Screw you Cardinal Fintess

Screw Cardinal Fitness... my debit card was fraudulently used a few weeks ago, they tried charging it for my gym membership on 11-20, and of course it didn't go through and they've already sent me to collections... they didn't like try calling me, didn't say jack... they tacked on a 15$ insufficient funds fee (you mean, my card was declined, becuase it was stolen?) and handed it off to some collections agency... my membership was due the 20th of November, automatically taken out of my account... been a member since the spring, never been late once... here it is 6th of December and they've handed me off to a collection agency becuase my card didn't call through. Screw them, I'll find a new gym!

Google Admits to Trespassing in Pa., Pays $1 Fine

Seriously... this is what the hell is wrong with our courts, when someone sues a billion dollar company for $1 over a photo... then how can justice for REAL cases be handled?

 

Google has acknowledged trespassing by taking a photo of a Pennsylvania couple's home for its Street View service, but the company will pay only $1 in damages.

U.S. District Magistrate Judge Cathy Bissoon in Pittsburgh signed a consent judgment Thursday.

A Google spokeswoman tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which first reported the settlement, that the resolution is limited to the Pennsylvania case and that the company won't stop taking photos. See the rest HERE

Pollution Causes Homosexuality in Birds, Study Suggests

Um... what?

The nature versus nurture debate just took an unexpected turn -- thanks to pollution.

Increased exposure to the toxic chemical mercury can affect sexual preference in certain species of birds -- inducing homosexuality, a new study has revealed.

Peter Frederick, an ecologist from the University of Florida, and Nilmini Jayasena from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka found that male American white ibises that consumed methylmercury, the most toxic and easily digested form of mercury found in the environment, were more likely to pair with other males. In wild ibis populations with no mercury exposure, same-sex pairing is non-existent.

"We knew that mercury was likely to affect reproductive hormones from an earlier study," Frederick told FoxNews.com, "so we suspected some aspect of reproduction would be affected, like whether the birds came into reproductive condition or whether they were too aggressive to pair." See the rest HERE

Unmanned US Spacecraft Returns After 7-Month Trip

Now... I want to know what it's cargo and mission was... and why it dissapeared for a bit while it was up there.


Force's secrecy-shrouded X-37B unmanned spaceplane returned to Earth early Friday after more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission, officials said.

The winged craft autonomously landed at at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, Vandenburg spokesman Jeremy Eggers said.

"It's very exciting," Eggers said of the 1:16 a.m. PST landing.

The X-37B was launched by an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 22, with a maximum mission duration of 270 days. See the rest HERE


'Hacktivist' Jester Claims Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attack

This guy reminds me of J.C. Hutchins character Killroy from the 7th son novels (which are great by the way, check them out on http://www.podiobooks.com or at http://jchutchins.net/and you can follow J.C. Hutchins on twitter  @jchutchins

The 'hacktiviest' is on twitter @th335t3jr and at his/her/their blog at http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/ and if you happen to see this Jester... keep it up, you are a hero.

 

What goes around comes around: Someone is hacking the hacktivist. And it may be none other than the hacktivist himself.

A self-described patriotic hacktivist known as “The Jester” — who has garnered a reputation for taking down jihadist websites and is believed by those familiar with his work to be responsible for taking WikiLeaks offline during its recent dump of State Department cables — is claiming to be the victim himself of an online impostor trying to cash in on his name.

But that's hardly all there is to the story. See the rest HERE

 

 

Camera in Skull Is 'Uncomfortable For Sure,' NYU Professor Says

This is awesome, but at the same time a bit silly, a bit absurd, and sounds just rather annoying and/or painful.

 

Implanting a camera in the back of his head as part of an art project may have granted a New York University (NYU) photography professor, Wafaa Bilal, a certain notoriety in the last several weeks, but it has robbed him of something else: dinner-party invitations, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Concerned about the intrusion of his head-camera, which is rigged to broadcast online a live stream of images snapped automatically at one-minute intervals, some of Bilal's acquaintances have removed him from their guest lists, he said in his first interview about the project.

But he is not offended: "If people don't accept it, then I don't want the invitation," Bilal said. "It's part of me, and that's the idea." See the rest HERE