This is my scheme and as far as I'm concerned it's a beauty.
Get a 100ft self-retracting reel of steel cable. Sliver-solder a piano-wire noose to the end of the cable. Fix the drum securely in a hidden place near the road (eg under an inspection cover). Place the noose around your neck, climb in the car (wire through the window) and drive off as fast as you can.
Result? Well, they find a decapitated body in a crashed car quarter of a mile down the road with no sign of a murder weapon (the cable and noose having completely retracted under the inspection cover).
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In the fall of 1999 a consortium consisting of Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft formed the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, or TCPA. Its mission is to create a "trusted computing platform" which penetrates all aspects of a computer system, from client software to the operating system to hardware to the networking devices and beyond. But opponents of the system are quick to point out that the term "trusted computing" may be more sinister than it sounds.
"While security for the user might mean the repulse of `evil hackers on the Internet', whoever they might be, security for the vendor means growing the market and crushing the competition," says Dr. Ross Anderson, in a paper presented June 20. What trusted computing means in a direct, technical sense, is known as Digital Rights Management. An example of the technology is a new Microsoft initiative called Palladium.
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Jose Padilla and Posse Comitatus (Freedom & Politics) By thelizman Sat Jun 22nd, 2002 at 04:54:00 PM BST
In these past many weeks I have seen a number of articles critical of steps taken by the Justice Department and the Bush Administration to proactively curb future terrorist strikes in the homeland. Every last one of them I read amounted to the Internet equivalent of a bunch of loons standing on a cyber street corner screeching, "the end is nigh!"
That is until I started to more closely consider the case of would-be dirty bomber Jose Padilla. Excuse me, but I must go as the sky just started falling.
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R.I.P. Audiogalaxy (Internet) By kennon Sat Jun 22nd, 2002 at 01:05:23 AM BST
As you've probably already heard, Audiogalaxy decided to settle out of court with the RIAA for a lot of money and now is blocking ALL songs. While I'm sure they're working on ways to stay in business, I'm guessing that most of their users will be gone within a couple of weeks.
I was a programmer at Audiogalaxy for almost two years; read on to learn about the history of Audiogalaxy and hear my opinion about why Audiogalaxy was a cut above the rest of the peer-to-peer apps.
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Germany added to Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Culture)By theboz Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 09:05:19 PM BST
After a 1:0 defeat of the United States by Germany in the World Cup Tournament this morning, Attorney General John Ashcroft made a televised statement declaring Germany to be the newest member of the United States' 'Axis of Evil.'
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RIAA kills US-based Internet radio (MLP)
By marx Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 05:27:11 PM BST
The statutory license for digital audio broadcasting (which includes Internet radio stations) proposed by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) has now gone through the Librarian of Congress, and is thus final.
For a small radio station (such as SomaFM), with around 2000 concurrent listeners per day, the licensing fee is about $500 per day. Advertising revenue based on current rates and the same number of listeners would also be about $500 per day. Thus this means the death of Internet radio stations.
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The fundraiser ends, and the next stage begins (Support Kuro5hin)
By rusty Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 05:23:29 PM BST
The first Kuro5hin fundraising drive is officially over, and by any measure, it's been a fantastic success. Altogether you contributed over $37,000 in memberships, donations, and text ads, along with perhaps another $2500 in donation pledges, and an unknown amount in pay-by-mail memberships. I should be able to report a final "grand total" in a few weeks.
This incredible response has caught the attention and imagination of innumerable webloggers and the online media, including The Register, Wired News, and C|Net.
What just happened? What does it all mean? What do we do now? Below I'll take a stab at explaining it clearly.
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Judicial "Enabling Act" in US Federal Courts (Op-Ed)
By kwertii Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 12:03:31 AM BST
The government filed a brief in federal appelate court today asserting that "declared enemy combatants in the war on terrorism have no right to counsel and can be held indefinately". The Justice Department also declared that the civilian courts have no competency to intercede in cases involving arbitrarily declared 'enemy combatants'. The brief additionally stipulates that the government may declare anyone at all to be an enemy combatant, without presenting any evidence whatsoever, regardless of whether they were captured in battle or anywhere else.
Reminds me of Germany in 1933...
