April 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Americans willing to give up privacy rights
by Bill Orme 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

"As the U.S. Congress continues to wrestle with Internet privacy issues, a contradictory bit of evidence has been tossed into consideration -- Americans would be happy to let law enforcement agencies intercept criminal e-mail ..." * * * "A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 73 percent of those asked were more worried about criminals using the Web to plan and carry out their activities than they were about personal privacy issues..." More on this story at: http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/8656.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Computer User: Fifty-Four Percent in U.S. Support FBI E-mail Snooping ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Story Highlights: "While an overwhelming majority of U.S. residents worry about Internet crime like child pornography and credit card theft, slightly more than half say it's OK for the FBI to monitor suspects' e- mail..." * * * "Only 14 percent say existing laws related to interception of telephone calls are adequate to cover Internet crime investigations..." More on this story at: http://www.currents.net/news/01/04/04/news9.html

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RAT FINK MINI POSTERS - Gun Control (humor)
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://www.mooneyesusa.com/RE/RE072_75.htm -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Greenspan pitches free trade - Apr. 4, 2001
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/04/04/economy/wires/greenspan_wg/?s=2 -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Slashdot | Does Peer-to-Peer Suck?
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/features/01/03/27/1820213.shtml -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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[Fwd: Fw: Jeff Lotspiech, IBM * Content Protection * W4:15 Gates B03]
by Strata Rose Chalup 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

Short notice, but maybe time enough to send informed hecklers? _SRC -- ======================================================================== Strata Rose Chalup [KF6NBZ] strata "@" virtual.net VirtualNet Consulting http://www.virtual.net/ ** Project Management & Architecture for ISP/ASP Systems Integration ** =========================================================================

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MIT to put bomb / drug making info on net
by Blank Frank 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/technology/04MIT.html?ex=987386578&ei=1&e… Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free By CAREY GOLDBERG CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 3 Other universities may be striving to market their courses to the Internet masses in hopes of dot-com wealth. But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has chosen the opposite path: to post virtually all its course materials on the Web, free to everybody. M.I.T. plans on Wednesday to announce a 10-year initiative, apparently the biggest of its kind, that intends to create public Web sites for almost all of its 2,000 courses and to post materials like lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, simulations, even video lectures. Professors' participation will be voluntary, but the university is committing itself to post sites for all its courses, at a cost of up to $100 million. Visitors will not earn college credits. The giveaway idea, President Charles M. Vest of M.I.T. said, came in a "traditional Eureka moment" as the institute like nearly every other university brainstormed and soul-searched about how best to take advantage of the Internet. Called OpenCourseWare, the initiative found broad resonance among the faculty members, said Steven Lerman, the faculty chairman. "Selling content for profit, or trying in some ways to commercialize one of the core intellectual activities of the university," Professor Lerman said, "seemed less attractive to people at a deep level than finding ways to disseminate it as broadly as possible." <snip>

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Sethy needs to grow up
by Blank Frank 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

At 11:18 PM 4/2/01 -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote: >And since John Young already >threw me into the flaming-pit, I thought I'd give the question a try >in public. He warned you, yet you attacked; so he defended himself. Next time, RTFM. Sunlight is good.

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Thank you for registering your new Apple Computer
by applereg＠apple.com 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

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Third Voice Trails Off....
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42803,00.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delavimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Ray Kurzweil & David Friedman to Appear at Extro-5
by Matthew Gaylor 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

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