HavenCo's failure—and make no mistake about it, HavenCo did fail—shows how hard it is to get out from under government's thumb. HavenCo built it, but no one came. For a host of reasons, ranging from its physical vulnerability to the fact that The Man doesn't care where you store your data if he can get his hands on you, Sealand was never able to offer the kind of immunity from law that digital rebels sought. And, paradoxically, by seeking to avoid government, HavenCo made itself exquisitely vulnerable to one government in particular: Sealand's. It found that out the hard way in 2003 when Sealand "nationalized" the company.
The real problem arises when you have children and she poisons their minds with her irrational, primitive belief system.
I want my children growing up knowing how to solve problems and understand the world with logic, science, and technology. Not by casting spells, reading tea leaves, and communing with the dead.
Theresa is the second heiress he has married. His first wife, Julia Thorne's family was worth $300 million in 1970 dollars.
John Kerry has made a career out of living off of the fortunes earned by other men.
He divorced his first wife while she was battlign depression so debilitating she became suicidal. There's a story there. At least if Newt Gingrich divorcing his cancer victim wife was worth so much ink, the circumstances of Kerry's first divroce should be worth mentionion.
Not completely germane, but I wanted to share. There was a webpage I used to read almost 10 years ago called Messages From the Future. It was at the time one of my favorite web sites. It was written by a guy who went by Rhb who was posting messages he claimed to be receiving from persons in the future of 2005. One of thing the future Rhb had written about was that Bill Gates would launch a pirate network based on drone planes that would fly over major cities (I don't mean pirate in the warez sense. Rather in the pirate radio station sense-outside of the law and government control). In the MFTF, this was done by Gates in response to increasing government censorship over the internet. Still, this is nearly exactly what Rhb from the future said said would come to pass in 2005 or so.
The url which no longer works was
Link
I just now found at least a partial archive but havn't checked it out much yet to find related material
Link
He made other prediction for example that Jackie Chan would be a headlining actor rather than just a stunt man or B movie actor. That was notable for me because that was the first time I had ever heard of Jackie Chan and he was indeed at that time, strictly a stunt man or B movie actor. Every person ever mentioend in the messages from the future by name, I did as much as I could to track them down and for several years, follow them.
I corrosponded with Rhb and he never broke character. The page never declared itself to be a hoax or work of fiction.
According to ABC AM radio news, they are again measuring exponential spreading of the virus causing measurable slow down today.
So I am not yet convinced code red has gone the way of y2k.
What if a virus that can spread like this was actually destructive though? Could this virus be modified to destroy HDD's at an exponential rate and bring down web servers worldwide?
I did not say that Microsoft paid off the state of New Mexico, I said that they pushed it around.
Pushing around can take many forms and does not need to include an explicit threat.
There is merely the threat of years of litigation against an obscenely rich company like M$. The state would potentially have to bankroll the civil suit for years (very unpopular with the constituency.
So having a big, well funded legal department well experienced with this kind of suit (fresh from battling the DOJ) is perhaps enough to push a state into settling.
In physics this kind of estimation is what we call an "order of magnitude" estimation and if you are within a factor of 10 ( 10* or/10) then you consider your answer close enough.
Yup, a user known as an144108 has posted to newsgroup secret (and copyrighted) materials about the high level beliefs of scientology (only available to those who have climbed the paramid to the top). The Hubbardites called in Interpol and Finnish authorities to strong arm Johan Helsingius (owner of the system) into revealing the identities of ALL anonymous users of anon.penet.fi. He revealed the one user to the Scientologists and one year later, in August, 1996 he announced the closing of the service. His closing statement was:
"I will close the remailer for the time being because the legal issues concerning the Internet in Finland are yet undefined. The legal protection of the users needs to be clarified. At the moment the privacy of Internet messages is judicially unclear... I have also personally been a target because of the remailer. Unjustified accusations affect both my job and my private life."
The British Sunday Paper, the Observer had accused him of being The Internet middleman who handles 90 percent of all child pornography." Finnish authorities found this accusation to be wrong and _technically impossible_ (impssible to ssend digital photographs through the service).
From battered women to political refugees, anonymity through the internet provides all users the ability to communicate freely and safely in cyberspace.
