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Fibonnaci
"JACKIEFISHERWHOAREYOUDREADNOUGHT"

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,17635 33,00.html

According to the post below, it read's

"Never waste the time of the high court"

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archive s/2006/04/27/can_you_crack_i.html

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"Never waste the time of the high court"

I cracked this with http://www.secretcodebreaker.com/scbsolvr.html
The italicised letters in the judgment are: Jaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv
Entering this into the programme generates: kneverswastlandthenyofminglyouc
which is not a clean crack but enabled me to guess the code.

Dr Daren Kemp
www.Christaquarian.net
Co-Editor of the "Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies" www.asanas.org.uk
Author of "New Age: A Guide" (Edinburgh University Press 2004) and "The Christaquarians?" (Kempress 2003)
Posted by Christaquarian on April 27, 2006 05:16 PM.

smithycodeJaeiextotgpcgramqwfkadpmq

After the "Smithy Code" series, there are an additional 25 jumbled letters contained on the first 14 pages of the document, Mr Tench said.

As the BBC story did not contain the ciphertext I copied it from another story at Reuters if you look at the bottom of that page the paragraph reads-

He said Smith told him to look back at the first paragraphs. The italicized letters scattered throughout the judgment spell out: "smithcode Jaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz".

So actually it was Reuters or the BBCs mistake not mine.

I have used Google news and from the reports it seems there is not a consistant agreement on the ciphertext for example-

smithycode JaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzviMi

Smithycode Jaeiextostgpsacgreaamqwfkadpmqzv

I don't have time to go through the whole pdf, so I'm not going to guess which one is correct. And yes, I added spaces to get round the lameness filter, ignore them.

Looks like MS is taking leaf out of the fast food and credit card companies' books:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,1759888,00 .html

In London, there is talk about using the Oyster card for low-calue cashless transactions, in station newsagents, tobacconist, coffee shops, etc. (See this newspaper story.)

You can get a prepay oyster card by paying cash, and top it up with money paying cash. Completely anonymously.

If you got really paranoid you could swap your prepay card with another person... several times... between a huge group of people...

Obviously there's still potential for "join the dots" privacy invasion such as matching the bank note numbers used to top up the card to your bank account you withdrew them from, or matching cctv footage of you topping the card up, but that's nothing that couldn't really happen anyway.

I'd say that's basically just as anonymous as cash.

It's only a matter of time before the crap hits the fan over sending work abroad, mainly because of the security risks. Outsourcing (and outsourcing customer info) to India has resulted in a lucrative trade in Identity Theft: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd34.htm/
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/22 /170121.shtml

And if the area of support is unstable due to war, disease, unrest, etc., you can bet your bottom dollar that productivity is going to be disrupted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/478455 4.stm

*And* how long is it going to be before governments start raising taxes to discourage this kind of backstabbing, and encourage patriotism, by employers (i.e. taxed to a level equivalent of paying local workforces at minimum wages anyway):
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,3604,110440 3,00.html

So, my advice is not to worry to much about the cheaper dollar payrate, and just go for it, follow your dreams! It'll all come to a head sooner rather than later, you'll see!

You CAN pirate fuel for your car though:
Frying squad foils cooking oil car scam

Why stop at Yahoo? Haven't Google and Microsoft also been involved with the Chinese Goverment, block access to information and censoring Chinese diisidents?

Will be televised.

Call Al-Qaeda Headquarters now and demand the arrest of the world's
most dangerous "leader".

Thanks and have a war_free weekend,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

if that breakthrough is a come-back from USA to scare Iran. QUOTE "The United States and Britain say that if Iran does not comply with the Security Council's April 28 deadline for Tehran to stop [Uranium] enrichment, they will seek a resolution making the demand compulsory (i.e: Destroy strategic emplacements)." Guardian I already imagine a huge black hole over teheran and flying turbans... and cows.

and the Brits do it at a commercial facility called THORP

"Huh? 'Universally hated'?"

Yeah, that's been my experience.

True: Notes is much more than email platform. In fact, it isn't email platform at all. It's just been used to build one.

