Since he couldn't write any new articles in Arabic, he needed the FBI's help to keep the site alive. He said FBI officials in Baltimore and Salisbury, Md., encouraged his work but took too long to decide how to help him. Within a week, other Arabic Web sites outed Messner's site as a phony and warned visitors away. He shut it down.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 08:13 PM

Math people are "poor approximations" of real people, he offered carefully, albeit with a bigger vocabulary. Real people are complicated by "limited rationality" and "limited perception, habit, instinct and custom."

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:35 PM

The Arts Report Israel has cancelled an upcoming Albert Einstein exhibit that was to tour China, after Chinese officials demanded the removal of all references to Einstein's Jewish heritage.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:47 PM

7. Teal is a flattering color.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:45 PM

Jackson, along with five members of the Globetrotters, including Curley Johnson, Lou Dunbar, Elmer Martin, Wun Versher, and Alex Sanders, presented His Holiness with a framed team jersey and an autographed ball. The jersey included the Pope's name and the number 75 stitched on the back, to celebrate the team's upcoming 75th Anniversary season in 2001.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:04 PM

unintentionally released the e-mail addresses of more than 600 people taking Prozac

What kind of spam do you send to users of Prozac?

I'm going to start an anti-depressent mailling list. An anti-depressent message will be delivered to your inbox many times a day. You can read as many of them as you like, no worry about overdose with these things. These won't just be the normal recycled-for-the-100th-time joke email. These will be scientifically designed to fire off a sequence of nerons in your brain relieving depression instantly. Words and sentences, with punctuation, rhythm, and rhyme. Send me an email if you want to subscribe.

Life doesn't frighten me.

Life doesn't frighten me.

Life doesn't frighten me.

Life doesn't frighten me!

I'm ready to go now. Later.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 31, 2002 07:59 AM

In a larger sense, while academics have slept, the content industries have systematically stifled flows of essential information, created artificial scarcity, and made certain areas of basic research potentially illegal.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:22 AM

One of the attorneys who worked on the 1997 challenge to the CDA, Reno v. ACLU, when first asked about the new suit, told ABCNEWS.com he didn't believe there was anything left of the CDA to fight.

But after he reviewed the suit filed by Nitke and the NCSF, Paul Smith of Jenner and Block said that to his surprise, there still seemed to be aspects of the CDA that needed to be addressed.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:19 AM

Eight states including Connecticut will divide $160,000 in a settlement with Eli Lilly and Co. over allegations the drug maker unintentionally released the e-mail addresses of more than 600 people taking Prozac.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:15 AM

A main sticking point of the order is the since-discontinued line of products (including t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.) that were offered for a brief period on this site, produced by CafePress.com and featuring the MetsOnline.net name but not the logo or writings of the New York Mets or Major League Baseball. While we recognize that this legal claim may have some independent legal merit, it is notable that revenues from such merchandise sales totaled just $16.00 (four orders), $12.00 of which was to Hoch's girlfriend.

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 07:06 AM

"We're living in a world where there's a lot of uncertainty and the brand name IBM is infinitely more certain than the brand name Monday."

Posted by GeeTee at July 31, 2002 06:37 AM

Traficant has vowed to run from prison for re-election as an Independent.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 09:58 PM

wood on my shoulder
the umpire yells fiercely
wood under my butt

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 09:37 PM

In a letter sent on Monday, an HP vice president warned SnoSoft, a loosely organized research collective, that it "could be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to five years" for its role in publishing information on a bug that lets an intruder take over a Tru64 Unix system.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 07:38 PM

Also known as the "Baby Boomlet", because birthrates went up again in those years, what the media often mis-names "Gen-X" are the "grunge" kids that would be as alien to a high school campus in 1985 as we would have been in at high school in the 1970s. As a side note, it's ironic how this "Boomlet" group is being molded into little clones of the Boomers as they were in their youth, as if they were re-living their youth vicariously THROUGH them, which is, of course, exactly what's happening. The bell-bottoms, drug use, and even the revival of "folk" music- though most don't recognize it as such - looks and sounds shockingly similar, and it's not an accident. (Their little minds are being shaped to mimic Boomer's political and social values, too, but that's another story for another time.)

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 02:34 PM

Anything Goes got started as a dream, the same way the opening of the novel begins (though in the book it's somebody else that dreams it), and the dream itself got started by a lot of other circumstances: nearly ten years ago I had a grant and a year off from my teaching job, but it wasn't convenient to go anywhere, so instead I bought a Les Paul.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 02:20 PM

In the robot category, attendees experienced "Lewis, the Robotic Photographer," a more normal-looking robot of metal and wheels whose raison d'etre is to move toward nearby people and take pictures of them. This isn't as simple as it sounds. To get its pictures, Lewis' video camera must detect skin tones, determine that they represent a face, center one or more faces in its digital camera's lens, and snap the picture.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 02:11 PM

...says SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, "We are demanding that CEOs and CFOs swear that the numbers they've reported in their financial reports are correct and that they've left nothing important out."

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 02:06 PM

AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 02:02 PM

Women's portal iVillage has killed off the intrusive pop-up advertising unit across its network. Such an action raises obvious questions of why an internet publisher would do this amid a still-laggardly advertising market. The answer: iVillage users overwhelmingly express dislike for the pop-up, thus negating much of their value. IVillage polled its users and determined that 92.5 percent of them consider pop-ups to rank among the internet's most irritating attributes. IVillage did conclude that pop-up advertising can boost brand awareness but not in a positive way. As a result, iVillage says it plans to introduce new, subtler ad formats. "We have built iVillage by listening to what women want, and our move to eliminate pop-up advertising is a direct example of this. It's not news that women consume media differently than men, yet many leading web sites haven't done anything to adapt to this fact," says Nancy Evans, co-founder and editor-in-chief of iVillage.

But:

Web advertising is about to get even more obtrusive. Two leading rich media makers, those being Eyeblaster and Unicast, have announced expansions of their offerings. Superstitial maker Unicast says it will offer as part of a new Online Format Suite, takeover-style ads in “in-between,” “over-page” and “in-page” formats--takeover ads being the type of internet ad, that, even more than a pop-up ad, obscures a web site’s content. Additionally, Unicast has a partnership with AdForever to offer AdForever’s TopLayer takeover ad unit.  As for Eyeblaster, it is offering a new ad campaign management platform for rich media.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 01:41 PM

The evidence discloses that Sergeant Anderson habitually used the word "fuck" or its derivatives; that everyone else did also; that Constable Cowin herself did so regularly. It was, so a witness said, part of what oxymoronically is called "police culture." Likewise, the word "cunt" is used from time to time, although Sergeant Anderson never used this word to Constable Cowin. There was no evidence that persons in the public area were ever offended, nor that the public area was frequented by gentle old ladies or convent schoolgirls. Bearing in mind that we are living in a post-Chatterley, post-Wolfenden age, taking into account all circumstances, and judging the matter from the point of view of reasonable contemporary standards, I cannot believe that Sergeant Anderson's language was legally "offensive."

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 12:09 PM

As the software recorded which e-mails Schvimmer was deleting or responding to, it assigned priority. High marks went to e-mail from certain customers and from his counterpart in Banter's Israel office, as well as anything from colleagues that mentioned an "urgent" response was required. Low marks went to all mail from bulletin boards, subscriptions to CRM Today and other newsletters, personal e-mails about fantasy football, and anything not addressed directly to Schvimmer. (His pet peeve is nonurgent e-mail CC'ed to him.)

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 11:43 AM

"What you see on TV - it's rubbish," he said, referring to shows about the mob. "The main thieves are the bureaucrats. They are the mafia."

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 11:39 AM

VeriSign would like to offer you a FREE guide on "Hacking and Network Defense." To download your free guide, register now at:

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Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 11:19 AM

Monday's decision does not directly affect many of the debates swirling around ICANN, such as which new top-level domains to add and whether to allow the Internet public to vote for board members. But it does increase scrutiny of the organization at a time when ICANN is reeling from attacks from critics who have decried it as secretive and overreaching. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., said in March that he believed that ICANN was a "fundamentally flawed and ineffective governing entity."

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 08:20 AM

The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after the group endorsed legislation to allow copyright holders to disrupt peer-to-peer networks.

Also DOSed were house.gov and mpaa.org.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 08:14 AM

Known for dramatic films like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, Darabont promised the same approach for Fahrenheit, with just one twist. "Flame throwers," he said. "This time I get to blow things off."

A stacked all my books in the fire place and burned them. Brushing away the ash to find pages that survived the inferno and assembling these pages into a new book. While reading it front to back while deep in a trance, the truth was revealed to me.

I gotta go sit in rush hour traffic and day dream about witching hour apple pie.

The truth is that it only takes me about 10 minutes to go to work and the only traffic is the gravel trucks that go really slow on the grades.

Even if I don't use it in the house?-- Calvin, trying to convince his dad to buy him a flame thrower.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 30, 2002 08:02 AM

Researchers believe the scramjet could revolutionise long-haul air travel - cutting the trip from London to Sydney to just two hours - and substantially cut the cost of putting small payloads into space.

Posted by GeeTee at July 30, 2002 05:18 AM

Court: "Ten months to come up with a procedure? This organization has been going since 1998, and still no procedures for access to records? You mean none of these people had ever looked at a single record before Mr. Auerbach's request? That's a sad statement."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 07:00 PM

Street prostitutes picked up by the religious police or other security forces would be given a choice -- take the assistance of social services to give up their profession, or accept a placement in a state-sponsored "decency house" where they could contract temporary marriages with their clients.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 06:22 PM

Tom Clancy, for instance, oversees a vast farm of fiction writers who crank out stories that he imagines. Check the covers of certain bestsellers and you'll notice that though Clancy's name may be emblazoned across the tops of the books, someone else did the writing. "Mission of Honor," part of "Tom Clancy's Op-Center" series, was written by Jeff Rovin. "Bio-Strike," a volume in "Tom Clancy's Power Plays" series, is by Jerome Preisler. "Runaways," one of "Tom Clancy's Net Force" young-adult series books, was written by Diane Duane.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 06:13 PM

At Laboratoires Stob, we have been working on the cruft crisis for a while. Recalling the maxim "to control a problem you must first measure it," we have devised a suitable metric, an index of cruftidity. Our first version, presented below, is based on a typical PC installation running Windows 2000. But there will shortly be ports to Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unices; we are confident these OSes are just as prone.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 05:59 PM

A year ago Beijing won its bid to host the 2008 Olympics, and it's been consumed with a frenzy of preparation ever since. Weather is a particular concern, since the city's eye-searing pollution almost nixed China's bid. So now Beijing is banishing polluting factories from city limits, planting trees to keep out dust blown in from the Gobi Desert and clamping down on vehicle emissions in hopes of guaranteeing blue skies by 2008.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 03:01 PM

"Our American agent called to tell me that he was unable to find a company that would agree to guard the concert and the audience," Avi Shoshani, chief executive of the orchestra, told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.

