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The interview (longer version) can also be read at MSNBC

Google is featured in this week's Newsweek. You can find an online version of the Google article here.

Maybe you are thinking of the paypal scam that was exactly the same deal; very legitimate looking pages:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/837882.asp

Charges filed in alleged eBay scam
... Click Here. Charges filed in alleged eBay scam. LA man charged with
26 counts of grand theft. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 -- A Los Angeles ...
www.msnbc.com/news/843312.asp?0si=- - 48k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.msnbc.com ]

Fool.com: Fools Team to Fight eBay Scam [News] May 2, 2001
... This way, every time a scam artist tries to take advantage of a seller ... eBay's response
eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove says this particular scam pops up from ...
www.fool.com/news/2001/ebay010502.htm - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

TechTV | Source of EBay Scam Found
... Ebay wants to protect its trademark, but says it's tough to find
criminals like the email scam artist. It's very hard to track ...
www.techtv.com/news/security/story/ 0,24195,3408892,00.html - 38k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

TechTV | EBay Spam Scam
... that's it.. Ebay wants to protect its trademark, but says it's tough
to find criminals like the email scam artist. It's very hard ...
www.techtv.com/news/security/story/ 0,24195,3408463,00.html - 39k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

Possible Ebay Scam - www.ezboard.com
... It looks like the scam artist is targeting bigger sellers-not small fry-so if
any of you get an email asking for information-contact ebay about it first. ...
pub131.ezboard.com/ fbliss51092frm48.showMessage?topicID=27.topic - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Ebay scam artists
... to conferm the info. Scam Artist email, Name, Ebay ID, Offence. mtracker@iland.net,
Mark Campbell, tracker44, sells broken items as new.
www.ctlinx.org/ebay/ - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

A New eBay Bidding Scam?
... Then at the last minute, he writes, the scam-artist could withdraw his high bid ... But
with the eBay system and other Internet bidding systems, that might not be ...
www.auctionbytes.com/pages/abu/y200/m03/abu0009/ s05 - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

Scam artist meets fraud hunter
www.brockmoore.com/Scams/SkylineMovies.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

PayPal - Internet Info for Real People
... a correction had to be added as MSNBC incorrectly reported the scam artist could
access credit card and bank account information. The eBay community quickly ...
www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo217.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

Charges filed in alleged eBay scam
... Click Here. Charges filed in alleged eBay scam. LA man charged with
26 counts of grand theft. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 -- A Los Angeles ...
www.msnbc.com/news/843312.asp?0si=- - 48k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.msnbc.com ]

Fool.com: Fools Team to Fight eBay Scam [News] May 2, 2001
... This way, every time a scam artist tries to take advantage of a seller ... eBay's response
eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove says this particular scam pops up from ...
www.fool.com/news/2001/ebay010502.htm - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

TechTV | Source of EBay Scam Found
... Ebay wants to protect its trademark, but says it's tough to find
criminals like the email scam artist. It's very hard to track ...
www.techtv.com/news/security/story/ 0,24195,3408892,00.html - 38k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

TechTV | EBay Spam Scam
... that's it.. Ebay wants to protect its trademark, but says it's tough
to find criminals like the email scam artist. It's very hard ...
www.techtv.com/news/security/story/ 0,24195,3408463,00.html - 39k - Dec. 12, 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

Possible Ebay Scam - www.ezboard.com
... It looks like the scam artist is targeting bigger sellers-not small fry-so if
any of you get an email asking for information-contact ebay about it first. ...
pub131.ezboard.com/ fbliss51092frm48.showMessage?topicID=27.topic - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Ebay scam artists
... to conferm the info. Scam Artist email, Name, Ebay ID, Offence. mtracker@iland.net,
Mark Campbell, tracker44, sells broken items as new.
www.ctlinx.org/ebay/ - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

A New eBay Bidding Scam?
... Then at the last minute, he writes, the scam-artist could withdraw his high bid ... But
with the eBay system and other Internet bidding systems, that might not be ...
www.auctionbytes.com/pages/abu/y200/m03/abu0009/ s05 - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

Scam artist meets fraud hunter
www.brockmoore.com/Scams/SkylineMovies.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

PayPal - Internet Info for Real People
... a correction had to be added as MSNBC incorrectly reported the scam artist could
access credit card and bank account information. The eBay community quickly ...
www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo217.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

The Ariane 5 rocket is now out of the running. The latest one just blew up a couple minutes after launch. Story here.

Network traffic has been doubling every two years or so, this means that 90-95% dark fiber would last you about 6-8 years.

The statistic that caused this boom in the laying of fiber was 1000% network growth per year, or doubling every 3 months. This has proven to be a wildly exaggerated figure, and IMHO, one pushed by those who stood to to profit from skyrocketing telecom stock prices (e.g. Jack Grubman) despite knowing it to be false.

Wildly optimistic data drove telecoms to build fiber glut - Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26 2002

MSNBC has the same article. However, as said in the summary, this is only about the back-end, not Office.

Indeed, this is a very important qualification of the original statement.

So, would you rather click on a CNN link? Or a MSNBC link? Or maybe a Yahoo link?

