Likewise, it would seem to be quite easy for Microsoft to ensure that WinXP consumer edition doesn't make it too easy to spoof said packets.
We are all part of a team, the team can work together to ensure:
spoofed packets don't leave a team-member's network
OS's that allow easy IP spoofing are changed to make it difficult to spoof by implementing access controls a la WinNT/Unix/Linux. Evidently WinXP consumer edition has ZERO-DESIRE to be a team-player like its Win95/98/NT cousins.
FYI, Steve Gibson has posted his latest explanation of the WinXP Raw
Sockets Vulnerability here
from whence the concern of "WinXP boxes and... their [spoofed] IP
addresses" evidently first originated.
Steve & Co. also provide two "quick 'n dirty" FREE programs to download
to:
test your access to "raw sockets" (all Win OS)
secure NON-SYSTEM "raw sockets" access (Win2K & WinXP) to see that Win2K
& WinXP continue to function just fine
The funny part is that Steve Gibson now uses Microsoft's own MSDN Technical
Documentation against Microsoft. Steve provides quotes from the Microsoft MSDN
websites and links to the original Microsoft Technical Documentation
As of 8/13/01 @ 0801 PST, all the links to the Microsoft Technical
Documentation PROVING (?) Steve Gibson's points were fully functional.
BTW, for a "nail biting" (grin - soon to be a motion picture - grin) tale of
one man's experience with a Distributed Denial of Service attack read both here and SlashDot
commentary to learn where Steve's fear of WinXP Raw Sockets
originates (i.e. WinXP zombies doing DDOS with the easy to spoof WinXP box IP
addresses due to desktop Joe/Jane-consumer user always being "root")
Evidently, Steve Gibson can now quote chapter and verse back to Microsoft and ask Microsoft "Why are you [microsoft] now contradicting
yourself."
BTW, there is now an "astroturf" (?) website devoted to debunking Steve
Gibson here although all
the DNS
details seem bogus ("How convenient for the astroturf PR agency!!!" says the Church lady)
"How will they identify the zombies that happen to be WinXP boxes and have their IP addresses spoofed?"
FYI, Steve Gibson has posted his latest explanation of the WinXP Raw Sockets Vulnerability here from whence the concern of "WinXP boxes and... their [spoofed] IP addresses" evidently first originated.
Steve & Co. also provide two "quick 'n dirty" FREE programs to download to:
test your access to "raw sockets" (all Win OS)
secure NON-SYSTEM "raw sockets" access (Win2K & WinXP) to see that Win2K & WinXP continue to function just fine
The funny part is that Steve Gibson now uses Microsoft's own MSDN Technical Documentation against Microsoft. Steve provides quotes from the Microsoft MSDN websites and links to the original Microsoft Technical Documentation
As of 8/13/01 @ 0801 PST, all the links to the Microsoft Technical Documentation PROVING (?) Steve Gibson's points were fully functional.
BTW, for a "nail biting" (grin - soon to be a motion picture - grin) tale of one man's experience with a Distributed Denial of Service
attack read both here and SlashDot commentary to learn where Steve's fear of WinXP Raw Sockets originates (i.e. WinXP zombies doing DDOS with the easy to spoof WinXP box IP addresses due to desktop Joe/Jane-consumer user always being "root")
Funny thing now is that Steve Gibson can now quote chapter and verse back to Microsoft and ask Microsoft "Why are you [microsoft] now contradicting yourself."
BTW, there is now an "astroturf" (?) website devoted to debunking Steve Gibson here although all the DNS details seem bogus ("How convenient for the astroturf PR agency!!!" says the Church lady)
"Illegal use of firearms results in severe physical and emotional trauma, and often in death."
Likewise, legal use of firearms while exercising one's RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE"... results in severe physical and emotional trauma, and often in death" particularly when defending yourself against violent criminal assault (e.g. home invasion, car jacking, rape, convenience store hold-up, etc). The victim, even after killing the assailant, will often suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Of course, I would rather suffer PTSD having shot a criminal DEAD than be beat to death with a baseball bat by that same criminal.
As I posted earlier [strange... did someone "astroturf MOD" it to -1?]
QUESTION: If Joe/Jane Consumer running whatever OS/Apps that exist suffered as a result of the Microsoft Code Red I & II Worm can he/she sue Microsoft for losses???
IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe/Jane Consumer did NOT sign/accept/whatever an EULA associated with Microsoft Web Server. Joe/Jane was just "harmed" by the poorly designed, fault ridden, Microsoft Server Software. Joe/Jane NEVER signed/accepted/whatever the EULA associated with the poorly designed, fault ridden Microsoft Server Software.
As I posted earlier [strange... did someone "astroturf MOD" it to -1?]
QUESTION: If Joe/Jane Consumer running whatever OS/Apps that exist suffered as a result of the Microsoft Code Red I & II Worm can he/she sue Microsoft for losses???
IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe/Jane Consumer did NOT sign/accept/whatever an EULA associated with Microsoft Web Server. Joe/Jane was just "harmed" by the poorly designed, fault ridden, Microsoft Server Software. Joe/Jane NEVER signed/accepted/whatever the EULA associated with the poorly designed, fault ridden Microsoft Server Software.
QUESTION: If Joe/Jane Consumer running whatever OS/Apps that exist suffered as a result of the Microsoft Code Red I & II Worm can he/she sue Microsoft for losses???
IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe/Jane Consumer did NOT sign/accept/whatever an EULA associated with Microsoft Web Server. Joe/Jane was just "harmed" by the poorly designed, fault ridden, Microsoft Server Software. Joe/Jane NEVER signed/accepted/whatever the EULA associated with the poorly designed, fault ridden Microsoft Server Software.
To bad Juanita didn't have a magnesium flare during her crisis.
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This week a boat anchor brings down an internet in the Southern Hemisphere.
Last week a flaming train (but not a flaming goatse.cx;-) brings down another internet in North America.
Still later this week, inbreeding amongst network capital equipment vendors leads to crippling genetic susceptibility to one breed of worms (another reason for having a "mutt" network vice a "purebreed" network???)
What good is all that profound "internet survivability " if all the pipes are laid down in the same trench, tunnel, manhole using the same vendor's gear???
Any Network Infrastructure Engineers care to clue us in to why the pipes get placed in the same geographic location (+/- 1000 m)???
Rabbi R. Mermelstein commented... The Iceman was obviously a proto-Nazi intent on killing all perceived "lesser races" rather than some sort of noble hunter fatally injured in a "hunting accident"
Continued "misinformation" being spread by modern-day neo-nazi organizations has been picked up by normally straight-thinking, clear-headed organizations (e.g. NRA). As a consequence, this continued desire to disarm the "undesirables" (e.g. Jews, Homos, AMWAY believers, Republicans, etc) as prevalent today as it was during the Bronze Age continues.
The young woman shouted "911" prior to the brutal rape. Had she waited the six-weeks it would have taken for the Regional Law Enforcement Organization to respond, she would have been killed vice the Iceman.
It is sick that there are some out there who have necrophelic fantasies about some Ice WOMAN.
Only by exercising her human right to self-defense was this member of a "lesser race" able to survive her brutal rape, kill her assailant (i.e. the Iceman) rather than be killed, and struggle across the Alps to freedom.
"the gun lobby has done nothing unless those 'violations' had something to do with gun control."
So-so point about the "gun lobby" although I don't think it was much of a lobby until people started to try to take away guns.
The biggest violation that you missed was perpetrated by FDR during WWII. This was the closest America has come to a "final solution" so recently (terrifying).
Previously it was the American Indian (from our modern standpoint it is fortunate for America that the American Indian lacked access [GUN CONTROL in action] to a sufficient quantity of guns and ammunition to preserve their way of life... visit some reservations to get a clearer picture... the ones who faught are all dead now so we can't ask why they faught)
California's Government Code, Sections 821, 845, and 846 which state, in part: "Neither a public entity or a public employee [may be sued] for failure to provide adequate police protection or service, failure to prevent the commission of crimes and failure to apprehend criminals." (Please check this out as I only copy 'n pasted from a non-CA gov't website... maybe it is misquoted... whether misquoted or not you can still "Dial 911 and [wait to] die";-);-);-)
Post your mailing address so I can send you a yard signs and window stickers that say "The people in this home are unarmed. We depend on 911" and "Protected by 911"
I would post more links to DATA but the hour is late and we are beginning to go off topic from the First Amendment issue. Although I raised the other twenty-six Amendments as a "tangential editorial comment"
Dr. Dave Touretzky, a Computer Science Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and academic editor/author of the academic research website
Gallery of CSS Descramblers, has issued a Call For Papers [actually "technical submissions"] regarding information about Adobe's access control mechanisms and the remedies people [i.e. legal content users exercising their "fair use" rights] have devised to deal with them.
He is interested in receiving and publishing the following kinds of information:
Technical descriptions of the access control and encryption mechanisms associated with PDF files and/or eBooks.
Technical descriptions of remedies for these mechanisms, e.g., patches, key recovery algorithms, modified plug-ins, etc.
Source code for implementing these remedies.
He notes that "A large amount of useful content is now encoded as PDF (Portable Document Format) files, including files marketed for the eBook document reader. Unfortunately, some of this content is not usable in all the LAWFUL WAYS [emphasis mine] a purchaser desires, due to access control mechanisms created by Adobe and adopted by content publishers to the detriment of their [LAWFUL] customers."
He further notes that "Computer professionals who have examined [Adobe's access control mechanisms] have found them easy to defeat."
He notes that his website is for discussion of purely technical information of interest to computer scientists and lawful content users. He is not interested in receiving rants about Adobe or the DMCA, suggesting that individuals go to the Boycott Adobe [and/or slashdot - grin] site for that.
It is suggested that individuals wishing to submit TECHNICAL CONTENT first visit the site to see what others have already submitted to avoid unnecessary duplication (e.g. ElcomSoft, Xpdf, Ghostscript, etc).
It is noted that there is yet no "Haiku" regarding Adobe's "easy to defeat" access control mechanism.
Tangential Editorial Comment by RM3 Frisker FTN... "Why don't people get as bent out of shape when the other Twenty-Six (?) Amendments are violated (e.g. Second Amendment???)"
Dr. Dave Touretzky (Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Faculty - academic editor/author of Gallery of CSS Descramblers) is
"... interested in receiving and publishing the following kinds of information:
Technical descriptions of the access control and encryption mechanisms associated with PDF files and/or eBooks.
Technical descriptions of remedies for these mechanisms, e.g., patches, key recovery algorithms, modified plug-ins, etc.
Source code for implementing these remedies.
[visit his website before submitting to see what he is already aware of. His website Gallery of Adobe Remedies already lists ElcomSoft, Xpdf, Ghostscript, but no Haiku... yet]
Dr. Dave Touretzky notes that his web site is for "discussion of purely technical information of interest to computer scientists and lawful content users".
