XIAM007

Making Unique Observations in a Very Cluttered World

Saturday 12 January 2013

Man Shocked By Snake In Luggage.. And Now It's Lost In His House -

Man Shocked By Snake In Luggage.. And Now It's Lost In His House - 




A Calgary man who recently returned from a trip to India has brought back a slithery souvenir he was not counting on.

Firefighters were called to the man's southwest-area home after he discovered a half-metre long snake crawling on his carpet.

Emergency officials say he had been unpacking his luggage over the last two days, but did not discover the brown-coloured serpent until he got home from work late Thursday.

The man had no idea whether he was dealing with a venomous or non-venomous reptile and immediately called 911.

Both firefighters and an animal control company that was called in to help searched the residence for four hours, but couldn't locate the snake.

The company will continue to search the home and has set traps for the reptile.

Read more -
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/11/snake-luggage-india-trip_n_2456248.html

U.S. Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software to avoid potential hacking attacks -

U.S. Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software to avoid potential hacking attacks - 



The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking attacks.
The recommendation came in an advisory issued late Thursday, following up on concerns raised by computer security experts.
Experts believe hackers have found a flaw in Java's coding that creates an opening for criminal activity and other high-tech mischief.
Java is a widely used technical language that allows computer programmers to write a wide variety of Internet applications and other software programs that can run on just about any computer's operating system.
Oracle Corp. bought Java as part of a $7.3 billion acquisition of the software's creator, Sun Microsystems, in 2010.
Oracle, which is based in Redwood Shores, Calif., had no immediate comment late Friday.

Read more - 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-government-tells-computer-users-010200788.html