Lanza Smashed Computer Before Rampage; Cops Taser Woman Buying Too Many iPhones

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Lanza Smashed Computer Before Rampage Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Cops Taser Woman Buying Too Many iPhones Schmidt 'Proud' of Google's Tax Avoidance Solar Panels for Every Home? Hot Comment: "Gun laws are an oxymoron..." From the Vault: Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting Watch It: Shrine to Electrotherapy Poll Booth: I measure my weight ... Lanza Smashed Computer Before Rampage Before Adam Lanza left his mother's house on the day he killed her and went on a shooting rampage that left 26 children and adults dead, he destroyed his computer. It's not entirely clear how much information police will be able to extract from the machine. Sound Off>> Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church After the Westboro Baptist Church stated their intention to picket the funerals of the victims of Newtown Connecticut's tragic shooting, the Anonymous hacker collective hacked the church's website and posted the personal information of all of its members. Sound Off>> Cops Taser Woman Buying Too Many iPhones A 44-year-old New Hampshire woman trying to buy more than the allotted quota of iPhone 5s was pinned down by Nashua police and zapped by a Taser as she shrieked in front of crowds of shoppers. The woman, who speaks Chinese, claims a language barrier lead to the altercation, but police say it's not that clear cut. Sound Off>> Schmidt 'Proud' of Google's Tax Avoidance Eric Schmidt said that a 2.5 billion GBP tax avoidance "is called capitalism" and seems totally unrepentant. He added, "I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate." Sound Off>> Solar Panels for Every Home? Solar panels have dropped in price by 80 percent in the past five years and can provide electricity at a cost that is at or below the current retail cost of grid power in 20 states, writes David Crane and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a recent New York Times op-ed. So why isn't there more of a push for it? Sound Off>> Re:Yay "Gun laws are an oxymoron. Criminals, by definition, do not abide by the laws. So it is only the good people that do not have guns in gun free zones. I do have strong feelings about gun laws but I do not think that this is the time to air them. My thoughts are with those unfortunate parents whose grief must be too hard for anyone to bear." --by Zemran Read More>> Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting Ten years ago, the Christian Science Monitor published an article discussing the plight of the U.S. engineering profession and quoted a California computer science professor who had statistics that showed that a programmer's career is not much longer than a pro-football player's. Read More>> Shrine to Electrotherapy Take a tour of The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum's astounding collection, which includes Tesla coils, static electricity generators, and even an electric chair you can sit in. Also, meet founder Jeff Behary, who knows all of the pieces inside and out, with the kind of deep knowledge it takes to fabricate replacement parts and revamp the internal wiring. Watch the Video>> I measure my weight ... Never Rarely (doctor visits, trips to space) Occasionally (every few months) Every few weeks About once a week Every day or close to it I have moved to the scale to answer this Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.