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Ahh, yes, like the ones in NC. http://www.wral.com/hog-farmer... I felt bad for these people.

http://www.wral.com/business/s...

"If the term "colored" is considered offensive, why is it still part of the NAACP's name?"

"Great question. To be quite honest, there has been some internal wrestling with the name, but one reason it hasn’t been changed is out of respect for history and the founders."

I'll take the opinion of the President of the NC NAACP over an AC. And for the record: I'm anti-PC. I'm just recognizing the dissonance of the views some hold.

Who saves the money? The consumer.

Delusional corporatist is delusional.

I seriously doubt they went into "saving the customer" mode knowing a lot of people were going to die from faulty ignitions.

They kept putting the same parts in vehicles over ten years after knowing it was a problem. You see this DGAF attitude over and over and again, just to save a few bucks per widget for the sake of profits.

see http://www.wral.com/new-nc-bod...

A better option than cameras.

Yes, Republicans, right. Those bastards.

NC Democratic Party uses 'voter shaming' to spur turnout

I Received This Menacing Letter From the Democratic Party Trying To Shame Me Into Voting

CONFIRMED by Experts! Voting Machines in Maryland, Illinois Rigged to Support Democrats

They have just found a cheap way to crack NH2 to N2 and H2 and are excited about that in combo with simpler fuel storage and transport - they are not focusing on the energetics of H2 or NH3 generation with the Haber-Bosch process here.
The point here is that to store Hydrogen you need 10,000 psi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage#Compressed_hydrogen) and Ammonia only needs 250 psi in a plastic container (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia#Storage_information).
They are looking at the following problem
H2O+Energy->H2->H2-Storage->FuelCell->Electricity+H2O
and have worked out that they can do
H2O+Energy->H2,+N2+Energy->NH3->NH3-Storage->H2 +N2 without NOx->FuelCell->Electricity +H20
and what they are excited about is that NH3 storage and transport is a known and solved problem industrially and NH3 cracking is now cheap and clean. Now someone just needs how to work out H2O->H2->NH3 using solar and the problem is solved.

There is also the other issue that a H2 leak is benign or a quick fireball and that an NH3 leak will eat the noses and lungs of everyone nearby.... http://www.wral.com/ammonia-le...

I don't know how he'd respond, but I found this.

"... did not contaminate nearby drinking water wells..."

"These results reinforce our earlier work showing no evidence of brine contamination from shale gas exploration,"

Lots more in the article. This was done after the prior study. No information about where to find the actual study. You guys can find it I'm sure.

N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences director puts kibosh on documentary about sea-level rise

This wasn't the simple-minded decision that partisans on both sides are trying to make it. But in the wake of the high-profile departure of the Nature Research Center's top scientist, it does seem a bit chilling.

even weirder....this happened: http://www.wral.com/pedestrian-killed-in-chapel-hill/13132316/

He was a black guy with a suspended licence.

Citation, you racist ignorant fuck? (note, recind that last part if you actually *supply* a legitimate citation)

http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist/12644209/

http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist/12644209/

You are some kind of clueless.

17yo male defending his mother: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/27/florida-teen-fatally-shoots-father-in-desperate-attempt-to-protect-mother/?intcmp=trending

17yo alone defending himself: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/06/08/mansfield-17-year-old-shoots-man-who-broke-into-home.html

A 14yo and 17yo defending themselves: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10544178/

12yo girl alone defends herself with her mother's Glock: http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Twelve-year-old-Bryan-Co-girl-shoots-home-intruder--174678431.html

15yo girl defending herself: http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/15-yr-old-texas-girl-scares-off-two-burglars-with-her-dads-gun/

11yo girl defending herself with her own rifle: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/Girl-loads-rifle-to-spook-burglars

Boy defending himself in a home invasion / murder event: http://www.khou.com/news/neighborhood-news/Webster--2-charged-in-home-invasion--196306051.html

This was 5 minutes of looking. The list goes on and on. There are PLENTY of reasons for mature children and teenagers to know how to use firearms. One of the biggest reasons is the simple fact that it educates them in what freedom actually is.

Just for fun, here is a 13yo girl using a pistol, shotgun, and fully automatic rifle in competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yd4B77PkeaU and here she is talking about the specific firearms she used, https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TXYdzPiF4xc

LF

"Woman shoots intruders" makes a good story, "woman shot by intruders" is just a regular day in the USA.