I've used Notes at three different jobs (& not for email at one), & I have known many people at other companies that have used it. The only person I've actually spoken to who liked it was one CEO.

In my experience, most Notes users--whether usinig it for email or not--never see the features that really make Notes what it is. They just see a (usually) mediocre user experience.

Articles like the following one make be think that my experience is fairly common.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1 705106,00.html

Never forget what laws exist in countries you travel because it isn't far off that you may find yourself in trouble while traveling all because your name showed up in some database because of what you put on the net.

"it isn't far off"?? How about right now in the USA? In fact, the USA has been like this for years. And if your name is David Nelson you don't even need to have an internet presence to be in trouble.

And anyone who believes "you have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide" should be locked up in a home for the deluded.

Maybe they didn't include basic information on purpose so that you'd RTFAs they linked to.

Check this from way back in 2000:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,36 05,352394,00.html

And:

Gmail.

I followed up with a link showing that soil organic matter decomposition exceeds the CO2 output of ALL fossil fuels combined. In fact, it shows that CO2 released by soil organic matter decomposition exceeds emissions of CO2 from ALL OTHER SOURCES combined. You continue to maintain steadfastly that mankind is at fault for increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. Sure, I can see that, and I just painted a big red target on what you SHOULD focus on if that concerns you. You also maintain this atmospheric CO2 increase is solely responsible for the average global increase in temperatures. I am not convinced.

However, if you are, and it really bothers you so much, why don't you DO something about it? Why don't you go after the 800 lb. gorilla instead of the small fish that is fossil fuel? It's an easier target. A 10% decrease in CO2 emissions caused by soil organic matter decomposition would be the equivalent of ceasing use of ALL FOSSIL FUELS. Go for the jugular if you're so damned convinced. And yet... you don't. When confronted with the facts, you simply whine and rail on about oil. That gets really old. Especially considering that if you don't do something about soil erosion/oxidation soon, you aren't going to have any arable land left to grow the food you eat. Your waterworld scenario is pure fantasy. Failure of civilization due to poor farming practices is established historical fact. Learn from history or repeat it. Change the world over to no till farming and in the process you will: preserve our farmland for future generations, reduce CO2 to pre-industrial levels, and do it all without laying a finger on fossil fuels. What's not to like? Oh, thats right... it doesn't fit with the holy order of Global Warming's war on fossil fuels. Ignore all scientific fact in the jihad on oil. Besides, if you actually did reduce CO2, you might just have a little egg on your face should mean global temperatures continue to increase or fail to drop back...

The UK government was reluctant to make a fuss about Britons in that place to begin with, and then the US government paid little attention to said pressure for years afterwards.

The Tipton three, for instance, were first imprisoned in November 2001, and later released in March 2004. Moazzam Begg was disappeared in February 2002, from Islamabad, Pakistan, and released in January 2005. Hardly sharpish.

You've been told a fair few already, here are two more:

Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil al-Banna. Disappeared from the Gambia, where they had just arrived from the UK on business, into the loving care of the CIA, and thence to the gulag in Cuba. Probably sold out to the Americans by MI5.

Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp

James Astill meets teenagers released from Guantanamo Bay who recall the place fondly

Saturday March 6, 2004 The Guardian

Asadullah strives to make his point, switching to English lest there be any mistaking him. "I am lucky I went there, and now I miss it. Cuba was great," said the 14-year-old, knotting his brow in the effort to make sure he is understood.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743 ,1163435,00.html

"What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask. "I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'." "Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say. "Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet."

"Once you're on the network, you can do a command called NetStat - Network Status - and it lists all the connections to that machine. There were hackers from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Thailand ..." "All on at once?" I ask. "You could see hackers from all over the world, snooping around, without the spaceniks or the military realising?" "Every night," he says, "for the entire five to seven years I was doing this."

I can give that expensive committee a head start - many of the accounts used to gain access had no passwords.