Criminals using remailers are hard to capture. Prosecutors are not always able to find out users' real IDs. This is one of the reasons why law and order types clamour for an end to anonymity on the Net. On the other hand - the abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. International laws differ on this point however, making it impossible for the time being to come up with one unanimous regulation. Many anonymous remailers are located in the USA which guarantees freedom of speech as defined by the First Amendment. Hopefully, remailers will also continue to guarantee that users from Tibet, Indonesia and anywhere else in the world where they are not protected by free speech can still speak their minds.
As long as the global network includes states whose laws do not allow free speech to be curbed in any way and as long as there are clever remailer systems and other masking possibilities for communication on the Internet, making up one's own mind without any form of censorship involved will be an everyday occurence for the Net community. If it is technically possible to route around censorship, then maybe people will actively deal with beliefs that aren't necessarily theirs instead of simply banning them, thus leading to contrary opinions and maybe better arguments. The most effective non-argumentative weapons in the fight against unwanted or criminal messages on the Internet do not begin with other users, but at home: delete keys and filtering programmes.
Finally the Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State gets something right.
However anon.penet.fi is still sorely missed.
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Think of what that would do to stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders which cater to a large browsing public. It is one thing to sell only books on demand if all of your customers know what book they want to buy. But if your customers want to peruse your shelves for hours while sucking down Starbucks, an in house press is not for you.
Also, think of what it will do to the romance genre, many of which books are sold by virtue of the bodice-ripping Fabio artwork on the cover.
Slashdot Mirror
Sealand of course. That didn't work to well unfortunately.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco/1/
HavenCo's failure—and make no mistake about it, HavenCo did fail—shows how hard it is to get out from under government's thumb. HavenCo built it, but no one came. For a host of reasons, ranging from its physical vulnerability to the fact that The Man doesn't care where you store your data if he can get his hands on you, Sealand was never able to offer the kind of immunity from law that digital rebels sought. And, paradoxically, by seeking to avoid government, HavenCo made itself exquisitely vulnerable to one government in particular: Sealand's. It found that out the hard way in 2003 when Sealand "nationalized" the company.
Penny arcade reminds me of lasagna.
Game over man, game over!
It is gratifying to hear we've disassembled the last remnants of Iraq's non-existent WMD program.
The real problem arises when you have children and she poisons their minds with her irrational, primitive belief system.
I want my children growing up knowing how to solve problems and understand the world with logic, science, and technology. Not by casting spells, reading tea leaves, and communing with the dead.
Sure he was.
Theresa is the second heiress he has married. His first wife, Julia Thorne's family was worth $300 million in 1970 dollars.
John Kerry has made a career out of living off of the fortunes earned by other men.
He divorced his first wife while she was battlign depression so debilitating she became suicidal. There's a story there. At least if Newt Gingrich divorcing his cancer victim wife was worth so much ink, the circumstances of Kerry's first divroce should be worth mentionion.
I hate to tell you this, but this sounds like the Rambus XDR memory interface.
http://www.rambus.com/products/xdr/
Not completely germane, but I wanted to share. There was a webpage I used to read almost 10 years ago called Messages From the Future. It was at the time one of my favorite web sites. It was written by a guy who went by Rhb who was posting messages he claimed to be receiving from persons in the future of 2005. One of thing the future Rhb had written about was that Bill Gates would launch a pirate network based on drone planes that would fly over major cities (I don't mean pirate in the warez sense. Rather in the pirate radio station sense-outside of the law and government control). In the MFTF, this was done by Gates in response to increasing government censorship over the internet. Still, this is nearly exactly what Rhb from the future said said would come to pass in 2005 or so.
The url which no longer works was
Link
I just now found at least a partial archive but havn't checked it out much yet to find related material
Link
He made other prediction for example that Jackie Chan would be a headlining actor rather than just a stunt man or B movie actor. That was notable for me because that was the first time I had ever heard of Jackie Chan and he was indeed at that time, strictly a stunt man or B movie actor. Every person ever mentioend in the messages from the future by name, I did as much as I could to track them down and for several years, follow them. I corrosponded with Rhb and he never broke character. The page never declared itself to be a hoax or work of fiction.
jennycam.com
now see Jenny like you have never seen her before!
Anyway, it is dark down there!
Been thinking about swallowing my X10 camera for awhile now.
My statement of protest against their pop-ups.
According to ABC AM radio news, they are again measuring exponential spreading of the virus causing measurable slow down today.
