News of the Weird

[Beskar]

Politician goes to flood ravaged area and sings happy birthday to a woman who had her home flooded.

[rajpoot]

Politician goes to flood ravaged area and sings happy birthday to a woman who had her home flooded.

Oh boy with the Madras floods and Rahul Gandhi having visited them recently I was so sure this would be about him.

[rajpoot]

A new nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Husar]

British man sells fresh air to China:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6857461.html

Leo De Watts, 27, sells air collected in the British countryside and ships it over to polluted cities Shanghai and Beijing, where the wealthy elite pay a hefty sum for a few seconds of inhalation.

The Aethaer products include air from Somerset, Wales and Dorset, with each area said to create air with different qualities.

[Beskar]

British man sells fresh air to China:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6857461.html

[naut]

Rowdy Fowler Arrested in Police Raid of Cockfighting Ring

Rowdy Fowler, 39, was taken into custody on suspicion of animal cruelty. Fowler owns the property at 1673 FM 2104 in Paige, Texas, about 45 miles east of Austin, according to the Bastrop County Sheriff's Office.


After receiving a noise complaint from a neighbor, deputies raided the property where dozens of people had gathered for the alleged cockfighting event, according to a news release.


Authorities seized 130 roosters, four of which "died as a result of their injuries," the release said.

[Crandar]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...crash-wreckage

[Fragony]

Why didn't we think of this before, eureka moment. Let's combat radicalisation of youth by paying a trip from 20 European cities to theNetherlands and eat a herring with them.

Who cooks things like that up. Probably the same people who thought a free holiday to Marocco to catch butterflies would be a lfe-changing experience for hardened young criminals.

None of this is a joke.

[Viking]

The woman with 600 million IP addresses mapped to her home

As a result, for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database has been queried about the location of an IP address in the United States it can’t identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot two hours away from the geographic center of the country. [...] Which happens to be in the front yard of Joyce Taylor’s house.

“The first call I got was from Connecticut,” Taylor told me by phone this week. “It was a man who was furious because his business internet was overwhelmed with emails. His customers couldn’t use their email. He said it was the fault of the address at the farm. That’s when I became aware that something was going on.”

[...]

But over the next several months, the calls and visits intensified. When law enforcement agents asked companies like Google and Facebook for the IP addresses used by suspected criminals and then mapped them using tools like this that relied on the MaxMind database, it pointed at the Taylor house. Amateur sleuths who spotted IP addresses used by visitors to their websites or on message forums were so convinced that the Taylor house was the source of their various problems that they created reports about it on Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, the Ripoff Report and Google Plus. (Even today, if you Google the house’s address, it returns a series of websites detailing nefarious activities.)

The harassment continued to the point where the local sheriff had to intervene. He placed a sign at the end of the driveway warning people to stay away from the house and to call him with questions.

[Shaka_Khan]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36367221

Microsoft accused of Windows 10 upgrade 'nasty trick'


By Zoe Kleinman
Technology reporter, BBC News

Microsoft has faced criticism for changing the pop-up box encouraging Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Clicking the cross in the top-right hand corner of the pop-up box now agrees to a scheduled upgrade rather than rejecting it.

This has caused confusion as clicking the cross typically closes a pop-up notification.

The upgrade could still be cancelled when the scheduled time for it to begin appeared, Microsoft said.

The change occurred because the update is now labelled "recommended" and many people have their PCs configured to accept recommended updates for security reasons.

This means dismissing the box does not dismiss the update.

Brad Chacos, senior editor at the PC World website, described it as a "nasty trick".

"Deploying these dirty tricks only frustrates long-time Windows users who have very valid reasons to stick with operating systems they already know and love," he wrote.

Microsoft said: "With the free Windows 10 upgrade offer ending on 29 July, we want to help people upgrade to the best version of Windows.

"As we shared in October, Windows 10 will be offered as a 'recommended' update for Windows 7 and 8.1 customers whose Windows Update settings are configured to accept 'recommended' updates.

"Customers can choose to accept or decline the Windows 10 upgrade."

[Crandar]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ours-attempti/

[rajpoot]

I always knew, someone, someday, would militarize our music.

Next, they'll start dropping copies of Shah Rukh Khan's latest hit movies. ISIS cadres will surrender in waves.

[I of the Storm]

I'm sure this violates the Geneva convention.

But then again, does it apply to ISIS combatants at all?

Jolly good, carry on!

[InsaneApache]

They should have played some One Direction that would have really effed em up. :)

[Crandar]

The Olympic torch arrives in Brazil, the beloved host-country. Meanwhile, the Brazilian army executes their Olympic games mascot in cold blood.

Oh, the Latin America and her pronunciamentos...

[Fragony]

Dutch politics is just cooler http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven....html#comments best promo for a political party ever (nsfw, contains nudity, posted with permission)

Blond one is the party-leader, fetish-model and master in.. who cares

[Husar]

I admit it right away, I only read the title so far:

Royal Brunei Airlines' first all-female pilot crew lands plane in Saudi Arabia - where women are not allowed to drive

[Crandar]

Pokemon Go is a free application that allows its users to catch Pokemon, fight other trainers and earn badges by traveling in the real word.
So, far Pokemon are not the only thing discovered by the players, while it turned out that Sandshrew isn't found in the caves.

[Beskar]

Looks like Mr May is going to hit the stage as a fashion icon after the First Lady of SamCam branding.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/13/theres...t-man-6005294/

Below the neck corporate and above neck Peckham Hipster with those glasses.

[Hooahguy]

My home state, ladies and gentlemen.
NSFW for language.

[Beskar]

My home state, ladies and gentlemen.
NSFW for language.

I saw that in a linked clip of Rick and Morty.

[Hooahguy]

Oh right, I should probably link to that video. Its just as amazing as you might think. NSFW for language, of course.

[Csargo]

This clip was hilarious and extremely nsfw. I can't believe they went on like that for so long.

[Montmorency]

It's the adversarial system we deserve.

[Veho Nex]

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ommercial.html

Got no words for this one.

[Shaka_Khan]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-te...175212866.html

Police: Texas man caught with cocaine hidden under belly fat

[Beskar]

Nigel Farage hired by Fox News as a political analyst

Nigel Farage has been hired as a commentator for American TV network Fox News, the broadcaster has announced.
The former UKIP leader will provide political analysis for the main channel, and the Fox Business Network's daytime and primetime programmes.
Mr Farage has been one of the UK's most prominent supporters of US President Donald Trump and appeared alongside him during his election campaign.
He was the first UK politician to meet Mr Trump after his win in November.
It comes shortly after he was given his own nightly show on UK radio station LBC.
Mr Farage travelled to Washington for Mr Trump's inauguration on Friday.
After the ceremony he tweeted his approval saying: "A very strong speech by @POTUS. He means it."
He also appeared on Fox Business to comment on the inauguration. He said: "Listening to the speech today, this is a political revolution and it's very exciting."

[Beskar]

'Donald Trump'-fish discovered in Blackpool

Staff at a Sea Life Centre in Blackpool staged their own inauguration ceremony after visitors spotted a fish with a striking resemblance to the new US President...

[Dâriûsh]

News of the Weird - Middle East edition: Saudi regime writers are blaming Iran for a 9/11 joke in an old episode of Family Guy.

[Shaka_Khan]