What you're complaining about is essentially the role of GITMO; evaluate questionable personnel captured on the battfield (admittedly sometimes by mistake) and determine if they pose a threat to the US either domesticaly or abroad. Once they have been cleared, which in no way is a sign of innocence, just a belief that they are no longer a threat, they are shipped back to their country of origin. Many of those release have been tried and found guilty in the courts of their home country based on the actions that lead to their being sent to GITMO in the first place and at least 12 released detainees have been recaptured or killed while taking part in further actions against the US.

As for the Chinese, the very article you cite does more to prove the case for the kindness of the US that disprove it. The US does not want to send them back to China because they may face persecution for their political or religous beliefs. They also do not want to give them asylum within the US because that would lead to a precedent that no one wants to see set so until such time as they can find a safe place to send these 'prisoners' they will hold them at GITMO. This has happened several times before as prisoners have outright refused to board awaiting planes because the felt safer at GITMO than at home.

Chances are these Chinese, now cleared, are being treated quite well, with stories more akin to these kids than of the images you seem to have stuck in your head.

But you seem to be all for the US sending them back to China where the meaning of the word 'torture' still resembles the one in the dictionary as opposed to the type of 'torture' their may receive in US hands, like 3 squares a day, prayer rugs, all the Korans they can handle, and most likely access to the sports facilities.

Is this the same Amnesty international report that was written based almost entirely on the unsubstantiated accounts of released prisoners; many of which are currently serving sentences in their home countries.

The same Amnesty International that, even with a direct invitation to visit GITMO refused because they wouldn't be given unfettered access to all the prisoners but instead would only be permitted the same level of access as a visiting US Senator.

I don't know about you, but even if I couldn't get all the info, I would at least like to see the subject of my 'report' before condemning it; unless, of course, you already know what you are going to write and wouldn't want any facts to get in your way.

I'm guessing they left out the part about the younger prisoners that were held at GITMO who have said they missed it and while they didn't like being away from their families, much preferred their time at GITMO to their current living conditions back home. Something to do with the free education, good food, snorkeling on the pristine Cuban beaches, daily football, basketball and volleyball games with the guards.

And while I'm sure not everyone is treated to this level of kindness (it is a prison after all) the type of things Amnesty International now considers torture for the purposes of their reports on US detention centers has pretty much made the word meaningless.

If you want to see reports of inhumane treatement of detainees just look up some stories about the treatment of prisoners in pretty much any French jail.

noone will ever be held responsible, so nothing will change. it will happen again and again and again, with all sorts of data. see here, more "leaked infos": Security lapse reveals secrets of Air Force One

There's a lot of other stuff available, you just have to find it. I can see it coming, some day clicking will become illegal...

Same here. Upon some googling:

"...this one is a play - no pun intended - on the title of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger"

See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 342940,00.html

In my area (Chicago), VoIP isn't worth the money because you can't get ADSL from AT&T without subscribing to a voice line. And a voice line isn't cheap. And now it looks the telcos might be blocking VoIP in other ways.

How about AT&T lobbying to block municipal Wifi networks?

Thankfully, some of the towns are biting back. There are three local governments here blocking the fiber expansion because they claim it violates the cable TV franchise agreements they have with the cable cos.

There was an interesting article in the Guardian http://education.guardian.co.uk/faithschools/story /0,,1740548,00.html the other day. The thesis is that it is the atheistic stance of many proponents of evolution that leads religious people to believe that evolution is an attack on religion and thus they must "choose" between the two. I personally believe that generally science and religion are incompatible, but the pro-evolution people should consider whether attacking church-dogma directly is a good idea if they are trying to "convert" the masses to rational thought.

All those PhDs, you will of course have noted that not one of them is a biologist.

How many biologists would you like me to list? Will a molecular biologist suffice? Here's one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,542 150,00.html

That's funny. I thought the "Zombie" post was perhaps the most idiotic one I've ever seen on Slashdot. I guess it depends on your point of view.

Not all who subscribe to a different theory are uneducated:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,542 150,00.html

Just because evolutionists are better denigrators doesn't make them superior intellects.

Unlike ordinary people though, Mr Gates doesn't get a sore finger from deleting unwanted missives. The company has a team of people dedicated to ensuring he only gets mail that he wants to read.

