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"I enjoy being imprisoned, beaten, and hounded all over the world for attempting to exercise my right to an employment tribunal, so a career in MI6 was a perfect fit for me."

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s."
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Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes.
The reasons for updates are to present more new features.

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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_g ates.html
http://www.antioffline.com/HUM/bill.gates.quotes.h tml

...other than How To Become Insanely Rich Through Dumpster Diving?

Maybe How To Justify Everything You Do, Hypocritical Or Not. Windows still occasionally bluescreens when you plug a new device in, years after this faux pas, in which Trey explains "that must be why it hasn't been released yet". Billions in cash, but still hasn't ironed out the bugs == "we don't really care about the bugs". Quality is not Job #1, getting the money is.

"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over
10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for
everyone involved with PCs."
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)

Funny no one in Vegas thought about some EMP/HERF type scenario. Would answer a lot, then again it wouldn't because it would mean electrical failures for all. Could have been a frequency tampering gizmo since car alarms seem to be affected, would be similar to say a phone jammer.

Using a preselected number (ala rot13) I took a letter and manually (no pc) set the number 16 to my base. So the letter a was now p. The next shift would have been reversed 15 spaces so if b was the next letter it would have become m, and so on. Now in english we run into dupes (foot, book, cook, etc.) which means you're likely to run into problems (randominity, etc.) but it wasn't the case in fact a word like foot would have become "uzcg" but a word like cake would have been something like "boox" which was neat considering I broke the letter into five char blocks.

I played with it for a while but got bored, so I could see how someone may have actually wrote something, translated into their own unique language where no one else would have understood. The math behind the scheme I was playing around with it somewhere lying around, maybe one day I'll do the doc for kicks who knows. I think though, they shouldn't pass the entire thing off as a hoax though

You know... I haven't updated one my sites in EONS... I wrote a document called 'Ghost in the Shell' that surprisingly gets about 3000 hits a week on Google searches. Not much, but certainly enough to know the interest GITS generates. I've done the anime thing a while back, now I only have time for Jenna, Chasey, and other starlets

My response to an article about the case. Again, I've spent so many sleepless days and nights over it, I don't even bother answering anyone's questions, being that the bottom line is I was convicted.

Now here's a *BSD hottie:

http://www.antioffline.com/aowall/aowall15.jpg

While all the rage is on viruses and backdoors, would you care to explanation as to what exactly it is your members do? One not too familiar with the scene would think most virus coders are evil pricks out to rm -Rf /* the world. Whats your guys description of the virii field?

Well, many virus coders do not agree to destructive payloads now. The idea of a virus is to spread. What is the use of a virus that infects a computer and formats it's hdd? In effect it is killing itself... not the best idea if it wants to spread no?

With regards to what ShadowvX members do, we code viruses that incorporate new or existing virus techniques. We try to code viruses with things like ICQ spreading or virus networks. Only a few of our codes have made it into the wild, but they had to be released. Ya know, new techniques, lets see how far up the AV "Dangerous" list we can get :] We make it a policy though that no code gets released unless all members agree it should. And we ain't no evil pricks either... we are like you guys, doing what we do to prove that computers are too relied upon these days...

Back Orifice, Netbus, Melissa, Tuxissa, ILOVEYOU, were plain and simply maliciously coded virii, we know some virii coders assist companies like Symantec, AVP, etc, whats your outlook on the creators of these program like Melissa, etc.?

Well, with Melissa it certainly showed MS a few things. Most of the code that gets released are to show or exploit vulnerabilities in software or hardware.. it just seems to only happen with MS software.

My view on these types of coders is no different from how I view other virus coders. They want to create something and show that humans rely too much on computers now a days.
rest of interview

Anyway, my thoughts for one are, wouldn't someone who works for an antivirus company have a biased opinion being that the more people create a virus, the more money his company would make? Give me a break. Viruses are nothing more than annoyances which serve no purpose whatsoever, no matter how you want to look at it. Developers of software should take more precautions when releasing code to ensure these viruses dont become epidemics like SobigF was, knocking off the electric grid. For anyone to claim that a virus is good coming from a corporation, he deserves to be canned. The statement he made about being infected to be cured is irresponsible. Should someone die because some medical equipment malfunctioned due to some power outtage that was cause by a virus for the sake of find an antidote? I think not.

