December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FCPUNX:McVeigh on McVeigh
by Wazoo MixMaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:27 PM 8/15/97 -0800, you wrote: > Amen!!! > More money was spent on McVeigh's defense than on O.J.'s prosecution. >For fifteen million dollars, McVeigh's lawyer couldn't be troubled to >raise his voice in his client's defense. Funny thing is, if O.J. was, say, a bus-driver with food stamps, how long do you think *his* trial would be? Besides, McVeigh's trial wasn't about truth or justice. It was all about getting revenge, drawing blood, satisfying the bloodthirsty people of America. > There are a handful of lawyers I respect as having the skill and the >integrity to properly defend me to the max, but I wouldn't give you two >cents for McVeigh's government-bought schill. McVeigh's lawyer was probably influenced (read: leaned on) by government fascists, so that McVeigh would die. > The role of McVeigh's attorney was to placate the American people's >sense of "justice" without rocking the boat. He didn't upset the >American people, he didn't upset the judge, the prosecutor, his golfing >buddies, or the court house restroom attendant. Very different from say, Atticus Finch, in "To Kill a Mockingbird". He defended a black man, in a place and time very against that. While this government controlled dickless loser that was McVeighs lawyer, didn't prosecute like a man, because then he'd be blacklisted and treated like shit. > He did upset me, however, and that might turn out to be a big mistake >on his part. If anyone out in this world feels like bumping off McVeighs lawyer, please do so. We need less lawyers like him.

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Reduce your long distance bills
by helledge＠oilfieldtrash.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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I'm writing this message to you in an effort to spread the truth about these fraudulent scam artists. I am a 60 year old, practicing international petroleum engineer and I supplement my income by working in the telecommunications industry. I have traveled to 58 countries and therefore have paid my share of high long distance calls. I have been around the block more than a few times, and I can tell you this: The best deal any average consumer is going to get in this country today is a 9.9 cent per minute flat rate, if you know where to go. Here is the reason why: Whenever a long distance call is placed, there are fees charged by your local telephone company, called "origination" fees, and fees charged by the receiver a local telephone company, called "landing" fees. These fees are regulated by the federal government. On average, the combined origination/landing fees are 6.5 to 7.5 cents per minute, depending on the telephone companies involved. In addition to those fees, the carrier that connects the call over long distances via fiber, copper, and/or satellite links carries a cost for that call of at least 1 cent, and sometimes more. This brings the COST for that call to 7.5 to 8.5 cents per minute. Then, there are the administrative costs associated with the calls in the form of "rating" the call data, "formatting" the calls in a logical manner to present them to the consumer (both processes are extremely computer intensive , AND postage, paper, and labor, in the form of customer service, and equipment maintenance. Conservatively, these costs add another .5 (one half) cent, bringing the true COST of a long distance telephone call to anywhere from 8 to 9 cents per minute. Finally, there is the cost of distribution, i.e.: marketing and advertising. The commercials that you see on television every day for the big carriers are not free to those companies. In fact, they spend millions of dollars every DAY to push their long distance service, which, remember, is costing THEM 8 to 9 cents per minute. When you see a commercial for Sprint, for example, make sure you watch the fine print. Their "dime line" only applies during evenings after 7pm, and during the weekend. Every weekday from 7am to 7pm the cost is 25 cents per minute. AT&T has taken a more honest approach recently with their "one rate", yet even they are still charging 15 cents per minute. MCI has so many plans now, you're lucky if you'll ever know how much you're paying for a long distance call until you look at your bill. (if you dare) Telecommunications "resellers" are the real wave of the future. These companies purchase transmission time from major carriers, and bill their customers themselves, while still providing the exact same service at a much lower cost. Their customers are still physically utilizing the major carriers for service, but simply receive their BILLS for their calls from the reseller or "rebiller". Since deregulation in 1984, the reseller industry has grown to over $12 BILLION per year, and industry experts predict that by the year 2000, the majority of telecommunications usage will be handled by resellers utilizing the major carriers. How can they do this? By being creative in their marketing approach, and keeping the cost of distribution down to an absolute minimum. The most cost-efficient way to market telecommunications is via an agent network, i.e.: individuals working for the reseller on a commission-only basis. The best rate any individual can receive today is through a reseller for a major carrier. I am a customer and agent for a company called FCI, which is a direct reseller for IXC Communications, Inc., the USA's 5th largest coast-to-coast fiber optic network. IXC currently provides 1000's of miles of fiber for AT&T, Sprint, MCI, and the federal government. FCI offers a flat rate 9.9 cent per minute rate for 1+ long distance AND 800 usage, and bills its customers in 6 second increments, instead of full minute increments like the big carriers do. This results in savings to consumers of an additional 10%-25%, depending on the types of calls placed. FCI is also nearly finished completing a "web page billing" system which will be a great benefit to the consumer, as they will be able to see the actual calls they place on a DAILY basis, as well as their cost for those calls. When in place, FCI will be the ONLY long distance company in the nation offering this unique service. The Wall Street journal, as well as the FOX News Channel, have recently featured FCI and their unique approach to the long distance market. FCI is a truly revolutionary company, and has been gaining acclaim across the nation and particularly on the internet. As a reseller, FCI has the right to work with other carriers if they are presented with better rates for their customers. FCI has recently chosen to work with ITL (International Telecom Ltd) for its superior international calling rates, such as the following flat rates per minute (US origination): U K .185 Russia .670 France .280 Greece .475 Israel .690 Japan .360 (this is not a typo!) China .810 For more information on FCI and how you can even earn a great residual income by promoting their service like I do, you may visit my FCI Web Page at: http://freedomstarr.com/?EL3544771. You will have the opportunity to sign up for service online, and get a free web page to promote the service, with an opportunity to earn up to 5% residual commissions on other people's usage. There is no "sign up" or "agent" fee to participate in the program. I hope this note finds you and yours in good health. Good luck and warm regards, Harold W. Elledge

