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Oh, yeah. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were dealt with via an exchange program... WITH HELL!!

Seriously, your memory chews balls if you can't think of the US ever executing spies. They are, more often than not, imprisoned for extensive terms, not sent home in exchange for other spies.

--grendel drago

No, if anything, this system will actually increase the amount of criminal activity, whether terrorism or kidnapping, or crimes in between. It only serves to aggregrate power from the many onto the very few, which means more corruption and less representative government, which in turn means more disillusionment, apathy and frustration.

in the USA 230 policemen died in the line of duty in 2001, compared to about 70 in Britain in the last 30 years.

I don't know jack about the subject, but your 99-to-1 ratio is just plain silly so I did a little googling.

#1 the US population is 5 times the size of UK.
#2 2001 sure is a convient year to to spike the results. Scores of officers died in one event, does three crashed aircraft ring any bells? Instead lets use 2002 figure: 133.
#3 This BBC news webpage quotes "Since the beginning of 2000, 31 officers have died in the line of duty ". Considering it was published Jan 2003 it is actually reporting on a bit less than 3 years of figures, so about 11 per year.

Those three factors alone bring us from an absurd 99-to-1 ratio down to a far more plausible 2.4-to-1 ratio.

The US also has more "law enforcement officers" per capita and/or defines the term more broadly which pushes that ratio even lower. It also depends on how broadly "line of duty" is defined. I don't know about the UK, but in the US there's enormous pressure to stretch that definition as far as possible to get benefits for the widdow/widdower and children. It is sometimes even stretched to cover medical illness.

The majority of "in the line of duty" figures are in fact accidents such as getting hit by a passing car during a traffic stop, or even a fatal collision while driving to work in the morning.

When talking about such rare events as dying "in the line of duty" any number of confounding factors can make even accurate statistics absolutely worthless. For example the US has 5 times the population of UK, but it's also nearly 40 times the size. With several times the land area per person obviously more officers will need to drive, and they will need to drive further. That meaning more traffic accidents. As mentioned above, the majority of "line of duty" deaths are actually accidents.

Note that I haven't even mentioned guns. I'm not making any argument about guns at all, or about officers having guns. It's bad enough using accurate (and worthless) statistics to reach invalid conclusions, but that 99-to-1 ratio supposedly saying something about guns was just silly.

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The other way ?

Does it mean that if i search for "FBI fugitives" Google will find me a date ? Yeepee !

Eh... Well maybe that's not such a good idea after all...

Thomas Miconi

If you really want to get freaked out here's where you can check out what kind of neighbors you have.

"...send that data back to some collector site..."

This should be a civil manner, not something that has been escalated to a federal criminal issue. ( including their funding via taxes )

You can check out the FBI's updated priorities here. I too don't see how the FBI got mixed up with movies. Maybe its just advertising, because the most I hear/see from the FBI on a regular basis is at the beginning of DVDs where the FBI warns me to be good with the content of the disc.

But hey, if the FBI is this aggressive for movie copyright violators, then terrorists, organized crime, and spys must so scared that they will stop doing their illegal activities any time now.

Last I checked the US wasn't a theocracy
Well, when John Ashcroft's Mormom minions kick in your front door, you'll wish you had checked.

Over here there is a Congressional Statement of what Carnivor "officialy" does, or is "allowed" to do. One paragraph of this statement:

Carnivore is a very effective and discriminating special purpose electronic surveillance system. Carnivore is a filtering tool which the FBI has developed to carefully, precisely, and lawfully conduct electronic surveillance of electronic communications occurring over computer networks. In particular, it enables the FBI, in compliance with the Constitution and the Federal electronic surveillance laws, to properly conduct both full communications' content interceptions and pen register and trap and trace investigations to acquire addressing information.

gives us the gist of it. So yes this very well be Carnivore in action.

I think you are making the common mistake of assuming that "social progress" exists. Last time I checked, the difference between cavemen and today's humans were negligible. To wit:

• SUVs: Improve the protection of your own brood by endangering others.
• Battery: 1.6 Million of cases of battery against women in the US every year.
• Rape: According to the FBI, there are ~90000 (reported) rapes in the US annually.
• Iraq: WMDs used as pretext for a personal vendetta.

Also included: sniper's eye view of the cafeteria, and the evidence destroying facility in action.

No, but my wife immediately said he looked like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the photos that went out right after his capture. Unfortunately I'm not turning up those pics, only the ones where KSM was less unkempt.