Dr. Dave Touretzky further notes that he is "not interested in receiving rants about Adobe or the DMCA" suggesting that said rants be submitted to Boycott Adobe wishing to keep his site focused on "Adobe's access control mechanisms and the remedies people have devised [i.e. 'lawful ways a purchaser desires'] to deal with them."
<HUMOR>Another data point that dirtball civilians without long-term underway seagoing experience and all non-naval military types (e.g. Air Force) need not continue to apply for astronaut service.
Too much evidence exists that they whine too much and just don't know what real hardship living conditions means.</HUMOR>
The NASA astro-naughts should "Adapt and overcome", "quit their whining", "calculate their happiness factors"
No field day, no ORSE, no ROUGHTRAY/GITMO, no watchstanding, no biannual requal, pay.GT. minimum wage, no sea&anchor, no UNREP, no quasi-religious nuclear pre-startup ceremonies, no five-and-dime watch rotation... what are they complaining about?
Who would have thought that the Nuke Navy was better prep for space travel than anything else available???
Can the NASA astro-naughts complain like Team FTN???
From the Team FTN Homepage: FTN is an attitude. We all have it. Before I (Trash_Man) say any more, I'd
like to make a few things clear. We are not just a group of dirtball whiners. I
have been in the Navy for 10 years and am in a supervisory position (over 30
people report to me). I have been awarded the Navy Achievement Medal and 16
other commendations for my performance. I have been selected as a "Sailor of the
Quarter" and have always received high marks on my performance evaluations. The
experiences of the other FTN members mirror my own. So don't discount our
complaints as the ramblings of some disgruntled kids who couldn't handle the
military. We've made many trips around the block, maybe too many.
If you kick a dog long enough, eventually he's gonna bite. Well, that's the
essence of FTN. We have seen too many examples of poor leadership, abuse of
authority, and simple failures to consider the consequences of an action. There
are MANY good leaders in the Navy (I consider myself one of 'em), but you
shouldn't have to "get lucky" to be treated with common decency and respect. And
even if you "got lucky" and have a great supervisor, too often his hands are
tied. I am not talking about situations where the unique nature of military
service (combat actions, diplomatic crises, hazardous duties/locations, etc...)
make an authoritarian leadership method a necessity. I am talking about routine,
non-critical situations.
FTN means that we are tired of the BS. It means that we think that our
families really do matter, regardless of what the Navy says. It means that we
are tired of having professional respect demanded from above, yet not
reciprocated. It means that we don't want use a shitty method of getting
something done, just because it "has always been done that way". FTN means that
there have been a couple more 100+ hour weeks than we care to contribute. [HELLO NASA ASTRO-NAUGHTS;-)] It
means that we have had it, we will continue to excel in our performance (because
we take pride in our own work) but we refuse to suck up and say we like it. It
means that we might just tell an officer, "That's f#ckin' stupid and I'm not
gonna do it that way. I'll do it the correct way instead."
There are many different reasons to say, "F#ck The Navy". Some are personal
and others professional. The top reasons (for Trash_Man) are:
Family separation (sometimes greater than 300 days in a year).[HELLO NASA ASTRO-NAUGHTS;-)]
Lack of professional respect.
Low pay compared to equivalent civilian job.[HELLO NASA ASTRO-NAUGHTS;-)]
People with little concern for you have too much control over your life.
Little opportunity for advancement (less than 3% of eligible people in my
position are advanced each year).
A previous poster wrote... Well, I mean, come on! Do you really expect that Hollywood could fine someone who could:
1) Fit Laura Croft's body... ANSWER: Asia Carrera
2) Know how to operate a 9mm gun... ANSWER:Asia Carrera - if she doesn't know now she would be able to figure it out
3) Act... ANSWER:Asia Carrera... actually I am now ashamed to say I have never seen her films. Alas she was not in either Night Trips I or II, Latex, Shock, Chameleon,...
Notice about the availability of the Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides:
Because of the amount of interest in the Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides, we are updating our Web site to better handle the demands placed on downloading the files. We expect to make the guides available once again during the week of June 18, 2001.
Later tonight I will visit the homes of all pro-TiVO stealth software upgrade people.
I have a contract with the automakers to "upgrade" your automobiles... you will now be limited to 6.9 miles/hour and 6.9 miles/gallon. The reason I will do this is that the automakers have decided to implement a "subscription" model of service.
We know you "own" the automobile (hardware). We just want to force you to "subscribe" so that you have the same level of functionality you had when you bought the automobile (hardware)
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I no longer watch television although I do have the cable modem.
-)>
Later tonight I will visit the homes of all pro-TiVO stealth software upgrade people.
I have a contract with the automakers to "upgrade" your automobiles... you will now be limited to 6.9 miles/hour and 6.9 miles/gallon. The reason I will do this is that the automakers have decided to implement a "subscription" model of service.
We know you "own" the automobile (hardware). We just want to force you to "subscribe" so that you have the same level of functionality you had when you bought the automobile (hardware)
I no longer watch television although I do have the cable modem.
-)>
Later tonight I will visit the homes of all pro-TiVO stealth software upgrade people.
I have a contract with the automakers to "upgrade" your automobiles... you will now be limited to 6.9 miles/hour and 6.9 miles/gallon. The reason I will do this is that the automakers have decided to implement a "subscription" model of service.
Just a bunch of pictures that an UNMANNED photo recon satellite could have taken.
BTW, where is the ANALYSIS of the pictures? Where are the CONCLUSIONS?
