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Hey, look at this Indian nationalist skinhead:
http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/images/YoungWorldLead ers/ghandi3.bmp

And, here's Bush doing the you-know-which salute:
http://www.tonypierce.com/images/2002/bush/waving. jpg

As you see, if you manipulate, you can prove anything. On the other side, here's something REAL: (left-wing) Vice-chancellor of Germany Joschka Fischer (with black helmet) beating up a cop: http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/198/2847/320/fisc her_crimes1.jpg

Actually looking at this it seems they're making a good fist of doing the same with hardware.

I think the links are a small part of what they are trying to achieve.

For example, Google's "community sites" thing "Blogger.com" has approximately 7 out of 10 of it's profiles some sort of spam, link lists (for search rankings to other sites), thinly veiled search whitewashing, malicious program installers, and some that redirect to porn. (The last one has kept me from visiting the site at work, the pop ups and stuff work even in FireFox.)

This policy, is a tool that can help them have a rule that lets them go through and delete that stuff. (LJ seems to have a lot less of it though.)

The following link its the "random next profile" link for blogger.com. Paste it into a browser a couple of times and you will see what I mean.

http://www.blogger.com/next-blog?navBar=true

That's not to say that responding to the right wing christian whack jobs like this is a good idea. But I DO see their point.

Seems someone found an earlier article on his blog that is a bit hypocritical. :-)

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=636719409 7783716840&postID=4418674504017401530

``What's the big deal? The RIAA can't tax what they don't own.``

        Yes they can. They got provisions put into the DMCA that allow them to collect (and in theory, distribute) royalties on all music played over internet radio. In theory, we can make licensing deals with every independent artist, but that's 8000 deals we'd have to make and there is no practical way we could do that. Only a handful of artists to date have granted us rights to play their music without royalties.

        Unfortnately, even the larger independent labels think they're smelling money and want to charge us lots of money to play their music. Incl

        We'd have to drop 90% of our music. Some of our channels couldn't exist any more at all.

Well, not that you'll see this.

But you say you were censored by Blogger, it's always better to believe that than a technical issue.

You aren't the only one on Blogger experiencing the same issue, it's technical, not censorship. Login to Blogger>Dashboard>Settings>Publishing and you'll see your blogspot subdomain has disappeared from there. Re-enter it and save. It's happened to many people over the last few days. I know that because your Blogger profile
http://www.blogger.com/profile/0827602576389971671 9
Lists the blog still there but with the address of
http://.blogspot.com/

Technical (incompetence maybe?), not censorship.

IBM's Blue Gene still uses Ethernet. Eric's added Jumbo Frame support to Plan 9 From Bell Labs which boots on the cpu and I/O nodes now.

In that case the network has it's own dedicated nodes, so yes, the network is the computer!

See this blog: http://shawn-news.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-sugary-c anadian-coca-cola.html

Or a direct link to the image of the Coke can with ingredients: http://bp3.blogger.com/_yepdryo6x-A/RmbpSd3a7OI/AA AAAAAAAy0/pdbVoFMNxj0/s1600-h/CokeIngredients.jpg

Looks like Canadian Coke uses sugar.

I don't know why i'm responding to an AC. Get a user account you coward. Anyways, that blog is pathetic.
These guys are so mad that they might actually make a reasonable browser for the Macintosh at long last.
And their true intentions come out.
...Nonetheless, FireFox is slower than Safari, crashes more often, and still doesn't support the KeyChain on Mac OS X. Why not? Why is FireFox so mediocre?
Those are great metrics for measuring how good Firefox is, except I don't know the last time I have had Firefox crash (on Linux or Windows). This guy's world apparently only consists of OS X. Which is what, 3% of the desktop market? Less if measured on monthly sales over the last several years.

Get real dude; but have fun reinterpreting this from Steve Jobs wanting the non IE market to an Apple Secret Plan. I like how all of a sudden this guy reinterprets the picture in the presentation to something closer to his view of what the Apple Secret Plan is. Do you really think Safari can have 24% of the browser market by 2008? Seriously?

More importantly, how is a blog credible with an entry titled: A Picture is Worth 1000 Morons" What about the flameworthy text from the first paragraph: I never cease to be amazed at how smart people can be so fraking stupid. Take John Lilly, Mozilla's chief operating officer. This little piss ant thorn in my side was handed a gift on a silver platter by Steve Jobs at WWDC, but he's too stupid and arrogant to read the tea leaves that Jobs spread out on the table before him.