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by ezx45542＠cttl.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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re: Just in case...
by Abstruse 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ok..i don't know how many of you saw this, and..given my short time recently, it may have even passed through this list..so, if it's a re-post, i apologive..if not, enjoy..but i figure with all the other side threads that come through here..this will be my fuck up if it's a re-post, ok?! well, enough of that, onto the post! ***************************from the BoS list****************** In a development that is probably sending Louis Freeh into coniptions and may represent a fatal blow to the administration's efforts to control encryption exports, the source code for Pretty Good Privacy's PGP 5.0 encryption program was posted Monday on a web site at the University of Oslo. So how did it get there, what with prohibitions on the export of 128-bit encryption encryption software? Right out the front door, that's how -- in the form of a 6,000-page book (remember them?), a format that is not covered by the law. A group of enterprising hackers set about scanning all 6,000 pages of the source code and then painstakingly double-checked for errors, a two-month process whose final fruits were unveiled in Unix format Monday, with Mac and Windows versions forthcoming. PGP says it had nothing to do with the whole thing, but was happy to have its product vetted free by a group of experts, whose trouble-shooting showed that the code is secure and contains no back doors for government visitors. More info at http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0812/zdnn0006.html

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Degausser
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C[reep] Mayflower will fuck anything that moves, but he'd rather be fucking his own mother's dead body. __o _ \<_ Tim C[reep] Mayflower (_)/(_)

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Re: (Fwd) FWD: Texas Driver's License database on the web
by miner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>From: Brent Heustess <heustess(a)mail.utexas.edu> >> >> This is a really spooky web site <http://www.publiclink.com>. You can >>search 17 million Texas drivers by name, driver's license number or >>license plate number. When you find a person, you can then find everyone >>at that address with a license. You can even find everyone with the same >>9-digit zip code. The record does not have a GIF of the photo, but it >>has everything else on the license. > >Those who tell the government the actual address where they sleep at night >have no expectation of privacy. Most governments don't care if you >substitute an accomodation address. If you find a government that does >care, shop around until you find another that doesn't. I've been turned >down exactly once in my career when I attempted to use an accomodation >address for DMV purposes. I went elsewhere. > >DCF > There was an article in the WSJ about this recently, TX has passed a law that goes into effect Sept. 1ST that will make publiclink illegal, they said they would continue to run the site and see what happens in court. Don't remember the date of the article.

