A Benefit To Driving While Yakking: Bullet Stopping

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Cingular Not Guilty In
Driving-While-Yakking Crash

Cingular Not Guilty In
Driving-While-Yakking Crash 06/04/2004 11:25 PM
There's a great old Bloom County strip where the the lawyer character, Steve Dallas, gets beaten up by Sean Penn for trying to snap a paparazzi style photo of a drunk Penn. The strip focuses on Steve Dallas trying to figure out "who to sue?" He goes through a variety of options and explains why they're no good ("never sue poor people") and finally decides that the obvious choice is to sue Nikon, the camera maker, for not putting a warning label on their cameras that photographing drunken celebrities may lead to harm. This story comes to mind following the news that a woman has sued Cingular, the mobile phone company, after a driver hit her car while talking on his mobile phone. She also sued the driver of the car, but hoped to get the big money from the wireless carrier. Even more amazing is that after losing in a lower court, she appealed thinking that higher level judges would somehow accept her reasoning. Thankfully, they didn't. The Court of Appeals has tossed out the case as well: "A cellular phone does not cause a driver to wreck a car. Rather, it is the driver's inattention while using the phone that may cause an accident."

Eating A Meal More Distracting, More
Common Than Driving While Yakking

Eating A Meal More Distracting, More
Common Than Driving While Yakking 05/11/2004 05:14 AM
Not that we're suggesting everyone run out and drive dangerously, but for all the hype around the idea that "driving while yakking" on a mobile phone needs to be stopped, more people eat while driving - even though most consider it to be more dangerous. What this comes down to is that there are many different types of driver distractions. Simply picking one to pull out and ban raises questions about how come other activities aren't banned. The focus should be on educating people on the dangers of distracted driving - rather than having everyone focus in on a narrow problem that doesn't address the larger issue.

Survey Says: No Yakking On Planes

Survey Says: No Yakking On Planes 04/09/2005 02:55 PM
TechWeb Apr 9 2005 6:35PM GMT

InformationWeek > Poll Rejects
In-Flight Cell-Phone Use > Survey
Says: No Yakking On Planes > April 8,
2005

InformationWeek > Poll Rejects
In-Flight Cell-Phone Use > Survey
Says: No Yakking On Planes > April 8,
2005 04/11/2005 03:49 AM
Survey Says: No Yakking On Planes .. most people find this offensive

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Stopping the Internet tax

Stopping the Internet tax 11/13/2003 01:46 AM
Washington Times Nov 13 2003 0:51AM ET

Stopping short

Stopping short 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
A U.N. report says that the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, constitutes "crimes against humanity," but not genocide.

No Stopping Starbucks

No Stopping Starbucks 07/22/2004 11:10 AM
The appetite for Starbucks shows no sign of abating.

Stopping SPAM

Stopping SPAM 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
In the April 2005 issue of Scientific American, read an in-depth feature on what can be done to staunch the flood of SPAM email messages and the future of anti-spam technology. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

There's No Stopping eBay

There's No Stopping eBay 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
Fortune May 19 2004 9:31PM GMT

Stopping spam at the source

Stopping spam at the source 08/23/2004 06:22 AM
New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work.

Report: Stopping Spam

Report: Stopping Spam 09/13/2004 10:32 AM
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is definitely worth a look for mail administrators.

Where's The Money In Spam? In Stopping
It

Where's The Money In Spam? In Stopping
It 12/02/2003 12:12 AM
I doubt this is all that surprising, but a new report suggests that anti-spam companies will bring in noticeably more revenue than the spammers themselves. Of course, creating anti-spam products actually takes some work, whereas spam is the job of lazy people who have no longterm vision, but just want money as quickly and as easily as possible. Still, when you look at the amount of money spent on both sides, it's fairly stunning just how much money moves due to spam.

Stopping Spam Patented (Again)

Stopping Spam Patented (Again) 06/02/2004 10:10 AM
Earlier this year, we noted that Postini had receive d a patent for the incredibly obvious concept of anti-spam filtering. Well, it looks like they may be in for some competition, because Network Associates/McAfee has now been awarded a patent for an idea that (sarcasm alert) no one could have possibly come up with prior to December 2002 when they applied for it: us ing a combination of methods such as "filters, paragraph hashing, and Bayes rules" to stop spam. What this really means is that there are now going to be anti-spam patent battles which will slow down the process of stopping spam, and do no one any good, other than a few lawyers who will get rich. Why can't these companies just compete in the marketplace? Still, it would be great if, at some point, AT&T finally made it clear why they patented spamming itself last year.

Stopping Malware Before It Hits

Stopping Malware Before It Hits 11/16/2003 06:14 PM
SpudGunMan writes "John Lockwood, Ph.D, an assistant professor of computer science at Washington University, and the graduate students that work in his ...

