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http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/...55E1702,00.html From correspondents in Los Angeles 17jan06 A CORVETTE sports car stolen when it was brand new in New York 37 years ago had been recovered in California and would be returned to its rightful owner, authorities said. The 1968 car, which vanished from Alan Poster's garage in the borough of Queens on January 22, 1969, was identified as stolen as it was being loaded on a container ship for Sweden last November, US Department of Homeland Security spokesman Mike Fleming said. The car had recently been purchased for $US10,000 ($13,300) by a man in Sweden who was unaware it had been stolen nearly four decades earlier, Mr Fleming said. Since Mr Poster's insurance at the time did not cover the Corvette's theft and he was never compensated, he was entitled to get it back. "When the California Highway Patrol contacted him, he said it's a miracle. He's very excited about it. He's flying in tomorrow," Mr Fleming said. He said Mr Poster had since moved to California and long ago gave up hope of seeing the car again. The Corvette, which was originally painted blue with a matching interior, is now silver with a red interior. It is missing the gas tank, has a new engine and transmission and no longer ran, Mr Fleming said. California Highway Patrol officer Joe Zizi said investigators had determined the Swedish man purchased the car from a man in Texas, who in turn bought it from someone in New Mexico. None of them was involved in the theft or was aware it had been stolen, Mr Zizi said. He said that after the Corvette was found to be a stolen car, detectives in New York were contacted and spent a month sifting through about 10,000 archived stolen car reports to find the original owner.

Wonder who will put in a complaint this year? Easy fixed!

Itś a good look, isn?t it?

Hmm... The question I have though is why use media you have to play around with to get a decent result? I?ve never set the write speed for a burn yet ---- I digress... Yes. You can set the write speed individually for each disk image. Add an image to the queue and set its MAX WRITE SPEED. Select another image and set the write speed again. Can?t say I?ve ever tried it but the function is there. EDIT: Corrected speeling mistak. Goddam linux making me double-tap the ? key.

My paranoia serves me well.

Why dump it? I?ve still got a 105 and a 106 in other machines. Great drives. A bit slow these days but still great drives. Reliable as hell too. Never a bad burn that wasn?t my fault somehow or bad media. The 109s I mostly use these days will do me nicely for the forseeable future. <shrug>

For you overseas type people who don't understand Aussie slang, below is a link to a pair of "budgie smugglers" mentioned in the commercial. http://www.wwwildcats.com/images/Syd%20Bod...de/151_5177.jpg

Alright gang. The new Australia Day ad for lamb aired for the first time last night. Some of it might only be funny to we Aussies but have a look anyways. http://www.mla.com.au/TopicHierarchy/Marke...mb+campaign.htm

As noted above, I'm totally gun ignorant. I'd be guessing that it wouldn't matter where you got hit with the 50mm or the M1 - you'd still be dead. <shrug> Even a blank round from a 9mm pistol can blow the bark off a tree.

I never miss an episode. Great show. Yeah. I'm the same (gun ignorant, that is). Impressive stuff. A person wouldn't think a shell that can pierce a tank at half a mile (the 50mm gun) could be stopped by just 18 inches of water. Very impressive.

Check it out: http://www.ammoman.com/gunshots.html

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2148516/...-caught-rootkit Sony BMG saga all over again? Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 13 Jan 2006 Security vendor Symantec has admitted to using a rootkit-like technology in its Norton SystemWorks appliction. The company admitted in a security advisory that the technology hides a directory from the user and the operating system. "Files in the directory might not be scanned during scheduled or manual virus scans. This could potentially provide a location for an attacker to hide a malicious file on a computer," the vendor stated. The technology aims to help the user recover files without running the risk of accidentally deleting them. "In light of current techniques used by malicious attackers, Symantec has re-evaluated the value of hiding this directory," the advisory continued. The security vendor has published an update that can be downloaded through Symantec LiveUpdate. The update requires a system reboot. The firm emphasised that it is not aware of any attempts by hackers or worm authors to exploit the feature. Symantec credited fellow security vendor F-Secure and software developer Mark Russinovich with finding the vulnerability.

Happy birthday, mate!

call macrovision they might have some software laying around that can sort the problem out LOL!!!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...TL&type=bondage (01-10) 19:26 PST PERTH, Australia (AP) -- A woman stabbed her boyfriend with a pair of scissors because he repeatedly played the Elvis Presley hit "Burning Love" on the King's birthday, police said Tuesday. The 35-year-old man was treated for six stab wounds to his head, back and legs at the hospital in the farming town of Northam in Western Australia state late Monday night but was allowed to go home, state police spokeswoman Ros Weatherall said. His girlfriend was charged with unlawful wounding and was to appear in a Northam court Tuesday. "Police will allege ... the 30-year-old woman stabbed the man with a pair of scissors during an argument over him playing the same Elvis Presley song again and again," a police media statement said. Police said the man was stabbed late on the 71st anniversary of Elvis's birth.

