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If that's all there is to it, then how do you explain this?

Yes, pretty funny story.

A local church that has been hosting naked paint parties and slumber-party Sundays with the "sexiest ladies on the beach" will now have to pay taxes on the property as officers investigate the church's practices, authorities said Tuesday. [...] Sheriff Frank McKeithen said it is a "blatant slap in the face" to taxpayers and law enforcement. "They're trying to get around the laws, and they're using the church to get there," McKeithen said.

On the plus side, if that's enough justification to strip this church of its tax-exempt status, maybe it'll work on the scienos, too.

The TSA has yet to catch a real terrorist, but has likely given at least some people cancer. All for security theater. And also all the abuse of authority they have done lately, such as making a 95 year old woman remove her Depends during a search: http://www.newsherald.com/news/mother-94767-search-adult.html , I almost don't feel bad for the affected agents.

Microsoft will keep altering CIFS until SAMBA can't keep up.

Tridge and the SaMBa team have zero tolerance for this kind of thing.

The short story is that Microsoft can fiddle it all they like, Australian law will ensure that Tridge and his crew are free to reverse-engineer it. Meanwhile, Microsoft will be alienating customers, giving them yet another reason to switch (to linux or another alternate).

Unlike some academic situations where "zero tolerance" has been used as yet another excuse for picking on minorities or unusual people, the SaMBa team have a clear and simple mandate.

Sheesh, what crap. This is only the first page of a google search of "bank robber caught surveillance camera":

And here are some stories where people were released after tapes showed they were innocent (an interesting twist I would say)...

http://www.truthinjustice.org/robber01.htm
http://www.thezephyr.com/archives/sornbergers.htm

Do you really think insurance companies are so stupid as to give a 15% discount for totally worthless equipment? I think their statistics on the subject are probably better than yours.

What, are you kidding? I love living in a land where ignorance of the law is not considered an excuse for breaking it, but we require fleets of lawyers and judges who undergo long, expensive educations and years of experience to interpret it. Its a cool feeling to be sitting here wondering just how many things I did yesterday that would get me prison time or hefty fines had I been caught by someone who somehow recognized it as a crime. For instance, I spent nine months unknowingly commiting a crime in my state a couple of years ago, before I got married, and just recently learned about it. Glad I didn't get caught; $500 or a 60 day stay ($1,000 and 120 if they'd have found us on the wrong day :)) in the pokey would have made my minimum wage earning ass homeless. Hell, we have a one year old daughter to worry about now, so I guess dad's not "getting his medicine" (reference: Chris Rock) until we leave this state, as we can't afford to have a nosy neighbor cost us $500. :) Laugh; if you don't, you might just start crying when you realize that nothing I've written here was fictitious.

Deo