Sorry, I don't have time for your family photos. Why don't you mail them to me.

By the way, there is no justification for "dynamic entry". EVER. Anyone who engages in it is a criminal

I'm going to have to disagree with you here. By that standard, you can count me a criminal. But I'm sure you don't really mean that the way it sounds... after all, what would you do without all those friendly neighborhood criminals-in-blue, looking out for the safety and security of your community and family? I'm sure you're not planning on taking on those sociopathic armed subjects yourself...

"Knock and announce" is the usual standard for tactical team raids, but has several notable exceptions, including officer safety and destructions of evidence. Check this link for more details . Both of these exceptions have to be articulated, backed up by testimony/evidence, and justified in court. Challenging the admissability of evidence is criminal defense 101. No tac-team I know would ever half-ass a warrant and risk their neck, just so they can get humiliated and lose the evidence (and probably their conviction) when it comes out in court.

Personally, I'm not thrilled with the evidentiary exception... seems a bit cheap to sell a police officer's life for a bag of dope. On the other hand, to ensure officer safety and maximize your tactical advantage against a violent, armed, homicidal subject? All day long.

"The authorities here finally decided to bankrupt me over a tax debt and I have now had to give the missile to a friend for safe keeping."

You would think that people would learn. If you're going to skirt the edge of the legal system, always pay your taxes!

Remember, Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion, not organized criminal activity. His claim that "The government can't collect legal taxes from illegal money." (1) held no more water than Simpson's claim that the government is trying to "bankrupt" him.

And speaking of Simpsons...

Lisa: Bart. Bart! What are you doing? We've got to get out of here.
Bart: Target sighted. Launching air-to-nerd missile!
[launches a missile model, hitting Lisa]
Lisa: Owww!
- Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

Is this a joke? Statisically, the US is one of the most dangerous "first world" countries to live in.

Yeah, you have a .0005% chance of being murdered in Chicago, and a 0.000073375% chance of being murdered in New York. There were 587 murders in New York in 2002. Out of a city of 8 million. Crime in the US, despite being higher than moster western countries, is hardly on the scale of a major war.

The US also has the largest number of non-white people in first world countries. There is a direct relationship between cultural disunity and crime. The more homogeneous your society, the lower your crime rate.

Crime is virtually unknown in Japan, and is much lower in Ireland than say France or England where many members of other races have immigrated. This is a bigger issue in Europe right now because many cities went from being crime free to crime ridden in just the past 10 years. Of course, the Japanese just laugh.

This is not to say that any particular race is prone to crime, only that different races have a hard time coexisting, for whatever reason.

In a pinch, your theory has already been disproved by (for example) the Amish.

Firstly the Amish are NOT pacifists. They don't believe in organized militaries, but they do own guns and they will defend themselves. They also live in the middle of nowhere, and keep to themselves. In congressional hearings regarding the draft, they have said that if they were required to defend their immediate homeland in the event of an invasion, they would. As far as initiating force, they haven't gotten to a point where it is necessary. Mostly this is due to them living within the borders of the nation's largest superpower. They are already having trouble procuring more land today, so I don't think they will be growing that much more.

Let us not forget as well that the Amish are living on land that was conquered from the Native Americans. The Amish directly benefit from others who made that land available to them. In fact, pretty much every American except for those on the eastern seaboard, are directly benefitting as a result of some idiots not following your ethic.

Peaceful anarchy is not only possible -- it is quite logically the ultimate social achievement

Only if you consider peace desirable. Some people lament the advent of modern warfare, battle is when men feel most alive. In a sense, technological advancement has robbed us of an essential component of our humanity.

They do this because they realize that voluntary interaction benefits them more than forceful interaction would.

That may be the case now, but when a substantial minority of the population no longer feels that system is benefiting them, they will no longer abide by it. This was the situation in France prior to the French Revolution. Desperate people do desperate things.

I do not deny people live by your code in times of peace and when circumstances allow it, but eventually the population of the world will exceed what our earth can support. Modern technology will not provide an infinite bounty. When that happens, competition for scarce resources will be decided in battle. It has happened, and it will happen again.

Force is how criminals survive. I survive through voluntary association, and I suspect that you do too.

Of course, I can't address that on a personal level. But chances are, you are living on land right now that was taken, by force, from someone else against their will. You may not be a criminal directly, but I would say you are by proxy.

