Just like saying b-o-m-b in the airport. Please don't do this. It's one thing to send back ads in the envelope. It's entirely another to force the building to be evacuated and put people through the distress caused by thinking that they may have been exposed to a potentially deadly virus. I know. My girlfriend was in the Hart Senate Office Building when it was evacuated due to Anthrax.
Sounds like one of my Granddad's plans. He used to wrap up bricks and tape the postage paid subscription cards in magazines to the outside and drop it in the mail. He knew it wouldn't make them stop putting them in his magazines, but I guess he figured that they would pay for it.
Have you read anything about this at all? Verizon has fought against giving up this individual's info. Direct complaints to RIAA and give Verizon a little credit for telling them to shove off.
No lie on the price. A co-worker of mine bought all of the components and inproved them just a bit, and it was a little less than half the price, including XP Media Center edition that he got in Thailand for $10.
What if, once he got caught, he was eventually released. Then, he goes even further back in time to start the Weekly World News in order to make it a non-crewdible news story to cover his own arse.... He could just be an evil genius.
How did the complaints come in?
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Possibly uce@ftc.gov? That's the address I've been sending them to.
The spamee needs to live in CA. In Virginia, it's realtively simple to file a suit under the anti-spam law. The county clerk is usually very helpful in letting you know what you need to do to file.
Read a story about how a guy here in VA filed and won.
That's right, he'll work on creating a totaly Utopian environment that will satisfy the wants, needs, and desires of every single individual that resides in it. We'll all sit around peacefully reading books and growing our brains, be totally healthy, and every last person will have tons of money.
Who are you kidding? The thing we call life is a constant struggle (no matter how great or small), and an elected leader isn't going to make life perfect. It's up to every individual to make what matters to them happen. Everyone I know has a job, has health care, went to school, and is fine with their civil rights. We also know that we're pretty fortunate to be in that position. The thing is, we put ourselves in that position, and didn't wait around for someone to do it for us. Especially not an elected official (doesn't matter who it is). I take care of myself. If I don't like it, I can move somewhere else.
"Freenet does not offer true anonymity in the way that the Mixmaster and cypherpunk remailers do. Most of the non-trivial attacks (advanced traffic analysis, compromising any given majority of the nodes, etc.) that these were designed to counter would probably be successful in identifying someone making requests on Freenet.
On Freenet, whatever you do, your identity is still revealed to the first Freenet Node you talk to, and even if you limit yourself to talk only to trusted nodes (a feature that will be implemented in the future), they will have to talk to the rest of the network at some time or another. The anonymity that Freenet offers is really just obscurity in the fact that it is hard to prove that your node wasn't proxying the request for or insert of data on behalf of somebody else (who might also just have been proxying it).
The problem is that the only way that you can offer true anonymity is if the client can directly control the routing of data, and thus encrypt it with a series of keys of the nodes it will pass through (a la Mixmaster). Freenet's dynamic routing cannot offer that, so to attain true anonymity you have to send the message through an external network of anonymous remailers first (a future SMTP- >Freenet bridge would make this possible).
It is our intention that Freenet's node-to-node communications should be encrypted, but that has not been implemented either (with the current state of the network we are more interested in testing if the theoretical ideas regarding the routing carry over into reality; you have to have a house before you can lock the door)."
From http://freenet.sourceforge.net/tiki-index.php?page =FAQ#attack
I never said anything about thought crimes. That's your perception of what I said, not my words.
Whether you like it or not, it is illegal to posess both kiddie porn and drugs. It doesn't matter who made either of them. If you posess them (no matter how you got them in the first place), you're in violation of the law. Posession is in itself a crime. Intent to distribute is a seperate crime that doesen't have to exist to make the posession illegal.
Last time I checked, the "Gee officer, that can't possibly be my porn/drugs because they're not mine" defense was a real case winner.
There is indeed a jury or a judge. They're both presented with the facts that you were stopped and found to be in posession of illegal substances. There will be evidence to both support and/or refute your guilt that will be presented to the Jury/Judge.
I dare you to find out how lenient a judge/jury will be when they are presented with evidence that shows you are in posession of drugs/kiddie porn. With a defense like "Um, that's not mine and I didn't know it was there", you may have a lot of time to think about how your unfortunate incarceration could have been avoided.
For the record, you can be arrested/questioned for posession of illegal substances (no matter what they are). You may not be held/booked/or prosecuted, but you sure as hell can be arrested. But, as we all know, if you're simply arrested for kiddie porn or drugs, but not prosecuted and all charges are dropped, then there's no lasting effect on your reputation/credibility, right? You keep telling everyone you're innocent until proven guilty and see who keeps your company then.