You can find an expanded version of the article here:
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find this text here ive put the juicy bits in bold

Source: http://128.164.127.251/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc 1.pdf

James Bamford writes in Body of Secrets (2001) that this "may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government."

TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN UNCLASSIFIED THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WASHINGTON 25, D.C. 13 March 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Subject: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (TS)

1. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have considered the attached Memorandum for the Chief of Operations., Cuba Project, which responds to a request of that office for brief but precise description of pretexts which would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.
2. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend that the proposed memorandum be forwarded as a preliminary submission suitable for planning purposes. It is assumed that there will be similar submissions from other agencies and that these inputs will be used as a basis for developing a time-phased plan. Individual projects can then be considered on a case-by-case basis.
3. Further, it is assumed that a single agency will be given the primary responsibility for developing military and para-military aspects of the basic plan. It is recommended that this responsibility for both overt and covert military operations be assigned the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

For the Joint Chiefs of Staff: [Signature] L.L. LEMNITZER Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

1 Enclosure memo for Chief of Operations., Cuba Project

SYSTEMATICALLY REVIEWED BY JCS ON 21 May 84 CLASSIFICATION CONTINUED
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TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN UNCLASSIFIED COPY NO. 1 SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION
TOP SECRET JCS 1969/321 12 March-1962 Page 2165 NOTE BY THE SECRETARIES to the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
on NORTHWOODS (S) A report* on the above Subject is submitted for consideration by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
F. J. BLOUIN M. J. INGELIDO Joint Secretariat * Not reproduced herewith; on file in Joint Secretariat
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TOP SECRET JCS 1969/321 2165 UNCLASSIFIED TOP SECRET TOP SECRET UNCLASSIFIED
COPY NO. 1 SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION
TOP SECRET JCS 1969/321 14 March-1962 Page 2165
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF DECISION ON JCS 1969/321
A Note by the Secretaries on NORTHWOODS (S) Note by the Secretaries

1. At their meeting on 13 March 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved the recommendations in paragraph 8 of JCS 1969/321.

2. In that the Commandant had expressed direct concern of the Marine Corps in this matter, the provisions of Title 10, US Code 141 (6), applied and were followed.

3. This decision now becomes a part of and shall be attached as the top sheet of JCS 1969/321.

F. J. BLOUIN M. J. INGELIDO
Joint Secretariat

SYSTEMATICALLY REVIEWED BY JCS ON 21 May 84 CLASSIFICATION CONTINUED

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UNCLASSIFIED [12 pages; classification stamps same on all pages, omitted after first page.]

TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN UNCLASSIFIED COPY _____ OF _____ COPIES SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION 9 March 1962

REPORT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF REPRESENTATIVE ON THE CARIBBEAN SURVEY GROUP to the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF on CUBA PROJECT (TS)

The Chief of Operations, Cuba ProJect, has requested that he be furnished the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this matter by 13 March 1962.

EXCLUDED FROM GDS UNCLASSIFIED TOP SECRET SPECIAL HANDLING NOFORN

JUSTIFICATION FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CUBA (TS)

THE PROBLEM

1. As requested* by Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are to indicate brief but precise description of

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Is that you Jim Bell? :-)

I'm just at a loss as to what can be done to save our nations from our politicians/corporations and get them back to serving the people.

The best answer I've got is: hold on just a few more painful decades for the technology revolution (which I needn't name) that will make nations irrelevant.

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This sounds like a good idea on the surface... some of the comments already out here mention the technical problems. However, someone has already devised an on-line system for taking back our rights...

Read Jim Bell's "Assassination Politics." It's a long document, but thought provoking (and gub'mint provoking) as all hell. Seriously, the author went to jail, and people who toy with implementation have ended up there too.

The premise is to hold an on-line death-of-some-public-figure/enemy-of-the-people prediction lottery using anonymous digital cash and lots of encryption. It reads like sci-fi, and gets you wondering on plausibility and morality.

Note to Gub'mint spies: I am not advocating that anyone set up and use the Assassination Politics system... blah blah blah Just thought I'd share a somewhat more extreme example of on-line activism systems. :-)

I like the one the AntiOffline crew made.

