$13,238.86 left in a NYC taxi

Casey Neistat made one small mistake…. He left $13,238.86 in a NYC taxi… This is the story of how, after traveling for 10 days, one small distraction caused him to leave his luggage in the Taxi… And how hard it is to recover that luggage…

Steganography: how al-Qaeda hid secret documents in a porn video

Maybe the subtitle should be:  How the War on Terror, is over…. When a suspected al-Qaeda member was arrested in Berlin in May of 2011, he was found with a memory card with a password-protected folder—and the files within it were hidden. But, as the German newspaper Die Zeitreports, computer forensics experts from the German Federal Criminal […]

In the Limelight

You have heard the phrase “In the LimeLight”, but have you ever realized where it came from? A Limelight, or Calcium light, is a type of stage lighting that used to be used in the live theatre.  The light is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed onto a piece of quicklime.  The quicklime can […]

Job Seekers Getting Asked For Facebook Passwords

What would you think of an interviewer if they asked for your Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn account passwords? Sounds far fetched doesn’t it?  It isn’t though. Since the rise of social networking, it has become common for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. […]

Banco – Word of the Day

banco  (exclam.) - used in baccarat, chemin de fer, and similar games to express a player’s willingness to meet the banker’s whole stake single-handed.ORIGIN late 18th cent.: via French from Italian.