and the honeynet project's new website with newest challenges is at http://www.honeynet.org/ strange that they have an old and a new site, with no links from the old site going to the new site... but an excellent project anyway! everyone should go enter their new challenges

The excellent honeynet project has some exciting challenges - examples of viruses and hacking in the wild, well packaged. The old 'Forensic challenge' is perhaps the most exciting for students to do: http://old.honeynet.org/challenge/index.html

you have to wear two bracelets? This isn't doing away with prisons, its just keeping them for the worse criminals or repeat offenders. So its not about doing away with prisons completely, surely?

Fox have successfully created a news story from nothing; the ringing up of donors is a classic. Whatever you think of Fox's agenda, they did what they do very well on this one!