] I was sure we'd see a silly "Hackers"-esque 3D animated
] "hacking scene".
] Not so! Trinity is as smart as she is seductive! She
] whips out Nmap (!!!), scans her target, finds 22/tcp open,
] and proceeds with an über ssh technique! I was so surprised,
] I almost jumped out of my seat and did the "r00t dance"
] right there in the theatre!
]
] There can be only one explanation: Carie-Anne has the
] hots for me!

OK, if Fyodor gets Carie-Anne can I have her Ducati?

Nmap Hackers: Whoa!

] With videotape systems, the recorder is typically turned
] on when the law-enforcement officer switches on a police
] car's flashers. With the digital video system, the two
] minutes to four minutes of video captured before an
] incident will be instantly written to the hard drive,
] essentially storing a glimpse into the past.
]
] Such pre-event recording is important, Schneider said.
] "You have a violation that occurred, but what you capture
] now is the officer turning on his light, and that's only
] half the piece of the pie," he said. "Wouldn't it be nice
] if you could get the guy running the red light in the
] first place? That's what this system gives us."
]
] The system also includes a way to protect the chain of
] custody, so the video evidence will be admissible in
] court. The recorder authenticates all the video to
] prevent changes, and it will have a checkout system to
] keep track of which officers have checked out which hard
] drives.
]
] Still, the system will raise some sticky policy
] questions, said Lou Latham, a research analyst with
] business-tech research firm Gartner.
]
] "It's a fair witness, as (science fiction writer Robert
] Heinlein) used to say," he said. "Everything is
] recorded--and there are ups and downs to that--but it's a
] powerful sociological tool."

TiVos for police surveillance. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but I think it'll make it harder to 'lose' video evidence. Slightly.

News: Cop cams to put infractions on record

] University of Michigan graduate student David Van Mater
] had expected to see tumors growing on the shaved backs of
] a group of experimental lab mice.
]
] He had activated a cell-signaling protein called
] beta-catenin that is known to prompt development of
] several forms of cancer. But what he saw was that the
] bare skin of the mice was rapidly growing new hair -- so
] fast that the bald patches were completely filled in
] within 15 days.
]
] Writing in the May issue of the journal Genes and
] Development published today, Van Mater and supervisors at
] the university's medical school report that the one-time
] activation was sufficient to regrow missing hair.
]
] But the research, while suggesting some potential
] strategies for inducing hair growth, won't bring an end
] to comb-overs anytime soon.

I can imagine the researcher's surprise - this seems a lot like planting turnips and getting roses.

Ventura County Star: National

"...To the plaaaaanet core!" Boss Nass

] A Hollywood-like proposal to explore the center of the
] Earth calls for exploding a crack in the planet's surface
] and dropping a probe in behind tons of molten iron, which
] would sink and forge a path to the core.
]
] The plan is not ready for primetime, its creator told
] SPACE.com, but neither is it pie-in-the-sky.
]
] Exploring Earth's belly is ambitious in a scientific
] sense and could yield valuable data. The solid inner core
] rotates faster than the outer core, which is fluid and is
] responsible for Earth's magnetic field. But scientists
] don't know exactly why all this is so, nor do they know
] the exact composition or temperature of the core.
]
] A schematic shows how the probe would descend with molten
] iron, all in a crack that closes up behind the mission.
]
] If further research showed the core mission could
] actually work, it would be comparable in dollar terms
] with many space projects, says David Stevenson, a Caltech
] planetary scientist who has worked on several missions
] for NASA. Stevenson explains his idea in an article
] titled "A Modest Proposal" for the May

SNIP

NASA Meets Hollywood: Real Mission Proposed to Earth's Core

] A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large
] fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the
] past half century, the devastating result of industrial
] fishing.
]
] The study, which took 10 years to complete and was
] published in the international journal Nature this week,
] paints a grim picture of the Earth's current populations
] of such species as sharks, swordfish, tuna and marlin.
]
] The authors used data going back 47 years from nine
] oceanic and four continental shelf systems, ranging from
] the tropics to the Antarctic. Whether off the coast of
] Newfoundland, Canada, or in the Gulf of Thailand, the
] findings were dire, according to the authors.
]
] "I think the point is there is nowhere left in the ocean
] not overfished," said Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist
] at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia

SNIP

This is bad. This is really bad. "Eat mor chikin"

CNN.com - Study: Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain - May. 14, 2003

] The music industry's antipiracy efforts took an
] embarrassing turn Tuesday when the Recording Industry
] Association of America acknowledged that it has
] erroneously sent dozens of copyright infringement
] notices.
]
] The RIAA said Tuesday that a temporary worker was
] responsible for firing off legal notifications last week
] that invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act without
] confirming that any copyrighted files were actually being
] offered for download. "We have sent two dozen withdrawal
] notices--all appear related to this particular temp," the
] RIAA said in a statement. "We apologize for any
] inconvenience this may have caused."

When all else fails, blame it on the temp.

RIAA apologizes for erroneous letters | CNET News.com

] In a step toward electronic newspapers and wearable
] computer screens, scientists have created an ultra-thin
] screen that can be bent, twisted and even rolled up and
] still display crisp text.
]
] The material, only as thick as three human hairs,
] displays black text on a whitish-gray background with a
] resolution similar to that of a typical laptop computer
] screen.
]
] The screen is so flexible it can be rolled into a
] cylinder about a half-inch wide without losing its image
] quality.
]
] Although it's not quite the dream of single-sheet,
] electronic newspapers or books that can display hundreds
] of pages of text, its creators said it's the first
] flexible computer screen of its kind.

Cool! Where do I get one?

Laughing Boy

Paper-thin screen created

] Style is a personal thing, this is nothing new. But I've
] always found it fascinating how diverse opinions can be,
] especially in the same city, in a similar age range. One
] girl's turn-off may be another girls cat's meow.
]
] To determine if there were universal female gripes within
] NYC, I did some digging. A simple question to female
] friends and associates, "Is there something you see a guy
] wearing that turns you off, before you even know him?"
] turned into an endless barrage of answers. (You'll see
] that "shy" would not be the word to describe the
] participants.)
]
] But for now, here's what the girlies DON'T like:

There's a corresponding article for girls at http://www.nycpulse.com/web/articles/fashion/nov/112602a.htm

I find it amusing when there is a trend in modern society that most people don't find attractive or interesting, but it seems to be extremely popular nonetheless.

New York's guide to entertainment, restaurants, nightlife and events | nycpulse.com online

] O'Reilly & Associates is accepting entries for the
] second round of the Mac OS X Innovators Contest. The
] contest, sponsored by Apple Developer Connection, seeks
] innovative Mac OS X applications, plug-ins, user
] interface widgets, or other creative original
] software.Entries are judged on ease of use, adherence to
] the Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines, use of Mac OS X
] technologies, and especially innovation.
]
] First prize, worth nearly $5,000 (U.S.), is an ADC
] Premier membership, a full pass to the O%u2019Reilly Mac
] OS X Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., from Oct. 27 to
] 30, and a one-year subscription to O%u2019Reilly%u2019s
] premium on-line book service, Safari. Entries must be
] submitted to O%u2019Reilly by June 16. The Round Two
] winners will be announced at the O'Reilly Open
] Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, from July 7 to 11.

C'mon, boys and girls, get cracking.

Put Your Gloves On - Mac OS X Innovators Contest, Round 2

] Civilians are continuing to disappear in breakaway
] Chechnya and nearly 250 people have gone missing since
] January, a Chechen official said Sunday.

I guess it's a way to convince states not to break away from your country... just make everyone disappear.

Where have all the Chechnyans Gone?