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In Sunday's NY Times Magazine there is an article on the size of the porn industry (as much as $14 billion in the US per year) and its consumers (practically everyone). A good read and a strong challenge to those who claim that "community standards" dictate that porn be banned from their towns.

In June 2000 the New York Times ran another article (free registration required) about Victor Sheymov.

CS Drone: Hello, thank you for calling Frito-Lay Customer Service...

Me: Your Olean potato chips made me shit blood. Is there some sort of problem with this product or is it just me?

CS: Oh no sir, I'm sure it was something else you ate...have you spoken to your doctor?

Oh yes, first karma whoring no registration link.

Here you all go: http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/technology/2 0AMAZ.html?pagewanted=all
Richy C.

Direct link to the NYT article

The NYTimes article.

They can't throw everyone in jail.

if they're implementing an ID system like this, then you know it's the correct technological solution.

What? Huh?!

I cannot imagine how mandatory identification for use of the Internet (as though it's a drug like alcohol) would not stifle the civil liberties of the good people of Mumbai.

Politics and agendas play large roles even in "forwards" nations. If such measures were introduced in the States, neither you nor I would be very likely to "know it's the correct technological solution." I don't know where all this naivete is coming from, but I do know that you your subjective opinion places too much trust in the government for your own good.

A law punishing pornography shows that the government of Mumbai is far more succeptible to extremist moral standards than interested in preserving civil liberties.

Journalism in this case is immune from criticism, as there was only a letter published, much like the first few pages of any magazine off the shelf. The letter itself was purely factual and to the point, only making one subjective argument about the tentative state of anonymity in Mumbai. If you prefer an alternate editorial format, don't let us stop you.

"A mature individual" realizes his or her priorities, and civil liberty really should become one of yours.

Ok so you all know by now you have to register (free) to access NYT but according to this Oct. 2000 NYT article there is a flaw in Mundies comments about growth. If anything it'll be the GPL that FINALLY allows the technology to be properly integrated into other industries. Not Some company that wants to own and control EVERYTHING.


3 S.E.A.S - Virtual Interaction Configuration (VIC) - VISION OF VISIONS!

remember the evil already done by that stinking fucking stupid xbox-loving butt-breath little dog... "YUM" my ass

And then there's the sort of "goodwill" to which you donate clothes and stuff you don't need anymore, and they sell it in their thrift shop . . .

I'm not sure what sort of parallels you could draw to the movie from this, though. One thing worth noting is that the way the article presents it--no positive or negative opinions, just a simple statement of fact--is actually good, unbiased journalism, technically . . . but it's also quite maddening, because it doesn't tell us anything, give us any qualitative information on which to form an opinion. So we're all just guessing.

Tomorrow I'll try to ask the local college film professor, who is also a professional reviewer who gets to go on film junkets and the like, what exactly a "declaration of goodwill" is in this context. (If he's around--for all I know, he may be at Cannes!) If I get an answer, I'll post it to this thread.

I would like to think that a declaration of goodwill is simply a statement saying you don't start with any prejudices against the movie, before ever even having seen it. (It was phrased as a "declaration," after all, which I believe is usually something that just says "I believe such and such," not "I will not do such and such." Though IANAL.) It seems fairly obvious that a lot of journalistic folk are prejudiced against certain kinds of movies (most notably action movies, science fiction, or animation) before ever setting foot in the theaters. With rare exceptions, such people invariably write bad reviews of any genre movie, no matter how good an example it is of its genre.

For example, take a look at this bit in the NY Times (free registration, blah blah blah, I'll let someone else construct the "free" URL because I don't remember how) about upcoming video-game-based movies and how they'll probably all suck. You can see his prejudice oozing from every pore, the way he seems to think the only appeal of Tomb Raider will be Angelina Jolie's measurements and his snide comments about how, based on the 17-minute preview he saw, Final Fantasy "is based on the kind of nebulous New Age science in which the world is controlled by spirits and supernatural forces. It's best appreciated by those who have had a frontal lobotomy" and how the movie would have been better if the voice actors had done the physical acting as well--and also how he can't believe over a hundred million dollars went into making it because "there are no locations, no sets and no acting costs other than voice-overs".

Only the occasional rare genre movie (such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) can muster the snob cachet to get reviewers to overlook their prejudices. And since bad buzz, especially this early, can do irreparable harm to even the best movie (especially if it cost a lot to make), I can't blame them for wanting to avoid the unfortunate combination of prejudice and unfinished footage. Of course, I'm not sure what they could do, legally, if someone lied about his prejudices . . .
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Here is the NYTimes article

[Here's my submission of the story that got rejected for some reason]

Ah, Spring! It brings birds, neighbors mowing their laws, and the newly-awaken actions from everyone's favorite monopoly!

