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] A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly
] show water travelling up each of them before it pours off
] the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next
] ramp.
]
] It is a sight which defies logic, and has become probably
] the most memorable image of this year's show.
]
] Mr Dyson says his inspiration was a drawing by the Dutch
] artist MC Escher (he of Gothic palaces where soldiers are
] eternally walking upstairs, and of patterns where birds
] turn into fish).

BBC NEWS | UK | How does Dyson make water go uphill?

] As a Senate committee sought answers yesterday on how to
] curb the overwhelming surge of junk e-mail, one of the
] nation's most notorious spammers told members just how
] hard their job would be.
]
] Ronald Scelson, an eighth-grade dropout and self-taught
] computer programmer from Louisiana, riveted the Commerce
] Committee hearing room as he explained that he sends
] between 120 million and 180 million e-mails every 12
] hours.
]
] He boasted that in 24 hours he could crack sophisticated
] software filters designed to block spam.
]
] And he accused Internet providers of hypocrisy in
] claiming to want to protect their customers from
] unsolicited messages.
]
] Large Internet companies spam their own members, he said,
] while other network access providers have signed
] contracts allowing known spammers to send out mass
] e-mail.
]
] "I'm probably the most hated person in this room," said
] an unapologetic Scelson, responding to a parade of
] technology, government and marketing officials who
] decried the purveyors of junk e-mail.

So all we have to do is grab this guy and beat him senseless as an example to spammers, right?

A Spammer Speaks Out (TechNews.com)

] Until last week, it appeared that Apple Computer Inc.'s
] iTunes Music Store had solved the problem of how to sell
] music over the Internet with just enough digital security
] to satisfy nervous record labels but not so much as to
] deter consumers from using it.
]
]
] But a few enterprising Mac hackers figured out how to get
] more mileage from one of the built-in features of iTunes
] 4, streaming music between Macs on a local network (such
] as a home network).
]
]
] Within a week of iTunes 4's introduction, Web sites such
] as ShareiTunes.com and Spymac were offering lists of song
] collections that could be streamed from the hard drives
] of dozens of online Mac users who made their collections
] available.
]
]
] Streaming, it should be noted, is distinct from
] downloading. When you stream a file, it's like listening
] to the radio; no file is transferred to your hard drive.
] Many Mac users doing this believed that since they were
] just listening and not downloading, the activity was
] legal.
]
]
] Before anyone could start debating the legality of
] streaming, however, other clever hackers devised a way to
] use the sharing function to download songs from one
] another's drives.

Hackers bite Apple in its iTunes

Terror evidence, blah blah blah. But what caught my eye was the end of the article. I forget sometimes there are families where terrorists come from who do not believe in their relative's insanity.

] One Saudi who allegedly took up arms was Abdul Kareem
] Yazijy, 35, a suspected member of the cell that carried
] out the suicide bombings here last week. It is unclear if
] Yazijy was killed in the attacks, because only three of
] the nine bombers who died have been positively
] identified.
]
] But at his family home in Riyadh today, Yazijy's younger
] brother, Abdullah, called on him to turn himself in.
] "Whatever the authorities will do to you is not worse
] than what you are thinking of doing," Abdullah Yazijy
] said in a plea spoken to two American journalists.
]
] Yazijy said his brother, the third of eight children in a
] family of civil servants, disappeared about 18 months
] ago. He said his brother had a long history of "emotional
] instability."
]
] He said his mother, in particular, wants to believe her
] son had nothing to do with the bombings. But he
] reluctantly outlined his brother's past, which is
] familiar to investigators.
]
] Yazijy said his brother went to Afghanistan for a few
] months in 1990 after Soviet forces withdrew from the
] country and he later worked for two years in Sarajevo,
] Bosnia, for a Saudi charity. That charity, the Supreme
] Committee for the Collection of Donations for
] Bosnia-Herzegovina, was raided in 2002 because of
] suspected links to al Qaeda.
]
] On May 6, Abdul Kareem Yazijy's face was shown on Saudi
] television as one of 19 men being sought by authorities
] following the discovery of a major arms cache. Six days
] later came the bombings.
]
] "This man brought disaster to the whole family," said
] Zakaria Yazijy, Abdul Kareem's nephew. "He is a crisis in
] the family, like a demon."
]
] "What," Abdullah Yazijy asked plaintively, "do the
] Americans think of us?"

