A bungling burglar in Cippenham, England, has been jailed, having saved the police valuable detective work by leaving his fingerprints in wet paint, a judge heard.He was raid in an another daylight raid in his home town the drug-taking serial thief, identified as 28-year-old Jason Reynolds, was recognized instantly by someone who knew him. Judge Christopher Critchlow heard that Reynolds had not long been released from prison when he embarked on another crime wave.

According to Prosecutor Sandra Beck, Reynolds broke into a house near where he lives while the home owner was decorating.Speaking at Reading Crown Court on October 5, she said, “She had left a window open to allow fumes out. She heard a noise and realized she had been burgled.”

Reynolds was busted less than a month later after his fingerprints were discovered in the paint, but by then he had broken into another house in the same area.

“The home owner was distracted at the front door while Reynolds got inside. The man at the door asked for somebody by the name of Michael who did not live there,” Beck said. “She went back inside and saw a man she recognized as being Jason Reynolds standing in her living room.”

Beck also said that the defendant ran away and was later arrested for both offenses. He had confessed to another five burglaries. She said that he had convictions dating back to 1995.

Paul Sharkey, his defense attorney, said that Reynolds had committed burglaries to fund his drug habit and had spent a considerable portion of the last 10 years in jail.He had spent three months on remand since his release this past February. He and his family had been evicted from their home, and his children were being cared for by his mother.

He and his girlfriend had moved in with friends.Although Reynolds was said to be “behaving well,” since spending time in custody, and had applied for a rehab course, he was sentenced to another 18 months in the slammer.

Source: Dumb Crooks.com

What an interesting design for a bus stop! interesting magnet This fully functioning bus stop is in Ventura, California, and looks like a mutant snake house. Dennis Oppenheim the designer of the bus stop is a pioneering artist in conceptualism, land art, body art, video, and sculpture since the 1960s.

In 1997, he created the sculpture shown below called “Device to Root out Evil,” which is now located in Harbour Green Park, the longest continuous waterfront park in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

Silicon Monocrystalline Solar Panels

Silicon monocrystalline solar panels are the oldest among the three kinds of solar panels. These panels are made up of 36 slices of silicon connected in series. The panels are mounted in a rigid frame to protect the silicon crystals, which are brittle and can be easily damaged.

The production of the silicon monocrystalline solar panels require large amounts of energy. Add to that the high cost of pure silicon crystals, it is not surprising that these solar panels are quite expensive.

Silicon Polycrystalline Solar Panels

Silicon polycrystalline solar panels are a modified version of the technology used to created silicon monocrystalline solar panels. Silicon polycrystalline solar panels are made slightly flexible and much stronge than silicon monocrystalline solar panels. The polycrystalline panels are also less expensivce than the monocrystalline panels because less energy is required in making the silicon polcrystalline solar panels.

Thin Film Triple Junction Solar Panels

The thin film triple junction solar panels uses three thin layers of silicon semiconductor on a thin backing, hence the name. These solar panels are therefore flexible and durable. Thin film triple junction solar panels also requires the least amount of energy and materials to be produced.

The thin film triple junction solar panels are less efficient than the two silicon monocrystalline and silicon polycrystalline panels, however. But they are less affected by clouds or shadows and can outperform the two other panels in a northern climate.

Incredible, amazing realistic sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures that have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. made by an Australian hyper-realist sculptor in UK Ron Mueck.

His early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film “Labyrinth” staring Bowie. He moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. That led him in turning to fine art, particularly, sculpture.In the early 1990s, still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the trick.

The real magical appeal of Mueck’s sculptures lie in the meticulous process, which begins with:

1. crafting of a series of small clay models - this enables him decide on figure positioning
2. Mueck then creates a series of drawings in different sizes - this enables him to make decisions about scale
3. Next, Mueck sculpts the figure in clay - this includes fine details of expression and skin texture
4. a mould of the sculpture is made using silicone (or in the case of larger works, fibreglass).
5. Mueck completes the process by meticulously painting (by hand) finer details (like veins and skin tones) on the surface, before finally sculpting the eyes, bringing his creations to life.

Source: Ron Mueck

This pistol-like device can reportedly launch “up to five PAVA filled projectiles at attackers up to 40-feet away,” and will cause an assailant’s “nose, throat, and eyes to burn.” Notably, this non-lethal weapon has never been associated with a death, and comes in black, blue, red, or pink color schemes. Like pepper sprays and other security devices, this device can provide safety against thieves.

Classifying hackers by the technology they deal with can be complicated. Because networking and computer technology is so vast, hackers often specialize in one or a few specific areas. There are basically three types of hackers: Coders, Admins, and script kiddies. This characterization is based upon overall competence and ability to compromise computer technology, networks, protocols, and systems.

1. Coders - They are programmers who have the ability to find unique vulnerabilities in existing software and to create working exploit codes. These hackers, as a whole, are not seeking publicity and are rarely part of front-page news stories. As a result, they are known only to the security community for the programs they write and the exploits they have uncovered.

2. Admins - They are far more common than Coders and may have experience with several operating systems, understand TCP/IP, and know how to exploit several vulnerabilities. They generally have less depth of knowledge but possibly greater breadth than Coders. This level of hacker would be part of a security team in a large organization. Some level of programming or scripting ability is required. For example, they should be able to port a tool form on flavor of Unix to another.

3. Script Kiddies - They are the lowest and most populated part of the hacker pyramid. Their name comes from the fact that members of this group generally rely on previously coded scripts and prepackaged hacking tools downloaded from the Internet to do their hacking. Script kiddies are usually individuals who are intrigued by the notion of gaining unauthorized access and are open to using untested pieces of code, especially while others (target networks and users) are at risk.