] Like so many Shore area residents, they commute north.
]
] They spurn raising their families on the same gritty
] Essex County streets their fathers controlled decades
] ago, opting instead for the manicured lawns of Monmouth
] County or the gentle ocean breezes farther south.

Whenever I am not in Jersey, people always ask me about the mob. Its a side effect of most peoples' knowledge of Jersey coming solely from The Sopranos.

So here, have some Jersey mob stuff.

Everyone knows the mob lives at the shore.. Shesh.

Asbury Park Press | Shore attracting the mob

] Rigoberto Martinez, 20, of Long Branch, was putting
] branches into the machine at a home on Cedar Avenue when
] one of the branches got stuck, First Assistant Prosecutor
] Robert Honecker said.
]
] Martinez kicked the branch to get it into the chipper,
] but somehow his right foot ended up in the machine,
] Honecker said. Eventually, his left leg also was pulled
] in.
]
] Martinez died at the scene, Honecker said.
]
] "This was a horrible accident," Honecker said.
]
] When they arrived, the chipper was turned off, but
] "unfortunately too late to save Mr. Martinez," Honecker
] said.

Asbury Park Press | Man dies in wood chipper accident: Legs pulled into machine

I used to love all the great "underground" sites, l0pht, Black Crawling Systems, Spacerogue, etc. Nice to see some of them still around, this one has loads to look at!

Black Market Press Information from the 'underground'

U.S. President George W. Bush is pictured in this combo image falling off a Segway personal transporter on the front driveway of his parents' summer home June 12, 2003 in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush arrived from Washington to spend the weekend with his father, former President George Bush, who celebrates his 79th birthday today and his mother Barbara. Bush was not injured in the fall.

Reuters Picture - Bush & Segway

] For the last 30 days, Google has been doing strange
] things. No webmaster who follows Google closely will deny
] this. There is no explanation from Google apart from some
] vague hints from "GoogleGuy," an anonymous poster at
] webmasterworld.com, whom the forum owner says is from
] Google. These hints claim that new algorithms are being
] put into place, and that this will take a couple of
] months.

Is Google broken?

] recommendations also allow one person to establish a
] trusted, virtual identity in an anonymous way. For
] example, consider alice, an anonymous k2b channel owner.
] After starting one channel and gaining the trust of her
] subscribers (who learned about her channel from the
] prebroadcast catcher or from her anonymous website),
] alice can start new channels and recommend them to her
] subscribers. Perhaps these new channels will be more
] specific than her original channel (like alice_fiction,
] alice_poetry, and alice_paintings), so subscribers can
] pick channels that closely match their interests. In her
] recommendation comments, alice can attest to the fact
] that she owns these new channels. If the subscribers
] trust alice, they can trust that she owns these new
] channels too. If alice has sent high-quality content on
] her original channel, she is likely to send content of
] equal quality on her new channels.

] over time, channel owners with a solid reputations will
] learn to treat recommendations seriously, since those
] who take recommendations lightly will not have solid
] reputations.

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konspire2b: a revolution in mass-scale content distribution

The size of the IP6 address space makes scanning for victim computers in a properly managed network as difficult as a brute force attack on an encryption system. Of course, it also makes scanning your own network for backdoors and trojans just as difficult. Furthermore, crackers are using IPv6 to encapsulate traffic, hiding it from intrusion detection systems.

This is a fun paper if you are into network security.

Security Implications of IPv6 - Mike Warfield

] The LKP is a feature that allows users to run standard
] Linux applications along with standard Unix applications
] on a single system using the UnixWare kernel.
]
] "During that project we often came across sections of
] code that looked very similar, in fact we wondered why
] even variable names were identical. It looked very much
] like both codes had the same origin, but that was good as
] the implementation of 95 percent of all Linux system
] calls on the Unix kernel turned out to be literally
] 'one-liners'," the source said.
]
] Only a handful of system calls - socketcall, ipc and
] clone—were fairly difficult to implement as they involved
] the obvious differentiators between Linux and Unix:
] networking, inter-process communication and kernel
] threads, the source said.

Did SCO Violate the GPL?

This scheme allows Alice to ask Bob if Bob is a warez site, but if it turns out that Bob is the RIAA he cannot prove that Alice asked for warez, and if it turns out that Alice is the RIAA she cannot prove that Bob is a warez site.

Secret Handshakes from Pairing-Based Key Agreements

] "They agreed to allow Jesse to deny their allegations.
] They agreed to dismiss the case and all allegations
] against him," the father said. "Basically they agreed
] that he didn't do anything wrong, but [they're] taking
] his 12 grand."
]
] Weiss says the RIAA wanted to send a deterrent message
] others who had similar services up on their college
] campuses. "Nobody is above the law," she said. "And that
] is the important thing to remember here."

The RIAA and the MPAA scare the shit out of me. All they have to do is decide that what you are working on is "Napster like", and you are pretty much screwed. They are attacking anyone who dosen't look like they'd be able to put up a fight.. They are out of control, and apparently above the law.

I fully agree with Dagmar, this has all the style of a mob shakedown.

] "The people who run these Napster networks know full well
] what they are doing: Operating a sophisticated network
] designed to enable widespread music thievery," RIAA
] President Cary Sherman said in a statement issued April 3.

Non-infringing uses be damned.. Search engines are now akin to dual-use facilities, for the development of TMP, Tools of Mass Piracy.

Justice needs to be more affordable.

ABCNEWS.com : Record Industry Targets Teen Programmer