This is so wrong yet funny. Who let their kids be part of this?

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes

]Google Desktop Search might just be too good. Using the new
]software, I was able to bypass user names and passwords that
]secure Web-based e-mail programs and view personal messages sent
]and received on public PCs.

]Using Google's new software on a shared computer at the Google
]booth at the Digital Life trade show floor I was able to easily
]search for, find, and read private Yahoo e-mail sent on the
]computer by previous users earlier in the day.

]Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, told
]me she wasn't surprised. "This is not a bug, rather a feature,"
]she says. Google always intended people to be able to index and
]search Web-based e-mail viewed and composed on PC, she says.
]Google Desktop Search is not intended to be used on computers
]that are shared with more than one person, she say.

She specifically said it was not intended for shared computers.

Google Desktop Search: Security Threat (The other side)

]It's bizarre when you think about it: At the moment, it's easier
]for most PC users to find information in the billions of pages t
]hat make up the Web than it is to find it on their own hard
]drives. That's because Windows' built-in search tools are so
]crude, and Google is so good. But with Google's new Desktop
]Search utility, help is at hand--because you can now use Google
]to search your drive.

]It's a completely Googlesque search experience, which means it's
]fast, uncluttered, and accurate. And because Desktop's just
]another kind of Google search, you can quickly hop between
]results on your own system and ones on the Web, in newsgroups,
]and in other Google repositories.

]while it's extremely cool, it's not perfect. For one thing, it
]can't index every type of file--for instance, it doesn't handle
]the e-mail program we use here at PC World, Lotus Notes. (Too bad-
]-Notes' built-in search tools are nearly as annoying as
]Windows'.)

]At the moment, at least, it's also short on advanced features.
]For example, it doesn't let you limit results to files created
]within a certain date range. (Even Windows search does that.)

]Then there's something my colleague Tom Spring has blogged a
]about: "This utility is so good that it finds stuff you might not
]want found, such as e-mails and chat transcripts."

Google's Desktop Search: First Impressions

] The English High Court today gave UK ISPs just 14 days to
] disclose the names and addresses of individuals the music
] industry claims have offered "massive" numbers of songs
] on P2P networks without permission.
]
]
] The order, made by Mr. Justice Blackburne, follows a
] request from UK music trade association the British
] Phonographic Industry (BPI). Earlier this week, it warned
] it would begin legal proceedings against anyone offering
] music without authorisation, beginning with a list of 28
] people it claims are among the worst offenders.

Identify file-sharers, judge tells UK ISPs | The Register

] The Justice Department will likely appeal a court ruling
] that declared unconstitutional a Patriot Act provision
] allowing secret and unchallengeable searches of Internet
] and telephone records

]Ashcroft, in the Netherlands to meet with European Union
]officials, said he would study the decision upon returning to
]Washington, but "it's almost a certainty it will be appealed."

]"We believe the act to be completely consistent with the United
]States Constitution," he told reporters.

]While Marrero called national security of "paramount value" and
]said the government "must be empowered to respond promptly and
]effectively" to threats, he also called personal security equal
]in importance and "especially prized in our system of justice."

Secret Search Ruling Appeal Likely

] Customers of British cable firm NTL were subjected to a
] barrage of profanity after a malicious hacker or
] disgruntled employee changed the company's telephone
] service message

]"You are through to NTL customer services. We don't give a
](expletive) about you. We are never here. We just (expletive) you
]about, basically, and we are not going to handle any of your
]complaints. Just (expletive) off and leave us alone."

Customer Service with a Twist

] A genetic test that can be used to determine the origin
] of poached ivory could help combat the illegal trade in
] elephant tusks and their products.

This is interesting.

Gene test to track illegal ivory

] Education Secretary Rod Paige today called the National
] Education Association a "terrorist group" but later
] apologized for the remark saying that it was insensitive
] to well-meaning terrorists everywhere.
]
] "To equate American teachers to terrorists was an
] unfortunate choice of words on my part," said Paige in a
] written statement. "Terrorists the world over are known
] for their ability to inspire children to do incredible
] things and to put them in the same category as our lazy,
] selfish, do nothing teachers and their union was wrong. I
] am sorry."

] "The commitment they get out of their students is
] increasingly impressive. Terrorist
] groups are consistently emboldening their youth with
] results driven training and stern classroom discipline.
] By giving kids seemingly unobtainable goals such as
] simultaneous suicide bus attacks, they are challenging
] them to learn the basics of chemistry, the logistics of
] traffic planning and the value of teamwork. If any of
] these kids lived, their groups would be major world
] powers."

Education Secretary Calls Teachers Union Terrorist

Decius wrote:
] ] Government experts are investigating a claim that an
] ] unarmed nuclear bomb, lost off the Georgia coast at the
] ] height of the Cold War, might have been found, an Air
] ] Force spokesman said Monday.
] ]
] ] The hydrogen bomb was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1958
] ] following a collision of a B-47 bomber and an F-86
] ] fighter.
] ]
] ] A group led by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Derek Duke of
] ] Statesboro, Georgia, said in July that it had found a
] ] large object underwater near Savannah that was emitting
] ] high levels of radioactivity, according to an Associated
] ] Press report.

Wow. Strangely enough my dad remembers when this happened.

RE: CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly found - Sep 13, 2004

] AFT article on NCLB. Highlights downfalls and gives
] recommendations on making law effective.

No Child Left Behind