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Damn, don’t even have to go to jail in the meantime. So, lemme get this straight, cause tons of havoc around the world, piss off the IT departments, and generally be a nuisance, and you get REWARDED? Nice system they got going, them security firms…
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A German teenager accused of creating the Sasser worm that infected millions of computers around the world is being taught to become a security software programmer, the company that hired him said.

Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan has been taken on by the Securepoint computer firm based in Lueneburg, northern Germany and is being trained to make firewalls, which stop suspect files from entering computer systems.

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Man, I swear these scientists, err Dr. Frankensteins, just watch futuristic movies and try to emulate it. Though, I’d rather have John Travolta’s face over Nic Cage’s any day, well, if it included his planes and fame., of course. Ya gotta wonder, though, if I wanted Michael Jackson’s current face, could they do that for me?
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“There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be done. We submit that that time is now,” the researchers wrote in an article scheduled for publication today in The American Journal of Bioethics.

The article, by the team from the University of Louisville and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, explores the ethical and psychological issues, and physical risks, involved in a transplant that would attach the face of a dead donor to someone with a severely disfigured face, such as the victim of a serious burn or accident.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/09/17ky/A1-face0917-8700.html

WTF! As if the Olsens combined could eat a Royale with Cheese in one sitting. The Happy Meals should come with a stick that helps you puke after you eat. What kind of hair-brained marketing is this? Oh wait, this is Le French… sorry, carry on…
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The 18-year-old twins are promoting McDonald’s Happy Meals at the chain’s 1,035 restaurants in France, in an advertising campaign that began last week, a spokeswoman for American fast-food giant tells the Associated Press.

The meals come with a choice of a photo album, a denim bag or a crayon box. As revealed on the McDonald’s France Web site, the album carries the Olsens’ photo, while the bag and box are personalized with their names.

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,698402,00.html