Funny diagram of military hand signals.

Military Hand Signals

] Unreliable software exposes California recall to fraud

Hack the vote

] A new Internet worm emerged today that is designed to
] seek out and fix any computer that remains vulnerable to
] "Blaster," the worm that attacked more than 500,000
] computers worldwide last week.

'Good' Worm Fixes Infected Computers (TechNews.com)

] Heads up, sharers of music, video and software files: If
] a prominent Michigan lawmaker has his way on Capitol
] Hill, you will soon be a felon.
]
] U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, is the
] sponsor of the Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner
] Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003, which
] declares sharing a single copyrighted file online to be a
] felony.
]
] Because the bill doesn't specifically name the type of
] file, you could theoretically become a felon by copying
] and posting this very column on your Web site. (We frown
] on that sort of thing anyway, but webmasters, be warned.)
]
] Giving fake information to the folks who register domain
] names, the basic Internet Web addresses (such as
] freep.com), would be punishable by up to five years in
] prison and a fine. Using a camcorder to record a movie in
] a theater -- whether you share it or not -- would be a
] federal criminal offense.

HEATHER NEWMAN: 60 million file sharers could face prison, fine

Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] California (Reuters) -- Corpses littered the weekend box
] ] office in North America, but this time they weren't the
] ] remains of overhyped, costly flops.
] ]
] ] Instead, they belonged to hapless victims in the top
] ] three movies, led by teen horror "Freddy vs. Jason,"
] ] which shocked the industry with a surprisingly strong
] ] $36.4 million opening.
]
] Damn! $36 million is unheard of for a horror flicks opening
] weekend. That kind of figure is more indicative of its ENTIRE
] box office run.

I can't believe I am admiting my $5 went towards that total. Normally I would not have gone to see such a piece of trash but I went with friends. It can be summed up as boobs, girl runs into the woods screaming. Yup you guessed it, Jason gets her. The rest was like a really bad dream that lasted for an hour and half with plenty of cheesey fighting between Jason and Freddy.

RE: 'Freddy vs. Jason' scares up weekend win

] It took a year of testing and tasting to create the
] concoction.
]
] The Nicotini -- in regular and menthol -- was ready for
] routine consumption just as the smoking ban went into
] effect.
]
] "We made an announcement, picked up all the ashtrays and
] said: 'Sorry there's no more smoking, but we have this.'
] And [we] bought everybody in the house a drink," Wald
] said.
]
] The Nicotini is made by soaking tobacco leaves in vodka
] and then adding five different liqueurs to tame the
] tobacco flavor.

You heard it right here and don't forget it. Smokers you have a new source for your buzz. Get them while they last because I'm sure someone somewhere will screw up and they will get outlawed.

TheWBALChannel.com - Health Alert - Florida Bar Concocts Nicotine Drink

] Bret McDanel was dissatisfied with his former employer,
] Tornado Development, Inc. Tornado provided internet
] access and web-based e-mail to its clients. However,
] McDanel apparently discovered a flaw in the web-mail that
] would permit malicious users to piggyback a previous
] secure session

I hate hearing about people getting fines and having to serve jailtime for discovering a hole. In this case though he may have stepped over the line by informing all of their customers.

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: The Sad Tale of a Security Whistleblower

] SAN JOSE, Calif. -- If Russian researchers in Antarctica
] succeed in drilling through the final 120 meters of
] nearly 4 kilometers of ice to reach an ancient,
] unexplored lake underneath, scientists at NASA warn that
] the hole could cause a dangerous eruption that spews
] water thousands of feet into the air.

This is pretty nifty. I will be waiting to hear what all they learn from the water.

billingsgazette.com - version 5.0

] Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups
] are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel.
]
] Next up: the computing industry.
]
] By Joshua Davis
]
] Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the
] stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye.
] We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and
] gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem
] district, the center of the diamond universe. Nearly 80
] percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move
] through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten,
] a dealer who wears the thick beard and black suit of the
] Hasidim.
]
] "This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in
] thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color
] are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15
] thousand dollars."
]
] "I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell
] him.
]
] He puts the diamond down and looks at me seriously for
] the first time. I place the other two stones on the
] table. They are all the same color and size. To find
] three nearly identical yellow diamonds is like flipping a
] coin 10,000 times and never seeing tails.
]
] "These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much
] hope.
]
] "No, they're real," I tell him. "But they were made by a machine
] in Florida for less than a hundred dollars."

Wired 11.09: The New Diamond Age

] Scientists in China have, for the first time, used
] cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain
] a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits, according to a
] report in a scientific journal that has reignited the
] smoldering ethics debate over cloning research.

Even though they claim most of the rabbit DNA was removed prior to the fusing, how valid of a test cell would these actually be? Without having 100% of the qualities of a normal cell how could we actually use these and get reliable results?

Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo (washingtonpost.com)