I have an idea for a new thread...

[Escapee..]

Bluetooth Glove anyone?

 

 

[Escapee..]

[Octavian]

Bluetooth Glove anyone?

 

 

 

This is not going to take off....

[Escapee..]

[Escapee..]

[Caerus]

Bluetooth Glove anyone?

 

 

 

[forkie]

Just received this in an email. Anybody know how true it is???

 

 

This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California. Initially, the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.

The funny part is that the signed document does not specify a single payment method, so Samsung is entitled to send the creators of the iPhone their billion dollars in the way they deem best.

This dirty but genius geek troll play is a new headache to Apple executives as they will need to put in long hours counting all that money, to check if it is all there and to try to deposit it crossing fingers to hope a bank will accept all the coins.

Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of “geeks with style” and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it.

You can use your coins to buy refreshments at the little machine for life or melt the coins to make computers, that’s not my problem, I already paid them and fulfilled the law.

[Guest Travis.]

Just received this in an email. Anybody know how true it is???

 

 

 

This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California. Initially, the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.

The funny part is that the signed document does not specify a single payment method, so Samsung is entitled to send the creators of the iPhone their billion dollars in the way they deem best.

This dirty but genius geek troll play is a new headache to Apple executives as they will need to put in long hours counting all that money, to check if it is all there and to try to deposit it crossing fingers to hope a bank will accept all the coins.

Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of “geeks with style” and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it.

You can use your coins to buy refreshments at the little machine for life or melt the coins to make computers, that’s not my problem, I already paid them and fulfilled the law.

 

It's a hoax.

 

http://www.firstpost.com/tech/not-really-samsung-didnt-pay-apple-1bn-in-5-cent-coins-436431.html

[forkie]

It's a hoax.

 

http://www.firstpost...ins-436431.html

 

Would be cool if it was true

['Dale]

This is not going to take off....

 

i ain't feeling that patent either...

['Dale]

Tron-esque...

Is dat Madiba Bridge?

 

http://maxcdn.thedesigninspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/103-001.jpg

[CAAD4]

Tron-esque...

Is dat Madiba Bridge?

 

http://maxcdn.thedesigninspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/103-001.jpg

 

That face? Maybe it's because he left his soccer socks at home?

[Cippo]

http://maxcdn.thedesigninspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Jokers-Kid-l.jpg

 

I hope thats not your laaitie. His parents are in for it. Look at the oke that shot up the movie premier of the Dark Knight.

['Dale]

For the Hub member formerly known as 'Super Mario'.

GO RIDE!

 

http://cyclingtipscontent.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MG_6177.jpg

[Cippo]

@puncheur. You can have the wheels. I will take the bike.

Any colour though, as long as its black.

 

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Edited September 13, 2012 by MCipollini

[Tuxstir]

Art thief who tried to sell a Banksy on eBay: Vandal ripped 'Sperm Alarm' graffiti from London hotel wall and auctioned it for £17,000

• Staff at central London hotel alerted police after noticing artwork was missing
  
• Lawrence was previously convicted of stealing a sculpture from a gallery in Brick Lane, east London, in July last year
  
• Police found images of the stolen Banksy artwork on Lawrence’s laptop
  

 

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Court: Leon Lawrence (pictured here arriving at Southwark Crown Court) was convicted of attempting to convert criminal property, after the theft of the Banksy artwork from a hotel in central London

A convicted art thief who tried to sell a stolen Banksy on eBay for £17,000 walked free from court again today.

Leon Lawrence, 32, put the artwork - called Sperm Alarm - by the world famous graffiti artist up for auction after it was ripped from a hotel wall last year.

He was traced after staff at the four-star Hesperia Hotel in Victoria, central London, noticed the piece was missing and spotted it for sale online.

Southwark Crown Court heard Lawrence admitted stealing a sculpture from a gallery in Brick Lane, east London, and was given a community order in July last year.

Lawrence had used his account LeonLeon to try and sell the Banksy between February 9 and April 4, 2011.

The artwork attributed to the guerrilla graffiti artist, which shows 15 sperm swarming round a red sprinkler alarm, has never been recovered.

Edward Franklin, prosecuting, said staff at the hotel had noticed the artwork as soon as it had been produced.

‘Staff realised it was there, and they also realised when someone had come along and taken their panel,' he said.

 

‘That piece of panel, with Banksy’s design on it, dubbed the ‘Sperm Alarm’ was later put for sale on eBay and they contacted the police.

‘The seller on eBay was registered at LeonLeon and by working out who that person was, Mr Lawrence entered into their investigation.

 

‘He was trying to sell this stolen art.’

Police found images of the work on Lawrence’s his laptop.

‘One picture shows the panel, and the space where the panel was, having been removed,’ Mr Franklin said.

‘Another image from Mr Lawrence’s computer shows the panel itself having been removed.

‘Another [image] shows the Sperm Alarm in the process of being framed.

 

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The wall after the theft of Sperm Alarm Before and after: The Banksy art work 'Sperm Alarm' was rippted from the wall of the Hesperia Hotel in Victoria, central London

Mr Franklin said web pages from the auction site, where it would appear he tried to sell the artwork for £17,000, were also found.

Lawrence claimed a friend named ‘Arek’ had given him the artwork and he had no reason to be suspicious.

He was convicted unanimously by a jury of attempting to convert criminal property, but cleared of a single count of handling stolen goods.

The judge, Mr Recorder Peter Lodder QC handed Lawrence a suspended sentence and said: ‘You were convicted by the jury of attempting to convert or transfer criminal property.

‘That criminal property was a section of wall which bore a Banksy work of graffiti art which you attempted to sell for £17,000.

‘I bear in mind that value, I also bear in mind that the section of wall was stolen on February 11, 2011, and found on your computer was a photo showing you had possession of that artwork by just before 2pm the next day.

‘Your recent criminal activity seems to be focused on pieces of art.’

 

 

 

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Stolen: Mr Lawrence attempted to sell the artwork for £17,000 on eBay (pictured)

But the judge said letters written by his family had swayed him away from jailing Lawrence, who first began offending in 1996.

‘You are lucky to have such devoted support despite your criminal offending.

‘So I’m prepared to give you a final chance by suspending that sentence. Do not fail.’

He was sentenced to nine months in jail, suspended, for 12 months, and ordered to carry out 240 hours unpaid work.

He was also made the subject of a 12 month supervision order.

Lawrence of Covent Garden, central London, was found guilty of attempting to convert criminal property, but cleared of handling stolen goods.

Edited September 14, 2012 by tedibear