From the Truth-Is-Stranger-Than-Fiction department:

No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret.

“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”

An Irvine cop ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability

Two more ground zero emergency rescue personnel are on the record as stating they were told Building 7 was going to be brought down on 9/11 hours before its symmetrical implosion, completely contradicting the official explanation of accidental collapse.

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Also wanted to recommend checking out 9/11 Mysteries on Google video. Very good focus on evidence implicating controlled demolition.

And as always, WTC7.Net has a great focus on WTC7. It's odd that the official 9/11 Commission Report didn't even mention WTC7.

For the record, I'm not recommending this to anyone except Rattle since he said he recently lost his 120 gig collection of conspiracy documentaries. Figured he'd be interested in it just out of general curiosity.

If you see this pop up on your radar, please feel free to discuss. I've thought there was more to 9/11 than is generally known since day one. I have read the 9/11 Commission Report, the FEMA report, the NIST report, the Popular Mechanics 9/11 Myths article, and even most recently, the Skeptical Inquirer article about 9/11 Conspiracy. I try to stay balanced.

If you want to just attack me like other people on Memestreams have before, lumping me in with holocaust deniers, people who think the planes were holograms, or people who think there wasn't a plane that hit the Pentagon, feel free to send your attacks to /dev/null.

Fresh, hot off the press 9/11 conspiracy w4r3z, 0-day y0...

Was doing research on de-interlacing NTSC, as well as reading up on HDTV broadcasting. Ran accross this excellent description of how the ~59.94 hz field rate came to be. It was an artifact of retaining backwards compatibility with black and white TV's.

I didn't know that technically the field rate was dropped by a factor of 1000/1001.

Why NTSC has a ~59.94 hz field rate

Via jwz:

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The new Congress has barely begun, but the major record labels are already up to their old tricks.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, a backdoor assault on your right to record off the radio. Satellite and digital radio stations as well as Internet webcasters would have to adopt digital rights management (DRM) restrictions or lose the statutory license for broadcasting music. Letters from constituents like you helped beat this dangerous proposal last year -- take action now to block it again.

This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite and digital radio. Such devices would be allowed to include "reasonable recording" features, but that excludes choosing and playing back selections based on song title, artist, or genre. Want to freely move recordings around your home network or copy them to the portable player of your choice? You'll be out of luck if PERFORM passes.

This bill would also mess with Internet radio. Today, Live365, Shoutcast, streaming radio stations included in iTunes, and myriad other smaller webcasters rely on MP3 streaming. PERFORM would in effect force them to use DRM-laden, proprietary formats, so you can say goodbye to software tools like Streamripper that let you record programming to listen to it later.

Tell your representatives to oppose the PERFORM Act now.

Don't Let Congress Shackle Digital Music

Decius wrote:

In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. Well these images make the point very well. Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture. The same page and picture.

Which one do you think is Windows?

I guessed the one on the right, looks like I won the prize! I'm curious about details of the grapher's methodology. IIS comes out of the box with a lot of bells and whistles turned on by default. Apache is relatively bare in the same state. If the same diagrams were generated with all unnecessary functionality in each package disabled, I wonder if the IIS diagram would become more tidy.

[Update: I meant the left.]

RE: Why Windows is less secure than Linux | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com

Via Boing Boing:

7 Deadly Sins and their Combinations

Senator Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, and State Rep. Jim Keffer today called on Governor Rick Perry to rescind Executive Order RP65 requiring all girls to be vaccinated against the Human Pappilomaviros, a sexually transmitted disease, before entering the sixth grade.

"This is a decision that should not be made by one person. Citizens have been left out of the process, and I respectfully call on the governor to rescind this emergency order so that we can hold legislative hearings on bills that have already been filed on this very issue," Senator Nelson, who chairs the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, said. "Executive orders should be used in extreme circumstances, during times of emergency and when the Legislature is not in session. We need to be afforded the opportunity to carefully study the how this would affect our budget, parental rights, and most importantly, the health of our daughters."

