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  2. Banned for farting

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    http://www.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/national/article/boy_accused_of_breaking_wind_on_bus_is_booted/14021/

    “Jonathan passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh and it is so stink that you can’t breathe after he does it,” the bus driver wrote in a disciplinary note levying the three-day suspension.

    LAKELAND. Fla. — It’s a practiced art among most middle-school boys: passing gas and blaming it on someone nearby.

    It has been going on for years, maybe decades — heck, maybe since the dawn of mankind. It’s always, well, usually funny. But beware of laughing out loud at farts. It could land you and your sense of humor in the toilet.

    Just ask Jonathan Locke Jr., a Polk County eighth-grader who got blamed for farting on a school bus this week and ended up being banned from the bus for three days. It wasn’t the farting that resulted in his ouster; it was the disruption that followed, school officials said.

    “I guess it was just because I was laughing so hard,” he said Thursday. “I don’t know.”

    The 15-year-old attends the Bill Duncan Excel Center, an alternative school in Lakeland. Jonathan denied making the sound on the bus Monday. He said a friend was making fart sounds with his mouth.

    That cracked him up, he said. Then came a rank odor, which made the situation hysterical, he said. “I just thought it was funny.”

    A day later, when Jonathan walked on the bus to go home, he was handed a note telling him he had been barred from the bus for three days.

    “Jonathan passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh and it is so stink that you can’t breathe after he does it,” the bus driver wrote in a disciplinary note levying the three-day suspension.

    Jonathan’s father, Jonathan Locke Sr., said the school went a bit too far in the flatulence fracas. He said the ordeal has disrupted his son’s education.

    “I don’t know how they can do it, but apparently they can,” Locke Sr. said. “They say it’s disrupting the bus and they can do whatever they want to if it comes to disrupting the children on the bus.”

    Polk County School District officials either declined to talk about the matter or didn’t respond to messages Thursday.

  4. Reynoldsburg Police told to write more tickets

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    http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/03/20/story_tickets.html?sid=102

    Every officer's primary duty is to serve and protect," he said. "What they're doing here is they're making their primary duty, basically, to generate and collect revenue."

    Reynoldsburg police officers who fail to initiate 18 tickets by the end of March were told that they would receive 90-day evaluation letters, along with letters of counseling, Kocot reported.

  6. Happy Birthday Justin0469!!!

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    23??? damn I thought you were older then that... like around 29 or 30... I mean look at ya!! 00020086.gif styling and profiling... you in a nutshell... :D

    yayayaya I've always heard that. I suppose when I actually am 30 it won't be a good thing anymore. You so knew I was 23:nono:

    EDIT: woooo I just got my first bright green rep, i feel accepted now :D

  8. IPhone vs. Storm....advice please!!!

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    This is so wrong, it's a free upgrade for the FIRMWARE. You can abosolutely upgrade to the 3.x firmware free of charge. It will work on your phone just fine. There is talk of an exchange program, turn in your phone for a credit towards the new version.

    You could be right, I was just quoted what I read on the internet. Everyone knows if you read it on the interweb it must be true! ;)

  17. Keyboard sniffing

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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10200631-83.html

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10072967-83.html?tag=mncol;txt

    http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/

    Basically, it's possible to figure out what you are typing from a wired or wireless keyboard via laser, PC power cable (if you share the power in the building with them and the keyboard is PS/2) or picking up and interpretting the electromagnetic emanations from up to 65 feet away. Can even be applied to ATMs... Crazy. Be careful what you type....:p

  20. Laser WMD

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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10200199-1.html

    This laser gun zaps mosquitoes

    by Juniper Foo

    mosquito_300x280_270x251.jpg(Credit: ariadna)

    With news of a new kind of dengue emerging in Singapore, this sounds like a job for...a mosquito laser zapper! Punnily dubbed a "weapon of mosquito destruction" (WMD), scientists are finally declaring a Cold War against malaria and all mosquito-related ailments.

