Voting one's conscience for Nader rather than switching to Gore out of fear could have put the Nader vote at 5%+ of the popular vote, resulting in matching funds for the Green party next election.
Ironically, since Bush appears to have won the election, all those who voted for Gore instead of Nader wasted their vote.
Other advanced civilizations will not only transition quickly from narrowband RF to using either spread spectrum or advanced techniques we don't know how to look for, but will also certainly deploy compression and cryptography to secure their transmissions. We are certainly headed in this direction after only a few decades of promiscuous broadcasting. This certainly makes SETI@home's job much harder.
1. Put all DoubleClick's servers in your/etc/hosts file as 127.0.0.1
2. Put all of DoubleClick's servers in your "bypass proxy for" setting in your browser.
This will kill both their ads and their cookies.
I maintain a web page with a list of their servers and more detailed instructions for unix, windows, and BeOS (with experimental Mac instructions available tonight) using either Netscape or IE at http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/ ~atman/spam/adblock.html. It is easy and it works great.
If you use Netscape to browse and read mail under some variety of Unix, including Linux, you can greatly reduce this problem by following the two-step configuration instructions at
The USA vs MSFT case alleges violations of the Sherman Antitrust action (UCS Title 15 Chapter 1 sections 1 & 2). Section 2 states that one possible punishment is "imprisonment not exceeding three years."
What are the chances that Gates, Balmer, Allchin, et al will be sent to prison, and what if anything can we do to encourage Judge Jackson to exercise the imprisonment option?
> Indeed, this is still the official line -- check out the Data Encryption Standard and you'll find that it specifies only hardware implementations are compliant.
This is not correct. In 1993 NIST allowed software implementations of DES to be certified. [Applied Cryptography 2nd ed, pp 269-270. Author Bruce Schneier]
There is currently a bill before the U.S. Senate that will prevent states from receiving federal funds if they allow distribution of personal data from driver's licenses or any motor vehicle record without express written consent of the individual which would prevent this invasion of privacy. The bill is S. 1143 and the privacy section is Section 339.
The outcome of this suit is very similar to another civil suit, one filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center against the KKK regarding the burning of the black Macedonia Baptist Church in 1995. In that case, as in this one, the defendants, although not directly involved in the felonies in question, were found responsible and were fined tens of millions of dollars. The similarity doesn't end there, however. In this abortion case, Christine Ramey stated, "I have no intention of giving money to people who kill children". In the KKK case, after the verdict was handed down, the Klan attempted to prevent the black church from acquiring their liquid assets by giving them to an infamous far-right author sympathetic to their cause. The SPLC followed up with additional litigation and recovered the money. In my opinion it is no coincidence that there are such striking similarities between the behavior of the anti-abortion zealots in this case and the behavior of the Klansmen in the Macedonia church burning case. Both are cut from the same bolt of cloth. I hope that Planned Parenthood and the other organizations and individuals involved follow up with additional legal action if needed and round up every last cent they have coming to them from this judgement.
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Voting one's conscience for Nader rather than switching to Gore out of fear could have put the Nader vote at 5%+ of the popular vote, resulting in matching funds for the Green party next election.
Ironically, since Bush appears to have won the election, all those who voted for Gore instead of Nader wasted their vote.
Other advanced civilizations will not only transition quickly from narrowband RF to using either spread spectrum or advanced techniques we don't know how to look for, but will also certainly deploy compression and cryptography to secure their transmissions. We are certainly headed in this direction after only a few decades of promiscuous broadcasting. This certainly makes SETI@home's job much harder.
1. Put all DoubleClick's servers in your /etc/hosts file as 127.0.0.1
2. Put all of DoubleClick's servers in your "bypass proxy for" setting in your browser.
This will kill both their ads and their cookies.
I maintain a web page with a list of their servers and more detailed instructions for unix, windows, and BeOS (with experimental Mac instructions available tonight) using either Netscape or IE at http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/ ~atman/spam/adblock.html. It is easy and it works great.
If you use Netscape to browse and read mail under some variety of Unix, including Linux, you can greatly reduce this problem by following the two-step configuration instructions at
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It will also block banner ads. The server list is updated almost daily.
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The USA vs MSFT case alleges violations of the Sherman Antitrust action (UCS Title 15 Chapter 1 sections 1 & 2). Section 2 states that one possible punishment is "imprisonment not exceeding three years."
What are the chances that Gates, Balmer, Allchin, et al will be sent to prison, and what if anything can we do to encourage Judge Jackson to exercise the imprisonment option?
> Indeed, this is still the official line -- check out the Data Encryption Standard and you'll find that it specifies only hardware implementations are compliant.
This is not correct. In 1993 NIST allowed software implementations of DES to be certified. [Applied Cryptography 2nd ed, pp 269-270. Author Bruce Schneier]
There is currently a bill before the U.S. Senate that will prevent states from receiving federal funds if they allow distribution of personal data from driver's licenses or any motor vehicle record without express written consent of the individual which would prevent this invasion of privacy. The bill is S. 1143 and the privacy section is Section 339.
For more info and to send your senator a free fax in support of the bill (assuming you are a US citizen) see http://www.aclu.org/action/drivers106.ht ml.
The outcome of this suit is very similar to another civil suit, one filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center against the KKK regarding the burning of the black Macedonia Baptist Church in 1995. In that case, as in this one, the defendants, although not directly involved in the felonies in question, were found responsible and were fined tens of millions of dollars. The similarity doesn't end there, however. In this abortion case, Christine Ramey stated, "I have no intention of giving money to people who kill children". In the KKK case, after the verdict was handed down, the Klan attempted to prevent the black church from acquiring their liquid assets by giving them to an infamous far-right author sympathetic to their cause. The SPLC followed up with additional litigation and recovered the money. In my opinion it is no coincidence that there are such striking similarities between the behavior of the anti-abortion zealots in this case and the behavior of the Klansmen in the Macedonia church burning case. Both are cut from the same bolt of cloth. I hope that Planned Parenthood and the other organizations and individuals involved follow up with additional legal action if needed and round up every last cent they have coming to them from this judgement.
http://www.splcenter.org/legalac tion/la-index.html (see bottom entry).