Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

[George at Orwellian.Org]

"Neil Johnson" <njohnson at interl.net> wrote:
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#    Is it just me, or did anybody consider the fact
#    that someone else was using her laptop ?

Spending three hours screwing around on her laptop?

Printing out a coupon for ice cream?

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Jimmy Crick wrote:
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#    http://www.msnbc.com/news/603082.asp?cp1=1#BODY

That's just fascinating, Choate.

Only no one has accused Condit of personally
making Levy disappear.

No one.

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Notes from Italy: the person who shot the
protester was not a regular cop.

He was a 20-year-old doing "national service".

http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30155,00.html
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#    Police said Saturday they were looking into bringing manslaughter
#    charges against the policeman who fired at Giuliani. They did
#    not release the officer's name but said he was a 20-year-old
#    drafted into Italy's Carabinieri, a unit that performs police
#    and military functions. Police said the officer was in shock
#    and had been hospitalized.

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http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30163,00.html
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#    IBM Develops Annoying "Passenger" to Keep Drivers Alert
#    
#    DETROIT - You're driving along and suddenly a voice starts 
#    shouting personal questions at you:
#    
#    "Where did you go on your first date? What's your favorite song? 
#    What's your mother's maiden name? Where'd you go to school? What's 
#    your favorite food? Who won the ball game?"
#    
#    If you don't answer quickly enough, correctly or at all, then 
#    the fun really begins. Windows start opening and closing, a buzzer 
#    might sound and worse, you might get spritzed with a stream of 
#    cold water.
#    
#    It's a cross between Stephen King's maniacal car Christine and 
#    the yapping disembodied voice of Ann Sothern in the never-lamented 
#    TV show "My Mother the Car."
#    
#    Indeed, IBM's "artificial passenger" is designed to be as annoying 
#    as possible all in the name of safety, says David Nahamoo, IBM 
#    senior manager for human language technology.
#    
#    "Essentially, the technology and the system relies on 
#    conversational interaction as a mechanism for keeping a person 
#    alert," says Nahamoo.

But can you hump it?