Gives me images of those big blocky Secret Service guys with their black suits and sunglasses waving their hands anxiously, crying 'no, no, anything but that!'

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 02:29 PM

The nature of the arrangement, as disclosed in recent criminal proceedings: In return for information on the Mafia, Boston agents looked the other way as the Winter Hill Gang sold drugs, stole and murdered, even tipping them off when state police or federal drug agents were on their trail. Both sides got what they wanted. The Patriarca crime family was devastated by federal prosecutions, and the Winter Hill Gang took over Boston-area rackets.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 01:29 PM

"If you take away the massive wall of sound from many Sabbath songs, what you have is pure 14th-century music," producer Mihkel Raud told the Associated Press. "Really."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 01:19 PM

"There is no consensus, either from the courts or among Canadians, on whether or how the laws require change. The government believes it is the responsible course to seek further clarity on these issues," Cauchon said in the statement.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 01:13 PM

Which one of our candidates -- which one of the men you're about to see in their underpants -- deserves a free trip to Las Vegas? That decision is in your hands.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 12:41 PM

"Almost every night there was somebody on their knees to propose to their girlfriend."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 12:24 PM

"I think women are smart enough they don't have to be told how to dress. These laws are silly."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 12:19 PM

The nude man was covered with dirt and had to be washed down with a fire hose.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 12:17 PM

Jolly Blackburn's father is in the hospital pending surgery and his condition is not good. Jolly has been with his family, making multiple trips to the hospital emergency room. There is no strip for Monday, 7/29/02, and we are unsure if other strips this week will be affected. Please put Jolly and his family in your thoughts.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 11:50 AM

We are concerned over the rampant sale and use of pirated computer software in the country and will continue to conduct raids to curb it," The Sunday Star quoted Muhyiddin as saying. "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software," he said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 11:28 AM

"It's cowardly and gutless and maybe (the suspect) thinks he's being funny to pick on old men and grab their turbans," Louie said. "The turban is sacred and for something like that to happen, well, it's shameful and hurtful."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 10:51 AM

"I almost changed my mind because of that -- 'the media will be all over you, and all your past will come up and everything.' You know, I don't care if you bring my past up. I've come a long ways in my life from being an alcoholic to what I am today. And I am a stronger person today, I live an honest life today and I have nothing to hide," the mother said. "If it was a regular person, it would be so much easier. But this is the Prime Minister's son, and we're just little people just looking to go out there and fight this case. It's scary."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 10:29 AM

The pope stopped well short of any assertion that a lack of vigilance among church leaders had contributed to the sexual abuse of children, as the details of some cases suggest and as many outraged American Catholics contend.

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 10:25 AM

"Men say this is women's stuff, and think it's a woman's problem, but they're completely wrong. It's a societal problem."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 10:15 AM

"Our political leaders, including the provincial and territorial Premiers who will meet in Halifax in a couple of days, need to take a critical look athow the Social Union Framework Agreement is working", stated Herle. "Ourpatchwork system of social programs is clearly not doing what it takes toseriously address the causes and consequences of poverty. And there is noforum for Canadians outside government, especially for low-income Canadiansand hungry children, to come to the table with governments to talk about theirown realities, aspirations, priorities and solutions."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 09:58 AM

"It is possible, for example, that the bill allows criminal prosecutions as well as private suits against anyone who uses a black Magic Marker to disable copy protection features built into some recent music CDs," Baker says. "At $25,000 a CD, that could be a very expensive experiment."

Posted by GeeTee at July 29, 2002 09:54 AM

I own and have read almost all the books listed. It's strange that given the huge community of programmers at slashdot, that the number of books isn't really that long (I even saw a least one Microsoft Press book in there, Steve McConnell's Code Complete).

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 28, 2002 09:02 PM

Moreover, the idea of the commons helps us identify and describe the common values that lie beyond the marketplace. By insisting that citizenship trumps ownership, we can begin to develop a more textured appreciation for the importance of civic commitment, democratic norms, social equity, cultural and aesthetic concerns, and ecological needs. A language of the commons helps restore humanistic, democratic concerns to their proper place in public policy-making.

Like those women in Nigeria taking over corporate-oil offices and protesting bare-assed nude to demand their rights to their own commons (bubbling crude, black gold, Texas tea)...and all they want is a chance to work their way out of poverty, schools, jobs and loans to start businesses (Unlike the Clampets who get a house with a concrete pond). I'm trying to avoid sarcasm, because I believe that people care and would not allow this sort of thing to go on if they felt there was some way for them to change it. Just remember this, nobody has forced us to be silent, we've just agreed to be silent.

You have a voice, you have a pen, you have a freaking internet connection, make some noise, and make it LOUD!

I gotta go catch that marathon rerun of the Beverly Hillbillies on cable.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 28, 2002 10:51 AM

okay, so it looks like i'm going with one long piece. a "novella" in 24 hours.

It won't be online long, so go read it now -- I mean now. Excerpts:

he is a writer. both the wrost and best kind of man to fall for. the longer you stay together the more you wonder whether it was his words or him that you were in love with. i have this theory that i you fall for a writer because of his words, over time you will grow to hate them. the opposite is also true. hate his writing, fall for him, and six months later you'll be calling his slasherfest horror novel the next dracula or him the next bram stoker when the fucker's really a dry dean r. koontz.

he said women didn't, in fact, like that side of him. i told him some might. starting to get a little angry, he said that he thought he knew more about it than i did, and that women definitely didn't like that quality in a man. in fact, what they want--what they're really looking for--is the illusion of that man. but any time that a guy was actually like that, she'd giive him his walking papers and put him to the curb.

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 07:09 AM

"It started two years ago with a little heap in the dug out. Then he went again in the centre of the field and in the goal."

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 06:27 AM

Giblin, who retired last year, is charged with procuring a person to have illicit sexual intercourse with another person, which would carry a jail term of up to 10 years if he is found guilty.Heyndricks is charged with soliciting sexual favours from a minor, and with stopping or attempting to stop a person for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. The maximum sentence for the solicitation charge would be five years.

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 05:45 AM

On March 18, Puffer demonstrated to a county official and a Chronicle reporter how easy it was to gain access to the court's system using only a laptop computer and a wireless LAN card.

Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2002 05:30 AM

Mohammad Mansour Jabarah, 20, is supposed to have a made a blurred video in Singapore that identified targets for al-Qaeda terror attacks, according to NBC news.

Posted by GeeTee at July 27, 2002 11:20 AM

Bertelsmann can digitally print and bind a single book upon request in just two minutes. The resulting product of the Internet age is indistinguishable from the same title that rolls off the ordinary printing presses, a business that has defined the German media conglomerate for most of its 167 years.

Posted by GeeTee at July 27, 2002 11:12 AM

Your phone is a reflection of your mind.

Posted by GeeTee at July 27, 2002 11:01 AM

Toronto police committed an "absolute abuse" when they stopped a Catholic activist from handing out pamphlets with a condom attached to World Youth Day pilgrims, says lawyer Breese Davies.

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 02:55 PM

Here is the Mouse Pad Couch in my Office. We conduct meetings, work on problems, or just relax from a stressful day on it.

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 02:21 PM

"I always thought it was good for you. I never thought there was anything wrong with it" -- Caesar Barbar

The lawsuit - filed in New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx - says that McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Kentucky Fried Chicken misled customers by enticing them with greasy, salty and sugary food.

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 02:18 PM

The victim said she was in a state of shock for about a week after the assault. Then last Friday she decided to break the silence and tell her mother what had happened to her.

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 02:06 PM

...The Yale Daily News reported that Mr. LeMenager said he had gained access to the Yale site because he was curious about its security. "It was really an innocent way for us to check out the security," Mr. LeMenager was quoted as saying. "That was our main concern of having an online notification system, that it would be susceptible to people who had that information -- parents, guidance counselors and admissions officers at other schools."

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 01:51 PM

The women's demands reflected their determination to escape such grinding poverty. ChevronTexaco, they insisted, should help fund the development of the region. So, they demanded that the oil company employ 25 of their sons; install electricity and water systems in their communities; build schools, clinics and town halls; and help them build fish and chicken farms so that they can sell food to the corporation's cafeteria.

Another example of the high ethical standards of the modern corporation. Just the other day I was moaning about the $1.50 per gallon they were charging at the gas station.

Doesn't capitalism include the theory that the real costs of a product are figured into the price? That means selling something for below cost in order the screw the competitor and win market isn't allowed. How can the real "ethical" cost of the oil not include making sure the people who live on top of the oil aren't living in "tin-roofed shacks, without running water or electricity?" How can an ethical executive consider that an acceptable way to do business? Maybe congress' ethical accounting reforms should demand these factors be listed on the balance sheet.

How can American corporations ever be competitive in the global market without being able to exploit the poor for their cheap labor and natural resources? Maybe that's the real answer we should be searching for as we rethink how corporations should do business. This isn't some anti-capitalistic answer, by it's very nature capitalism must be conservationist, because if the system does not account for the true costs of products it will not be sustainable and eventually crash and burn. It's not only the ethical thing to do, it's the sensible thing to do.

Once you pull the ethical card and start waving it around, I don't think you can stop at the border. Right now, the news is filled with reports about how the unethical executives defrauded stock investors, causing investor loses of billions, but I don't think a single one of those investors is going to sleep tonight in a tin-roofed shack. Maybe we should think about the next time we pull into a gas station to fill up.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 26, 2002 07:30 AM

...under cross-examination, Markovic - the most significant witness from Mr Milosevic's inner circle to testify - appeared to support his former boss, implying he had done nothing wrong.

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 05:35 AM

Witnesses said Harris then circled and ran over him twice more, leaving the silver Mercedes-Benz sedan parked on top of him. "It was an accident," she later told news reporters.

Posted by GeeTee at July 26, 2002 05:26 AM

"I've been drinking palm wine," he said. "You shouldn't say that. But this is a democracy now. So go ahead."