Nevertheless, here's a couple of articles:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/131161/
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/noble-la/TR15JA061K07R7VC6
http://omaha.com/article/20120912/NEWS/120919892

Continuing is pointless without some statistics. The report you link to has some, and prints in bold "The data set contains only 11 stories out of 4,699 where a criminal took a gun away from a defender; the reverse was reported more than 20 times more often.", but in the text notes that this is because the dataset didn't collect data where the defender was injured.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-kellermann.htm shows a different side.

Frankly, I don't care to debate this -- I'm happy with the situation in my country, presumably you like your country's approach, and arguing over the Web is rarely useful.

Cole Withrow was expelled and arrested for accidentally leaving his unloaded shotgun in his truck and being stupid/honorable enough to attempt to correct the issue. An assistant principal of the school did the exact same thing and was forced to take three days of paid leave when someone else reported her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_High_School_(North_Carolina)#Controversy
http://www.wral.com/classmates-rally-around-princeton-student-expelled-for-gun-in-car/12401713/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9087003

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3070242/
http://www.news-journal.com/news/police/panola-county-sheriff-arrested-charged-in-corruption-investigation/article_211e132a-57d9-5607-a1b5-c66ca3368304.html
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/chesterfield-co-sheriff-face-corruption-charges-fr/nWzyH/

and the best one:
http://www.copblock.org/15718/story-of-how-a-corrupt-sherrif-got-taken-down-by-a-20-year-old/

And this is just a tiny sample. Can you imagine these goons with automated access to well processed information?

You asked for stories:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10559641/ (WRAL TV)
http://www.vladtv.com/blog/80199/14-year-old-kills-intruder-in-gang-of-four-trying-to-break-in/ (link confirming the aforementioned)
http://www.amren.com/news/2013/01/woman-hiding-with-kids-shoots-intruder/ (mom defends herself and her kids from asshat hellbent on getting his hands on her)

You can find these stories all over the internet... just google "______________ defends themselves with a firearm" (fill in the blank) and you'll find plenty of stories like these.

Another thing that you'll find (if you do some research and ignore the lamestream media and BS talking points from both sides) is that the gross majority of these mass killings are done by deranged individuals with histories of mental illness, criminal actions, terrorist connections, and the like. Very few of the weapons used to perform these horrid actions were acquired legally, and even fewer were legally allowed to even possess a firearm.

Here's a link to some no bullshit firearms statistics:
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp (justfacts.com)

OK, how about these cases:

Hans Reiser - $60M
Roberto Ramirez - $10M
Jose Antonio Ramos - $2M
Aaron Walter Foster - $6M
Jason Young - $15.5M

...getting found liable in a civil trial for murder is going to cost you thousands of times what it costs to be found liable for copyright infringement.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your math is off by a few orders of magnitude.
first award: $222k
second: $1.9m
third: $1.5m

Even the lowest of those is only off by 1 order (10x's) compared to the lowest of the examples you provided, and the highest (1.9mil) is basically the same as Ramos' $2mil.
Granted, those are all still higher, and this case was for 24 counts of infringement (which is pretty silly IMO), but they're a hell of a lot closer to each other than I'm comfortable with.

OK, how about these cases:

Hans Reiser - $60M
Roberto Ramirez - $10M
Jose Antonio Ramos - $2M
Aaron Walter Foster - $6M
Jason Young - $15.5M

Are all these people rich and famous? No. The point remains valid - getting found liable in a civil trial for murder is going to cost you thousands of times what it costs to be found liable for copyright infringement.

this is the USA. roundabouts don't work good (well): http://www.wral.com/traffic/story/11173856/ Raleigh NC has given up. tried it. fail.

I think it may be bad everywhere. A college campus in NC got locked down because someone saw a man walking with an umbrella slung over his shoulder and reported a "man with an assault rifle" to police. Buildings evacuated and dozens of officers from who knows where went on a man hunt.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10387437/

By "draconian" you mean

By "draconian", I mean disenfranchising thousands of people across the country in pursuit of a problem invented by partisan hacks for the sole purpose of vote suppression. Denying people the right to vote because of petty bullshit like VA-issued identification cards being rejected because they don't have a home address on the card:

86-Year-Old U.S. Veteran Paul Carroll Denied Right to Vote

A Portage County World War II veteran was turned away from a polling place this morning because his driverâ(TM)s license had expired in January and his new Veterans Affairs ID did not include his home address.

