Rock has joked that joining a political party is like joining a gang; of his own political beliefs, he says on crime he's conservative, on prostitution he's liberal. But at bottom, there's no denying the right-leaning strain underlying his social commentary. Even his economic outlook is Republican: Black people, he says, would do well to take their money out of rims and put it into stocks.

East end of old Bankhead Avenue Bridge, originally uploaded by jeff_robertson.

This is the eastern end of the bridge, where it just stops in mid air. Here is the aerial photo of the same bridge. Obviously the the street that leads up to the bridge from the western side is closed.

A Picture Share!, originally uploaded by jeff_robertson.

Old bridge over the railroad tracks near downtown Atlanta. I don't know if this part of Bankhead Avenue was ever US 78 (Bankhead Highway) or not.

A Picture Share!, originally uploaded by jeff_robertson.

There are signs like this in various parts of DeKalb County, which seem to be almost deliberately placed where tourists are the least likely to ever see them.

This particular one is at Linburn and Main Street in downtown Tucker, and can only be seen from Linburn, which is the lighter travelled of the two streets, and while travelling in the most unlikely direction possible. It points down Main Street, vaguely in the compass direction of Stone Mountain but with no indication of how to actually get there.

There is a similar sign at the somewhat more visible location of Scott Boulevard and North Decatur Road. The odd thing about that one is that it seems to suggest North Decatur Road is the way to get to Stone Mountain. This is odd because Scott Boulevard is at that point only a couple of intersections from becoming the Stone Mountain Freeway, and here is this sign suggesting that tourists take the backstreets instead.

Such a route would involve going through Scottdale and then either Clarkston or the Memorial Drive corridor, none of which are areas I would think the DeKalb tourism office would want to show off. (Then again, why the heck would tourists be in Tucker?) My only guess is that the sign predates the freeway's construction.

Maybe that part of Linburn street in Tucker used to be much more travelled than it is now, too.

Almost all the signs in DeKalb, even ones that are obviously new, look like they were designed a long time ago.

Method #1: Right-click the message in the folder view, then choose Options.
Method #2: In an open message, choose View | Options.

Featured tunneling mode which allows also special tunneling such as UDP to TCP, with the possibility of specifying all network parameters (source port/interface, listening port/interface, and the remote host allowed to connect to the tunnel.

1. It's written in Java and takes advantage of the SSL support that is already in Java. You can use keyStores, etc.
2. Also because it's in Java, the code is very simple and easy to understand (the networking part, anyway. The GUI stuff was generated by NetBeans so I claim no responsibility for it).
3. The SSL is optional. You can turn it off and just use it to forward plain, non-encrypted data from one TCP port on the local machine to another port on a remote machine. Sort of like that netcat-from-inetd thing that netcat's readme file talks about.
4. It has a built-in GUI that displays data from one end of the pipe in blue, the other end in black, and non-ASCII characters as hex. Use of the GUI is optional, though.

Now, I'm sure that many of you old JavaScript hacks out there have known this sort of thing was possible for a long time, but it's very cool to see it (a) actually being used for something real, and (b) where normal users will see it.

From: ------- ------
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 22:13
To: DEPT_Eng.CCM_Dev.All; DEPT_Professional.Services_Midtown
Cc:
Subject: New Manager of Web Application Security

With ----'s imminent departure, I've been hounded by requests to know the game plan for replacing him. While we all know that ---- is indeed one of a kind and truly irreplaceable, I'm pleased to announce that Jeff Robertson has agreed to takeover ----'s duties as Manager of Web Application Security. Please join me in congratulating Jeff on this promotion. Note that it will be a month or more before Jeff can fully transition from his Tech Lead responsibility on Recurring Payments to the new role. In the mean time, work with --- -------- to schedule coverage from the security group for code reviews, design reviews and application assessments, but remember security reviews remain a mandatory part of projects, even if they may be a bit challenging to schedule for a while.


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Digital Insight

Claim: Women in Germany face the loss of unemployment benefits if they decline to accept work in brothels.

Status: False.

The conventional wisdom that gripped the banking industry for the past decade is being upended. Not too long ago, the future of banking was thought to be personal computers, the Internet, ATMs, kiosks—everything but expensive branches. But now bank branches are sprouting up all over the Northeast—more than 200 new ones in New York City in the past two years alone. And for this boomlet, we should thank Commerce Bancorp, the upside-down bank.

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.