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 25, 2002 06:48 PM

Newspaper reports said the family of two murdered men in the village of Abbakhel had demanded $200,000 and 20 young brides to agree to pardons for the murderers. The village council mediated a compromise by which the victims' family agreed to take eight unmarried young women and $133,000.

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 01:08 PM

Simmons, who said the robot was made female because he believes women communicate better than men, solicited drama students to teach GRACE how to act like a human so it will make people feel comfortable.

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 01:05 PM

"Would I be upset if [my son] suddenly turned up fighting for the Islamic Jihad? Sure, absolutely. Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. But there are circumstances. ... He was a smart kid, he graduated from high school early, the culture here didn't impress him, so he went out looking for something to believe in."

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 12:39 PM

I certainly think that we need more repression. I mean we need our police to be able to say, ‘You will not be drunk in the street, and if you are drunk in the street you will be taken to court, and if you’re taken to court you will be punished, and the punishment will hurt, and if you do it again the punishment will hurt even more.’

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 12:07 PM

The bill, sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer file-trading network."

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 11:43 AM

"The only evidence against them was the statement from another prisoner," a Belgian, and "that statement has been proven to be untrue, a total fabrication," he said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 10:58 AM

During the 1990's, more than 80 percent of the net gain in new jobs was not from corporate giants, but from small companies involved in a range of businesses (far broader than the dot-coms). By the end of the decade, nearly half the work force was employed in small businesses. Their efforts powered the record economic growth of the 1990's.

Wouldn't it be a good thing, If the fall out due to the current lack of confidence in big corporations and the stock market was for the government to shift policy to support the growth of small businesses? The more businesses there are, the more competitive market, the better the products, the healthier the economy (seems way too simple, there must be a catch, like how would anyone know in which one to invest?). I'm not a business wog or have any plans to get an MBA , but it seems like to me that consolidation of businesses (HP and Compaq) may create efficiency (and make it a lot easier for investors to choose which stock to buy) but it can't be good for competition (which is okay with the investor, because it makes it more likely their investment will grow regardless of how bad the management or the quality of the product). What's the point of being capitalists if we aren't going to make sure our businesses are faced with a serious and capable crowd competitors? (I bet there's a different -ism to describe an economic system that's controlled by a few large corporations-- email me).

The 90's bubble of dot coms may have exploded, but it left behind a number of improved products that would have taken many more years to create if left to the media and retail corporations that were in charge in 1989 (we'd all be logged into Microsoft Online, reading content selected carefully to sell, sell, sell). Thousands of dot coms changed the way every major corporation in America does business, started a major revolution in media, and sent the most productive economy in the world to never before seen heights, and then into a tail spin. But hang on, this spin is tossing out those with a less than a solid grip on how to create a real business and maybe that isn't a bad thing.

In the end, will we decided the 90's internet boom and bust was good or bad? I'm already thinking it was a good thing, because the irrational exuberance made a lasting difference. I never really believed all those stock options would really pay off anyway (LIAR!).

I gotta go, I'm late for my job at a huge corporation.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 25, 2002 08:08 AM

Catriona Campbell, CEO of the Usability Company (3), told a fascinating anecdote about a prototype 'accessible housing complex' built in the USA, which was supposed to be a model of accessibility. Its design features accommodated every conceivable disability, as well as being usable by the able-bodied to boot. But once the complex was built, at enormous cost, nobody wanted to live in it. The building may have catered to the common denominator between all disabled and able-bodied people, but it was less attractive as a place to live in than housing catered to specific individual needs.

Posted by GeeTee at July 25, 2002 04:26 AM

Attorney Eddie Jordan attempted to jail three New Orleans concert promoters by reasoning that (1) people come to raves; (2) people who come to raves sometimes use drugs; (3) concert promoters must know this (especially in light of the presence of "drug paraphernalia" [glow sticks and bottled water]); and so, (4) a rave must be an event that takes place "for the purpose of drug consumption" under the law.

Imagine the geemen busting up stacks of Evian bottles.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 24, 2002 10:36 PM

Imagine a car that knows if the driver is drunk. The car won't start. Ther car tells anyone who asked that it's driver is drunk. Security gates on the roads won't let the car into school zones. Fuel pumps won't give the car any gas.

Of course everyone will probably have to buy a new car.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 24, 2002 10:15 PM

When pinned down, George W. Bush said he has not taken drugs "since 1974."

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 08:46 PM

When you woke up this morning you knew that something was missing in your life. It wasn't the new car, the new job, the boyfriend or the girlfriend. But now you know: it's the Baby Jesus Butt Plug.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 08:12 PM

This site explains many of the problems common to all screwjack type lifts.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 06:30 PM

Wendy and Martin Sims exposed the fraud after hearing rumors of the impending fighter jet purchase. "We wondered how he could've amassed that much cash on a $5 a week allowance and still have enough to purchase all those comic books."

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 06:25 PM

It comes with a superior package management system called porn-get...

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 03:51 PM

He has already planned a simultaneous Leonard Cohen night in Leicester, England, for this fall, and expects to link the two events by video. A friend of Solez's in Toowoomba, Australia is planning a second spin-off party.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 03:14 PM

Given that I can't do anything about it, I thought it might be interesting to stay online as long as I can and tell you what transpires.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 03:07 PM

Students also will tour National Guard facilities, a Peco Energy training center where linemen learn to deal with high-voltage emergencies, and the cavernous First Union Center, where they will see how security officials "prevent" a Britney Spears concert from becoming what experts call a "Level 3 Mass Casualty Event."

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 02:40 PM

Having succeeded globally with cars, electronics and even fashion, it was only natural the Japanese turned their hand to trying to surpass the West with one of its favorite culinary delights - ice cream. Some of the results have been, well, interesting to say the least, as can be discovered at the Ice Cream Exhibition being held through to Sept. 30 at Namco Nanja Town in the Sunshine 60 building in Tokyo's Toshima-ku.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 11:15 AM

It provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious application is digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a Palladium platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 10:26 AM

   I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence
          is driving at
   when he writes of lust springing from
          the bowels
   or do I
   it could be the bowels of the earth
   to lie flat on the earth in spring, summer
          or winter is sexy
   you feel it stirring deep down slowly up to you
   and sometimes it gives you a little nudge in
          the crotch
   that's very sexy
   and when someone looks sort of raggedy and
          dirty like Paulette Goddard
   in Modern Times it's exciting, it
          isn't usual or attractive
   perhaps D.H.L. is thinking of the darkness
   certainly the crotch is light
   and I suppose
   any part of us that can only be seen by others
   is a dark part
   I feel that about the small of my back, too
          and the nape of my neck
   they are dark
   they are erotic zones as in the tropics
   whereas Paris is straightforward and bright
          about it all
   a coal miner has kind of a sexy occupation
   though I'm sure it's painful down there
   but so is lust
   of light we can never have enough
   but how would we find it
   unless the darkness urged us on and into it
   I am dark
   except when now and then it all comes clear
   and I can see myself
   as others luckily sometimes see me
   in a good light

          Frank O'Hara

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 08:16 AM

I'm listening very carefully and I can't hear a single bird whistling, chirping or squawking. This is unusual at this time in the morning, it normally being a cacophony. It makes me nervous, could it be they sense an earthquake, is there a some predator prowling about keeping them quiet, or is it just the dreary fog gray sky that's got the birds in a depressing silence this morning?

There's potential crackling in the air today. The mind is fresh, ready, after six hours of sleep, the thoughts are swift and clear. It hasn't been polluted by any artificial stimulants, the stomach isn't pouring out chemicals to process biological solids. The mouth tastes like minty listerine. There's the faint smell Irish spring.

It's going to be a good day.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 24, 2002 07:56 AM

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 07:02 AM

Purdy said Tuesday that he'll appeal the injunction. He said he is buying addresses like bloodycoca-cola.com or pepsideathmills.com to continue his anti-abortion protest.Purdy, who represented himself, argued that the companies don't like what he has to say and that the issue is one of free speech. He has said that he opposes the Post's abortion rights editorial position and Coke's contributions to Planned Parenthood. He said it was impossible to criticize a company without using its name.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 06:40 AM

"I would be quite happy or even confident to convince a judge and a jury that this is life imitating art and not wanton criminal damage."

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 06:14 AM

"Two days after he was killed, they coldly told me, 'Your husband has expired and so has your right to stay in this country,' " Deena Gilbey told The Post. "When I asked, 'What will happen to me?' They responded, 'You will be arrested and deported.' " She and Paul had lived in the United States for 10 years, and their children, Mason, 7, and Max, 4, were both born here. The couple had applied for green cards in 1994 but had to start the process over again when her husband changed jobs.

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 05:43 AM

Posted by GeeTee at July 24, 2002 05:37 AM

It [DOE] announced it was funding $103 million in grants to 26 laboratories to use genome science to try and make such bugs useful to humankind, part of its "Genomes to Life" program.

Nuclear waste eating critters. Why doesn't that make me confident?

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 23, 2002 10:15 PM

The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would be permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not delete files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion to sue if files are accidentally erased.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 07:53 PM

"We're not able to stem the bleeding. Breadth numbers are horrendous -- it's a complete horror show. People are disgusted and there's a total loss of confidence. The [questioning of] J.P. Morgan and Citigroup is only adding to the mistrust," said Donald Selkin, director of equity research at Joseph Stevens.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 04:12 PM

Re-creation can also be problematic. Artists must decide whether they want their works to be translated into media that don't even exist yet. In 20 years, websites written in HTML may no longer be available.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 04:07 PM

Conservatives inside the church oppose several of Williams's views. He has ordained a man who apparently was living in a homosexual relationship. Williams has been quoted as saying it's not his job to be "going around the bedroom with a magnifying glass."

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 02:31 PM

The unprecedented award of the [American combat] patch would have given Canadian soldiers the special recognition they feel they deserve for serving in the harsh, dangerous southern Afghan desert -- recognition they believe Ottawa isn't giving them.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 12:55 PM

After crunching those numbers through the algorithm, he says, its creators fed in the files of the 9-11 terrorists as a test. "The model showed 89.7 percent accuracy 'predicting' these people from rest of population," Ponemon reports.

Oddly enough, "one of the factors was if you were a person who frequently ordered pizza and paid with a credit card," Ponemon says, describing the buying habits of a nation of college students. "Sometimes data leads to an empirical inference when you add it to other variables. Whether this one is relevant or completely spurious remains to be seen, but those kinds of weird things happen with data."

