MS Passport takes on credit cards By Wylie Wong Special to ZDNet News July 8, 2002, 4:20 AM PT URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-942344.html
Microsoft hopes to extend its Passport online identification system into authorizing credit card payments.
The software giant will strike a partnership Tuesday with security-software maker Arcot Systems, which builds online payment systems for merchants and for banks that issue Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Arcot makes the systems behind Visa's own Verified by Visa program as well as a similar program in development at MasterCard.
Under the deal, Microsoft and Arcot plan to offer, later this fall, a service that will let banks require computer users to type in their Passport username and password to authenticate Visa or MasterCard credit cards.
Passport is an authentication service that stores users' personal information and passwords and lets them surf the Web without having to constantly re-enter data at different sites. According to research firm Gartner, the service has about 14 million registered users.
The new security measure would let banks and e-commerce Web sites verify the identity of online buyers and ensure that they aren't using stolen credit cards, said Brian Arbogast, Microsoft's vice president in charge of Passport.
Arcot, which competes against Cyota, Orbiscom and others, is the leader in the fledgling online credit card authentication market, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan said. So the Arcot partnership legitimizes Microsoft's Passport as an online authentication technology. It also benefits the credit card companies because they can tap into Microsoft's large base of customers, she said.
"It's good for Microsoft because up until now, no one stood behind the authenticity of the (Passport) identities. You can register as easily as 'Donald Duck' as you can with your real name," Litan said. "Now (Passport users) are linked to credit card companies. There is going to be a bank or credit card issuer standing behind the identity."
Microsoft has always offered an option for people to store their credit card information on Passport, but only 14 percent of Passport users did, because they didn't feel the system was secure enough, Litan said.
"People will start trusting the system now that it's linked to credit cards and has protection by Visa and MasterCard," Litan said.
Visa has a program, called Verified by Visa, that allows banks that issue Visa credit cards to authenticate online purchases. Arcot has captured the brunt of Visa's business with its systems, so the deal gives Microsoft access to most banks using the authentication systems, Litan said. MasterCard is currently testing a similar online authentication program, which Arcot's products also support.
Under both those programs, when computer users want to make a purchase online, a window pops up asking Passport users for their name and password, said Arcot CEO Ram Varadarajan. Besides verifying identity through Passport, Varadarajan said, credit card issuers have other options, such as banks' own username and password systems as well as smart cards.
Varadarajan said Arcot may also support the Liberty Alliance Project, which seeks to establish a standard for online identification that's an alternative to Microsoft's Passport. Liberty Alliance was created by Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems.
My name is SENATOR BENSON OGBEBOR, the executive chairman Pension funds committee in the senate of the federal Republic Of Nigeria. I am writing you to earnestly Solicit for your assistance in helping to receive some sum of money.I got your e-mail address on the Internet while searching for a reliable and reputable person to handle this transaction.
THE PREPOSITION: We have the sum of US$15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Dollars) that we intend to transfer overseas through the assistance of a foreign partner.This money came as a result of the unclaimed pension funds over the years due to the over invoiced claim put forward by my committee but the pensioners have already been paid for their claim. What is left is the over invoice amount of US$15,000,000.00 which has been deposited in a Bank.
I have agreed to transfer the funds overseas for my campaign funding and also invest part of this money in any viable business in your country under your care.
I am contacting you therefore, to stand in as the beneficiary to process this fund into your custody. I will provide you with 25% for assisting us and 5% for expenses.
The fund shall be transferred to you legally in accordance to all laid down procedures governing transfer of funds. I have perfected all modalities for the successful transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary. Finally, I have to reassure you that this transaction is risk free and should be kept absolutely confidential.
Presently, you can reach me by return mail, you should also include your telephone, fax and or phone numbers, for secured communication between us.
Hi Hi! We're your Weather Girls Ah huh And have we got news for you You better listen! Get ready, all you lonely girls and leave those umbrellas at home. Alright!
Humidity is rising Barometer's getting low According to all sources, the street's the place to go Cause tonight for the first time Just about half past ten For the first time in history It's gonna start raining men.
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen! I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get Absolutely soaking wet! It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Every Specimen! Tall, blonde, dark and lean Rough and tough and strong and mean
God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do She taught every angel to rearrange the sky So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen! It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Ameeeeeeeeeennnn!
I feel stormy weather Moving in about to begin Hear the thunder Don't you lose your head Rip off the roof and stay in bed Rip off the roof and stay in bed
God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do She taught every angel to rearrange the sky So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy It's Raining Men! Yeah!
