The Internet could run out of web addresses by 2011, according to Karine Perset, the author of a report on the future of the Internet. Perset says that 85% of the web addresses that could be used are in use.

The Internet continues to grow exponentially, and with the integration of businesses with the web to market and work around the world, it will only continue. There were more than 1 billion new users in 2007!

Perset says businesses must adopt an updated IP network with almost an unlimited number of domains to help expand services and applications even further. Some companies like Google and Bechtel have upgraded, but most are lagging behind.

This guy seems to be taking advantage of the Global Warming panic (oh no we’re screwed the world is gonna end!). However, this does seem plausible, as domain prices have been skyrocketing lately. What would we do without new names?! Who cares, we got a domain…suckers!

The video was made May 15- just a few days after the earthquake in China. The person trapped under the rocks is 26 year old Chen Jian; he has been pinned down by the rubble for 73 hours, without food. The reporter interviews him and is astonished at his courage. Chen states:

I am a lucky as well as unlucky person in the Beichuan earthquake. I felt that I escaped from the hands of Death. Many of the others are less fortunate. I am pinned underneath three pieces of pre-fabricated slabs and I cannot move. I have not eaten anything for three days and three nights. I only drank some water. I must be strong. I have to be strong. I have to be strong for everyone who loves me. I must live for their sakes, because they have been so good to me. I hope that you can be just like me and not be intimidated by any hardship.

The reporter then gives him the mic and asks if he wants to say anything. Chen tells his wife he loves her very much and he’ll get out very soon. He…

The chief U.S. commander in Baghdad, Major General Jeff Hammond, apologized for a sniper section leader who used the Muslim holy book, the Quran, for target practice. A military leader kissed a Quran as a gift to the tribal leaders. The shooting happened on May 9 and was discovered two days later by Iraqi policemen. There were several bullet holes, a target, and expletives written on several pages.

The soldier’s apology letter read: “I sincerely hope that my actions have not diminished the partnership that our two nations have developed together. … My actions were shortsighted, very reckless and irresponsible, but in my heart [the actions] were not malicious.” The soldier was found guilty and will be redeployed in the United States.

The ignorance of this soldier in the situation is outrageous. It is understandable to hate the people who are fighting against you, but to so blatantly insult millions of good people around the world is despicable. Even after this horrendous act the soldier casually leaves the riddled book behind at an Iraqi police station where surely it would be found.

He is probably happy he did it because now he gets to…

Yes, we have an obesity epidemic, yet we still manage to throw out $50 billion worth of food per year. I guarantee you I throw out at least 30% of my food, and the report also claims that half the water used to grow food globally is lost.

It’s a fact there there is enough food and water to feed the world, but it’s just not getting to the right people…plus fatass Americans eat a lot and throw out whatever their gargantuan stomachs can’t handle.

In poorer countries they also waste 15-35% of their food, but it is due to preservation rather than throwing it out. Without a refrigerator people cannot hold food when they get it, and must eat it before it spoils.

This really is a cultural thing. I have noticed when I eat with the Pakistani side of my family they lick their plates clean, sometimes literally, while I eat a lot, but always manage to leave something on the plate.

If we were able to conserve the food we waste we could feed millions, but that won’t happen! Now to get lunch and eat half my plate!

Economics sophomore Justin McCelvey was arrested Saturday morning after some of his friends reported apparent Virgina-Tech style threats to UTPD. This is a third degree felony with jail time ranging from 2-10 years if convicted. McCelvey is currently suspended from the UT campus and is in the process of expulsion.

McCelvey told his friend, “College ruined my life” and “I wish I could go into a classroom and shoot everybody.” I was almost the second sniper on the Tower” and “I wish I could sit on top of a bomb and let it go off and blow up everybody.” The conversation lasted 20 to 30 minutes and the friend was obviously concerned. McCelvey does owna shotgun he uses to go hunting, but never brought it on campus. This is just a few weeks after the April 15 arrest of engineering sophomore Jason Liao, who allegedly possessed a gun on campus.