That's right, Microsoft's at it again. This time, it's Windows XP, and Microsoft's idea to bundle tons of new stuff into it. The associated press reports that Microsoft is bundling plenty of stuff to keep the Department of Justice busy: MSN Instant Messenger now loads automatically every time you boot Windows XP. A firewall and DVD player are included as well. Of course the firewall will work as advertised, and will never work only to block messages to rivals' network connections while leaving Microsoft open to send anything they want back to Microsoft's servers. Microsoft has never done that, and it's horrible of you to think they would! Look, that issue with the greeting card company in 1999 was just a misunderstanding, not policy.

Microsoft is just trying to give the consumers what they want. As a Microsoft spokes person said, "If people don't find those features compelling enough to upgrade they can keep whatever the heck they want. They're not forced to upgrade."

Funny they should say that.

Microsoft's new upgrade policy basically says that if large companies to upgrade to Windows XP and Office XP by October 2001, they won't be eligible for upgrade pricing after that. ZD Net reports that Microsoft is raising fees from anywhere from 33 to 107%. Guernsey Research analyst Chris LeToq summarized these actions saying that Microsoft is forcing an upgrade.

Clearly Microsoft is no longer concerned about any actions from the DOJ. Lest we forget, according to an article from the Mercury Center in 1999 (sorry, no URL available), they hedged their bets by buying off the presidential candidates early ($18k for John McCain, and they helped finance Bush's gubernatorial inauguration). According to the New York Times, Microsoft hired Ralph Reed, one of Bush's top consultants, to help them during the DOJ trial.

the NYTimes has a nice piece on him here (free reg blah blah)

No problem, just replace "www" by "channel", the actual story is at http://channel.nytimes.com/aponline/obituaries/AP- Obit-Adams.html

BTW, anybody compared it to the same obituary by CNN?

the NYTimes has a nice piece on him here (free reg blah blah)

Damn.... I was having such a nice morning, too, until I read that. I've never read a series more consistantly funny than HHGTG, or a more convoluted one than Dirk Gently. And I guess this means no resolution to the loose ends from "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" and no movie. *sigh*

This NYTimes link has the same story, except it also says that MS will be getting to small businesses with time:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tec h-microsoft-l.html

What follows is mostly a re-post of a caffeine and sleep deprevation induced manifesto I posted in the article on Cult of the Dead Cow's recent product announcement.

Distributed proxies and access to the web

There is a huge benefit in an easy way to access the web from controlled and possibly opressive environments, such as from behind company or school firewalls where administrators check on traffic, or from UN Human Rights Commission type countries.

If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily read anything on the web, then China would be less likely to end up in a war with us or Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America or agree with us because they can read the propaganda and claptrap our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about the spy-boys being a little rough with the planes. Suffice that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Of course, if you give people in communist countries a safe, unblockable way to access a set of http proxies which can then get the web pages, then the same system can be used for someone in Europe to use paypal.com in spite of the best intentions of their paternal government. It can also be used to post to slashdot in spite of the fact that you've been modded down 5 times in the last 24 hours. If Saudis can access porn, then The WIPO Troll can post fecaljapan.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link is a good example: it is unlikely that you can easily visit it from China. Look at these stories:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on attempts to circumvent access restrictions from countries that "protect" their people from information. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article on censored web discussion boards in China. If Chinese could safely access web sites outside the country, they might use uncensored web boards. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, attempting to keep a database of IP addresses and geographic position. See some technical information here.

This doesn't even touch on the persistent and heroic efforts of employees everywhere to read 2600.com, fuckedcompany.com, and other blocked sites while on the clock. And numerous attempts by *_sporks everywhere to . . . nevermind, no one sympathizes with *_sporks.

Something like realmapping system might be used by gateway machines in China to track where offending users are inside China. A Triangle Boy running both inside and outside the wall is needed to let everyone see the all the internet they want (violating EU directives by sharing personal information if that's their desire).

For a gnutella/freenet to fix the internet access problem, it has to be undetectable by the European/Communist firewalls (because the Communists will block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and someone in the free part of the world must run a script to dump www.nytimes.com into the gnutella/freenet system. It would be much better to set up Triangle Boy without the single point to block, the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

This hard to do. A system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic risks the Communists blocking all encrypted traffic or harassing users, but maybe it can work if enough people use it. Maybe proxy and client combinations can hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic tactics, but you would have to be constantly upgrading those modules.

Without the central safeweb proxy, cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall is useless. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. Yahoo and the French, the Communists and their people, Rob Malda and the sporks will all have to realize that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for anyone who wants it.

We can force the world to choose the whole Internet or none at all.