Human experimentation is morally fraught, and I'm reluctant to judge whether this is really a miracle breakthrough from a newspaper article. The apparent success of this experiment makes the rule look foolish, but if half the patients die in two years from brain infections, the regulations and bureaucracy will look wise and insightful. At this very moment there is a heated debate on human experimentation going on in Britain because a drug trial sent six healthy volunteers to intensive care in mortal peril. If you want some really gruesome examples of unregulated human experimentation check out Dr. Ewan Cameron and Tuskegee syphilis experiments

And the investigation just started.

Denying the distribution of condoms to africa because ABSTINENCE IS TEH KEY!!!11ONE

or the many "evil" countries that america has sanctions on (between iraq gulfwar and gulfwar2 is a perfect example) which do nothing to the leaders but severly impact the civilian populations?

I love the examples you picked because they are the easiest to disprove.

And you have the ultimate biased opinion of the usa, you live there. Only people who live in the usa have a positive opinion of the usa. So is the entire rest of the world biased, or is it you?

Pharmaceuticals are always mentioned and they get their money from citizens even if we don't use the drug, see article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,,437338,00. html

No we don't, for the simple reason that it isn't true. Do the math yourself. Or, read up on some people who have:

Dean Baker
George Monbiot

In fact, our very own Ericsson was founded by copying a Siemens telephone design. History shows, repeatedly, that countries and/or markets with little or no IP protection flourish for the simple reason that time-to-market and true innovation are much stronger incentives for the making of new creations than the stale state-imposed monopolies of patent and copyright.

No country, Schiff notes, has ever contributed "as many basic inventions in this field as did Switzerland during her patentless period".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,107 9016,00.html There's also a reply to the article by Sam Fryman floating around.....

Here's a Guardian link with every article and editorial they have on the issue. Lots of good stuff here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/0,,1373591,00.ht ml

"The problem is not with Israal." Yeah, try telling that to the families of Palestinian children killed by Israelis soldiers:

"Last year alone, 50 children under the age of eight were shot dead or blown up by the Israeli army in Gaza: eight, one of whom was two months old, were slaughtered when a one-tonne bomb was dropped on a block of flats to kill a lone Hamas leader, Sheikh Salah Mustafa Shehada. But Rahman, Huda and Haneen were not "collateral damage" in the assassination of Hamas "terrorists", or caught in crossfire. There was no combat when they were shot. There was nothing more than a single burst of fire, sometimes a single bullet, from an Israeli soldier's gun."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1007051, 00.html

Goths are generally fools, university grads or not.

It would seem that Sussex University disagrees with you.

Or artwork that sucked alot worse.. which tended to be the norm.

No, their motive is to try to reduce the larger social problem of out of wedlock births. Children who grow up in single parent homes are at a great disadvantage in any society. You are the one spreading fear by suggesting a special interest group conspiracy is keeping an effective vaccine from being approved.

Do you think they would want to deprive a vaccine from the millions infected with HIV in Africa? Pretty wacky.

Stephen Lewis, the UN secretary general's special envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, said US cuts in funding for condoms and an emphasis on promoting abstinence had contributed to a shortage of condoms in Uganda, one of the few African countries which has succeeded in reducing its infection rate...
Meanwhile, religious groups that oppose condom use are receiving an increased share of funding, the pressure group says. "Religious fundamentalists, some financially supported by the US government and the office of the first lady, Janet Museveni, have become prominent in attacking condoms and those who distribute them," Change's report said.

It is not the US that wants to split up the internet. It is the EU and some developing countries as well.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,1655 9,1589967,00.html

Read this

According to studies, Linux does infringe on a lot of patents. In a certain study infringement of 283 patents were found and out of these 27 belonged to Microsoft. Even Richard Stallman has been mentioning this in interviews as well as in talks, thus giving the claim some credibility in my eyes at least.

Since SCO is now in everyones seen as a Microsoft sock puppet, even the Redmond company realizes that it would look incredibly silly to continue using SCO as their megaphone for spreading Linux FUD.

