Hard core kiddie porn and Trekkies

From an LA Times article on detectives tracking down those who make hard core kiddie porn All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie. Det. Constable Warren Bulmer slips on…

Anti-spyware

Everyone, and mean everyone, is saying CounterSpy is currently the best anti spyware program. $19.95 a year. Seasoned experts like the pros at Windows Secrets recommended it recently in their newsletter. They also advise running multiple programs, not just one.…

S.F. radio station going all podcasts

San Francisco’s 1550 KYCY, an AM station, is becoming KYOURadio and will be the first podcast-based station in the world. The Infinity Broadcasting station is inviting podcasters to submit content for broadcasting. The station plans to get all its programming…

A booming growth industry

U.S. prison population soars in 2003, ’04 While the crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released. Politicians get elected by screaming “let’s git tough…

The ‘military-industrial-congressional’ complex

That’s what Ike first called it. The penultimate draft of the address in which Republican President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term referred to the military-industrial-congressional complex, but it is…

Hmmm

On Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast a few days back, Curry, a political conservative who rarely mentions politics, he said he grew up in the States where police and military are respected and has found the opposite to be…

Dept. of the Obvious

US Teenagers abuse prescription drugs, OTC medications to get high 18 percent of teenagers abused Vicodin and 10 percent OxyContin – both are prescription painkillers. 10 percent tried the prescription stimulants Ritalin or Adderall without a doctor’s prescription. 9 percent…