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Korean media portals are not the only guilty 150k / bling filled portals of the world...
Check out this 150k badboy from the Southern US: http://www.augustachronicle.com/

What would we think if our city's chief of police decided ignoring our rights was the only way to keep us in line?

You haven't been arrested lately have you? I was for something I didn't even do and I've been in courts for over 2 years getting everything cleared up they did. You have every right ignored while you are in the 'guilty until proven innocent' stage. I couldn't even make a phone call (even to my lawyer) for 11 hours. MADD is still pushing for taking away all rights from anyone so much as being accused of drunk driving. Drinking 2 Coronas with my burrito dinner has me going through more than a rapist or a drug dealer simply because I'm not fat enough or big enough to pass the BAC with 2 beers in me.

OK...You're assuming I'm actually doing something wrong and need to hide my shopping record.

If you really think that it's no big deal to be charged with (or even be investigated as the primary suspect for) a crime you didn't commit is no big deal, I suggest you try and remember what this guy went through.

You don't need to do anything wrong to have your life completely fucked up by the system. It takes nothing more than a random coincidence or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Let's say one weekend you need to fertilize your lawn and change the oil in your car, so you head out and buy a case of motor oil and a 50# bag of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Nothing suspicious about those purchases, until a few weeks later when some nutjob decides to set off a bomb and is seen leaving the scene of the crime.

Unfortunately for you, the perp is the same race and hair color as you and is of a similar height and body type, and was driving a car that's the same body style and color as yours. Now, thanks to your innocent purchases, you're the #1 suspect in a high-profile case.

There's a good chance it's apocryphal. Every company needs some sort of "creation myth", and it matters little if it's bogus, like eBay's Pez story. PR flacks make up this stuff to add a human-interest element so that so-called business journalists will write about the company.

Check out the picture of Linus in the linked story.

Then check out the picture here: Augusta Chronicle

Separated at birth?

Even better, he could hack one of these to listen to his tunes and get his sugar-fix at the same time. :-)

That's an interesting state you've got there. Georgia and a few other states (IIRC) suspend your drivers license if you go driving off, although with varying levels of prosecution. Maryland is among the states considering this (although since Feburary that may have changed).

So instead of charging $30 more, they suspended someone's driver license for being a bit absentminded, would you consider that a fair deal?

(The one that always gets me is when my state sends their "random" insurance check letters via first class mail. If you fail to reply to one, you lose your license, but is there any guarantee that you received it in the first place? Other states do similar things...)

Dude, if you pulled that in the theater I was in, I would have roundly kicked your hind end. The people in the theater shelled out $8 to watch the movie, not to hear you shout stupid things at the screen, and I doubt that the audience appreciated your 'wit' as much as you think they did. Go to Rocky Horror Picture Show where they encourage that sort of infantile behavior.

Everyone rejoice and eat some hot grits!

This news story describes a technology that vibrates a lollipop against the teeth... which gets transmitted to the inner ear, playing music. Pretty Neat. Combine that idea with a one of those vibrating head toothbrushes, and MP3, and you could blast plaque away with Metallica, just as Lars always intended. ;-)

I don't see why this would be any worse than the Federal Junk Fax Law that prevents random people from taking over your fax machine. In fact, Hooters was sued under this statute and ordered to pay a heck of a lot of money - enough that they won't be sending any more unsolicited faxes.

The guys who are producing this, Rick Berman & Brannon Braga, are the same pair who ruined Voyager. (Jeri Lynn Zimmermann Ryan, aka 7 of 9, ditched her husband, Jack Ryan, for Brannon Braga).

Maybe s/p 9-11-2001, the scripts will get a little more edge to them, but I imagine that the first half season's worth of episodes are already in the can.

Minor details:

1) The Vulcan Science Officer has lousy diction. Diction, or enunciation, is the lifeblood of acting (or singing, for that matter), and is especially important for an actor or actress playing a Vulcan.

2) There was a lot of foul language; I seem to recall both "bitch" and "hell" being uttered in the family hour.

WIRED: Star Trek: Bakula to the Future

Scripps/Howard: Operation: Enterprise

The San Francisco Examiner: Living in the now

New York Daily News: Bakula's Bold New 'Enterprise'

Also, MAXIM's cover girl this month is Jolene Blalock, who plays Vulcan Sub Commander T'Pol. Presumably this is the same T'Pol that in ST:TOS Amok Time oversees Spock's Pon Farr ceremony. Many of the Trek fan site are speculating on just how long it will be before her character experiences the Pon Farr with no Vulcan males around and only Capt. Archer present to address her needs.

This happens frequently in cases of domestic abuse, where an abused woman doesn't want to press charges against her husband. Because this happens so often, lots of places have a policy of prosecuting a suspected abuser even if the victim doesn't want to press charges.

Of course, if the victim does decide to cooperate with prosecutors in pressing charges, it helps the prosecution. But it's not a requirement.

...giving a play by play account of a sporting event. Which, guess what, that's copyright infringement.

Nonsense. Describing something - a plya-by-play of a sporting event, a review of a play, a transcription of a song - in my own words does not violate anyones copyright. My description is my creation. In fact, I automatically hold copyright on my description.

Anyway, I thought these assholes at Harry Fox would have learned their lesson when they went after the orginal OLGA, only to have mirrors spring up all over the place - the same way pressure on Napster has led to things like OpenNap. I said it then and I'll say it now: Music is not a crime.

Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | http://www.infamous.net/

OK, maybe these guys cheated, maybe they didn't, but there seems to be a pattern here--transfer out already!

DrEldarion wrote "They've already done experiements where they put electrodes on a guy and he was able to move a cursor around the screen just by thinking about it... (sorry, I forgot where I read that... no link :/ ) "

Here's some links to articles about that:

• Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man To Control Computer
• Implant Lets Computer, Paralyzed Man's Brain 'Talk'
• Brain Implant Helps Quadroplegics Communicate
• Medical Marvel Links A Brain And A Computer
• New Brain Implant Connects To Nervous System
• Thought-Activated Computing
• Brain Implant allows Paralysed Man To Communicate With Computer

• Also, a Slashdot article:

• Brain Implants Control Computers

" Anyways, I'm sure that eventually you'll just have a DataJack in your head (just like in ShadowRun!) where you'll just plug in a cable and you're all set. "

Sounds like fun to me! ;-)

Impossible means no one's done it yet.