] Nearly everyone on the planet has spotted the Sluttis
] webcamus (aka Cam Girl) but so few know the inner
] workings of this attention-seeking creature. Well, we
] seem to have unearthed the very essence of what makes the
] Cam Girl popular. Please, use this for good... not evil.

Hilarious.

Cam Girl Tips

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Blogged for future research

An example of systems utilization pricing

How to swear in Russian.

A few words I'd like to say to Fedorov

] How would you like to own Twiki from Buck Rogers, or even
] better one of Erin Gray's hot spandex pantsuits from the
] show? You can have your own Cylon, Commander Adama's
] uniform, or a Colonial Warrior helmet from the
] never-filmed second season of BG.

SWEET!

Buy your command!

] In one IRC chat group a user was selling credit card
] numbers for 50 cents to $1 each, while another wanted
] lessons on cracking online sites containing credit card
] information.

LOL! Oh no! The white hats have discovered IRC!

Credit card hackers swap tricks online

] Currently, nearly 100 per cent of broadband access is
] provided by carriers on a flat-rate basis, in spite of
] the fact that this is not the most efficient or
] economical access mode for either the carrier or the
] customer.

Of course all the right buzzwords are in this article (LDAP, QoS, rate-limiting, etc) but the fundamental issue is that public IP networks do not allow this kind of control. Simply changing some ACLs to allow you to access a video server if you pay extra is not the holy grail of metered billing.

Euros moving towards metered broadband

] Defenseman Drake Berehowsky, who spent the better part of
] three seasons with the Predators, has expressed a strong
] interest in returning to Nashville.

Appearently the chicks in Phoenix aren't as hot.

Ole Cock-eye wants to come back to Nashville

] Concerned that information about your file-sharing
] username may have been subpoenaed by the RIAA? Check here
] to see if your username is on one of the subpoenas filed
] with the D.C. District Court. This information is drawn
] from the court's publicly available PACER database and
] will be updated when that system is updated.

RIAA Subpoena Database

] When I mentioned in last week's column that I would this
] week be writing about a legal way to do a successful
] music downloading business -- a business that would
] threaten the Recording Industry Association of America
] and its hegemony -- dozens of readers wrote to me trying
] to predict what I would write. Some readers came at the
] problem from a purely technical perspective, ignoring the
] fact that the real issues here aren't technical but
] legal. Some readers took a legal approach, but they
] tended to ignore the business model. Some were looking
] solely for the business model. Interestingly, nobody
] even came close to my idea, which makes me either a total
] loon or a diabolical genius. Truth be told, I'm probably
] more of a diabolical loon.
]
]
] The reason I am even writing this column is two-fold.
] The biggest reason is simply because I would like people
] to consider lateral solutions to problems. I am pushing
] the concept of problem solving in a new way. There is no
] particular methodology here, just the underlying concept
] that if things aren't working the way you like, think of
] something different. Too often, people restrict their
] thinking or they somehow expect the world to change just
] for them, which it won't. But taking a lateral approach
] often yields interesting results. And once you've found
] an approach, maybe it can be applied to a different
] problem. What I am abo

Cringely is a genius