The system is obviously working, but at the same time, is it too easy to report someone. I definitely think this is a case to be investigated, but to immediately work to expel the kid without an in-depth investigation? I guess the…

At the end of World War II President Truman ordered the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. The two ctiies were almost completely destroyed by atomic boms, the only times an atomic bomb has been dropped as an attack. The bombs killed over 200,000 innocent people and lead to Japan’s surrender, officially ending World War II.

The U.S. built the first atomic bombs under the Manhattan Project, creating the most deadly man made weapon in history. Over 75% of the buildings in Hiroshima were either completely destroyed or severely damaged, and nearly every living thing was seared and destroyed. Let’s hope that nothing like this ever happens again.

A buddy of mine who works for Lionsgate recently showed me an advance copy of the script for Saw 5. The story is centered around a 73 year old man who lures his daughter into a dungeon he built in their basement, drugs her, handcuffs her, and leaves her down there to die.

Wait, nevermind, that wasn’t the movie script. That was a REAL EVENT that actually happened. The suspect, Josef Fritzl, held his daughter Elisabeth Fritzl captive at his home in Austria for TWENTY FOUR YEARS. Think that’s creepy? Try this on: he had sex with her multiple times and she ended up with 7 kids, 3 of whom stayed in the dungeon with her for their entire lives.

Actually, I think this is probably WORSE than Saw. Head on over to The New York Times for the full story.

These are pictures from the military barracks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A dad gave posted these on Youtube after his son sent them from Fort Bragg. Sgt. Jeff Frawley was rewarded after a 15 month deployment in Afghanistan, the future weed capital of the world, with these lovely arrangements.

The Fort is described as having lead based paint which is chipping, missing ceiling tiles, a broken sewer pipe, and another is filled with tissues to prevent gas from leaking. Frawley said he was promised new barracks upon his return, and surprisingly *sarcasm* the military forgot to keep a promise.

I don’t understand how we spend $200 million a day on the “war on terror” aka desperation for oil and we have conditions like this for our much revered soldiers. Oh yeah, we forgot to armor some of the Humvees…whoops, forgot to send body armor for the soldiers…forgot about your benefits wounded soldier…These are the things that are happening and it is disgusting and abusive.

Jerome Kerviel the former Societe General rouge trader who accrued nearly €5 billion, or $7.7 billion has been released from jail after just over one month. He is still under investigation and surely will be going back to jail for a long time, but he will probably be bringing some friends with him.

So far the prosecution believes Kerviel worked alone, but many think this is impossible due to significance of the fraud. They say he began creating fictitious trades in 2006 and early 2007 that were relatively small, but got a little power hungry and the trades increased drastically. He eventually made illegal trades totaling $63.5 billion!

Some have described him as a computer genius while others have said he was nothing special. He was a smart guy though. He had a salary of about $90,000 in 2006 and earned a bonus $76,000 and in 2007 he was expected to get bonuses of at least $381,000.

To cover up his early gains Kerviel created fictitious trades that actually showed losses to cover up the massive gains. Obviously this is bad for the company because it is illegal, but many traders say their bosses will look the other way…

Seven labrador retrievers were cloned in South Korea recently to snif out drugs and explosives. They were cloned from one of their top drug sniffing dogs because it is so hard to find good candidates for the job. The dogs so far have been a complete success, passing tests just as well as the original.

For all the people that think cloning is immoral, this should prove how useful it can be. These dogs will surely save lives and catch criminals, and every country should follow South Korea’s lead. Not experimenting with cloning and stem cells is what really should be called immoral. The possibilities are endless for cloning and stem cells, working to save possibly millions of lives. The possibilities of reproducing individual body parts, cures for diseases, and in vitro fertilization are huge and real. In vitro fertilization is a process where egg cells are fertilized outside the womb.

If you believe it is unethical because you are “playing God,” you might as well shut down every hospital and trow out all medicines. It’s called natural selection, and saving people’s lives with medicine isn’t something from God.