You need to revise your figures. New York's crime rate is about 3,100 incidents per 100,000 in 2002. (Here.)

The national average? 4,100/100,000. (Here.)

Well, I just checked, and it appears that the threat of jailtime did not stop rape completely in the US.So it is not that preventive, eh ? My point is that instead of trying to punish more and more it might be a good idea to start using carrots instead of getting a bigger stick.

A crime is the result of motivation and occasion. Instead of trying to extinguish motivation through fear of jail (which does not stop crime entirely) why not add other methods, or work on preventing occasions (transparent societies) ?

Besides, if you think the whole justice system isn't there mainly to bring vengeance to victims and their relatives, you need to go watch A Clockwork Orange.

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/states.ht m

Of course they wouldn't. This isn't a police state. Just watch what you say at all times and you will be fine.

Wow, $4,000 per pair? That seems awfully high, but I'd imagine there are many legitimate uses of such technology, that may interest people to shell out that much cash. For instance, credit card authorization, police communication, and drug trafficking come to mind. I work for the second-largest supplier of solid-gold cell phones and pagers, which are often used by celebrities and collectively engaged urban businessmen, and I could certainly see where many of our clients would have use for this kind of device.

I am a little concerned, though, that this kind of technology might fall into the wrong hands. For instance, have the manufacturers considered the applications for which terrorists might use these? I hardly think that the NAH6 would like to see their products used to slaughter innocent Americans, or even Amsterdaminians. Encryption is certainly a worthwhile tool, but I think it's far more likely to be exploited by the wicked than the virtuous, as it's the bad guys who've got something to hind.

Perhaps I would be more supportive of NAH6 if they were to provide a backdoor for the NSA, FBI, CBS and the ALF. These organizations, then, could catch evil-doers in the act before they can inflict massive damage to our American way of life. Truly, the only way to secure our liberty is government supervision of the most invasive sort.

Admitting gives him street credit. Might be as easy as that. But while I don't know wether it was him or there is some huge-ass conspiracy going on, I always wonder why 9/11 is not on his Wanted Ad.

I think it would be funny to give him this address or something similar:

Mr. J.E. Hoover
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535

Considering a lot of these guys are idiots, maybe it won't be so obvious. :/

Sorry, it's not that simple:

1. Even if you remove all the murders committed with a firearm, the US still has a higher overall murder rate than Western European countries. It's something about our culture, not the guns.

2. And, those murders are clustered, indicating that it's not a problem across the entire US. The FBI's most recent data for 2001: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_01/xl/01tbl08.xls is very interesting: add a column that computes the murders per 100,000 and sort it by the rate. You'll find that 55% of the cities with a population exceeding 10,000 had no murders in 2001. Sort on city population, you'll see that total population isn't a discernible factor, either.

3. Gun laws are hardly liberal in many parts of the US: Boston and NYC are good examples of rather draconian measures, but it hasn't done them any good. On the other hand, there are fairly large cities in the South and West (where gun control is less stringent) that have low murder rates. I'm not claiming that gun control causes crime -- the cause and effect in the US seems to be that crime causes gun control.

4. Statistics claiming that "children" are being killed at a high rate in the US redefine children as anyone under the age of 20, although people of ages 18-19 are legally considered adults. The reason for this subterfuge is that it includes murders related to gang warfare that is epidemic in some parts of the US. Look for yourself at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_01/xl/01tbl2-5.xls, which shows a sharp drop off below the age of 17, and again below the age of 13. This particular data is grouped into three-year intervals, but other data I've seen shows that the murder rate jumps sharply at the age of 14-15: the prime recruiting age for the gangs.

Compare gun deaths in the US to eg gun deaths in Canada, Australia, the EG, all with a varying degree of freedom and accountability, but none of them as personal-protection-gun-crazy as the US.

And, while you are at it, you should also check countries like Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and most of the Eastern European countries. All have stringent gun control, and significantly higher murder rates than the US.

Sorry, it's not that simple:

1. Even if you remove all the murders committed with a firearm, the US still has a higher overall murder rate than Western European countries. It's something about our culture, not the guns.

2. And, those murders are clustered, indicating that it's not a problem across the entire US. The FBI's most recent data for 2001: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_01/xl/01tbl08.xls is very interesting: add a column that computes the murders per 100,000 and sort it by the rate. You'll find that 55% of the cities with a population exceeding 10,000 had no murders in 2001. Sort on city population, you'll see that total population isn't a discernible factor, either.