Microsoft is at a crossroad right now. People, companies and governments have started demanding a lot more software freedoms in the last few years and it's clear that Microsoft can't tackle the "Linux threat" (i) in the same manner they've tackled all other competitors since their beginning. Since Microsoft's hand is more or less forced right now they seem to have no other option (at least given their current business model and unwillingness to become a service company) than to pull out the patent card. This might very well be a Pandora's Box, since there are a lot of big companies having a lot more patents than Microsoft who are betting a substantial part of their future on GNU/Linux. However Microsoft currently only has three options.

1) Sit back and watching their market share shrinking (due to many factors such as regulations of software freedoms in certain countries and general sway in corporate attitude towards freedom).
2) Become primarily a service company, backed by software which is still lacking in the OSS community (ii)
3) Start a legal battle to slow down the inevitable, allowing a few more years of enormous margins.

Now clearly option 1 is out of the question since it flies in the face of any Harvard MBA. Option two is not something Mr. Gates is very comfortable with and will likely not happen while he and Mr. Balmer still has significant influence over the company's direction. So They're left with option three...

i. Linux happens to be a manifistation of software freedom which looks tangible enough for Microsoft to grasp, since it can apply the typical corporate stratagem of having a "threat" and an "enemy". Tacking these labels to the real reason for their headache namely "freedom", would not play out very well as a media stunt, nor for their own employees I would guess.

ii. The future of proprietary software is in my view to fill whatever gaps exist in the OSS offerings at any given time or to invent (iii) new useful stuff. However the OSS community will catch up eventually if the applications are of enough use which means that the "software aspect" of a company who relies on proprietary stuff will have to raise the bar and / or find other gaps to focus on more quickly. It's all good in my view since it would likely accelerate the development pace in the industry.

iii. By invent I don't mean the buzzword / marketing term for "refinement" but real innovation.

A lot of the International media has more interesting, or at least more colorful, reporting. Right-wing columnist Mark Steyn writes his often hilarious and always insightful column for publications in Canada, the UK, Israel, the US and probably a few other countries I'm not remembering right now. He's a great writer and I'm happy to see him around.

If you want someone on the radical left, there's always good ol' blood and guts Robert Fisk of the Independent, also out of the UK, although you have to pay to read him nowadays. Be warned that although his writing is colorful, his predictive ability's a bit off; he thought our army would be facing tens of thousands of casualties in the Afghan war, for example.

The British press overall seems better written and more enjoyable to read than that in the US. Take The Economist on the center right and the Guardian on the left. So you can see news from every perspective and political viewpoint without even leaving your computer.

On a more positive vein, many nerds, who are complete losers in love in the US, might want to consider a Filipina wife. Once in the Philippines, you change magically into the biggest winner on the planet. International communications and relatively cheap flights makes this something worth thinking about for many.

Filipinas are not subservient, unlike what you may hear, but they do center their world around you, wanting to make you happy. You won't be happy with one if you want a slave, but if you want someone who really cares about you and will support you in what you do, my personal experience says a Filipina wife is just what a lonely nerd needs.

Needless to say, without an International internet, I would not have found out about this and I'd still be thinking my romantic potential was just about zero.

I'm planning to move to the Philippines permanently, due to the low cost of living and the potential happiness from finding a good girl. And of course that makes me hungry for news of the Philippines. Google news aggregates it, but I notice most of it comes from an interesting, diverse set of countries. Of course the local Philippines press is represented, but I also see myself commonly checking out news sources from China, India, and other locations too numerous to mention.

In short, if you look at where I get my news and even where I plan to get my future wife, you can see I'd lose a lot of the net were no longer an International place. And I'm lousy with foreign languages; it doesn't matter since most of these services are either English in origin or translated into English.

D

His work on sound waves have been used in IPod. http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-23-2006-91762.a sp
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,173 8511,00.html

This HELL maybe: US embassy close to admitting Syria rendition flight:

Sometimes your official enemy is you unofficial friens. Iran Contra

Sadam is an ally Bin Laden is an ally. Former perhaps, but still an ally of the land of the free. Pinochet was an ally. Pakistan is an ally. Saudi is an ally.

Nice friends to keep.