Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors

CNET reports that a British businessman named Jim McCormick is facing charges now for fraud; McCormick "charged 27,000 pounds (around $41,000) for devices that weren't quite what he said they were." That's putting it mildly; what he was selling as bomb detecting devices were actually souped-up (or souped-down, with non-functional circuitboards and other flim-flammery) golf-ball detectors. The Daily Mail has some enlightening pictures.

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[webmistressrachel]

Why add "NT" to anything at all, ever? Microsoft did that, and got us all bogged down on a more reliable, but just as evil, proprietory kernel which we'd have ditched for something better* sometime between Windows 98 and Windows ME (NT4 SP4 had real-time audio!) if Win2k and XP had not come along...

*had the barriers to entry not been so high at the time - ie proprietory AAA game support!)

PS - in response to the inevitable future post by an AC:

| "NT SP4 had real-time audio!"

[citation needed]

webmistressrachel sid=3577793 pid=inthefuture

Read the Unreal Tournament documentation dumbass... ;-)

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