And "free" voting ID's that cost $200 for retirees living on a fixed income:

Voter ID becomes law of unintended consequences
Local leader faces first election in 60 years without a right to vote

Ruthelle Frank was born on Aug. 21, 1927, in her home in Brokaw.

Though Frank never had a birth certificate, the state Register of Deeds in Madison has a record of her birth. It can generate a birth certificate for her -- for a fee. Normally, the cost is $20.

"I look at that like paying a fee to vote," Frank said.

And for Frank, that might not be the end of it. The attending physician at Frank's birth misspelled her maiden name, which was Wedepohl. To get a birth certificate that has correct information, she will have to petition a court to amend the document -- a weekslong process that could cost $200 or more.

You're denying tens of thousands of their voting rights because of less than a dozen provable cases of vote fraud in the whole damned country.

And if you think permitting fraudulent registrations does not fundamentally undermine the election process then there is just no debating with you.

Did you think about that for two seconds before posting? You could have a billion Mickey Mouses on registration forms and it matters not a whit if none of them actually, you know, vote.

By fraud I was more referring to cases like

Cases that can be looked up on Google? Looks like there are some details that you left out of the Daily Caller storyline:

McLean and his fiancee Leach admit to participating in early voting in the 2008 election. Unsure about the process on Election Day, they said they went to the polls to make sure their vote counted.

"I was confused and did not know," McLean said. "This is my second time voting for a president in my life."

Leach said she even told a poll worker about it.

"We told her we had already early voted, and we just wanted to make sure it counted," Leach said. "She said, 'If you have a ballot, then go ahead and vote.' And that is what we did. We did not think anything of it."

Huh, I wonder why those facts were left out of the storyline?

And let the 2000 elections go.

Who do you think you're kidding? Conservatives impeached a Democratic president for getting a blow job - what would they do if a Democratic president stole an election, sat on his ass as 3,000 Americans were killed, lied us into a war, doubled the national debt, and shredded the Constitution?

Two independent reviews (well 1 was run by Democrats) of the felons list found no foul play just some asinine short cuts taken by a company trying to save some money.

Again, who do you think you're kidding? The Secretary of State of Florida was Bush's co-chair, and

So a train derailed, and people were evacuated as a precaution, but the hazmat cars were empty and it was no big deal. If you consider that tantamount to a catastrophic, easily preventable collision killing 35 people and wounding 191, then I think your standards are pretty high. Derailments happen, but in the U.S. we have safety equipment and procedures rigorously enforced to prevent casualties. Only on the notoriously underfunded Washington, D.C., metro system can I recall an accident caused by equipment failure and not operator error--and this only happened because commuter rail systems are not regulated by the federal government like intercity rail.

Sorry, left out my links:

http://stopthecap.com/2011/04/04/fcc-commissioner-mignon-clyburn-calls-north-carolinas-h-129-a-broadband-barrier/

http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/blogpost/9345628/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/op-ed-north-carolina-broadband-bill-would-eliminate-level-playing-field.ars

The bill as passed

This is corporate money buying off politicians to protect their monopoly. It's to prevent nightmare scenarios like Ashland, OR, which in the year 2000 had public utility fiber optic to every home, and offers internet service starting at $9 a month.

Google reveals that besides the state senate passing the bill, the non-veto vote was likely illegally bought--and--paid--for a long time ago.

They are already doing unlawful arrests and detainment of American citizens. It's called the Patriot Act, and yes they have disappeared/arrested a number of American citizens over the years since.

http://www.politechbot.com/p-04221.html
http://www.rense.com/general61/feds.htm
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5049867/

The one I can't find now that was pretty well known, was the programmer who worked for...I think Oracle, and the FBI came in one day and arrested him and then no one knew where he was, and they wouldn't even say why he was arrested or anything. No lawyer, no phone call, no nothing, just poof and he was gone. Finally his senator or congressmen had to get involved.

It's akin to a despicable newspaper we have here in NC called the Slammer. They publish the mug shot and charges of practically everyone who's been arrested in the area, often with accompanying text that often makes it seem as if there is no doubt about their guilt.

Their site is a bit sparse so here are some news articles about the paper on WRAL and privateofficernews.

Democrats don't lie to people,

Maybe you missed that link I posted about the lying doctor? That was done by Democrats...

then send them in buses to town hall meetings

Like the SEIU? Democrats once again.

to shout down the speakers while screaming irrationally

Like the SEIU or ACORN? Man--you keep talking about Democrats. Are you sure you're not confusing Democrats and Republicans?

