Blackhacker

Reuters

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - A federal jury on Tuesday found former HealthSouth Corp. Chief Executive Richard Scrushy not guilty of orchestrating the $2.7 billion accounting fraud at the medical rehabilitation chain he founded.

Scrushy, 52, faced 36 charges whittled down from the original 85-count indictment and was found not guilty on all counts, including conspiracy, mail fraud, making false statements and money laundering.

“God is good,” Scrushy told Reuters shortly after the verdict was read.

Scrushy, a local Birmingham celebrity, was among a group of high-profile U.S. corporate executives who have been tried for financial wrongdoing in a string of accounting scandals, and is the first so-far to be found not guilty.

You’re Brave New World!
by Aldous Huxley
With an uncanny ability for predicting the future, you are a true
psychic. You can see how the world will change and illuminate the fears of future
generations. In the world to come, you see the influence of the media, genetic
science, drugs, and class warfare. And while all this might make you happy, you
claim the right to be unhappy. While pregnancy might seem painful, test tube
babies scare you most. You are obsessed with the word "pneumatic".

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

This was a lack luster movie on SciFi channle but looks like it might have been a good book. Maybe I’ll take a look.

Dap: memer

Swissinfo

France to host world’s first nuclear fusion plant

By Guy Faulconbridge

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Science’s quest to find a cheap and inexhaustible way to meet global energy needs took a major step forward on Tuesday when a 30-nation consortium chose France to host the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor.

After months of wrangling, France defeated a bid from Japan and signed a deal to site the 10-billion-euro ($12.18-billion) experimental reactor in Cadarache, near Marseille.

The project will seek to turn seawater into fuel by mimicking the way the sun produces energy. It would be cleaner than current nuclear reactors, would not rely on enriched uranium fuel or produce plutonium.

<rant>Being the largest consumer of energy in the world, and being that so much of our energy comes from foreign sources, WE (US of A) should be doing this.</rant>

SocialTech

Apple Computer this morning said that it has rolled out Podcasting support in the latest revision of its iTunes music download service.

update:
The podcast functionality is BOGUS. It only takes you to podcast that are in the IMS. The podcasts are free but I can’t just add a URL to what ever podcast you like. Use iPodder download you podcasts It will automatically add it to iTunes library. Then you can “do what chu like ..”

AP

Pfizer: Viagra Doesn’t Cause Blindness

NEW YORK - Pfizer Inc. said that a review concluded that Viagra doesn’t increase patients’ risk of blindness but that it is still working with federal regulators to update the drug’s label to reflect rare reports of vision loss.