3. Gun laws are hardly liberal in many parts of the US: Boston and NYC are good examples of rather draconian measures, but it hasn't done them any good. On the other hand, there are fairly large cities in the South and West (where gun control is less stringent) that have low murder rates. I'm not claiming that gun control causes crime -- the cause and effect in the US seems to be that crime causes gun control.

4. Statistics claiming that "children" are being killed at a high rate in the US redefine children as anyone under the age of 20, although people of ages 18-19 are legally considered adults. The reason for this subterfuge is that it includes murders related to gang warfare that is epidemic in some parts of the US. Look for yourself at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_01/xl/01tbl2-5.xls, which shows a sharp drop off below the age of 17, and again below the age of 13. This particular data is grouped into three-year intervals, but other data I've seen shows that the murder rate jumps sharply at the age of 14-15: the prime recruiting age for the gangs.

Compare gun deaths in the US to eg gun deaths in Canada, Australia, the EG, all with a varying degree of freedom and accountability, but none of them as personal-protection-gun-crazy as the US.

And, while you are at it, you should also check countries like Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and most of the Eastern European countries. All have stringent gun control, and significantly higher murder rates than the US.

UK residents are 5 times less likely to be victims of violent crime than US ones

Firearms are more often involved in violent crimes in the United States than in England. According to 1996 police statistics, firearms were used in 68% of U.S. murders but 7% of English murders, and 41% of U.S. robberies but 5% of English robberies.

Whether measured by surveys of crime victims or by police statistics, serious crime rates are not generally higher in the United States than England. (All references to England include Wales.) According to 1995 victim surveys -- which measure robbery, assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft -- crime rates are all higher in England than the United States (figures 1-4 of the report beginning on page 1). According to latest (1996) police statistics -- which measure incidents reported to police of murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft -- crime rates are higher in England for three crimes: assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft (figures 5-10). The 1996 crime rate for a fourth crime (robbery) would have been higher in England than the United States had English police recorded the same fraction of robberies that came to their attention as American police (figure 15).

These are *old* stats, I know, but your DOJ doesn't have any newer ones :(

If the ACLU supported the Second Amendment in the same fashion that they do abortion, then they woudl be demanding taxpayer subsidies for poor children to buy guns, without having to notify their parents, so they can shoot the child molestors who prey on them.

That is brilliant. Can I use that?

If the ACLU supported the Second Amendment in the same fashion that they do voting rights, then they would have have to admit that "Requiring the use of photographic identification and/or other documents as a pre-condition for [purchasing a gun] would have a disparate impact on [law-abiding citizens] with disabilities, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans. Further, such a provision would disproportionately impact out-of-state students, many of whom are new residents in the area where they attend school, and homeless men and women who have neither the means to acquire photo ID nor a local address."

Take a few examples - murders, and violent crime. Each is per 100,000 citizens for the year 2002. "Violent crime" is defined as murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

[States with relaxed concealed carry laws]:
Florida: 5.5, 770.2
Texas: 6.0, 578.6
Virginia 5.3, 291.4
Washington 3.0, 345.4

[most strict gun laws in the nation - impossible or nearly impossible for lawful citizens to get a permit]:
District of Columbia: 46.2, 1632.9
Illinois: 7.5, 620.7
Maryland: 9.4, 769.8

Yeah yeah I know there's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Read my references below and draw your own conclusions. There are other states with far lower crime rates, but they usually have tiny populations spread out over large areas (ex: Alaska, North Dakota). I tried to keep to states with at least some decent size metropolitan areas.

I used to live in D.C. and those numbers *feel* accurate in certain parts of town.

References, since someone always wants them in these discussions:

Concealed carry laws for each state

FBI Uniform Crime reports

Enjoy :)

Do not, under any circumstances, join the GNAA. This is not my opinion, it is information directly taken from the FBI website, further information in the Nero Institute forums.

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Do not, under any circumstances, join the GNAA. This is not my opinion, it is information directly taken from the FBI website, further information in the Nero Institute forums.

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Please stop them, help me, kill a GNAA member today. They can be recognized by their filthy white skin color and their unnatural interest in women.

If you do not have any friends, or are not loved enough by your parents, join my pirate crew instead. We travel the seas of the world looking for adventure and young brats for our crew.

