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Oh bull fucking shit.  The Andrea Yates verdict is insane. A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control. [Salon.com]

This is just a bit too much.  I’m a security professional, but this takes things to just a bit of an extreme…

New York Times – free registration required At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged.

Steve Mann, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports.

Last month that changed. Before boarding a Toronto-bound plane at St. John’s International Airport in Newfoundland, Dr. Mann says, he went through a three-day ordeal in which he was ultimately strip- searched and injured by security personnel. During the incident, he said, $56,800 worth of his $500,000 equipment was lost or damaged beyond repair, including the eyeglasses that serve as his display screen.

[Privacy Digest]

Wonderful.  Linux security pandemic – major zlib/libz vuln. It’s inside the walls, under the rug, in the ventilator shafts… [The Register]

Here’s an idea.  I get 200+ work related emails each day. 

Reuters: Managers drowning in e-mail. Reuters:  Managers drowning in e-mail.

>>>A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<<  There is an answer to this:  post it to your K-Log.  K-Logs are more passive and user friendly than e-mail.  [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

She need to be drowned in a bathtub.  I think she’s familar with the process.  Lawyer: Yates an ‘extremely sick woman’ [CNN Top News]

I name mine after Tolkien geographical references.  Imladris, Arnor, Hithlum, Doriath, Osgiliath, Anduin, Palantir, Eriador, and others..  Got a new server on the way – any ideas?  Server Naming Conventions? [Slashdot]

Hm..  Not quite sure what to think about this yet.  Why We Must Restrict SysAdmins. In the Internet age, shared, interlocked network environments require administrators to share control of systems — but many sysadmins are stubbornly unwilling to accept change even under the most revolutionary and evolutionary conditions. [osOpinion]