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Trick Domain Name = Jail:

That guy who was peddling porn on websites with trick-misspelled domain names (like misspelling Disneyland..etc.) got sent to prison today. The best part of the whole article was this:

John Zuccarini, 56, arrested in September in Hollywood, Fla., sobbed and apologized before he was sentenced in federal court. Zuccarini pleaded guilty Dec. 10, admitting he capitalized on the tendency of youngsters to misspell, fooling them into finding sites that advertise for pornography, among other things.

Hitachi 3D Display:

This 3D display developed by Hitachi sounds hella cool. Let’s just hope it doesn’t suck.

Hitachi Ltd. has developed a prototype three-dimensional display that can show an object from any and all directions, a full 360 degrees. The Transport 3-D display system, built by the Hitachi Human Interaction Laboratory, is essentially a cylinder with a projector at the bottom and a mirror at the top, facing it. In between, 24 mirrors are arranged along the cylinder's circumference and a rotating screen sits at its center.

Auto Pilot:

This isn’t like conventional auto pilot, we’re talking about computers flying your plane…the whole way. That gives new meaning to the term “system crash”.

As you fasten your seat belt a "welcome aboard" announcement is made by a computer — because there is no captain. While plane designers dream of a high-tech future, the aerospace industry is debating whether if it will become feasible to fly passengers without pilots.

IBM Wins Lawsuit:

IBM won the lawsuit that accused them of "systemic chemical poisoning". This case isn’t related to the times when we accused IBM of “systemic craptacular hard drives”.

A jury in Santa Clara, California, on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by former employees of IBM Corp. who alleged that the company knowingly exposed them to working conditions that caused cancer. The jury voted unanimously in favor of IBM, according to Margie Hijduk, a clerk in the Superior Court for the State of California for the County of Santa Clara.