"Wired - Hackers get the message in Canada"

"The court cannot ignore the fact that the computer world which is poised to face a dazzling expansion and will become, like other types of payment or communications means invented by our societies, the theater of more and more fertile criminal acts," the judge wrote.
Lavoie, a security consultant with the Quebec-based financial institution Desjardins-Laurentian, was sentenced to 12 months of community service and placed on 12 months of probation.
He was also ordered not to touch a computer or surf the Internet over the next 12 months, except on the job and under surveillance.

"MilkSucks - Beer vs. Milk"

Beer doesn't contain hormones or antibiotics, while milk contains an ever-increasing variety of the pesticides and antibiotics fed to cows, including rBGH, the notorious growth hormone that can give guys breasts.
Beer has half a gram of fiber in every cup; milk has no fiber whatsoever.

"Excite - Police Raid Erotic Barber Shop"

When the place was raided, Lajeunesse said police found two clients who had finished being served, and two men who were waiting to be seen.
Police found the 28-year-old owner of the salon with a client. They were naked and playing with a vibrator, oils and Kleenex.
Police also found pornographic videos and magazines throughout the salon. The salon has one small room for haircutting and three back rooms with sofas and video machines playing porno movies.

"Wired - Alternative Net Protects Pirates"

Freenet is an open-source file-transfer system similar to the Web for sharing digital content such as HTML pages and MP3 music files. It will be run by connected clusters of servers or node stations that could in turn be run on almost any PC connected to the Internet. But unlike the Web, Freenet has no centralized administrative infrastructure of domain name servers (DNS) and IP addresses that can be used to track users. Hosting and replicating documents and files requires that Freenet backers volunteer their time and resources.

"CNNfn - Verisign buys Network Solutions"

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - VeriSign Inc. agreed to acquire Network Solutions Inc. for $21 billion in stock Tuesday, creating an online powerhouse that can shepherd companies onto the Internet and help them establish and maintain their e-commerce identity.
The surprise deal unites the world's leading provider of Internet domain name registrations, Network Solutions, with the nation's leading provider of e-commerce and e-mail security, creating a company that will begin with more than 12 million worldwide subscribers.

"Mollers SkyCar"

Can any automobile give you this scenario? From your garage to your destination, the M400 Skycar cruises comfortably at 350+ MPH at 15 miles per gallon. No traffic, no red lights, no speeding tickets. Just quiet direct transportation from point A to point B in a fraction of the time. Three dimensional mobility for the same price as two dimensional mobility.

"MyBCNews - Judge says Butt'Out"

The United States has more drug problems than any country he knows of, despite tough sentencing, said Robert Metzger.
It has no business criticizing British Columbia or Canada for what it considers to be lax treatment of drug dealers, said Metzger, chief judge of the B.C. Provincial Court.
"I want to say to them: 'Don't talk to me about how to get rid of a drug problem,' " he said. "You hand out long sentences and your jails are full of people, but your problem isn't going away.

"NYTimes - Who needs a Diploma?"

A couple of years ago, just before Dan Hammans dropped out of high school, his guidance counselor told him that he would never earn more than $15,000 a year, that he would never hold a job for more than six months at a time and that, to put it plainly, he would never amount to anything. "He pretty much told me I was a loser," Dan says. He is sitting in his 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse, which is fire-engine red, cost $23,000 and boasts 210 horsepower off the factory floor -- though with Dan's modifications, that's up to 260.