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That picture comes from Smoking Gun's Favorite Booking Photos. It's a mugshot of Dion Milam, a white supremacist from California who received a broken nose (among other injuries) during a fight with the cops.

The picture has nothing to do with Kelly. Whoever modded the parent up is smoking serious rock.

seems like a nice guy...

DUI

Cocaine (from a right wing puplication!)

I'm sure you can find more sources if you look, I just went as fast I could, and tried to pick sources that are generally trusted to be accurate.

There will always be those who say 'if the records aren't there, how can it be true?', but when you are in charge of who keeps them, where they are kept, and who has access to them, you can certainly manipulate them.

Does the head IT guy at a company ever get busted for looking at porn?...

also happens in newspapers, like this nugget from last year's baseball world series.

Heh. Reminds me of this guy.

Lets see, what sort of stuff would a gangsta find in ol San An'..., 10 curches, 2 bars, one of which is the VFW post (no. 2600, nice number though), 4 small banks, high school, elementry, defunct cement plant, historic courthouse/jail (former jail of the goldrush stage robber Black Bart), um government center, hospital, DMV, CHP (hmm maybe has some possibilities), Forestry, sherrif (unincorporated city), government center, one 24 hour mini mart, the other four are only open till about 9 or so. Lots of back streets, though not the cow-path roads like Jackson and Angels Camp...also a good place for a side trip to jump frogs

Oh, it is in "Calaveras County" (Calaveras, spanish for skull, rumoured to be named after the discovery of a riverbed with skulls from some ancient native skirmish). And a former spanish mining camp (that's how San Andreas got it's name from Saint Andrew).

No stop lights... many streets with no sidewalks! ..and bunches of old gold mine shafts and tunnels all over the place,

Though San Andreas does have it's share of nationaly recognized crime sprees!

I wonder how many other law abiding citizens, who would have never considered scanning and printing US currency, have done so tonight just because of this story?

My experience:
I scanned a crisp new $20 at various resolutions, color and black and white, from the TWAIN interface in Photoshop, and Photoshop CS refused to handle the image. It simply displayed a warning dialog and suggested visiting www.rulesforuse.org. The bill did scan as line art, so the algorithm must do some fine detail pattern matching, as opposed to detecting colors or sizes.

The bill was successfully scanned into Paint Shop Pro 7. Even when printed at 1440dpi, it is obviously counterfeit, but that didn't stop me from accidently mistaking it for the real bill when I had set it aside for a few minutes while doing other work. And this is simply printed on one side on normal inkjet paper, cut out freehand with scissors, and not even color matched.

So I guess the real lesson here is if you tell someone you can't do something, they are more likely to try it out. I just saw a show on the History Channel about the history of US currency, and afterwards, I didn't even have the slightly notion of scanning and printing out a bill. But here I am, after skimming an article on Slashdot, with a fake (but probably passable) $20 bill.

Now I'm an adult, and I understand the necessity of preventing counterfeit currency and the punishment given to counterfeiters, so I have no desire to do anything more than this quick test. But I can only imagine how many 14 year olds are cranking out their own bills tonight, thanks to Adobe!

The actual nudity is blurred out, unfortunately.

The actual nudity is blurred out, unfortunately.

here's the offending picture. It's blurred out so it's work safe, but it clearly shows that she was flashing the camera and her friends were looking on. She wasnt hiding in a corner with no one in sight or behind a towel.

Also, the story on Usa Today

The smoking gun also has an article on this, and shows the offending pictures (blurred, so they are work safe).

The smoking gun also has an article on this, and shows the offending pictures (blurred, so they are work safe).

It seems like the creators of the movie didn't care at all how the movie would look like.

They really had other things to worry about. I guess that explains everything, especially the dialogue and plot, obviously written in a hurry by someone completely absent-minded and concentrated on something else.

This reminds me of the only DUI case in US history whose records are sealed, as far as I know - Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick disaster.

Umm...are you forgetting this one?

A lot of politicians have had their records sealed.

Ted Kaczynski
Prisoner #23453253
Federal Penitentiary
Florence, CO
25353

Has no one heard of this site? It seems there is no law a celeb can break without making it there. Why is it a big deal to do this to non-celebs?

Or maybe the higher ups at Dell have been toking a few too many with "The Dell Dude"

I think this guy might beg to differ.

what a racist fag...

sad

But apple claims that was just cough medication. On the other hand, the Dell d00d has been implicated in public record.

Didn't take the Dell Guy long to find another job. Poor dude.

Wow, he's called "steve-o" ? The marketing / PR folks screwed the pooch a bit there.

Nothing like having one of your two most recognizable corporate officers sharing a name with a guy who's known for stapling his ball sack to his leg.
The other Steve-o

A swing and a miss for the New York Post.

Now that's a big surprise.

