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Weird News Story Du Jour One thread to bring them all and in the darkness ... wtf?

#561 worry

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Posted 30 December 2016 - 10:00 PM

http://www.marketwat...porn-2016-12-30

Amazon Alexa gets child’s request REALLY wrong

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#562 exit25

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Posted 10 January 2017 - 10:28 AM

How YOUR selfies are allowing crooks to steal your identity
By Gareth Davies For Mailonline Updated: 09:57 GMT, 10 January 2017

Selfie-takers warned that thieves could hack into their lives by using HD lenses to zoom in on people's fingerprints.

People uploading pictures to social media have been urged not to pose pulling the peace sign because crooks can use it to carry out identity theft.

Celebrities are seen as those at the highest risk, but with fingerprint technology on the rise, people's smartphones are seen as vulnerable and fraudsters could even break into workplaces.

People have been told to cover up their fingerprints when uploading pictures onto the web

Isao Echizen, a professor at Japan's National Institute of Informatics, told Sankei Shimbun, that people should refrain from putting their hands anywhere near the frame.

The professor said the quality of cameras in smartphones and tablets have now reached a level where fingerprint data can be obtained from a selfie.

He told the Japanese news outlet: 'If someone hacks your password, you can change it, but you're pretty much stuck with the fingerprints you were born with.'

Professor Echizen carried out an experiment, which concluded data could be scanned from three metres away if the fingertips were exposed.

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#563 Tsundoku

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Posted 31 March 2017 - 10:29 AM

Meanwhile, in Japan:

http://www.news.com....74ea29689652f66

Camel-toe underpants.

Yep.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker

#564 worry

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Posted 06 May 2017 - 04:05 AM

http://www.npr.org/s...e-by-suited-men

This is SO good.

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#565 Tsundoku

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Posted 14 July 2017 - 10:51 AM

Dick-recognition technology? I guess chatroulette would become a phishing site. :apt2:

http://www.news.com....12c54479d25186a

#566 Malankazooie

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Posted 20 July 2017 - 07:02 PM

This probably doesn't qualify as weird news (or maybe it does) but I didn't see a general news discussion topic, so putting this here.

O.J. Simpson granted parole today. If all things go per procedure, he will probably walk out of prison on Oct. 1.
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#567 Gust Hubb

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Posted 02 August 2017 - 01:18 PM

Twu Wuv, It's wut brings us togethur today

"You don't clean u other peoples messes.... You roll in them like a dog on leftover smoked whitefish torn out f the trash by raccoons after Sunday brunch on a hot day."
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#568 worry

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Posted 07 August 2017 - 08:53 PM

You see this dude bitten up by sea fleas? Images are gnarly!
http://www.bbc.com/n...tralia-40846546

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#569 Aptorian

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Posted 08 August 2017 - 06:05 AM

Saw that on Reddit. Those things are sneaky. I think it was the thing about the bleeding not stopping that I thought was most disturbing.

#570 worry

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Posted 15 September 2017 - 09:41 PM

Uhhh, Iceland's government collapsed because its conservative leaders were secretly pardoning child molesters and when it came to light the lefty coalition all resigned.
https://twitter.com/...491738888724480

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#571 Tsundoku

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Posted 20 September 2017 - 08:01 AM

Man gets his penis stuck inside a dumbbell plate. I kid you not.

http://www.news.com....d5ebc530a8080bc

There's a LOT of fucked-up fetishes out there but I'm flat out wondering what the hell the attraction is here. :wacko:

... and a two-fer:

A new version of "Shitbreak"?

http://www.news.com....71bbcddb46a7dc1

At least she brought her own shit tickets (toilet paper).

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#572 Tsundoku

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Posted 12 October 2017 - 10:10 AM

Australia: where even our kangaroos are ripped

http://www.news.com....7bbbf4f7500e685

#573 Aptorian

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Posted 12 October 2017 - 10:17 AM

Og shouldnt be possible to get that big living of leaves.

#574 Gust Hubb

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Posted 04 November 2017 - 07:24 PM

What do you all make of This? MLK and weirdness, according to FBI

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#575 worry

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Posted 04 November 2017 - 07:43 PM

That he had affairs is an old allegation, and while perhaps a personal failing, I don't care at all about it. Plus what some square in the mid-century FBI finds "aberrant" about sexual behaviors is laughable.

If he was a Marxist I admire him all the more.

The notion that he was "slow" and the puppet of some controlling cabal is, on its face, plainly stupid, one of the dumbest Red Scare assertions I've ever heard.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#576 Tsundoku

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Posted 19 December 2017 - 11:43 PM

Anyone for chess?

http://www.news.com....6b8a2104cedf3e1

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#577 Tsundoku

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Posted 22 December 2017 - 07:32 AM

The ultimate dick fight:

http://www.news.com....14a213ad0680ade

I'm sure Trump will produce "evidence" so he can declare his is the "yugest". Mate, you have to check your comprehension when people say you are the world's biggest dick.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 22 December 2017 - 07:35 AM