Gaza Strippers Bust Out, NASA has a pogo problem, and the RIAA hates college students most of all.

As you may have heard, Gaza has been blocked off by the Israeli army after a series of ramshackle rockets were launched into Israel proper. Its gone on long enough now that the Gaza strip is short on pretty much everything. What to do? Blast your way into Egypt, apparently. No less than 17 holes where blown in the seven miles of wall separating the Gaza strip from Egypt (it seems that the Palestinians had lots of explosives, at least) and thousands of people streamed into Egypt to buy food and supplies. Now, why get Egypt involved in what was purely a Palestinian-Israeli problem? Very simple. The Egyptian border guards attempted to keep order but otherwise did nothing when the wall was blown up. Have you tried blowing up an Israeli Army checkpoint lately? Make sure your will is up to date.

It turns out that NASA's next-gen moon rocket, the Ares, may have a design flaw that would cause it to shake violently and possibly break up during liftoff. It seems that NASA has not quite found a way around Pogo, a problem caused by oscillating fuel flow to the engines that caused some spectacular failures in the 1950s and 60s and even cropped up in a couple of Apollo missions. The good news is that the problem was caught during the design stage and NASA hopes to have a solution by March.

The MPAA has admitted that their statistics relating to illegal downloads on campus are out by a factor of 3... yep, the loss of revenue due to illegal downloading by college students is not 44 percent of the total as previously claimed, but 15 percent. Meaning that turning college IT admins into copyright cops as the RIAA has already tried to do would be a drop in the bucket in terms of solving the piracy problem. Its now being suggested that college student have been specifically pursued because they are easy and convenient targets. That's thinking like a lawyer.