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According to an FBI agent I spoke to at a local job fair recently, the FBI has a priority set to hire computer science specialists to be federal agents. www.fbi.gov will point you in the right direction on that.

So far the "homeland security" dept. is just that. It's a department. It relies on other agencies (CIA and FBI) to protect the USA against terrorism. The problem is that departments of *any* sort hate working together and because Homeland security has nothing to bargain with except for it's name nothing will happen. Besides the FBI and CIA want to redeem themselves after 9/11.
The cybersecurity part is already handled by the FBI and has been for years. The only danger I can see is if the Homeland Security dept. got control of things like Carnivore. and linked it to 'terroist' db's etc.

Perhaps someone should inform them if this new invention called HTML. It's like a standard, the same standard that let us read /. without Proprietary addons from e.g. Adobe (which holds the PDF "standard" hostage, and is knows to make US "police" forces kidnap foreign visitors and throw them in jail) is IMHO not anything to condone.

Rather, stop at the nearest police officer you see; and if you don't see a police officer before you see a bank or a government building with security, go into the building and ask them to call the bomb disposal squad for you. Rip off your shirt to prove it, and say "I'm going out to the parking lot. This isn't a bank robbery, but someone wants it to be; and if I don't get help quick, I'm going to die."

That said, if anyone can identify the neck piece, that would be helpful. I had some ideas, but nothing seemed to pan out in an internet search:

(1) Leg irons or cattle fetters?
(2) Double-flanged locking pipe holder, with spacers?
(3) Something used in logging?

Yeah, right, because there are not such system in real life, huh?

When will they do a study on the effect of playing cowboys and indians or cops and robbers on the behaviour of children?

Remeber those violent games, played by small children in the streets? The object of the game being to shoot and kill members of an ethnic minority or social class! I mean, every kid who played that must have turned into a violent psychopath gunning down everyone in sight...huh?

It's only an issue for pot smokers.

It's an issue for taxpayer as well. The DEA recieved $1,897,300,000.00 for FY2003. The FBI spent $474,119,000.00 fighting "domestic sources of drugs" (see Goal Five). How much do you think your State Police are spending on helicopters to find the growers? How much are your local police spending to bust the pot smokers? How effective have these measures been? Are there fewer pot smokers than there were in 1973 (the year the DEA was established)? Even if we agree that many addicting drugs should be illegal, is it worth it to spend huge amounts of money on combatting the marijuana trade when that money could be spent keeping cocaine and heroine from crossing the borders?

You like spending money on (ineffective) prohibition? Go ahead, just quit spending mine.

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around 's name for free. Now we no longer have to get paid under the counter from for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos who was watching streaming video from .

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staff would not elaborate more on this but stay tuned for upcoming posts regarding this groundbreaking news. And now for real news you can lose: Folks over at posted maps of the nations infrastructure free for terrorists to Download. Hooray you go Department of Homegrownland InSecurity. Folks over at have posted the guidelines for "National Information Security Systems" and it can be viewed at . A hacker snitch is in 's website after being caught doing sleazy shit. Now he wants the people at to violate his as promised. And finally, Scientists

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Really, if we can't keep Social Security organized, don't know who has entered the country, and allow thousands of people escape paying taxes every year, are we going to be able to keep track of every single person living in the country via the Post Office?

The government doesn't have to track every single person living in the country for this to be a bad thing. They only have to track those few who are lawfully speaking out against the government.

Will this affect me directly? Probably not. But here's a list of some of the people it would have affected. Add to that list a bunch of other revolutionaries, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and now maybe you'll see how this will affect you indirectly.

Yeah, those 9/11 Hijackers sure were scruffy towel-heads, weren't they? It's not as if anyone could possibly mistake this guy for an ordinary college student.

Also, I'm impressed they found scorpions to eat in the suburban apartments, shopping malls, and occasional titty bars that they spent their time. I've looked for such foods and none of the usual suspects (Lotte, GNC, etc) carry arachnids. Oh, those crafty terrorists!

Yeah, those 9/11 Hijackers sure were scruffy towel-heads, weren't they? It's not as if anyone could possibly mistake this guy for an ordinary college student.

Also, I'm impressed they found scorpions to eat in the suburban apartments, shopping malls, and occasional titty bars that they spent their time. I've looked for such foods and none of the usual suspects (Lotte, GNC, etc) carry arachnids. Oh, those crafty terrorists!