What follows is mostly a re-post of a caffeine and sleep deprevation induced manifesto I posted in the article on Cult of the Dead Cow's recent product announcement.

Distributed proxies and access to the web

There is a huge benefit in an easy way to access the web from controlled and possibly opressive environments, such as from behind company or school firewalls where administrators check on traffic, or from UN Human Rights Commission type countries.

If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily read anything on the web, then China would be less likely to end up in a war with us or Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America or agree with us because they can read the propaganda and claptrap our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about the spy-boys being a little rough with the planes. Suffice that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Of course, if you give people in communist countries a safe, unblockable way to access a set of http proxies which can then get the web pages, then the same system can be used for someone in Europe to use paypal.com in spite of the best intentions of their paternal government. It can also be used to post to slashdot in spite of the fact that you've been modded down 5 times in the last 24 hours. If Saudis can access porn, then The WIPO Troll can post fecaljapan.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link is a good example: it is unlikely that you can easily visit it from China. Look at these stories:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on attempts to circumvent access restrictions from countries that "protect" their people from information. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article on censored web discussion boards in China. If Chinese could safely access web sites outside the country, they might use uncensored web boards. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, attempting to keep a database of IP addresses and geographic position. See some technical information here.

This doesn't even touch on the persistent and heroic efforts of employees everywhere to read 2600.com, fuckedcompany.com, and other blocked sites while on the clock. And numerous attempts by *_sporks everywhere to . . . nevermind, no one sympathizes with *_sporks.

Something like realmapping system might be used by gateway machines in China to track where offending users are inside China. A Triangle Boy running both inside and outside the wall is needed to let everyone see the all the internet they want (violating EU directives by sharing personal information if that's their desire).

For a gnutella/freenet to fix the internet access problem, it has to be undetectable by the European/Communist firewalls (because the Communists will block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and someone in the free part of the world must run a script to dump www.nytimes.com into the gnutella/freenet system. It would be much better to set up Triangle Boy without the single point to block, the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

This hard to do. A system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic risks the Communists blocking all encrypted traffic or harassing users, but maybe it can work if enough people use it. Maybe proxy and client combinations can hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic tactics, but you would have to be constantly upgrading those modules.

Without the central safeweb proxy, cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall is useless. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. Yahoo and the French, the Communists and their people, Rob Malda and the sporks will all have to realize that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for anyone who wants it.

We can force the world to choose the whole Internet or none at all.

What follows is mostly a re-post of a caffeine and sleep deprevation induced manifesto I posted in the article on Cult of the Dead Cow's recent product announcement.

Distributed proxies and access to the web

There is a huge benefit in an easy way to access the web from controlled and possibly opressive environments, such as from behind company or school firewalls where administrators check on traffic, or from UN Human Rights Commission type countries.

If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily read anything on the web, then China would be less likely to end up in a war with us or Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America or agree with us because they can read the propaganda and claptrap our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about the spy-boys being a little rough with the planes. Suffice that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Of course, if you give people in communist countries a safe, unblockable way to access a set of http proxies which can then get the web pages, then the same system can be used for someone in Europe to use paypal.com in spite of the best intentions of their paternal government. It can also be used to post to slashdot in spite of the fact that you've been modded down 5 times in the last 24 hours. If Saudis can access porn, then The WIPO Troll can post fecaljapan.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link is a good example: it is unlikely that you can easily visit it from China. Look at these stories:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on attempts to circumvent access restrictions from countries that "protect" their people from information. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article on censored web discussion boards in China. If Chinese could safely access web sites outside the country, they might use uncensored web boards. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, attempting to keep a database of IP addresses and geographic position. See some technical information here.

This doesn't even touch on the persistent and heroic efforts of employees everywhere to read 2600.com, fuckedcompany.com, and other blocked sites while on the clock. And numerous attempts by *_sporks everywhere to . . . nevermind, no one sympathizes with *_sporks.

Something like realmapping system might be used by gateway machines in China to track where offending users are inside China. A Triangle Boy running both inside and outside the wall is needed to let everyone see the all the internet they want (violating EU directives by sharing personal information if that's their desire).

For a gnutella/freenet to fix the internet access problem, it has to be undetectable by the European/Communist firewalls (because the Communists will block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and someone in the free part of the world must run a script to dump www.nytimes.com into the gnutella/freenet system. It would be much better to set up Triangle Boy without the single point to block, the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

This hard to do. A system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic risks the Communists blocking all encrypted traffic or harassing users, but maybe it can work if enough people use it. Maybe proxy and client combinations can hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic tactics, but you would have to be constantly upgrading those modules.

Without the central safeweb proxy, cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall is useless. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. Yahoo and the French, the Communists and their people, Rob Malda and the sporks will all have to realize that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for anyone who wants it.

