comes at a price: the C-5 only gets a half-mile a gallon. That's why the Department of Defense plans to offer an in-flight refueling service for the colossal minivan. At the press of a button, the driver can summon--using the latest satellite-phone and GPS technologies--a KC-135 Suburbotanker truck. The arriving Suburbotanker will follow closely behind the C-5, attaching a hose to the minivan's fuel port, and providing gas on the go for unlimited round-the-clock travel.
Reliable sources have also informed Weekly World News that some of the military's most advanced projects--gadgets so new that they haven't yet reached the battlefield--will also find their way into consumers' hands.
A new camouflage system, which renders tanks invisible by feeding live images of background terrain into armor-mounted video screens, will soon be woven into the fabric of women's fashions to make love handles and saddlebags disappear.
Cineplex owners can look forward to new jamming technologies which will prevent cell phones from ringing in the theater of operations. And supermarkets hope to clear aisles for customers using new long-range pricing guns with laser sights.
"We're proud to share our know-how with civilians," said General Moorer. "And we look forward to your support. Don't forget the slogan for our spin-off campaign: 'It is sweet and fitting to buy for one's country.'"
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Always makes me wonder what ever happened to Saddam's submarine they reported was in Lake Michigan?
The Loch Ness Monster ate it, remember? Of course, that was the same week that Michael Jackson eloped with Paris Hilton on a UFO, so the story was a tad bit underreported.
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I hear Al Gore wants one of those C-5's. He needs it to carry all of his Global Climate Change Warming presentations.
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I don't think WWN is really credible as a news source... EXCEPT for those nifty letters to the editor, which have been a great influence on my life and haver helped me deal with various occult phenomenon, including a short-lived demonic possession (which turned out to be bad gas, after all).
A 66-year-old German tourist, annoyed by stringent security at Manila's airport, dropped his pants before walking through an X-ray machine, newspapers said Monday.
Authorities were not amused. Instead of boarding a flight to Frankfurt on Friday, Hans Jurgen Oskar von Naguschewski was detained after police filed a complaint of lasciviousness against him, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star newspapers reported. "He must have been annoyed that he was asked to walk through the X-ray twice, so he took off his pants," airport security chief Angel Atutubo was quoted saying.
Oskar spent the weekend in police detention and was to face the prosecutor later Monday. If convicted, he could face six months to six years in jail. "He actually didn't say much, unlike Filipino passengers who would talk a lot. He was clearly irked and he showed it by disrobing," the Inquirer quoted police Supt. Atilano Morada saying.
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The state has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar and restaurant patrons who make one last pit stop before getting behind the wheel.
I wonder what NM taxpayers think about this...
"Hey there, big guy. Having a few drinks?" a female voice says a few seconds after an approaching male sets off a motion sensor in the device. "It's time to call a cab or ask a sober friend for a ride home."
"And it's time for you to STFU."
The devices, manufactured by New York-based Healthquest Technologies Inc., were invented by Richard Deutsch. He said there's no other device like it on the market.
At last-- something to be thankful for.
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"you call that a penis??"
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It's classic avoidance by the Donk pols, who run the state, to the issue of DWI which kills repeated and consistently around the state more than drivebys, WoT, or a bad batch of green chili croquets. They've passed all sort of laws, stiffer penalties, and have all sorts of enforcement, but they won't address the key non-player in the program, the judiciary. It's about every three or four months that another 'judge' is picked up DWI along with the usual repeat crowd and opportune mass murders. That's cause in the state the patron system of family and cousins and friends need to cover for each other. It's about who you know. Consider it Mexico lite.
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The best urinal idea I've heard of was what they did in the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. Each urinal had a small picture of a housefly painted on it, right at the optimal place to pee to minimize splashing. The found out that psychologically, it is almost irresistible to want to hit that damn fly.
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I predict smashed "Urinal Cakes" on the bathroom floor.
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Talking or not, I'm not very fond of urinal cakes anyway, they're not very good-tasting... in fact, I've never tasted cakes so sour, and yet, I've eaten a lot of cakes in my life.
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follow up to BR: who gets sued when / if said battery gets shorted out and the resulting charge flows up the discharge? anybody who has 'hit' an electric fence knows what (watt) i am talking about.....
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It would be fun to reformat the cakes to play dixie chick songs. Now that would make sense. Hell I'd buy one and put in the outhouse. Right next to the stack of korans we used for toilet paper.