Can't be done. You need other tools for this. Try doom9.org for software and guides.

Who the hell knows? CMC MAG media are "hit and miss" at the best of times. It wouldn't surprise anyone to see radically different results between several tests.

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Yeppers. Bouncing the problem email so the sending server thinks that the address doesn't exist is an even better idea.

Or asked one that would preclude multiple answers. Leave your sarcasm at the door. Nobody has to put up with a dickhead. eg.. What images? Audio/video sync problems when converting between .bin, .nrg, .pdi or iso images? Between vob/ifo files and divx? Mp4 to DVD files? XVid to DVD? Ask a proper question and you just might get a proper answer. Video conversion from one format to another takes up a huge amount of resources. It always has and always will. Be specific about what you want to do and we can be specific about our preferences, what tools we use and why. Your turn.

Supreme Court won't hear spam appeal By Anne Broache Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: January 9, 2006, 10:00 AM PST The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from an online dating service that claimed it had the right to send unsolicited e-mails to thousands of University of Texas e-mail accounts. In 2003, the University of Texas blocked thousands of unsolicited e-mails sent to its users by White Buffalo Ventures, an Austin, Texas, start-up that specializes in establishing online-dating services for third-party customers. The site in question was LonghornSingles.com, which targets the university's vast student population. In February 2003, White Buffalo legally obtained a list of all of the university's "nonconfidential, nonexempt" e-mail addresses by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, according to the text of a federal appeals court opinion (click here for .pdf) released in August. Soon thereafter, the University of Texas received several complaints by students receiving "unsolicited e-mail blasts" from the company, according to court filings. Citing its Board of Regents' general policy against solicitation, the university ordered the spamming to stop. When White Buffalo didn't listen, the university had its IP addresses blocked. White Buffalo responded with a lawsuit, alleging that the federal Can-Spam Act pre-empted the university's policy and that blocking its IP addresses violated the company's First Amendment right to free speech. A federal trial court in Western Texas sided with the university, and a three-judge panel at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in August. The appeals court also concluded that the Can-Spam Act wasn't intended to prevent Internet service providers, including those run by public universities, from filtering spam--though the court did suggest that the University of Texas could have taken narrower steps to do so. The case appeared to be the first to address that aspect of Can-Spam. Neither the university nor White Buffalo Ventures could be immediately reached for comment Monday.

http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/artic...0413&cat_id=643 In a body-blow to spammers, US-based Internet service provider - CIS Internet Services, has been awarded a whopping $11.2 billion in damages, in a judgement against a Florida spammer who allegedly sent millions of unsolicited e-mails to CIS' users. The latest judgement ruled by US District Judge, Charles R Wolle, on 23 December, 2005, also prohibits spammer McCalla from accessing the Internet for 3 years. Robert Kramer, owner of CIS, had filed a lawsuit against James McCalla and other defendants in 2003, alleging that over 280 million spam email messages were sent to CIS email accounts. The emails advertised mortgages, debt consolidation services, plus pornographic and gambling Web sites. Several of the initial defendants named in Kramer's suit, have been dropped in the last couple of years; with judgements totaling over $1 billion issued against Cash Link Systems, AMP Dollar Savings, and TEI Marketing Group. Kramer said that he is pleased with the latest ruling, and that its a victory for every email user and every responsible ISP. He said that the ruling sets a new standard, and that gross abusers of email risk not only exposure to public ridicule, but also economic death penalty. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant, Sophos, welcomed the judgement saying that spam is not just a nuisance for individual computer users, but also for ISPs who are hit in the pocket by having to pay for the band-width to deliver and store hundreds of millions of messages. However John Mozena, co-founder and vice president, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (CAUCE), expressed the view that Kramer's lawsuit is unlikely to make a significant dent in the spamming problem. He said what is really required is a federal anti-spam law in USA, akin to that in countries like Australia.

Round 2 was a non-event. The next few days are looking a bit dodgy though. http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/busi...om=search_10day *sigh* On a brighter note: I'm going to make an effort to get my old Amiga 4000/40 running while I'm on holidays. It'll be interesting to see if I can remember how to drive it.

Close but no cigar. http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=478121 JR dolls don't count.