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Moreover, both of those reports were live hours before this story got greenlighted for the Slashdot frontpage.

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http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/NEWS02/304149909

So you suggest that a judge should throw out cases BEFORE hearing any evidence or examining the facts of the case. I question if you really understand the implications of that action. I also question your understanding of the law or history.

The judge did in fact throw out the case, AFTER the facts were examined.

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100414/NEWS02/304149909

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071017/NEWS02/710170400 - This article explains it more. He used TTY services with a spoofed call ID it sounds like. Not a big deal of a hack to me.

i found a few other articles about this and other incidents that appear to have been related. it is mentioned that this "hacker" used a free web hosted hearing impaired service to have the operator relay the story to the 911 service. there was no hacking involved. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20071014&Category=NEWS02&ArtNo=710140456&SectionCat=ETN&Template=printart http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hacker17oct17,1,2753897,print.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071017/NEWS02/710170400 Basically he used a system for the hearing impaired to relay a message... the operator then called the police. He also tried to do the same thing to someone else who was "cheating in an online game". You have to love these kids...

Most of the problems come from the useless state and federal standards. Get rid of them; all they do is take up space that SHOULD be used to teach stuff that will actually help us one day.

Secondly, schools should not be saying 'our way is the only way'. If a student wants to take advanced courses, and is able, let them for christ's sake.
By shoving the ideal that everyone is intellectually equal down our throats, we lose a lot : the lazy bastards are still lazy bastards, but the ones who could have truly excelled have been brought down to the same level.

Schools really shouldn't be spending thousands of dollars on crappy technology, either. My school district just bought a bunch of HP Thin clients at around 460-480 dollars each. And I could build a similar computer for about 250. Instead of funneling my tax dollars to a computer company as crappy as HP, I think that the money should be put towards teacher's salaries, which, in my district, are supposedly the lowest in the state, but are at least well below the state average Have the a student organization to do the computer work; hell, half the time, me and my friends know more than the people who are getting paid, which is truly pitiful. But, you know, that's the price we pay for 'catching up with the rest of the state'.

This link also gives the local Erie paper website. Here in Erie, PA, we're really not talking much about it, we're more shocked over all the attention it's getting.