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ChadTower:

Eagle three fox one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eightee.... oh crap, I've been hit.

patrickl:
Apparently in the Netherlands you can get arrested for stealing virtual goods:

MSNBC: Dutch court convicts 2 of stealing virtual items


--- Quote ---The Leeuwarden District Court says the culprits, 15 and 14 years old, coerced a 13-year-old boy into transferring a "virtual amulet and a virtual mask" from the online adventure game RuneScape to their game accounts.
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The kids were sentence to 200 and 160 hours of community service.

patrickl:
Keyboards are not secure :o Apparently it's possible to listen in on what you type on a keyboard from up to 20 meters away.

A couple of swiss researchers found several ways to listen in to what is being typed on keybords.

ZDNet: Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokes

Website of the researchers:
Compromising electromagnetic emanations of wired keyboards


In fact in the Netherlands they all but banned electric voting machines because of the same reason. It turned out to be reasonably easy to listen in to what people vote on these machines from quite a distance away.

patrickl:
I thought the dollar was going up in the exchange rates again, but apparently not enough. Guess that's why people are using their dollars to fold Star Wars origami from:


Amazing Star Wars (and Star Trek) origami made from dollar bills

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: patrickl on October 15, 2008, 12:27:49 pm ---Teen changes her name to CutoutDissection.com

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--- Quote ---The Asheville High School graduate said she began opposing dissections in middle school after a class assignment to cut up a chicken wing made her uncomfortable
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Two comments.

Its NC.  That explains some of it.

She must not eat at KFC much.

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