We can force the world to choose the whole Internet or none at all.

What follows is mostly a re-post of a caffeine and sleep deprevation induced manifesto I posted in the article on Cult of the Dead Cow's recent product announcement.

Distributed proxies and access to the web

There is a huge benefit in an easy way to access the web from controlled and possibly opressive environments, such as from behind company or school firewalls where administrators check on traffic, or from UN Human Rights Commission type countries.

If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily read anything on the web, then China would be less likely to end up in a war with us or Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America or agree with us because they can read the propaganda and claptrap our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about the spy-boys being a little rough with the planes. Suffice that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Of course, if you give people in communist countries a safe, unblockable way to access a set of http proxies which can then get the web pages, then the same system can be used for someone in Europe to use paypal.com in spite of the best intentions of their paternal government. It can also be used to post to slashdot in spite of the fact that you've been modded down 5 times in the last 24 hours. If Saudis can access porn, then The WIPO Troll can post fecaljapan.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link is a good example: it is unlikely that you can easily visit it from China. Look at these stories:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on attempts to circumvent access restrictions from countries that "protect" their people from information. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article on censored web discussion boards in China. If Chinese could safely access web sites outside the country, they might use uncensored web boards. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, attempting to keep a database of IP addresses and geographic position. See some technical information here.

This doesn't even touch on the persistent and heroic efforts of employees everywhere to read 2600.com, fuckedcompany.com, and other blocked sites while on the clock. And numerous attempts by *_sporks everywhere to . . . nevermind, no one sympathizes with *_sporks.

Something like realmapping system might be used by gateway machines in China to track where offending users are inside China. A Triangle Boy running both inside and outside the wall is needed to let everyone see the all the internet they want (violating EU directives by sharing personal information if that's their desire).

For a gnutella/freenet to fix the internet access problem, it has to be undetectable by the European/Communist firewalls (because the Communists will block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and someone in the free part of the world must run a script to dump www.nytimes.com into the gnutella/freenet system. It would be much better to set up Triangle Boy without the single point to block, the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

This hard to do. A system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic risks the Communists blocking all encrypted traffic or harassing users, but maybe it can work if enough people use it. Maybe proxy and client combinations can hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic tactics, but you would have to be constantly upgrading those modules.

Without the central safeweb proxy, cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall is useless. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. Yahoo and the French, the Communists and their people, Rob Malda and the sporks will all have to realize that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for anyone who wants it.

We can force the world to choose the whole Internet or none at all.

What follows is mostly a re-post of a caffeine and sleep deprevation induced manifesto I posted in the article on Cult of the Dead Cow's recent product announcement.

Distributed proxies and access to the web

There is a huge benefit in an easy way to access the web from controlled and possibly opressive environments, such as from behind company or school firewalls where administrators check on traffic, or from UN Human Rights Commission type countries.

If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily read anything on the web, then China would be less likely to end up in a war with us or Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America or agree with us because they can read the propaganda and claptrap our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about the spy-boys being a little rough with the planes. Suffice that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Of course, if you give people in communist countries a safe, unblockable way to access a set of http proxies which can then get the web pages, then the same system can be used for someone in Europe to use paypal.com in spite of the best intentions of their paternal government. It can also be used to post to slashdot in spite of the fact that you've been modded down 5 times in the last 24 hours. If Saudis can access porn, then The WIPO Troll can post fecaljapan.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link is a good example: it is unlikely that you can easily visit it from China. Look at these stories:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on attempts to circumvent access restrictions from countries that "protect" their people from information. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article on censored web discussion boards in China. If Chinese could safely access web sites outside the country, they might use uncensored web boards. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, attempting to keep a database of IP addresses and geographic position. See some technical information here.

This doesn't even touch on the persistent and heroic efforts of employees everywhere to read 2600.com, fuckedcompany.com, and other blocked sites while on the clock. And numerous attempts by *_sporks everywhere to . . . nevermind, no one sympathizes with *_sporks.

Something like realmapping system might be used by gateway machines in China to track where offending users are inside China. A Triangle Boy running both inside and outside the wall is needed to let everyone see the all the internet they want (violating EU directives by sharing personal information if that's their desire).

For a gnutella/freenet to fix the internet access problem, it has to be undetectable by the European/Communist firewalls (because the Communists will block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and someone in the free part of the world must run a script to dump www.nytimes.com into the gnutella/freenet system. It would be much better to set up Triangle Boy without the single point to block, the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

This hard to do. A system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic risks the Communists blocking all encrypted traffic or harassing users, but maybe it can work if enough people use it. Maybe proxy and client combinations can hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic tactics, but you would have to be constantly upgrading those modules.