Well said... it is the difference between a buffet and a fine restaurant. The buffet has 180+ items!! all mediocre but you get your choice and as much as you can handle, the fine restaurant has maybe 12 choices and you only get one or two but they are amazing.

Microsoft and Linux (generally) are the buffet, and Apple is the fine dining. And appropriately the type of folks who are happy with the buffet go that way and those "snobs" who prefer a higher quality go for the fine restaurant.

Nothing is stopping Linux from being both, except focus and some sort of oversight and management to get the core/apps to be as perfect as possible and actually pay attention to interoperability and unified experience.

- http://1linux.blogger.com/

Exactly! My system is over 4 years old with an AMD 2700+ OC'd to 3200+, 2GB RAM, 1Tb HDD, and a NV 6600GT. It plays every game I've thrown at it and it will even play the upcoming hits (Spore, Project Offset, Hellgate, WHO, etc.) So what would ever make me jump ship? Vista?? I don't think so. As much as I like Linux this PC has run XP from day 1 with zero issues and she's still humming along fine. Dual cores really offer me little, and 64-bit has been a bust too.

The industry is trying so hard to force a hardware change to keep their profits up that they are doing anything. And since it is all poorly planned and misaligned with the current user they fail.

Right now people want: cheap, fast, low-power, quiet, ease of use, and freedom from the onslaught of viruses and spyware.

They've given us: Expensive, slightly faster, high-power, jet engine loud, pretty colors and eye candy with the same usability if not worse, and still no real answer for viruses and spyware. $400+ video cards that soak 1kw of power and run games that don't exist and aren't even on the average person's radar aren't the answer either.

OS X and Apple have been increasing sales like mad lately for exactly these reasons... but they are still expensive. Ubuntu has been making strides but it still isn't quite there for mass appeal.

- http://1linux.blogger.com/

Pie Graph

Why are you even taking the time to explain this? He already knows that Google is violating the GPL and ignoring the facts because he works for Google! Nothing you say will make him agree with you that the hand that feeds him is capable of doing wrong.

Spideybukake, so bad Chugworth is gone...

Bearing in mind that these deletions were based on having a keyword such as "incest" in the "Interests" list...

I see that Warriors for Innocence itself has several naughty words listed in the META tags, including "pedophile", "child love", "nambla", "abuse", "molestation", "boy lover", "girl lover", "grooming".

Perhaps we all need to complain Blogger about that...? (Although they have a domain name, the site is hosted on blogger, username warriorsforinnocence - unfortunately the "Flag as Objectionable" button isn't visible, and I'm not sure how to do that for them...?)

Couldn't google make something that actually evolves out of the beta?

I mean Gmail is STILL in beta according to the logo... 3 years of beta "testing"? Isn't that enough?

Actually, informative error messages that say things like "MP3 codecs are not installed by default, etc, but here's how/where you can get them"

And you can forget about ergonomic input devices. I've tried and failed to get wacom drivers working on 4 different distros...

Actually, informative error messages that say things like "MP3 codecs are not installed by default, etc, but here's how/where you can get them"

And you can forget about ergonomic input devices. I've tried and failed to get wacom drivers working on 4 different distros...

1. You are a total fucking idiot, and thank God you have a blog to prove it.
2. None of the points you raise constitute a rebuttal. Mostly, it just demonstrates that you're a callous asshole with little regard for the suffering of others. Ahh, the life of the sheltered whitey. Here's to hoping the ensuing mayhem reaches out and grabs one of your own. Karma, baby.
3. This is your argument: if we shitcan this nice setup that's nurtured us for the last 10,000 years, we'll probably be able to do just as well because we're really smart.
   
   I mean, really? That's the best you can do? Pretty weak stuff. But by all means, go buy a lot in Siberia. When the backlash finally comes people like me who are fed up with the willful, malevolent complacency of people like you, we'll know where to look!

My east coast buddies say to just come to Miami and I will get married in a heartbeat.

Your buddies are statistically speaking correct. There is a surplus of women on the east coast.

They're using a unique new design for the access points

These are the original comments to the post:

http://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=515217421 765732952&postID=2662624797886976000&isPopup=true

I was feeling bad for Ashley until I saw what an idiot she is.