Excellent point. However, the traffic between nodes is not encrypted. Once one of the files in question was identified (by a law enforcement official finding it on freenet), they could do a little network traffic analysis to find out where the node is and monitor who's requesting that file. Then, the ISP gets served a warrant, etc.
Granted, it's an overly simplistic "what if" analysis I'm conducting and it's entirely unproven. Chances are, that if it could be done and they tracked it to your node, that they wouldn't put you in jail. However, I wouldn't want to be the one they make an example of.
Dude, **ITS KIDDIE PORN**. It's **ILLEGAL**. Poeple are routinely tracked down and prosecuted for posessing it. You're required by Federal law to report it if you find it on any system you administer.
That means if I host a freenet node that contains said content and don't report it because it's freedom of speech, **I GO TO JAIL**. I'm all for free speech until speech that isn't mine lands me in the Federal penitentiary and gets me labeled forever as a pedophile.
I can totally see how mw going to jail will help stop it getting out there and cease being a financially viable venture.
Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."
Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.
Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots.
Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.
War of Devolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.
The Dutch War - Tied.
War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War - Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.
War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.
American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.
The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Fratboy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.
World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein."
World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.
War in Indochina - Lost. French forces plead sickness, take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu.
Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.
Agreed on the price issue, but infrastructure is a huge problem. How amny hydrogen filling stations have you seen, and who would pay for them? I mean sure, we could use existing infrastruccture as shown in the picture in the article, but how recently have you seen a deisel pump at your local gas station?
I grew up in a farming community, and tons of the farmers converted their trucks to propane (Hank Hill references aside). It's tons cheaper, more horsepower, and in my home town, just as convenient (we only had 2 gas stations). Anyway, I just think the problem is distribution and not that it's not a good idea.
The article never said if Echelon picked him up all by itself, or the human intelligence provided a key to track him by (like the cell # itself). If the only way to know about the Swiss phones was for somebody to drop a dime on him, then it was worth the 18 million USD to get that information.
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Just like saying b-o-m-b in the airport. Please don't do this. It's one thing to send back ads in the envelope. It's entirely another to force the building to be evacuated and put people through the distress caused by thinking that they may have been exposed to a potentially deadly virus. I know. My girlfriend was in the Hart Senate Office Building when it was evacuated due to Anthrax.
Sounds like one of my Granddad's plans. He used to wrap up bricks and tape the postage paid subscription cards in magazines to the outside and drop it in the mail. He knew it wouldn't make them stop putting them in his magazines, but I guess he figured that they would pay for it.
Yeah, that will really win over the epleptic crowd, too.
Have you read anything about this at all? Verizon has fought against giving up this individual's info. Direct complaints to RIAA and give Verizon a little credit for telling them to shove off.
No lie on the price. A co-worker of mine bought all of the components and inproved them just a bit, and it was a little less than half the price, including XP Media Center edition that he got in Thailand for $10.
What if, once he got caught, he was eventually released. Then, he goes even further back in time to start the Weekly World News in order to make it a non-crewdible news story to cover his own arse.... He could just be an evil genius.
Possibly uce@ftc.gov? That's the address I've been sending them to.
I ain't going to play Sin City.
The spamee needs to live in CA. In Virginia, it's realtively simple to file a suit under the anti-spam law. The county clerk is usually very helpful in letting you know what you need to do to file.
Read a story about how a guy here in VA filed and won.
That's right, he'll work on creating a totaly Utopian environment that will satisfy the wants, needs, and desires of every single individual that resides in it. We'll all sit around peacefully reading books and growing our brains, be totally healthy, and every last person will have tons of money.
Who are you kidding? The thing we call life is a constant struggle (no matter how great or small), and an elected leader isn't going to make life perfect. It's up to every individual to make what matters to them happen. Everyone I know has a job, has health care, went to school, and is fine with their civil rights. We also know that we're pretty fortunate to be in that position. The thing is, we put ourselves in that position, and didn't wait around for someone to do it for us. Especially not an elected official (doesn't matter who it is). I take care of myself. If I don't like it, I can move somewhere else.
Waterloo.
You and the fellas arguing about the girl you were hitting on:
Dude1: Dude, she was a Wookie, and you know it.
Dude2: She wasn't that bad.
Dude1: LOOK.
Dude2: Point taken. You should have stopped me.
"Freenet does not offer true anonymity in the way that the Mixmaster and cypherpunk remailers do. Most of the non-trivial attacks (advanced traffic analysis, compromising any given majority of the nodes, etc.) that these were designed to counter would probably be successful in identifying someone making requests on Freenet.
e =FAQ#attack
On Freenet, whatever you do, your identity is still revealed to the first Freenet Node you talk to, and even if you limit yourself to talk only to trusted nodes (a feature that will be implemented in the future), they will have to talk to the rest of the network at some time or another. The anonymity that Freenet offers is really just obscurity in the fact that it is hard to prove that your node wasn't proxying the request for or insert of data on behalf of somebody else (who might also just have been proxying it).
