prison
Phones
Senate Passes Bill That Allows Mobile Phone Jamming In Prisons
9:00AM Sean Fallon | The US Senate has passed the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 — allowing authorities to jam mobile phone signals inside prisons. More »
Random Stuff
1:12PM Chris Oaten | We can think of a whole bunch of things belonging firmly in the headslap category. There’s that recent silliness with iSnack 2.0, for starters. But this one strains plausability. It seems the management at a certain English prison thought it would be a good idea to save a few dollars on technical services by borrowing the skills of an inmate. Turns out the inmate was a convicted hacker. Left alone. With a computer. Duh. [Switched] via [Digg].
Convicted Hacker Paralyses Prison Network. Duh.
1:12PM Chris Oaten | We can think of a whole bunch of things belonging firmly in the headslap category. There’s that recent silliness with iSnack 2.0, for starters. But this one strains plausability. It seems the management at a certain English prison thought it would be a good idea to save a few dollars on technical services by borrowing the skills of an inmate. Turns out the inmate was a convicted hacker. Left alone. With a computer. Duh. [Switched] via [Digg].
Business
Ferrari-Crashing Gizmondo Head Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison
10:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Stefan Eriksson, head of Gizmondo (the failed handheld gaming company who couldn’t even plagiarise our name correctly), was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for robbery, attempted blackmail and making illegal threats (which threats are legal?). More »
Music
Phil Spector Requests iPod To Pass The Time While In Jail
1:45PM Dan Nosowitz | Famed Beatles producer and founding member of the Horrible Mugshot Hall of Fame Phil Spector is beginning to serve his 19-year prison sentence for murder, and made a specific request to help him pass the time: An iPod. More »
Random Stuff
The Death Row Inmate Who Turned His Toilet Into an Electric Chair
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Michael Anderson Godwin was a murderer. He was awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair in 1989 when he decided to fix his TV set while sitting on his cell’s metal toilet. You can probably see where this is going. More »
Gadgets
The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
3:00AM Sean Fallon | Sometimes it takes a little tough love to get your kids going in the right direction. For some, it might even take medieval love. That’s where the Study Ball comes in. More »
Toys
R/C Helicopter Used to Smuggle Contraband Into Prison
7:40AM Sean Fallon | Guards at Elmley Prison in the UK recently spotted a R/C helicopter fly over the jailhouse walls towards the prisoner’s quarters with a small cargo attached underneath the fuselage. More »
Computers
Asus Gets Customer Locked Up For 10 Months Over Defective Hardware
9:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | The Beijing Times is reporting on a shocking court case involving Asus and a young female customer named Huang Jing. It all started back in 2006 when Huang bought a V6800V model ASUS laptop from a Beijing retailer and quickly discovered it to be defective. She sent the computer back to Asus several times for repairs, but the problems persisted. Upon further examination, one of the replacement CPUs used to “fix” the computer was actually an Intel “engineering sample” and therefore unlawful to sell. Now here is where things get really crazy. More »
Entertainment
Music On Cassette Tape Is Still the Bomb…If You’re In Prison
8:40AM John Mahoney | Los Angeles mail order catalog Pack Central may have found the last untapped pocket of consumers willing to pay retail for their music on physical formats–the cellblocks of our great nation’s prisons. And not just any format–turns out, music on cassette is the only way to get tunes that isn’t screened out as a potential deadly weapon. Wait, they still sell new music on cassettes? More »
Gadgets
