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Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted 553

Posted by kdawson from the eating-our-own-pork dept.
Many readers are letting us know about the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens on seven counts of making false statements on his financial disclosure forms. We discussed the raid on the senator's house a while back. Everyone's favorite technologically challenged senator is the longest-serving Republican in the history of the upper house. An Alaskan paper gives deep background on the probe that has ensnared Stevens and a number of other Alaska political figures.

Comment Use a Cisco DSL router (Score 1) 936

by mumbler (#24171593) Attached to: Why Do We Have To Restart Routers?
I've had the same problem with many simple routers. When you run P2P software inside you'll get lots of connections from outside, each entry requires a NAT table entry which expires slowly. I invested in a small Cisco DSL router which allows me to set the max. size and the expiry time of nat entries. Problem solved. Without the limit on the tables the Cisco would report the overflow after about one day.
The Courts

British Record Companies Win £41m In Damages 271

Posted by kdawson from the segmenting-the-world dept.
Benjamin Fox writes "The BBC is reporting that online retailer CD-Wow has been ordered to pay £41m to the British Phonographic Industry. The London High Court ruled that Hong Kong-based CD-Wow, which imports cheap (but genuine) CDs from Hong Kong and elsewhere into the U.K., is '"in substantial breach" of a 2004 agreement to stop importing CDs.' This is a serious blow to proponents of an open, no-barrier music market."
Science

Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky 1166

Posted by Zonk from the see-where-you-are-wrong-is-everywhere dept.
Noel Linback writes "A new creationism-espousing museum is opening in the state of Kentucky. According to a New York Times article the museum depicts humans and dinosaurs living together in traditional 'diorama' style exhibit. 'Whether you are willing to grant the premises of this museum almost becomes irrelevant as you are drawn into its mixture of spectacle and narrative. Its 60,000 square feet of exhibits are often stunningly designed by Patrick Marsh, who, like the entire museum staff, declares adherence to the ministry's views; he evidently also knows the lure of secular sensations, since he designed the Jaws and King Kong attractions at Universal Studios in Florida. For the skeptic the wonder is at a strange universe shaped by elaborate arguments, strong convictions and intermittent invocations of scientific principle. For the believer, it seems, this museum provides a kind of relief: Finally the world is being shown as it really is, without the distortions of secularism and natural selection. '"

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