This has been out and well-publicized for months! Why is it on slashdot? It's been onsale since about september of last year!
Everyone and their brother has reviewed it! It's been featured on remotecentral since february!

Is slashdot near death? Tell me something new, not something that has been beat to death elsewhere!

Some kids can handle it well. Others...simply can't. I'm an administrator on a large IRC network, and I've received only a few (three at most that I can think of) complaints about online {stalkings,pedophiles,unwelcome advances} in the two years that I've been an operator.

I think a much more prevalant problem are kiddiots with WinNuke and friends that have abused the medium by {flooding,hax0ring,cloning}. They're not mature enough to understand that their actions have consequences, and that they *will* be held responsible for them -- both on IRC and the real world. I can't count the number of times I've had some idiot constantly abuse, only to sulk back and beg for forgiveness once they realize that it's easier for me to remove them than they previously thought.

WILL KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE ON PURPOSE.
Goto Chiapas, Guatemala, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba,..,..., tell *them* that.

Ever hear of the School of Americas? Its your own little Terrorist Training Camp.

Have you ever read this gem? http://www.antioffline.com/uscuba.html

Wow, imagine that - a pre-fabricated excuse for aggression, America(TM) would *never* do anything like that...?

The ignorance and myopia caused by America Jingoism is amazing -- and scary.

America is a Rogue Nation Out of Control.

Whats not mentioned in the register article (but recently had an article on slashdot) is TLS with SMTP - most people have no clue what this is, and how much of a potential headache it can be for carnivore operators to monitor smtp traffic.

Carnivores purpose is twofold - to sniff your mail obviously, but dont forget it also builds tables of who emails who, and makes it easy for the carnivore operator to track who is associated with who. PGP doesnt help here since it just encrypts the message. However TLS combined with PGP does since it does its mailfrom and rcptto _after_ starttls is issued. Next time you set up a MTA make sure it has TLS support! Shameless plug: TLS for Dummies.

On a side note, dont forget you can tunnel your web proxy via stunnel, assuming you can talk the proxy operator into installing it for you :)

Well, my truthful analysis of your nation was on-topic in the post you linked. It is a new level of lock-step McCarthyism to label anything that may question the decisions of your 'leaders' as "un-America", i have to commend you citizen, You Are Doing Good Work.

Seeing as how the truth makes me a " Un-American* Troll", I will repost them here for your pleasure:Read Here to learn how Bush has appointed ex-Iran-Contra Terrorists and convicted Congressional perjurer to key posts. Seeing all these cold-war CIA criminals in cabinet makes you wonder about GWB's father's involvement.

Click Here to learn how America has its own state sponsored Terrorist Training Camp, Colourfully called the School of Americas. Learn how its graduates form death squads in Central and South America.

Click here to learn about the United States Department of Defence's plan to kill domestic and foreign civilians in order to create a plausible excuse to start a war with Cuba during the 'ColdWar'. Funny, based on the actions/reaction of America and its citizens based on the WTC incident, you'd think that something like that might actaully work... or come to reality.... makes you wonder doesn't it.

*Thank you - Im glad you noticed. Your opinion is im "un-american", because you american, most others (them being Citizens of the World) would simply see me as truthful or possibly insightful... but hey, could be worse, I could be a xenophobic, ignorant jingoist.

The US harboured terrorists for 4 years before said terrorists blew up the WTC.

The US Government sponsers terrorism directly. The fact is that the CIA is widely accepted as a filthy group of killers... the world over. They topple governments, assassinate people and did some fucked up shit during the coldwar. The US Ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, is a terrorist.

You even have your own dirty little terrorist training ground, colourfully called theSchool of America.

Anyone else interested in the machinations of the US Government and its hypocrasy may also like to read this: A wonderfull plan, on how the Government could 'get away' with starting a war with Cuba - very interesting stuff...

Kettle this is pot, Pot, Kettle.

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/

Here is a partial list of books published online, that I happened to like enough to bookmark. I find that reading a book on the computer screen is tedious, I mostly use the online version as a reference.

