Weren't there reported chupacabra sightings that were proven to be coyotes with severe mange in 2004? It's even been listed in the wikipedia article for years. It must have taken a lot of work and quite a visionary leap for this biologist too look at wikipedia and come up with this "theory".

If they had, you probably wouldn't even know about it because you wouldn't be reading slashdot. You'd probably just be calling your ISP asking them why your internet connection isn't working.

So you really can crash the internet?

Pfft? No corp will give you a frigate? The corp I used to run would give out cruisers, no prob. I was in a PVP corp for a while where we used chain armor reps and one of the guys refused to fly with people who didn't have a full set of slave implants. So he gave out full sets to anyone who didn't have them. He hooked me up with a bunch of extra faction mods too.

While I didn't read the first two, I did read the last one, you know, the main topic for this article which said "That seems to be what happened last night when there was a relatively small blockage. It appears now that users in China are accessing our properties normally." A small outage that lasts one evening is definitely what I'd call a hiccup. Yes, China has a horrible history of censorship, but they've been steadily improving by a considerable margin. The fact that they're playing ball with Google at all shows that.

Nice way to not even read the summary. It was more a hiccup in Google's block detection than China Blocking them. Interesting my ass.

They did that back in 1987. Math Blaster was awesome! I just haven't seen developers going in that direction in a while.

Kids are spending too much time on those darn newfangled computer thingys and it's rotting their brains. I say we ban them all!

Even worse, they're "Indian Politicians". They make most of ours look like paladins of virtue and justice.

Which in turn would only hurt the very stupid criminals, and the law abiding citizens. Any smart criminal would be sure to disable the system before they use it as a getaway vehicle. And, there will always be ways to get around things like that.

Yes, but is it really stolen if you call the owner and offer to give it back? And then you do give it back as soon as they ask for it? They have to convince a jury that this was theft. I'm kind of curious as to how many found items the police actually put up adds about and how many just get cataloged and thrown in storage. Or where they put the adds if they do put them up.

Funny, noscript blocked the whole thing for me.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/htc-evo-4g-nexus-one-and-droid-face-off-on-the-charted-field-o/ It has multitouch and a bigger battery than Droid & Nexus one, but that doesn't tell how long the actual life will be.

I've seen several times where a media organization printed something that resulted directly in people being killed. They don't usually care as long as it sells. In this case, it was someone they knew so they did their best to keep it under wraps. A similar case where they hyped something because one of their "own" witnessed it is that airplane that landed in the Hudson. It was all over the news for months and the pilot even ended up getting an invite to meet the President. The same thing has happened many times before with little to no coverage.

So what state did they operate from? Are they licensed in that state and could that have a bearing on this case?