New Dodge Nitro SUV at Virginia Dealership: everything to go

If you were looking to get hold of a new Dodge Nitro SUV, then the Pohanka Chrysler-Dodge dealership is the place for you, head down to Ray O’Bryhim’s Virginia Dealership. He has less than a week to sell his last 40 vehicles, as everything has to go. Read more

Hidden Microsoft Windows 7 features

Microsoft released an alpha build of their new OS, Windows 7, and the software giant had hidden some features from them. Thankfully a programmer has managed to unlock a number of unfinished features for the new operating system. Read more

Mars PetCare Recall: Pet Care’s Kitty gourmet blend dry cat food

Today we are hearing of a Mars PetCare recall that involves Special Kitty Gourmet Blend dry cat food. This recall comes after the Mars PetCare food tested positive for salmonella.

It’s being reported that the effected food was sold at Wal-Mart stores in these areas Read more

Verizon stand-alone High Speed Internet for Students

Just in time for the start of the new college year, students can take advantage of special pricing from Verizon for its High Speed Internet plans, which boost connectivity and save money.

Students and other Web surfers in Verizon’s Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., service areas can now order a nine-month broadband plan with rates starting as low as $26.99. Read more

Marysville and Kenmore, Wash., Award Video Franchises to Verizon

Residents of Marysville and Kenmore are a major step closer to having an innovative, reliable and competitive alternative for their television services, thanks to unanimous votes by their respective city councils Monday (July 28) authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV.

Marysville and Kenmore are the third and fourth communities in the state to grant video franchises to Verizon, following similar votes earlier this month in Lynnwood and Everett. The company plans to begin offering FiOS TV in the communities later this year Read more

Town Approves Video License for Verizon: Can Get FiOS TV

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. - Residents of Northborough are a major step closer to having another choice for their cable television services, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service via the most advanced all-digital, fiber-optic network straight to customers’ homes.

The Board of Selectmen in Northborough granted a cable franchise to Verizon Monday (July 21), paving the way for video choice for thousands more Massachusetts households Read more

Comcast homepage and webmail Hackers did warn company: Hijackers are Defiant & EBK

We have an update for you about Comcast, yesterday we reported the news “Comcast Email Hacked: Webmail security issues, comcast.net site is back up” (See Here), well today we want to let you know that the Comcast hijackers did indeed warn the company. We know that these computer hackers took down Comcast’s webmail and homepage service for around about five hours on Thursday and they said they did not know what they were getting themselves into.

The hackers known as “Defiant” and “EBK” are indeed in serious trouble and “Defiant” whose first name is James said he wished he was a minor because this is going to be really bad, James is 19. The hackers are members of an underground group called Kryogeniks, neither hacker would give their full names or their locations but what we have found out via a source is that Defiant’s MySpace profile lists him in Cashville, Tennessee, but obviously he says this is not correct, his girlfriend lists herself as being in New York. The attack began on Tuesday according to the hackers and the two hijackers used a combination of social engineering and a technical hack to get into Comcast’s domain management console at Network Solutions, they did not give out technical details of their technique but did say it was relied on a flaw at the Virginia-based domain registrar.

Once the hackers were in they had control of over 200 domain names which are owned by Comcast, the hackers changed the contact info for one of them from Comcast.net, to Defiant’s e-mail address and for the street address they used the “Dildo Room” at “69 Dick Tard Lane.” Comcast however did say they noticed the administrative transfer and wrested back control, which forced the hackers to repeat the exploitation to regain ownership of the domain and then the hackers contacted Comcast’s original technical contact at his home number to tell him what they’d done. So as you see they did warn them. When the hackers called Comcast the manager scoffed at their claim and this is when he hung up on them, EBK who is 18 then took even more harsh action and redirected the Comcast site’s traffic to servers under their control, the funny thing is “Apparently” Comcast would not confirm nor deny they warning phone call.

Apparently EBK the hacker said “”If he wasn’t such a prick, he could have avoided all of that,” says EBK. “I wasn’t even really thinking. Plus, I’m just so mad at Comcast. I’m tired of their shitty service.” The defacement message was short and simple: “KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast,” it read. “sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.”

Obviously and of course is now more apparent, Defiant and EBK do not like Comcast.

Yesterday when we reported this news to you we had a comment sent in by Charlie Douglas at Comcast saying “Charlie from Comcast here — last night users attempting to access Comcast.net were temporarily redirected to another site by an unauthorized person. While that issue has been resolved and customers have continued to have access to the Internet and email through services like Outlook, some customers are currently not able to access Comcast.net or Webmail. We apologize for the inconvenience to our customers, and network engineers are working to resolve the issue.
We believe that our registration information at the vendor that registers the Comcast.net domain address was altered, which redirected the site, and is the root cause of today’s continued issues as well. We have alerted law enforcement authorities and are working in conjunction with them.”