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam?

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam? 05/10/2004 05:50 PM

Stopping Hillary before she starts

Stopping Hillary before she starts 04/12/2005 10:56 AM
Although the senator denies any interest in the presidency, she's becoming the No. 1 target of the right's attack machine.

I'm stopping the bl0gging thing for a
while

I'm stopping the bl0gging thing for a
while 10/30/2003 08:17 PM
And I'll miss it. I am moving poorbuthappy.com to a new server. I have managed to make the colombia section work, with all its functionality and mod_rewrite crazyness. I haven't been able to install MT. I also haven't been able...

Bullet Trains

Bullet Trains 01/04/2004 12:23 AM

Japan's maglev train sets record: CNN had a story on Headline News about maglev trains and it got the geek in me all excited. They mentioned this one.

The experimental three-car maglev was carrying passengers when it set the world's top speed for a train, clocking at 581 kph (361 mph)...

Now, here's the deal: 600 m.p.h. in a plane is not really a problem, because there's nothing to run into in the air (I know, I know — other planes, buildings, the ground...don't get smart). But 361 m.p.h. on train tracks? On the ground? Where there are things like cars, and cows, and school buses full of little children that could end up on the tracks? That 361 m.p.h. would seem so much faster if you ran into something.

It happened in 1998 in Germany. One hundred twenty people died when abullet train derailed and hit an overpass. And it was only travelling at 175 mp.h.

I don't want to be alarmist or anything, but that kind of speed, that close to stuff that's as unforgiving as an overpass just makes me a little nervous. And it's only a matter of time before Jon Voight and Tom Cruise get into a fight on top of one of them, and then what happens?

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Number One with a Bullet

Number One with a Bullet 05/07/2004 03:06 PM
Alliant Techsystems brings in record revenues on small-arms ammo.

Biting the bullet

Biting the bullet 05/10/2004 11:30 AM
A woman in Irvine, California claimed she bit into a hot dog and ended up chomping down on a live 9 mm bullet. Police opened the rest of the hot dog packages at the Costco store that sold the woman the wiener but didn't find any more bullets. Meanwhile, the woman, suffering from a tummy ache, visited a hospital where x-rays revealed another round inside her stomach. Link

Maddux Wins No. 299 by Stopping Brewers
(AP)

Maddux Wins No. 299 by Stopping Brewers
(AP) 07/27/2004 11:07 PM
AP - Greg Maddux moved within one win of No. 300, and Sammy Sosa homered and doubled in a run in the Chicago Cubs' 7-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.

Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies

Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies 05/24/2004 08:21 PM

Where's The Backup Plan For Stopping
Spam?

Where's The Backup Plan For Stopping
Spam? 01/17/2004 10:47 PM
Normally, if you're trying to solve a difficult problem, you have a few different plans. If something doesn't work, you need to be ready to move onto plan B. I've been asking since the CAN SPAM bill was passed, how is the government planning to measure how successful (or not) it's been - and what's plan B? Now that it's becoming increasingly clear that CAN SPAM hasn't been even remotely successful - and has basically done nothing to slow down the rise of spam, I want to know again, what is the government's plan B? They were so proud of themselves for passing CAN SPAM, yet they included no money for enforcement, no way to measure how successful it was, and no plan B. In other words, yet another law that makes for a good press release, and a good sound bite at election time, but does nothing to solve a problem.

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Maxim Magazine has selected its sandwich of the year: the Fat Darrell (invented by Darrell Butler during his sophomore year at Rutgers University) contains chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries. Maxim lauds it for its "drunken ingenuity."

"So, I'm standing there eating it, and all of a sudden the guy standing behind me says, 'That thing that guy's eating looks pretty good, can you make me one of those?' And, it was like a movie scene, the next 10 people order the same thing. So, I'm like, 'Whoa!' like I think I might be onto something. And the guy is like, 'Hey, man, this is cool.'"

That guy who assembled the sandwich was Abdul Eid, working in an R.U. Hungry food truck, parked in a campus lot in New Brunswick, catering to beer-soaked undergraduates with the late-night munchies.

Eid now runs R.U. Hungry Grill & Pizza, a store he was able to open in part due to the success of the $4.75 Fat Darrell, the flagship of R.U.'s "Fat" line.

