] Tokyo--Toshiba Corporation today announced the
] world%u2019s first prototype of a small form factor
] direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) for portable PCs, a
] clean energy breakthrough with the potential to end
] reliance on rechargeable batteries. The new fuel cell
] currently realizes average output of 12W and maximum
] output of 20W, and can achieve approximately five hours
] of operation with a single cartridge of fuel. It provides
] instant power supply, and achieves significant advances
] in operating times with replaceable methanol cartridges.

Toshiba : Press Releases 5 March, 2003

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On Sunday, March 2 at 7:20 p.m., computer systems personnel at UT Austin discovered a computer malfunction. The affected computer system was immediately shut down, and detailed analysis was begun.

What happened?

The malfunction was assessed to be the result of a deliberate attack from the Internet. Subsequent analysis revealed that a security weakness in an administrative data reporting system was exploited by writing a program to input millions of Social Security numbers. Those SSNs that matched selected individuals in a UT database were captured, together with e-mail address, title, department name, department address, department phone number, and names/dates of employee training programs attended. It is important to note that no student grade or academic records, or personal health or insurance information was disclosed.

...

How many individual records were exposed?

Approximately 55,200 individuals had some of the above data exposed. This group includes current and former students, current and former faculty and staff, and job applicants.

Data Theft and Identity Protection

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These dolls are about 8 inches tall with the puppet versions running slightly larger.

Dirty Animals - the Animals with Dicks

EEP THREAADING OOPSIE :

leed25d wrote the below, not me!! I just think it's swass!

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This morning, I received an email from a co-worker of long ago. Not just a any old co-worker, but my first UNIX mentor. We have managed to stay loosely in touch over the years and I have always thought him to be one who is impeccably cogent but one who does not suffer fools --just do a google groups search on his name to see what I mean by this. I've rambled enough, here's the email:

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| I'm not a peace monger, by which I mean I can imagine conditions in
| which I would fight or let my child fight. But I'm also quite
| against getting into fights:
|
| which we can't get out of;
|
| which are unlikely to have a clear outcome;
|
| which don't have the full support of the people;
|
| which don't seem likely to achieve their stated goals;
|
| which have a far greater potential cost than potential
| reward.
|
| I thought that there was a general consensus about all this after
| Vietnam.
|
| What Bush and crew are attempting in the Middle East seems an
| example of the kind of hubris that is likely to cause great and
| lasting damage to this country. In their argument for war, they
| pile fact upon fact in the manner of conspiracy theorists, and
| similarly leap to a conclusion that isn't supported by those facts.
|
| The president is being goaded by advisers into an adventure just as
| Lyndon Johnson was -- the parallels seem quite clear.
|
| I am sure that I am not the only one making these observations, and
| that there are many Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and
| liberals, war veterans and lifelong civilians, who are thinking
| along similar lines.
|
| If you believe that this might be a colossal mistake, please say so
| in a voice we can all hear.
|
|
| - Michael Sierchio
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An Email from Michael Sierchio

] The music industry has been spoiled. They have controlled
] the distribution of music by producing CDs, and thereby
] have also protected their profits. So they have resisted
] Internet distribution. Six years ago I asked Sony Music
] to start working with IBM to figure out how to offer
] secured distribution of their content over the Net. But
] nobody in Sony Music would listen. Then about six months
] ago, they started to panic.

A very candid conversation with the CEO of Sony.

Sony's CEO Unplugged :: AO

Legal reference for the "Guy Arrested in Mall with Peace T-Shirt".. looks like the US Supreme Court is on his side. Basic summary is they rule that shopping centers are public forums and that people have a right to petition people politically within them. Wow, whoda thunk it.

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We postponed jurisdiction of this appeal from the Supreme Court of California to decide the important federal constitutional questions it presented. Those are whether state constitutional provisions, which permit individuals to exercise free speech and petition rights on the property of a privately owned shopping center to which the public is invited, violate the shopping center owner's property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments or his free speech rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Appellant PruneYard is a privately owned shopping center in the city of Campbell, Cal. It covers approximately 21 acres -- 5 devoted to parking and 16 occupied by walkways, plazas, sidewalks, and buildings that contain more than 65 specialty shops, 10 restaurants, and a movie theater. The PruneYard is open to the public for the purpose of encouraging the patronizing of its commercial establishments. It has a policy not to permit any visitor or tenant to engage in any publicly expressive activity, including the circulation of petitions, that is not directly related to its commercial purposes. This policy has been strictly enforced in a nondiscriminatory fashion. The PruneYard is owned by appellant Fred Sahadi.

Appellees are high school students who sought to solicit support for their opposition to a United Nations resolution against "Zionism." On a Saturday afternoon they set up a card table in a corner of PruneYard's central courtyard. They distributed pamphlets and asked passersby to sign petitions, which were to be sent to the President and Members of Congress. Their activity was peaceful and orderly and so far as the record indicates was not objected to by PruneYard's patrons.

Pruneyard Shopping Center vs Robins

you have to enter some (fake) demographic information to get this article..
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Enraged Computer Owner Shoots Up Machine

The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 5, 2003; 3:53 PM

George Doughty hung his latest hunting trophy on the wall of his Sportsman's Bar and Restaurant. Then he went to jail.

The problem was the trophy was Doughty's laptop computer.

He shot it four times, as customers watched, after it crashed once too often.

He was jailed on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons.

"It's sort of funny, because everybody always threatens their computers," said police Lt. Rick Bashor, seconds before his own police computer froze at police headquarters.

Enraged Computer Owner Shoots Up Machine (washingtonpost.com)

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I am the coolest stud at MIT. I hacked an old-school telephone handset on my cell phone. Now I walk around Cambridge MA, looking like a phat pimp!

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Why I'm the Coolest Stud at MIT

Hallinan Has Made a Career of Law and Disorder"
Posted by Brandt Zembsch
Tuesday, March 04, 2003

Here's the side of the SFPD scandal that the Chronicle glosses over. It should be read in tandem with today's ChronWatch item on liberal governance run amok. George Neumayr, writing in The American Prowler, gives us the real background of District Attorney Terence Hallinan. Amazing .

San Francisco's latest fiasco--the city's police chief and three of his top commanders have been indicted for allegedly covering up a police brawl over steak fajitas--revolves around the city's crackpot district attorney Terence Hallinan. San Franciscans are asking: How did things come to this? The answer is simple: You elected a cop-hating former felon as your district attorney!

'Hallinan Has Made a Career of Law and Disorder'

The Arab world is 45 times the size of Israel in terms of population.

Most of the Arab world (88%) are not free to elect their leaders.

The Arab world has 11 times the gross domestic product of Israel.

Israelis have 4 times the standard of living than the average citizen of the Arab world, in terms of per capita domestic product.

2 times as many Muslims live in the non-Arab world as in the Arab world, and mostly live in democracies.

The Numbers