Just collecting data is not science. You have got to analyze the data and draw conclusions. Otherwise, every tourist to the Grand Canyon is doing geological science (they took pictures;-).
I imagine it is a lot like being "haze gray and underway"...
tourists were on the nuclear (sounds scary doesn't it;) submarine USS Greenville, tourists were on the nuclear (sounds scary doesn't it;) USS Abe Lincoln during ORSE (a naval nuclear program audit, drills are run, paperwork is examined,...)
Being in space is probably a lot like being in the Navy underway... you do your job, eat, go to sleep,... as Tito said "An adult doesn't need months of training to be told 'Don't push that button'
BTW, NASA should get a clue and stop going for the flyboys as astronauts... former submarine crew members are better qualified than any flier.
Founded in June 2000, Smartertimes.com is dedicated to the proposition that New York's dominant daily has grown complacent, slow and inaccurate. Even an ordinary semi-intelligent guy in Brooklyn who reads the newspaper carefully early each morning can regularly notice errors of fact and of logic. Smartertimes.com is dedicated to assembling a community of readers to support a new newspaper that would offer an alternative to the dominant daily.
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- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and
associates
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution
case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
* STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION
- Number of Starr-Ray
investigation convictions or guilty pleas to date (including
one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton
business partners): 15
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation:
5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation:
4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal:
3
* CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals
and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been
convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth
Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case
of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
* SMALTZ INVESTIGATION
- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases
involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses:
15
- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million
* CLINTON MACHINE
CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS HAVE BEEN OBTAINED
* OTHER MATTERS
INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS
AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail
fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign
funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence
and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation
of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of
prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in
statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials,
flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet
members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure
to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials,
use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions
or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide
false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state
agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating
suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when
these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates,
failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing
jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper
acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading,
murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal
judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of
subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper
firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers,
foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White
House.
THE CLINTON LEGACY:
LONELY HONOR
Here are some
of the all too rare public officials, reporters, and others who
spoke truth to the dismally corrupt power of Bill and Hill Clinton's
political machine -- some at risk to their careers, others at
risk to their lives. A few points to note:
- Those corporatist
media reporters who attempted to report the story often found
themselves muzzled; some even lost their jobs. The only major
dailies that consistently handled the story well were the Wall
Street Journal and the Washington Times.
- Nobody on this
list has gotten rich and many you may not have even heard of.
Taking on the Clintons typically has not been a happy or rewarding
experience. At least ten reporters have been fired, transferred
off their beats, resigned, or otherwise gotten into trouble because
of their work on the scandals. Whistleblowing is even less appreciated
within the government. One study of whistleblowers found that
232 out of 233 them reported suffering retaliation; another study
found reprisals in about 95% of cases.
- Contrary to
the popular impression, the politics of those listed ranges from
the left to the right, and from the ideological to the independent.
- We have not
included victims of the Clinton machine, some of whom have acted
with considerable danger and at considerable risk to themselves.
They will be included on a later list.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ
was a prosecutor on the staff of Kenneth Starr. His attempts
to uncover the truth in the Vincent Foster death case were repeatedly
foiled and he was the subject of planted stories undermining
his credibility and implying that he was unstable. Rodriguez
eventually resigned.
JEAN DUFFEY:
Head of a joint federal-county drug task force in Arkansas. Her
first instructions from her boss: "Jean, you are not to
use the drug task force to investigate any public official."
Duffey's work, however, led deep into the heart of the Dixie
Mafia, including members of the Clinton machine and the investigation
of the so-called "train deaths." Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
reports that when she produced a star witness who could testify
to Clinton's involvement with cocaine, the local prosecuting
attorney, Dan Harmon issued a subpoena for all the task force
records, including "the incriminating files on his own activities.
If Duffey had complied it would have exposed 30 witnesses and
her confidential informants to violent retributions. She refused."
Harmon issued a warrant for her arrest and friendly cops told
her that there was a $50,000 price on her head. She eventually
fled to Texas. The once-untouchable Harmon was later convicted
of racketeering, extortion and drug dealing.
BILL DUNCAN:
An IRS investigator in Arkansas who drafted some 30 federal indictments
of Arkansas figures on money laundering and other charges. Clinton
biographer Roger Morris quotes a source who reviewed the evidence:
"Those indictments were a real slam dunk if there ever was
one." The cases were suppressed, many in the name of "national
security." Duncan was never called to testify. Other IRS
agents and state police disavowed Duncan and turned on him. Said
one source, "Somebody outside ordered it shut down and the
walls went up."
RUSSELL WELCH:
A Arkansas state police detective working with Duncan. Welch
developed a 35-volume, 3,000 page archive on drug and money laundering
operations at Mena. His investigation was so compromised that
a high state police official even let one of the targets of the
probe look through the file. At one point, Welch was sprayed
in the face with poison, later identified by the Center for Disease
Control as anthrax. He would write in his diary, "I feel
like I live in Russia, waiting for the secret police to pounce
down. A government has gotten out of control. Men find themselves
in positions of power and suddenly crimes become legal."
Welch is no longer with the state police.
DAN SMALTZ: Smaltz
did an outstanding job investigating and prosecuting charges
involving illegal payoffs to Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy,
yet was treated with disparaging and highly inaccurate reporting
by the likes of the David Broder and the NY Times. Espy was acquitted
under a law that made it necessary to not only prove that he
accepted gratuities but that he did something specific in return.
On the other hand, Tyson Foods copped a plea in the same case,
paying $6 million in fines and serving four years' probation.