Without the central safeweb proxy, cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall is useless. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. Yahoo and the French, the Communists and their people, Rob Malda and the sporks will all have to realize that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for anyone who wants it.

We can force the world to choose the whole Internet or none at all.

What follows is mostly a re-post of a caffeine and sleep deprevation induced manifesto I posted in the article on Cult of the Dead Cow's recent product announcement.

Distributed proxies and access to the web

There is a huge benefit in an easy way to access the web from controlled and possibly opressive environments, such as from behind company or school firewalls where administrators check on traffic, or from UN Human Rights Commission type countries.

If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily read anything on the web, then China would be less likely to end up in a war with us or Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America or agree with us because they can read the propaganda and claptrap our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about the spy-boys being a little rough with the planes. Suffice that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Of course, if you give people in communist countries a safe, unblockable way to access a set of http proxies which can then get the web pages, then the same system can be used for someone in Europe to use paypal.com in spite of the best intentions of their paternal government. It can also be used to post to slashdot in spite of the fact that you've been modded down 5 times in the last 24 hours. If Saudis can access porn, then The WIPO Troll can post fecaljapan.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link is a good example: it is unlikely that you can easily visit it from China. Look at these stories:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on attempts to circumvent access restrictions from countries that "protect" their people from information. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article on censored web discussion boards in China. If Chinese could safely access web sites outside the country, they might use uncensored web boards. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, attempting to keep a database of IP addresses and geographic position. See some technical information here.

This doesn't even touch on the persistent and heroic efforts of employees everywhere to read 2600.com, fuckedcompany.com, and other blocked sites while on the clock. And numerous attempts by *_sporks everywhere to . . . nevermind, no one sympathizes with *_sporks.

Something like realmapping system might be used by gateway machines in China to track where offending users are inside China. A Triangle Boy running both inside and outside the wall is needed to let everyone see the all the internet they want (violating EU directives by sharing personal information if that's their desire).

For a gnutella/freenet to fix the internet access problem, it has to be undetectable by the European/Communist firewalls (because the Communists will block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and someone in the free part of the world must run a script to dump www.nytimes.com into the gnutella/freenet system. It would be much better to set up Triangle Boy without the single point to block, the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

This hard to do. A system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic risks the Communists blocking all encrypted traffic or harassing users, but maybe it can work if enough people use it. Maybe proxy and client combinations can hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic tactics, but you would have to be constantly upgrading those modules.

Without the central safeweb proxy, cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall is useless. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. Yahoo and the French, the Communists and their people, Rob Malda and the sporks will all have to realize that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for anyone who wants it.

We can force the world to choose the whole Internet or none at all.

And for the two months I worked in hell, tenants were taking it on themselves to run cable up the internal inter-floor mail chutes. Only people were still trying to drop physical mail in them...

The dailynews.yahoo.com link above is a good example, as it is likely that you couldn't easily visit it from a computer in China. To see what I am talking about, look at these:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on various attempts to circumvent access restrictions. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article providing background information on web discussion boards used and censored by people in China. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, (changing their name to Quova), a company attempting to keep a database of IP addresses versus geographic position. You can look at some technical information here.

A system or service like that described in the realmapping links might be used by gateway machines in China to broadly filter all sites outside the country, except for perhaps a select few. This is a real threat to the safety of the world. If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily and regularly read anything on the web, then China is much less likely to end up in a war with us or with Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America more or agree with our positions because they can read the propaganda and claptrap that our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about some spy-boys getting a little rough with airplanes. I'm not going to get into the philosophy of it all, but suffice to say that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

A system like Triangle boy, which is a network of proxies run by volunteers to enable you to connect to safeweb, is what we really need to solve this Internet filtering in foreign countries. An easier to use freenet/ gnutella from l0pft will be very exciting of course, but I think it may not be the right solution for the Communist censorship problem.

For a gnutella/freenet to have effect on the Chinese student who wants to read a New York Times article, it has to be undetectable by the Communist Firewall (because the Communists might decide to block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and it depends upon someone in the free part of the world running a script to dump www.nytimes.com over into the gnutella/freenet system every day. I believe it would be much better to set up something like Triangle Boy but without the single point of failure of the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

That's really hard to do. If you settle for a distributed system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic, then you run the risk that the Communists will simply block all encrypted traffic or start trying to track down and harass individuals inside their country. Maybe you can depend on the difficulty of running that type of firewall on a whole country, and the fact so many people will use it even the Communists won't be able to throw them all in jail. Maybe you can also set up clever proxy and client combinations that hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic techniques, but you would have to be constantly upgrading them against Communist detection.