Here's a quick quiz: "Which party is racist?"
I know--you'll say it's the Republicans.

Funny that--the 1968 campaign slogan of the democrat party was: "It's a white man's party, let white men rule."

In 1868, Fredrick Douglas (a black man) was nominated by the Republican party for Vice President. That's about 65 years before Democrats even seated black delegates in 1933...

First black man to the white house? Booker T. Washington. Invited by Republican president Teddy Roosevelt.

Feeling good about your party now?

They don't sponsor commercials and meetings that specifically lie about the health care bill and spread fear.

Obama lies about the healthcare bill all the time. "You won't lose your private health insurance." Yet the bill (page 15) says we can't have our existing plans.

Not to mention that the healthcare is completely unconstitutional in the first place. The government has zero business being involved in my healthcare.

They don't send e-mails out talking about "death panels" just to scare people.

Never received one of those messages. But what do you call it when government denies your cancer treatment and then says they will provide you with assisted suicide. (For bonus points, guess who saved her from the government? The 'evil' drug companies). I'm sure this incompetence will never happen on a federal level.

They don't send talking points to a "News" organization, something that is technically illegal.

Both sides do this. It's a stupid political game. Big surprise. I'm guessing since you put 'news' in quotes, you accept MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and ABC as news stations, but not "Fox News". Funny how you don't accept the one stations that bas both liberals *and* conservatives. Or maybe you were referring to Air America and it's 3 listeners.

Have you even SEEN the Republican party's speeches on government healthcare in Congressional meetings?

Nope--don't care to. ...and no TV. I know what's in the bill. That's all that matters. No matter what any particular party says, I know what's *factually* in the bill. I won't let either party blow sunshine up there...

At one point one Congressman was using giant poster boards with children's book pictures of a "knight" swinging a sword at a chicken egg. He called him sir Lancelot, then put up another board that labeled the knight Sir Taxalot.

Sounds mildly humorous compared to most of what I've seen on C-SPAN in the past.

It was so incoherent and stupid and did nothing to actually address the issues at hand.

I'm sorry if "giant poster boards with children's book pictures" confuses you.

All the political garbage aside, I don't want anyone taking what little hard-earned money I have and giving it to other people for healthcare. I work my ass off to try and provide for my family, and I don't expect anyone to give me money for any reason. I work for what I want. I work so I can give money to charities and churches that help people.

Hell, last year, I was nearly kicked out of my house because I couldn't afford rent--at the same time I gave over $100 to a guy who fell out of a

But if he chunks this case and leaves the defendant holding the bag, he's lower than even the lowest bottom-sucker.

+5 unintentionally hilarious John Edwards reference! http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/160341/

They've decided that Flint Michigan must SHRINK 40% to survive.... So the answer is to bulldoze parts of flint and let it return to nature. 49 other cities to be targeted. Is yours next?

http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/5358258/

Falconwolf, you're missing the forest for the trees, just like the ACLU is missing the forest of "everyone's rights" for the trees of "those few guys in prison".

I'll make this as simple as possible:
A) Torture is a violation of basic human rights.
B) ACTA is, at best, an example of governments bowing to corporate interests and at worst and example of corruption.
You tell me which issue is more related to "everyone's rights".

Here's a recent article to give you context:
"Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think that it would be my own government that I would have to protect my children from," Lundeby said. "This is the United States, and I feel like I live in a third world country now."

You do realize that their profit isn't all from gas and Diesel fuels right? They have wells that produce oil sold on the open market, they own stations or station lands and building and lease them out to private operators, produce and sell natural gas and home heating oil plus a number of chemicals.

In fact, Fivecentnickel did a break down of were the money goes in a gallon of gas. As it turns out, refining and profit is of gas is only about 10% of the price per gallon. This isn't off from other estimates either. And it isn't excessive compared to other industries. Microsoft kept 27.3 cents of every $1 in revenue in its most recent quarter; General Electric, 11.4 cents and McDonald's, 12.3 cents. In fact, Exxon is below the 11-cent average of Standard & Poor's 500 companies, says analyst Howard Silverblatt.

So lets look at this, 10% per gallon. That is 40 cents on $4.00 gas. But wait, 40 percent or more of that goes to income taxes. So in reality, of the 40 cents, they keep around 23 ti 24 cents per gallon. Of course federal highway and state taxes average around 13% depending on the price and location but lets not focus on that. So If Exxon (the countries largest oil company) decided to cut their profits in half to save the consumer, that would only effect gas prices by 5% or 20 cents on a $4.00 per gallon gasoline. Does $3.80 compared to $4.00 a gallon seem like gouging?

