] "I am a U.S. university student who has recently come
] across 2 remote exploits for a homework program used by
] colleges nationwide. Both vulnerabilities allow students
] to give themselves arbitrary scores, and possibly execute
] arbitrary code. To further emphasize the scope of this
] vulnerability, I have written and -selftested
] proof-of-concept exploit code. Naturally, I want to share
] this information with their software engineers, and would
] even be nice enough and suggest a means to fixing it.
] However, with the state of current intellectual property
] and reverse-engineering laws, I hesitate to do so out of
] fear of litigation or academic disciplinary action. As an
] ethical geek, what do -you- do?"

this sounds familiar.

Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students?

] Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has asked the U.S. government to
] return his personal papers and other materials, including
] a bomb confiscated by the FBI seven years ago.
]
] In papers filed at federal court in Sacramento, Kaczynski
] asked that the government ship the materials to a
] University of Michigan archive that already contains more
] than 15,000 of his papers.
]
] Those items include a pipe bomb and tons of documents
] including his voluminous autobiography, according to R.
] Steven Lapham, one of the federal prosecutors who tried
] the case. Also on the list: Kaczynski's tools, a can of
] matches, a pair of tweezers and a hatchet, which were
] confiscated when he was arrested at his Montana cabin.\

"GIMME BACK MY BOMB! Of course I promise not to detonate it in my cell."

Laughing boy

Unabomber seeks return of papers, bomb

] Novell also announced on Tuesday that it would be porting
] its entire GroupWise collaboration software, a product
] that significantly overlaps with Ximian's Evolution
] client, to Linux. The applications handle e-mail,
] scheduling and contact information to keep employees
] organized. Although Novell intends to support both
] software packages, the eventual goal is to have only one,
] said Stone.

It isn't very likely they will end Netware development anytime soon. But with their current push towards linux it could be possible. The cross platform Groupwise client is currently in beta for MAC, Windows, Linux. Really it is in development for anything that will run java.

Novell may nix NetWare development | CNET News.com

] The surprise announcement came during a Wednesday
] afternoon taping of NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay
] Leno which was scheduled to air Wednesday night. Prior to
] the taping, it had been widely speculated that
] Schwarzenegger, 56, would announce he would not run.

Well I guess this speaks for itself. Arnold is going to enter the race after all.

CNN.com - Schwarzenegger announces bid for governor - Aug. 7, 2003

Well.... this is just weird. Check it out.

Animation Express: Deadrat Episode 2: The Silence of the Strings

] A 42-year-old Braintree woman gave birth to a baby boy
] while standing on an inbound Red Line train yesterday
] morning, refusing help from stunned passengers who heard
] her moan and seconds later looked down to find her baby
] on the floor.

] After leaving the train and heading for the stairs up to
] the station's main lobby, witnesses said, the placenta
] fell to the platform. Judge turned around, grabbed the
] afterbirth, put it in her shoulder bag, and headed upstairs.

Now that is just wrong. This chick should be put into a psychiatric facility for evalution.

Refusing help, woman gives birth aboard T

] BARDSTOWN, Kentucky (AP) -- Flames engulfed a seven-story
] bourbon warehouse Monday, sending alcohol-fueled flames
] more than 100 feet in the air.

I hate seeing good bourbon wasted, but I guess I can overlook 19,000 barrels of Jim Beam.

Fire engulfs seven-story bourbon warehouse in Kentucky

] After more than a year of complaints by some US anti-war
] activists that they were being unfairly targeted by
] airport security, Washington has admitted the existence
] of a list, possibly hundreds or even thousands of names
] long, of people it deems worthy of special scrutiny at
] airports.

Washington cops to political no-fly-list.

] Gwinnett's midsummer crime wave continued Tuesday with an
] apparently successful bank robbery in Lawrenceville.
]
] About 8:30 a.m., two robbers clad in ninja garb ambushed
] two female employees as they arrived at Atlantic State
] Bank at McKendree Church Road and Duluth Highway, police
] said.

Ninjas on the loose in GA.

ajc.com | Gwinnett | 'Ninjas' rob bank in Lawrenceville

] MANCHESTER, New Hampshire -- A security flaw at a website
] operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has
] provided the world with a depressing answer to the
] question: Who in their right mind would buy something
] from a spammer?

Wired News: Swollen Orders Show Spam's Allure