Archive for January 10, 2007

How they steal your ATM Card and PIN

When you do your transactions on the ATM, the first message that greets you on the screen is a warning, telling you to make sure that there is no foreign object on the opening of the card slot. But how many of us check for any foreign object? And if you do, what kind of object are we looking out for?

Well a camera stationed at an ATM in Italy has filmed their modus operandi.

atm crooks
All they need is a piece of black film like the above.

atm crooks
They will insert the film and glued them at both ends.

atm crooks
You can’t see it now.

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A really, really good painter

A couple of “before and after” pictures of walls being transformed into 3-dimensional-looking view. If only I can hire this guy to work on some of the walls on my new house….

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before after photo

before after photo

More pictures of his works here.

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Funny Programming Cartoon

I think as a programmer, when your child does this in his or her school, you will feel really proud (of course not for throwing paper airplanes in class). Hmmm I wonder if my Jordan will like programming like me?

funny cartoon

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