    This particular one appears to take a Death Star leaf out of the "Star War" book, with the laser designed to detect the audio frequency of beating wings, zero in on the culprit, and burn it on the spot. The good news is the WMD will be capable of sweeping an entire area or village and "toast(ing) millions of mosquitoes in a few minutes", physicist and project lead scientist Dr. Jordin Kare told CNN.

    Intellectual Ventures, a company founded by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, commissioned the research.

    Now all we need is a home version that we can set up to fry those miniscule terrorists before they can infect any loved ones around.

    Yes, I am that bored. And I still have another hour or so before the work day is over....

  22. Lower cell phone bills?

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    http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-10200106-85.html

    Bill for moratorium on cell phone taxes gets bipartisan support

    by Kent German

    Phone_graphic.jpg

    Cell phone taxes emerged yet again in Congress this week when Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) introduced the Cell Phone Tax Fairness Act of 2009 (HR 1521).

    The bill, which has 20 additional cosponsors, would ban state or local jurisdictions from imposing "a new discriminatory tax on or with respect to mobile services, mobile service providers, or mobile service property, during the five-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act."

    The legislation would not affect current state and local taxes, nor would it affect federal taxes, like the FCC Universal Charge. The Federal Excise Tax from the Spanish-American War was disconnected in 2006.

    In statement, Lofgren said she hopes that the bill would further innovation and access in the wireless world. "The Cell Tax Fairness Act does not take away any existing revenue for state or local governments, it simply calls for a period of tax stabilization," she said. "This legislation will ensure that consumers make choices about communications technology based on the merits of that technology, rather than on the rate of taxation."

    The wireless industry's lobbying arm, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), is supporting the bill. In its own statement, the association said it was glad to see "Congress moving ahead in the right direction to ease the tax burden on wireless customers." According to the CTIA, U.S. wireless subscribers paid $21 billion in federal, state, and local wireless taxes and fees during 2008.

    The Tax Fairness Act is has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Wireless taxes were the subject of four similar bills introduced in the last Congress, one of which Lofgren drafted. None of the bills, however, emerged from committee for a full floor vote.

    It wouldn't be much, just a couple dollars. :rolleyes: Here's all the taxes associated with my bill and this new law probably won't get rid of all of it.

    Surcharges and Other Charges & Credits $1.92

    Fed Universal Service Charge .91

    Regulatory Charge .07

    Administrative Charge .85

    OH Reg Fee .09

    Taxes, Governmental Surcharges & Fees $4.80

    State/Local E911 ($0.28/No.) .28

    OH State Sales Tax 3.68

    Fairfield Cnty Sales Tax .50

    C Ohio Transit District Tax .34

  23. Japanese robot woman

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    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10199581-1.html

    Japan's latest supermodel--a robot

    by Leslie Katz

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    The new Japanese humanoid robot HRP-4C displays a range of emotions (good luck discerning what they are) during a press conference in suburban Tokyo this week. Naturally, plenty of paparazzi were on hand.

    (Credit: AFP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

    She doesn't have the grace of a Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson (yet), but a few struts on the catwalk may help HRP-4C loosen up and hit her stride. The walking, talking girlbot will be getting practice soon, as she's set to make her catwalk debut at a Tokyo fashion show next week.

    Scientists from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology reportedly designed the 5-foot (ish), dark-haired creation to look like an average Japanese woman between the ages of 19 and 29. Unlike the average Japanese woman, however, HRP-4C has 30 motors in her body that allow her to walk and move its arms (somewhat loudly and awkwardly, if the video below is any indication) and 8 facial motors for blinking, smiling, and expressing emotions akin to anger and surprise.

    According to the Associated Press, the robotic framework for the HRP-4C, sans face and other coverings, will sell for about $200,000, and the technology behind it will eventually be made public so people can come up their own moves for the bot.

    The government-backed AIST says she's mostly being developed for the entertainment industry--for use in amusement parks, for example, or as an exercise teacher--and is not yet ready to help with daily chores. So unfortunately for those eager to hire HRP-4C as a home or office assistant, for now at least, her main job is to look pretty--or odd, depending on your perspective.

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