I am not sure if this is good
Bush Pushes High-Speed Internet Access by 2007
 
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - President Bush on Friday urged affordable high-speed Internet access be available to all Americans by 2007 and that they have several choices for the service known as broadband.
 
"We ought to have universal, affordable access to broadband technology by the year 2007," Bush said in a speech in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "And then we ought to make sure that as soon as possible thereafter consumers have plenty of choices..."
 
Telephone and cable companies like Verizon Communications and Comcast Corp. have been fiercely competing to sign up customers to high-speed Internet service, which is seen as a lucrative market.

Wow, New York. You really suck
I just received this from my friend Harold a non-smoker bar owner who admire for fighting for bar patron rights at his bar the Raven (12th St & Ave A).

Some friends of mine came back from a concert tonight at Webster Hall complaining bitterly about their experience there tonight.
It wasn't just the fact that they are herded like cattle through Webster Hall's security check points, or that the sound system sucked, or even the $9 beers and $30 admission..

It was the fact that Webster Hall charges $2 to any patron that wants to go outside for a smoke. Talk about taking advantage of a bad situation.
You may remember that back in July members of NYNA (including myself) were invited to come speak to the employees of Webster Hall about our upcoming rally on July 24th.

Just as we were about to speak we got a stern warning from the club's manager that Webster Hall in no way supports NYNA and it's fight against the smoking ban. We were warned not to try and recruit any employees for membership in NYNA either.
Not very nice people to say the least. No wonder they don't want to fight the ban. It's more profitable to bleed $ from the smokers than to fight for their rights.

I said it then and I'll say it now, F*** Webster Hall!

Can the Ban
Harold

Thank you Harold for this email, I will never go to Webster Hall again.

California man has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google
A California man has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google.
According to court papers he claimed that if they did not pay, he would release a piece of software to spammers to generate fake advertising hits and cost them millions.

The man, Michael Bradley, was so sure that the folks at Google would pay up, he even turned up at their offices for a meeting to sell his software. By then, federal law enforcement agents were already on the case and videotaped the alleged extortion attempt.


The software that Bradley designed would have flooded the Google advertisements with fake clicks, potentially costing the company millions of dollars. Google pays Web publishers a fee for each click on the pop-ups the site generates. He threatened to give the software to the top 100 spammers in the meeting with Google's officials, court papers released on Friday show.

According to the papers, he also offered his services as a consultant engineer to help the search engine stop other advertising fraud.

After he didn't hear back from the search engine staff about a payment, he allegedly sent an e-mail saying he would release the software to the public--and the spammers--the following week. He was then met by someone whom he likely expected to be a Google executive clutching a big bag of money, but who turned out to be a federal agent with an arrest warrant.

Bradley was released on $50,000 bail, on the condition he has no contact with his computer or Google.
Man arrested for allegedly extorting Google | CNET News.com

Sea World Biometrically Scanning Visitors at Its Parks
Watch an 8 minute video clip on biometrics at Sea World and how they are using a biometric to athenticate season pass holders. It funny to see people that are amazed at the technology but don't think of the data being collected.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/video/biometric_seaworld.WMV

Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order Sea World Biometrically Scanning Visitors at Its Parks

Exploding $20 bills, I think this is funny
Is the story about the amazing exploding $20 true or false?
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Is the story about the amazing exploding $20 true or false? Declan McCullagh is a great guy who writes for some major technology publications and I've interviewed him frequently over recent years. McCullagh has posted an AIM Global (RFID industry mouthpiece) press release titled, "the Myth of the Amazing Exploding $20 Bill." to his popular technology web site.

Let's get one thing straight. In some microwaves, the new $20 do indeed catch on fire in the center of Andrew Jackson's face. They only brown and then blacken after 30 seconds in my home microwave, but in my office microwave they catch on fire.

The story all started about 3 weeks ago when Henry Makow emailed us a photo and accompanying article concerning the exploding $20 bills. My webmaster in England for PrisonPlanet.com didn't have any dollars, but his brother did have Euros. They put them in the microwave, and within 3 seconds there was a pop in the center of the bill. A small hole was burned in the center. They turned the microwave of so as not to lose themoney. I then tested the new $20s and the the aforementioned results.

We have seen dozens of mainstream news articles talking about RFID chips being imbedded in the new Euro notes as well as plans to put them in other currencies of the world. Since 1998 a magnetic strip, a primitive form of RFID that can be scanned from a distance, has been in all denominations from $5 up. In McCullagh's story, he talks about a scientific lab at AIM North
testing an RFID chip. They describe the chip popping like a tiny firecracker.

More research needs to be done on this before it is declared that there are no RFIDs in the money, when the government is publicly stating that they are planning on putting it in the money.

I have had a lot of feedback from listeners on this. About half say it pops, while the other half say it doesn't. We got the email from Henry Makow, checked it out here and in the UK and it worked for us.
Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order -- Featured Cartoon --Is the story about the amazing exploding $20 true or false?

Allen donates millions to hunt for aliens
source: USA Today / Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, one of the richest men on Earth, pledged Friday to donate $13.5 million for the research into extra-terrestrial life.

Paul Allen's fascination with technology extends to space; he's helping to fund a telescope that will look for aliens.
By Don Ryan, AP

With the contribution, Allen will have given $25 million for the construction of the Allen Telescope Array , a network of 350 radio telescopes being built to find signs of life in space, said Thomas Pierson, director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute.

The radio telescopes will measure the density of the early universe, the formation of stars and magnetic fields.

They will also be capable of searching for "possible signals from technologically advanced civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy," according to a SETI statement.

The announcement of Allen's donation coincided with the completion of the project's research and development phases, which Allen funded with an $11.5-million donation.

The $13.5-million donation will pay for the first two phases of construction of the ATA, according to the statement.

One network of 32 telescopes will be available for research by the end of 2004 and the entire network of 350 telescopes will be completed "late in the decade," it said.

SETI and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory of the University of California at Berkley teamed up for the ATA project.

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilizations may exist elsewhere," Allen said in a ceremony in Mountain View, Calif., where SETI is based.
USATODAY.com - Allen donates millions to hunt for aliens