The Little Hacker's Room

If Nevada gubernatorial candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone gets his way, $25 will buy you the right to drive up to 90mph for a day. DiSimone estimates his "free limit plan" will raise $1 billion a year for Nevada. From the article: "First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection. Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database, and motorists would purchase a transponder. After setting up an account, anyone in a hurry could dial in, and for $25 charged to a credit card, be free to speed for 24 hours."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F1823204%2FGubernatorial-Candidate-Wants-to-Sell-Speeding-Passes-for-25" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Gubernatorial+Candidate+Wants+to+Sell+Speeding+Passes+for+%2425%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9NFZVK" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1823204/Gubernatorial-Candidate-Wants-to-Sell-Speeding-Passes-for-25?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777842amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d73551e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JX-umwxsgM4" height="1" width="1"/

Au moins 38 personnes sont mortes, emportées par des coulées de boue provoquées par des pluies torrentielles. Des dizaines d'autres corps se trouveraient encore sous les boues.

A major fire at a tyre storage centre on the south side of Glasgow leads to disruption on roads in the area.

pickens writes "The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web. In a recent interview he called Web communication 'the most powerful weapon that has existed' and extolled its power to break a stranglehold on the media by 'the empire' and 'ambitious private groups that have abused it' adding that the Internet 'has put an end to secrets.... We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, as the New York Times calls it, that is within reach of the whole world.' Well, not the whole world. Cuba has the lowest level of Internet penetration in the Western Hemisphere (lower than Haiti), plus severe government restrictions and censorship affecting those who do have access. In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F1841240%2FFidel-Castro-Internet-News-Junkie" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fidel+Castro%2C+Internet+News+Junkie%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcmMq7T" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1841240/Fidel-Castro-Internet-News-Junkie?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777848amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d793a29/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/osn4lfHtWl0" height="1" width="1"/

La décision de démolir l'hôpital de Baie-Saint-Paul crée une onde de choc dans la population. Pour rassurer la population, le gouvernement a demandé à la Sécurité civile d'étudier la résistance sismique d'autres édifices.

The role of the gambling syndicates that can make millions from the outcome of a single game has been highlighted by the allegation that three Pakistani cricket players were involved in a betting scam.

Tiffin carriers in the Indian city of Mumbai learn English and basic computer skills to improve their business prospects.

Police in Mozambique arrest 142 people over last week's riots which led to 10 deaths in the capital, Maputo.

Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.

A former boarding school head teacher is jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing and beating pupils.

The Brit Awards are to move to the O2 Arena in east London from Earl's Court in the west of the city.

The suspicious object was left in the playground of St Comgall's Primary School and picked up by an eight -year-old pupil.

Children as young as seven are stealing and driving cars on the streets of Oxford, the city's priority crime team reveals.

Michael Gove says demand for new free schools has exceeded expectations but Labour says plans for 16 new institutions next year are "laughable".

angry tapir writes "A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages last week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue. Most of the messages promised 'Free iPhones,' a common spam message on Facebook these days. Facebook says that the spammer hit thousands of profiles before the company removed the spammy photos and notified affected users. No accounts were compromised as a result of the bug."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F033258%2FFacebook-Glitch-Let-Spammer-Post-To-Walls" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Facebook+Glitch+Let+Spammer+Post+To+Walls%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdfiZUO" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/033258/Facebook-Glitch-Let-Spammer-Post-To-Walls?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778050amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d78cff2/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RFdR4qOkUm0" height="1" width="1"/

The Spanish government says an Eta ceasefire is "insufficient" and calls on the Basque separatist group to renounce violence forever.

England striker Wayne Rooney joined the rest of the squad on a flight from Luton Airport.

The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize are slashed after a bookmaker takes an "unprecedented" rush of bets backing him.

The former US president Bill Clinton is to make a brief visit to NI ahead of an economic summit next month.

What does this man tell us about the real 1960s?