The problem is that we only have about 5 major oil companies operating in the US with only 4 of them operating in any given state at a time. This problem is compounded by not being able to develop oil fields in the US because of environmental concerns and not being able to open refineries because of the same problems. This means that with all of the smaller oil companies, the major ones just do enormous volume in sales which is why they make so much. In 2007, the US consumed 142 billion gallons of gas (about 390 million gallons per day).

So if we look at this 142 billion gallon figure, we can do a number of things. Lets multiply it by $4.00 per gallon of gas, thats $568,000,000,000 or 568 billion dollars in sales. Now of the 10% holds true, that is 56.8 billion in profit across the US. Lets divide that into quarters to compare it against profits for Exxon. It comes to around 14.2 billion dollar profit per quarter in the US gas market alone. Now assuming that usage hasn't went down in the US in more then a negligible amount, with Exxon's $11.7 billion profit posted this quarter and forgetting that it makes money in places other then Gasoline sales (about 65 billion gallons of diesel and heating oil in 2007 nation wide )plus natural gas supplies and all, 11.7 billion profit in a quarter at $4.00 a gallon is only about 79% of the market.

Now we know that Exxon doesn't control 79% of the US market. So were did all the extra come from? Well, it isn't a calculation error (even though I rounded some numbers) and it isn't a number error, the 8k sec filing shows us that the US market is a very small portion of Exxon's sales compared to world wide participation. It refined 2,584,000 barrels of liquid product (or 2,584 kbd in case I got my abbreviations wrong) in the second quart in the US where it refined 4,191,000 barrels elsewhere in the world for a total of 6,775,000 (6,775 kbd). And forgetting about all the other areas for profit, Roughly 38% of their profit would be derived from within the US. So if we take 38% of the 11.

What used to cost me $40 a month in fuel was going to start costing $200 a month.

The bus can be a great solution (two members of our family use it) but when did gas cost $0.80/gal [$4/gallon * $40/$200]? This page suggests it was about 25 years ago. So we need to know how much more you are paid today compared to 25 years ago, or you can just keep your comparison in the apples to apples category. Apples to apples, your cost savings are not as much as you stated, based on gas costs alone.

On the plus side, you need to consider that you are saving vehicle wear and tear, and possibly the need for a second vehicle (both true in our case). This is more valuable to us than the gas savings, so we were busing even before gas prices doubled.

http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1782165/

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9772407-7.html

unfortunately for Lulu:

http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1979319/

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2007/10/29/daily6.html

http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1782165/

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9772407-7.html

unfortunately for Lulu:

http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1979319/

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2007/10/29/daily6.html

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1506245/

The guy who prosecuted the Duke lacrosse players. Disbarred.

The SCO cases have consumed years of the court's time and have cost the other parties many millions of dollars in lawyer's fees. Their cases have zero merit. The lawyers should have know the cases had no merit. My WAG is that they will get smacked real hard.

My other WAG is that Darl gets nailed for Lanham act violations.

Lee Conrad, national coordinator for the Alliance which is based in New York, called Cringely's figure of 100,000 "over the top." However, Conrad stressed that major changes are in store for IBM's workforce. "But having said that," Conrad said in reference to his "over the top" comment, "there will be at least 12,000 layoffs this year."

If someone wants to blow up a bridge, they will blow it up.

This is what gets me. It's well-established that despite all pretense, security (even airflight security) in the USA is poor at best. Given this, if terrorists really wanted to attack America, don't you think they would have, you know, attacked America? At all? In the last five years?

In the real world, you need data to prove your case.

Tell that to District Attorney Mike Nifong.

-Eric

I'm not saying that in any way AOL users "deserved" this -- nobody does. No matter what or how much information you a company has about you, whether it be your net searches or how filthy your carpets are, you expect the company that holds this information to keep it private.

However, why in the world would you go with a company like AOL that has so many recorded existing problems that could be discovered with a modicum of research? Unfortunately, it seems much like U-Haul being one of/the biggest moving van rental companies despite all the bad press... It's a household name, so it has to be good, right?

"PayPal is not only convenient to use, but it also offers buyers and sellers industry leading protection against fraud, chargebacks and theft of financial data."

