*sigh*
Posted by donkey (5 Comments)	Tue Nov 30th '04 05:33:39 PM
new career path for harry? It'll mean going back to education though! "A UK exam board is offering a qualification in wheel clamping. Clampers will be able to take a two-unit course, which will lead to a vocational BTec qualification in "vehicle immobilisation""
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: General News

Nobel winner in degree protest
Posted by donkey (0 Comments)	Mon Nov 29th '04 11:08:08 PM
Perhaps nobody else will care but hey! "A Nobel Prize-winning scientist is to return his honorary degree to Exeter University in protest at plans to close its chemistry department. Professor Sir Harry Kroto's decision comes after Exeter said it wanted to cut a predicted deficit of £4.5m. Sir Harry, who co-discovered the C60 carbon atoms used in nanotechnology, called the plans "slash and burn". " "The plans, which also involve cutting the music and Italian departments, will be discussed by the university's governing body on 20 December."
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: Science

Lycos goes after spammers with screensaver
Posted by Pud (5 Comments)	Mon Nov 29th '04 04:33:33 PM
Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail. Lycos hopes will it make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out. The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data. Mr Pollmann said there was no intention to stop the spam websites working by subjecting them with too much data to cope with. He said the screensaver had been carefully written to ensure that the amount of traffic it generated from each user did not overload the web. "Every single user will contribute three to four megabytes per day," he said, "about one MP3 file." But, he said, if enough people sign up spamming websites could be force to pay for gigabytes of traffic every single day.
News Source: Das BBC	Genre: Intrawab

DAD CALLS COPS 'ON HIMSELF'
Posted by donkey (7 Comments)	Sun Nov 28th '04 01:23:54 PM
"A Newark father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about alcohol backfired when the teen led cops to a stash of drugs and illegal weapons inside his house. "The incident began at 2:45 a.m. Friday when the unnamed 16-year-old came home drunk and unruly. "Her dad, Kevin Winston, called police, but when they arrived, the girl told police she feared for herself and her four sisters, aged 3 through 15, because her father stored drugs and weapons there. Cops arrested Winston after finding four semiautomatic guns, including an AK-47, plus 617 vials of cocaine."
News Source: New York Post	Genre: General News

Swap offer for pirated Windows XP
Posted by donkey (0 Comments)	Fri Nov 26th '04 05:32:25 PM
"Computer giant Microsoft has launched a pilot scheme to replace counterfeit versions of Windows XP with legal ones. "The first-time initiative is restricted to the UK and to users with pre-installed copies of the operating system in PCs bought before November. " sounds like MS are accusing Brits of being software pirates! or at least of buying dodgy tat off eastern europeans
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: Microsoft

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