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

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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