The charge: that Tyson had illegally offered Espy $12,000 in
airplane rides, football tickets and other payoffs. In the Espy
investigation, Smaltz obtained 15 convictions and collected over
$11 million in fines and civil penalties. Offenses for which
convictions were obtained included false statements, concealing
money from prohibited sources, illegal gratuities, illegal contributions,
falsifying records, interstate transportation of stolen property,
money laundering, and illegal receipt of USDA subsidies. Incidentally,
Janet Reno blocked Smaltz from pursuing leads aimed at allegations
of major drug trafficking in Arkansas and payoffs to the then
governor of the state, WJ Clinton. Espy had become Ag secretary
only after being flown to Arkansas to get the approval of chicken
king Don Tyson.
DAVID SCHIPPERS,
was House impeachment counsel and a Chicago Democrat. He did
a highly creditable job but since he didn't fit the right-wing
conspiracy theory, the Clintonista media downplayed his work.
Thus most Americans don't know that he told NewsMax, "Let
me tell you, if we had a chance to put on a case, I would have
put live witnesses before the committee. But the House leadership,
and I'm not talking about Henry Hyde, they just killed us as
far as time was concerned. I begged them to let me take it into
this year. Then I screamed for witnesses before the Senate. But
there was nothing anybody could do to get those Senators to show
any courage. They told us essentially, you're not going to get
67 votes so why are you wasting our time." Schippers also
said that while a number of representatives looked at additional
evidence kept under seal in a nearby House building, not a single
senator did.
JOHN CLARKE:
When Patrick Knowlton stopped to relieve himself in Ft. Marcy
Park 70 minutes before the discovery of Vince Foster's body,
he saw things that got him into deep trouble. His interview statements
were falsified and prior to testifying he claims he was overtly
harassed by more than a score of men in a classic witness intimidation
technique. In some cases there were witnesses. John Clarke has
been his dogged lawyer in the witness intimidation case that
has been largely ignored by the media, even when the three-judge
panel overseeing the Starr investigation permitted Knowlton to
append a 20 page addendum to the Starr Report.
OTHER
THE ARKANSAS
COMMITTEE: What would later be known as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
actually began on the left - as a group of progressive students
at the University of Arkansas formed the Arkansas Committee to
look into Mena, drugs, money laundering, and Arkansas politics.
This committee was the source of some of the important early
Clinton stories.
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION
SCANDALS E-LIST: Moderated by Ray Heizer, this list has been
subject to all the idiosyncrasies of Internet bulletin boards,
but it has nonetheless proved invaluable to researchers and journalists.
JOURNALISTS
JERRY SEPER of
the Washington Times was far and away the best beat reporter
of the story, handling it week after week in the best tradition
of investigative journalism. If other reporters had followed
Seper's lead, the history of the Clintons machine might have
been quite different.
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
of the London Telegraph did a remarkable job of digging into
some of the seamiest tales from Arkansas and the Clinton past.
Other early arrivals on the scene were Alexander Cockburn and
Jeff Gerth.
CHRISTOPHER RUDDY,
among other fine reports on the Clinton scandals, did the best
job laying out the facts in the Vince Foster death case.
ROGER MORRIS
AND SALLY DENTON wrote a major expose of events at Mena, but
at the last moment the Washington Post's brass ordered the story
killed. It was published by Penthouse and later included in Morris'
"Partners in Power," the best biography of the Clintons.
OTHERS who helped
get parts of the story out included reporters Philip Weiss, Carl
Limbacher, Wes Phelan, David Bresnahan, William Sammon, Liza
Myers, Mara Leveritt, Matt Drudge, Jim Ridgeway, Nat Hentoff,
Michael Isikoff, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Kelly. Also
independent investigator Hugh Sprunt and former White House FBI
agent Gary Aldrich.
The Clintons,
to adapt a line from Dr. Johnson, were not only corrupt, they
were the cause of corruption in others. Seldom in America have
so many come to excuse so much mendacity and malfeasance as during
the Clinton years. These rare exceptions cited above, and others
unmentioned, deserve our deep thanks.
THE CLINTON LEGACY
The Hidden Election
USA Today calls
it "the hidden election," in which nearly 7,000 state
legislative seats are decided with only minimal media and public
attention. The paper took brief notice because this is the year
the state legislatures perform their most important national
function: drawing revised congressional districts based on the
most recent census.
But there's another
important national story here: further evidence of the disaster
that Bill Clinton has been for the Democratic Party. According
to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Democrats held
a 1,542 seat lead in the state bodies in 1990. As of last November
that lead had shrunk to 288. That's a loss of over 1,200 state
legislative seats, nearly all of them under Clinton. Across the
US, the Democrats control only 65 more state senate seats than
the Republicans.
Further, in 1992,
the Democrats controlled 17 more state legislatures than the
Republicans. After November, the Republicans control one more
than the Democrats. Not only is this a loss of 9 legislatures
under Clinton, but it is the first time since 1954 that the GOP
has controlled more state legislatures than the Democrats (they
tied in 1968).
Here's what happened
to the Democrats under Clinton, based on our latest figures:
- GOP seats gained
in House since Clinton became president: 48
- GOP seats gained in Senate since Clinton became president:
8
- GOP governorships gained since Clinton became president: 11
- GOP state legislative seats gained since Clinton became president:
1,254
as of 1998
- State legislatures taken over by GOP since Clinton became president:
9
- Democrat officeholders who have become Republicans since Clinton
became
president: 439 as of 1998
- Republican officeholders who have become Democrats since Clinton
became president: 3
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We are all part of a team, the team can work together to ensure:
spoofed packets don't leave a team-member's network
OS's that allow easy IP spoofing are changed to make it difficult to spoof by implementing access controls a la WinNT/Unix/Linux. Evidently WinXP consumer edition has ZERO-DESIRE to be a team-player like its Win95/98/NT cousins.