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History Lost: What We Haven't Learned in 100 Years (Freedom & Politics)
By batchro Thu Jun 20th, 2002 at 03:55:06 PM BST
Modern popular culture is crawling with history --from movies, like Forrest Gump to best-selling books, such as David McCullough's John Adams. Despite our fascination with history, however, a careful look shows that we haven't learned from it in the last century.
Bob Batchelor, author of The 1900s (Greenwood Press, 2002) examines the lessons we haven't learned from history over the last century, particuarly concerning race and the ever-growing gap between the "haves" and "have-nots."
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Day two wrapup, and a change of plans (Support Kuro5hin)
By rusty Thu Jun 20th, 2002 at 02:21:06 PM BST
Has it only been two days? It feels like a month. Well, we didn't meet my overly ambitious goal for yesterday, but I didn't really expect to. We did, however, have another impressive day, with another 290 new members joining, and nearly $10,000 more raised.
I think that today we can easily reach the halfway mark, $35,000. That gives me at least six months (and I'm sure I can make it last longer), to get my ducks in a row, get the paperwork underway, and do the work of making K5 a non-profit. So I think that the goal today will be $35,000 and at that point, we are going to call this fundraiser over so we can go back to doing what we're here to do.
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Day one wrapup, and a special day two gift (Support Kuro5hin)
By rusty Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 04:20:36 PM BST
Take one struggling website. Add desperate plea for help, which receives over 700 comments. Link this gargantuan page on Fark, Metafilter, Blogroots. Put it "above the scroll" on the Daypop Top 40. Spread to a lot of weblogs.
Then, just to make things a little more "exciting," make sure the mail server picks this particular day, of all days, to run out of disk space.
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This is my scheme and as far as I'm concerned it's a beauty.
Get a 100ft self-retracting reel of steel cable. Sliver-solder a piano-wire noose to the end of the cable. Fix the drum securely in a hidden place near the road (eg under an inspection cover). Place the noose around your neck, climb in the car (wire through the window) and drive off as fast as you can.
Result? Well, they find a decapitated body in a crashed car quarter of a mile down the road with no sign of a murder weapon (the cable and noose having completely retracted under the inspection cover).
If you use this, I want royalties though.
That is what will have to happen. They want to kill off the CLiT because they're afraid.
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The evolution of online Criticism - The Slashdot Influence by eviltwin
The Games We Played. Part II by Driph
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Digital Rights Managment: Promoting Science and Art, or Monopoly Power? (Freedom & Politics) By dipierro Mon Jun 24th, 2002 at 11:18:03 PM BST
In the fall of 1999 a consortium consisting of Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft formed the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, or TCPA. Its mission is to create a "trusted computing platform" which penetrates all aspects of a computer system, from client software to the operating system to hardware to the networking devices and beyond. But opponents of the system are quick to point out that the term "trusted computing" may be more sinister than it sounds.
"While security for the user might mean the repulse of `evil hackers on the Internet', whoever they might be, security for the vendor means growing the market and crushing the competition," says Dr. Ross Anderson, in a paper presented June 20. What trusted computing means in a direct, technical sense, is known as Digital Rights Management. An example of the technology is a new Microsoft initiative called Palladium.
Full Story (31 comments, 745 words in story)
Jose Padilla and Posse Comitatus (Freedom & Politics) By thelizman Sat Jun 22nd, 2002 at 04:54:00 PM BST
In these past many weeks I have seen a number of articles critical of steps taken by the Justice Department and the Bush Administration to proactively curb future terrorist strikes in the homeland. Every last one of them I read amounted to the Internet equivalent of a bunch of loons standing on a cyber street corner screeching, "the end is nigh!"
That is until I started to more closely consider the case of would-be dirty bomber Jose Padilla. Excuse me, but I must go as the sky just started falling.
Full Story (319 comments, 319 new, 1058 words in story)
R.I.P. Audiogalaxy (Internet) By kennon Sat Jun 22nd, 2002 at 01:05:23 AM BST
As you've probably already heard, Audiogalaxy decided to settle out of court with the RIAA for a lot of money and now is blocking ALL songs. While I'm sure they're working on ways to stay in business, I'm guessing that most of their users will be gone within a couple of weeks.