Handbook of applied cryptography: http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

Underground: (I actually haven't read this yet) http://www.underground-book.com/

Netizens: (only partly read this) http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/army.fi eld.manual/

Big Breach: http://www.antioffline.com/bigbreach/

The Prof's Book: http://frode.home.cern.ch/frode/crypto/Turing/inde x.html

I have a lot of other links also, but my bookmarks have become so nested and folderized that many are lost in there, I really need bookmarks for my bookmarks . . . Anyway, I would suggest that if you find yourself looking for interesting reading online, you will find plenty. If you choose you can find scanned in pdf's of various works on newsgroups and in freenet, etc.

However, my advice is to use the 'net primarily as a way to figure out what to read, and become familar with the local public library. Almost all libraries have inter-library loans which give you access to huge amount of stuff. When I can't get a work that way, I fall back upon checking databases of used bookstore inventories -- http://abe.com/ and http://powellsbooks.com/ are the places I generally go to.

I only glanced over the article ["this article"] but I noticed several places with "word 0 word", anybody know if they mean something?

With carnivore, the government sees all traffic. They see crypto they can't break, they trace it with help from the ISP, they pay someone a not-so-friendly visit.

But encrypted data can be hidden in non-encrypted data, in ways that make it virtually impossible to detect, using steganography. So the criminals could send photos to eachother, or even have a web-cam feed with data steganographically encoded into the frames.

Take a look at OutGuess, for example. You might also find this article to be interesting, particularly the part with the photos of the Statue of Liberty.

And here is some text which allows my post to bypass the Lameness^H^H^H^H Filter.

Your DHCP server detects a buffer-overflow
Uhh... okay... thats a real bright design.

then passes the appropriate counter-measure information to your mail server. The mail server hacks the machine, shuts down the offending process, and patches the TCP/IP stack with one that DOESN'T have raw socket access.
Hmm more bright design. Why not just turn my web server into a honeypot while I'm at it.

SOMEONE has been reading too-fucking-much Steve Gibson. WindowsXP has 0 to do with this. So not only is this post off subject its complete FUD. Take a look here for a more enlightened view of XP and a realistic view of Gibson's worthless RANTs on XP and its access to raw sockets.

If the 5 this comment rated was for FUD I wouldn't even need to be posting this. Pfft.

An interesting article. I also enjoyed the Theories in DoS at the same site. However, I was disappointed that the firewall benchmarking PDF at http://antioffline.com/sec.bencharks.pdf went 404.

I noticed most of these attacks happening in the summer time which can be attributed to kids being out of school and having too much time on their hands. I've written a paper on stopping DoS attacks which can be found here, which deals with network based (router level), firewall, and kernel tweaks, to minimize a DoS attack.

Some of these idiots should check into a local clinic for psychiatric assistance, and stop ruining things for people who just want to chat.

Personally I feel that the thought of living in a "free world" was killed off long ago at the inception of government. Call me a loon conspiracy theorist if you will, but again let's look at the reality of tracking: Facial Recognition in Tampa, ease of tunnel toll devices to track speeding, Echelon, Digital Angel, and the countless others. So why does would anyone want a chip in government? My thoughts on this would be simple, they expect to catch tax cheats and criminals with it, however what's going to be done when we live in a society where we've become drones who can't think for ourselves?

Take a look at what the Secret Service did to Gold Age, a raid with no charges all because they cannot monitor what people do with their currency, which scares Big Brother since they don't have control of the situation at any given time.

Is monitoring currency good for you? No because of the abuse that could take place behind it. What happens to a business man say Bill Gates should he have an affair and pass some cash (which until now is untraceable, sure there's serial numbers but that wouldn't work) to say a call girl. Can you imagine the joy in someone's eye should they feel like blackmailing Bill because they tracked him. Sure it's not right to cheat but open your eyes and get an honest look at where things could go.

For those who want a lesson in politics and money I suggest reading "The End of Ordinary Money

With all this tracking going on (Facial recognition in Tampa Bay, EZ-Pass for speeding, etc.) companies with these so called "new and hi tech" gadgets are going to end up making criminals look to hi tech gadgets in the future. Something law enforcement will end up dreading more than radar detectors.

