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POPS Buried Loot a Mystery for Authorities The money is always the same - decaying $100 bills from the 1970s and 1980s. It's the story that keeps changing: _It was an inheritance. _Somebody dug up a tree and there it was. _It was found in a suitcase buried in an alfalfa field. _A relative found a treasure map. (AP) Eric Walsh examines water damaged U.S. currency at the Mutilated Currency Division of the Treasury... Full Image No matter where it came from or who found it, that buried treasure stands to make someone rich. It could also send someone to jail. Felhaber is a customs broker, a middleman. His company, F.C. Felhaber & Co., is just minutes away from the bridge between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Tens of billions of dollars of Mexican goods cross that bridge each year, aided by people such as Felhaber who navigate the customs bureaucracy. Customs brokers don't own the stuff that comes into the United States. They just make sure it gets here.
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POPSAsimov's 30 Laws of Robotics Par 1 (#13-20) Yes I skipped #12. Why? Because I am not a robot and I did not find it very funny nor did #18 so it was skipped too... I REALLY AM TRYING TO CUT DOWN MULTIPLE CLIPS of one posting but it is hard.! Which brings me to: Revenant's Laws (Really Guidelines) to Quasi-Human Behavior 1. The Reaper with the Sickle gets to clip what HE likes, and for that matter in whatever order he likes... 2. He is entitled to change his mind at any time but now. OK now he can, See it is easy. 3. Humans need to lighten up and take things in stride, no one gets out of life alive so there! :P 4. Clips by me are sometimes too long, but never too short so you have that to be thankful for! 5. Donations are in the form of cashier's check made out to cash... Sorry, I get a little silly at times..
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POPSLiving in the Future Some info and videos about how technology might change daily life in the future: the house of tomorrow, a supermarket of the future and a robotic restaurant.
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POPShurray for the return of stuntmen (and stuntwomen) For a long time now, I've preferred practical, in-camera effects over computer graphics. The human eye *knows* when it's looking at a real explosion, or a real person getting thrown from a horse, or a real dam collapsing and water gushing through. I doubt the problem of the Uncanny Valley will ever be solved. I kind of hope it never is.
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POPSSin by any other name Interesting how culture changes ones perspective. The things the bible calls sin does not seem to make the top 10 list. I guess the reason for that is most churches do not preach about sin anymore. So then society is left to it's own devises to come up with respectable behavior.
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POPSBan wanted on novelty lighters I believe these should be clearly labeled as 'lighters' and probably make some mention of 'this item is not a toy'. That being said...most loose lighters for sale in stores are displayed in close proximity to a cashier, where they can be monitored. Parents have an individual responsibility for keeping lighters, cute or not, away from their children - I don't think we need a government ban to save us from these. ;)
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POPSCracking Open The Cybercrime Economy
"Over the years, the criminal elements, the ones who are making money, making millions out of all this online crime, are just getting stronger and stronger. I don't think we are really winning this war." While law enforcement co-operation with government and the IT community is paramount in addressing the problem in the short term, longer-term solutions must be found. One way to address the issue of the growth of the "black cybereconomy" in the long term is to harness the IT talent in developing countries that otherwise might be co-opted into illegal activity, say security experts. "We have to make it more attractive to be in the white economy than in the black--when that happens we will turn a corner. We're starting to see that happen as companies look to less expensive economies as places to put people. In Eastern Europe and Asia there are highly skilled people where there are less opportunities--this is where the black economy is fueled now," said McAfee's Telafici.
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POPS Bungling Counterfeit Gang Had the counterfeit notes been genuine, added prosecutor Martin Evans, it would have meant they were worth nearly three quarters of the £39 billion currently in use around the world. Apart from any other considerations, the apparently forged signature on the notes was incorrect, the court heard. Sir Jasper Quintus Hollam - who was not appointed the chief cashier of the Bank of England until 1963 - always used his first two initials when signing his name, rather than just the second the alleged counterfeiters had used.
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