Executive Order RP65, issued February 2, 2007, directs that all girls entering the sixth grade receive an immunization against the Human Pappilomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease. It gives parents the right to opt out via online applications.

Senator Nelson also announced that she and Representative Keffer, who chairs the House Ways & Means Committee, will request that the Attorney General issue an opinion on the legality of Executive Order RP65.

SENATOR NELSON & REPRESENTATIVE KEFFER CALL ON GOVERNOR TO PULL DOWN EMERGENCY ORDER ON HPV VACCINE

noteworthy wrote:
This ought to stir things up; the thing is, I'm not really interested.

On the contrary, I find this very interesting and would like to read this author. I've heard about the dangers of mercury, thimerosal, live viruses, etc. over the years but have never really given it much scholarly focus. This guy sounds like he has done his homework.

I assume you posted this to complement the thread I started on Friday about Texas Governor Rick Perry's edict requiring 11 year old girls to be vaccinated for a sexually transmitted disease. I have since attempted to state my position in more clear terms here:

http://www.memestreams.net/users/hijexx/blogid340819/

I like to believe that I do not see the issue through the lens of conspiracy theory in the strictest sense. I do believe, with respect to the particular case happening in Texas, that Governor Perry is in bed with Merck and issued his Executive Order for the benefit of Merck, not to address any public health crisis. I have attempted to state facts that highlight conflicts of interest, non-transparency of political contributions by Merck, the absense of evidence proving cervical cancer is an escalating epidemic, and evidence proving that cervical cancer rates are actually on the decline and do not affect a significant portion of the population.

RE: Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver

On Friday 2/2/2007, Texas Governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that girls entering the sixth grade be vaccinated for HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer. By mandating this via Executive Order, it bypassed the legislative process, and thus bypassed the will of the people, whatever their decision may have been had their elected representatives been allowed to vote on it.

The vaccine that will be administered starting in 2008 will be Merck & Co. Inc's 'Gardasil.' Governor Perry received $6000 from Merck's political campaign action committee during his re-election campaign. One of Merck's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry's former chief of staff.

Merck also funds an advocacy group called Women In Government. This group is comprised of female state legislators around the country. Governor Perry's current chief-of-staff's mother-in-law, Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women In Government.

It has been reported that a top official from Merck's vaccine division sits on the Women in Government's business council. Many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women In Government.

Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group's president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.

It already looks like the Women In Goverment group is trying to distance itself from being affiliated with Merck. Google's cached Women In Government Business Council Page as of Feb. 2nd listed "Merck Vaccine Division" under the heading "Business Council Members Represent." If you check the Women In Government Business Council Page now, that line has been removed.

I found the name of the Merck official that sits on the Women In Government's Business Council. Hit up the Internet Archive's cache. Her name is Deborah Alfano. She is an advocate of universal vaccination. That is another way of saying she does not believe you should have a choice when it comes to vaccinations.

From the Maternity Care Coalition's website, summarizing Ms. Alfano's Speech "The Value of Vaccines:"

"Barriers to universal coverage in the United States remain. While most states have legislation requiring vaccinations, half of the country allows for philosophical exemptions from vaccinations, making universal vacination virtually impossible in those states.... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]

Texas Executive Order now requires 11 year olds to receive STD vaccines. But wait, there's more!

A bill has been proposed in the Georgia State Senate which would require social networking websites, possibly including MemeStreams, to verify that minors who create accounts have parental permission. In practice this would mean that any Georgia website, no matter how benign, which allows users to create profiles, would be required to implement as yet undefined age validation procedures for all new users.

We beleive that this proposal is a bad idea for a number of different reasons. We composed the following open letter to the sponsors of the legislation in an attempt to articulate our concerns.

Very well put Tom. Hope you get positive results from this.

I cannot believe he had the nerve to actually said this:

"They can find a way to do this," Staton said. "That's my challenge to them."

Talk about being out of your league.

MemeStreams response to Georgia Senate Bill 59 - 2007