] In a bid to demonstrate the futility of trying to ban
] peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, a computer scientist
] has written the shortest P2P program ever.
]
]
] Like all P2P applications, Tiny P2P, written by Edward
] Felten of Princeton University in New Jersey, establishes
] a network between PCs on which files can be transferred
] without using a central server. Members of the network
] make content on their hard drives available to everyone
] else. But this decentralisation allows, for instance,
] movie pirates to hide illicit footage more easily.

New Scientist Simple programs make file sharing inevitable - Technology

From CNN.com:

Dropping a political bombshell, New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey announced his resignation Thursday as he revealed he is a gay man who carried on an adulterous affair with a man.

Now, I said if he was a good governor, he should have stayed in office. However, others say it's not as simple as that.

Jersey Governor Admits Gay Affair, Steps Down

Frank Megna, founder of Working Stage Theater in West Hollywood, who directed the currently running play The Emissary, about a young Jewish man who flees New York after his mom and his rabbi die on the same day (not to 9/11, thank God), says Americans are addicted to acting out for the media. And when it comes to September 11, he's sick of it, just like me.

Great article. This really shows why today's American populace generally makes me sick to my stomach.

New Times L.A. | newtimesla.com | News : Jill Stewart

"A way to turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons has caused a big stir at an industrial chemistry conference in New Brunwick, New Jersey. Nakamichi Yamasaki of the Tokushima Industrial Technology Center in Japan says he has a process that makes propane and butane at relatively low temperatures and pressures."

New Scientist- Carbon dioxide turned into hydrocarbon fuel

If New York Yankees star Joba Chamberlain really WAS at the Jersey shore, wouldn't he ask for something better than a bagel? That question apparently was never asked when a Toms River man with a strong resemblance to the Yankee pitcher allegedly implied that he was Chamberlain. Ryan Ward, 30, was charged with theft by deception and disorderly conduct, and could get more than a year in jail if convicted.

He's charged with scamming a Belmar bagel shop out of free food last summer after allegedly telling an employee, "Do you know who I am?" and pointing to a photo of Chamberlain in a newspaper sports section.

Police said he signed autographs and promised women free Yankee tickets.

Ward has denied the charges, telling the Asbury Park Press, "You can't have fun anymore, can you?"

The newspaper dubbed him "Joba-The-Not."

His municipal court trial is scheduled for Feb. 11.

Police in Monmouth County say Ward represented himself as Chamberlain in other businesses in Belmar and Spring Lake, and was banned from a few local bars because of it.

Ward declined to answer specific questions about his actions, telling the newspaper, "It was something I did for the summer. I had a lot of fun with it."

His attorney, Constantine Bardis, called the charges against Ward a "tragedy."

"What's the crime in pretending to be someone?" Bardis asked. "I'm Mel Gibson; want to have a drink? He just goofed around because he kind of looks like the guy."

Ward then corrected his lawyer.

"He looks like me," Ward said.

Belmar Police Chief Jack Hill called Ward a "nut," saying Ward broke the law when he pretended to be a Yankees pitcher.

"He impersonated another person and took advantage of it," Hill said. "We frown on people taking other people's identity."

A Yankees spokesman declined comment.

ok... Here I see the only crime is that people are stupid enough not to ask to see an ID or something with the dudes photo on it, and if that is fake so be it, at the very least you asked! The problem is that people never questioned who he was... 'Social Engineering' is not a crime, but stupidity should be...

Bagels + Fake NY Yankees Pitcher = A year in Jail for Real Identity Theft

eliasberg_1870_s_seated_liberty_dollarThe company Stanford Coins and Bullion, with its headquarters in Houston, announced that it was able to sell the extremely rare historic coin entitled 1870-S Seated Liberty Dollar Eliasberg Specimen. The buyer was Certified Acceptance Corp. (CAC) and it paid $1.3 million for the specimen. It is worth noting that this company has its headquarters located in New Jersey.

Mysterious 1870-S Seated Liberty Dollar Sold for $1.3 Million

"Quite frankly," she added, "everything from pizza to prostitutes."

"I moved mine, too," he said, as if it were a somber rite of passage we all must face one day.

Together, they got all the squeals and singalongs they needed.

We are so being bribed.

“I don’t have a problem with that,” she said.

She gave him a bobblehead doll carrying a briefcase marked with dollar signs.

Seems like a worthy idea.

In familial relationships, money can be a proxy for love and trust.

When we went shopping for a new washer-dryer recently, the salesman sidled up and purred, “And what kind of statement are you looking to make?”

The upshot: No one can be trusted.

I love the big crazy stuff.

Whenever circumstance brings some welcome thing your way, stop in suspicion and alarm ... They are snares.

Shared risk has since evolved from a source of comfort into a virus.

Almost one of every six homeowners has a mortgage larger than the value of their home.

If immunity wanes, a booster shot may be necessary.

But this is not something he likes to think about.

If that's not addiction, I don't know what is.

He claimed I wasn’t really invested.
I told him he was too invested.

This is different from bidding on dead tuna at a fish market auction.

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The new Tennessee law (PDF) that taxes "the retail sale, lease, licensing, or use of specified digital products transferred to or accessed by subscribers or consumers" takes effect in January 2009

Including Nebraska and Tennessee, there are 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that tax digital downloads,Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Washington...

Tax something that does not physically exist ... how ?

TN TAX : "the retail sale, lease, licensing, or use of specified digital products transferred to or accessed by subscribers or consumers"

For anyone who thought that stark international aggression was a thing of the past, the last week must have come as a startling wake-up call.

To Senator McCain,
No sir, it comes as nothing of the sort. While I do not agree with the way the Russians have responded, they have done so in a far more responsible manner than we did in the invasion of Iraq, with understanding of the consequences of their actions and their goals in mind and achievable. We are NOT "all Georgians," unless you mean we willy nilly blow the crap out of people without concern for the results.

Let's keep some FACTS in mind here. What was a low level conflict between Russia and Georgia exploded when the Georgians blew the crap out of their own people because they wanted to be Russian, not Georgian. This would be similar to... Trenton blowing the hell out of Hoboken because they want to call themselves from New York, not New Jersey. That may be putting too nice a face on it, but less than 20 years ago, they were all part of the USSR.

Georgia started this and bit off more than they could chew. Iraq going after Kuwait? There are any number of parallels to be drawn, but the one written here is a study in blithe ignorance.

We Are All Georgians - WSJ.com