A young man named Jeremy Gillian stole another young man's XBox 360 in a robbery and then turned it on… with the network and Gamertag intact. The results are as you'd expect: the victim was able to grab the IP, police tracked it to Gillian's grandmother's house, and the XBox and a trove of...
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Tags: Bit Of Fun, bronx, Detective, Detectives, Face Value, Gillian, Grandmother, Headline, John Hynes, Kudos, Microsoft, Newspapers, Ny Post, Robbery, Theft, Trove, xbox, XBOX 360, Xbox Live, Young Man
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We love DIY projects here at Lifehacker. Whether we're building computers, backyard projects, or turning office supplies into artillery, we're always tinkering. Today we're taking a peek at the most popular DIY projects of 2009.
Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition
Inspired by a tutorial we posted last year, we decided to make our own...
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Tags: Backyard Projects, best of 2009, Books, Building A Computer, Building A Computer From Scratch, Building Computers, Building Your Own Computer, camera, Cooking, Digital Frame, Digital Picture Frame, Diy, diy creations, Diy Projects, feature, First Timer, food, Functional Computer, Gardening, Gun Salute, Hackintosh, hdtv, home, Household, How To Build A Computer, Laptop Stand, Laptop Stands, laptops, Lifehacker, Lighting, Lighting Accessory, mac os x, Media, Media Center, modo, Monitors, office, Office Machinery, Old Laptop, Outdoors, Own Creations, Sharpie Markers, Theft, top, tv, Wall Space
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Some Netflix news for you this morning. It looks like a 49-year-old post office worker is facing a maximum of five years in federal prison after having plead guilty to federal theft charges. What was he stealing? Oh, you know, some 3,000 Netflix DVDs over the years.
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Tags: Chat Room, Delivery Time, Distribution Facility, dvd, Dvd Logo, dvds, Faces, Federal Prison, Headline, Mail Delivery, Massachusetts, Netflix, Notch, Odds, Office Worker, Old Post Office, Planet Earth, Surveillance Footage, Theft, Theft Charges, Time One, Weathers, Yup
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A postal service supervisor working at a Minneapolis mail distribution center “has admitted taking nearly 16,000 Best Buy reward certificates and using them to buy almost $200,000 in merchandise” between June 2007 and October 2008, according to the Star Tribune.
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Tags: 37 Inch Lcd Televisions, Best Buy, Best Buy Reward, Best Buy Reward Zone, Buy Star, Distribution Center, Fesses, Headline, Mail, Mail Distribution, Minneapolis, Parkes, Popular Items, Postal Service, Postal Worker, Reward Certificates, Service Supervisor, Star Tribune, Theft, usps
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Samuel Borgese was recently featured on The New York Times, as part of a story that points out how gadget makers in the US seem less inclined to help out owners of stolen who don’t want thieves to profit. Borgese’s brilliant idea? When someone registers a second-hand gadget, the maker should send an email...
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Tags: Amazon, Borgese, Brilliant Idea, Corresponding Service, Definite Winner, Electronic Book Reader, Gadget Makers, gadget theft, gadgets, Handhelds, Imposition, kindle, New York Times, Platforms, Propriety, Register, Samuel Borgese, Score Points, Send An Email, Send Email, Services, Specific Service, Theft, Thief, Thieves, Traceable Record
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