• Health Insurance is sick: their refusal/lassitude in paying claims can add 20% to physician’s overhead. [NYT]
• How Safe is Your Taser? [NYT]
• 2 Teens try to extort Myspace for $150,000. Last words before getting arrested by undercover cops: Hey, you looked different in your profile… [Tribune]
• MPAA may have hired a hacker to steal information from a file-sharing company, which pales in comparison to their use of slaves as a distribution channel. [CNet]
• School doesn’t like student complaining on Xanga that the school is a bully, proves him wrong with a 10 day suspension. [Sun Times]

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