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  1. Re:Just ask Ted Stevens on Net Neutrality a Threat to Online OSes? · · Score: 1

    The Innernets are TUBES! They are not just some truck, you can put a load on.

  2. Hey! on Windows Rootkit Wars Escalate · · Score: 1
    That's like saying you hate Osama Bin Ladin for making the word "terrorism" popular! Hate Sony/Osama for their actions, hate Slashdot/the NSA for popularizing the word.


    Hey Hey! Hate the game! Not the playa'! 'Sama 'n Sony got serious game.
  3. Re:T-minus 3... 2... 1... on Windows Rootkit Wars Escalate · · Score: 1
    How did we find out about this undetectable windows rootkit?
    Xray-glasses. They can see the invisible ink. Windows is anything-proof!

    You're foot touched the hot lava!
  4. I choose on How Washington Will Shape the Internet · · Score: 1

    New Reformed Mazdean

  5. Re:Let me hazard a wild wild guess... on How Washington Will Shape the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you aren't getting is that IT'S A SERIES... of, of TUBES. That's why we are uging Congress to auth'rize our initiatives to create an office for faith-based innernets. These inner-tubes will gush forth to channel the individualistic inputs of our society to enable people to serve a cause greater than themselves.

    I appreciate the fact that many have come from many different faiths and traditions. The faith-based innnernet is not about a single faith. In this country we're great because we've got many faiths, and we're great because you can choose whatever faith you choose, or if you choose no faith at all, you're still equally American. It's the same with those gushing tubes on the innernets.

  6. Re:Racism on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, I believe in calling a peckerwood a peckerwood.

  7. Re:"He Didn't Fall..." on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am as against Clinton and his neo-liberal vision (which killed at least 500,000 Iraqi children) as I am against Bush. That said, at least Clinton's daddy didn't have a hand in killing John and Bobby...

  8. Re:He was convicted and awaiting sentencing on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    He was persuing a nullification and re-trial. I'd love to know what was in the planned defense...

  9. Re:"He Didn't Fall..." on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    Prolly had Iraq war plans as part of their calculations too. Wouldn't want that to come out. Who knows where things would stop then...

  10. "He Didn't Fall..." on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "He was pushed... They "Cliff Baxter'd" Kenny. You know Cliff, he's the guy who committed suicide with the wildly innacurate and seldom lethal shot cartridges, that also make it forensically challenging to plot ballistic trajectory.

    Kenny-boy suggested the VP role for Cheney to the Shrub. He was part of the "energy taskforce" that they are so desparate to keep under wraps. Like Dr. Kelly... Like... The list is big and convenient.

    Or did his poor heart break, because it was too good for this world? I don't think so!

    Another crony about to sing like a Canary to cop a plea...

  11. In Soviet Union... on On Software Patent Lawsuits Against OSS · · Score: 1

    Open Source destroys America!

  12. Re:Public peer review of applications... on PTO Seeks Public Input on Patent Applications · · Score: 1

    Big "plus" for the Sweat Loaf .sig.

  13. Re:Justice, on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1

    It will never happen for Developers or Consultants.

    Sales people? Admin Assistants? Sure.

  14. Which Slimy 9/11 Terrorist? on Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime · · Score: 1

    Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld?

  15. Re:woah now... on Spy Sweeper, the Next Netscape? · · Score: 1

    All of this, discussed on a link from /. which tries to load SIX cookies through my browser!

    Now - more than ever...

  16. Re:My God on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not in YRO because in the UK we don't have rights, enshrined in a constitutional document, as do the people in the US.

    Oh... wait a minute. This just in: Neither do the people in the United States, apparently. This appears to have expired somtime between Nov 2000 and Sept 2001.

  17. Re:Re-education on The AT&T Whistleblower's Evidence · · Score: 1

    Nature boy.

    We ALLs next!

  18. Re:The only Al Qaida Affiliates on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. Poor Galbraith just died. It's his for attribution.

  19. Re:The only Al Qaida Affiliates on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks · · Score: 1

    Radio Free America. ;-)

  20. The only Al Qaida Affiliates on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:The NSA should take aim at Qwest. on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1
    San Francisco Indymedia

    Original article is at http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/1727886.php Print comments.

    Bush and CIA Director-Designate Hayden Rewrite the 4th Amendment

    by Dave Lindorff
    Sunday, May. 14, 2006 at 8:32 AM

    dlindorff@yahoo.com

    The Founding Fathers said government snoops need "probable cause" to spy on us, but Bush and Hayden don't care.

    Bush's nominee for head of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, at a recent press conference, offered an interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution that removes the requirement of "probable cause" from that important guarantee of freedom.

    Asked by Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder about the Fourth Amendment's standard of "probable cause" for issuance of a warrant for a police search, Gen. Hayden disputed the standard.

    "No, actually--the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure." Hayden said, trying to correct Landay.

    "But it does say probable..." Landay tried to interject.

    "No, the amendment says unreasonable search and seizure," snapped Hayden.

    Now the problem here is that the General, who has been running the National Security Agency as it has been operating a secret program, just disclosed by USA Today, that monitors the phone calling records of virtually all phone customers of AT&T, Bell South and Verizon, is in fact selectively quoting from the Fourth Amendment.

    What the Fourth Amendment really says is:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    The trick here is that under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the NSA is required to obtain a court warrant for any domestic surveillance. What Bush has done is to authorize secret monitoring of Americans' communications without a warrant. At the same time, once he was caught in the act, both Bush and Gen. Hayden have claimed that they are following the same strict guidelines as if they were going to court for a warrant.

    Clearly, however, the standard for a warrant, as laid out by the Founding Fathers, is "probably cause," not the much looser "reasonable" that Hayden asserted to Landay at the press conference. "Reasonable" and "unreasonable" are terms that are open to wide interpretation, after all. "Probable cause" is a much more objective standard, implying that the agency in question is already pretty certain that the subject of monitoring is guilty of a crime or of planning a crime.

    We Americans, and the members of Congress who are being asked to consider Hayden's fitness to serve as CIA director, need to challenge this veteran spook's sleight of hand.

    Clearly there is no "probable cause" for monitoring all the phone records of the entire customer base of three of the nation's largest phone service providers.

    That's why Hayden tried so hard to deny that the standard for monitoring people's communications is "probable cause."

    The president and his subordinates have been found out violating the Constitution in a serious way. If this is not an impeachable act, I don't know what is.

  22. Re:Ahem. on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1

    When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men
    Just remember that death is not the end
    And you search in vain to find just one law abiding citizen
    Just remember that death is not the end

    - Bob Dylan

  23. Re:The NSA should take aim at Qwest. on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. It would not matter.

    The game is over America. You lose - as badly as the Soviets and Nazi citezenry lost.

    It really is over - you can stop pretending it will be O.K. It will never be O.K. again. And soon, you will get used to neighbors dissapearing. You will get used to watching what you say in front of your children - lest they repeat it in school.

  24. Re:Cooporation is the way of the future. on Japan Solicits NASA's Help on Supersonic Jet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah. Those clever Japanese involed NASA. They must need it late, and dangerous.

  25. Re:And we knew that GINA was going away for more t on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 1

    That is PAM's implementation. Not the idea of authentication being performed by a module that talks to the AUTH API! The thing needs to be "signed" to run - so it's an unlikely attack for badware.