By getting rid of the central safeweb point, you also avoid any censorship due to cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. This would make the IP ban that occurs after you modded down 5 times in 24 hours also useless. Yahoo and the French, the Communists, and Rob Malda will all have to come to the realization that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for everyone, no discrimination.

That day cannot come too soon. We need to get to work.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link above is a good example, as it is likely that you couldn't easily visit it from a computer in China. To see what I am talking about, look at these:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on various attempts to circumvent access restrictions. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article providing background information on web discussion boards used and censored by people in China. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, (changing their name to Quova), a company attempting to keep a database of IP addresses versus geographic position. You can look at some technical information here.

A system or service like that described in the realmapping links might be used by gateway machines in China to broadly filter all sites outside the country, except for perhaps a select few. This is a real threat to the safety of the world. If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily and regularly read anything on the web, then China is much less likely to end up in a war with us or with Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America more or agree with our positions because they can read the propaganda and claptrap that our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about some spy-boys getting a little rough with airplanes. I'm not going to get into the philosophy of it all, but suffice to say that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

A system like Triangle boy, which is a network of proxies run by volunteers to enable you to connect to safeweb, is what we really need to solve this Internet filtering in foreign countries. An easier to use freenet/ gnutella from l0pft will be very exciting of course, but I think it may not be the right solution for the Communist censorship problem.

For a gnutella/freenet to have effect on the Chinese student who wants to read a New York Times article, it has to be undetectable by the Communist Firewall (because the Communists might decide to block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and it depends upon someone in the free part of the world running a script to dump www.nytimes.com over into the gnutella/freenet system every day. I believe it would be much better to set up something like Triangle Boy but without the single point of failure of the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

That's really hard to do. If you settle for a distributed system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic, then you run the risk that the Communists will simply block all encrypted traffic or start trying to track down and harass individuals inside their country. Maybe you can depend on the difficulty of running that type of firewall on a whole country, and the fact so many people will use it even the Communists won't be able to throw them all in jail. Maybe you can also set up clever proxy and client combinations that hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic techniques, but you would have to be constantly upgrading them against Communist detection.

By getting rid of the central safeweb point, you also avoid any censorship due to cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. This would make the IP ban that occurs after you modded down 5 times in 24 hours also useless. Yahoo and the French, the Communists, and Rob Malda will all have to come to the realization that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for everyone, no discrimination.

That day cannot come too soon. We need to get to work.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link above is a good example, as it is likely that you couldn't easily visit it from a computer in China. To see what I am talking about, look at these:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on various attempts to circumvent access restrictions. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article providing background information on web discussion boards used and censored by people in China. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, (changing their name to Quova), a company attempting to keep a database of IP addresses versus geographic position. You can look at some technical information here.

A system or service like that described in the realmapping links might be used by gateway machines in China to broadly filter all sites outside the country, except for perhaps a select few. This is a real threat to the safety of the world. If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily and regularly read anything on the web, then China is much less likely to end up in a war with us or with Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America more or agree with our positions because they can read the propaganda and claptrap that our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about some spy-boys getting a little rough with airplanes. I'm not going to get into the philosophy of it all, but suffice to say that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

A system like Triangle boy, which is a network of proxies run by volunteers to enable you to connect to safeweb, is what we really need to solve this Internet filtering in foreign countries. An easier to use freenet/ gnutella from l0pft will be very exciting of course, but I think it may not be the right solution for the Communist censorship problem.

For a gnutella/freenet to have effect on the Chinese student who wants to read a New York Times article, it has to be undetectable by the Communist Firewall (because the Communists might decide to block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and it depends upon someone in the free part of the world running a script to dump www.nytimes.com over into the gnutella/freenet system every day. I believe it would be much better to set up something like Triangle Boy but without the single point of failure of the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

That's really hard to do. If you settle for a distributed system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic, then you run the risk that the Communists will simply block all encrypted traffic or start trying to track down and harass individuals inside their country. Maybe you can depend on the difficulty of running that type of firewall on a whole country, and the fact so many people will use it even the Communists won't be able to throw them all in jail. Maybe you can also set up clever proxy and client combinations that hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic techniques, but you would have to be constantly upgrading them against Communist detection.

By getting rid of the central safeweb point, you also avoid any censorship due to cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. This would make the IP ban that occurs after you modded down 5 times in 24 hours also useless. Yahoo and the French, the Communists, and Rob Malda will all have to come to the realization that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for everyone, no discrimination.

That day cannot come too soon. We need to get to work.