I was a programmer at Audiogalaxy for almost two years; read on to learn about the history of Audiogalaxy and hear my opinion about why Audiogalaxy was a cut above the rest of the peer-to-peer apps.
Full Story (107 comments, 107 new, 2932 words in story)
Germany added to Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Culture)By theboz Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 09:05:19 PM BST
After a 1:0 defeat of the United States by Germany in the World Cup Tournament this morning, Attorney General John Ashcroft made a televised statement declaring Germany to be the newest member of the United States' 'Axis of Evil.'
Full Story (133 comments, 133 new, 322 words in story)
RIAA kills US-based Internet radio (MLP)
By marx
Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 05:27:11 PM BST
The statutory license for digital audio broadcasting (which includes Internet radio stations) proposed by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) has now gone through the Librarian of Congress, and is thus final.
For a small radio station (such as SomaFM), with around 2000 concurrent listeners per day, the licensing fee is about $500 per day. Advertising revenue based on current rates and the same number of listeners would also be about $500 per day. Thus this means the death of Internet radio stations.
Full Story (177 comments, 177 new, 206 words in story)
The fundraiser ends, and the next stage begins (Support Kuro5hin)
By rusty
Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 05:23:29 PM BST
The first Kuro5hin fundraising drive is officially over, and by any measure, it's been a fantastic success. Altogether you contributed over $37,000 in memberships, donations, and text ads, along with perhaps another $2500 in donation pledges, and an unknown amount in pay-by-mail memberships. I should be able to report a final "grand total" in a few weeks.
This incredible response has caught the attention and imagination of innumerable webloggers and the online media, including The Register, Wired News, and C|Net.
What just happened? What does it all mean? What do we do now? Below I'll take a stab at explaining it clearly.
Full Story (122 comments, 122 new, 666 words in story)
Judicial "Enabling Act" in US Federal Courts (Op-Ed)
By kwertii
Fri Jun 21st, 2002 at 12:03:31 AM BST
The government filed a brief in federal appelate court today asserting that "declared enemy combatants in the war on terrorism have no right to counsel and can be held indefinately". The Justice Department also declared that the civilian courts have no competency to intercede in cases involving arbitrarily declared 'enemy combatants'. The brief additionally stipulates that the government may declare anyone at all to be an enemy combatant, without presenting any evidence whatsoever, regardless of whether they were captured in battle or anywhere else.
Reminds me of Germany in 1933...
Full Story (246 comments, 89 new, 348 words in story)
History Lost: What We Haven't Learned in 100 Years (Freedom & Politics)
By batchro
Thu Jun 20th, 2002 at 03:55:06 PM BST
Modern popular culture is crawling with history --from movies, like Forrest Gump to best-selling books, such as David McCullough's John Adams. Despite our fascination with history, however, a careful look shows that we haven't learned from it in the last century.
Bob Batchelor, author of The 1900s (Greenwood Press, 2002) examines the lessons we haven't learned from history over the last century, particuarly concerning race and the ever-growing gap between the "haves" and "have-nots."
Full Story (221 comments, 221 new, 1304 words in story)
Day two wrapup, and a change of plans (Support Kuro5hin)
By rusty
Thu Jun 20th, 2002 at 02:21:06 PM BST
Has it only been two days? It feels like a month. Well, we didn't meet my overly ambitious goal for yesterday, but I didn't really expect to. We did, however, have another impressive day, with another 290 new members joining, and nearly $10,000 more raised.
I think that today we can easily reach the halfway mark, $35,000. That gives me at least six months (and I'm sure I can make it last longer), to get my ducks in a row, get the paperwork underway, and do the work of making K5 a non-profit. So I think that the goal today will be $35,000 and at that point, we are going to call this fundraiser over so we can go back to doing what we're here to do.
Full Story (84 comments, 84 new, 280 words in story)
Day one wrapup, and a special day two gift (Support Kuro5hin)
By rusty
Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 04:20:36 PM BST
Take one struggling website. Add desperate plea for help, which receives over 700 comments. Link this gargantuan page on Fark, Metafilter, Blogroots. Put it "above the scroll" on the Daypop Top 40. Spread to a lot of weblogs.
Then, just to make things a little more "exciting," make sure the mail server picks this particular day, of all days, to run out of disk space.
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