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 12:34 PM

...the brightest signals arose in cooperative alliances and in those neighborhoods of the brain already known to respond to desserts, pictures of pretty faces, money, cocaine and any number of licit or illicit delights.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 12:20 PM

A Citizen investigation linked members of Joint Task Force 2, Canada's secret commando unit, to the raid and showed the robbers' arsenal included weapons stolen from the Defence Department. Mr. Bass, sentenced to seven years in prison, was paroled in March 2001 -- one year after the parole board ruled him a "walking time bomb" whose intense military training made him an "extreme" risk to the public.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 09:27 AM

This page summarizes the catalog of 338 peculiar galaxy views gathered by Dr. Halton C. Arp in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The catalog is a selection of unusual or peculiar galaxies, interacting pairs or larger groups. Arp compiled the list with photographs from the Palomar 200-inch telescope in 1966.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 09:21 AM

Federal prosecutors charged Robert Garby of Ottowa [sic] with selling illegal mod chips and pirated games through his "Kustum Komputers" business. He pled guilty in Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa to six counts of criminal code violations and copyright law infringement and was fined $17,000 and sentenced to a year of probation.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 08:49 AM

His name is Alan Greenspan. A shining beacon in this dim era of official incompetence, he's hacked his way into all of our hearts. Love him. Revere him. And ph34r him.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 08:46 AM

In the meantime, the doctor urges people to take it easy and not think too hard for long periods of time. "Take frequent relaxation breaks when you're doing things that take lots of mental focus," he recommends.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 08:20 AM

First, specially selected meat trimmings of beef and/or pork -- just like the meat you buy in your grocer's case -- are cut or ground into small pieces and placed in a mixer. When poultry hot dogs are made, poultry trimmings are used.

Posted by GeeTee at July 23, 2002 08:18 AM

The water supply on Canadian Forces passenger planes has been contaminated with E. coli, and high levels of other bacteria were found in the military's Challenger jets, including the aircraft used by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 07:47 PM

The buildings on this list were selected because they cost so much and look so awful. While we are sure that we didn't include more than a few buildings that could easily qualify for this list, we think we've done a pretty fair job of picking some real howlers.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 06:40 PM

Biodiesel is a mixture of diesel and vegetable oil. Some vehicles in Canada use soy-based diesel imported from the United States, but canola could be a cheaper alternative.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 06:25 PM

For investors wondering how to value a bordello, Mr. Harris said they should consider it a stake in a very busy five-star hotel with revenue coming purely from room fees of $120 (Australian) an hour from each guest.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 05:33 PM

He said he no longer has the moral authority to continue hearing the high-profile case, which is taking place at a specially built courthouse next to the north-end Bordeaux jail.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 05:31 PM

There once was a man who went to a computer trade show. Each day as he entered, the man told the guard at the door:

"I am a great thief, renowned for my feats of shoplifting. Be forewarned, for this trade show shall not escape unplundered."

This speech disturbed the guard greatly, because there were millions of dollars of computer equipment inside, so he watched the man carefully. But the man merely wandered from booth to booth, humming quietly to himself.

When the man left, the guard took him aside and searched his clothes, but nothing was to be found.

On the next day of the trade show, the man returned and chided the guard, saying: "I escaped with a vast booty yesterday, but today will be even better." So the guard watched him ever more closely, but to no avail.

On the final day of the trade show, the guard could restrain his curiosity no longer.

"Sir Thief," he said, "I am so perplexed, I cannot live in peace. Please enlighten me. What is it that you are stealing?"

The man smiled. "I am stealing ideas," he said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 05:03 PM

Tracy's itinerary today has the precision of a train schedule: English 101 at Mary Washington from 8 a.m. till 8:50 a.m. Office hours from 9 till 10 a.m. Another English class from 10 until 10:50 a.m. Back in the car by 11 a.m. Up I-95 to George Mason University. Another class from 12:30 p.m. till 1:20 p.m. Talk to students for a few minutes. Back in the car by 1:45 p.m. and race to Georgetown University. Grade papers and prepare for class while eating lunch. Class on Shakespeare and film from 3:15 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. Back in the car before the meter expires and head home. Then she grades more papers until midnight. Six hours later it all begins again.

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 04:43 AM

"Our data suggest that the effects of antidepressant drugs are very small and of questionable clinical significance," Kirsch et al. conclude. Given the potential side effects of SSRIs, they say, "antidepressant medication might best be considered a last resort, restricted to patients who refuse or fail to respond to other treatments."

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 04:32 AM

...Groening said in an interview. "I hope Canadians won't hold it against the show now that they know. "We were counting on Canadians feeling superior to the Simpsons as being doltish Americans but now the secret is out."

Posted by GeeTee at July 22, 2002 04:26 AM

The members got together twice a year, and graded each person in their section on ten separate criteria, using a scale of one to five. The process was called "rank and yank." Those graded at the top of their unit received bonuses two-thirds higher than those in the next thirty per cent; those who ranked at the bottom received no bonuses and no extra stock options--and in some cases were pushed out.

At Intel it's called "rank and rating." It's done once a year, everyone is grouped into three categories, 10% at the top, 80% in the middle and 10% at the bottom. People aren't ranked based on talent, instead the ranking is based on a list of major accomplishments compiled for each employee from the previous year. This is supposed to create a culture where employees judge all individual tasks on the organizational impact. A system that tries to recognizes individuals for focusing on the goals of the organization. Of course that's the description on the outside of the box, putting together the system and using it is a lot messier.

I am not defending the system used at Intel or the "rank and yank" system discussed in the article. I'm just wondering if this article by focusing on a company like Enron ends up coming to only conclusion possible about the system. It would have been a lot more interesting if the article could have compared the systems of Proctor and Gamble with another successful company that uses a "talent" based reward system.

A found this link on Matt Welch's site. I also heard the author interviewed on NPR.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 21, 2002 08:25 PM

...without even realizing it, doctors in such areas simply see their patients twice as often, monitoring their conditions ever more closely, Dr. Wennberg said. Yet he and others say there is no evidence that patients in these regions are healthier. His colleague Dr. Fisher noted that four large studies of Medicare patients, by the Dartmouth group and three others, found no improvement in mortality in areas that spend more.

Posted by GeeTee at July 21, 2002 10:22 AM

Inside the tower you will find the shaft for an old cage-like elevator. The other half of the shaft is inhabited by a wacky metal spiral staircase -- hop on and start climbing. If heights bother you, be warned that this staircase ascends the entire length of the shaft, probably 10 or more storeys. Only a single iron handrail provides protection. If you get tired or dizzy from going in circles (I've had eerie dreams of climbing these stairs), there are doorways at every floor where you can get off and explore some very cool rooms and derelict machinery. Keep in mind that these rooms are the areas where you may encounter gaping holes in the floor. There are many great views of the city skyline all the way up, too.

Posted by GeeTee at July 21, 2002 08:09 AM

...the band has never had enough money for police, addiction treatment, or mental health services. The chief says Shamattawa has received little help to create jobs.

Posted by GeeTee at July 21, 2002 07:50 AM

At about 1pm on Tuesday 16 July the following pocket atlas appears to have been stolen from Cambridge University Library Map Department.

'A prospect of the most famous parts of the world, viz. Asia Africa Europe America' 1646

*bound with:*

'England Wales Scotland and Ireland described and abridged from a farr larger volume done by John Speed'. 1627 reissued in [1646]

The latter is described as item 37 in R. A. Skelton's 'County atlases of the British Isles 1579-1703'

• We believe the volume to have a leather binding.
• It is small ca. 11 x 16 cm
• There will be a Cambridge University Library ownership stamp in the volume (on the back of the title page and elsewhere but we do not know if the maps are stamped)
• We do not believe that the maps are coloured

Posted by GeeTee at July 21, 2002 07:47 AM

They found that the change in entropy was negative over time intervals of a few tenths of a second, revealing nature running in reverse. In this case, the bead was gaining energy from the random motion of the water molecule - the small-scale equivalent of the cup of tea getting hotter. But over time intervals of more than two seconds, on overall positive entropy change was measured and normality restored.

Posted by GeeTee at July 21, 2002 04:34 AM

The TI-35 SOLAR is one of the early calculators based on the Toshiba T6974S calculator chip.

My solar powered calculator that I've dragged around for 16 years. Never needed a battery. I just checked it still figures 5 factorial is 120. In case you are wondering, I needed it to sum up a column of numbers I've been jotting down for the last few months on a scrap of crumbled paper I keep in my pocket. The numbers added up to 556. It's lower than I expected.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 20, 2002 08:54 PM

In Philip Dick's world, reality itself can be the culprit, and his current popularity suggests a willingness by readers to embrace the premise that nothing is ever what it seems to be — and that free will matters little as we make our way through life.

Posted by GeeTee at July 20, 2002 06:00 PM

The plan is to break the "monopoly of foreign office software," which we believe may be code for 'Microsoft,' and to this end the Beijing IT Industry Promotion Center announced two initiatives, "Yangfan" and "Qihang," intended to produce a Win98 level OS within a year. 18 companies and universities are worknig on them, and Yangfan 1.0 is already being deployed in government departments.

Posted by GeeTee at July 20, 2002 05:58 PM

To his mother, Mozart writes, in verse, "Yesterday, though, we heard the king of farts/ It smelled as sweet as honey tarts/ While it wasn't in the strongest of voice/ It still came on as a powerful noise." Mozart's mother wrote him in a similar vein, though not with quite so much feeling.

Posted by GeeTee at July 20, 2002 04:35 PM

On July 20, 1969, we put a couple guys on the moon. That's 33 years ago today.

I was an idiot three-year-old at the time...

Ken and I are the same age, but I don't have any memories of when I was three. I didn't think a lot about yesterday or tomorrow while I was growing up.

That puts me in the generation that grew up knowing we could hurl someone up to the moon. This generation takes for granted satellites spinning around above us, and long range probes taking pictures of Jupiter and Saturn. We take it so much for granted that it is hardly interesting anymore. Cellphones, the internet, photo quality color printers in every home, a rover driving around on the surface of Mars, and digital cameras. Don't forget global positioning that let's your rental car give you directions in a new city. It's a great world where going to moon is possible but not really necessary.

The possibilities are limitless thanks to that trip 33 years ago. I'll know that next year, even if I don't remember July 20th.

I gotta go my cellphone is ringing some classical tune from the sound track of 2001.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 20, 2002 01:03 PM

Posted by GeeTee at July 20, 2002 05:54 AM

We assembled this list with the help of many discerning people whose musical dark nights of the soul resulted in selling trips to the used record store and even the destruction of offending albums. Some contributors went so far as to level threats against other contributors whose entries were deemed inaccurate or offensive. We admire and encourage all such behavior.

