Comcast's Secret War on File-Sharing Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair Without telling customers, Comcast had begun a secret program to send automatic reset commands to customers'computers if they were using BitTorrent, Gnutella, or a few other programs. Comcast installed new software or equipment on its networks that began selectively interfering with some of Comcast's customers' TCP/IP connections

Ethnomusicologists study music in varying ethnic contexts. She studied the music of the Sephardim, Jews. Folk Songs: She knew Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, The Weavers.

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Index for December 14, 2007

Secunia Weekly Summary This week: 100 advisories

December 15, 2007 Issue 182

Minnesota bans mercury from mascara, eye liners and skin-lightening creams. No other state has specifically gone after mercury in cosmetics. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in Berkeley, Calif. Mercury-added products used by schools are not subject to this ban. (4) (a) Except as provided in subsection (4)(b), beginning January 1, 2008. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Louisiana ban products containing more than low levels of mercury, with some exceptions. New York and Illinois prohibit consumer products with mercury, such as figurines, toys and jewelry. Many ingredients aren't listed on the labels

Jewish Holidays - Passover, Shavuot, Purim, Hanukkah resources. A Synagogue has an ever lasting light burns daily and is not allowed to ever go out. "Lag Ba'Omer" the Lighting bonfires, a central form of celebrating until this day in Israel and explanations of the holiday.

School officials say IDs will only be checked against sex-offender registries.Phone with sex-offender alerts: With GPS technology, linked to a national database of sex offenders.

cell phone, privacy, security - Download naughty or sexually explicit vidio or pics to the cell phone. Once they put it on the net it never comes off.