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FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon / Submachine Gun

FN P90 personal defense weapon $1,699.99

Caliber: 5.7x28mm SS190
Weight: 2.54 kg empty; 3 kg loaded with magazine with 50 rounds
Length: 500 mm
Barrel length: 263 mm
Rate of fire: 900 rounds per minute
Magazine capacity: 50 rounds
Effective range: 200 meters

Jai-alai

Jai alai is "the fastest sport in the world" that uses a ball. I just finished watching a episode of Miami Vice on Hulu and in the closeing of each episode you see a quick clip of the game.

Jai-alai is a ball game that originated in Spain’s Basque region and is played in a three-walled court with a hard rubber ball that is caught and thrown with a cesta, a long, curved wicker scoop strapped to one arm.

The game is called pelota vasca in Spain but the Western Hemisphere name of Jai-alai, which is Basque for "merry festival", was given when it was introduced in Cuba. This was due to the fact that this game was played at festivals or fiestas in Spain's Pyrenees Mountains for hundreds of years. The game was then played in the open air with the walls of churches being used to bounce the ball on.

Jai-alai is characterized by its fast playing pace, in which a 125g ball (or pelota) covered with parchment skin can travel faster than 180 mph. The ball is volleyed by players wearing a wicker basket glove approximately 63 to 70 cm long. The glove, called cesta-punta in Spanish and xistera in Basque, was invented by the French Basque Gantchiqui Diturbide (also Gantxiki Iturbide) in the 19th century.

The game of Jai-alai is popular in countries like Spain and Mexico where, in some regions, the game is played in almost every town and city. Jai-alai also spread out to such countries as mainland Brazil, the Philippines, Italy, Indonesia, China and Egypt.

In the United States, Jai-alai is quite popular among gamblers in Florida where it is used as a basis for pari-mutuel gambling. In fact, professional Jai-alai in America originated at the Miami Fronton. World Jai-alai, which is based in Miami, has promoted the most extensive amateur Jai-alai program ever, with a number of schools in Spain, France and one in Miami, Florida.

Jai Alai Frontons

Miami Jai-alai

Dania Jai-alai

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Orlando Jai-alai

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Place a bet on your favorite Jai Alai players now.

Jasmine Fiore's Murder

Punishment for some crimes should be the equal to what was done.

Jasmine's fingers had been cut off at the second knuckle and all of her teeth had been pulled out.

The man charged with Jasmine Fiore's murder, reality TV show contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins, has been on the run since reporting her missing the evening of Aug. 15. Her nude body had been found that morning, stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase in a trash bin in Buena Park, an Orange County city about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, but authorities didn't identify her for a few more days.

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Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCs

By JORDAN ROBERTSON (AP Technology Writer)

SAN JOSE, California - Twitter's been having a rough couple of weeks.

A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last week discovered another, unrelated security problem.

At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network of a couple hundred infected personal computers, mostly in Brazil. Networks of infected PCs are referred to as "botnets" and are responsible for so much of the mayhem online, from identity theft to spamming to the types of attacks that crippled Twitter.

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Damn "Dumprep.exe"

Suddenly your machine bogs down right at that critical moment, you reach for your Louisville slugger to give your PC a piece of your mind but you pause. A further examination of your machine finds a new application running in the background tying up your precious resources.

The dreaded Dumprep.exe, what is Dumprep.exe? Well if you use Windows XP its a Microsoft tool called “Windows Error Dump Reporting”. Basically if some file crashes on your system Windows “phones home” via Dumprep.exe and sends a error report back to the mothership where it will deleted and never looked at. The funny thing is that the dumprep.exe isn’t the most reliable program ever and can make a already bad situation worse. So let’s get rid of the narky ET.

Disable Dumprep.exe on Windows XP:
1. Right click on “My Computer” choose “Properties” from that menu.
2. Click on “Advanced tab”.
3. Click the “Error Reporting” button.
4. Check the “Disable error reporting” box.

You may choose to uncheck the the box below it, “But notify me when an error occurs” if you want.

Attacks on lone blogger took down Twitter...

Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Web
August 09, 2009 2:27 AM EDT
By BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP Technology Writer)

NEW YORK - The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia - but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.

"It told us how quickly many people really took Twitter into their hearts," Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, said Friday.

Tens of millions of people have come to rely on social media to express their innermost thoughts and to keep up with world news and celebrity gossip.

Twitter "is one of those little amusements that infiltrated the mass behavior in some significant ways, so that when it went away, a lot of people really noticed it and missed it."

The attacks Thursday also slowed down Facebook and caused problems for the online diary site LiveJournal. But Twitter, the 140-character-or-less messaging site used by celebrities, businesses and even Iranian protesters, suffered a total outage that lasted several hours.

Those attacks continued Friday from thousands of computers pummeling its servers, said Kazuhiro Gomi, chief technology officer for NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services, which hosts Twitter's service.

Twitter crashed because of a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time to prevent legitimate traffic from getting through. The attack was targeted at a blogger who goes by "Cyxymu" - Cyrillic spelling of Sukhumi, a city in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia in Georgia - on several Web sites, including Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal.

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