] Researchers believe manatee voices could help them
] develop a visual warning system that would reduce the
] number of sea cows killed and injured by boats.
]
] Deke Beusse, a University of Florida veterinarian who
] heads the Marine Mammal Medicine Program, has performed
] experiments using hydrophones underwater listening
] devices at Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park
] in Citrus County.
]
] The research was prompted by the soaring number of
] boat-related deaths, which reached a record 95 last year.
]
] "We thought if we could pick up the sounds of manatees,
] we could warn boaters of their presence," Beusse said.
] "When we played it back, they started vocalizing more
] %u2014 three times as much as normal and
] approached the speakers."
]
] Beusse hopes that in the wild, speakers can be placed in
] channels, where they would prompt and intensify manatee
] vocalizations.
]
] "The sounds would send a signal to a beacon that would
] begin flashing, letting boaters know they're there," he
] said. "Boaters wouldn't have to put anything on their
] boats."

Research aims to save manatees using tech

] Sex.com, widely believed to be the most valuable URL in
] the world, has been returned to its rightful owner after
] a six-year custody battle.
]
] The US Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of
] cyber-squatter Stephen Cohen who had been using the
] domain name as the flagship product in an online porn
] empire which made him his fortune.
]
] It is believed that the sex.com site brought in around
] $500,000 per month in advertising.
]
] However, Cohen acquired the domain through unfair means
] when he wrote a letter to registrar Verisign asking it be
] signed over to him, and transferred from its original
] owner Gary Kremen, who had the original foresight to
] register the name.
]
] Kremen, outraged at Verisign's compliance with this
] request, then embarked on a lengthy legal battle to
] regain control of the domain.
]
] However, Cohen's failure to overturn a $65m damages award
] is far from the end of the story. Cohen is holed up in
] Mexico and appears to be understandably loath to re-enter
] the US and honour the pay award to Kremen.

Proof that pr0n hawkers are scumbags.

Silicon.com - Sex.com returned to its rightful owner

Bookmarked for future reference

Police State Story

Any sort of goodwill remaining in my heart towards the music "industry" is now _gone_. Fuck the RIAA and fuck each and every label that co-operates with them for allowing them to flat-out take advantage of a naive college student running a search engine. The fact that the settlement provided that the student was allowed to _refute_ the claims the RIAA made (effectively, in exchange for the RIAA saying he wasn't stealing anything) in exchange for his $12,000 says two words to me...

Shakedown

...and...

Terrorism.

Fuck the RIAA.

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Make a donation to help him recoup his $12k that was stolen here...
http://chewplastic.com/

ABCNEWS.com : Record Industry Targets Teen Programmer

] A lottery winner who scooped a jackpot worth almost £2
] million has failed to come forward in time to claim the
] life-changing prize.
]
] A luckless south Wales winner missed last night's 11pm
] final deadline, despite efforts over six months to trace
] the owner of the winning ticket.

This story shortly to be followed by a suicide report somewhere in south Wales.

Of all the dumb luck...

Ananova - Lottery jackpot winner misses deadline

] Ikea has apologised after accidentally naming a child's
] bunk bed after an obscene German expression.
]
] The Swedish firm didn't realise the problem until after
] the £110 bed went on sale across Europe.
]
] The wooden bed is called the "Gutvik" which means "Good
] f***" in German.

Why market research is so important.

Ananova - Ikea's new bed shares name with German obscenity

crankymessiah wrote:
] ] Beginning July 1, Tennessee motorcyclists can legally run
] ] red lights -- if they stop first and "exercise due care"
] ] -- under a bill signed into law by Gov. Phil Bredesen.
] ]
] ] Motorcyclists had complained they were forced to wait
] ] excessive periods of time at stop lights because sensors
] ] that control the lights did not recognize motorcycles,
] ] which are now made mostly of aluminum and fiberglass, not
] ]

Cant motorcyclists make a right turn (and in spots where there is no right on red, let motorcyclists be exempt), then find an area where they can make a U turn? Thats what I do in my car when I'm at a light where the sensor is obviously broken. Yea - it takes a few seconds longer. But when your on a cycle, your generally saving time in traffic and parking anyway.

I just think letting people run red lights sets a very bad precident and motorcyclists are going to DIE "I can gun it and beat that oncoming traffic".

Laughing Boy

RE: ajc.com | News | Law allowing motorcycles to run red lights effective July 1

]An American doctor has claimed that cheese can be as addictive as
]morphine.

]Dr Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee on
]Responsible Medicine, says cheese is addictive because it contains
]small amounts of morphine from cows' liver.

THATS IT! Thats what was wrong with the cheese-heads I lived among in Wisconsin - they were all morphine addicts! And here I just thought they were inbred morons.

Laughing Boy

Cheese can be as addictive as morphine

] The following URL:
]
] http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mead
] lime&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& (bla bla bla - crap snipped..)
] =3
]
]
] has a length of 119 characters and resulted in the
] following TinyURL which has a length of 23 characters:
]
] http://tinyurl.com/dne6

URL - it should stand for Utterly Ridiculous Location. We all know what a pain in the ass huge URLs are to email and post. Use this site to create a more managable "copy paste" friendly redirector.

Laughing Boy

TinyURL.com - where tiny is better!

] Wired magazine is planning to publish the underlying code
] for the Slammer worm that slowed Internet traffic to a
] crawl in January, raising questions over whether such
] articles inspire future hackers or educate potential
] victims.

"forewarned is forearmed" Once an exploit is exposed, there is no excuse not to patch the hole. DUH?

Wired magazine story to detail Slammer Web attack