A London-based IPod and Windows XP user who asked not to be named said that because the Microsoft media device would be able to play digital videos, television shows, home movies, and digital photos as well as music, he would consider switching to such a device.

Also in the news:

Some guy in Montreal said if the mileage gets high on his truck, he might just trade it in for a new one with a bigger motor. He'd consider it, anyway.. but only if the price was right.

Journalist "Laura Rohde" found to have lied on her resume, The Smoking Gun has recently uncovered her saultry past.

Sorry, but Franken is a self-admitted liar, so he's off the list of sources I consider reliable. Pretty ironic behavior, considering the title of his recent book.

Secondly, putting a lid on any sort of research is bad.

Pete Townsend would agree with you.

World conquest through deception.

You start out as a lowly president's kid, only endowed with a small oil company and a baseball team.
The object of the game is to use deception and underground systems such as skull and bones to achieve world domination.

Pitfalls could include alcohol addiction, being bad at Political Science, and getting caught lying to your country.

Your objective could be a success however if you just talk to the right people

And the counterfeiters will still keep winning! You know why?

Because there are so many dumb people out there .

-- james

Dude, You're Getting a Cell

He is not in jail, though. His case was dismissed as long as he stays out of trouble.

'Dell Dude' released after marijuana arrest

HP is so dull they make Gates and Ballmer look like MTV VJs in comparison.

a twelve-year-old girl apparently figured out how to make a jawbreaker explode

Well, it wouldn't be the first time.

According to The Smoking Gun, Billy was arrested back in 1977 after a traffic violation: The Smoking Gun

Nothing like the good ole Internet to bring back memories long gone, eh? :)

/Krumme

Else he'll end up on The Smoking Gun... again.

IIRC, there was a website slipup where obituaries for people who weren't dead yet suddenly appeared in a code glitch. I think Ronald Reagan was one of them... pretty amusing how poignant they read.

It was a CNN webserver, and was fark.com that found and linked to the pages that included the pre-written obituaries. Some of them are available at The Smoking Gun.

Nevermind that searching for 'playboy' in the (non-mature) Magazines & Catalogs section yields 2064 hits. There are also 3 listings for the August '77 Oui in question.

This happened within a week or so of eBay canceling the iTunes auction.

Nevermind that searching for 'playboy' in the (non-mature) Magazines & Catalogs section yields 2064 hits. There are also 3 listings for the August '77 Oui in question.

This happened within a week or so of eBay canceling the iTunes auction.

A Gateway drug? I knew those cow box bastards had to be behind this!

Someone should have told Benjamin Curtis.

Blaster writer caught

I thought this was going to be about this Jane Roe - stuff that really matters.

I didn't bring criminal convictions up but since you asked, Bush's DUI conviction in 1976 courtesy of the Smoking Gun. I don't personally think it is that big a deal but you seem sensitive on the subject.

It's ceratinly true that all major political candidates favor corporate welfare of one kind or another. (Though I do want to point out that the Clinton administration's stance on trade was far more market oriented than the pandering of the Bush administration. Look at steel tariffs.) Bush was unusual in that he personally profited from corporate welfare.

"Self-righteous" is definitely an eye-of-the-beholder thing.

The Clinton recession? That's good. Clinton certainly benefitted from a strong economy while he was at the helm. And a downturn of some sort was inevitable. But he did the most important thing: he didn't derail the economy. The Bush tax cuts, which Bush claims is a "jobs stimulus", have created nothing but defecits as far as the eye can see while the economy sheds tens of thousands of jobs each month.

There was fraud in the election. The Bush team pressured Florida election boards to count invalid absentee ballots. But even with it, under every plausible recount scenario (with the hugely ironic exception of the one favored by the Gore team), Gore received more votes in Florida than Bush.

A good lawyer, for that matter anyone with a brain would never use swear words (no matter how mild) in a document.

• Make a proper worldwide list of SCO resellers, and have people from each contry conntact each reseller. Just a few press releases saying "we are no longer a SCO reseller" would be worth it. (The SCO / Caldera site is not surprisingly broken for finding official resellers.)
• Check if The Canopy group is dumping SCO stock. The used to own 65% or so, if they're dumping stock it should be worth a FP on slashdot, if not news.com.. I'm not sure how you do this, you probably have to have a bit higher market access than most people.
• Check if Unixware contains any obvious code stolen from Linux. Later versions have ext2 support and such, and there is the linux compability layer. Is all that _really_ written from scratch? If someone can show that "SCO stole thousands of lines of code from Linux and here is the proof" it would take a LOT of the wind out of their sales. And then there is device drivers.. In 10 years I doubt that they haven't copied anything from Linux.
• What more? Oh.. Perhaps the people at www.thesmokinggun.com could dig something up on a SCO exec? Like this mugshot (not safe for work or anywhere).

