Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues 823
gwoodrow writes "We've all heard the 'fired because of MySpace' stories, where a simple blog or picture gets someone canned. But now one of the targets is fighting back. (The offending picture in this case was a snap from Halloween 2005 of the student in a pirate outfit drinking from a cup.)" From the article: "Teacher in training Stacy Snyder was denied her education degree on the eve of graduation when Millersville University apparently found pictures on her MySpace page 'promoting underage drinking.' As a result, the 27-year-old mother of two had her teaching certificate withheld and was granted an English degree instead. In response, Snyder has filed a Federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania university asking for her education diploma and certificate along with $75,000 in damages."
Submission + - Ubuntu Linux for mobile phones?
WrongSizeGlass writes: The BBC is reporting the 'Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded' project aims for an October 2007 release for Ubuntu Linux for mobile phones.
From the article:
A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices"
It will be developed by the Ubuntu community, along with staff from Intel.
From the article:
A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices"
It will be developed by the Ubuntu community, along with staff from Intel.
Submission + - No ad skipping for you!
smooth wombat writes: ABC and ESPN have struck a deal with cable operator Cox Communications Inc. to offer hit shows and football games on demand, but with the unusual condition that Cox disables the fast-forward feature that allows viewers to skip ads. This agreement only applies to Cox's video-on-demand service and will not affect viewers using digital video recorders to fast forward through ads.
In addition, the companies will also test technology that will place ads in shows based on ZIP Codes and geographic area.
In addition, the companies will also test technology that will place ads in shows based on ZIP Codes and geographic area.
Submission + - War on Drugs a Costly Sham
wagneww writes: "We humans are a predictable lot; we continually ignore history, are afraid of everything, and act emotionally rather than rationally, especially when it comes to the vexatious and controversial subject of drugs in society. We don't learn from our mistakes; destined to repeat them over and over on a recurring loop of denial. Wash over some orchestrated religious propaganda and you have a recipe for disaster.
The author of the recently released autobiography; "Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker" knows what he's talking about when it comes to illegal drugs. Wade Agnew has been using them daily for forty years. He started with alcohol, quickly dismissing it after the revelation of marijuana in 1968 while at University. This discovery would dictate the course of his life. For all the details of his terrifyingly authentic tale go to;
http://www.cheatingthehangman.com.au/home_book.htm l
That the "War on Drugs" was the brainchild of the Nixon administration; the most seriously paranoid US president of the 20th Century, tells us a great deal about its genesis and "raison d'etre". Every society that has existed since the beginning of time has used "consciousness altering" substances, often in highly spiritual circumstances. This should have told us something, but apparently not.
Ignorance and political ambition are a volatile mix. At the start of the 21st Century, Australia was experiencing a flood of heroin. Established by refugees after the war in S.E.Asia, the Vietnamese community was now well integrated into mainstream society. Many of these citizens were ethnic Chinese with strong family links back to their homeland. With the opening up of the post-war Viet Nam, they became the conduit for Thai and Burmese white powder heroin then flooding into Australia. This community was very wary of officialdom, and notoriously difficult to penetrate. As a consequence the country was experiencing a huge drop in the price of heroin on the streets of major cities. It even penetrated far flung inland country towns. The price per gram fell to unprecedented lows, and the purity was astounding high by world standards.
"I was well and truly retired by then, and could only look on with envy as no4 white powder flooded into Australian cities," says Wade from his home in Brisbane. "People were making serious money from the glut of high quality heroin."
An unfortunate consequence of the high purity was a sharp rise in the number of overdoses on the streets of Australian cities. Addicts unused to such purity were dropping like flies. At one point police in Cabramatta; a Vietnamese enclave in western Sydney; now the heroin capital of the country, begged whoever was distributing a particularly pure shipment (close to 95%) to cut their drugs to curb the death rate.
Not long after, the local market began to experience a serious heroin drought, and the conservative Australian government began crowing, claiming its "Tough on Drugs" policy had been responsible. This drought was quickly followed by an avalanche of Methamphetamines. This was no coincidence; the two phenomena were inextricably linked. It quickly became evident that the Australian Government was taking credit for decisions of criminals. The "War on Drugs" has little or no effect on the availability of illegal drugs on the streets of Australia or anywhere else for that matter. All it does is pump-prime organized crime, and turn otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals.
The following are excerpts from a report into the heroin glut entitled; "The Case for an Inquiry into its Causes and the Flood of Methamphetamines" by W.M. Bush; no relation.
