Random Linkage

• New York Police Department wants option to shut down cell phone networks in case of terrorist attacks.  The benefit to the attacked of having cell coverage far outweights the benefit of shutting down terrorists’ cells - they will just choose different communication strategies.  Comments veer in to 9/11 attack lessons, and poster Trev keeps showing wrongness there, too
• Hard to identify all the stupid here - man fired for scripting error that changed settings across multiple Unix servers (page 4, items #13), but allowed to work to end of day and his accounts were not immediately disabled (page 4, item #14 &15).  He inserts a logic bomb in another script which would have wiped out 4,000 servers had it not been caught first.  Now he is under indictment for his misdeeds (via Threat Level)
• Can parked in short-term parking spot in Austria accumulates $27,500 in tickets over 2 years
  

  The second-hand Fiat Uno, worth around $6,500, was left in the spot when the two Romanian immigrants who had been using it were arrested and deported, reported the Austrian Times.

  Although the owner, who now lives in France, refused to pay the fine, local laws prevent towing cars unless they block traffic.

• Paying $180,000 to clone a dog that died of cancer.  I love my pets, but they are still just pets
  

  Ed and Nina Otto are two rich crybabies that just couldn’t deal with the cancer death of their dog Sir Lancelot Encore in January, 2008. So what did the couple do? Be happy with their eight other dogs? Adopt another one from the pound? Hell no, that would be too logical. Instead, the Otto’s paid $155,000 to have Sir Crapalot cloned by South Korean company BioArts International.

• No matter your political views, threatening to assassinate the President is ALWAYS a bad choice
  

  Instead, the 20-year-old Colorado man is staring down a maximum of 10 years in the slammer for his alleged recent e-mails sent directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation threatening to “assassinate” President Barack Obama. Another message said he had “rigged 40 pounds of C4″ to blow up vehicles in the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis, according to an indictment (.pdf).

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