“We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.
But manipulating humans?
Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was.
Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. ”
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“The 17-year-old admitted last week in federal court to a series of crimes that including hacking Internet and phone service providers, and making bomb threats to high schools in Florida and Massachusetts over a 15-month period.”
Watch how many people will stand up and say, “All he did was hack into her Treo! Why does he get 11 months?” Well because he did a lot of other bad stuff too!
” Hilton could not be reached for comment on the case because she was traveling in a country where her cell phone does not work, her publicist Robert Zimmerman said Wednesday.”
If that isn’t the line of the day, I don’t know what is.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) – Investigators say a man who was wearing
headphones was hit and killed by a freight train early today.
Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel Snoddy was found by the tracks near
the 11-thousand-500 block of Game Preserve Road in Gaithersburg.
Police say he died at the scene.
This morning’s incident caused delays on the MARC Brunswick
Line, but normal service is expected this afternoon.
It’s the latest incident involving trains in Montgomery County.
On March first, an Amtrak train hit two men as they walked along
the tracks in Rockville. One died on the spot, while police
announced today that the other has since died. And less than a
month ago, a man was hit and killed by a train in Kensington.
I got this email today, and I thought I would be a good boy and check it out.
Snopes Says It’s True
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