Or we'll all end up zombies who won't learn the difference between right and wrong, since tech will end up deciding for us, and law enforcement will end up becoming a large military since crime won't exist, so many will end up getting replaced by a gadget. I'm glad to see that politicians have started acting out against what's being done nowadays. There's a lot of room for abuse in tech too. (Echelon used to spy against Japan, Echelong used to spy on Airbus for Boeing [10.7], etc.)

Anyone ever watch the movie Patriot Games, when Harrison Ford is watching thermal imaging of an assassination taking place, or Enemy of the State? Last Saturday I was watching "Eyes in the Sky" on Discovery Channel about Satellite Communications, and the things they stated were scary.

So what's next for government? Implants to monitor your every move, heartbeat, body temp, all connected via GPS? Spoke too soon

Judging on my log files for my site, I noticed that obviously the majority was Microsoft, followed by Netscape, then Mozilla Gecko, followed by Konqueror. I've tried Konqueror a while back and it was ok, I dreaded having to download KDE entirely though since I couldn't find konqueror as a standalone, and if I'm not mistaken it doesn't come as a standalone. (who knows I stay away from KDE2)

The browser wars really make little sense to me, for one I can view everything just fine in Netscape under FreeBSD, except Java/Javascripts blow, however when neccessary I fire up Mozilla to quash all problems. My problem with Mozilla is, it's rather (dare I say) bloated, and takes up a lot of resources, hence I guess to each their own.

Opera was cool a ways back, and I haven't tried it in some time, but I've heard, and seen posted there are click me spam ads all over the place. Lynx is great for visiting this site, but all in all I stick with good old faithful Netscape, who always loads my bitches' every curve just fine.

We all know the aliens from another Stargate set up the pyramids!

Ok so it wasn't funny. Anyways there was a recent (semi recent about 4 months ago) documentary on PBS depicting how this may have worked which knocked off many theories and made sense. According to the doc., slaves were not used and this was judged based on evidence from an excavation, that showed what were supposedly slaves, were treated like royalty. (Judging from the medical care they received)

Leading engineers calculated block by block how it was done, and their theory was, ramps were made, and the stones were hauled up these ramps by many workers who traveled to Egypt to honor the kings. Enigneers, doctors, you name it supposedly assisted raising the blocks until it was done.

According to the scientists and Engineers I think it took about 30-40 years per pyramid, in which many felt honorable to do. This again was based on evidence from excavation which showed no one was a prisoner, or slave, engineers who recreated the scenario (nice SGI graphics too).

Also in the documentary it showed how ancient medical techniques were used to heal broken bones, etc.

What is Shadowstorm Intelligence Layer?

Applied Digital Solutions, an e-business-to-business solutions provider, acquired the patent rights to the miniature digital transceiver it has named "Digital Angel®." The company plans to market the device for a number of uses, including as a "tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business security." ... One inquirer was the U.S. Department of Defense through a contractor, according to Zhou. American soldiers may be required to wear the implant so their whereabouts and health conditions can be accessed at all times, said the scientist.

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Some technology they're looking at ...

Digital Angel sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by global positioning satellite technology. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles and can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a monitoring facility. "We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless"

A $10,000 machine dedicated to a single game knocks the socks off a PS2/XBox any day.

While this may be true, you have to take into consideration, that the company would have to sell an enormous amount of them to make a profit, as opposed to focusing on creating home market games, which many have turned to and is guaranteed to make money.

Heck yea I remember the days of playing Joust, Missle Command, Dig Dug, and others, but nowadays the games are expensive, they make too many to find a favorite, and way too many arcades no longer exist even in New York City. It's a losing venture for them.

What is Shadowstorm Intelligence Layer

Judge Reade's lawsuit says Rogers advertising promised quick and easy access to the Internet, plus "an enhanced multimedia experience and technical support 24 hours a day."

Instead, she says, the system rarely worked.

Some days, she couldn't connect to the Internet at all. At other times, she says the connection would shut down when she or her teenaged children were using it.

the "Not all corps are out to get you?"