Census data from 1995
FBI Crime data from 1995

That's the US census data for 1995 and the FBI crime statistics. During that year, Blacks committed 54% of American murders. Note that Hispanics are counted as Whites in the FBI statistics when they commit crimes, but as minorities when they are victims.

You will notice from the census data that Whites (including Hispanics) comprise 68.5% of the nation's poor. They committed at most 46% of the nation's murders (neglecting non-Black and non-White murders).

You'll find some equally interesting statistics from the Department of Justice at:
Homicide by Race

Frankly, culture matters. Crime causes poverty as well as poverty causing crime -- throwing money at things won't help. A more profitable approach would attack the horrendous level of Black illegitamacy (68%), the glamour of crime in popular Black entertainment, and the widespread welfare dependance.

Really? The price on bin Laden's head is $25 million. No one's claimed that. Or Saddam's $25 million. There are some things more powerful than greed; and terrorists aren't generally motivated by it (though some obviously do fall from the path of righteousness).

here.

God love the stinkin' gub'mint.

So why does the NSA emplyee the most people of any goverment TLA? FBI,CIA

Because the CIA's dirty work is mostly done by private corporate contractors (Wackenhut, Carlyle, and The Curry Company are the big ones), some entertainment companies (remember MCA, now part ofUniversal Studios but I'm sure they're still active in the comunity) and an assortment of airlines (Pan Am got screwed for helping out), shipping companies (still working on tracking these), and import/export businesses (mostly furniture and lighting, some appliance). There are also some strange connections to Scientology, The Landmark Education Corporation, and The Moonies.

The CIA has been known to work with terrorist organisations to achieve thier desired objectives.

The FBI, CIA, and the DEA, also contract various crime organisations, individual criminals, and run of the mill citizens to do work for them. Often these folk have no idea who it is they are working for.

The NSA, for the most part, uses in house employees to analyze intelligence data, monitor foriegn communications, and ensure the security of comunications for the other departments and the military. In other words, they hire a lot of geeks, have some clue about the internet (they like it), and don't really mind if you encrypt your own data (security for all is more secure than security for some, plus breaking it will be a nice challenge.)

--qtp

the TRUTH is that there is no LEGITIMATE use of CSS on the first place

What? You want to go back to table layout and <font>!?

Somebody who went to school with me made a crypto module for the Mono platform based on the Skipjack cipher used in the Clipper chip. I wonder what it'd be like if DVD CCA's CSS were re-implemented as yet another general-purpose stream cipher for a popular platform's crypto interface. Interchangeable modules, each with a substantial non-infringing use, make it harder for the DMCA police to point a finger at a guilty party.

What is Sweden's secret? Progressive taxation. Average production workers in Sweden pay no income tax to their central government because the bottom bracket starts about a tenth above the average production worker's salary. The Swedish tax rate is typically about 57% of income earned above that base. Sweden only has two central government tax brackets: 0% and 25%, so their "federal" taxes are actually closer to the "flat tax" than ours are in the U.S. The additional 32% or so varies by local jurisdiction, as does the income bracket at which it takes effect.

The problem in the U.S. is that top-bracket income earners (including corporations, medium-sized businesses, and most of the top 1% rich, excluding some of the prominent top rich in the media spotlight) pay a huge amount of money in order to help elect government officials who will keep the top tax brackets low. This effectivly "saves" them an even larger amount of money, except for the externalities like crime rate, debt, and property values. We used to have regulations providing equal air time for federal candidates, but Reagan's FCC did away with those, so most candidates today, even most nationally prominent Democrats, sure know which side of their bread is buttered on. There are some notable exceptions, however.

A quick search on Netcraft reveals that for example:

• The Whitehouse
• The FBI

The law is pretty clear, yes, the owner is entitled to recover stolen goods. In fact, in many cases an owner is entitled to recover stolen goods even if they've been resold honestly several times in the meantime. This comes up sometimes in the art world, with valuable works surfacing and returning to their original owners. For example, a couple of years ago, a stolen Wyeth painting came up at auction; it was seized and returned to Sears, the parent company of the gallery from which it was stolen. It had apprecieted from 30k to 500k in that time.

I'm not a lawyer and there are probably some exceptional cases; in particular, the line between "looting" and archeology (particularly when the archelogists are from another country/culture) seems to be moving around in the last 20 years or so, although this seems to mostly be handled at the diplomatic level...

And don't forget the FBI files on Einstein. Anyone is eligible for such a charming as 'evildoer.'