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Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison 596

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 24, 2008 @10:06AM from the must-have-hurt dept.

Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.

Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas 328

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 15, 2008 @08:34AM from the where's-tiny-ender-when-you-need-him dept.

AntOverlords writes "Voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet."

Comment Re:They managed to... (Score 2, Insightful) 110

by pdiaz on Sunday January 22, 2006 @03:10PM (#14533797) Attached to: Wikimedia Commons reaches 400,000 Files

grammer? or grammar?. Ahh, the irony...

Comment Re:Backing up is like voting (Score 1) 415

by mustang51 on Saturday August 09, 2003 @12:38PM (#6655009) Attached to: Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way

And in the case he was using RAID1 instead of RAID0, all of the drives might had failed to loss any data. Remember, RAID0 is stripping, RAID1 is mirroring.

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