The dailynews.yahoo.com link above is a good example, as it is likely that you couldn't easily visit it from a computer in China. To see what I am talking about, look at these:

• Punching Holes in Internet Walls, a New York Times article on various attempts to circumvent access restrictions. (Here are the obligatory partners and channel links.)
• Beijing Declares Victory But Chat Rooms Are Skeptical, a New York Times article providing background information on web discussion boards used and censored by people in China. (Again, channel and partners links.)
• www.realmapping.com, (changing their name to Quova), a company attempting to keep a database of IP addresses versus geographic position. You can look at some technical information here.

A system or service like that described in the realmapping links might be used by gateway machines in China to broadly filter all sites outside the country, except for perhaps a select few. This is a real threat to the safety of the world. If Chinese grandmothers and high school students could easily and regularly read anything on the web, then China is much less likely to end up in a war with us or with Taiwan. The Chinese are not going to like America more or agree with our positions because they can read the propaganda and claptrap that our press spews out every day, but they will have a different sense of perspective (perhaps more cynical) and they will be less likely to get into a froth about some spy-boys getting a little rough with airplanes. I'm not going to get into the philosophy of it all, but suffice to say that I think that the more the people of the world can see and hear of each other, the safer the world will be. The Truth Shall Set You Free.

A system like Triangle boy, which is a network of proxies run by volunteers to enable you to connect to safeweb, is what we really need to solve this Internet filtering in foreign countries. An easier to use freenet/ gnutella from l0pft will be very exciting of course, but I think it may not be the right solution for the Communist censorship problem.

For a gnutella/freenet to have effect on the Chinese student who wants to read a New York Times article, it has to be undetectable by the Communist Firewall (because the Communists might decide to block all encrypted traffic, or find the student himself) and it depends upon someone in the free part of the world running a script to dump www.nytimes.com over into the gnutella/freenet system every day. I believe it would be much better to set up something like Triangle Boy but without the single point of failure of the central safeweb service, and doing something to hide and disguise the web page requests and content.

That's really hard to do. If you settle for a distributed system that doesn't hide and disguise the traffic, then you run the risk that the Communists will simply block all encrypted traffic or start trying to track down and harass individuals inside their country. Maybe you can depend on the difficulty of running that type of firewall on a whole country, and the fact so many people will use it even the Communists won't be able to throw them all in jail. Maybe you can also set up clever proxy and client combinations that hide their real traffic in the meta tags and comments of innocent looking web pages, or use other steganographic techniques, but you would have to be constantly upgrading them against Communist detection.

By getting rid of the central safeweb point, you also avoid any censorship due to cooperation from publishers on the free side of the firewall. This would have the effect of making it impossible for Yahoo to not display Nazi stuff to France, because they couldn't tell who was from France. This would make the IP ban that occurs after you modded down 5 times in 24 hours also useless. Yahoo and the French, the Communists, and Rob Malda will all have to come to the realization that anything they put on the Internet is on the Internet for everyone, no discrimination.

That day cannot come too soon. We need to get to work.

Dear slashdot users and moderators,

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Slashdot should organize and publicize a formal boycott. The music industry (really the whole entertainment industry) is a nasty, anti-competitive business that screws artists and consumers alike. This corruption and monopolization of radio is just one more facet of the bigger problem. Keep in mind these are the same folks who are vigorously opposing low-power radio and undermining commercial internet broadcasting.

Slashdot has a lot of readers and therefore a lot of influence. We ought to get the ball rolling on a boycott of the industry, and show them who's boss.

Love n' stuff,
cryptochrome

And ,from the Times, this story. Favorite quote, on the "threat" of the GPL:"an I.B.M. vice president, said, "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you know, we have a lot of lawyers.""

As good as the arguement presented appears to be, there are some fundamental flaws in it. Flaws that become more obvious upon realizing that the software industry, the computer industry, was not ever supposed to be an industry within itself. But rather an industry that simply was to supply the tools that other industries could use to improve their industry specific production. And for the consumer, improve their use of time in dealing with information. Gaming is entertainment more than it's a tool for productivity, know the difference. Instead what we have is an industry that sees itself as the master race of all industries, by way of owning the tools used, owner and controller of all other industries.

The evidence of this is found in the research that has shown that the claimed new digital economy hasn't happened, but instead all that shows up is that the industry of computer is the only industry having had a notiable increase. With the exception of one other industry, the biotech industry, which does use computer to make such advancements. But the Biotech industry holds in common with the computer industry the element of the IP gold rush greed.

Research of the Department of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Here's the NYT article that mentions the research and it's findings
(you have to register, but it's free)
In a Productivity Surge, No Proof of a 'New Economy'

So what this does is show that the computer industry has been withholding the technology from all other industries, in IP greed. What the GPL does is to counter that, to somewhat put the computer industry in it's proper place, not as the master race over all other industries, but as a secondary tool manufacture for the primary value producers of physical consumable products.

