| Teenager held over theft of 36 mil. yen in virtual cash
A computer whiz kid has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the server of an online game company and defrauding it out of about 36 million yen worth of virtual money, the Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday. The 16-year-old second-grade student at a private high school in Fukui was arrested on suspicion of violating the Unauthorized Computer Access Law. The boy allegedly cracked 10 passwords for about 100 IDs he stole from online game company Nexon Japan Co. by hacking into the company's server, using a secret program of a game available on the Internet, according to the MPD center for combatting high-tech crimes. An ID and password are needed to buy virtual money from the company's server. .
Reliability from online brokers a top priority
SERVICE reliability from online stockbrokers is now the top priority for online traders in 2008 after the website of share broker, CommSec, crashed on Tuesday, says online stockbroker Trader Dealer The website of Australia's largest online share broker, CommSec, crashed for half an hour during the market's 7.1 per cent tumbleas investors traded at unprecedented volumes, panicked by global market volatility. "Service outages among online stockbrokers, resulting from heavy market falls, have put service reliability at the top of the list of priorities for online traders in 2008 as market uncertainty is set to continue,'' Trader Dealer said. "Online brokers are only as good as their ability to cope with large surges in demand,'' Trader Dealer managing director Alun Stevens said.
Floyd says he gave Mayo permission to accept free tickets from Melo
USC men's basketball coach Tim Floyd says if anyone should be penalized in the O.J. Mayo-Los Angeles Lakers tickets incident, it should be he, not his star freshman. Floyd told The Los Angeles Times he informed Mayo it would be all right to accept Carmelo Anthony's offer of free tickets to Monday night's Denver Nuggets-Lakers game. Mayo and Anthony are friends, and have known each other since Mayo was in seventh grade. "My feeling is that if there's a mistake made, it was made by me," Floyd told The Times. "If they want to suspend me for a game, suspend me for a game, but not the kid. He did the right thing." Anthony, for his part, expressed surprise that this was drawing attention, especially from the NCAA. "I don't know how in the heck it got that serious," he told the Rocky Mountain News on Wednesday.
JIM DODSON: Christmas Letter: Dear God ...
It does seems to be much ado about nothing," I agreed, telling him how a friend of mine maintains that anyone who doesn't acknowledge Christmas ought to feel free to report to work bright and early on Christmas Day. "Great idea!" declared the militant Christmas-wisher. "Everybody I meet until then I'm going to wish 'em a 'Merry Christmas' whether they like it or not!" "Good for Yule," I said, petting his dog, which of course is your name (God) spelled backwards. For this reason, I've always thought dogs were your secret agents on this earth. They're some of your best work, too -- four-legged angels who ask so little but keep a steady eye on us humans so we don't stray too far from home. C'mon, am I right or what? In any case, he looked at me and wagged his tail again -- the dog, I mean.
Trustees aim for stability at ORU
The Greens' offer came after ORU announced in October that it was $52.5 million in debt. Former President Richard Roberts, who resigned Nov. 23, had been accused of misspending ORU and Oral Roberts Ministries money and of poorly leading the university, accusations that he denied. A lawsuit filed Oct. 2 by three former professors, who claimed they were wrongfully terminated, started the dramatic chain of events at the school.
Motivations: Trustees said they accepted the Green family's offer to join the board because of their love for ORU, their appreciation for its graduates, its new potential and their desire to help.
The Rev. William (Billy) Wilson, the host of the weekly TV show "World Impact," said he thinks ORU might be the premier charismatic Christian university.
BUY AND SIL
According to city transfers, Putin's pack have just purchased one of Manhattan's tonier townhouses for $35 million. The 25-foot-wide residence at 36 E. 75th St. was built in 1893. It was bought in 1915 by R. Horace Gallatin of the New-York Historical Society, who changed the facade to the brick and limestone classic configuration. The home includes six bedrooms, eight full baths, three powder rooms and three staff rooms. There's also a family room, a baronial formal dining room and a paneled library - all with fireplaces. Also included is a temperature-controlled wine cellar and a gourmet eat-kitchen that overlooks the garden. The sale took place following a three-year renovation of the 12,000-square-foot building. Enjoy, comrades. Worth a thought Here's an idea: This could be a good time to purchase the 2005 Hamptons Cottages & Gardens Idea House.
Roy Exum: A World Series Classic
When the World Series begins Wednesday night, we will live anew our passion for the great game, but, as with every year, you cant help but recall the past.
Be it Don Larsens perfect game, Mantle & Maris or The Shot Heard Around The World, no other sporting event has the colorful aura the Worlds baseball championship series gives to us.
That said, the other day I wrote about Freddie Russell, the great sports writer out of Nashville who was the consummate gentleman, a great journalist but who was also a character if ever there was one.
So, years ago, the teams playing in the World Series would travel back and forth between the two cities by train and the railroad would literally reroute hundreds of other trains so those carrying the players and car loads of adoring fans could pass unfettered.
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