Minor Malorum Duorum

True life "Revenge of the Nerds" situation in San Francisco where a disgrunteled IT employee has locked up their city government's SSI data and email accounts.
While he is in police custody, he has a tracing program monitoring all communications related to his case.

While I think most (all?) of Scylla's readers would call this a good thing, the fact that it had to go this fucking far for a definitive ruling (and that this shit happens at all) made me post it here. Also, 6-5? Are you fucking kidding me? Fuck all five of them.

...yesterday’s ruling by a full panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which ruled 6-5 that students cannot be strip-searched based on the uncorroborated word of another student who is facing disciplinary punishment.

"Thieves, perhaps after cellphone gear, have twice stolen a deaf boy's special earpiece."

It's more likely than you think! People have funny hobbies.

Literally, forget about it. Maybe the police decide you need a quick shot of STFU, with a side of amnesia. They can do that.

This is wrong in like, seven different ways. Three guys in Wisconsin went to a graveyard and tried to dig up a corpse for one of them to have sex with. They didn't get the coffin open. They're being charged with attempted sexual assault because the corpse would have been unable to give consent.

But at least they took a box of condoms!

"Anacostia Park is a wonderful place to go down," says the Park Police. Well, yeah, but not for fireworks.

The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional use of capital punishment for child rapists. Justice Kennedy wrote in his opinion that "there is a national consensus against capital punishment for the crime of child rape". Really? Have they really surveyed on this? I don't think so. Even hardened criminals think child rapists deserve the death penalty.

A Florida man has shot another Florida man for having low-slung pants.

Permitted in carry-on:
Gel-filled bras and similar prosthetics - Gel-filled bras may be worn through security screening and aboard aircraft.

Not permitted in carry-on:
Gel shoe inserts - Gel shoe inserts are not permitted, but shoes constructed with gel heels are allowed and must be removed and screened.

Is there an explanation that involves something more logical than, "we like bigger breasts"?

A homeless woman lives in a man's closet for a year.

Volunteering time overseas, in "war ravished and food poor countries." Handing out vaccines, food, and money... in exchange for sex. With children, of course.

After interviewing hundreds of children, the charity says it found instances of rape, child prostitution, pornography, indecent sexual assault and trafficking of children for sex.

The fourth severed right foot has washed ashore in British Columbia.

Five men in Balla, India, abducted and strangled 21 year old pregnant Sunita Prakash and her boyfriend, 22 year old Jasbir Singh. This was apparently to avenge Sunita's leaving of her husband and moving in with Jasbir (and becoming pregnant by him). The act of violence has almost unanimous support among the locals.

This is the kind of thing that makes imperialists. The kind of thing that makes people think that sometimes some cultures don't have the right to exist, and that some places deserve to be invaded, crushed, and not get their countries back until they can at least have enough basic law to prosecute and convict those that murder for cultural insults.

It looks like Albany police are going that extra mile by harassing every black male getting off the Greyhounds from New York City and doing things like having doctors put cameras up their butts, all without probable cause.