] "I suppose as long as the officers have had their shots
] and don't bite, I'll allow them to continue that
] technique," Moon said.

Would this really work anywhere but in Tennessee?

WPVI.com: Police Impersonate Dog - Catch Suspect

] "AOL is divesting itself of something that was a bad
] decision in the first place. They found that the time,
] effort and money required to develop their own browser
] was just insurmountable in a world where the vast
] majority of Internet users use Internet Explorer," Smiley
] said.

I really hate to see this. I have been a netscape user since version 1. I guess I will have to start using Mozilla straight from the community from now on.

InfoWorld: AOL layoffs take Netscape browser to deathbed: July 16, 2003: By : Application Development

] Robert Short held a white pail as his mother, Laurie,
] drove the family truck home Tuesday from the chicken
] house on their farm in Laurel. Inside the pail was a
] yellow chick with four legs.
]
] The bird appears to be healthy, chirping like any other
] chick. The Shorts even let the chicken walk around their
] kitchen - on two legs, although the second pair were
] visible.

Whip up some batter more legs for everyone!!

Four-legged chicken born in Del.

From speech_freedom2002@yahoo.com Wed Jul 16 10:59:47 2003
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:14:52 -0400
From: Rockit [speech_freedom2002@yahoo.com]
Reply-To: root@se2600.org
To: root@se2600.org
Subject: [se2600] Interz0ne Press Release re: Blackboard Settlement

Interz0ne Press Release:

Censorship via lawsuit wins again.

Lawyers working for Blackboard Inc., the maker of a card transaction, vending and ID system used by approximately 275 colleges and universities globally, as well as an undiscosed number of government and military installations, succeeded in silencing two college students who have found numerous flaws in Blackboard's flagship product over the last two years.

Georgia Tech student Billy Hoffman, along with University of Alabama student Virgil Griffith, initially kept the discoveries quiet while attempting to report them to Blackboard engineers, along with possible fixes. Traditionally, the discoverers of such flaws allow the vendors time to fix problems before going public; this provides the vendors with essentially free quality control labor while the discoverers get later bragging rights and items to pad their resumes. This unofficial system has worked well in the past, to the extent that Blackboard even boasts of working with the hacker community on their website.

Instead of taking an interest in news of these flaws, however, Blackboard engineers first dismissed Hoffman as a know-nothing "kid", then attempted to have him expelled from Georgia Tech after he voiced his concerns about Tech's Blackboard system to campus administrators and student organizations. Hoffman responded by first publishing his (and later Griffith's) findings, and then updating his articles via talks at various vendor and security conferences.

It was at such a conference, Interz0ne II in Atlanta, that Hoffman and Griffith were planning to discuss the most severe problems they had uncovered to date, including a demonstration of several easy-to-assemble hardware devices that could supposedly allow anyone with malicious intent free reign on a Blackboard system.

Hoffman and Griffith never gave their talk.

Instead, they and the convention organizers were served with both restraining orders and cease and desist orders. Court dates soon followed, along with legal threats. Several months after the convention, both Hoffman and Griffith settled out of court. They refuse to discuss the issue, so one can assume that the settlement includes an NDA.

Blackboard spokesdrone Michael Stanton stated to AP reporters on Monday, July 14th (a day before the settlement was officially filed) that "...the claims [Hoffman and Griffith] were making were silly," that "...they really didn't do a lot of the things they were claiming to [have done]" and that the settlement reaffirms that Blackboard's systems are secure.

Bullshit.

The settlement does nothing of the sort.

If Hoffman and Griffith's clai... [ Read More (0.4k in body) ]

Interz0ne Press Release - re: Blackboard Settlement

Finally! Although the selection of Eastern teams that we play at home is pathetic.

Nashville Predators - Schedule (Calendar)

Hijexx wrote:
] MONTREAL — Metallica are taking legal action against
] independant Canadian rock band Unfaith over what they feel is
] unsanctioned usage of two chords the band has been using since
] 1982 : E and F.
]
] "People are going to get on our case again for this, but try
] to see it from our point of view just once," stated
] Metallica's Lars Ulrich. "We're not saying we own those two
] chords, individually - that would be ridiculous. We're just
] saying that in that specific order, people have grown to
] associate E, F with our music."

Oh my fucking GOD! What a bunch of sell-out losers. 2 chords plagurism does not make.

And who did YOU rip that progression off from Lars, huh?

LB

RE: Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords

] You're studying for your certification exam, and you want
] practice questions. LOTS of practice questions. And you
] want 'em cheap too -- well, free actually. And you
] probably don't want "braindump" questions either;
] otherwise, you'd just go directly to the sites that offer
] those and skip right over us.
]
] So what can we here at CertCities do to help? We've got
] our pop quizzes, which feature six to 10 questions from
] top-notch test-prep vendors like Transcender and
] MeasureUp. However, we've come to realize that it's not
] enough -- an editor can only read so many e-mails like
] "This sucks! Gimme More!" and "Why are there only six
] questions, you losers!" (plus many others that I can't
] reprint here) before she gets a clue.

While I was studying this morning I ran across this article about online practice tests for IT people. It is a little dated but the links seem to still get updated.

CertCities.com | Feature: UPDATED: Cheapskate's Guide to Guilt-Free Practice Questions

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

Don't let those nuns convince you that it's a sin!

Masturbation Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

] Now I'm sure you're asking yourself, "how bad could it
] be?" Okay, let me tell you. It all started innocently
] enough, I sat down on a cold ring of porceline, picked up
] a mag, and got to work. What followed will haunt me every
] time I enter the facilities

WARNING: This is absolutely disgusting and at the same time so funny I just couldn't stop laughing. I will say this is very foul so check with caution.

That was one nasty dump you gave me, Mr Waffle House cook

] The Y chromosome is probably the weirdest chromosome in
] the human genome

Wired News: Male Chromosome Seriously Weird