] Sturgis police arrested seven Sturgis men for placing
] more than 20 threatening letters on various businesses,
] schools, banks and at the post office. At least 12 signs
] were posted Monday morning. Another 20 were put up
] Tuesday evening, according to Sturgis police.
]
] The letters all read "All your base are belong to us and
] you have no chance to survive, make your time."

The bar for committing a "terrorist act" is pretty damn low these days.

Ahh.. This will remind the world of the whole "all your base" thing, and within a week we will have an "all your base" take on the Iraq war.. I know it..

'All Your Base' Signs Land Seven in Court

Google R0xors!

Google H4x0r

] Penn State warns students against online file sharing
]
] STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Sharing homework might get
] you in trouble, but sharing copyrighted material over the
] Internet could get you thrown in prison.

Sounds good to me.

Penn State warns students against online file sharing

] America Online Inc. is projecting for the first time that
] its base of dial-up subscribers will decline on an annual
] basis, a drop that Wall Street analysts predict will be
] in the range of 500,000 to 1 million customers.

I wonder what Alternet and Sprintnet will do with all that excess modem capacity. I'd look for pricing changes on smaller providers like Earthlink as the dialup service providers cut costs.

AOL Dial-Up Accounts Expected To Dwindle (TechNews.com)

] Game Market Watch Conference concluded its two day
] gathering Tuesday with a flashy demonstration of new
] gaming content from Microsoft Game Studios and a
] lukewarm forecast for console game growth
] from Jupitermedia analysts.

Microsoft in yet another cutthroat industry. Who has deeper pockets than they?

Game Market Watch: The Big Boys Play To Win

] The Bush administration plans to release its latest
] strategy for implementing the E-Government Act on April
] 17, according to Mark Forman, associate director of
] information technology and e-government at the Office of
] Management and Budget (OMB).
]
] The plan will focus on better use of enterprise licensing
] for purchasing software and how to more fully leverage
] share-in-savings contracts where agencies and contractors
] share the cost of a service and the contractors are paid
] through savings gained.

Anything to make government more efficient is good for me. Just don't let the hackers take over.

Feds to Release Latest E-Gov Plan

] Internet music broadcasters and the record industry
] agreed Thursday to settle their long-running dispute over
] how much big webcasters must pay to broadcast songs over
] the Internet. The deal calls for webcasters including
] Yahoo!, America Online, Microsoft and RealNetworks to pay
] slightly lower per-song royalty fees than those imposed
] last year by the U.S. Copyright Office, which still must
] sign off on the agreement.

Webcast royalty rates deal reached

] Congress voted Thursday to give President Bush about $80
] billion for initial costs of the invasion of Iraq and
] other anti-terrorism efforts after thwarting
] conservatives trying to lash out at Turkey and other
] nations for hindering the U.S. war effort. Senators
] approved their measure 93-0 and the House adopted a
] similar bill by 414-12, underscoring lawmakers%u2019
] resolve to back U.S. forces in the field. The votes put
] Congress on track to send Bush a final package by his
] deadline of April 11, uncommonly swift for a Congress
] that received his request for $74.7 billion only a week
] ago.

Remind me to buy stocks in defense contractors as a speculative move.

House, Senate OK war funding bills

] U.S. troops found thousands of boxes of white powder,
] nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to
] engage in chemical warfare at a military factory south of
] Baghdad, U.S. officers said Friday. But a senior U.S.
] official familiar with initial testing said the powder
] was believed to be traditional military explosives, not
] an ingredient for weapons of mass destruction.

At least the white powder wasn't an export from the Columbia drug cartel.

U.S.: Vials, chemical manuals found in Iraq

] Toshiba has just unveiled its first miniature fuel cell,
] which uses a metal catalyst and runs on methanol. Minteer
] says: "The main advantage of ethanol over methanol is
] that it is simply more readily available. We have
] actually run our cells off vodka and gin." Ethanol is
] also less toxic and, with the enzymes used in Minteer's
] bio-batteries, more productive.

Minteer is local here at St Louis University.

New Scientist - Bio-battery runs on shots of vodka