Police in West Yarmouth said there was so much trash in 53-year-old Ann Ann Biglan's Ford Focus that some of it fell onto the gas and brake pedals, causing her to lose control. While losing control, Biglan drove through a post office parking space, over the curb and across a freeway. She then hit a Ford Explorer and backed over another sidewalk before finally crashing into a flowerpot in a gas station's parking lot.
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You just know that someone will complain that drinking [fast food] coffee while driving is a threat to everyone + national security + aids terrorists - only the Gubmint can save America from McDonald's and Juan Valdez.
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Anything on the floor under the driver is dangerous. Friends-of-friends, driving thru Alice Springs, had a can of WD40 roll under the brake pedal as they came up to a red light. They got hit by a truck, weren't killed but terrible injuries. I took a lesson from that one.
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Severe hoarding is a standard flavour of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. There are some very good medicines for that nowadays, but it usually doesn't get diagnosed until the sufferers are in their 40s to 50s. Get Miss Biglan to a good psychiatrist and she'll be totally cured within a year, probably less.
NEW YORK Daniel Walker was on his final lap jogging in his high school gym class when he collapsed, his flawed heart giving out on him.
Days later, his heart at a standstill, kept alive by a bypass machine, it began beating again. The 17-year-old's parents called it divine intervention. His physicians were no less amazed. "I've been a surgeon for 10 years, and this is probably one of the most incredible things I've ever seen," said Dr. Abeel Mangi, one of Walker's cardiac surgeons at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia.
Walker's father described his son's recovery in spiritual terms. "God turned around, put His hand on my son, and recharged him," said William Walker, 58, a retired sanitation worker.
His son's ordeal began Jan. 19 when he collapsed in gym class. The younger Walker suffered from a rare congenital heart flaw that left his coronary artery pinched, giving him only 10 percent of normal heart capacity. He was shuttled to two hospitals before finding himself at Columbia, waiting for a heart transplant, attached to the bypass machine.
Walker's cardiac surgeons said they could not account for the young man's recovery. "It's a miracle," Mangi said. "There's really no other way to put it."
Two days after it began to beat on its own, surgeons were able to fix the flaw in Walker's heart, increasing its capacity to 60 percent. Looks like a good ending, unlike this one.
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In one of those silly, common sense moments, a few years ago heart surgeons learned that as long as the blood was circulating properly and being re-oxygenated, it didn't need a heartbeat.
For years they just assumed that a heartbeat was an essential part of the circulation. This made heart-lung machines much more complex than they needed to be.
Another odd trivia bit that might explain why people can't survive on artificial hearts for too long, was the discovery that the heart actually secretes a tiny amount of some hormone of indeterminate purpose.
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Given the vulnerability of New Orleans, we shouldn't be working toward re-building the city as it was before the big wind. Power politics is impeding rational building schemes.
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Wasn't there an article on the Net this week, about how the Feds = FEMA are complaining that many 00's or 000's of Fed-subsidized trailers were rendered unusable by their former [tempor?] occupants. Basically just abandoned and left for the Feds to clean up the trailers for the next occupants???
The Department of Education says that it will open a public school next fall dedicated to Arabic language and culture. The Khalil Gibran International Academy is one of 40 new schools that will their debut in the city next September.
Education officials say that although half the classes at the school will be taught in Arabic, they want to enroll a diverse student body. The school is set to open in Brooklyn.
Ugh. Khalil Gibran, that dreadful Lebanese Christian poseur poet that all the pseudointellectuals used to quote. My father has even stronger opinions on the man, but then he had to hear the stuff as the books first hit the bookstores. An interesting choice of names, though -- not at all appealing to the Wahhabi/CAIR types. Hopefully this will result in a large group of future Army Intelligence translators a few years down the road.
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And yet if I opened an Irish school, dedicated to Irish culture and taught in the gailic language, I would be called a racist and a white supremacist.
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Isn't the mayor of New York a Jew ?
Is he yet another appeaser ?
Yesterday, some muzzie killed 5 in Salt Lake City.
We gotta pull the tooth, not appease it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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Every month, the FBI loses track of three to four laptop computers, some of which contain classified or sensitive information, according to a report released Monday by the inspector general for the Department of Justice. During a 44-month period from Feb. 1, 2002, to Sept. 30, 2005, the bureau reported 160 lost or stolen laptops, according to the report. In addition, the bureau said 160 weapons had been lost or stolen. 
A 66-year-old German tourist, annoyed by stringent security at Manila's airport, dropped his pants before walking through an X-ray machine, newspapers said Monday. 
"Mountains of trash" inside car blamed for wreck
NEW YORK Daniel Walker was on his final lap jogging in his high school gym class when he collapsed, his flawed heart giving out on him.