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Smart brake lights for cars designed by Virginia Tech students: Could this stop tailgating?

New inventions are always praised if it stops idiots on the roads causing accidents due to tailgating; we praise this invention very much.

Why this has never been designed years and years ago is beyond me and why cars nowadays have not got this sort of device incorporated on cars now makes me wonder.

The new invention comes from Virginia Tech students who designed Smart brake lights for cars, the automobile braking lights that were developed is a brand new system that will show LED lights if you are stopping and if you are slowing down.

It will show drivers who are driving behind a car with this setup if the car is stopping, slowing down and even how soft or hard they are going to brake. When you begin to slow down the lights in the center glow orange and after a certain threshold the lights turn to red plus if you slam on the brakes hard the LED lights will flash red.

So could this stop tailgating?

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Van Halen’s U.S. tour has been cancelled

It has been reported that Van Halen’s U.S. tour has been cancelled because Eddie Van Halen is battling issues.

The group cancelled two concerts in Virginia and Georgia late last month but rescheduled the dates for mid-March.

According to tmz, the cancellation is due to guitarist Van Halen’s poor performances, after he turned up for several gigs apparently intoxicated.

It’s said that the band reunited with original singer David Lee Roth last year and are scheduled to play a series of gigs across America until 19 April, but it seems that this is not going to happen.

What do you make of this was you affected by this?

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Three More Primaries for Barak Obama

Barak Obama has taken the lead in the elections and Hillary Clinton is left trailing behind after he won three more primaries.

The final figures have not been made official Read more

Ron Paul’s Delegates and the Texas primary on March 4

The number of delegates Ron Paul has after Super Tuesday is a confusing subject and one that many disagree on, even with some disgustingly chuckling at the thought (Mark Drake, Minnesota Republican Party).

Although Ron Paul had an overall distant finish on Super Tuesday in his party’s primaries and caucuses, his presidential aspirations are still very positive Read more

Super Tuesday Primary and Caucuses Results Live

Today could change the 2008 presidential elections forever, as today is Super Tuesday where many states vote all in one day.

The chances are that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain will come out tops, but as I have said before…if Ron Paul gets enough votes today it could change the shape of things to come Read more

Jenna Bush and Henry Hager Will Marry In May

It has been reported by two sources that Jenna Bush and Henry Hager will be getting married in a ceremony on the 10th May.

One source said that the wedding will be held at the president’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. The source said that “It’s going to be a small wedding, Read more

The 2008 BAFTA Nominees Are Announced

The nominees have been announced for the 2008 Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA’s). It’s no surprise that Atonement is leading the pack with 14 nominations for Best Film, Director, Actress, Actor and Supporting Actress. Check out the full list of nominations below. Read more

Sprint Nextel planning thousands of layoffs: Virginia HQ could close

For those of you who work for Sprint Nextel you could be facing an uncertain future, especially if you work at Virginia HQ. According to KansasCity, Sprint is planning thousands of layoffs, and the Read more

Dirty Dancing: The Time Of Your Life Winner

Last night saw the final of Dirty Dancing Time of Your Life contest and what a final it was.

The contest all started when 16 of Britain’s best up and coming dance sensations jet off to Kellermans, AKA Mountain Lake Resort Virginia, home of the Read more

Iron Man International Teaser Trailer

The new international teaser trailer for Iron Man has been released online. The new trailer is relatively short at just under one minute long and features a couple of new shots featuring Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts not seen in the previous trailer. Read more

Deputy Sheriff Tyler Peterson Shoots Six Dead In Wisconsin

A young deputy sheriff has shot his ex-sweetheart, two childhood friends and three other youths dead at a party in Wisconsin before being shot dead by police. Tyler Peterson, 20, was reportedly normal when he was out with the group on Saturday night but by Sunday afternoon he had been killed by a police sniper after he apparently murdered 6 people. Read more

Nissan to recall over 370,000 Infiniti QX4s and Pathfinders: Potential fire hazard

According to report by edmunds.com Nissan is to recall 372,250 Infiniti QX4s and Pathfinders, the reason for the recall is due to the fact that these models from 1997-2001 have an insufficient coating on the fuel filler tube of the Read more

Torchwood Debuts To 500,000 In America

The first episode of Torchwood was watched by 496,000 viewers in the US.

The total viewer number represents a new record for a drama premiere on Read more

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