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Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam

Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam 04/11/2005 11:55 PM

Stopping Computer Viruses Before They
Reach You

Stopping Computer Viruses Before They
Reach You 11/12/2003 01:33 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) announced that one of its computer science teams has developed a new technology to stop computer viruses and worms before they reach your system. John Lockwood and his team didn't use software. Instead, they created an open platform that augments a network with reprogrammable hardware, called the Field-programmable Port Extender (FPX). "The FPX can scan each and every byte of every data packet transmitted through a network at a rate of 2.4 billion bits per second. In other words, the FPX could scan every word in the entire works of Shakespeare in about 1/60th of a second," said Lockwood. Real products based on the technology should appear soon. More excerpts and references are contained in my blog which also includes a photograph of an FPX module." I'm a little confused as to what the big deal is about this. It's basically doing two things: put antivirus protection at the network level instead of the end client, which isn't a new idea at all and using an FPGA hardware solution instead of software (which they seem to be saying is faster). Am I missing something, or is this not that big of a deal?

Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups

Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups 02/11/2003 08:33 AM
Well, that's easy to correct: go to toolbar.google.com, and download Google Toolbar, which brings all of the most useful features of Google--plus a couple of ...

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In the past, many companies relied on desktop antivirus software to protect against malicious code. Antivirus firm Trend Micro champions a different strategy: The company aims to filter out viruses at the corporate gateway, before they ever reach the desktop. How does this approach fit into the overall enterprise security picture?

Et Cetera: please put a bullet in my
bibliography

Et Cetera: please put a bullet in my
bibliography 11/04/2003 08:16 PM

#3 with a bullet, #5 and dropping -
simultaneously

#3 with a bullet, #5 and dropping -
simultaneously 03/22/2005 04:45 PM

So I awoke this morning to find us BOTH at #3 on DayPop - with a bullet and in the #5 position and dropping.

Then I went to the site and it's down - as we're moving it onto new machines and we don't got no staging server. Thus is the ways of open source, free software.

But it'll be back up soon - so the Scripti ng News covered, Slashdotting, BoingBoinged, Doc-erli zed, DayPop tracked, end-user enjoyed experience can continue.

Bullet 'addressed to Adams'

Bullet 'addressed to Adams' 09/04/2004 08:25 AM
One of 12 bullets intercepted in the post was addressed to the home of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.

Man Wakes Up With a Bullet in His Tongue
(AP)

Man Wakes Up With a Bullet in His Tongue
(AP) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
AP - Police say a man who woke up with a serious headache walked 12 blocks to a hospital with a swollen lip and powder burns. Doctors discovered the problem. 47-year-old Wendell Coleman had a bullet lodged in his tongue.

Bullet Proof Connection v3.0

Bullet Proof Connection v3.0 01/17/2004 10:58 PM
Bullet Proof Connection is an intelligent internet surfing simulator that prevents you from being disconnected from your Internet Service Provider(ISP). The simulator tricks the ISP into believing that the internet activities are active. By using Bullet Proof Connection the so-called 'Unlimited Internet Access' will now become a reality!Bullet Proof Connection has been tested on over 800 computers. [Shareware $15.00 30 Days 533 KB]

No silver bullet for security

No silver bullet for security 04/15/2004 07:42 AM
vnunet.com Apr 15 2004 12:30PM GMT

The Dying Art of Bullet Making

The Dying Art of Bullet Making 06/24/2005 07:07 PM

Who knew that bullet making was quickly becoming an old fashioned activity? I you want a low tech how-to, this one’s for you: “Like darning socks, making bullets is a dying art. Used to be just about everyone with a need for ammo poured their own, using iron or even wooden molds. These days only a few diehard hobbyists still do it, and they use aluminum molds. But even fewer people still make silver bullets….

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Panda Chooses Mailshell for Stopping
Spam

Panda Chooses Mailshell for Stopping
Spam 09/23/2004 07:47 PM
Panda Software says it's dropping its own anti-spam technology and "going with a leader" by integrating Mailshell into the full range of its products, from enterprise security appliances to desktop consumer anti-virus products.

stopping discrimination, part
5,394--Money Talks

stopping discrimination, part
5,394--Money Talks 12/24/2003 04:53 PM
"It's good policy and good business." NYC's Employees Retirement System (5 funds managing $78.6 billion in holdings) is targeting Fortune 500 companies to adopt policies that specifically bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. One of them, CSX Corp., didn't even wait for their shareholder meeting, but immediately amended their policy in response. These funds recently had great success after a decade-long battle with Cracker Barrel Restaurants--infamous for firing gay and lesbian employees because they don't “demonstrate normal heterosexual values." Here's wishing an especially happy holiday to employees of those companies that have stopped discriminating and hopes for many more to join in. More info on this "shareholder activism" at The Equality Project.

There is no anti-spyware silver bullet

There is no anti-spyware silver bullet 06/30/2004 07:34 AM
Plenty of base metal about though, consultants warn

Et Cetera: someone put a bullet in
Comcast's service

Et Cetera: someone put a bullet in
Comcast's service 01/06/2004 02:29 PM
Round up including Googles news, the Athlon 64 3400+, and a complaint about Napster 2.0.
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