FYI, Steve Gibson has posted his latest explanation of the WinXP Raw Sockets Vulnerability here from whence the concern of "WinXP boxes and ... their [spoofed] IP
addresses" evidently first originated.
Steve & Co. also provide two "quick 'n dirty" FREE programs to download to:
test your access to "raw sockets" (all Win OS)
secure NON-SYSTEM "raw sockets" access (Win2K & WinXP) to see that Win2K & WinXP continue to function just fine
The funny part is that Steve Gibson now uses Microsoft's own MSDN Technical Documentation against Microsoft. Steve provides quotes from the Microsoft MSDN websites and links to the original Microsoft Technical Documentation
As of 8/13/01 @ 0801 PST, all the links to the Microsoft Technical Documentation PROVING (?) Steve Gibson's points were fully functional.
BTW, for a "nail biting" (grin - soon to be a motion picture - grin) tale of one man's experience with a Distributed Denial of Service attack read both here and SlashDot commentary to learn where Steve's fear of WinXP Raw Sockets originates (i.e. WinXP zombies doing DDOS with the easy to spoof WinXP box IP addresses due to desktop Joe/Jane-consumer user always being "root")
Evidently, Steve Gibson can now quote chapter and verse back to Microsoft and ask Microsoft "Why are you [microsoft] now contradicting yourself."
BTW, there is now an "astroturf" (?) website devoted to debunking Steve Gibson here although all the DNS details seem bogus ("How convenient for the astroturf PR agency!!!" says the Church lady)
FYI, Steve Gibson has posted his latest explanation of the WinXP Raw Sockets Vulnerability here from whence the concern of "WinXP boxes and ... their [spoofed] IP addresses" evidently first originated.
Steve & Co. also provide two "quick 'n dirty" FREE programs to download to:
test your access to "raw sockets" (all Win OS)
secure NON-SYSTEM "raw sockets" access (Win2K & WinXP) to see that Win2K & WinXP continue to function just fine
The funny part is that Steve Gibson now uses Microsoft's own MSDN Technical Documentation against Microsoft. Steve provides quotes from the Microsoft MSDN websites and links to the original Microsoft Technical Documentation
As of 8/13/01 @ 0801 PST, all the links to the Microsoft Technical Documentation PROVING (?) Steve Gibson's points were fully functional.
BTW, for a "nail biting" (grin - soon to be a motion picture - grin) tale of one man's experience with a Distributed Denial of Service attack read both here and SlashDot commentary to learn where Steve's fear of WinXP Raw Sockets originates (i.e. WinXP zombies doing DDOS with the easy to spoof WinXP box IP addresses due to desktop Joe/Jane-consumer user always being "root")
Funny thing now is that Steve Gibson can now quote chapter and verse back to Microsoft and ask Microsoft "Why are you [microsoft] now contradicting yourself."
BTW, there is now an "astroturf" (?) website devoted to debunking Steve Gibson here although all the DNS details seem bogus ("How convenient for the astroturf PR agency!!!" says the Church lady)
Likewise, legal use of firearms while exercising one's RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE "... results in severe physical and emotional trauma, and often in death" particularly when defending yourself against violent criminal assault (e.g. home invasion, car jacking, rape, convenience store hold-up, etc). The victim, even after killing the assailant, will often suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Of course, I would rather suffer PTSD having shot a criminal DEAD than be beat to death with a baseball bat by that same criminal.
QUESTION: If Joe/Jane Consumer running whatever OS/Apps that exist suffered as a result of the Microsoft Code Red I & II Worm can he/she sue Microsoft for losses???
IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe/Jane Consumer did NOT sign/accept/whatever an EULA associated with Microsoft Web Server. Joe/Jane was just "harmed" by the poorly designed, fault ridden, Microsoft Server Software. Joe/Jane NEVER signed/accepted/whatever the EULA associated with the poorly designed, fault ridden Microsoft Server Software.
QUESTION: If Joe/Jane Consumer running whatever OS/Apps that exist suffered as a result of the Microsoft Code Red I & II Worm can he/she sue Microsoft for losses???
IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe/Jane Consumer did NOT sign/accept/whatever an EULA associated with Microsoft Web Server. Joe/Jane was just "harmed" by the poorly designed, fault ridden, Microsoft Server Software. Joe/Jane NEVER signed/accepted/whatever the EULA associated with the poorly designed, fault ridden Microsoft Server Software.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Joe/Jane Consumer did NOT sign/accept/whatever an EULA associated with Microsoft Web Server. Joe/Jane was just "harmed" by the poorly designed, fault ridden, Microsoft Server Software. Joe/Jane NEVER signed/accepted/whatever the EULA associated with the poorly designed, fault ridden Microsoft Server Software.
To bad Juanita didn't have a magnesium flare during her crisis.
Last week a flaming train (but not a flaming goatse.cx ;-) brings down another internet in North America.
Still later this week, inbreeding amongst network capital equipment vendors leads to crippling genetic susceptibility to one breed of worms (another reason for having a "mutt" network vice a "purebreed" network???)
What good is all that profound " internet survivability " if all the pipes are laid down in the same trench, tunnel, manhole using the same vendor's gear???
