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Catchy.
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:51:14 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: qnx.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Subject: Catchy. Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:34:49 -0400 From: glen mccready <glen(a)qnx.com> Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org X-Mailing-List: <0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org> archive/latest/194 X-Loop: 0xdeadbeef(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request(a)substance.abuse.blackdown.org Forwarded-by: nev(a)bostic.com Forwarded-by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick(a)McKusick.COM> From: Rick Kawala <condor(a)QueerNet.ORG> I was with a friend in Cafe Flore the other night and I had to ask the counterperson what was playing on the stereo. Sort of techno but with vocals on some tracks, minorish key, really great. Anyway, the CD arrived and track 10 is called "PGP". And yes, they're talking about *that* PGP. My God, an ode to data privacy. This computer thing is getting out of hand. :) Rick --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 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'

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Industry.net Announces Premium Membership
by Industry.net News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As an Industry.net member, you already know how convenient it is to have one place to go for industry news, events, and sources of supply. In addition to this free content, Industry.net recently introduced Premium Membership, your gateway to engineering databases in the exclusive Data Depot and even more technical resources in the Reference Shelf. Sign up now and enjoy all the benefits of Premium Membership for the low, introductory price of $19.95 per year. Read on for more details or visit http://www.industry.net/pm-mktg/. Data Depot Industry.net's Data Depot is a gateway to comprehensive technical industrial products and components information. - Make design and specification decisions using complete technical product descriptions with Industry.net's exclusive Industrial Catalogs at http://www.industry.net/pm-mktg/icdescription.htm. As a Premium Member, for only $37.95 per month, you can access catalogs from over 15,000 manufacturers and distributors of industrial products and services. The Industrial Catalogs have been subject indexed and cross-referenced enabling you to quickly search and FIND the company or product you are interested in. Watch for future additions to Industry.net's Data Depot including online ordering of more than 200,000 technical standards, specifications, and reference documents; downloadable industry standards; and key supplier information on more than 12 million parts. Reference Shelf Industry.net's Reference Shelf provides fingertip access to many reference tools and resources that engineers use on a daily basis. - Make sure your technical documentation is in compliance with current industry standards with the online Drawing Requirements Manual. - Enjoy convenient, fingertip access to frequently used (but often forgotten) engineering equations and formulas. - Apply NASA technology to your commercial applications and product development. - Stay abreast of changing federal and state safety and compliance regulations. - Catch up with previously published Industry.net information in our Archives section. - Keep pace with manufacturing technology with the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Roadmap (IMTR). - More to come Visit http://www.industry.net and get access to a world of information at your fingertips! In case you have forgotten your username, it is: crads. Would you like to participate in a focus group where we brainstorm enhancements to Industry.net? (send your response to feedback(a)industry.net) Would your company benefit from a presence on the Industry.net site? (send your response to sales(a)industry.net and provide the name of your marketing representative) If you would rather not be notified about new features on Industry.net, please unsubscribe by doing the following: (be assured that we respect your privacy and will not contact you further and we never send your name and/or e-mail address to other parties) Reply to this message or send e-mail to newsletter(a)info.industry.net with the subject line: "unsubscribe industry.net-news".

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British Police Attempt To Sidestep E-mail Protection
by Marty Levy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

British Police Attempt To Sidestep E-mail Protection http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/118135.html (09/16/98); 12:22 PM CST By Steve Gold, Newsbytes LONDON, ENGLAND, Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Newsbytes' sources have revealed that the Metropolitan Police have been holding a series of low-key discussions with major Internet service providers (ISPs) in the UK, aiming to streamline police access to e-mail and ISP user logs. According to one reliable source, the aim of the discussions is to develop a ground-breaking agreement between the police and ISPs so that, where the police have reasonable suspicion that an individual is sending or receiving e-mail, or downloading images that involve paedophilia, then they can formally request full details of the Internet user's mailbox and system logs, for example, from the ISP in question. While the aim of the project is to avoid the need for police to obtain a formal court order to access the ISP's computer systems, Newsbytes expects there to be a massive outcry from civil libertarian groups, since the police order could well be implemented against anyone with an account with a British ISP. Newsbytes understands that an expose on the police plans will be broadcast on Channel 4 news at 19:00 hours on British television this evening. Newsbytes' sources suggest that British ISPs are under immense pressure to comply with the police system since, if they do not comply and request a court order, the police could theoretically impound their computer systems, effectively putting an ISP out of action, and perhaps business, for an unknown period of time. "While I can understand the police wanting to gain access to Internet users' files who are accessing the Net for paedophile images, this does seem something of a steamroller approach," said one industry source who spoke to Newsbytes after agreeing anonymity. Newsbytes notes that a major flaw exists in the British police's modus operandi for the proposed system, since the e-mail file servers for America Online (AOL) and CompuServe (AOL is the UK's largest ISP) are held in the US. Only the company's sales and support operations are located in the UK. "It will be interesting to see how the management of AOL and CompuServe in the US react to the news that they have to willingly hand over user logs and e-mail files to the British police," said the anonymous source. As has been proven by various cases in the US, the normal legal protection afforded postal and telephone communications by anti- wiretap legislation is not automatically extended to include e-mail. In the UK, it had been thought that the Interception of Communications Act might apply to e-mail, but the law relating to e-mail remains unproven, Newsbytes notes. Reported by Newsbytes News Network, http://www.newsbytes.com . 12:22 CST (19980916/WIRES LEGAL, ONLINE/) Copyright (c) Post-Newsweek Business Information, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------------