The White House recently decided that it would be prudent to investigate further before taking any action to combat global warming. Debates were mostly over what research strategy to use. Of particular concern is ensuring that the United States economy doesn't suffer too much.

Great!

The truth is, running a company is hard. Wouldn't you rather have your job for the "Holiday season" that some free webboard tech support?

Part of the problem here is that it can be dangerous to have your employees posting as a representative of your company without any standard of what can or cannot be communicated safely.

It appears from this article that that some companies are setting up a policy that forbids this sort action by their employees. In a large company, this can be necessary. How well do the managers know their employees? Are they just spouting off about how much they hate their employers? Are managers going to scour the web for these people's posts?

It's true, it would be nice if this were allowed to continue, but I certainly understand why for liability's sake most companies don't want to be involved. This certainly doesn't warrant front page slashdot news. I know we all hate corporations, but often times companies get big because their the best at what they do, or at least good at making money while doing it.

Some day you kids will go off to college, and then, you might even have to get a job at a corporation, too.

Nicely put. The corporation has to live too (so it can pay those employees), and sometimes this unfortunately involves restrictions. ZD Net and MSNBC also cover this subject, but with a much more balanced point of view! Not only do those "kind" employees expose their employer to liability (if they get their advice wrong accidentally, and mess up a customer's computer), but they also compete with any premium support service that the company offers, or plans to offer. Moreover employees may also inadvertantly expose trade secrets.

And this article even includes a photo and schematics.

That's not a problem. Other researcher a working on a variant that is powered on its own wind. Quite an interesting concept, if you ask me, and it solves quite nicely the problem of the differing athmospheric conditions on Mars.

Yes, the ball is burning. And yes, that guy is indeed putting it into his mouth. Quick! Everybody take cover!

Exactly. And just read this article to see what can happen when guards are caught off-guard...

but are miffed at that pesky registration-only NYT link, you can read the same story at other places too. There's also a book about their most interesting scavenger hunts, which includes the breeder reactor story too.

The story about the breeder reactor is hosted on the NYT. Fortunately, the same story can also be found on MSNBC

Just look what happened to this guy!. That must have hurt!

Redholes are slashdot's 'divide by zero' exceptions.

This story has hit the major news sites (MSNBC even mentions Slashdot)...

"Security alert" advertiser sued

According to the authors, the actual photography did not take them more than 3 minutes (does not include time for preparation of the sample).

• on yahoo
• on MSNBC
• on ZDnet

I answer their mail, saying that I'll have to think about the deal, and that when I'll have made up my mind, I'll post a picture of an open door on the web, as a sign that I agreed to their deal...

News, yeah right!

And, for those who missed it, here is the first interview

The story is up just a quarter of an hour, and it's already slashdotted! Fortunately, MSNBC has a mirror!

Yes, the same ideas are expressed in the MSNBC article. Interesting read, and very easy to understand!

Phoenix Inc threatens to sue AOL/Time-Warner over trademark infringment

I did. Then my coworker entered what he heard on his keyboard, and there went his breakfast.

A homozygous single copy murine immune mouse

Just is a way of saying that the mouse shows the results of the human gene (we generally have two copies of each gene, so only mice with two copies of the human gene (homozygous) would show the full effects of the human gene, while mice with one mouse gene and one human gene (heterozygous) may not show the effects of the human gene (this is a bit oversimplified, some genes only have one copy, esp. in males, and researchers have many ways of seeing the effects of two different versions of a gene).

not homozygous lethal or cause sterility in a single copy state

"Homozygous lethal": the effects of the gene in the homozygous state kill the developing animal. Obvioulsy, such genes won't make good study targets for this technique. Sterility is not a real problem in most cases, as you can easily generate new homozygotes from the heterozygotic parents, unless of course you are studying a gene related to fertility:-).

Unless using blastocysts from immunologically crippled mice

This gets a bit confusing:

Where he is confusing: Immune cells are trained to recognize self/non-self when they are formed: ones that recognize normal cells of the organism are killed off. So if the mouse has the human cells from birth, they should be reconized by the mouse's immune system as normal. Rejection of transplanted tissue happens when new tissue is transplanted into an adult.

Where he has a point: However, when transplanting cells between species, there can be such big differences that all of the host's (mouse) immune cells reject the doner (human) cells in a catostrophic allergic reaction (not technically part of the self/non-self recognition process). This happens with certain cell surface markers on pig cells, which is why pig organs cannot (presently) be transplanted into people.

But we have been making mice with with human immune systems since the 1980s, so this is not really the "gotcha" for this research that scientistguy imples.

Further, we already know that mice don't reject human stem cells (stem cells appear to be more or less immunologically blank).

So while there is some point to mentioning that there is such a thing as rejection of foreign tissue, this seems to more a problem with 'adult'(post-embryonic) transplants & I don't think it really has much to do with the issues raised in the article.

Well there's already plans to start putting people's remains and other little items on the moon.

So head on over MSNBC and Slate since you won't be reading CNN or Time anymore.

More importantly, are there any banks that don't share (or sell) their customers' private information?

