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Howstuffworks "How does safety glass work?"
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question508.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Jayne Mansfield - Too Hot To Handle - Biography - Part Ten
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

She wasn't decapitated... http://www.bombshells.com/jayne/bio/index10.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found AFCS_seattle2001.doc.lnk infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: AFCS_seattle2001", was sent from carl & danielle and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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Antigen found W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus
by ANTIGEN_BAMBI 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Antigen for Exchange found MEMO.doc.pif infected with W32/Sircam-A (Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "CDR: MEMO", was sent from Jack Turk and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Cognex/Natick/BAMBI.

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FW: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes (fwd)
by measl＠mfn.org 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Headers stripped to protect the source... -----Original Message----- From: Anti Piracy Sent: 7/23/01 7:01 PM Subject: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes July 23, 2001 Via E-Mail Re: Internet Piracy of Planet of the Apes Dear Colleagues: We at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ("Fox") are writing to ask for your help and cooperation in the protection of our upcoming highly-anticipated motion picture, Planet of the Apes. Fox is the copyright owner and owner of exclusive distribution rights in all media, including the Internet, to this motion picture, which is being released in the United States and certain other countries on July 27, 2001. Some pre-release screenings are already taking place. As you are likely aware, technological developments currently allow the seriously detrimental and widespread infringement of intellectual property via the unauthorized electronic dissemination of films over the Internet. As widely reported in the media, up to 1 million illegal copies of first-run movies are now available on the Internet. Fox, in cooperation with the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA"), the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, is working to combat piracy of films on the Internet. We hope to be able to count on your assistance as well. We anticipate a high volume of Internet piracy of Planet of the Apes. Illegal film footage posted and/or available for download on the Internet is usually sourced from video recordings made in movie theaters and digitally transferred into electronic video formats. As Fox is making every effort to aggressively battle Internet piracy, it is likely that you will notice an increase in the volume of correspondence which you receive from Fox and/or from the MPAA. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the department responsible for combating this issue at Fox which is authorized to act on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, the copyright owner of Planet of the Apes. Our contact information is: Fox Intellectual Property Department (310) 369-4260 antipiracy(a)fox.com Working with you and our other partners, we hope to be able to identify and remove infringing files quickly. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other civil and criminal statutes provide for severe penalties (including prison sentences of up to 10 years, forfeiture of equipment, and fines of up to $2 million per incident) against persons who record and post pirated copies of films on the Internet. We intend to pursue and prosecute infringers to the fullest extent possible in conjunction with the MPAA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and through civil lawsuits. Congress included mechanisms in the DMCA which are designed to allow copyright owners to prevent and prosecute infringement of their rights on the Internet. The DMCA requires copyright owners to notify you, as the Internet Service Provider, of infringing activities, and imposes the obligation on ISPs to act expeditiously to remove or disable access to infringing materials. This letter is intended, in part, to give you advance information that you will be receiving additional notices pursuant to the DMCA from Fox, its representatives or the MPAA. We trust that we will be able to count on your prompt action in response to such notices requesting you to disable such infringing postings and/or downloads and stop the infringement of our rights. The posting and/or dissemination of unauthorized copies/recordings of all or part of a copyrighted film on the Internet (excluding trailers authorized and licensed for such use) infringes the copyrights in both the motion picture and the soundtrack. Fox, as owner of all rights relating to Planet of the Apes, has not authorized any distribution of the motion picture or its soundtrack over the Internet. We, therefore, have a good faith belief that any Internet postings of such video and/or audio materials constitute infringement. As you become aware or are notified of them, please remove any such postings that are accessible on or through your system or network, accessed by users through your system or network, or located using your information location tools, and disable access to any sites fulfilling these criteria. This letter provides you with information regarding our rights and of the fact that we have not authorized any Internet distribution of Planet of the Apes or other films. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in our fight against Internet piracy. We hope that you will help us by using all information location tools available to you to identify such infringing material and that you will immediately remove any such postings or disable access to any location where the infringing activities described herein are or will be occurring. Please try to expeditiously remove infringing postings and/or disable access to infringing material of which you become or are made aware. We may contact you in the coming weeks, as specific examples of infringing activity accessible on or through your network or system come to our attention, and we will reiterate our request that such items be removed or disabled immediately. Please keep in mind that extremely prompt action is and will continue to be necessary in order to prevent the widespread proliferation of infringing copies of Planet of the Apes. Since Fox has not authorized the sale of any promotional items, including press kits, we may also need your assistance in stopping the sale of such items, as well as production items. The information provided in this letter is provided under penalty of perjury. We look forward to working with you. Please contact us if you have any questions, or to provide us with updated contact information for your company. Sincerely, Fox Group Intellectual Property Department cc: Motion Picture Association of America

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Customer service at Anonymizer/Cyberpass/Infonex
by Dr. Evil 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Given the fact that the Anonymizer often comes up in Cypherpunk contexts, and that many of you are probably reading this list from cyberpass.net, which is hosted by Infonex (which is the same company as the Anonymizer, all run by Lance Cottrell, I believe) some of you may be interested in what Infonex's attitude about customer service is, and how they conduct themselves as a business. First, take a look at what they say about themselves: At http://www.infonex.com/top/statement.html, they claim, "All of our services are not worth much if you are not making good use of them. That is why service is first priority at Infonex." I signed up with them several years ago (after c2net closed down its shell account service). I had my email address @cyberpass.net printed on business cards. I gave it out to everyone. At one point, they stopped offering new shell account services, and then one day, I found that I couldn't log in to my account. I called their customer service number, and found it to be eternally busy, with full voice-mail boxes. Finally, I got through to someone there who explained that there were no more shell accounts; I should get my files out by ftp. That was annoying, but what was worse was that I went to get my files off and found they were all gone. I didn't need them urgently at the time, and I thought, "maybe they're doing maintenance on the server, and they will be restored later." I went back in with ftp today, and they were still gone. I called up their customer service. They basically said that the server crashed and files were lost. Fine, that's no problem. Why not restore from tape? "All the files on /r2 were not backed up, and they are lost." Years worth of email and other files, all lost. As they say, "That is why service is first priority at Infonex." I don't expect an apology from them; there's really nothing which is a substitute for operating in a professional manner. Every time I have had to deal with their customer service, they have always been less than helpful (that is when I can get through to them). Think twice before you do business with them. On the Internet of today, there are plenty of places that do web hosting. Why not choose one that operates in a professional manner? You may say, "if they lose data, that's great for the Anonymizer service!" That would be a naive assumption. Companies which have a culture of sloppiness or unprofessionalism will end up hurting their customers in a variety of ways. If they don't know to use RAID or backup their servers, they probably also don't know to check the security of their code. Sloppy one wy, sloppy every way. Beware.

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High Test Scores == Intelligence
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Genome, the story of a species in 23 chapters Matt Ridley Chpt. 6 ("Intelligence") ISBN 0-06-019497-9 Especially recommended by you 'bell curvers' (you know who you are)... -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Alternative Physics - Tom Bearden's site
by Gary Jeffers 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

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Slashdot | When "Security Through Obscurity" Isn't So Bad
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/23/2043209.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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OPT: Slashdot | Dmitry Protests Running
by Jim Choate 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/23/1956254.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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