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Suitable for viewing by "Foals" (as rated by Tim C. May)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

* Paul Millhouse, 49, pleaded not guilty in February to assault on an animal after he was arrested in Lakeside, Calif., near San Diego. He is suspected of being the man sought for 11 years for various horse stalkings (the very first one of which was reported to police by Joan Embery, the San Diego Zoo spokesperson who frequently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson). According to police in the latest incident, Millhouse was videotaped entering a private pasture, taking off his clothes, and fondling a horse.

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Shakespearean Conspiracy / Re: FCPUNX:McVeigh on McVeigh
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wazoo MixMaster wrote: > At 06:27 PM 8/15/97 -0800, you wrote: > >For fifteen million dollars, McVeigh's lawyer couldn't be troubled to > >raise his voice in his client's defense. > > McVeigh's trial wasn't about truth or justice. It was all about getting revenge, > drawing blood, satisfying the bloodthirsty people of America. > > this government controlled dickless loser that was McVeighs lawyer, > didn't prosecute like a man, because then he'd be blacklisted and treated like shit. > > If anyone out in this world feels like bumping off McVeighs lawyer, > please do so. We need less lawyers like him. Keep in mind that you should first remove all works of Shakespeare from your possession, since possession of them could lead to the filing of conspiracy charges against you. It might also draw the cypherpunks into the web of conspiracy from the point of view of the broad, unconstitutional laws covering this area, since Shakespeare was a cypher-punster. (I hope no one on the list has been exporting the works of Shakespeare without an export license.) BardMonger

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Re: Welfare Solution #389
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tom Mix wrote: > I could imagine that a junkie who takes some old lady's purse to buy > heroin is victimizing the old lady, but is a student smoking marijuana > and drinking a beer victimizing anyone? What about a heroin junkie who > is rich, though unpopular, and never committed any other crime? Have > they made themselves a victim of something? Maybe so...the needle, > the darkness, the overwhelming Love Which Cannot Be Real. But the > state shouldn't recognize "mystical entities" like this as perpetrators. > The person in this case is making a choice; they will do no harm but > to themselves. Are they then a victim, or a perpetrator, or both? -- Excerpt from "Victim" (c) County Mountie Productions -- {Passage sung by purse snatcher who is mugging little old lady.} "I knocked her dowm, stepped on her face, Slandered her name all over the place. Hit her with my fist, kicked her with my shoe, "I said, "Lady, I'm a victim. A victim, just like you. I'm a victim of a Bad Attitude." -- When this song was recorded, it was somewhat tragically ironic, but it proved to be prophetic. I believe that "Bad Attitude" is now a recognized psychiatric illness, allowing one a reduced sentence and monetary support from the government while the poor victim of "Bad Attitude" takes "the cure" on the beaches of the Hawaii. I know a man in Tucson who worked all his life, spent all of his money recovering from an accident, and then couldn't get welfare money when he needed a few more months of recuperation before returning to work. The lady who turned him down made the mistake of commenting that it was a shame he wasn't a drug addict, because then he would "qualify" for welfare. The man lived on the streets for several months, barely surviving, until he was healthy enough to work, and he has never paid a dime in taxes since then. What is even more atrocious is that a church that he attended occasionally turned down his request for minimal assistance, because their policy was to only help those who qualified for government benefits (in order to help weed out the "bums"). He wasn't "entitled" to the church's help as a Christian, but he would have been, as an agnostic junkie. I met the man in the park, and gave him a place to live for the last month of his recuperation, so he could shit, shower, shave and use it as a base to look for work. In the next two years, the company he went to work for bought around $50,000 worth of computers from me. Before this experience, the man was a "God and Country" type of individual who probably would have turned in anyone he found was "cheating" on their taxes. Now he is perfectly willing to go to jail rather than give the robber barons their booty.

