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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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Slashdot | Cracking the Verisign Monopoly
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/yro/01/04/03/2258226.shtml -- 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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CNN.com - Sci-Tech - Study: Most in U.S. want stronger cybercrime laws - April 3, 2001
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/04/03/privacy.survey.idg/index.html?s… -- 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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IRS Help Wrong 47% of Time (washingtonpost.com)
by Jim Choate 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

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Declan McCullagh and prosecutions
by Seth Finkelstein 04 Apr '01

04 Apr '01

Tim May wrote: > I probably should have said nothing to this journalist. If Declan is > forced to testify, beyond a very basic acknowledgement that he was > the author of the articles in question, I sure plan to refuse to ever > speak to any journalist again about anything which someone might > twist in front of a jury. "Hey, Declan, nice weather we're having, > eh?" I'll continue to be Declan's friend, presumably, but I just > won't talk to him about anything that may get extracted from him in > this or in any future star chamber prosecutions. I may regret this - but what's new here? Declan already testified and provided quite a bit of evidence in the Carl Johnson trial: http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=7285 You know this. That was two years ago. Why in the world does this current testimony count, but not the last time Declan did that? I'm probably going to be deeply sorry for this, but the following question has been bothering me for a while: Why in the world does anyone on this list trust Declan McCullagh? If you believe that the government is planning some sort of repression, why ever say a single word to a person who will likely be a key prosecution witness at your trial? At some level, I don't get it. Yes, Declan is sociable and gives a good dinner party and chants the correct rants. Is that all that matters? Testifying for the government in criminal prosecutions is considered just a minor character flaw in such an ideologically lovable fellow-soul? I'm not a lawyer, but this is my view of the court issues in this case: Declan's authorship of the articles is not in dispute. The prosecution wishes to use them as evidence. In order for them to do so, they have to put Declan on the stand, and he has to testify not that he authored them, but under penalty of perjury, that they are accurate. Now, the prosecution would like nothing better for Declan to say "Yes, they're true so help me God, good-bye!". Star chamber??? The problem is the exact opposite. The US legal system allows the accused to challenge evidence against him. The defense attorney is going to want to impeach Declan's credibility (this is not hard to do :-)). He'll likely get up and say something along the lines of 'Mr. McCullagh, you're a sensationalist journo-monger, aren't you? You provoked my client into outbursts of meaningless rhetoric, which you then hyped-up to peddle your papers, didn't you?" (not in quite those words, of course) This is a fact: Declan's motion is mainly about how he doesn't want to be cross-examined by the DEFENSE. Not the prosecution, do you get it, the DEFENSE: "The prosecutor has informed counsel for McCullagh that McCullagh will be asked only to verify the accuracy of statements by Bell that are included in the Articles. Bell's counsel, however, has made clear that cross-examination will not be limited to published information, and Bell might seek testimony regarding a variety of areas that Bell thinks will be helpful to his defense." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... "Requiring McCullagh to testify, even if it is very limited on direct examination, creates an impermissible burden by necessarily exposing McCullagh to the risk of an intrusive cross-examination that will interfere with McCullagh's current and future newsgathering." I'll say it again, because of where I'm writing: Declan's motion makes very clear that his fear is the cross-examination, which stems from the Sixth Amendement right of an accused to confront witnesses. This couldn't be further from a police state or Star Chamber. A key request in Declan's motion is essentially that the prosecution be given all the evidence it wants, but the defense be hamstrung trying to impeach the credibility of that evidence. Yet no-one who might, ah, be strongly affected by such a tactic in the future, seems to be going through the roof about it. There's no screaming he's in bed with the Fed, he's a stool-pigeon, he's a collaborator, etc. etc. Granted, there's some unhappiness. But look, he's moaning and groaning and minting reputation-capital about the basic fact that he's being a witness for the prosecution in a criminal trial! (again!) Once more, at some level, I don't get it: 1) Why now? Why didn't you stop talking after the Carl Johnson trial? 2) In general, why does anyone trust him given all I've outlined above? My prediction is that Declan will go testify, write some martyrish articles about the inhumanity of it all, and then everything will reset to be repeated in the next criminal trial where he's a prosecution witness. I should note, in case this message finds its way into some evidence presentation, that whether Declan testifies or not right now will make no difference in my estimation of him and as to whether I'd advise anyone to "cooperate with his newsgathering efforts because he is trustworthy and independent". My own views were formed long before this particular case, and based on seeing how callously he treated the legal risks of myself and other programmers (but that's another story). __ Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf(a)mit.edu http://sethf.com

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