Humidity is rising Barometer's getting low According to all sources, the street's the place to go Cause tonight for the first time Just about half past ten For the first time in history It's gonna start raining men.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Stalker tech Students at the University of California at San Diego are tracking their friends' locations with PDAs.
- - - - - - - - - - - - By Randy Dotinga
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June 11, 2002 | SAN DIEGO -- It's 11 p.m. Do you know where your boyfriend is? If he attends the University of California at San Diego, finding him may be as easy as turning on a PDA.
The university is equipping hundreds of students with personal digital assistants that allow them to track each other's location from parking lot to lecture hall to cafeteria. The technology is sophisticated enough to pinpoint where a person is in a building -- say, a dorm -- within a margin of error of one floor.
No one is forcing students to use the $549 Hewlett-Packard Jordana PDAs, which are provided for free, or requiring them to allow their buddies to watch them wander across campus on a zoomable map. But students still worry about protecting themselves from stalkers, university administrators, FBI agents and nosy parkers.
"I don't necessarily want even my friends knowing where I am," says Ben Shapiro, a 22-year-old senior who is designing the project's privacy rules. "Maybe students aren't out of the closet and don't want people to know they're going to the Gay & Lesbian Resource Center. Maybe you're cheating on your girlfriend and you don't want her to know you're in somebody else's dorm room. It's creepy Big Brother."
Shapiro is no stranger to speaking his mind. In his freshman year, he and the ACLU successfully sued UCSD after he got in trouble for posting a handwritten sign that said "Fuck Netanyahu and Pinochet" on his dorm room window. But Shapiro actually likes the location-tracking software despite his misgivings. "If the system has enough protections for people's privacy and enough people use it, it could be really great," he says.
The official goal of the PDA project is to test whether location trackers will encourage students to find each other more easily on a sprawling and rapidly growing campus. "What used to feel like a small town is starting to feel like a big city," said William Griswold, a computer science professor who is overseeing the project.
The PDAs detect each other through the university's Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) network, the same radio wave-based system that allows lap-toppers to go online from coffeehouses and airports.
The location-tracking software itself, developed by a 15-year-old student at the university, draws upon triangulation technology used by global positioning system (GPS) devices. The PDAs figure out their locations by comparing the strength levels of signals traveling from the devices to various Wi-Fi antennas.
The software only allows a person to track the location of another user if both agree. If Shapiro doesn't want his best friend to track him, he can leave him off his PDA's equivalent of an America Online "buddy list." According to Griswold, the location data is protected by the standard SSL Internet encryption technology.
But critics are skeptical. "They have created a security risk for every single student who uses the software," says Nick Van Borst, a 25-year-old senior majoring in world literature who criticized the tracker system in a university magazine. "People are hacking things on campus all the time, and there's always these crazy viruses going around. Somebody's going to want to (hack) it just for the hell of it to see if they can."
Hackers don't even need to be on the campus to invade the PDA location tracker system. Students can log in to a Web site from anywhere and check where their friends are. The system offers both a zoomable map of the campus -- with moving dots representing their friends -- and a text list of where people are. If students program their PDAs properly, their buddies can also track their locations around the world whenever they log into a Wi-Fi network.
System administrators can gain access to the locations of students or employees equipped with the PDAs, although designers hope to eventually make that impossible. Law enforcement officers could also conceivably try to track someone without their knowledge, but "it's not our intention to be a party to activities like that," Griswold says.
The PDA project will get bigger. UCSD has a few dozen more donated PDAs to give away to students, and it hopes to equip 330 freshmen with them this fall when it opens a sixth mini-college on campus.
Hewlett-Packard, which has provided the PDAs for free, wants to know what college students do with the devices, Griswold says. "What 18- or 20-year-olds will do with these PDAs today is what 35-year-olds will be doing with them tomorrow."
That's what worries privacy advocates who are already monitoring the growing use of location-tracking GPS microchips in cellphones.
Trouble looms around the corner "even if there's a rock-solid privacy policy, even if certain safeguards are built in," says Beth Givens, director of the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. "Whenever someone develops a new service that uses personally identifiable information, there will be in the future other uses found for that information. You can count on it."
UCSD officials contend that students know what they're getting into. The PDA project is an experiment so users must sign waivers before using the devices, Griswold said. "The approach we've taken is to put control into the hands of the user and explain to them what it means. The students at this university are very bright, and we expect them to all be able to understand the things we say to them."
Some students don't even bother looking at the waiver. They turn down the new technology for a very old-fashioned reason. "They're afraid that if they break them, we'll charge them for it," Griswold said.
For now, at least, both their pocketbooks and their privacy will remain intact.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
About the writer Randy Dotinga is a freelance writer in San Diego.
