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Old JOE ROSS, of Montgomery, Hamilton County, had all his horses taken by MORGAN. JOE is a Butternut. It is said he swore so hard that the atmosphere was blue around his locality.

A "butternut" is a confederate sympathizer or soldier, I believe. [Wikipedia]

That Morgan, what a bastard. We may never know if he was apprehended after his Ohio-based crimes, but the year 1863 was never the same.

Tensions between butternuts and Union folk must have been running high that year, with Lincoln having signed the Emancipation Proclamation in January. [Wikipedia]

Source: New York Times

Google sold out this morning, and they're not selling anymore.

Source: Engadget

The surge was not spread evenly by gender, according to the LSAC. The percentage of male applicants grew by nearly 5%, while the increase in female applicants was 1%. Zearfoss speculated that women, who are generally more risk-averse than men, may be more reluctant to take on the debt needed to pay for law school right now. 

The article itself is pretty comprehensive, and worth a read if you have some time to 1) do the reading; 2) convince yourself to follow through on loans for next semester; and 3) maintain your resolve in the face of bleak odds based on cold, unfeeling data.

Lots of people who took the LSAT ultimately decided against going to law school. LSAT takers increased by 13% this year, but there was only a 3% increase in actual applicants.

I don't even have a point to make here, just looking at this data and thinking back to my "Why I Chose Temple Law" post from August 2009 (the post is poorly formatted because it was imported from my old blog, forgive the laziness that prevents me from fixing the formatting).

I'm still happy I'm in school, and still very much want to be a lawyer. And there are far darker fates for your wallet than being a PA resident enrolled in Temple Law.

So I'm not going anywhere.

Via: Wall Street Journal Law Blog
Source: Law.com

We believe it does not violate US law to collect payload data from networks that are configured to be openly accessible (i.e., not secured by encryption and thus accessible by any user's device)

Google says yes.

Source: The Register

As OnLive is a rental service you technically can’t buy a game as you need to continue subscribing to play it. The options you have include a 3 or 5 day rental, or an unlimited rental. Rentals are referred to by the name PayPass.

Source: Geek.com

The complaint database contains everything, from someone who has heard something somewhere from someone, to detailed accident investigations. Want to beat a ticket? File a report. Try to get out of jail where you landed due to vehicular manslaughter? File a report. Want to smear a manufacturer you don’t like? File a report. Have a serious problem? File a report. It’s all there.

Until yesterday, some of the more carefully filed reports had PDFs of scanned documents attached. These documents ran the gamut from lawyer letters to accident reports prepared by uniformed police. You could find search warrants for black boxes. You could find data readouts from black boxes. You also could find a lot of personal information. That is all gone.

See the video of how it all worked before the NHTSA (presumably) read the story and shut down the database:

Dance for Sabina
10 p.m., Saturday, June 5th
Octo Waterfront Lounge
221 N. Columbus Blvd.
$10 donation

See that up there ^ ? That's how you can help pay for Sabina's funeral, and contribute to the reward for information leading to the apprehension of her killer by the authorities.

TWC highlights the fact that it is not a party to this case," he wrote, "but it appears that TWC is utilizing that fact to garner public support for its position and possibly in an attempt to gain more subscribers who would value TWC's efforts to protect the privacy of demonstrated copyright infringers. To the extent TWC’s tactics are just that—letting the public know that TWC is a good ISP for copyright infringers because TWC will fight any subpoenas related to infringers’ activities—TWC exposes itself to a claim for contributory copyright infringement.

Okay, let's back it up a bit. US Copyright Group was born out of a law firm called Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver. They are in the business of suing alleged copyright infringers. By the thousands. Also, they like to get their way.

After three months the researchers recorded a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted with the mobile phone, a significant reduction in the number of eggs laid by the queen bee. The bees also stopped producing honey.

You may have read recently about how the largest study yet into whether or not cell phones increase a human's chances of brain cancer was inconclusive (PopSci).

While that issue may still be up in the air, we've got a strange new tangent of the concept, outlined in a study from Punjab University in Chandigarth, India.

They fitted two bee hives with cell phones. One hive had real phones that made two fifteen-minute calls each day for three months, while the other had fake phones. The results are summarized in the quote above.

This is a very interesting theory on the cause of what is known as Colony Collapse Disorder, which is a modern occurrence involving the gradual deterioration of a bee hive due to workers simply leaving the hive.

Source: Telegraph UK through Slashdot