Really? Not according to this:
"Wake Woman Learns Hard Lesson About PayPal" -- http://www.wral.com/money/9478218/detail.html

Synopsis: A woman signs up with Paypal because she thought it would protect her when selling a laptop. After Paypal sends her the money, and she ships the laptop, Paypal tries to reverse the transaction because they failed to verify stuff on their end. Before the news station got involved, they were turnng her over to a collection agency. Paypal still acted they were doing her a favor for letting her keep her own money.

It took Columbia's dissentigration to convince me, but Alex Roland is right. The Shuttle is a jobs program with a little bit of scientific research thrown in for fun. It's far more expensive than it was designed to be, and it's proven itself not viable time and again. The only people who aren't taking note are those who write the checks.

Fred DeJarnette, who worked on the original tile engineering is ready for a replacement. Let's do some real engineering and come up with a better spacecraft! (The Onion has an interesting take on the Shuttle program.)

What should we be doing in space? We should be using robots to explore (like the Mars rovers) and perform experiments in orbit. We should send people when we get the fuel to vehicle mass ratio better than 97%, and when it can warrant the expense of taking life support systems on a mission.

The Moon/Mars trips are another bigger jobs program, but they don't even have to get anywhere because the guy who called for them (and his successor, for that matter) will be safely out of office before the promised arrival date of 2018, so when it falls short, he won't have a
price to pay.

If Mars is the goal, the Mars Direct plan is much more economical. If the Moon is the target, go straight there, but don't use the Moon as a lillypad to get to Mars because landing and launching from there takes a certain amount of energy that needs not be expended on the way to Mars.

I want to see us (humans) explore space. I want to learn about the cosmos and I'd love to leave the planet (and probably return). I've followed the U.S. space program since I was old enough to know what a rocket was, and I've learned about the Soviet program since Glasnost. Now I'd like to see us do something meaningful - not just run a space truck to orbit and back, and not just design a fantastical Moon/Mars mission for the sake of it, but really learn about better forms of transportation and about the universe.

And you would be wrong. Why you would think a British IT industry tabloid is a good and/or complete source of news on an American murder case is beyond me.

Last week, a forensic investigator discovered that Petrick allegedly researched lake levels, water currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake just four days before he reported Sutphen missing on Jan. 22, 2003.
~http://www.wral.com/news/5287261/detail.html

Yes, the info was found on his hard drive, not acquired from Google or his ISP or anywhere else.

I'd prefer to keep port 25 blocked for all home users.

I'd prefer to sterilize poor, uneducated people.

Everybody's a fucking elitist and knows better than the unwashed masses. The worst are the nanog-holes who run around all puffed up, saying "my network, my rules" - it is the customer's fucking network. I'll happily pay people like http://www.rawbandwidth.com/ and speakeasy since they seem to keep that in mind.

I'd prefer if ISPs weren't lazy and hypocritical. They want the shield of being common carriers, but want to affect traffic by content/port. They could come up with more sophisticated alternatives that were more effective against unauthorized traffic, but it is easier to slop blanket rules on everyone. I don't understand why people don't rail against this as they do against National IDs and ID checks to travel across state lines.

ISP's are boiling us like frogs, same as the fed and state govts.

BTW, those open relays were UNIX and VAX machines, not Linux and back then open relays helped deliver legit email.

This means you must sacrifice by routing your mail through upstream mail servers. This is just best practices in action
This is not "best practices" it is what some control freaks are pushing because (again) they feel they know better. email does not want to be centralized for a long list of reasons and many so-called email experts have pointed that out. Even a few honeypot emails addresses posted and monitored by ISPs could probably cut spam in half. If you have access to routers, switches and their stats you can be even more proactive and effective against a variety of internet garbage, not just spam. You don't need to centralize email or block ports, that is just lazy and slap in the face to customers.

Let me guess, you're a network admin at an ISP, right?

Charge Reduced For N.C. Student Who Hid Box Cutters On Plane

Short summary -- student hit boxcutters on a flight in order to demonstrate the weak airport security. The cops were not amused.

Chip H.

The legality of the Trojan unknowingly installed on downloaders' computers is independent of the legal of the download. A worm that attempts to update security flaws in your system is still a worm.

The network admin (and friend) at my first job out of school was in a similar situation recently. He (and I agree though it doesn't matter) thought he was doing the "morally right" thing. It was still illeagal though.

* Winners compare their achievments to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others. * ARMONK, NY - Aug. 8,

And IBM measures their achievements in how many American workers they can replace.

I can't think of any other significant company based in Armonk, so I'm just burning Karma for the hell of it.