"The article disputes the claim by the Federal Government that Australian law enforcement financed by its Tough on Drugs Strategy was primarily responsible for the heroin drought and resulting fall in overdose deaths. Law enforcement agencies, notably the Australian Federal Police through its Commissioner, have revealed intelligence to the effect that Asian crime syndicates have assessed that there is a large and very profitable market in Australia for amphetamine-like drugs, and that they have made a marketing decision to promote them rather than heroin.
The evidence suggests strongly that the prime causes of the drought were a series of poor opium harvests in Burma and these marketing decisions. No other explanation fits the known facts including;
The drought being confined to Australia
A big rise in availability of amphetamine-like drugs imported through the same channels as heroin
The known large rise in recent years in production in South East Asia of these artificial drugs
The greater profit derivable from them than from heroin
Their lower vulnerability to law enforcement interdiction.
If law enforcement had an effect it was probably only a subsidiary factor. The evidence is strong that there would have been no drought in the absence of the other factors."
"If anyone should know about the profits to be made when drugs are made illegal, it's me. I spent thirty years selling drugs; it's not for the faint hearted, but there are huge amounts of money to be made", says Wade. "I only use marijuana these days; I can't afford the high cost of heroin. "I inhale the vapours with a marijuana vaporizer. In fact I import them for the local and world market; I sell the VapoHead Herbal Vaporizer. Marijuana Vaporizers are bloody brilliant. You can check them out on my website at;"
http://www.cheatingthehangman.com.au/
I still use heroin occasionally when I have the funds. The quality in Australia is the envy of addicts everywhere; almost always white powder, and usually with 50% purity or higher. However it's very expensive, reflecting the difficulty of getting it safely ashore. If I could afford to, I would certainly use heroin more often," Wade adds with a grin."
The author of the recently released autobiography; "Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker" knows what he's talking about when it comes to illegal drugs. Wade Agnew has been using them daily for forty years. He started with alcohol, quickly dismissing it after the revelation of marijuana in 1968 while at University. This discovery would dictate the course of his life. For all the details of his terrifyingly authentic tale go to;
http://www.cheatingthehangman.com.au/home_book.ht
That the "War on Drugs" was the brainchild of the Nixon administration; the most seriously paranoid US president of the 20th Century, tells us a great deal about its genesis and "raison d'etre". Every society that has existed since the beginning of time has used "consciousness altering" substances, often in highly spiritual circumstances. This should have told us something, but apparently not.
Ignorance and political ambition are a volatile mix. At the start of the 21st Century, Australia was experiencing a flood of heroin. Established by refugees after the war in S.E.Asia, the Vietnamese community was now well integrated into mainstream society. Many of these citizens were ethnic Chinese with strong family links back to their homeland. With the opening up of the post-war Viet Nam, they became the conduit for Thai and Burmese white powder heroin then flooding into Australia. This community was very wary of officialdom, and notoriously difficult to penetrate. As a consequence the country was experiencing a huge drop in the price of heroin on the streets of major cities. It even penetrated far flung inland country towns. The price per gram fell to unprecedented lows, and the purity was astounding high by world standards.
"I was well and truly retired by then, and could only look on with envy as no4 white powder flooded into Australian cities," says Wade from his home in Brisbane. "People were making serious money from the glut of high quality heroin."
An unfortunate consequence of the high purity was a sharp rise in the number of overdoses on the streets of Australian cities. Addicts unused to such purity were dropping like flies. At one point police in Cabramatta; a Vietnamese enclave in western Sydney; now the heroin capital of the country, begged whoever was distributing a particularly pure shipment (close to 95%) to cut their drugs to curb the death rate.
Not long after, the local market began to experience a serious heroin drought, and the conservative Australian government began crowing, claiming its "Tough on Drugs" policy had been responsible. This drought was quickly followed by an avalanche of Methamphetamines. This was no coincidence; the two phenomena were inextricably linked. It quickly became evident that the Australian Government was taking credit for decisions of criminals. The "War on Drugs" has little or no effect on the availability of illegal drugs on the streets of Australia or anywhere else for that matter. All it does is pump-prime organized crime, and turn otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals.
The following are excerpts from a report into the heroin glut entitled; "The Case for an Inquiry into its Causes and the Flood of Methamphetamines" by W.M. Bush; no relation.
"The article disputes the claim by the Federal Government that Australian law enforcement financed by its Tough on Drugs Strategy was primarily responsible for the heroin drought and resulting fall in overdose deaths. Law enforcement agencies, notably the Australian Federal Police through its Commissioner, have revealed intelligence to the effect that Asian crime syndicates have assessed that there is a large and very profitable market in Australia for amphetamine-like drugs, and that they have made a marketing decision to promote them rather than heroin.