Audio Message Urges Muslims to Attack (washingtonpost.com)

] The DVDs can be re-molded into other products if they are
] recycled, he said. Customers can mail their used DVDs to
] GreenDisk, a company that recycles old DVDs. Flexplay
] will cover the cost of recycling the discs. It's also
] working to get a collection or drop-off process in place,
] so people could avoid the cost of mailing in their old
] EZ-Ds.
]
] "You could save up a year's worth of Flexplay discs and
] then drop it off once," LeBlanc said, comparing the
] process to dropping off aluminum cans at a recycling
] facility. "As we broaden our retail and distribution
] opportunities for the product, we will also broaden our
] collection points."

And exactly how many people do you know that really do recycle, even though collection points are common, and curbside recycling is commonly available? Just how many people are going to bother putting them in the mail (regardless if they have to pay for postage or not) or saving up a year's worth and taking them somewhere? Face it - these are going to get thrown away.

Wired News: Disposable DVDs Go to the Dumps

] The Senate agreed Tuesday to lift a 10-year-old ban on
] the research and development of low-yield nuclear
] weapons. The vote was a boost to the Bush
] administration's goal of expanding the U.S. nuclear
] arsenal.
]
] The Senate voted 51-43 to table and thus kill
] an amendment to keep the ban in place.
]
] The ban prohibits the research and development of nuclear
] weapons with an explosive force of 5 kilotons of less.
] That is one-third the power of the nuclear bomb used at
] Hiroshima in August 1945.
]
] "Don't think low-yield, think small apocalypse," said
] Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. "There is no military need today.
] What we do here will be emulated by other countries. That
] is the nature of world leadership."
]
] But Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said the ban means
] scientists cannot even start developing new weapons.
]
] "With many of the new and emerging threats in the world,
] we cannot afford to be ill-prepared," he said.

Why? Why why WHY?? Why are we trying to develop more nuclear weapons? "low yield" weapons are not needed - the recently developed MOAB is as powerful as a low yield nuke, and doesn't have the fallout associated with it - either nuclear OR political fallout. If we use a tactical nuke in battle, thats a "green light" for every rogue nation to use them, and then all hell breaks loose. We need to keep the nuclear genie in the bottle where it belongs.

Laughing Boy

Senate OKs ending ban on nuclear research

Decius wrote:
] ] This model predicted the CD sales of RIAA members to
] ] within thirty million dollars (less than one-quarter of
] ] one percent) given the performance of the economy in
] ] 2002, as a function of nineteen other similarly-sized
] ] corporate sales, and the performance of the RIAA three
] ] previous years.
]
] In other words, piracy is not impacting sales. (Note: This is
] extremely unlikely to be a conspiracy theory. The people that
] run these companies do NOT get this.)

I did a panel at Dragon*Con 2 years ago during Napsters heyday that clearly demonstrated CD sales were NOT being impacted by the P2P networks. In fact, gross revenues had increased by over $2,000,000,000 over the previous year. No - definitely no conspiracy theory here - these were RIAA's own sales figures from their web site.

The RIAA would just as soon blame P2P networks and make up bogus claims to have legislation passed then look at their own antiquated business model as the real problem. Any "loss" of revenue they are experiencing right now is because we are in a double dip recession, but of course its just easier to blame "those damned kids" and their P2P clients.

Someone pull out the clue sticks.

Laughing Boy

RE: Analysis of RIAA revenue figures versus overall economy

] Called Neutersol, it's a shot administered directly into
] the testicles of puppies at the right age for neutering.
] The ingredients -- the amino acid l-arginine and a zinc
] salt -- cause the testicles and prostate to atrophy.
]
] The alternative, surgically removing the testicles,
] guarantees sterility. In a study of 224 dogs, Neutersol
] did almost as well: Semen analysis showed only one
] sterilization failure, said Dr. Melanie Burson of the
] Food and Drug Administration.

CNN.com - FDA approves shot to neuter puppies - May. 20, 2003

] SAN DIEGO Rarely is an invention so unique, so
] visceral and so simple that in 15 seconds most people who
] experience it realize it could alter everyday life.
]
] But that's what happens to just about anyone who steps
] out to the back parking lot of American Technology Corp.
] (ATC) here for a demonstration of its invention called
] HyperSonic Sound (HSS).
]
] Essentially, HSS for the first time does for sound what
] the laser did for light %u2014 intensely focuses and
] channels it so it can travel great distances without
] dispersing. In the demo, a technician points a speaker
] the size of a cereal box at someone standing 100 yards
] away. Amid the din of the nearby freeway, the technician
] plays a recording of ice cubes clinking into a glass.
]
] To the listener, the sound comes across as if it were
] through headphones, totally unlike a sound blaring from a
] distant speaker over oppressive car noise. Take two steps
] to the side, out of the sound beam, and you hear nothing
] at all. Step back in, and there it is again.

Their stock is trading at $4.09 right now. Anybody got half a mil to drop?

Sound technology turns the way you hear on its ear