RockMFR writes "A DMCA takedown notice sent by Nielsen Media Research to the Wikimedia Foundation has resulted in the deletion of over 300 pages on the English Wikipedia. The pages were 'templates' and categories that listed television stations within various geographical markets in the United States. Discussion of the deletions has focused on whether this type of information can actually be copyrighted, though the content of the takedown notice have not been made public."

There seems to be a problem with the contrast button.

skeeto writes "The infamous Ubuntu Satanic Edition has been banned from Distrowatch by the site's maintainer, Ladislav Bodnar, who said, 'There is no way I am going to add this distro to DistroWatch. [...] I don't consider the name "Satanic edition" as an appropriate name for a Linux distribution.' But the main reason seems to be that 'Ubuntu is a registered trademark of Canonical. You need to show me an official permission from Canonical that grants you the use of the word Ubuntu in your product's name.' What about Muslim and Christian editions? It seems that worries about trademark infringement and offensive material does not stop Distrowatch from including those."

Joseph Vaccarelli, a former Verizon Technician, has been charged with racking up $220,000 in phone-sex calls by tapping into the land lines of nearly 950 customers. Authorities say that he made approximately 5,000 calls, resulting in 45,000 minutes of call time. Verizon estimated that out of a 40-week period, Vaccarelli spent 15 weeks talking on sex lines. How in the world do you have this much phone sex, period, but especially at work, and not have anyone notice?

Laurinda Drake and Elaine Clermont wanted to prove how easy it was to abduct a child from the local elementary school. So they did what any reasonable person would, they abducted one. Drake says that she noticed a young boy walking away from the school after she dropped off her own child. She picked him up and says he didn't know where he lived and he didn't want to go back to school. So she took him to the Clark County School District office. The police have a different story. They say she drove him around to various locations before going to Clermont's house to call the media and set up a meeting at the Clark County Board of Trustees building, where they would turn the boy over to the School District. It looks like these two are only going to prove how easy it is to go to jail for kidnapping.