Posted by GeeTee at July 20, 2002 03:59 AM

Intel ... employ 50,000 workers in the United States, whose average pay is around $70,000

I work for Intel, so I thought I'd link to a letter from our chairman of the board.

Except for the silly new security mechanisms in the lobby it's a good place to work, even if most of my stock options are drowning.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 19, 2002 09:15 PM

If you're reading this section, you're probably a musician. In that case it would be safe to assume that you have your music stored in some form, be it cassette, CD, DAT or computer audio files (.wav files). You will need to convert your music from whatever format you're using to an MP3. The CD route is the best way to go by far, so let's cover that first.

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 11:44 AM

She denied ever letting the boy touch her sexually. Other students had claimed they saw her kill the teen, hold hands with him, and sit on his lap.

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 10:30 AM

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 07:21 AM

I belong to what Richard Florida calls the "creative class." Every week, I write articles on the economy, society and politics. The news organizations that pay me aren't interested in how and when I do this as long as I meet my deadlines and pass their tests for accuracy, clarity, relevance and interest. Otherwise, I can fritter away my time doing almost anything: walking the dog, playing tennis, committing adultery. They don't care.

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 05:58 AM

What's next? Dr. Hawrylak and Dr. Sachrajda are working on a set of more complex devices with several spin transistors that will make a prototype of a quantum computer.

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 05:54 AM

"Premier Eves of Ontario has said he wants us to get married. The city clerk has said that she wants to issue the licence. It's up to Jean Chretien, and for that matter Paul Martin, to say does their vision of Canada include a million or so gays and lesbians?" Mr. Leshner, who works as a Crown attorney, said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 05:50 AM

"During the visit he would kill the patient. Afterwards he behaved in a variety of ways and had a variety of explanations for what had happened," Judge Smith said. "The way in which Shipman could kill, face the relatives and walk away unsuspected would be dismissed as fanciful if described in a work of fiction."

Posted by GeeTee at July 19, 2002 05:46 AM

Like many chief executives, she is celebrated, praised, coddled and obeyed. Bronstein is proud of how she has guided Wet Seal. Yet on a recent vacation to Hawaii, she found herself reluctant to reveal her occupation.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 03:13 PM

This pattern of censorship -- blocking the "Women in American History" section of the online Encyclopedia Britannica while allowing access to CNN.com -- can serve as a kind of Rorschach test of tyranny, speaking volumes about the psychology of a government.

"You can get a sense of what worries a regime by what sites they block," said Carin Karlekar, a senior researcher at Freedom House, a pro-democracy group. "In Saudi Arabia, the government's more interested in clamping down on personal freedom than on political freedom. But in China, they're more concerned about political subversion than personal morality, so news sites are the ones that are censored."

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 02:33 PM

Paradoxical, direct, at times unforgiving, at times humourous, and always pointing to the heart of reality - Zen stories have a special way of reaching us. They make us frown, make us laugh, make us reflect. Join us for an insightful and fun evening of Zen storytelling, theatre presentation, laughs and fruitful thoughts.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 01:09 PM

"The Postal Service had been approached by homeland security regarding Operation TIPS; however, it was decided that the Postal Service and its letter carriers would not be participating in the program at this time," the agency said in a statement issued Wednesday.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 12:47 PM

On July 4, Southwest Airlines staff prevented Gilmore from boarding a pre-paid flight from Oakland to Washington, D.C, where he intended to petition the government to alter the ID check. He then went to San Francisco International Airport and tried to purchase a similar ticket on United Airlines. Both airlines, though unable to identify any actual regulation requiring him to identify himself, prevented him from flying. United stated that they were following an unwritten regulation that had only been communicated to them orally, and which changes frequently.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 08:45 AM

A ten-year study has revealed that the gene in sperm triggers the crucial process by which an egg starts dividing to form an embryo, solving a mystery that has confounded medical science for two centuries.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 08:41 AM

It's possible the parasite has always been in the ocean, but most scientists think it somehow got there from cats--the only known carrier of the oocytes. Toxoplasma oocysts are tough enough to withstand sewage treatment, and they could get into the water from dirty kitty litter flushed down the toilet. Few of the otters in the study lived near sewage outflows, making it hard to assess this possibility. However, the researchers did find a threefold higher risk of exposure for otters living near the mouths of rivers and streams, suggesting that storm-water runoff from fields and lawns frequented by cats could be a source of oocysts. The researchers are now examining shellfish eaten by otters to determine whether they concentrate oocysts. If so, they may pose a threat to humans.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 07:28 AM

Advocates of the law point out that it is not nearly as far- reaching as conservatives would make it sound. Though popularly dubbed the "gay marriage" law in the press, the law in fact does not provide the same legal status as same-sex marriages.

Posted by GeeTee at July 18, 2002 03:31 AM

One was completely electronic—compiled by a computer, stored on digital tape and shown through a digital projector. In footage looking less like a motion picture and more like an open window onto a real world, the monsters gabbed in crisp clarity and rich tones.

Next came a traditional film reel that spent four weeks in a mall theater. With each showing, heat from the projector and dust in the air faded and degraded the reel. The difference was jarring. Radically out of focus, the film reel cast an image on the screen that jiggled and popped, as if an earthquake were rocking the projector.

Lights came up as the demonstration ended. No one spoke for several seconds.

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 05:20 PM

Meanwhile, Stan Keyes, MP for Hamilton West, suggested Canadians use the ash cover to hide from Washington until relations return to normal. Godrey, however, argued such an effort was unnecessary. "We're in Canada," he said. "Most Americans can't find us now."

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 02:18 PM

Prof Giorgos Dontas, president of the Archaeological Society of Athens and a former director of the Acropolis, likened the destruction to a "crime" and said the location of the museum was "fatal".

See also Vandals on the Acropolis.

It should be obvious that I believe Britain should retain the Elgin marbles until it is demonstrated that Greece can behave responsibly toward them -- which has not been shown. Whereas the Potlatch artifacts the British Museum is holding would go into ceremonial use as soon as they were returned to the Kwakwaka'wakw in British Columbia, and should be returned at once.

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 02:03 PM

Transmission troubles can corrupt the data of digital images and video, leaving images blurry or blotchy. Compression to save bandwidth can also degrade images. Sapiro and Bertozzi, an expert in fluid dynamics, recover lost information in its most probable form by extrapolating on the color, shading, lines, and other qualities of the region surrounding the gap.

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 01:11 PM

"I'm 39 years old .. and, yes, of course I tried it before, I mean obviously."

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 01:01 PM

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 08:58 AM

I have created an online petition for those who refuse to cooperate with President Bush's Citizens Corps TIPS, Citizens Corps Councils, NeighborhoodWatch and Police Volunteer Services.

Posted by GeeTee at July 17, 2002 05:33 AM

The letter argues that Sesame Street's mainly preschool audience is too young to contemplate the implications of HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 05:01 PM

This Web site and its associated mailing list are devoted to recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being used in new ways.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 10:42 AM

They stopped it because they had enough data to answer their question: Is it going to prevent heart disease in healthy women? The answer was no and, in fact, they were seeing some evidence of early harm. They were not saying, Stop hormone replacement therapy. The parts of the study that are looking at plain estrogen are carrying on.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 10:01 AM

Around 1963 my lessons continued when I had the great fortune to meet Louise Gould. She sat me down and had me playing triads, and triads with the octave, both hands, up and down the keyboard. She used this simple exercise to show me the cycle of fifths, and its additions, subtraction, alterations, inversions, which are the foundations of music theory. I realized that my toddler piano lessons had taught me to play without reading, to fake it, to play by ear.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 09:58 AM

Another part of the problem lies in Apple's recent "switchers" marketing to woo PC users to the Mac. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company is running 10 commercials featuring former Windows PC users who have switched to the Mac. Some of those TV ads could be interpreted as direct attacks against Windows or Microsoft.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 07:13 AM

Auerbach, the North American Elected Director of ICANN, began asking for corporate records in November 2000 shortly after he was elected to the Board. After ICANN management delayed for nine months, it granted Auerbach conditional access to corporate records if he signed a "policy" -- which the Board of Directors had not ratified -- that placed his ability to access and copy the records at the discretion of ICANN.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 06:39 AM

"It would still be illegal. It wouldn't be criminal, of course; but it would still be illegal. (The law would be) easier to apply. You would get a contravention (ticket) and you would have to pay something. I guess we would be maybe more effective, more efficient in proceeding that way," [Justice Minister Martin Cauchon] said in response to reporters' questions after a cabinet committee meeting here.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 05:07 AM

So you're lounging at home watching the heartwarming movie "Father of the Bride Part II" on TV. Actor Steve Martin is stressing. His wife and daughter are both pregnant. And then -- bam! -- up pops an advertisement superimposed over part of the TV screen.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 05:01 AM

Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 04:56 AM

The protesters want the resignation of Mr Gonzalez Macchi, who came to power in 1999 after the then president resigned following days of street rioting over a high-level assassination.

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 04:24 AM

The report said the priest, identified only as "Norbert E." had engaged in paedophile abuse "for years in [Bishop] Lehmann's diocese with the knowledge of his closest advisers".

Posted by GeeTee at July 16, 2002 04:22 AM

The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity".

Posted by GeeTee at July 15, 2002 11:11 AM

Operation TIPS, involving 1 million workers in the pilot stage, will be a national reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity. Every participant in this new program will be given an Operation TIPS information sticker to be affixed to the cab of their vehicle or placed in some other public location so that the toll-free reporting number is readily available.

Posted by GeeTee at July 15, 2002 11:07 AM

Ford said Springer's pod "didn't show a lot of interest in her, but it was still an excellent opportunity to release her.''

Posted by GeeTee at July 15, 2002 05:28 AM

If anti-depressants cannot cope with the complexities of lobster life, they are unlikely to cope with human beings.

Posted by GeeTee at July 14, 2002 02:54 PM

I had a feeling economics was what I wanted to do. I did not know if I would be good at it, but it seemed exciting to me. Is that making a fine calculation? Is that being behavioral? Is that being an economic man? It is being an economic man in a very general way. We are dealing with an uncertain future. By choosing economics, I would be going into something I liked, and I had the math. Indeed, compared to students of my generation in economics, I had a lot of math. So in a sense I was making a calculation, but it was a very loose calculation. Typically, I do not believe a young person can make a better occupation-choice calculation than that.