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A source confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that Jennifer Lopez and her dancer-husband, Cris Judd, have separated. The source said the pair parted amicably and have no immediate plans for divorce.
A spokesman for Lopez declined to confirm or deny the split.
The 31-year-old actress-singer married Judd, 32, in a private ceremony in Calabasas, California. The September 29 nuptials came just months after she broke up with hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, with whom she had a highly publicized romance.
Judd appeared prominently as a background dancer in the video for her hit "Love Don't Cost a Thing," but in recent months has become more active in her career. He directed the video for the Ja Rule remix of her song "Ain't It Funny," and choreographed her recent NBC concert special.
He and Lopez also co-wrote the song "Alive" from her recent thriller "Enough."
Lopez married model Ojani Noa in 1997 and divorced him the following year.
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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MS Passport takes on credit cards
By Wylie Wong
Special to ZDNet News
July 8, 2002, 4:20 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-942344.html
Microsoft hopes to extend its Passport online identification system into authorizing credit card payments.
The software giant will strike a partnership Tuesday with security-software maker Arcot Systems, which builds online payment systems for merchants and for banks that issue Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Arcot makes the systems behind Visa's own Verified by Visa program as well as a similar program in development at MasterCard.
Under the deal, Microsoft and Arcot plan to offer, later this fall, a service that will let banks require computer users to type in their Passport username and password to authenticate Visa or MasterCard credit cards.
Passport is an authentication service that stores users' personal information and passwords and lets them surf the Web without having to constantly re-enter data at different sites. According to research firm Gartner, the service has about 14 million registered users.
The new security measure would let banks and e-commerce Web sites verify the identity of online buyers and ensure that they aren't using stolen credit cards, said Brian Arbogast, Microsoft's vice president in charge of Passport.
Arcot, which competes against Cyota, Orbiscom and others, is the leader in the fledgling online credit card authentication market, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan said. So the Arcot partnership legitimizes Microsoft's Passport as an online authentication technology. It also benefits the credit card companies because they can tap into Microsoft's large base of customers, she said.
"It's good for Microsoft because up until now, no one stood behind the authenticity of the (Passport) identities. You can register as easily as 'Donald Duck' as you can with your real name," Litan said. "Now (Passport users) are linked to credit card companies. There is going to be a bank or credit card issuer standing behind the identity."
Microsoft has always offered an option for people to store their credit card information on Passport, but only 14 percent of Passport users did, because they didn't feel the system was secure enough, Litan said.
"People will start trusting the system now that it's linked to credit cards and has protection by Visa and MasterCard," Litan said.
Visa has a program, called Verified by Visa, that allows banks that issue Visa credit cards to authenticate online purchases. Arcot has captured the brunt of Visa's business with its systems, so the deal gives Microsoft access to most banks using the authentication systems, Litan said. MasterCard is currently testing a similar online authentication program, which Arcot's products also support.
Under both those programs, when computer users want to make a purchase online, a window pops up asking Passport users for their name and password, said Arcot CEO Ram Varadarajan. Besides verifying identity through Passport, Varadarajan said, credit card issuers have other options, such as banks' own username and password systems as well as smart cards.
Varadarajan said Arcot may also support the Liberty Alliance Project, which seeks to establish a standard for online identification that's an alternative to Microsoft's Passport. Liberty Alliance was created by Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems.
He's kickin' it old school!
My name is SENATOR BENSON OGBEBOR, the executive chairman Pension funds
committee in the senate of the federal Republic Of Nigeria. I am
writing you to earnestly
Solicit for your assistance in helping to
receive some sum of money.I got your e-mail address on the Internet
while searching for a
reliable and reputable person to handle this transaction.
THE PREPOSITION:
We have the sum of US$15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Dollars) that we
intend to transfer
overseas through the assistance of a foreign partner.This money came as
a result of the
unclaimed pension funds over the years due to the over invoiced claim
put forward by my
committee but the pensioners have already been paid for their claim.
What is left is the over
invoice amount of US$15,000,000.00 which has been deposited in a Bank.
I have agreed to transfer the funds overseas for my
campaign funding and also invest part of this money in any viable
business in your country
under your care.
I am contacting you therefore, to stand in as the beneficiary to
process this fund into your
custody. I will provide you with 25% for assisting us and 5% for
expenses.
The fund shall be transferred to you legally in
accordance to all laid down procedures governing transfer of funds. I
have perfected all
modalities for the successful transfer of this money to you as the
beneficiary. Finally, I have to reassure you that this transaction is
risk free and should be
kept absolutely
confidential.
