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The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) also named MIT in the 17-page complaint, which seeks unspecified monetary damages for violation of the computer fraud and abuse act, negligent supervision and other causes of action. It also requests a temporary order preventing the students from “publicly stating or indicating that the security or integrity” of the MBTA’s systems has been compromised.

“It’s pretty disappointing,” Anderson told El Reg. “We initially called them to offer them our help in fixing these vulnerabilities. We have no intention of releasing details that would allow someone to replicate the attacks that can be done.”

Memo to those who want to solve a problem: Don’t talk to the government about it.

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And rightly so.

Most people would say that we live in a world in which we are not slaves to government. It could be that, or it could just be that our masters are somewhat diffuse and dysfunctional.

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Why? Bureaucratic obstructionism, of course.

“The scheme is well supported with the notable exception of the Environment Agency, which despite our attempts, has refused face-to-face discussions. As a charity we’ve already spent £3.5 million and four years on the project, overcoming endless bureaucratic hurdles.”

Steve Sailer dreams of Olympic gold.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that China had a “wild west”.

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PARIS FOR PRESIDENT

DRILL HERE * DRILL NOW

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In Britain, anyway.

Lacks only the key phrase “scientists say” to have ultimate authority.

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Think of all that methane….

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Of course the guy looks like a card-carrying metrosexual.

Megan McArdle appears to be challenging Jonah Goldberg for the position of “finder of weird stuff”.

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Historically, this isn’t so odd. Christianity went from being a capital crime — you could be executed merely for being Christian — in 300 AD to being semi-official 25 years later.

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Times have changed.

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Hm, I don’t see any mention of Sherman here….

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Maggots’ flesh-eating ways have long been used to cleaning nasty wounds. Just a few years back the FDA even decided maggots could be regulated as medical devices for prescription wound care.

Don’t say you don’t see important issues being discussed, here.

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I guess “scientists” are like “activists”, there’s always one around when you least expect it.

Sheep and cattle in Australia alone produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.

Gotta love Australians.

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The most importnt question we have to day is private property. Does stuff belong to the alleged owner, or to the State, with the alleged owner merely a temporary custodian?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Steve Sailer takes a look at the Ivins anthrax case.

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Ordinarily I detest sports metaphors but in this case, dealing with “grade inflation”, it’s very well done.

Lileks on the Back To School season.

Target, as we know, actually exists 45 days in the future, which is why you go for a parka when it’s snowing out and they have shorts and flip-flops.

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James Bond never had it so good.

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Looks like a Smart ForTwo without the personality.

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Well, this doesn’t come as a big surprise to me.

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Hah.

To Jerry Pournelle.

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That’s great. Hey, I have a work fear. Can I be excused from going in to work?

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Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

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That’s because the gang will whip your butt if you don’t do what you’re told, and parents these days won’t.

This isn’t rocket science….

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And you can believe as much or as little as you care to.

Andrew Sullivan scored 92% probably male, so I take it with a grain of salt….

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Money spent developing cancer drugs should be diverted to researching innovations in surgery which would save more lives, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons has said.

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I suspect it’s because they didn’t want to get saddled with her care under their “everybody gets covered for free” health care plan — like the one that the Democrats are pushing for this country.

This is what happens when the goverment turns into a monopoly provider of basic services.

Welcome to the Candian Soviet Socialist Republic, comrade.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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We have the technology.

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C’mon, baby, do the locomotion….

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Me want.

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I think God is telling you to move somewhere else. Take the hint. Or put up concrete posts.

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Funny how that works.

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I have to say, I’d rather do plastering than be an actuary any day.

And, the way things are going, a good plasterer will soon be harder to find than a good actuary. This may be a smart move on her part.

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Darwin Award nominee.

A mature student choked to death during an impromptu competition to see who could eat the most fairy cakes, an inquest has heard.

Guess he wasn’t all that mature.

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Not your grandfather’s Britain.

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Wonder how soon it will be before the rich lawyers in Congress want to steal some of it in the form of a “windfall profits” tax? Where was this “windfall profits tax” when the trial lawyers were getting billions from the tobacco case settlements?

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Yet, as the quantity of American distance runners exploder, the quality declined. Could it have been the shoes? American runners had the best shoes money could buy, but they kept getting injured. One theory is that the more your feet are cushioned and stabilized, the weaker their muscles get, and the more likely you are to get hurt.

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Well, there you go.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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