So I am not yet convinced code red has gone the way of y2k.
What if a virus that can spread like this was actually destructive though? Could this virus be modified to destroy HDD's at an exponential rate and bring down web servers worldwide?
But my connection SUCKS today.
I was thinking it was related to the worm.
But remember, the last time it struck, it grew exponentially for 7 days until it really hit its stride.
Actually, technically speaking, an absence of colors (or light) is known as black.
So Marvin the Martian could not destroy the earth with the eludion-235 detonator anyway.
Best he could do is some Pennsylvania cornfield.
First they assimilate Bell and GTE, now all the users shall also be assimilated.
Behold! Witness the founding of the Borg collective!
"the Taliban perversion of Islam is NOT accepted by ANY OTHER Islamic sect"
Nor do they condemn it
I did not say that Microsoft paid off the state of New Mexico, I said that they pushed it around.
Pushing around can take many forms and does not need to include an explicit threat.
There is merely the threat of years of litigation against an obscenely rich company like M$. The state would potentially have to bankroll the civil suit for years (very unpopular with the constituency.
So having a big, well funded legal department well experienced with this kind of suit (fresh from battling the DOJ) is perhaps enough to push a state into settling.
In physics this kind of estimation is what we call an "order of magnitude" estimation and if you are within a factor of 10 ( 10* or /10) then you consider your answer close enough.
:)
so a factor of 2 is nothing to sweat
Microsoft has enough money to push entire States around.
According to the BBC, this clock is accuracy to 1 second over the (currently estimated at 15 billion years) life of the universe
you dont' even need 5'1/4" drives again (slower rotation).
all you need to do is add extra 3.5" platters. go back to 3.5" full height drives with 10 platters. You'll still have 7200 RPM
Yup, a user known as an144108 has posted to newsgroup secret (and copyrighted) materials about the high level beliefs of scientology (only available to those who have climbed the paramid to the top). The Hubbardites called in Interpol and Finnish authorities to strong arm Johan Helsingius (owner of the system) into revealing the identities of ALL anonymous users of anon.penet.fi. He revealed the one user to the Scientologists and one year later, in August, 1996 he announced the closing of the service. His closing statement was:
"I will close the remailer for the time being because the legal issues concerning the Internet in Finland are yet undefined. The legal protection of the users needs to be clarified. At the moment the privacy of Internet messages is judicially unclear... I have also personally been a target because of the remailer. Unjustified accusations affect both my job and my private life."
The British Sunday Paper, the Observer had accused him of being The Internet middleman who handles 90 percent of all child pornography." Finnish authorities found this accusation to be wrong and _technically impossible_ (impssible to ssend digital photographs through the service).
From battered women to political refugees, anonymity through the internet provides all users the ability to communicate freely and safely in cyberspace.
Criminals using remailers are hard to capture. Prosecutors are not always able to find out users' real IDs. This is one of the reasons why law and order types clamour for an end to anonymity on the Net. On the other hand - the abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. International laws differ on this point however, making it impossible for the time being to come up with one unanimous regulation. Many anonymous remailers are located in the USA which guarantees freedom of speech as defined by the First Amendment. Hopefully, remailers will also continue to guarantee that users from Tibet, Indonesia and anywhere else in the world where they are not protected by free speech can still speak their minds.
As long as the global network includes states whose laws do not allow free speech to be curbed in any way and as long as there are clever remailer systems and other masking possibilities for communication on the Internet, making up one's own mind without any form of censorship involved will be an everyday occurence for the Net community. If it is technically possible to route around censorship, then maybe people will actively deal with beliefs that aren't necessarily theirs instead of simply banning them, thus leading to contrary opinions and maybe better arguments. The most effective non-argumentative weapons in the fight against unwanted or criminal messages on the Internet do not begin with other users, but at home: delete keys and filtering programmes.
Finally the Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State gets something right.
However anon.penet.fi is still sorely missed.
Think of what that would do to stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders which cater to a large browsing public. It is one thing to sell only books on demand if all of your customers know what book they want to buy. But if your customers want to peruse your shelves for hours while sucking down Starbucks, an in house press is not for you.
Also, think of what it will do to the romance genre, many of which books are sold by virtue of the bodice-ripping Fabio artwork on the cover.
Lousy moderators pushing lousy agendas!