FUCK

Don's Plum is, in the US at least, an illegal art film. It stars Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio, and according to what I've heard (though I don't know anyone who's actually seen it -- please correct me if I'm wrong), it contains a lot of debauchery, drugs, homosexuality, a la Kids.

So why haven't you heard of it? Because Leo and Tobey decided the film would undermine their wholesome, teeny-bopper public image -- so they decided to throw their weight around and block the film from being released. The producer of the film sued the two stars, and as a settlement, they agreed that it would be banned from distribution in the US.

Cheers,
IT

Norma was a poor, homeless, sexually-abused, and very naive woman who was mercilessly exploited by abortion activists and corrupt lawyers. The facts of abortion and abortionist practices, both of which violated several existing statutes and Constitutional tenets, were never discussed during the case.

The illegal basis for the decision apparently was that a woman has the right to choose -- not to control her own body -- but to destroy another person's body. Normally, this is called murder or manslaughter. In one fell swoop, however, these rogue judicial ideologues trampled across the Constitutional separation of Court and Congress and created a new law -- a law that flew in the face of well over 300 years of American legal precedent (going back to colonial governments) that outlawed the willful killing of an innocent human being. The court here usurped a power reserved exclusively for the legislative branch, and in doing so, contradicted thousands of federal, state, and local laws of every municipality in the country, and likewise, contradicted the majority beliefs and will of both the citizens and their elected representative legislators.

Because of this, plus the numerous deceptions that occurred during the proceedings, as well as the invalidity of the very basis of the case and the misrepresentation and exploitation of the plaintiff by her own legal "advocates" means that the decision of Roe v. Wade has absolutely no legal basis.

You have a right to choose as long as the exercise of that right does not infringe on the rights of others. Abortion completely annihilates all the rights of another person, including that person's right to live. There is empirical scientific proof très beaucoup that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that abortion is the destruction of a living human being. There is not a shred of science to assuage the blood-guilt of abortionists. Their 30-year legacy stands in history as a holocaust*, in which these self-proclaimed champions of civil rights have exterminated more than 35,000,000 living, pre-born babies (without their consent, obviously, nor with due process to convict them guilty of a crime) and caused tremendous emotional devastation and physical pain to the women they claim to be fighting to help.

Read the affidavit. It's a quick and eye-opening read.

* The usage of the term "holocaust" in reference to widespread abortion has been sanctioned by Jewish survivors of the Nazi-inflicted holocaust.

Found at the link posted above:

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. -- Roman Polanski

Yes, sir, you are the spectacle.

certain types of porn are illegal, child porn for instance, merely possesing it, even if unknowningly, is against the law

Are you sure about that?

The degree of hand-holding by the brand owner varies, in some cases a developer is allowed to run and get quite creative with a character-based license (like the earlier mentioned Goldeneye with James Bond) while in the case of Enter the Matrix the game was apparently co-directed by the Wachowski brothers themselves. And truly, it is a fitting story in the Matrix universe.

One of the major differences in games vs. movies is the ownership of the experience; games try to give you some illusion of free will to allow you feel like it is you choosing to fight the bad guys and you on the screen kicking ass.

Enter the Matrix was built to tell the Wachowski story, and while an interesting one in the multi-threaded Matrix universe (like the great Animatrix shorts) and tied to the rest of the legacy, it does not leave many open-ended choices to the player. While not the basis for very deep or varied gameplay, this ironically fits with the Matrix universe and the question of free will in human life. You are ultimately on rails, and you will either ride to the finish, or you will perish along the way. That has not stopped the game from selling more than 2.5 million copies, which means they must have done something right.

Chris Crawford and many others have debated the depth of the story tree and mechanisms to create interesting and playable content inside multi-threaded story trees. I have yet to find a massively multiplayer game that was able to carry a coherent story (except about the story of the player himself exploiting a strange world full of rats and squirrels to get "exp" and "eq") and have grown too jaded to enjoy pseudo-random generator worlds like Morrowind. However, I find a lot of pleasure in visiting the grandfathers of 16- and 32-bit roleplaying, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, with a dozen or more possible endings each.

An ideal game gives you a strong illusion of ownership over the evolution and direction of the story while filling all the possible branches of gameplay with interesting content. Spector's Deus Ex 2 is very ambitious in this aspect, and everyone is hoping it turns out as good or better as the first one. However, like The Sims have shown you can also create enjoyable environments with no story at all besides the one you create in your head. Even the Sim-speak is an abstraction that allows you to fill in your own words.

Interestingly for those of us in the business of making games, the financial details of Larry Wachowski's involvement in The Matrix are detailed on The Smoking Gun archives because of his divorce battle with his ex-wife. Fair? I don't know, but educational to the rest of us. Life is a game too, the ultimate license property... :-)

Jouni

And here's the perfect girl.