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Ashley Heyer said...

Wow. I bet you never thought I, the girl you took the ID from, would ever see this post.

And hey, I'd like to let you know that there's no reason to be an asshole about my political affiliation. Though my father has donated money to members of the Republican party, I am not a member.

Ashley Heyer

May 4, 2007 3:39 AM
Will, the date said...

What do we know from this post?

This bartender didn't keep the ID because, as she claimed, she didn't want to be liable for Ashley's later exploits. She kept it so she would have a record from which to cyberstalk her. Nevermind that she got the entirely wrong idea from her online sleuthing.

Creepy.

May 4, 2007 9:02 AM
Rachel said...

I actually kept the ID because with a big enough collection we're going to re-do the ladies bathroom at the castle.

Notably, two minutes on google isn't cyber sleuthing, and if you work for the republicans, you're affiliated.

May 4, 2007 9:57 AM
Mark said...

Hi I'm Mark I am dating Ashley. I am also a republican. A card carrying member of the party.

May 4, 2007 9:06 PM
erin said...

Hi, I'm Erin, a friend of Rachel's. I don't carry political cards but I can say this, if you are stupid enough to get a fake ID, why on earth would you use your real name? Just seems silly cos then you are just asking for something like this to happen.

Put on your big panties and deal.

May 5, 2007 11:27 AM
Rachel said...

Also, Ash, if you're really this furious, I'm going to dash out your name on the post so it won't appear when you search your name on google, and you can contact me if you'd like.

You obviously have my email, because the impressive swath of people who have accessed my blog from your facebook notes (the mapstats at the bottom of my blog tracks references, readers, and other statistics) have been subscribing magazines and random spam mail to my account. I'm not concerned, it's all fixed. They should worry about being prosecuted for identity theft if it continues.

I imagine these people are not you, but referred to this by you. I posted this all because it was amusing to me. Not to wreck your life.

Peace kiddo.

May 6, 2007 4:23 PM
MS said...

I would also think twice about committing anymore identity fraud.

I think that all of you people from Facebook are contributing to Global Warming.

And not just because you are Republicans.

May 7, 2007 12:00 AM
Justin said...

Wow, you're a pretty vindictive bitch, Rachel. It's one thing if you have some huge moral dilemma selling alcohol to a minor (I don't know her actual age, but I'm guessing over 18 and close to 21), but wow.

You went through the trouble of essentially stalking this girl and posting her street address online - to what end? Aside from

Wordpress may have problems in design and whatnot, but unlike Blogger, Wordpress works under Ubuntu Dapper and Firefox.

By `works', I mean it doesn't cause my browser to crawl to a halt, and the CPU fan to speed up. It's not the speed of my computer (3.06Ghz P4), and besides the site works fine in the Mozilla suite browser. There's something about Firefox that makes it extremely slow and unstable on certain websites. I found out that Blogger is one but another is The Weather Network, the most popular weather site in Canada.

The RIAA needs to hire this guy to make drawings for them.

bill hooker?

Just want you to know I've credited your suggestion in my comments section.

There's a still too: http://bp3.blogger.com/_pNJFZtinpKY/Rc_OgMy2aeI/AA AAAAAAAPM/zoEDK9sJWH8/s1600-h/Mac_linux.jpg

Every major attack against Christianity in the US...

...and the 3rd Amendment wasn't to protect us against having to quarter foreign soldiers in our homes, it was to prevent us from having to quarter US military in our homes and private property.

<Firefly>Yeah, I know. It was just funny.</Firefly>

If you read the other end of those links, you'll read people who have been working on this problem a long time declaring it technically hard. Pass-through won't work because hardware's view of memory isn't virtualized; virtualizing devices doesn't work because of the need to virtualize every device in the underlying system (and the implicit need to know about every possible interface to do so). Sure it only needs to be done once ... just like proving P = NP only needs to be done once. That doesn't make it possible.

Rootkit VMs are "impossible" in the same sense that cracking strong crypto is "impossible". Rutkowska's research says "assume VMs are undetectable. Then attack X is possible". This is akin to saying "assume strong crypto can be cracked. Then attack X is possible", except Rutkowska ignores the experts who say that undetectable VMs are as unsolvable as strong crypto.