In other words, the computer industry is suppose to be an industry intended to assist other industries, not own them or the Intellectual Property they produce (in the form of industry specific knowledge integrated into software that is then IP owned by the software industry.)


3 S.E.A.S - Virtual Interaction Configuration (VIC) - VISION OF VISIONS!

The biggest complaint I hear from people trying to use computers for the first time is, "I can't figure out how to turn the damn thing on." This doesn't say much for usability or intuitiveness. Maybe the people who build products with switches that say I/O instead of On/Off are the ones that need to be gathered together in a home where they can do no harm. For the rest of us, there's Oatfield Estates, the wired retirement home.

"were someone to describe how to break into a bank's systems"

Interestingly and ironically, there was a series of "howto" articles a couple of weeks ago in the NY Times Magazine and one of them was about how to rob a bank. The article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/magazine/08ROBBE RY.html. The reader response is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/magazine/29LETTE RS.html (need free registration)

I have never read 2600 and could not find it at my local Borders. What is this "Fun at Costco"? It sounds, well, fun. The 2600 web site appears to be slashdotted. oh well

"were someone to describe how to break into a bank's systems"

Interestingly and ironically, there was a series of "howto" articles a couple of weeks ago in the NY Times Magazine and one of them was about how to rob a bank. The article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/magazine/08ROBBE RY.html. The reader response is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/magazine/29LETTE RS.html (need free registration)

I have never read 2600 and could not find it at my local Borders. What is this "Fun at Costco"? It sounds, well, fun. The 2600 web site appears to be slashdotted. oh well

Go here to not get the silly Yahoo ad at the top of the page. Anyone know how to get rid of the other ads on the page?

http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/technology/0 1FREE.html?ex=989985600&en=9b8497cdaccdf05e&ei=500 1&partner=YAHOO

Use the Channel Luke, the Channel!

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Do I play Hockey?
Posting at -1 since April 18/01.

Agreed! I've said this before, and I'll say it again. The only way to stop the destruction of our fair use rights, as well as the patent and IP madness, is to make a stand. Get out there and fight like hell. Bring the battle to the forefront of the news as often as possible, and turn up the heat on the greedy corporations whenever possible. Speaking of copyrights, The New York Times has a column by Lawrence Lessig on just that subject. I strongly suggest everyone here go and read it. And after you're done, write a letter to the editor on this subject and mail it in. The Times is an influential newspaper, and any issue that can get traction within its pages is going to find its way into other media sooner or later. Here's the opening. Anyone care to take advantage of it?

Saudi Arabia is trying to filter out porn and anything else the government deems offensive (like criticism of the royal family), as detailed in this New York Times story (free registration required). They're having as little luck as China is going to.

my bad. however, look at this article from the nytimes (you need username/pass), and you will see a good example of how economically free china has become:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/weekinreview/22B OXA.html

here at channel.nytimes.com as usual.

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It's http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/weekinreview /15BOXA.html

It's the first time I've seen a non-www.nytimes.com link here, and it was refreshing not to have to change the URL for once!

Uhh... wait a minute..... *grumble*

You listening, Rob? Slashcode needs an automatic link rewriter...

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http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/weekinreview/1 5BOXA.html

Here is a login free link

Hydrogen, does not let off some kind of devastating explosion

I'm going to be captain obvious again and point out the following three images. No I'm not goatsexing any of these...
1,2,3



This has been another useless post from....

You don't have to wait for Xmas for new electronic toys. Check out Interactive Shelby, Tiger's new Furby-on-a-halfshell. ("My shell opens and closes especially if I'm scared or surprised")
NYTimes article has discovered a new toy shopping season: advertisements for new toys in the spring could lead to demands not just for chocolate eggs and jelly beans but for electronic clams and robots as well.

Only one more shopping day till Easter.

From NYTimes: "Using two different computer simulations of climate and the oceans, separate research teams have concluded that a buildup of heat in the seas over the last five decades was almost certainly caused by the heat- trapping effect of greenhouse gases released into the air by human activities." http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/science/13CLIM.h tml

Today is the 40th anniversary of
manned spaceflight.

Once you change the URL as appropriate, you'll find gems like this:

The new "Clippy" campaign, which can be found at www.officeclippy.com, will be a small part of the larger $30 million Office XP campaign. The Clippy site will include e-mail and a variety of "viral" marketing tools that Microsoft hopes users will use to e-mail portions of the ad material like songs and presentations animated with Macromedia Flash to one another.

(emphasis mine)

AAAARRGH. The stupid assistants are bad enough — I can just elect not to install those! Now what the heck am I supposed to do when this gets into the hands of the ooh-you've-got-to-see-this-cool-joke-that-I'm-sure -hasn't-been-forwarded-to-you-a-billion-times-alre ady crowd?