It used to be, the banker was like the grocer or barber: a member of the community. But now, the banks are just trying to squeeze as much money out of the consumer as possible. Not that long ago, we didn't have transaction fees, teller fees, atm fees, etc. The banks have been slowly adding fees over the years in their quest for cash. Of course they'll sell your info, if it'll make them a buck or two.

And even if you do find an ethical bank who wont sell your information, your personal info will get out anyway.

I guess the only safe way to save money nowadays is to stuff it in a mattress.

WOW. With all of the news that passes through Slashdot (daily, weekly, monthly), it's refreshing to see people from other countries speak their mind and stand up for what they think is right. With the exception of a small percentage, few people in the US see/read/care (generally NOT /. readership) about what is going on outside of our country or can even find it on a map. While these ideals (standing up for what is right, having strong beliefs) are not limited to America, everyone can relate to the "little guy" (as opposed to big brother or corporate *insert country*) standing up for him/herself.

Simply refreshing.

Is there some kind of award for the most sets of parenthesis in a comment?

"Work has been funded by DARPA". These guys have been working for DARPA?

The same institution that is turning out to be the Source of Distilled Evil thanks to the Homeland Security Bill.

These guys should not have dealt with the devil.

MSNBC interviewed Sean Fanning and there was a corresponding Slashdot story about two months ago. Pay attention. :-)

I know Wired isn't running this little Anti-Reality script/proggie/whatever the hell it's supposed to be, but I think they might be doing something similar since they redesigned the layout of their site. I have Tweak-XP, which makes use of an ad blocker. I keep updating my list of blocked sites regularly (pretty much anytime I notice an ad getting through). Some sites (like MSNBC and, to some extent, Wired) have taken to hosting some of their regular graphics on ad servers. The result is that you won't get access to their pictures unless you don't block their ads. Of course, this makes for a rather unusual view for MSNBC, as nearly the entire page has little "Blocked By Tweak-XP" graphics.

The interesting thing that I noticed is that since the layout change, if I surfed to Wired with the server for their ads blocked it would redirect me to their "Less Cool-Looking" page. Same news, just all the swank graphics gone with a message about how my browser doesn't support basic web standards. I'm wondering if Wired isn't running some sort of similar deal to what this story is talking about. You know, if you're blocking their ads then they send you to their much more lame page instead of getting the good one. You still get the news, it just doesn't look as pretty. I realize this could just be a side effect of something else they were doing with the layout change, but it still seems curious.

Any thoughts?

Links to the original NY Times article and Slashdot thread that discussed another initiative out of this agency. Declan McCullagh's was a follow-up as he mentioned in his piece.

The NY Times tells us that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the same agency that wants to create a massive cross-domain transaction database, also proposed what it called eDNA: '...tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.' Slashdotter Declan McCullagh followed up on the NYT piece with his article on MSNBC.

Fortunately, there's a mirror. Ironically enough, it is on MSNBC

Click here

If you didn't waste so many mod points on the trolls, you'd still have some left!

Exactly. This is also recommended by a recent MSNBC article.

and here's the article

Fortunately, the story is also on MSNBC.

Norelco's senior vice president of marketing Nina Riley won't reveal how the new Spectra shaver is used in the film except to say it's in a "very pivotal scene."

The car in the article's photo looks more like a DeLorean. Is this a shot from Back to the Future IV: After The Polar Ice Caps Melt?

I believe that symbol before the 184 Mil figure is for British Pounds, MSNBC is running a similar article here where they quote the cost of ASCI purple as $290 Mil alone.

I thought the neatness of the Segway was the gyroscopic handling of weight balance on a single axle, not the engine per se, though I believe you are correct that it contains one of his engines.

Kamen gave an hour long talk where I work about a year ago. The entire time he was sitting in another invention of his, a wheel chair that can go from sitting on 4 wheels/2axles to only 2 wheels/1 axle, which since then has been named the iBot. The second mode giving the person added height to reach thing on higher shelves, and being similar to the Segway in that you can't fall over, even despite my largest co-worker yanking on the thing with kamen in it. Kamen didn't like that too much. MSN had a good video trial usage of this, here's the cooresponding article

"It's also the most overhyped and overpriced toy ever, and I'm kicking myself for posting it since that just contributes to the problem."

Yeah, far be it from you to listen to your loyal readership who take the time and effort to search the Internet for "Stuff that Matters" to others than just yourself at the same time helping to make your bottom line look a little better.

Overhyped and overpriced is certainly your opinion which I could personally do without. Do you know how much it costs to make one of these? Do you know the specifics of the R & D went into these? I think not.

Do you realize how fantastic an achievement in technology this is? Well, I guess not if you think it's just a "toy". (BTW, Nice lame-ass attempt to trivialize it.) The engineering that went into creating a device that balances the human body while moving forward, backward and turning and most importantly anticipates sudden movements to maintain that balance is fantastic!

Perhaps more important (and certainly undervalued by many) are the potential advances that this type of technology could lead to that we can't foresee right now. (Like this wheelchair that Kamen also invented.

For a nerd who supposedly likes anime, science- fiction, technology, etc. You seem just a little negative and short-sighted.

But of course, these are just my opinions.