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Well, given how badly misreported this law has been, I'm not surprised that you misunderstood it.

All this law does is provide legal protection for teachers to tech "alternate views" to the Theory of Evolution. It is NOT exclusively restricted to ID teaching. This could, logically, also include FSM theory. So don't worry, be Happy! Teachers in LA can now ALSO tell children about the Noodly beginnings of humanity in addition to other creationist teachings.

Seriously, this really is much ado about nothing. It's just an anti-stupid lawsuit law, to protect teachers who simply ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that not everyone believes ToE is correct. That's it, nothing more, no matter what the militant Atheist sites and D-Kos may say.

Well, they tried to get the snails to carry the actual message, but it turns out the snails couldn't reliably copy it because not only do they lack hands, but their penmanship is atrocious.

Attempts to get the snails to carry the emails in their internal memory were likewise unsuccessful because the snails lacked the ability to reliably retrieve the message from memory or communicate it effectively at the other end. Indeed, it was never really possible to determine if the messages were actually maintained in the snail's memory at all, even after repeated attempts to store them there. The snails did, however, form an inexplicable appetite for discount v1AgR@, so further study may be warranted.

But d0000000d, yer missing the point. He wants to do something 1337 hAxXoRz with all these drives. I mean, really, selling them on eBay would be what the n0rmLz would do.

A judge in North Dakota has just ruled that requesting a zone transfer from a public DNS server is criminal activity within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crimes Law. A zone transfer is a simple request that a DNS server hand over information in bulk, and a DNS server may be configured to allow or deny such requests. That the owner of a DNS server would configure the server to allow such requests, and then claim such requests were unauthorized, is simply stunning.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/811611_david_ritz_court_spam/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/811611_david_ritz_court_spam/

coondoggie writes "The IRS today warned the Internet community of a new scam e-mail that appears to be a solicitation from the IRS and the U.S. government for charitable contributions to victims of the recent Southern California wildfires has been making the rounds. In some cases in an effort to appear legitimate, the bogus e-mails include text from an actual speech about the wildfires by a member of the California Assembly. A link in the e-mail, when clicked, sends the e-mail recipient to a Web site that looks like the IRS Web site, but isn't. They are then directed to click on a link that opens a donation form that asks for personal and financial information. The scammers can use that information to gain access to the e-mail recipient's financial accounts. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21468"
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21468

OldeTimeGeek writes "An article in Computerworld seems to indicate that they might.

In an effort to reduce costs, some companies may allow their employees to bring their own computers in to work rather than buying a system for all employees. Some may even require it — according to Gartner, 10% of companies will require their employees to buy and maintain their own computers. Is this something that your company is thinking of?

Does this further blur the distinction between work and home, or has it been already destroyed beyond repair? Would you do this if it was offered to you?"

xrooles writes "This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to ALBERT FERT and PETER GRÜNBERG for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Applications of this phenomenon have revolutionized techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the development of a new generation of electronics. The use of Giant Magnetoresistance can be regarded as one of the first major applications of nanotechnology. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2007/"
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2007/

A decade ago, Intel was shipping the Pentium II processor and Linux was a fringe operating system used by a few Internet fanatics. No one at the time would ever have thought the two in combination would be a match for Sun's SPARC/Solaris combination, HP's PA-RISC/HP-UX, IBM's POWER/AIX or SGI's MIPS/IRIX. Even though there has been a big shift in the marketplace, high-end Unix has not curled up and died in spite of the advent of Windows and Linux Server. IDC puts the market at around $19 billion annually with single-digit annual growth, and the market is split almost evenly between Sun, HP and IBM. A Question is raising "Why HP Still Believes In Unix?'

Partnering with the nonprofit Internet Archive, NASA plans to collect images from the Apollo moon landings, Voyager planetary flybys and space shuttle missions to post on one searchable website. The project will consolidate digital images spread over 3,000 websites and digitize stills, film and video stored in space centers.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/149733184/TECHBIT_SPACE_IMAGES

nightcats writes "Ideal Bite has a feature recommending eco-friendly energy drinks for geeks: "try an all-natural energy drink before you suck down another Red Bull. Eye openers like açai and guarana now come in tasty drinks, ready to give you the speed you need to work it on the dance floor."

And if you're staying up all weekend to read Harry Potter, you'll be ready."
http://www.idealbite.com/tiplibrary/today

petermp writes "Elderly people suffering from dementia could be electronically tagged.
UK Science minister Malcolm Wicks suggested that such tagging technology, which is already used to track convicted criminals on early release from prison, could also help a family caring for an elderly relative.
Full story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/elderly_de mentia_tag/
What is the next step ?"