Presently, you can reach me by return mail, you should
also include your telephone, fax and or phone numbers, for secured
communication
between us.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
I await your response.
SENATOR BENSON OGBEBOR
That should be:
"So be silent, foo!"
Hi Hi! We're your Weather Girls Ah huh
And have we got news for you You better listen!
Get ready, all you lonely girls
and leave those umbrellas at home. Alright!
Humidity is rising Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men.
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Every Specimen!
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean
God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Ameeeeeeeeeennnn!
I feel stormy weather Moving in about to begin
Hear the thunder Don't you lose your head
Rip off the roof and stay in bed
Rip off the roof and stay in bed
God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's Raining Men! Yeah!
Humidity is rising Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men.
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
...
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
Chicken Squawk (by MDC)
When I walk into the store
They sell the chickens by the score
But eating dead birds just ain't for me
I don't eat roast beef or fish
Porky pig is not my dish
Just go ahead and let your chickens be
In chicken circles it's Adolf Perdue
Wants to feed fearless chickens to you
I don't take orders from Col. Sanders, do you?
I don't want to eat no hens
Not even every now or then
Wanna let all the little chickens be
(chorus)
Bawk, bawk, bawk...
Swing to the east, swing to the west
Swing to the chicken you love best
Come on down & do the chicken squawk with me
Wishin' Daffy lots of luck
Cause Elmer Fudd's a-huntin' duck
Dreaming about their little fricasee
And Bugs Bunny is a friend of mine
Eatin' him I'd feel like Frankenstein
Eating flesh seems pretty foul to me
Cooking chickens don't seem right
Morning, noon, or late at night
Ain't no chicken ever done no harm to me
So on Thanksgiving of Christmas Eve
Give them turkeys a reprieve
Ain't no turkey gotta die for me
(chorus)
Foghorn Leghorn wrote to me
Says M.D.C's alright by me
Cause we all learned to let our chickens free
We birds of a feather, we stick together
We set our chickens free forever!
So go ahead and let those chickens be
(chorus)
Lordy Jesus this must be the end
They got us eatin' our cartoon friends
Emancipate those little chickadees.
Swing to the east, swing to the west
Swing with the chicken that you love best
Come on down & do the chicken squawk with me
(chorus)
Nobody played bass better than Bruce Foxton, bitch. Get over it.
to say this:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Git it in ya!
ya
It's STOVL fucknut.
Sweet, cruise out of a staff meeting, fire up
This one is dedicated to all my CLIT hommies that was down from day one.
high their.
Stalker tech
Students at the University of California at San Diego are tracking their friends' locations with PDAs.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Randy Dotinga
printe-mail
June 11, 2002 | SAN DIEGO -- It's 11 p.m. Do you know where your boyfriend is? If he attends the University of California at San Diego, finding him may be as easy as turning on a PDA.
The university is equipping hundreds of students with personal digital assistants that allow them to track each other's location from parking lot to lecture hall to cafeteria. The technology is sophisticated enough to pinpoint where a person is in a building -- say, a dorm -- within a margin of error of one floor.
No one is forcing students to use the $549 Hewlett-Packard Jordana PDAs, which are provided for free, or requiring them to allow their buddies to watch them wander across campus on a zoomable map. But students still worry about protecting themselves from stalkers, university administrators, FBI agents and nosy parkers.
"I don't necessarily want even my friends knowing where I am," says Ben Shapiro, a 22-year-old senior who is designing the project's privacy rules. "Maybe students aren't out of the closet and don't want people to know they're going to the Gay & Lesbian Resource Center. Maybe you're cheating on your girlfriend and you don't want her to know you're in somebody else's dorm room. It's creepy Big Brother."
Shapiro is no stranger to speaking his mind. In his freshman year, he and the ACLU successfully sued UCSD after he got in trouble for posting a handwritten sign that said "Fuck Netanyahu and Pinochet" on his dorm room window. But Shapiro actually likes the location-tracking software despite his misgivings. "If the system has enough protections for people's privacy and enough people use it, it could be really great," he says.
The official goal of the PDA project is to test whether location trackers will encourage students to find each other more easily on a sprawling and rapidly growing campus. "What used to feel like a small town is starting to feel like a big city," said William Griswold, a computer science professor who is overseeing the project.
The PDAs detect each other through the university's Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) network, the same radio wave-based system that allows lap-toppers to go online from coffeehouses and airports.
The location-tracking software itself, developed by a 15-year-old student at the university, draws upon triangulation technology used by global positioning system (GPS) devices. The PDAs figure out their locations by comparing the strength levels of signals traveling from the devices to various Wi-Fi antennas.