Posted by GeeTee at July 14, 2002 02:46 PM

On Friday, a three-judge panel ruled in an Ontario court that prohibiting gay couples from marrying is unconstitutional and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That ruling doesn't surprise Tory MLA Victor Doerksen, whose private member's bill states that Alberta will use the constitutional not-withstanding clause to opt out of any federal directive permitting gay marriages.

Posted by GeeTee at July 14, 2002 02:25 PM

Posted by GeeTee at July 14, 2002 12:11 PM

A technical feasibility study carried out during the years 1996-1997 concluded that KEO's safe and sound return to Earth in 50,000 years was possible. This means that KEO has reasonable chances of attaining its objective as that of an interplanetary missions being launched today. For this, KEO takes advantage of our present day capabilities in precision design, technological mastery of capsule re-entry and uses materials that have demonstrated their durability in nature (eg. Titanium, Tungsten).

Posted by GeeTee at July 13, 2002 06:12 AM

What makes for an enjoyable family meal? Garlic bread, according to research by Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. His team of researchers evaluated the reactions of 50 families who each sat down to a spaghetti dinner. Half of the families had garlic bread with their meals while the others did not. They found that smelling and eating garlic bread were associated with a 22.7 percent decrease in negative interactions and a 7.4 percent increase in positive ones.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 07:44 PM

Despite harsh anti-narcotics laws that call for death by hanging for drug traffickers, Malaysia does not have legislation to cover such acts as cow dung sniffing, the official said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 06:11 PM

Sesame Street will soon introduce its first HIV ( news - web sites)-positive Muppet character to children of South Africa, where one in nine people have the virus that can lead to AIDS ( news - web sites).

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 06:09 PM

The average score for Japanese examinees in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) stands at 513 out of the total 667 points possible. The score ranks 144th among the 156 nations and regions where the TOEFL is regularly conducted.

Visit engrish.com for proof.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 04:15 PM

This table lists the age when people of various sexualities can legally have sex right around the world. Some areas call this the age of sexual consent; others the age of consent; and even others, the age at which one cannot be convicted for "statutory rape" (also age of protection and age of sexual maturity).

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 04:12 PM

In a unanimous ruling, the panel of three judges said that prohibiting gay couples from marrying violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 04:08 PM

"This is the first time I understand the birth of a child has been used in a pornographic movie and so we are wanting to tread very carefully in making sure we are acting within the framework of the legislation," Ms Pakura said. "One of the things we will be doing is talking to the Family Court, if we need to, and see what our options are."

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 03:49 PM

The 12 soldiers landed on Perejil island just off the Moroccan coast Thursday. The island, which is a half-mile in diameter, has belonged to Spain since 1668, but is claimed by Morocco. It lies about three miles away from Ceuta, one of two Spanish city enclaves along Morocco's northern coast.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 03:13 PM

By now the marchers, several hundred or so were singing and foot slogging past my table. They were so close that, fired up by the thought of any group blindly stupid enough to display symbols of the most bloodthirsty regime in modern times shouldn't be treated politely. On top of that I spotted black flags fluttering over the marchers. The symbol of the Nihilists. They were very active at the turn of the 20th century throwing bombs at public figures and institutions in hopes of creating perfect anarchy and an end to organized government. Hey, one of them started the first world war by assassinating an Austrian Prince and they had quite a hand in paving the way for the Bolshevik revolution.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 11:51 AM

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 11:03 AM

The NextCard home page still encourages people to sign up for the Internet credit card, but the feds, who seized its failed NextBank subsidiary last February, are advising about 800,000 Visa cardholders that their plastic is no longer good.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 09:53 AM

Email was once touted as the premier messaging system of the paperless office and a futuristic paperless world. Not only has this paperless Utopia failed to materialize, but one nation in particular is taking it backward a step or two. But it does have its reasons. China has introduced a hand-delivered email system in which a person can write an email that gets sent to the post office, printed out and put in an envelope there and delivered through snail mail to the final recipient. This is largely because a sizeable chunk of the populous nation still lacks access to the internet. The service will cost a bit more than standard letter postal rates, and messages will be limited to four pages. There are similar services in the U.S., but they are all private companies and tend to cater to mass-marketers and bulk-mailers.

Posted by GeeTee at July 12, 2002 09:43 AM

Keith Hellawell, Britain's former "drugs czar," has resigned his job as a government adviser over the move. He said downgrading the dangers of marijuana will lead to more drug use.

Posted by GeeTee at July 11, 2002 04:22 PM

Posted by GeeTee at July 11, 2002 03:55 PM

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.


Write, for example, 'The night is shattered,
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Posted by GeeTee at July 11, 2002 03:42 PM

Pretend it's the day after the election, and the votes are in. Bush got 49 percent, Gore got 46 percent, and Nader hit the 5 percent jackpot (not gonna happen). Do you really believe the Democrats are going to smack their foreheads and say, "Oh, my God, let's move to the left and snap up that 5 percent!" Don't be an idiot. The Dems will look at the numbers and say, "Let's move to the right and try to peel some of that 49 percent off Bush." If Gore loses by less than the percentage Ralph picks up, we'll all be watching the Dems tack right, not left.

Posted by GeeTee at July 11, 2002 04:42 AM

Italian websites which offer Virgin Mary-themed pornography are being shut down for blasphemy in a move by the country's strict Catholic authorities.

Posted by GeeTee at July 11, 2002 03:31 AM

Koester decried not only the quantity but the quality, saying "ageing hippies" vastly outnumber "pert young things" taking advantage of the park's lenient rules on attire.

Posted by GeeTee at July 11, 2002 02:48 AM

In further embarrassment for Mr Cheney, a video has surfaced showing the vice president taking part in a promotional video for Andersen, which was found guilty of shredding documents during the collapse of energy giant Enron. Shot in 1996, the video, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, shows Mr Cheney saying: "I get good advice, if you will, from their people based upon how we're doing business and how we're operating over and above the just sort of normal by-the-book auditing arrangement."

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 07:49 PM

This file permits the assessment of recursive queries. A remade movie may have multiple ancestors, and a movie may have multiple successors.

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 04:00 PM

...now finger access to the coin will be limited to special occasions, says Kelly Masse, the hockey hall's manager of corporate and media relations.

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 10:28 AM

Does anyone on the Politech list want to take a crack at locating one ofthese files with a hidden message? Extra credit is given if the hiddenmessage can be decrypted! According to USA Today, the files are locatedat ebay.com and azzam.com.

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 09:44 AM

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 09:36 AM

"A woman has to bring four men witnesses confirming violence against her by her husband," Irani said. "How is a woman in Iran expected to keep four men in her bedroom to witness her husband beating her?"

Why was apartheid the subject of global outrage, but women being treated as inferior beings simply a religious disagreement? There are more women than black people!

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 04:49 AM

"If not now, when in the world are we going to do it? ... And if not in this place, where?" Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, asked in urging approval.

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 04:20 AM

"We did all the things you're supposed to do," said Cody Oliver, Gene's business partner in peer-to-peer search technology gonesilent.com. "We got him on Prozac; we connected him to the suicide hotlines. He promised he wouldn't do anything drastic. But now he's gone. It's a really rough time."

Posted by GeeTee at July 10, 2002 04:00 AM

The increased popularity of SmarterChild also committed company resources to more of a publishing model than to its primary mission of developing software for IM bots. "You put something out publicly and it gets 8 million users, you have a responsibility," he said. "It's not our business, and all of a sudden we had a responsibility to serve this user base...It was a distraction for a relatively small company."

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 12:26 PM

Why is this important? What can we infer? Well it goes like this - there comes a point when our communication ability limits our creativity. Our creativity becomes bottled-up and constrained. This applies to all intelligent entities and networks when the volumetric thinking capability is far, far greater then the ability to communicate.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 12:15 PM

Gagne was asked how people became members of the Rockers. He explained members had to rise through the ranks. "Some set bars on fire," he testified. "Some kill."

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 11:28 AM

"It's very difficult to involve yourself in combat operations if your adversary isn't there," said British spokesman Col. Ben Curry. "When we came in we thought it would be a combat operation but it's been more of a deterrent."

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 10:08 AM

The research, published today, showed 69% of those fired for abusing their internet connections were surfing for pornography. The next most common causes were web chatrooms and personal emails.

The research suggests that, if you feel the need to access porn on the company computer, you are best off doing it when none of your colleagues can see: 40% of all misuse complaints originated from co-workers.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 08:08 AM

So I post an innocent bug report on the following subject: Adobe Forums - Can't install Acrobat 5.05 without System Folder.

As usual, it goes wrong.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 07:48 AM

The most delicate issue of all, again carefully skirted by the authors of the report, is the part that Islam plays in delaying and impeding the Arab world's advance towards the ever-receding renaissance that its intellectuals crave. One of the report's signed articles explains Islam's support for justice, peace, tolerance, equilibrium and all good things besides. But most secularists believe that the pervasive Islamisation of society, which in several Arab countries has largely replaced the frightening militancy of the 1980s and early 1990s, has played a significant part in stifling constructive Arab thought.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 06:35 AM

The 16-year-old boy became involved in a scuffle with officers after his father was stopped over a minor motoring offence.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 06:18 AM

Most office electronics use the universal power symbol: a vertical line inside a circle. But on some, the line pops through the top. Some buttons are illuminated, some not. Some share real estate with indicator lights. Some foreswear the circle-and-line altogether for a picture of a plug, or a lightning bolt. And most look completely different from the indicator icons in software that increasingly control networked office equipment.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 05:50 AM

When I balked at paying to park my car at what seemed like a glorified motel, the clerk winked that if I left early the next morning perhaps I could leave the car in the restaurant parking lot, where parking was usually limited to one hour. Then she explained that the Golden Arch was a four-star hotel. I felt like adding that it was attached to a one-star restaurant but thought better of it.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 05:16 AM

He said, "There are two things I know I can't do while I'm working here: smoke pot or make love to a woman." Was that woman me? I closed my eyes for a second and imagined I was, pictured him stepping between my dangling legs, taking my face in his hands, and kissing me. I opened my eyes, unkissed.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 05:05 AM

...Ottawa insists there is no danger of having to put public services on the negotiating table and says it will make no commitments involving health, public education, social services or culture.

Free trade only works well between countries of comparable economic philosophies -- this is why Canada got screwed by going into free trade with the US and why it got ultra-screwed when Mexico was added to the equation. If companies can freely relocate to areas where minimum wage is under a buck an hour, of course they will. It's completely sane behavior for them to do so, and if they don't, they run a high risk of extinction through altruism. Didn't anybody hear the story about the scorpion and the frog?

