io9: Brazil’s Santa Rita do Sapucaà prison has found a new source of alternative energy: its own prisoners. The prison has offered to shave time off of prisoners’ sentences if they’ll charge batteries using special bikes and their own two legs. Under the plan, prisoners can reduce their sentences by pedaling. For every sixteen hours […]
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If you do construction work on someone’s home and they offer to pay you in Facebook stock — before the IPO — it might not be a good idea to accept it in lieu of cash, as one Wisconsin man learned last week. Marianne Oleson, 46, made her initial appearance in Winnebago County court Wednesday
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Their techniques may have changed a little, but the general principles of the con atrist remain the same as they were when this article from a 1930s issue of Popular Mechanics: Recently a middle-aged man walked up to the teller’s window in a small mid-western bank and asked to be given a fifty dollar bill
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This site’s code of ethics reads: I strive to only list quality businesses opportunities. I will not knowingly promote junk bizops, and will actively take a stand against them. Since I’ve posted about Red Bull vending machines in the past, it’s only right that I post an update on a scheme by Creative Concepts of
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The Las Vegas Sun has the story of a would-be-hitman who did what ever self-respecting entrepreneur does first after starting a business: he setup a website. His website Hitmanforhire.net. We all nurse private ambitions. Essam Ahmed Eid, a 53-year-old Egyptian man living in Vegas and dealing poker at the Bellagio, dreamed of becoming a hit
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In less than a year, WikiLeaks has released hundreds of thousands of classified documents while its frontman Julian Assange became embattled in a sex scandal, was arrested, and faced extradition from Sweden. The site’s secret-document dumps have spawned contentious political debates, international nail-biting, and near-daily headlines. According to Inc.com, all that buzz has been a
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Sure, you like all the great benefits of having your phone know where you are. Looking up directions or local weather information becomes that much faster. But outside companies and agencies are equally delighted to have access to your location information–and not just to send you coupons. According to Fast Company, Visa Europe is going
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California Web impostors beware: You may soon be breaking the law, even if you aren’t one of the perpetrators targeted by the state’s “e-personation” bill, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. The measure, which is awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature, carries fines of as much as $1,000 and a year in jail for anyone who poses as another
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Colorado’s Secretary of State and other officials are warning the state’s 800,000 or so registered businesses to watch out for scammers who have been forging business identities to make fraudulent purchases from several big-box retailers in recent months, reports PC World. The corporate identity thefts itself were possible because of what appears to have been
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According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Dan Reynolds didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur. Instead, the full-time firefighter and former commercial truck salesman from suburban Chicago wanted to hire on with a big crime-scene cleanup company. But when he was treated rudely during his interview in early 2007, he vowed to found his own company as
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