I'm quite serious when I say that Rutkowska has done some work, stated "the rest is left as an exercise for the reader", and declared victory. Catch is, anyone doing work on VMs sees that she's done 10% of the work and ignored the 90% where there are known difficulties she gleefully ignores. The woman DELETES criticisms from her blog and dismisses other attacks as "theoretical" (Anthony Liguori is a Xen contributor). Odd ... her rootkit is far more theoretical than the attacks against it, since solid rootkit-detectors exist and her rootkit is a self-admitted prototype that ignores the need to hide itself.

(2) is deceptively difficult to implement in a fool-proof manner that does not incur large costs on a per-site basis -- it requires an external time source *and* an external performance measurement system

Just an external time source - since the detection code is arbitrary (i.e. I could be sending cryptographically signed timestamps, or reading a timestamp off some well-known URL like yahoo.com), it's not possible to block the external measurement. (Sure the VM could look for such loops, but it has to detect any POSSIBLE loop, even dynamically generated ones, which is a halting problem variant and thus undecidable).

I've heard a second defense against timing analysis: ban external time sources. But this means banning a machine from the Internet, which escapes the whole security problem anyway.

What is to prevent that rootkit-VM (the one that twiddled the registers in the first place) from faking out any attempt by the legit OS to read those registers?

Because it doesn't have to be the OS reading them - it could be SMM code, or even a device snooping northbridge bus accesses to detect oddly-mapped memory accesses. But anyway, this assumes at rootkit-VM is possible anyway - and we return to point (1).

oh no!

Location: The "Stacks"

Google. What a mystique! They can 'innovate' new forms of -

Cross-site scripting exploits:
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-01-n12 .html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=338

Exposure of personal and sensitive data:
http://www.finjan.com/Pressrelease.aspx?id=1261&Pr essLan=1230&lan=3

Data loss:
http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/MT/vanhouse/archive s/000663.html
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_featur es/google_email_troubles_continue.html

Site failure:
http://status.blogger.com/

Privacy violation:
http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
http://www.google-watch.org/krane.html

Niiiice, if you're a preVert

http://photos1.blogger.com/photoInclude/x/blogger/ 6356/1216/1600/816386/britneyspearscrotchpictures2 .jpg

You could just host your Blogger content on your own host instead of blogspot.com.

Only blogspot.com's TOS forces you to display their ads, not Blogger's.

Thanks for making a simple link to http://blogger.com/ in the summary.

I for one hail our Extremely Handsome Intergalactic Cult Rails Overlord.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2595/3511/1600/ ruby_on_raels.1.jpg

Apparently, 60% or so of Slashdot visitors are closet Windows users. I'd say we're at a disadvantage on our own turf:

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7687/2683439 70284721/1600/73421/slashdot%20linux.jpg

It's because there are people like this in the world!

1. "fraudulent purpose"
2. "circumvent any security system"
3. "enter ... a secure area"

To see changes though, this would have to motivate the people. So far, the voters of the USA have chosen to leave things alone. Apparently, the TSA is doing just fine according to most Americans.

Further, I think the case can be made that Chris is innocent of the charges.

1. "fraudulent purpose": Chris has clearly stated his purpose. In particular, "3. Demonstrate that the TSA Boarding Pass/ID check is useless" does not represent fraudulent purpose. Senator Charles E. Schumer demonstrated the same thing and is likewise not guilty of any fraud. Their intents were clear, and they made no attempt to either create, use, or cause others to create or use a fake boarding pass.
2. "circumvent any security system": this is essentially the same claim. By publishing a program which automatically generates "valid" boarding passes, both Charles and Chris have acted to preserve security by publishing the method of operation of the system. Not only is this protected by the First Amendment, it is not circumvention unless action is taken to attack the actual systems in operation. Neither Chris nor Charles have entered secure areas without authorization. They have not caused others to do so. They are only guilty of revealing the method in use.
   
   If a system fails to control access when its encryption becomes public knowledge, it is not a secure system, in the same way that DRM can never stop piracy. This is immaterial to the case, however, since Chris only provided a web page to generate encrypted data, and did not reveal the key.
3. "enter ... a secure area": if the TSA has evidence that anyone has successfully entered their secured areas, I propose they present it in the court case. As a corollary, Steve Ballmer has said that linux users have "an undisclosed balance sheet liability," and he is likewise welcome to provide evidence of that liability. Innocent until proven guilty. However, in Chris's case, he has stated that he did not even print a boarding pass, much less get through security at an airport. What if there is a bug in his code and the pass does not actually work? He won't know. That wasn't his purpose.