Free trade between Canada and Europe, sure, the attitudes are adequately similar. Free trade between Canada and China... I don't see how that can be expected to work. Considering how irresponsibly trade with China already works out.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 04:47 AM

...brain activity in the people who continually played games did not recover in the periods when they weren't playing games, the research showed.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 04:36 AM

It quoted Mark Williams, a member of the elite SO19 firearms unit, as saying police were struggling to contain the phenomenon. "We are just about holding the line, but are close to bursting," he said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 09, 2002 03:44 AM

Although software would probably need to be customised to local linguistic and legal requirements, sharing these eGovernment tools could lead to across-the-board improvements in efficiency of the European public sector. According to another report published in the European Information Technology Observatory, EU public sector expenditures on eGovernment are set to rise by 28% to E 6.6 billion this year.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 12:43 PM

To make Quake work for a blind player, the team had to create a world of aural cues that evoked the complex visual world of Quake. When a hallway comes up on the right, for example, the player can hear a slight rushing of air off to the right. Other things in the game - objects like guns or competing players - were programmed to give off characteristic sounds, their direction indicated by their relative volume in the ears. For their version, a pair of headphones are important.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 12:29 PM

"All of a sudden we were blocked. Our main access was blocked," said Cree chief George Wapachee. "We had about 350 people here to evacuate by road and we couldn't do anything. We were literally just trapped."

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 11:25 AM

Most of these infected men perceived themselves to be at low risk of being infected, despite having engaged in frequent high-risk sex like unprotected anal intercourse, said Duncan MacKellar, an epidemiologist from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which conducted the study.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 11:16 AM

Dr. Douglas Black, a recent graduate from the University of Toronto, and web site developer says, "I registered this name because I am Canadian and want to develop a Canadian business directory and on-line meeting place for Canadian business people." Robert R. Merhige, Jr., a retired U.S. Judge and former World War II fighter pilot, disagreed and instead found that Mr. Black had "no legitimate interest" in the domain name and registered it in "bad faith."

I'm Canadian and I can't even drink beer. Go, Dr. Black, stomp Molson's instep!

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 08:43 AM

...Wallace still hungered for recognition, and in January 2000, he decided to stress-test Alice by entering her in the annual Loebner Prize competition, in which artificial-intelligence developers from around the world pit their programs head to head before a panel of judges, who rank them based on how ''lifelike'' they are. The contest is both well known and controversial within the tight circle of A.I.; winning programs are closely studied by both academics and corporate centers like Sprint Labs. Up against competitors from major corporations and well-financed universities, Alice won. It was, officially, the most human robot in the world. Too exhausted to celebrate, Wallace returned to his motel and slept clutching his award medallion.

I tried out Alice this morning and found her totally incoherent and obviously a bot.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 08:23 AM

"There were questions about how many other women I had sex with before I was married," Mentuck said of the examination under oath by a male lawyer acting on Ottawa's behalf. Mentuck was also asked at the fact-finding hearing last month whether he had oral sex with his wife, he said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 06:39 AM

...unless there's a commission to lead the SEC, and a competent staff to carry out its dictates, it doesn't matter who's in charge.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 06:06 AM

The company told The Wall Street Journal that its accounting practice meet generally accepted standards and that it also counts co-payment amounts as expenses, meaning the practice does not effect its net income.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 05:21 AM

Access-to-Information documents reveal that every distributor, importer and processor of semen inspected over the past few months had deficiencies. So far, 21 inspection reports have been obtained; the remaining 106 facilities either have yet to be inspected or are in the midst of it.

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 05:15 AM

"The big problem now is, who are the real parents of the twins?"

Posted by GeeTee at July 08, 2002 05:10 AM

Place half a tea spoon full of sea salt into the Nori and fill the container with water. While leaning over a sink, tilt your head sideways and slightly insert the spout (outlet) into one nostril. Slowly lift the Nori so the salt water flows into the nostril. Important: Your mouth must stay open! The salt water will flow through the nasal passage and come out of the other nostril.

Posted by GeeTee at July 07, 2002 10:58 AM

Among other things, the province proposes recognizing First Nations with municipal-style governments only. In other words, sweeping powers like granting citizenship or running a justice system would not be granted. But for most of B.C.'s aboriginal leaders, the idea of treating their communities as town or cities is unacceptable. On Friday, Nault agreed with them.

Posted by GeeTee at July 07, 2002 09:09 AM

On Friday, the federation confirmed that it has accepted the findings [that hockey was born in Montreal]. It wants to put a plaque or some other historical marker on the site -- which is now a four-storey parking garage at the corner of Stanley and Drummond streets.

Posted by GeeTee at July 07, 2002 09:04 AM

Elliott says the decision could even have implications in Canada, where policy makers have long maintained that that such rights as the right to health care, can't be enforced by the courts.

Posted by GeeTee at July 07, 2002 09:00 AM

Neotame was approved after the FDA reviewed more than 113 animal and human studies, some of which were designed to detect any cancer-causing, reproductive or neurological effects. The agency said it concluded from the studies that neotame was safe for human consumption.

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 08:43 AM

It has a special role in the third world because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer.

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 08:41 AM

Visitors to the site are being automatically redirected to images for a company offering free lifetime access to hardcore pornography.

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 08:39 AM

His death follows the killing of the Afghan aviation minister and an assassination attempt on the country's defence minister.

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 05:58 AM

[Ann] Landers may not have entertained questions about shooting beer up your butt or fucking your sister, but she didn't have to. She made it possible for a freak like me to answer those questions.

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 05:19 AM

Maybe the reason his bandleading stands out so is that, for all his joy in language, it best articulates his deepest compulsion, which is to reject a corrupt present without wallowing in a romanticized past.

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 05:15 AM

In September, though, this little group will need a new leader. Catherine is moving back to her native Canada to begin the ultimate act of practical feminism: She is going to medical school so she can add her young face to the graying population of abortion providers. This decision feels as natural to her as the French she still speaks with her family. And perhaps it is also a way of making good on the help she received a decade ago, when she needed an abortion at the age of 14. "I came to this work feeling like my life had been saved by this procedure," she says, "and I've made my life my thank you."

Posted by GeeTee at July 06, 2002 05:10 AM

"Track 49 Security Personnel, who reacted very promptly and very professionally, succeeded to neutralize the terrorist and that was the end of the event," said Sneh.

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 03:43 PM

"About-Face aims to combat negative and distorted images of women. And its Gallery of Offenders names names. But the site comes with a caution: 'Extreme sarcasm. Enter at your own risk.' "

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 03:37 PM

Twenty-nine engineering students got 0, after professors caught them cheating on essays about professional ethics.

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 02:25 PM

Arab women, the report found, are almost universally denied advancement. Half of them still cannot read or write. The maternal mortality rate is double that of Latin America and four times that of East Asia.

I'm all for invading them too!

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 10:07 AM

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 10:02 AM

None of the countries identified in the document as possible staging areas have been formally consulted about playing such a role, officials said, underscoring the preliminary nature of the planning.

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 05:00 AM

This product is made from the ivory-like nuts of the tagua palm tree. People in forest communities harvest tagua nuts without damaging the trees or forest. By making and wearing your own tagua bead necklaces, you help forest-based gatherers earn a living by managing the forest instead of cutting it down.

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 03:50 AM

Shakir spent several months in a high security prison in Brooklyn without a single charge laid against him, after being scooped in the post-September 11th sweep of more than 1000 people, mostly men of Arabic and Muslim descent.

This is old news in a sense, but it does raise the question: what's happened to the rest of the people picked up? Also:

The Canadian government was extremely inactive in advocating on behalf of one of their citizens, claiming a waiver he had signed indicated he had no interest in their assistance - despite the suspect circumstances of his arrest and his treatment by US federal officers and prison guards, of which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had repeatedly been made aware. After pressure from OCAP and concerned public supporters, a consular official made one single visit to Shakir in jail.

Though this article has clear leftist slant, they are reporting the facts correctly inasmuch as other major media corroborate. The Canadian government did squat for this guy, and never indicated why they were being such ignorant chickensuckers. This should have provoked huge public outcry.

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 03:45 AM

Engel's lawyer has pleaded for acquittal, pointing out that the Hamburg state court last week upheld arguments that such reprisal killings were not explicitly outlawed under rules of war in 1944. The lawyer, Udo Kneip, argued that the prisoners died an "honorable death."

Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 03:32 AM

Another potential problem for computer clocks is the servers they sync with. Both Microsoft and Apple operating systems default to time servers operated by the respective companies. How sure are we that those servers are correct?

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 08:02 PM

Here at BookCrossing.com you'll find tens of thousands of book reviews, book ratings, and book recommendations, because each time a book changes hands our members can leave journal entries telling the world of their experiences. Our LeaderBoard has Book Lists that reflect the book trading activities of our members, showing the recently released books, the recently found books, and the most traveled books.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 02:55 PM

That's right. Jism. Lovely word, really. In fact, it is a perfect word. Like the word "cake", or "cheese". Jism. And despite its perfection, it is rarely used, instead thrown to the obscure corners of the English language, championed only by the beat poets and Kurt Vonnigut's of this world. Instead we are confronted by harsh and ugly words. Spunk. Cum. Even the proper term, semen, seems somehow innapropriate.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 02:42 PM

Great for function testing, for emergency connectivity, and for just keeping your users in line.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 02:26 PM

SpaceDev has what you've been looking for, at a price you can afford. If you are looking for a reliable, low-cost space solution, contact us today.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 01:56 PM

Space colonies would have stronger restrictions on technology, particularly gray goo, than Earth. After all, the whole purpose of their existence is to survive such problems. And if one space colony had insufficient safeguards, then only they would face the consequences, leaving the other colonies to learn from their mistake.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 01:53 PM

"From the moment the State of Israel has "From the moment the State of Israel has the capability to launch a satellite into orbit around the earth at a height of hundreds of kilometers, it established [its] capability to launch, by means of a missile, a payload to any location on the face of the earth," says the head of the Asher Institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Prof. Moshe Gelman, in the wake of the launch of the Ofek 5 satellite.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 01:48 PM

I have always believed in the future because I have faith that the nature of humans is good and that evil is unnatural and the results of survival instincts.

Posted by Shad Muegge at July 04, 2002 01:36 PM

"He says that he was deeply moved about all of the people who have suffered abuse at the hands of the Church. So we feel it's only natural that we should reach out to him to help us move the whole issue forward, and have a better response from the bishops than we have had."