The software only allows a person to track the location of another user if both agree. If Shapiro doesn't want his best friend to track him, he can leave him off his PDA's equivalent of an America Online "buddy list." According to Griswold, the location data is protected by the standard SSL Internet encryption technology.
But critics are skeptical. "They have created a security risk for every single student who uses the software," says Nick Van Borst, a 25-year-old senior majoring in world literature who criticized the tracker system in a university magazine. "People are hacking things on campus all the time, and there's always these crazy viruses going around. Somebody's going to want to (hack) it just for the hell of it to see if they can."
Hackers don't even need to be on the campus to invade the PDA location tracker system. Students can log in to a Web site from anywhere and check where their friends are. The system offers both a zoomable map of the campus -- with moving dots representing their friends -- and a text list of where people are. If students program their PDAs properly, their buddies can also track their locations around the world whenever they log into a Wi-Fi network.
System administrators can gain access to the locations of students or employees equipped with the PDAs, although designers hope to eventually make that impossible. Law enforcement officers could also conceivably try to track someone without their knowledge, but "it's not our intention to be a party to activities like that," Griswold says.
The PDA project will get bigger. UCSD has a few dozen more donated PDAs to give away to students, and it hopes to equip 330 freshmen with them this fall when it opens a sixth mini-college on campus.
Hewlett-Packard, which has provided the PDAs for free, wants to know what college students do with the devices, Griswold says. "What 18- or 20-year-olds will do with these PDAs today is what 35-year-olds will be doing with them tomorrow."
That's what worries privacy advocates who are already monitoring the growing use of location-tracking GPS microchips in cellphones.
Trouble looms around the corner "even if there's a rock-solid privacy policy, even if certain safeguards are built in," says Beth Givens, director of the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. "Whenever someone develops a new service that uses personally identifiable information, there will be in the future other uses found for that information. You can count on it."
UCSD officials contend that students know what they're getting into. The PDA project is an experiment so users must sign waivers before using the devices, Griswold said. "The approach we've taken is to put control into the hands of the user and explain to them what it means. The students at this university are very bright, and we expect them to all be able to understand the things we say to them."
Some students don't even bother looking at the waiver. They turn down the new technology for a very old-fashioned reason. "They're afraid that if they break them, we'll charge them for it," Griswold said.
For now, at least, both their pocketbooks and their privacy will remain intact.
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About the writer
Randy Dotinga is a freelance writer in San Diego.
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13 Joke posted on 08:44 AM May 28th, 2002 (Score:-1)
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14 Re:Should it be all women? posted on 08:41 AM May 28th, 2002 (Score:-1)
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15 web site down posted on 08:55 AM May 23rd, 2002 (Score:-1)
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16 get your text here posted on 02:08 PM May 21st, 2002 (Score:-1 Replies: 2)
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17 Re:FETTUCCINE WITH RED PEPPER AND BASIL posted on 04:01 PM May 20th, 2002 (Score:-1)
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18 I live to give posted on 11:05 AM May 20th, 2002 (Score:-1 Replies: 2)
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19 text here posted on 09:23 AM May 20th, 2002 (Score:-1 Replies: 2)
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20 no log in required posted on 03:24 PM May 17th, 2002 (Score:-1)
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21 quick fix for Ford posted on 07:15 AM May 17th, 2002 (Score:0 Replies: 1)
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22 who cares posted on 11:57 AM May 14th, 2002 (Score:-1 Replies: 1)
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23 i have a log in ID, here's the story posted on 07:51 AM May 13th, 2002 (Score:1 Replies: 3)
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24 Lameness filter encountered. posted on 07:55 AM May 10th, 2002 (Score:-1)
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NEW YORK (AP) --J. Lo is solo again.
A source confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that Jennifer Lopez and her dancer-husband, Cris Judd, have separated. The source said the pair parted amicably and have no immediate plans for divorce.
A spokesman for Lopez declined to confirm or deny the split.
The 31-year-old actress-singer married Judd, 32, in a private ceremony in Calabasas, California. The September 29 nuptials came just months after she broke up with hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, with whom she had a highly publicized romance.
Judd appeared prominently as a background dancer in the video for her hit "Love Don't Cost a Thing," but in recent months has become more active in her career. He directed the video for the Ja Rule remix of her song "Ain't It Funny," and choreographed her recent NBC concert special.
He and Lopez also co-wrote the song "Alive" from her recent thriller "Enough."
Lopez married model Ojani Noa in 1997 and divorced him the following year.
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
that is all.
CLITs and TITs.
no
Can somebody let me know when this thing goes RC2? Thnxs.