This is analogous to the scientist that invents some "cure", skips FDA approval, injects himself, and it ends up harming himself and others.

I can see your point. However, what Chris has done is akin to publishing a Star Trek replicator's database entry for borg implants. He knows they are dangerous. He also knows that others (like Senator Schumer) have previously published the same information. If someone chooses to load the database entry into their replicator (they would have to intenti

And don't say here

Offtopic I know, but here's a flipside question that occurred to me when RTFA: if we were an alien species sending probes to land on Earth, where would we pick to land based on imagery of at the resolution we're getting back from Mars?

And don't say here

Correct. To be specific, 17 USC 512(g), which is the DMCA section on counternotification, is specifically mentioned in the email the blogger got from YouTube. The email requests that any counternotification be sent to the address "DMCA Complaints, YouTube, Inc.," etc.

When a minute-long video of the original vs. censored clips was posted on YouTube, a DMCA takedown removed it (the original poster plans to resubmit a shorter clip he hopes will qualify as fair use -- good luck, since the DMCA doesn't recognize fair use).

This all seemed unlikely to me, and reading the original letter:

1) The only mention of the DMCA is in the return address. They're not claiming any DMCA violation

2) DMCA or not, there's no fair-use right to be able to put content on YouTube. The guy isn't being sued.

I have 2 blogs set up on Blogger, one with a customized stylesheet and another using one of the standard CSS templates. I am not sure how good Blogger 1.0 does to prevent bot spam on blogs that allow anonymous posting, but there seems to be a lot of it around.

However, the one with the customized style sheet receives no bot spam! The 'Comment' link is actually called 'Talk about this', and the whole section of the Blogger posting is set up differently (i.e. left to right rather than top to bottom). The one that uses a standard CSS template has lots and lots of botspam. I think that the bots are programmed to see which template the page has (its right there in the source) and then they know which links will be the links to the comment area.

So the person that suggested even moving the form field around, well I know this is not dynamic movement, but it sure seemed to have worked. Now if my customized blog was popular enough... that would be a different story.

From http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/crea te_your_own.html

Image of a doctored boarding pass:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6601/1598/1600/ osama-boarding-pass.jpg

Here is a very quick PHP hack to edit a boarding pass template. Edit the boarding pass above to white out the areas to change and save it as nwa_pass.png. This code can be called with:

bp.php?name=Tom%20Tuttle&date=29OCT2006&flight=US1 7B

There should be enough fields here that even non-PHP programmers get the idea.

A web server with PHP and GD are required. Wrap this in standard php opening and closing brackets.

ATTN: FBI Agents -- this took about 15 minutes. Anyone with any amount of PHP experience can do this.

$pass = "nwa_pass.png";
$name_loc = array( 202, 138 );
$date_loc = array( 55, 230 );
$flight_loc = array( 55, 250 );

$name = $_GET['name'];
$date = $_GET['date'];
$flight = $_GET['flight'];

header("Content-type: image/png");

$im = imagecreatefrompng("./" . $pass);

$black = imagecolorallocate( $im, 0, 0, 0 );
imagestring( $im, 4, $name_loc[0], $name_loc[1], $name, $black );
imagestring( $im, 4, $date_loc[0], $date_loc[1], $date, $black );
imagestring( $im, 4, $flight_loc[0], $flight_loc[1], $flight, $black ); /* Output the image */
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

Mr Stokes said his group had reported numerous discriminatory Blogger journals to Google, both through the "flag" button that appears on each blog and through an email form that Mr Stokes said was "buried in their site, very hard to find".

The "Flag?" button is a means by which readers of Blog*Spot can help inform us about potentially questionable content, so we can prevent others from encountering such material by setting particular blogs as "unlisted." This means the blog won't be promoted on Blogger.com but will still be available on the web -- we prefer to keep in mind that one person's vulgarity is another's poetry. Or something like that.

When the community has voted and hate speech is identified on BlogSpot, Google may exercise its right to place a Content Warning page in front of the blog and set it to "unlisted."

For more serious cases, such as spam blogs or sites engaging in illegal activity, we will continue to enforce our existing policies (removing content and deleting accounts when necessary).