Hasta La Gadget!

Many people regard Bigfoot as nothing more than a hoax or an urban legend. Scientists have disputed the very existence of the creature for years, but it has always been an important element in American folklore.

Several decades ago, a man named Clifford LaBrecque was fascinated by these creatures and set out to build a life-sized replica of Bigfoot after years of research into what the creature might actually look like.

If you’re loaded, fascinated by Bigfoot, and have room in your den to spare, then you might be interested in owning the aforementioned replica that LaBrecque built back in 1976.

It has been in storage for the past thirty years, but its owners have decided that it’s high time Bigfoot find another home – but they’re not letting it go for cheap, listing it on eBay with a starting bid of $80,000.

Ready to take out a second mortgage on your house? Then check out the listing on eBay and see if it’s worth your money.

[via Nerd Approved]

This week a Russian native hacker was arrested in Cyprus, Seattle in the USA for relatively gigantic attacks on retail outlets back in 2008. Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, 25, of Moscow was previously held by a Seattle grand jury for conspiracy to intentionally cause damage without authorization to a protected computer as well as unlawful possession of “at least” 15 unauthorized access devices. The attacks being publicized this week took place in 2008 and associated the hacker with illegal activities involving Amazon.com, ebay.com, and Priceline.com over a period of several months.

This case is currently falling on Zubakha but also rests on his supposed partner in crime – and co-defendant – Sergey Vioktorovich Logashov. The indictment at hand only covers Amazon.com for the dates of June 6 and June 9, 2008. Zubakha has been found guilty of using two denial of service attacks against the online retailer which resulted in flooding of the site’s servers with requests that ultimately slowed the site significantly and caused it to crash.

The indictment notes that once the attack was initiated, the defendant called Priceline.com and offered his help as a computer consultant to stop the attacks. The indictment also notes that both men in the case took credit for their attacks in online forums.

According to the Seattle Times, these two men were also caught in possession of over 28,000 stolen credit card numbers back in 2009. This all raises the following question: why weren’t these men behind bars a long time ago?

Seattle hacker held for massive retail cyberattack is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In 1970, a British 1967 Austin Healey 3000 sports car owned by a man named Bob Russell was stolen from his apartment in Philadelphia. Russell thought that he’d never find his beloved car again. Then 42 years later, after years of surfing the Internet, the now-retired sales manager surprisingly found his lost car in an online auction on eBay. Russell immediately called the dealer and said, “I hate to sound indelicate, but you’re selling a stolen car.”

Thankfully, he still kept the original key and car title with him, as well as signed affidavits from friends and the original owner. With the help of a few detectives in Philadelphia, Russel obtained a copy of the stolen car report he filed way back in 1970 and the car was seized from the dealer. On June 16, Russell and his wife went to L.A. to be reunited with their long lost old car. With his car now safe in his garage, Russell plans to restore the Austin Healey to its former glory. “It still runs, but the brakes don’t work well,” he said. “We’re going to put it back the way it was.”

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: €1 million games collection for sale on eBay, eBay will use fuel cells to power new data center in Utah,

If you are one who has plenty of time and spend it surfing eBay as well as all the wonders that the online auction site offers, perhaps the latest item on offer might just pique your interest – we are talking about €1 million worth of games for sale, where these titles are meant for action across different Nintendo, Sega and PC platforms. We are talking about every single game ever released from the NES all the way to the GameCube, as well as all titles on Sega systems in addition to NEC systems.

Even if the Virtual Boy was a complete and utter failure, the full set of 19 games are also up for sale, including Virtual Bowling, SD Gundam Dimension War, Virtual Lab, and Space Invaders. These will come complete in their respective boxes with instructions, or are completely brand new too boot. In fact, Virtual Bowling is being sold for just $2,000 a pop!

Got any disposable cash to spare?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: eBay will use fuel cells to power new data center in Utah, Retina display MacBook Pros surface on eBay for $1,700 more than what Apple is charging,

To most of us, having a ridiculously large video game collection that spans multiple console generations is merely a pipe dream. For one eBay user, not only did that dream became a reality, but it’s now become a source of financial security, as a significant portion of his huge video game collection recently sold for more than $1.2 million on eBay.

The seller in question is 32-year-old Andre from south France. The collection he recently posted on eBay is likely the largest video game collection ever to grace the auction site, containing thousands upon thousands of video games from past generations. In fact, whoever purchased this massive collection will be getting every game ever released for Nintendo consoles ranging from the original Famicom all the way up to the Gamecube, along with all of the games released for every Sega system (eat your hearts out, Dreamcast fanboys). To make the deal even sweeter, many of these games are still factory sealed.

Andre tells the LA Times that he’s always selling video games on sites like eBay, but this is the biggest collection he’s sold so far. This particular collection took him 15 years to build, he says, and provided he gets his money, it will be taking a trip across the Atlantic to Canada. The cost for such a trip? $1,230.70, which is admittedly chump change considering the buyer already has to shell out $1,230,699.99 for the lot. Here’s hoping that Andre just made a deal with a serious buyer.

Massive video game collection nets $1.2 million on eBay is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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