The evidence suggests strongly that the prime causes of the drought were a series of poor opium harvests in Burma and these marketing decisions. No other explanation fits the known facts including;
The drought being confined to Australia
A big rise in availability of amphetamine-like drugs imported through the same channels as heroin
The known large rise in recent years in production in South East Asia of these artificial drugs
The greater profit derivable from them than from heroin
Their lower vulnerability to law enforcement interdiction.
If law enforcement had an effect it was probably only a subsidiary factor. The evidence is strong that there would have been no drought in the absence of the other factors."
"If anyone should know about the profits to be made when drugs are made illegal, it's me. I spent thirty years selling drugs; it's not for the faint hearted, but there are huge amounts of money to be made", says Wade. "I only use marijuana these days; I can't afford the high cost of heroin. "I inhale the vapours with a marijuana vaporizer. In fact I import them for the local and world market; I sell the VapoHead Herbal Vaporizer. Marijuana Vaporizers are bloody brilliant. You can check them out on my website at;"
http://www.cheatingthehangman.com.au/
I still use heroin occasionally when I have the funds. The quality in Australia is the envy of addicts everywhere; almost always white powder, and usually with 50% purity or higher. However it's very expensive, reflecting the difficulty of getting it safely ashore. If I could afford to, I would certainly use heroin more often," Wade adds with a grin."
Submission + - Brazilian Game Site Chooses Hybrid Mainframe-Cell
vmdave9 writes: http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb050807-story01.html
When people think of multiuser games, they are rarely thinking about mainframes. But if you stop to think about it for a second, the workload management and high bandwidth capabilities of the mainframe would make it ideally suited to simulated worlds if the machine only had some serious number-crunching power to bring to bear on the visual simulation of the virtual worlds in a game.
When people think of multiuser games, they are rarely thinking about mainframes. But if you stop to think about it for a second, the workload management and high bandwidth capabilities of the mainframe would make it ideally suited to simulated worlds if the machine only had some serious number-crunching power to bring to bear on the visual simulation of the virtual worlds in a game.
Bookmark Brazilian Game Site Chooses Hybrid Mainframe-Cell Platform (itjungle.com)
Feed News: Comcast works on single comms dashboard with Zimbra (macworld.com)
Feed News: Roxio Crunches video for Apple TV, iPod, iPhone (macworld.com)
Feed Green Light device purifies air using plantlife (engadget.com)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household
The days of using energy-hogging machines to purify your household air are all but over, at least if Natalie Jeremijenko, Amelia Amon, and Will Kavesh of the Experimental Design Lab have anything to say about it. The Green Light device is a nature lover's dream come true, as it melds LED lighting with "indoor air purification using living plants" in order to pull triple duty as a "chandelier, terrarium, and air filter." The useful creation is slated to be on display at the HauteGreen 2007 expo in New York, and considering that the "entire system is designed with products and parts that are both recycled and recyclable," we'd say it should fit right in.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Feed EU funding to save Galileo? (theregister.com)
Could be more a strategic issue than a commercial one
Stalled Euro sat-nav project Galileo could be set to receive more extensive backing from the European Union (EU) in order to get it moving again.
Feed The Myth of the Superuser (schneier.com)
Submission + - Brightest Supernova Ever Seen
u-bend writes: "The Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed an incredibly bright and long-lasting supernova.
From the article:
The brightest stellar explosion ever recorded may be a long-sought new type of supernova, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. This discovery indicates that violent explosions of extremely massive stars were relatively common in the early universe, and that a similar explosion may be ready to go off in our own galaxy.
A concise Yahoo News version can be found here."
From the article:
The brightest stellar explosion ever recorded may be a long-sought new type of supernova, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. This discovery indicates that violent explosions of extremely massive stars were relatively common in the early universe, and that a similar explosion may be ready to go off in our own galaxy.
A concise Yahoo News version can be found here."
Submission + - Ubuntu on mobile phones
vorlich writes: The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6634195.stm is reporting that Matt Zimmerman has announced Ubuntu and Intel's plans to produce an Ubuntu version for web-enabled phones under the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project. One of the intentions behind the project is to maximise the power saving abilities of its planned tiny low-energy chip codenamed Silverthorn which will be one-seventh the size of normal chips and consume only 10% of the power of existing processor.
Feed Wii cooling fan solves a problem you didn't have (engadget.com)
Filed under: Gaming
While we've played our Wii for hours on end (must...save...Hyrule) without noticing anything really warming up, Chinese outfit Firstsing is showing off this clip-on cooling fan anyway. The USB-powered fan plugs into one of your Wii's USB ports -- blocking the other one, it seems -- and pumps a little more air through the box, just in case that Wii Sports session gets a little too, um, heated. Just the thing to muscle up the Wii like its two hotter, louder next-gen competitors, eh?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
