Illinois: We'll seize your car if someone complains about your stereo.
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:50 am EDT, Sep 24, 2007
This month the city of Rockford, Illinois will begin allowing residents to call the police and have any vehicle seized on the mere accusation that the car used a loud stereo system...
The ordinance states that "hearsay evidence shall be admissible" and that property will be seized upon the assertion of probable cause...
...The city may then wait another 45 days to schedule a hearing while storage fees accumulate up to $1100. If the vehicle's owner does not receive the mailed notice or cannot pay the fees within 30 days, the city will confiscate the vehicle permanently.
MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with art project
Topic: Miscellaneous
2:15 pm EDT, Sep 21, 2007
She's extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," Pare told The Associated Press. "And she's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."
The quote above is a Massachusetts State Police Officer publicly threatening to murder an MIT student who accidentally showed up at the airport wearing an electronic art project. She has, yet again, been charged with carrying out a hoax. Remember kids, anytime a Massachusetts police officer is confused, its your fault for confusing them, and not theirs for being fucking stupid and paranoid, and you are likely to go to prison or worse if it happens.
This Is Your (Father’s) Brain on Drugs - New York Times
Topic: Miscellaneous
5:43 pm EDT, Sep 18, 2007
What experts label “adolescent risk taking” is really baby boomer risk taking. It’s true that 30 years ago, the riskiest age group for violent death was 15 to 24. But those same boomers continue to suffer high rates of addiction and other ills throughout middle age, while later generations of teenagers are better behaved. Today, the age group most at risk for violent death is 40 to 49, including illegal-drug death rates five times higher than for teenagers.
The Independent Florida Alligator: News - UF student Tasered at Kerry forum
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:49 am EDT, Sep 18, 2007
A UF student was shot with a Taser gun today at a campus forum with U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Andrew Meyer, a telecommunication senior, yelled out to Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and insisted his questions be answered while police tried to restrain him. Steven Blank, Accent’s chairman, said Meyer was cut off because he used profanity and his question was too long. When police moved him away, Meyer resisted and began to yell out to the audience, asking "What did I do? What am I being arrested for?"
More use of pain compliance on nonthreatening people who disagree with police.
WiiToMidi - Wii Controller to MIDI interface for Mac OS X
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:28 am EDT, Sep 18, 2007
WiiToMidi allows you to convert signals from a Nintendo Wii controller to MIDI signals. It is a Cocoa application for Mac OS X and uses the DarwiinRemote WiiRemote framework to decode Wii controller signals. It also supports the Nunchuk controller.
Kameraflage - Digital Camera Visible Only | productdose.com
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:32 pm EDT, Sep 16, 2007
There's all kinds of practical uses for a dye that's only visible to digital chips, but we like all the mischief that could be wrought.
This came up in a discussion I had with some friends this week about anti-counterfeiting technologies. Of course, this immediately lead to They Live references. I urge you not to click on that wikipedia link, BTW, unless you plan to spend the next half an hour lost in a wikihole that ranges from the Tachistoscope to Andre the Giant has a Posse.
Tsudohnimh wrote: Simply put I want your recommendations for Access Points.
I need to replace my AP and I'm wanting to explore some different options. I figured Memestreams would be a good place to get informed advice. I've got plenty of experience with the enterprise class HP's and Cisco APs as well as the SOHO market usual suspects...Linksys, Dlink, and Netgears but I want your recommendations.
Their are a ton of vendors from Buffalo to Aruba and I'd like to know what you think.
Thanks in advance.
For what application? Corporate network or home? IS there really much that differentiates these products? In the home basically you'd want WPA and some basic firewall rules. If you're a super nerd you might get one of the Linksys "L" models that lets you load an open source linux distro and do a bunch of QoS and management stuff with it. See this.
