August 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
by Jim Windle 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:29:21 Tim May wrote: > >I can think of some scientists who had enormous influences on policy, >men like Szilard, Von Neumann, Fermi, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller, and >a bunch of others As an addendum I would add Claude Shannon. In fact I can't think of a single lawyer in the 20th century who had the long term influesnce on society that either Shannon or von Neumann did. The list of other influential non-lawyers might also be expanded to include Turing, Godel, von Braun, Crick and Watson. Washington's myopia in thinking olny lawyers are worth listening to is indicative of the type of government we have. Jim Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

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PETA gets control of parody peta.org domain, says appeals court
by Declan McCullagh 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46313,00.html Ethical Treatment of PETA Domain By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 2:00 a.m. Aug. 25, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a website titled "People Eating Tasty Animals" is not only a bad joke, but also an unlawful one. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said this week that the peta.org domain name, registered in 1995 by a man who planned to parody the nonprofit group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was an illegal trademark infringement. Michael Doughney's peta.org parody site lampooned vegetarianism -- which the real PETA insists upon -- and applauded carnivorism, dubbing itself a tongue-in-cheek "resource for those who enjoy eating meat, wearing fur and leather, hunting and the fruits of scientific research." (PETA opposes medical research on animals even in cases where human lives could be saved.) The site's not-so-subtle mockery was red meat to PETA officials, who promptly sued, convinced a federal judge they were right, and then demanded Doughney pay them over $300,000 in attorney's fees and court costs, including photocopying, faxes, courier services, postage, travel, mileage, tolls and parking, long distance telephone calls and "miscellaneous" items. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----

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Bell Case Files
by John Young 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

We've put up some 80 court filings in the Bell case, hyperlinked to the August 25 docket cited here yesterday: http://cryptome.org/jdb082501.htm Recall that Judge Tanner sealed all the public files that were available when he learned one of the filings provided names of the jury pool and names of jurors selected for the trial. The court's online files were removed. He subsequently unsealed most of the files (except 7 which remain sealed) but the pre-trial filings have not been restored to the court's web site. Now only post-trial filings are available there. Our offering is for the whole kaboodle that appeared on the court's site from day 1, starting with the complaint from November 2000 through the sentencing order of August 24, 2001. The files are in the multi-image TIFF format used by the WWA court (and a number of other courts). The files can be viewed by a multi-image viewer such as Kodak's Imaging for Windows (included with W98 et seq), Quick Time, Graph Works (a shareware), and others.

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Slashdot | SSH Taking Stand On Vulnerability
by Jim Choate 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

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CNN.com - U.S. jail population hits record 6.5 million - August 26, 2001
by Jim Choate 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/08/26/crime.doj.prison.reut/index.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks Matsuo Basho The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Lara Crofts Tomb Gets Raided!
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26 Aug '01

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Bell Sues
by John Young 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

Here's the 14-page court docket for Jim Bell's case through August 25, 2001: http://cryptome.org/jdb082501.htm This lists several of Jim's appeals, the last on August 14. For a flavor of what's been going on to deny Jim his rights here's a footnote to a "Sentencing Memorandum" of August 9 by Robert Leen, Jim's attorney (docket No. 184): "Within the past week undersigned counsel obtained a copy of the class action lawsuit the defendant has filed in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Among the accusations in the Complaint is a litany of alleged ethical violations, criminal acts and misdeeds that undersigned counsel purportedly committed in conjunction with the Court and other court officers. In response to complaints the defendant has made to this court, the WSBA and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, undersigned counsel has repeatedly moved to withdraw or, in the alternative, permit the defendant to represent himself. These requests have been denied. Inasmuch as the defendant has objected to undersigned counsel taking any action on his behalf undersigned counsel asks that the Court not rely upon any argument made in this sentencing memorandum unless expressly adopted by the defendant." ----- No private mail on this topic, responses only to cpunks without cc to me, thanks.

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26 Aug '01

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cpunx fork of Mojo
by Eugene Leitl 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

I've started running MojoNation today http://www.mojonation.net/devel/source.shtml which I like so far, it's smooth already, despite late beta. According to past discussions with Mojo developers it should be very possible to make a cypherpunk-relevant fork of it. The cypherpunk-relevant changes would be sacrificing performance by only having a low node connectivity, only allow links into different legal compartments (one needs to draw an informal persecutability matrix of domains) and onion routing. The changes might be small enough so that the system would still be able to be part of the Mojo network. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3

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26 Aug '01

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