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Fla. Office Manager Arrested After Restroom Cam Found POSTED: 8:30 am EST March 3, 2006 UPDATED: 8:38 am EST March 3, 2006 A mortgage company manager in Hobe Sound, Fla., was arrested after a worker found a camera connected from an office restroom to a monitor on his desk, according to a Local 6 News report. Investigators in Martin County said Rex Largent mounted the camera under the sink at his mortgage company to apparently film people in the restroom. A woman in the office spotted the camera and reported him. Largent claimed he bought the camera as a toy...

November 3, 2005 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Purpose On Thursday, November 3, 2005 at 10:00 a.m., the Committee on Science will hold a hearing to review the status of plans and programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will provide a comprehensive update on all facets of NASA's plans and programs. When Administrator Griffin last testified before the Committee four months ago, on June 28th, he described several reviews he had recently initiated, including: - the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) to define NASA's plans for returning to...

Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of creating a Trojan capable of making secret recordings of Internet users through their webcams and stealing confidential information. Spanish Civil Guard units caught the computer programmer, identified only by the initials J.A.S, spying on various Net users through their webcams when they surprised him in his home on Monday. The man is alleged to have created a Trojan horse program distributed through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, like Kazaa. The Trojan horse could be hidden in a file, and once downloaded gave the hacker remote access to the victim's computer. The Trojan installed...

Link post; please access the images and links at the link below, and post comments and discussion on that thread, not this one (it's a Chat subject!) Geology Picture of the Week, September 26-October 2, 2004: Etna eruption (and live cam link)

One picture and several links. Note that on the Volcano LiveCams page, you can also see volcano cams around the world. Due to the report about Mt. St. Helens that happened over the weekend, I checked the St. Helens cam; and according to the picture on that page, it's supposed to be up on "Monday, September 28, 2004". Somebody did NOT realize that this was a leap year, apparently. So maybe it will be up by tomorrow in case St. Helens burps. Pic first, then links: Wild spattering from a collapsing Hornito (there are so many thoughts...) Lava flows in...

Liberalism Is Unpatriotic Kyle Williams During the dead heat of this election year, sharp criticism is in the air against President Bush, and this being a post-war time, critics are out in further attacks over the legitimacy of the war in Iraq. In return, these critics are being attacked by conservatives and by the administration; thus an all-out political war is ongoing. These critics must concur with Hillary Clinton, who, in April 2003, shouted out to a group of supporters, "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow...

Is there a pool going? There should be two, I think: 1) When will be the first sighting of US troops on the CNN Baghdad cam? 2) When will the statue of Saddam in the trafic circle bite the dust?