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Oct 13-14 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers(ISWC)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 03:22:15 -0500 From: <testarne(a)media.mit.edu> To: technomads(a)UCSD.EDU Subject: Oct 13-14 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) Actually, Steve, can you use this one instead? Thad Starner MIT Media Laboratory Wearable Computing Project -------------------------------------- Oct 13-14 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) is the first annual conference on computers that are worn as clothing. The conference is peer reviewed and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. The purpose of ISWC is to bring together researchers, product vendors, research sponsors, and other interested persons to share information and advances in wearable computers and augmented reality. The conference will include paper presentations, exhibitions, and poster sessions. Registration is now open at http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/wearcon/ Reserve your space before SEPTEMBER 1ST for the best hotel rates. A list of topics from the CFP and the advance program is below. Please forward! Thad Starner MIT Media Laboratory Wearable Computing Project -------------- >From the CFP: CONFERENCE TOPICS The topics for ISWC may include: o Applications, including affective computing, augmented reality, computer-supported collaborative work, computer-supported cooperative living, ubiquitous computing, personal imaging, consumer applications, industrial applications, medical applications, military applications, and software agents o Ergonomics o Future of wearable computing o Hardware, including head-mounted display technologies, batteries, power management, heat dissipation techniques, industrial design techniques, and manufacturing packaging issues o Human interface issues, including hands-free user speech recognition, mobility-challenged users, user modeling, user evaluations, and health issues o Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, the World Wide Web, and networked vs. standalone computers o Operating system issues o Social implications o Software architectures o Training, including performance support systems ---------- International Symposium on Wearable Computers Advance Program Monday, October 13, 1997 8:00 - 8:30 Coffee, Put Up Posters I 8:30 - 8:40 Opening Remarks 8:40 - 10:10 Evaluation Studies Evaluation of three input mechanisms for wearable computers by B. Thomas, S. Tyerman, and K. Grimmer Wearable computers for performance support by J. Ockerman, L. Najjar, and C. Thompson A field usability evaluation of a wearable system by J. Siegel and M. Bauer 10:10 - 10:30 View Posters I, Demos, Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 Industrial and Business Applications Mobile approach support system for future machine tools by R. Daude and M. Weck Factory Automation Support Technology (FAST): A new paradigm of continuous learning and support using a wearable by C. Thompson, L. Najjar, and J. Ockerman Wearable computers for three-dimensional CSCW by M. Billinghurst, S. Weghorst, and T. Furness III 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 New Hardware, Software Technology Eyeglass-mounted displays for wearable computing by M. B. Spitzer, N. M. Rensing, R. McClelland, and P. Aquilino Intrabody buses for data and power by R. Post, M. Reynolds, M. Gray, J. Paradiso, and N. Gershenfeld Software organization for dynamic and adaptable wearable systems by S. Fickas, G. Kortuem, and Z. Segall 3:00 - 4:00 View Posters, Demos, Coffee 4:00 - 6:00 Invited Talks Dick Urban, DARPA Rick Satava, DARPA Jerry Bowskill, BT David Mizell, Boeing 6:00 - 6:30 Take Down Posters I, Demos ---- Tuesday, October 14, 1997 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee, Put Up Posters II 9:00 -10:00 Personal Applications An historical account of wearable computing by S. Mann A touring machine: Prototyping 3D mobile augmented reality systems for exploring the urban environment by S. Feiner, B. MacIntyre, T. Hollerer, and A. Webster 10:00 - 10:30 View Posters II, Demos, Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 New Sensors, Displays Tactual displays for wearable computing by H. Tan and A. Pentland Affective wearables by R. W. Picard and J. Healey A sensate liner for personnel monitoring applications by E. Lind, S. Jayaraman, R. Rajamanickam, R. Eisler, and T. McKee 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Communications Canard: A framework for community messaging by P. Chesnais Metronaut: A wearable computer with sensing and global communication capabilities by A. Smailagic The wearable remembrance agent: A system for augmented memory by B. Rhodes 3:00 - 4:00 View Posters II, Demos, Coffee 4:00 - 5:30 Using Wearable Sensors A wearable computer based American Sign Language recognizer by T. Starner, J. Weaver, and A. Pentland Stochasticks: Augmenting the billiards experience with probabilistic vision and wearable computers by T. Jebara, Cyrus Eyster, J. Weaver, T. Starner, and A. Pentland Towards situated computing by R. Hull, P. Neaves, and J. Bedford-Roberts 5:30 - 6:00 Take Down Posters II, Demos --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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