People misunderstand our site, we're not anti anything, we just don't give a shit about anyone ;) I run AO have been running it since it was born www.antioffline.com/about.html

Anyways as for the BIOS and script kiddiots, it'd be an enormous task for someone to create an exploit since as stated, well let me rephrase this a bit... It's be hard for someone to create an exploit for your typical dial-up customer, since they would (the script kiddie) need to know which machine to interact with upon boot.

It could be done with a backdoor, then leaving the port open, the script kiddie would have to scan complete address blocks, but if they're going to do something so difficult, then they're even bigger idiots for not downloading already availble trojans that'd do the same.

I see nothing wrong with Phoenix trying to make a call when I boot up my pc, because I barely ever shut it down for one, secondly I don't use Phoenix BIOS anymore, and thirdly if I did I would block it out on IPF.

It's nice for companies to attempt to improve their products however I think they should notify their customers with their intents and base their judgement on those results. Not every single company is out to shaft everyone, and not every company is out to monitor you like Big Brother.

Now what would have been an excellent YRO story would have been something about "Digital Angel." Now there is something I could spend hours on end posting on.

Ever had a look at Indymedia? The wire's full of Marxist bleatings, bleeding-heart whining about the costs of convenience, and crackheaded posts from kooks. It's a complete waste of time.

And I suppose news from agencies which filter out the important parts are better than Indymedia. Take a look at Jim Bell, the judge scared the media, and the media shoved their tails up their asses and stood silently as Bell was shafted.

Take a look at the McVeigh trial, where did the media go when John Doe news was brought about from the beginning? What about CNN's actions during the Gulf War... Sure allow the military into the company to monitor what gets reported.

Sorry sir I would rather have all forms of news to look at instead of believing what I'm fed, especially from normal news agencies which break under pressure by Big Brother's bully tactics.

I don't see why the FBI backed off. Secret documents were stolen, and it's important to find out where they came from, lest the next stolen documents result in murders and chaos.

It's likely they backed off because they didn't have a case to begin with jackass.

Indymedia supports violent actions. Witness how they moan and cry about police trying to maintain order in Gothenburg, Sweden last weekend, ignoring the 50 injured officers and 5 dead horses that
resulted from anarchist riots in the downtown core. The "collective" doesn't seem to give a shit about the one officer that got nailed in the head by a rock, knocking him unconscious, but you'll hear no end to the bitching about the attacker who got shot by fellow officers in self-defence.

Hypocrites and suburbanite bleeding-hearts, the lot of them. They don't deserve sympathy, and they
don't deserve pity.

Your post means absolutely little. I read IndyMedia, and feel no need to go out and hurt anyone asshole.

New World Disorder?

WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service has raided a New York state business that exchanged dollars for grams of the digital currency called e-gold.

A bevy of agents from the Secret Service, Postal Service and local police recently detained the owners of Gold-Age, based in Syracuse, and seized computers, files and documents from the fledgling firm.

Personally I have a hard time reading fictional literature. I can watch a movie based on a book, but I would rather read tech, or political books. But since this is an odd book I figured I would point out something which always made me laugh. The Anarchy Cookbook.

That was some of the funniest shit in the world, and unless you were some type of LEA (law enforcement agent) you had to find some form of dark humor reading the good old Jolly Roger.

I wouldn't know the comparisons between PHP over Windows and a Nix based machine, but should you want to switch over quickly check out ASP2PHP this way you don't have to write tons of code over. I used to use PHP last year on one of my sites but moved to a hacked version of ePerl since PHP caused high loads with the scripts I had running.

Now what was scary in my eyes was the fact that the scripts were nothing but random image and random quote scripts, and it brought the load on the server extremely high and if you think that the average 6.75 load is not high for nothing but random quotes, and images then your off your rocker since I've got it down to an average of about 2.something. Anyways I guess it depends on what it is your doing.

mod_python is pretty neat for gui based stuff but again it can be a mem hog in its own right. Only way to get a good enough grasp is to just try it out, it certainly won't kill you lest you change all your production machines without testing. (hey I've seen it done)

Another quick note is, stay a bit weary of reviews of ASP vs. PHP or other since no two systems will be configured to do the same tasks, and your always going to get a biased opinion whether its from an ASP developer or PHP developer. I've had my share of reading articles claiming one is better than the other for X reasons. Best case scenario TIYASOYO. (test it yourself and see on your own)

I'd have to disagree with you. Whether or not I used IE I know enough about privacy, and there are many tools one can use such as JunkBuster to maintain an efficient level of privacy via way of cookies. Some things you should take into consideration are, aside from technology, marketing companies do psychological research on all types of people in order to perform target marketing of products. You see it on television when you watch commercials, e.g. ever see any commercials for black hair care products when Sally Jess Raphael is on? No you're going to see it on BET or when Oprah is on.

