Tuesday, September 16, 2003|
Bad taste condom order cancelled (Reuters). Reuters - A plan to provide prison inmates with a bulk order of fruit-Flavoured condoms was in bad taste and has been cancelled, the cabinet minister in charge of prisons in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba has told the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper. [Yahoo! News - Most Emailed] lj:) Pleeeze. Sorry boyz, but the flav-raincoat order's off. Get back to your standard debauchery and be safe inside... 11:25:54 PM 
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'Irreplaceable' bikes lost in blaze. A massive blaze at the National Motorcycle Museum has destroyed 650 vintage bikes and caused damage estimated at £8 million. [ITN Online - Top Stories] lj:) Argg! Total bummer 11:23:39 PM
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lj:) In other times, the technology advances of the phone, cable boxes, electric meters, all of these technologies had hackers "ala phreaks" that were content for the most part to rip off the service, get something for free and fool the system. Today's hackers building things like MSBlast, Slammer, Nimda, etc., are not the same. These people do hurt other people and cause enormous disruption. They are fucking scum and should be punished accordingly. Be careful when you align behind something like "hurting Microsoft" or "getting the industry to take security seriously", that is Nobel, but achieved through improvement in products, not dropping bombs in people's SUV's gas tank because they are "gas guzzlers". Prosecute and neuter with extreme prejudice. Enough already. 11:20:35 PM
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They barnstormed their way around Europe in the early ’60s, playing for packed houses the same music that barely got a ripple of attention in the United States. Now, two generations later, in the Congressionally-decreed “year of the blues,” music fans can witness performances by the best and brightest talents of the blues genre taking the continent by storm. Read more... 11:07:18 PM
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Scientists are trying to find out what caused two enormous squids, one of them 40 feet long, to wash up dead on Spain’s northern coast this week. “It’s not a natural death and it’s not the Prestige,” Luis Laria, president of marine protection agency CEPESMA said, referring to a massive oil spill from the Prestige tanker late last year. He declined to speculate on the cause. Read more at MSNBC... 11:05:30 PM
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Microsoft Registers Options for Workers (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday registered to sell as many as 635 million "underwater" stock options to JP Morgan Chase Bank, as part of the software company's new stock-compensation program for employees. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 7:34:46 PM
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McNealy: Computing prices to fall. Customers are paying up to 10 times what they should to buy and run computers, but a correction will come soon, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy tells conventioneers. [CNET News.com - Front Door] lj:) I am pretty sure that reduction comes when Sun and Oracle go away... 7:34:07 PM
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