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 01:29 PM

Only 36 per cent of the 2.1 million eligible voters participated. Of the 763,480 voters who mailed in their ballots, an overwhelming majority agreed with the referendum's eight principles, ranging from protecting private-property rights to wiping out tax exemptions for natives.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 01:15 PM

"At this time, there's no reason to believe the incident is terrorist-related," said Lt. Horace Frank, an LAPD spokesman. Information is still sketchy and the investigation is still in its earliest stages, he said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 01:10 PM

What this also reinforces is that every judge that has looked at the DMCA's anti-circumvention sections has thought they're perfectly grand. DMCA opponents now have four obvious choices:
1. Wait for a better test case
2. Convince Congress to amend the DMCA (fat chance):
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45522,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52602,00.html
3. Incite violent revolution
4. Get used to it
-Declan

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:59 PM

On July 4, 2002, amateur detectives and Zodiac-case enthusiasts from around the country will be gatheringfor a first-of-its-kind event: an all-amateur "task-force meeting" at Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo,Calif. The purpose? To share ideas, information and theories about the unsolved Zodiac crimes.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:49 PM

West said his research indicates that unless consumers complain publicly and loudly about the promiscuous passing around of their e-mail addresses, spam will make the mailboxes of most Internet users virtually unusable within the next six to nine months ... "a year if we're lucky."

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:45 PM

Peter Gill, who had sex with a juror during his murder trial, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison Tuesday for obstruction of justice.

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Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:39 PM

A Los Angeles police spokesman said someone opened fire and killed another individual near a ticket counter, then shot several other people before the gunman was killed by security personnel.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:15 PM

The cans should increase in value, too, as they are becoming more rare. At least 45 of the original 90 cans have exploded.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:03 PM

In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where experts hoped the epidemic had reached a "natural limit" beyond which it could not grow, HIV is infecting as many as 39 percent of adults in some countries, according to UNAIDS, the international agency charged with monitoring the disease.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 12:00 PM

"Hey, want some free condoms?"

Amy Pettit and Cyndee Clay will call these words dozens of times before 5 a.m., when they turn in for the night. Like children gathering around the ice cream truck, sex workers come running.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 11:13 AM

"Nobody has to do anything as a result of this decision by our synod," Ingham said. "It's not a coercive motion. It's a permissive motion."

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 10:50 AM

All the gay people get together, like all the Jewish people get together. I mean, yeah, we meet on Thursday.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 10:23 AM

The findings suggest that Viagra and related drugs like tadalafil and vardenafil, set to hit the market in a few months, should have the greatest effect on women who have large Skene's glands and heaps of PDE5. Trials of Viagra in women have so far had mixed results. Some researchers speculate that this is because the women tested had too broad a range of sexual problems, from not reaching orgasm to not wanting sex at all. Jannini's work suggests that a woman's anatomy might also make a difference.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 10:08 AM

The layers of irony in Palladium only deepen when you explore the name further. Greek legends say her statue fell from sky, directly from Heaven. Microsoft could only wish for such divine intervention after a series of hacker and denial-of-service attacks showed just how vulnerable its IIS is. Palladium was said to keep Troy safe as long as it stood protected, but readers of Ovid and other poets will know the statue was stolen by at least half a dozen characters in Greek mythology. Palladium did not represent security, but served as a symbol of just how insecure something as priceless as the statue could be. Today, that statue would be an enterprise database.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 09:40 AM

"This fossil fills in a huge (20-million-year) gap in the fossil record. It is a link, if you like, which is no longer missing."

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 05:43 AM

The prominences are gigantic loops of magnetic fields that emerge from below the Sun's surface. As they rise, they become filled with trapped, superhot gas that is heated to many millions of degrees.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 05:41 AM

Virtually all the stars out to about 100 light-years distant have been surveyed. Of these 1,000 or so stars, about 10% have been found to possess planetary systems. So, with about 300 billion stars in our galaxy, there could be about 30 billion planetary systems in the Milky Way alone; and a great many of these systems are very likely to include Earth-like worlds, say researchers.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 05:37 AM

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact," [Councilman Ed Thomas of Denver] said. "I think history will prove this to be folly. I felt that at that time [when the resolution was passed] and I still feel that way. We've lost our collective minds if we're doing this kind of thing."

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 05:32 AM

...the US has directed that all web hosting countries around the world not to allow any website having contents and news realted [sic] to Jihad, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 05:17 AM

George Eustice, campaign director of "the no campaign," responded that "people really need to lighten up a bit," and added that he does not plan to cut the Hitler sequence from the ad.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 05:14 AM

...on charges of entering the United States to attend a flight training seminar without the proper visa, the FBI said.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 04:50 AM

"This act of wanton vandalism is utterly deplorable, and I find such behavior deeply saddening," Alderman Michael Oliver said. "Whatever one's views on Baroness Thatcher's politics, she is a unique and important part of the recent history of our country."

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 04:48 AM

"I Just Want to See His Face"--that song had a big impact on me, particularly learning how to sing in that high falsetto, the way Jagger does. When he sings like a girl, I go crazy. I said, "I've got to learn how to do that." I couldn't really do it until I stopped smoking. That's when it started getting easier to do. "Shore Leave" has that, "All Stripped Down," "Temptation." Nobody does it like Mick Jagger; nobody does it like Prince. But this is just a tree of life. This record is the watering hole. Keith Richards plays his ass off. This has the Checkerboard Lounge all over it.

Posted by GeeTee at July 04, 2002 04:35 AM

The Mastoi tribe called a meeting of the tribal council, which ordered the girl to be raped to avenge their tribal honor. The teen-ager said she was taken to a hut and assaulted as hundreds of Mastois stood outside laughing and cheering.

Might be time to invade Pakistan.

Posted by GeeTee at July 03, 2002 12:03 PM

It's free! Click Daily -- Feed an abused, neglected or abandoned animal now!

Posted by GeeTee at July 03, 2002 11:41 AM

Such startlingly lifelike projections are so compelling a technology -- as we saw when R2-D2 emitted his "Help me, Obi-Wan" hologram of Princess Leia 25 years ago in the original Star Wars -- that it's difficult to imagine a future in which they're not ubiquitous. It's the present that's the problem. Until now, holograms have been little more than second-rate gimmicks, thanks to the fact that holographically creating anything more than small, washed-out images has proved exceedingly expensive and time-consuming. But that's about to change. Zebra Imaging, a six-year-old startup in Austin that created the Thunderbird holograms (as well as another for the P2000, one of Ford's experimental hydrogen-powered vehicles), is but one of several companies refining new techniques for producing life-size holograms on the fly, using both real and computer-generated images.

Posted by GeeTee at July 03, 2002 11:18 AM

Officials are reportedly perplexed as to how Falun Gong had the knowledge and equipment needed to intercept a satellite broadcast. There was speculation sect followers had equipped a vehicle to avoid notice.

Posted by GeeTee at July 03, 2002 11:16 AM

"Life is cheap here," he mutters. He displays boxes and boxes of seized high-tech gear. Even personnel at the bottom of the cartel food chain have Israeli night-vision goggles, ICOM radio frequency scanners, and Magellan GPS handhelds.

Posted by GeeTee at July 02, 2002 09:52 PM

Since June 18, 669 kilograms of radioactive blueberries have been seized and destroyed.

Posted by GeeTee at July 02, 2002 09:27 PM

Psychiatrists plan to use the virtual environment to convince patients that their hallucinations are not real experiences, and that they suffer from an illness that requires treatment. They also hope that confronting patients with their own psychoses in this way will help when drug therapy fails, teaching them to ignore hallucinations in real life, just as virtual reality is already helping patients with phobias about spiders or heights.

Posted by GeeTee at July 02, 2002 11:53 AM

Oystein Dahle, retired vice president of Exxon for Norway and the North Sea, observes, "Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the ecological truth."

Posted by GeeTee at July 02, 2002 11:51 AM

In a country where the average wage is around $100 a month and Western consumer goods are highly desirable, the price gulf between ``real'' and pirated versions of software, music or films remains a significant factor. ``When I told my children I was looking for a video in a shop, they told me I was mad,'' said Marina, a university teacher in Moscow. ``They said `Why pay all that money when everyone else will buy copies ?'''

Posted by GeeTee at July 02, 2002 11:14 AM

Buddha: Visionary. Sage. Godhead. Out-of-home venue? Officials in the Chinese city of Leshan have decided to turn the city's world-famous Buddha statue into an advertising vehicle, according to a report in The Week. Plans call for a gigantic billboard to be placed between the feet of the statue, which, at 230 feet, is the tallest of its kind in the world. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which in 1996 designated the statue a protected World Heritage site, opposes the plan for some reason or other. The Great Buddha of Leshan was carved into a hillside 1,300 years ago.

Posted by GeeTee at July 02, 2002 10:15 AM

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 05:06 PM

"If I had to do it all over again, I'd just let it rip," Mr. Gore told the group of 60 supporters at a breakfast speech this morning, according to a Gore aide who attended the private session. "To hell with the polls, the tactics, and all the rest. I would have poured out my heart and my vision for America's future."

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:49 AM

The administration wants to reduce the payments from the fund by covering fewer sites. To do that it would shift the costs of further work to the government's general accounts, paid for by all taxpayers. Congressional critics have said this amounts to abandoning the precept that "the polluter pays," on which the Superfund program was founded.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:43 AM

Reports on the number of people killed or hurt ranged widely and could not immediately be confirmed. All a U.S. military spokesman acknowledged was that four civilian casualties had been airlifted to hospital. A provincial spokesman said about 40 people were killed and 70 others were hurt.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:41 AM

The invention inserts what the inventors call a mood analyzer into the system. It gathers information from the way callers answer voice prompts or use the touch-tone buttons when asked for information like an account number, reservation code or customer number. For systems using voice, a speech-recognition program would scan for voices full of stress or annoyance. It would listen for rapid speech, stuttering or other patterns that might indicate anger. It would also compare a caller's vocabulary against a list of keywords, looking for mood giveaways.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:37 AM

Since drawing software typically has a purely graphical user interface, blind users have had only limited success in using this software. This is due to the difficulty which users have with data input (e.g., using a mouse) and the inability of traditional drawing software to translate graphical data output in a way that screen access programs can interpret.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 05:31 AM

Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping proteges, the Planets. This has enraged representatives of the avant-garde, experimentalist composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his group's album clearly sounds uncannily like 4'33", the silence composed by Cage in his prime.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 05:19 AM