This is still a form of privacy violation in a way since someone seems to assume only a selective class of people would watch television. When you go the local stores in urban neighborhoods you can see it via ads as well in which you'd be surprised how many companies perform these tasks via polls, questionaires, etc.

When it comes to the Internet you have to keep in mind no one can see you, and you have every option to decline such things as cookies, or install programs which can act as a bodyguard to protect some site from gaining information on you.

Check out some of my privacy links should these things disturb you, but don't assume any technology can fully impose on someone without their consent whether they consent to it or not.

Army accused of cover-up in Kosovar Albanian's death

Government Watchdog Agency for human medical experiments under investigation

Hydrazine Sulfate Cancer Coverup

THE COVER-UP OF GULF WAR SYNDROME -- A QUESTION OF NATIONAL INTEGRITY

The United States and Biological Warfare

THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1968

MKUltra, Uranium, Unsolved Homicide, Possible Genocide

My bad everyone must be wrong the government is such a great watcher and keeper of the peace. Maybe if you took the time to see things in an unbiased way you would actually have a clue. Me on the other hand I love government, and I truly love many of the policies they've created, but I would never turn a blind eye because they did one good thing so this enables them to perform 20 bad things in return. Fsck that.

All is fair in war no matter what your own beliefs are. Lest we forget how the "fedz" tried to hire a Russian hacker to infiltrate the Russian Federal infrastructure.

|http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42998 ,0 0.html|

So if it was some Chinese hackers so be it, on the other hand what makes you think this couldn't be something like the government falsely reporting to bring up animosity amongst Americans towards Asians in case they wanted to wage a war? I suggest you see read what they had planned for Cuba before you think the feds are so fine and glorious

Get real no one knows truly what happened yet, and I'd be skeptical to jump the gun and believe the first thing written about the whole case. And as for your "fedz have the right to call these punks terrorists" you better wake up and smell the coffee there, if your not 100% pro government including all of their FUD/Errata/Schemes [1, 2] then your considered just as much a terrorist as anyone else.

All is fair in war no matter what your own beliefs are. Lest we forget how the "fedz" tried to hire a Russian hacker to infiltrate the Russian Federal infrastructure.

|http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42998 ,0 0.html|

So if it was some Chinese hackers so be it, on the other hand what makes you think this couldn't be something like the government falsely reporting to bring up animosity amongst Americans towards Asians in case they wanted to wage a war? I suggest you see read what they had planned for Cuba before you think the feds are so fine and glorious

Get real no one knows truly what happened yet, and I'd be skeptical to jump the gun and believe the first thing written about the whole case. And as for your "fedz have the right to call these punks terrorists" you better wake up and smell the coffee there, if your not 100% pro government including all of their FUD/Errata/Schemes [1, 2] then your considered just as much a terrorist as anyone else.

What I think happened was, the Chinese were so pissed off at the United States, they figured that Bush and other politicians would be pissed if they actually gave Californians power as opposed to monopolizing it. Well one would have to know about Kenneth Lay of Enron being Dubya's biggest campaign contributor. (no wonder they won't cap electric costs)

Do moderators just get kicks from modding other people down? Underrated? It was a serious on-topic question. No-one rated me up, so you are just sucking away my karma for no good reason. I'm beginning to seriously think that the moderation system here is totally broken. It doesn't achieve it's goal of reducing the signal-to-noise ratio, and it just pisses me off when I ask serious on-topic questions and my karma gets drained. This post will probably get modded "offtopic" but I'm starting to not care. I might as well be reading this site.

Well, your fingers weave quick minarets; Speak in secret alphabets;

The linked article has an unfortunate title:

Ten Risks of PKI: What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure By Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier