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Followed this case closely.... especially the thing that brought him down: a UPenn student named Ryan Goldstein, aka Digerati...

http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/11/29/penn-student-enters-the-matrix/

A wannabe hacker who got kicked out of an IRC group frequented by a group called Splinter Security for being a pedophile:
http://www.scriptkitty.net/files/Digerati-Exposed.zip
[NSFW]

Whose teenage angst could not be contained... and hired a NZ skript kiddie named AKILL... who agreed to use his botnet to do a DDOS against TAUnet... as this would somehow make Splinter Security Group realize how much of a mistake they'd made in banning Ryan for being a pedo and beg for him back.

IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS: Ryan offered up some bandwidth on an engineering lab server so that AKILL could update the code on his botnet.

The way they got caught: As it turns out, people notice when your 40,000 node botnet tries to download an executable off of a server that normally sees no activity.... ALL AT THE SAME TIME. As it turns out, that server crashes, the traffic doesn't stop, people notice something's wrong and call the feds.

It's all quite funny.

Reminds me of the $100 cheesesteak
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ ART/4185fa00ea4a2?in_archive=1

With stem cell research, you're talking about taking cells from something that hasn't even evolved beyond a tiny ball of cells---far less alive than that infant---and yet most parents would gladly give up that infant's organs so that someone else's child might live, but a surprisingly high number of those same people would not be willing to give up a handful of cells from a frozen embryo so that adults can live.. It's an appalling ethical contradiction.

1. You mean it has not developed beyond a ball of cells. Human embryos, since they are by definition part of the human species, have evolved the same as you and me.

2. The cases of embryo and infant would only be parallel if it were a question of the parent choosing to destroy a healthy infant.

3. At this date, embryonic stem cells do not help adults to live. They are used for research.

The researchers hope one day to make useful therapies from this work. But the therapies do not yet exist.

To call it anything other than research is overselling. It will probably lead one day to a backlash, much as the overly-hyped promotion of "gene therapy" of the early 1990s has led to criticism, restrictions, and poor PR starting in 1999 and continuing through 2005.

"...The RIAA referred all of the Drexel cases to the Settlement Support Center, a group of lawyers who specialize in settling."

"...recieved calls from the "RIAA Settlement Support Center". A disgusting attempt at making themselves sound like the nice-guys they are known to not be."

Your implication being that this is what the Republicans do, can you offer any actual proof that this occured in the last election?

Oh man... there was so MUCH of it I can't even begin to list it all, much less give links for every single one.

A flyer on fraudulent Allegheny County government stationary stating that due to high turnout voting is extended to November 2nd AND November 3rd, and that to avoid conflict and disruption for Republicans to please vote on the 2nd and Democrats to please vote on the 3rd. The county government itself put up this page because of it.

Take a look at this flyer fraudulently claiming to be from the NAACP: "The following persons may not register or vote and will be subject to arrest,
Persons with outstanding traffic violations, including moving violations and parking citations above $50.00; Persons who have not submitted credit reports dated one week prior to election day; Persons adjudged to be negligent in paying child support." It also states fradulent requirement of two forms of photo ID. Who the hell has two photo IDs?

The most head Republican in Pennsylvania said quote: "the Kerry campaign needs to come out with humongous numbers here in Philadelphia. It's important for me to keep that number down". Wow, an honest politician! Too bad he was honestly admitting to voter suppression. The same link also notes Republicans sought a last-minute relocation of 63 polling places, nearly all of them in black neighborhoods. Specifically 53 of the 63 were in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods, and I beleive the other 10 were also in urban democratic areas. Last minute relocations to confuse and disrupt voters.

A doctored news story spread on Pennsylvania college campus that students will lose financial aid if they vote.

In Berkeley County, W. Va., Democratic voters in the Eastern Panhandle received calls telling them they were not registered to vote. The County Clerk's office traced the calls back to the headquarters of the Eastern Pandhandle Republican Party, local NBC News affiliate Channel 25 reported on Oct. 8;

In Painesville, Ohio, newly registered voters signed up by the Kerry campaign and the NAACP received a letter telling them their registrations were illegal and they would not be able to vote, NBC affiliate WKYC Channel 3 reported on Oct. 28;

Twenty GOP-dominated Ohio counties have given false information to former felons that they could not vote when in fact they had legally had their voting rights restored. One, Franklin County, had a roughly thriteen hundred percent increase this year in supposedly "felony" voter registration cancelations, many of whom were in fact never felons. Oh, and speaking of Franklin county... you remember the notorious "Butterfly Ballot" from the 2000 Florida elections? The missleading form where votes for the candidate in one certain spot tend to accidently be given to the candidate in another certain spot? Well Franklin county used this butterfly ballot for absentee votes, and supprise of supprises, Kerry was placed in the slot that "loses" votes and Bush was placed in the slot that erroneously picks up extra votes. Way to go Franklin county!

In Madison, Wisc., the College Republicans and a Republican congressional candidate Dave Magnum took responsibility for distributing a flier erroneously stating that students at the University of Wisconsin could vote at any of five polling locations, according to a Nov. 1 report in The Capital Times;

Across pretty much all the swing states there are countless cases of fradulent Board Of Elections notices

According to an exclusive report at Drudge, there has been massive fraud in Philly. In many machines around the city they found, nearly 2000, votes already in the machine before voting even started. Nobody is reporting to who the votes belong too, but I guess the concerns (here and here) were valid ones.

Happened last year about this time.