If you can not trust a parking ticket....?

So that you do not have to worry about things to worry about...  From the BBC

 

Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".

The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website, where drivers could "view pictures with information about your parking preferences".

The website instructed users to download a tool bar containing a virus

According to internet security watchdog The SANS Institute, the website then had photos of cars in various car parks around Grand Forks and instructed users to download a tool bar to find photos of their own vehicle.

 

When you invent a better mouse trap, someone invents a better mouse I guess. 

Giving back to what got you there

From SceneDaily.com

 

Hamlin said during Thursday’s 2009 Media Day at Daytona International Speedway that he will give away the tickets on his official Web site, DennyHamlin.com.
“They can sit in my seats each and every week at every single race track we go to,” Hamlin said. “Basically, they just enter in there, and we’ll choose a handful to be sitting in my seats each week.”
Hamlin said he will give away a minimum of four tickets per race, with more tickets available at some tracks. They won’t be bad tickets, either, he insisted.
And you don’t have to be a Hamlin fan, either.
“That’s not to go out there and try to get more race fans,” Hamlin said. “It’s not [just] for Denny Hamlin race fans; it’s for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re going to be there in your Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. gear or your Carl Edwards gear. It doesn’t matter to me. I just want to help the race fans out that don’t have the means to or have gone for the last 20 years and now aren’t able to because of financial reasons.”
Hamlin estimated that the tickets have cost him between $75 and $150 apiece, and he isn’t getting any discounts or favoritism from tracks.
“They’re coming out of my pocket,” he said. “And it’s actually been a pretty big hassle, but it doesn’t matter.”
The economy has hurt race fans, Hamlin said, and everyone in the sport needs to be aware of the struggles of the fans.

 

Thanks Denny.  I may try to get tickets for Texas or Kansas, as they would be the closest to me, but I probally will not.  I cannot afford to take the time off from work to go.  I have never scene a race live, only on the TV, I would love to go.  

What I appreciate is that you, like most NASCAR drivers, know what got you where you are and appreciate the fans.  This however, is a step above and beyond.  Thanks again.

Did you have to make your point that way...

From Fox News

 

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.

"I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."

I guess that it was a way of making a point, that there is need for all people to live in safety from disease.  He assured the audience that they did not contain malaria.  But what about other disease they could have had.

Forget about that, what about what someone next to me had.  The mosquito bites the person next to me, maybe they have aids.  Then it bites me. I now have their blood mixed with the bugs and injected into mine.

I wonder if Bill Gates is as smart as he things he is.