Any Network Infrastructure Engineers care to clue us in to why the pipes get placed in the same geographic location (+/- 1000 m)???
Rabbi R. Mermelstein commented ... The Iceman was obviously a proto-Nazi intent on killing all perceived "lesser races" rather than some sort of noble hunter fatally injured in a "hunting accident"
Continued "misinformation" being spread by modern-day neo-nazi organizations has been picked up by normally straight-thinking, clear-headed organizations (e.g. NRA). As a consequence, this continued desire to disarm the "undesirables" (e.g. Jews, Homos, AMWAY believers, Republicans, etc) as prevalent today as it was during the Bronze Age continues.
The young woman shouted "911" prior to the brutal rape. Had she waited the six-weeks it would have taken for the Regional Law Enforcement Organization to respond, she would have been killed vice the Iceman.
It is sick that there are some out there who have necrophelic fantasies about some Ice WOMAN.
Only by exercising her human right to self-defense was this member of a "lesser race" able to survive her brutal rape, kill her assailant (i.e. the Iceman) rather than be killed, and struggle across the Alps to freedom.
So-so point about the "gun lobby" although I don't think it was much of a lobby until people started to try to take away guns.
The biggest violation that you missed was perpetrated by FDR during WWII. This was the closest America has come to a "final solution" so recently (terrifying).
Previously it was the American Indian (from our modern standpoint it is fortunate for America that the American Indian lacked access [GUN CONTROL in action] to a sufficient quantity of guns and ammunition to preserve their way of life ... visit some reservations to get a clearer picture ... the ones who faught are all dead now so we can't ask why they faught)
Because the second amendment, and those championing "gun rights", have never protected their rights and they never will. NOT EXACTLY ==> Guns Save Lives [News] Stories (eleven-pages of hyperlinks ... there would be more for 2001/2000 but there seems to be growing censorship of publishing these stories - memory hole???)
California's Government Code, Sections 821, 845, and 846 which state, in part: "Neither a public entity or a public employee [may be sued] for failure to provide adequate police protection or service, failure to prevent the commission of crimes and failure to apprehend criminals." (Please check this out as I only copy 'n pasted from a non-CA gov't website ... maybe it is misquoted ... whether misquoted or not you can still "Dial 911 and [wait to] die" ;-);-);-)
Of Holocausts and Gun Control (Washington University Law Quarterly)
GAMBLING WITH YOUR LIFE Is 911 an acceptable option?
Statistics the Gun Haters Don't Talk About
The Racist Roots of Gun Control
Taking Aim at Gun Control
"Dial 911 and Die (Radio Commercial)"
GUN CONTROL: A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT
The First Million Mom March
Guns and Violence: A Summary of the Field
Gun Control Advocates Purvey Deadly Myths
Research related to "Gun Control
"Genocide Delayed"
Jews and "Gun Control": Fear of Freedom or Freedom from Fear?
The Racist Origins of US Gun Control: Laws Designed To Disarm Slaves, Freedmen, And African-Americans
Post your mailing address so I can send you a yard signs and window stickers that say "The people in this home are unarmed. We depend on 911" and "Protected by 911"
I would post more links to DATA but the hour is late and we are beginning to go off topic from the First Amendment issue. Although I raised the other twenty-six Amendments as a "tangential editorial comment"
He is interested in receiving and publishing the following kinds of information:
Technical descriptions of the access control and encryption mechanisms associated with PDF files and/or eBooks.
Technical descriptions of remedies for these mechanisms, e.g., patches, key recovery algorithms, modified plug-ins, etc.
Source code for implementing these remedies.
He notes that "A large amount of useful content is now encoded as PDF (Portable Document Format) files, including files marketed for the eBook document reader. Unfortunately, some of this content is not usable in all the LAWFUL WAYS [emphasis mine] a purchaser desires, due to access control mechanisms created by Adobe and adopted by content publishers to the detriment of their [LAWFUL] customers."
He further notes that "Computer professionals who have examined [Adobe's access control mechanisms] have found them easy to defeat."
He notes that his website is for discussion of purely technical information of interest to computer scientists and lawful content users. He is not interested in receiving rants about Adobe or the DMCA, suggesting that individuals go to the Boycott Adobe [and/or slashdot - grin] site for that.
It is suggested that individuals wishing to submit TECHNICAL CONTENT first visit the site to see what others have already submitted to avoid unnecessary duplication (e.g. ElcomSoft, Xpdf, Ghostscript, etc).
It is noted that there is yet no "Haiku" regarding Adobe's "easy to defeat" access control mechanism.
... "Why don't people get as bent out of shape when the other Twenty-Six (?) Amendments are violated (e.g. Second Amendment???)"
Tangential Editorial Comment by RM3 Frisker FTN
"... interested in receiving and publishing the following kinds of information:
Technical descriptions of the access control and encryption mechanisms associated with PDF files and/or eBooks.
Technical descriptions of remedies for these mechanisms, e.g., patches, key recovery algorithms, modified plug-ins, etc.
Source code for implementing these remedies.
[visit his website before submitting to see what he is already aware of. His website Gallery of Adobe Remedies already lists ElcomSoft, Xpdf, Ghostscript, but no Haiku ... yet]
Dr. Dave Touretzky notes that his web site is for "discussion of purely technical information of interest to computer scientists and lawful content users".
