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Cold call victim forces telemarketers to pay him by using premium number

Excerpt: "A British man fed up with cold calls from telemarketers set up a premium phone number in November 2011 and has made £300 by accepting calls and keeping the annoying marketers on the line as long as possible. Lee Beaumont, who works at home in Leeds, UK, was getting calls at all times of the day."

More here: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/cold-call-victim-forces-telemarketers-to-pay-him-by-using-premium-number/

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Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”

Excerpt: "In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes. Within a few hours, he deciphered almost half of them."

More here: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

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How to Teach Language to Dogs

Excerpt: "AFTER A LONG DAY of being a dog, no dog in existence has ever curled up on a comfy couch to settle in with a good book. Dogs just don’t roll like that. But that shouldn’t imply that human words don’t or can’t have meaning for dogs."

More here: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dog-spies/2013/07/30/how-to-teach-language-to-dogs/

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