Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October.
The manager also revealed the existence of a previously undisclosed web portal that Sprint provides law enforcement to conduct automated “pings” to track users. Through the website, authorized agents can type in a mobile phone number and obtain global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of the phone.
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posted by pierow at 7:01 pm
Zillow.com has a listing of famous houses ranging from the Beverly Hillbillies mansion to the Playboy mansion, the Brady Bunch house, and the Beverly Hills 90210 home. All of the write-ups have aerial photographs, an estimated value and some general information about the property. You can also take the addresses from Zillow and feed them into Google Maps to get a street view, overhead satellite view and more. For example, here’s a Google Maps view of the Beverly Hillbillies mansion at 750 Bel Air Rd Los Angeles CA 90077.
Zillow also has some Famous Homes of U.S. Presidents – though for some reason they’re less interesting.
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posted by pierow at 6:27 pm
There are a ton of recipes on the ‘net for homemade mouthwash. Some sound like they would taste horrible while others are more like cocktails than mouthwash. Since drinking actual store-bought mouthwash is terrible for your health, maybe mixing up your own cocktail mouthwash is actually the way to go if you’re trying to get drunk off mouthwash. This example from Pioneer Thinking is a fine example of a cocktail/mouthwash mix:
Lemon Mouthwash Recipe
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posted by pierow at 6:54 pm