The problem is that the only way that you can offer true anonymity is if the client can directly control the routing of data, and thus encrypt it with a series of keys of the nodes it will pass through (a la Mixmaster). Freenet's dynamic routing cannot offer that, so to attain true anonymity you have to send the message through an external network of anonymous remailers first (a future SMTP- >Freenet bridge would make this possible).
It is our intention that Freenet's node-to-node communications should be encrypted, but that has not been implemented either (with the current state of the network we are more interested in testing if the theoretical ideas regarding the routing carry over into reality; you have to have a house before you can lock the door)."
From http://freenet.sourceforge.net/tiki-index.php?pag
I never said anything about thought crimes. That's your perception of what I said, not my words.
Whether you like it or not, it is illegal to posess both kiddie porn and drugs. It doesn't matter who made either of them. If you posess them (no matter how you got them in the first place), you're in violation of the law. Posession is in itself a crime. Intent to distribute is a seperate crime that doesen't have to exist to make the posession illegal.
Last time I checked, the "Gee officer, that can't possibly be my porn/drugs because they're not mine" defense was a real case winner.
There is indeed a jury or a judge. They're both presented with the facts that you were stopped and found to be in posession of illegal substances. There will be evidence to both support and/or refute your guilt that will be presented to the Jury/Judge.
I dare you to find out how lenient a judge/jury will be when they are presented with evidence that shows you are in posession of drugs/kiddie porn. With a defense like "Um, that's not mine and I didn't know it was there", you may have a lot of time to think about how your unfortunate incarceration could have been avoided.
For the record, you can be arrested/questioned for posession of illegal substances (no matter what they are). You may not be held/booked/or prosecuted, but you sure as hell can be arrested. But, as we all know, if you're simply arrested for kiddie porn or drugs, but not prosecuted and all charges are dropped, then there's no lasting effect on your reputation/credibility, right? You keep telling everyone you're innocent until proven guilty and see who keeps your company then.
Excellent point. However, the traffic between nodes is not encrypted. Once one of the files in question was identified (by a law enforcement official finding it on freenet), they could do a little network traffic analysis to find out where the node is and monitor who's requesting that file. Then, the ISP gets served a warrant, etc.
Granted, it's an overly simplistic "what if" analysis I'm conducting and it's entirely unproven. Chances are, that if it could be done and they tracked it to your node, that they wouldn't put you in jail. However, I wouldn't want to be the one they make an example of.
Dude, **ITS KIDDIE PORN**. It's **ILLEGAL**. Poeple are routinely tracked down and prosecuted for posessing it. You're required by Federal law to report it if you find it on any system you administer.
That means if I host a freenet node that contains said content and don't report it because it's freedom of speech, **I GO TO JAIL**. I'm all for free speech until speech that isn't mine lands me in the Federal penitentiary and gets me labeled forever as a pedophile.
I can totally see how mw going to jail will help stop it getting out there and cease being a financially viable venture.
THE COMPLETE MILITARY HISTORY OF FRANCE
Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are
victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."
Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.
Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots.
Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.
War of Devolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.
The Dutch War - Tied.
War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War - Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.
War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.
American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far
more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.
The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Fratboy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.
World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein."
World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.
War in Indochina - Lost. French forces plead sickness, take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu.
Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.
Agreed on the price issue, but infrastructure is a huge problem. How amny hydrogen filling stations have you seen, and who would pay for them? I mean sure, we could use existing infrastruccture as shown in the picture in the article, but how recently have you seen a deisel pump at your local gas station?
I grew up in a farming community, and tons of the farmers converted their trucks to propane (Hank Hill references aside). It's tons cheaper, more horsepower, and in my home town, just as convenient (we only had 2 gas stations). Anyway, I just think the problem is distribution and not that it's not a good idea.
Let's just call it slightly over 27 Million Euro.
The article never said if Echelon picked him up all by itself, or the human intelligence provided a key to track him by (like the cell # itself). If the only way to know about the Swiss phones was for somebody to drop a dime on him, then it was worth the 18 million USD to get that information.
The Voyager Probe
the last half with all of the technical details is 1.99 euro. The first half is really enough to get the gist.
Someone's a little late to the party. The mouse gestures in Opera are way more effective than any buttons or "keys".
Absolutely. It would be great to set a job to run every night to encrypt certain user's files from prying eyes.
Good point. If everyone would sit on their hands/wallets for a few weeks, it will make it out to P2P. Then you don't have to spend the $20.