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CDA II up for subcommittee vote today in House
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: CDA II up for subcommittee vote today in House http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980917-14617,00.html Time Digital Daily September 17, 1998 Congress to Debate CDA II This Morning By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) It was one thing to vote for the Communications Decency Act, as Congress did before the Supreme Court ruled that it was violently unconstitutional. It's quite another to knowingly circumvent that ruling by voting for its successor, as a Congressional panel may do this morning. At 10 AM this morning a House Commerce subcommittee is scheduled to debate Rep. Mike Oxley (R-Ohio)'s CDA II, and free speech advocates are in a tizzy. [...snip...]

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 17, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Nita Daniel
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Oh Nita baby, say it ain't so! What about all that time in the Congo? What about those wombat hunting trips on the aborigine plains? What about when we made sweet love in a pile of rhinoceros shit, your fecal fetish winning me over to our true love. What about when you swore you'd always be true, even as you were pissing in my mouth? Oh that acrid, bittersweet flavor of entrails running through my loins, that ache of razor sharp knives piercing my rectum, and you said you'd always be there for me baby! Well fine! If that's the way you want it, Nita, you parking meter, you pimple on the face of a whore, you jubilant muskrat sharpener! Go back to your twinkie stuffing, you'll never see me again! Hurting, Joe Camel At 11:15 PM 9/16/98 -0500, sixdegrees wrote: >Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Nita >Daniel (machita(a)gurlmail.com) asked not to be listed as your >contact with sixdegrees. > >We also wanted to make sure you were aware that you currently >have no other confirmed contacts, so it will be hard for you to >have a productive sixdegrees experience. As you probably know, >without any confirmed contacts, you won't get any results from our >networking searches. > >So, we just wanted to recommend that you head over to >http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in, and go to MY CONTACTS >to list additional relationships. > > >==================================================================== >PLEASE NOTE: All replies to this address are processed by a computer. >If you have any problems, questions or requests send an e-mail to >issues(a)sixdegrees.com and someone will get back to you as soon as >possible. >==================================================================== > > >E.DB.BRESP.3 >

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Re: Isaac Lee
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Screw you Isaac Hayes! I never liked Shaft anyway. Go back to South Park you worm! Saddened, Joe CypherSyphen At 12:17 AM 9/17/98 -0500, sixdegrees wrote: >Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Isaac >Lee (zac(a)pulp-fiction.com) asked not to be listed as your >contact with sixdegrees. > >We also wanted to make sure you were aware that you currently >have no other confirmed contacts, so it will be hard for you to >have a productive sixdegrees experience. As you probably know, >without any confirmed contacts, you won't get any results from our >networking searches. > >So, we just wanted to recommend that you head over to >http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in, and go to MY CONTACTS >to list additional relationships. > > >==================================================================== >PLEASE NOTE: All replies to this address are processed by a computer. >If you have any problems, questions or requests send an e-mail to >issues(a)sixdegrees.com and someone will get back to you as soon as >possible. >==================================================================== > > >E.DB.BRESP.3 >

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by z�R� 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Coding theory, cryptography, and number theory conference at USNA
by Nina H. Fefferman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm probably the only person in the world who doesn't already know about this, but just in case, the URL is http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/talk98_30.htm Nina ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary information on Conference on Coding theory, Cryptology, and Number Theory version 9-14-98 Place: USNA Math Dept Time: October 25, 26 of 1998 Coding theory and crypology/number theory will be on Sunday the 25th, including talks by Carl Pomerance and Neil Sloane. More crypology/number theory on Monday and then Prof Hilton will speak Monday night the 26th. Main speakers: Peter Hilton, SUNY Binghamton (Oct 26th, 7-8pm) Carl Pomerance, U Georgia (Oct 25th, noon?) Neil Sloane, AT&T Research Labs (Oct 24th, 4-5pm?) Other speakers will probably be local: Bill Wardlaw (USNA), some speakers from NSA, etc. All material will be unclassified. We will try to have midshipman in attendence. This conference is being supported by a generous grant from the NSA. -- David Joyner, Assoc Prof of Math US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402 (410)293-6738 wdj(a)nadn.navy.mil http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/homepage.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Alfred Renyi

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Aladdin DropStuff for Windows - 25% off for you!
by Aladdin Systems 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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