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The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker 637

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2008 @07:37PM from the well-deserved-shadenfreude dept.

eldavojohn writes "You might remember the tiny news that Half Life 2 source code was leaked in 2003 ... it is the 6th most visited Slashdot story with over one kilocomment. Well, did anything happen to the source of the leak, the German hacker Axel 'Ago' Gembe? Wired is reporting he was offered a job interview so that Valve could get him into the US and bag him for charges. It's not the first time the FBI tried this trick: 'The same Seattle FBI office had successfully used an identical gambit in 2001, when they created a fake startup company called Invita, and lured two known Russian hackers to the US for a job interview, where they were arrested.'"

Feed Science Daily: Important Clue To The Cause Of Parkinson's Disease Discovered (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday January 06, 2008 @09:52PM

A glitch in the mechanism by which cells recycle damaged components may trigger Parkinson's disease, according to a new study. The research could lead to new strategies for treating Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Comment Re:First amendment? (Score 1, Insightful) 61

by OldSchool on Saturday December 22, 2007 @03:55PM (#21792602) Attached to: New Jersey Judge Shields Anonymous Blogger

IANAL, but the US Constitution does not GRANT any rights. It notes that "We hold these TRUTHS to be self evident, that all men are CREATED equal, that they are endowded by THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

The Constitution, specifically the Bill Of Rights, PROTECTS these rights from being infringed by the government. It does not grant them.

A minor but important point that is often overlooked.

At least that's what they taught me in the Old School.

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