Dr. Dave Touretzky further notes that he is "not interested in receiving rants about Adobe or the DMCA" suggesting that said rants be submitted to Boycott Adobe wishing to keep his site focused on "Adobe's access control mechanisms and the remedies people have devised [i.e. 'lawful ways a purchaser desires'] to deal with them."
Tangential Editorial Comment by RM3 Frisker FTN
The NASA astro-naughts should "Adapt and overcome", "quit their whining", "calculate their happiness factors"
No field day, no ORSE, no ROUGHTRAY/GITMO, no watchstanding, no biannual requal, pay .GT. minimum wage, no sea&anchor, no UNREP, no quasi-religious nuclear pre-startup ceremonies, no five-and-dime watch rotation ... what are they complaining about?
Who would have thought that the Nuke Navy was better prep for space travel than anything else available???
Can the NASA astro-naughts complain like Team FTN???
From the Team FTN Homepage: FTN is an attitude. We all have it. Before I (Trash_Man) say any more, I'd like to make a few things clear. We are not just a group of dirtball whiners. I have been in the Navy for 10 years and am in a supervisory position (over 30 people report to me). I have been awarded the Navy Achievement Medal and 16 other commendations for my performance. I have been selected as a "Sailor of the Quarter" and have always received high marks on my performance evaluations. The experiences of the other FTN members mirror my own. So don't discount our complaints as the ramblings of some disgruntled kids who couldn't handle the military. We've made many trips around the block, maybe too many.
If you kick a dog long enough, eventually he's gonna bite. Well, that's the essence of FTN. We have seen too many examples of poor leadership, abuse of authority, and simple failures to consider the consequences of an action. There are MANY good leaders in the Navy (I consider myself one of 'em), but you shouldn't have to "get lucky" to be treated with common decency and respect. And even if you "got lucky" and have a great supervisor, too often his hands are tied. I am not talking about situations where the unique nature of military service (combat actions, diplomatic crises, hazardous duties/locations, etc...) make an authoritarian leadership method a necessity. I am talking about routine, non-critical situations.
FTN means that we are tired of the BS. It means that we think that our families really do matter, regardless of what the Navy says. It means that we are tired of having professional respect demanded from above, yet not reciprocated. It means that we don't want use a shitty method of getting something done, just because it "has always been done that way". FTN means that there have been a couple more 100+ hour weeks than we care to contribute. [HELLO NASA ASTRO-NAUGHTS ;-)] It
means that we have had it, we will continue to excel in our performance (because
we take pride in our own work) but we refuse to suck up and say we like it. It
means that we might just tell an officer, "That's f#ckin' stupid and I'm not
gonna do it that way. I'll do it the correct way instead."
There are many different reasons to say, "F#ck The Navy". Some are personal and others professional. The top reasons (for Trash_Man) are:
1) Fit Laura Croft's body ... ANSWER: Asia Carrera ... ANSWER:Asia Carrera - if she doesn't know now she would be able to figure it out ... ANSWER:Asia Carrera ... actually I am now ashamed to say I have never seen her films. Alas she was not in either Night Trips I or II, Latex, Shock, Chameleon, ...
2) Know how to operate a 9mm gun
3) Act
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Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides
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Later tonight I will visit the homes of all pro-TiVO stealth software upgrade people.
I have a contract with the automakers to "upgrade" your automobiles ... you will now be limited to 6.9 miles/hour and 6.9 miles/gallon. The reason I will do this is that the automakers have decided to implement a "subscription" model of service.
We know you "own" the automobile (hardware). We just want to force you to "subscribe" so that you have the same level of functionality you had when you bought the automobile (hardware)
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Later tonight I will visit the homes of all pro-TiVO stealth software upgrade people.
I have a contract with the automakers to "upgrade" your automobiles ... you will now be limited to 6.9 miles/hour and 6.9 miles/gallon. The reason I will do this is that the automakers have decided to implement a "subscription" model of service.
We know you "own" the automobile (hardware). We just want to force you to "subscribe" so that you have the same level of functionality you had when you bought the automobile (hardware)
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Later tonight I will visit the homes of all pro-TiVO stealth software upgrade people.
I have a contract with the automakers to "upgrade" your automobiles ... you will now be limited to 6.9 miles/hour and 6.9 miles/gallon. The reason I will do this is that the automakers have decided to implement a "subscription" model of service.
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What about the Second Amendment?
What about the Tenth Amendment?
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Glenn sold his impeachment vote and/or cooperation to Bill (Rapist) Clinton.
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BTW, where is the ANALYSIS of the pictures? Where are the CONCLUSIONS?
Just collecting data is not science. You have got to analyze the data and draw conclusions. Otherwise, every tourist to the Grand Canyon is doing geological science (they took pictures ;-).
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tourists were on the nuclear (sounds scary doesn't it;) submarine USS Greenville, tourists were on the nuclear (sounds scary doesn't it;) USS Abe Lincoln during ORSE (a naval nuclear program audit, drills are run, paperwork is examined, ...)
Being in space is probably a lot like being in the Navy underway ... you do your job, eat, go to sleep, ... as Tito said "An adult doesn't need months of training to be told 'Don't push that button'
BTW, NASA should get a clue and stop going for the flyboys as astronauts ... former submarine crew members are better qualified than any flier.
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The Inquisitor with an English accent may have some questions for you ;-)
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Smartertimes.com -- "Smarter than the Times, and almost as arrogant, but with only a tiny fraction of the circulation."
Please vist the SmarterTimes ARCHIVES
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The Clinton Legacy
NOTE: The below was copied from The Progressive Review - a rather LEFT-WING publicationBACK TO UNDERNEWS
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