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The Register = /. & The Scientology RPG
by Jim Choate 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17677.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Junior AP
by Eric Cordian 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

The AP is reporting that the three year old son of a police officer, in Clarkesdale, Mississippi, climbed into the back seat of the family truck while his off-duty father stopped for gas, picked up dad's pistol, aimed it at the gas station attendant, and shot him in the face. The attendant, an unfortunate James Collins, 43, is in critical condition. Remember, guns don't kill people, toddlers do. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Digital Body Wire Systems
by Blank Frank 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

Digital Body Wire Systems Conventional analogue body wire systems suffer from vulnerability to monitoring. They are also susceptible to drop-outs if the transmitter moves out of range and temporary loss of communication results. On the receiver side, the usage of audio cassette recorders to record conversations is inconvenient and prone to mistakes. The DFH-DAR-902 digital spread spectrum body wire system changes all that by offering: Unique TriMode(TM) modulation system (choice of three operating modes - three devices in one!) Digital encryption for unbeatable security Frequency hopping spread spectrum for safety from detection Digital audio recording in both the transmitter and receiver Multiple receiver capability User programmability The Transmitter Contained in an elegant black aluminium case, the transmitter measures 55 x 87 x 19 mm (2.2 x 3.4 x 0.7 inches) and works on four standard AAA batteries. The maximum power is 400 mW. The in-built digital audio recorder has over sixty minutes of recording capacity. The recorded audio remains preserved even when batteries are removed. The transmitting function can be disabled, making it possible to deploy the device as a solid state recorder only. The transmitter contains a sensitive microphone with a connector for an external one. There is also a serial data connector for interfacing to the base receiver, for the purpose of programming the transmitter and for downloading the recorded audio. The transmitter can operate in one of three possible modes: "hi-fi" analog, digitally encrypted, and frequency hopping spread spectrum. The selection between these three modes can by done by connecting the transmitter to the receiver via a programming cable, and selecting the mode using the receiver keypad - simple instructions are clearly shown on the in-built LCD display of the receiver. In a similar way, the transmitter can be also programmed to one of three possible power settings. This has a direct effect on the transmission range and the battery life. The transmitter can be also connected to the parallel port of a PC via a special high-speed interface adaptor. This makes it possible do download the recorded audio directly to a PC in a standard WAV format, and play it back immediately using standard multi-media capabilities of a PC. The recorded audio can be also downloaded to the recording memory of the receiver and played back from there. http://www.sst.com.au/bodywire.htm

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by Multex Investor 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

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censorship and violence in SoCal
by Blank Frank 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

According to the lawsuit, district officials told the librarians ... the books presented a safety hazard because students who checked them out might be harassed by other students. http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/20010316/t000023049.html Noisy School Meeting Over Books on Gay Achievers

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loverscaughtontape.com First Amendment Woes
by Matthew Gaylor 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

[Note from Matthew Gaylor: loverscaughtontape.com are the producers of the most successful selling adult titles worldwide. If you're easily offended or are not legally able to view adult only material, don't click on their link. Eric <eric(a)vidbidness.net> who owns loverscaughtontape.com and who subscribes to Freematt's Alerts, was kind enough to send me me a box full of their DVD's and videos. Eric has appeared on the Howard Stern show and The New York Times did an article recently on what happens when an adult business gives money to a charity, in this case St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis. St. Jude didn't like it when loverscaughtontape.com posted their thank you letter on their website. BTW, the videos are just what you'd expect- People having sex, while being filmed by surveillance cameras.]

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FREE Biotech Stock Info! 918
by biotechstox79＠earthlink.net 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

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Salon.com News | Record low number of police officers killed
by Jim Choate 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/03/15/cops/index.html -- The Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must first be engaged in making an inferior one. Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Slashdot | Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot
by Jim Choate 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/16/1256226.shtml -- The Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must first be engaged in making an inferior one. Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Now if Gilmore would provide an open phone relay...
by George＠Orwellian.Org 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

UniBlab ran up a $500 LD bill using my calling card. The little darling. ---- http://www.securityfocus.com/news/172 # # Spam war gags Gilmore # # Verio cuts off EFF co-founder John Gilmore over open mail server. # By Kevin Poulsen March 15, 2001 5:19 PM PT # # Aggressive anti-spam measures by Dallas-based ISP Verio have # stripped some of the Internet's digerati of the ability to send # email, and EFF co-founder John Gilmore is calling it censorship. # # Gilmore's home network includes what anti-spam crusaders call # an "open relay" -- a mail server that accepts and forwards email # from anyone. For decades, the practice was considered central # to good network citizenship. But in recent years, spammers have # begun hijacking open relays to multiply, sometimes a thousand # fold, the number of junk messages they can send at once. # # That abuse sparked a campaign by anti-spam activists to close # the open relays, a campaign that Gilmore, an entrepreneur, # electronic civil libertarian, and co-founder of the Electronic # Frontier Foundation (EFF), has little use for. # # "It reminds me of the X-ray machines they have in airports and # the security checks they put people through," says Gilmore. "It # doesn't actually solve the problem, it just infringes on the # rights of the innocent." # # Even as commercial ISPs began tightening down their mail servers # -- rejecting outgoing mail from non-subscribers, and forcing # subscribers to electronically prove their identity before sending # mail -- Gilmore kept his own mail server open to the world, a # service he says his friends have come to rely on. # # "Part of the reason my friends are using my machine is their # own ISPs' anti-spam measures prevent them from sending email # as they move around in the world," says Gilmore. "If one user # connects to my machine from an unknown address and sends a # message, my machine forwards it on. It's happy to. That could # be John Perry Barlow sending email from Africa to his girlfriend." # # Gilmore says he shuts down spammers when he detects them, but # acknowledges that some junk mail gets through his system. Late # last month, one such spam message -- from a would-be entrepreneur # offering professional spamming services to the public -- resulted # in a complaint to Gilmore's ISP, Verio, from an anti-spam group. # # Verio's sweeping acceptable-use policy prohibits open relays. # When Gilmore refused to put fetters on his mail server, the # company's security department slapped a filter on Gilmore's T1 # net connection Wednesday, blocking outgoing email from his # network. # # A Verio spokesperson did not return a telephone call Thursday. # Verio security team leader Darren Grabowski declined to comment. # "What we do is between us and our customer," said Grabowski. # # Anti-spam pressure Gilmore believes anti-spam efforts have gone # too far, and impact the rights of innocent people. "Verio is # filtering me because they were pressured by a pressure group, # and they don't have enough intelligence to stand up against that # pressure." # # But the head of the anti-spam business that forwarded the # complaint to Verio last month says the ISP did the right thing. # # "It's been a very long time since open relays were considered # acceptable on the net," says Julian Haight, owner of SpamCop.net. # "On today's Internet, things have changed considerably." # # SpamCop.net lets netizens easily and automatically track and # report spammers and open relays, and maintains a blacklist of # network addresses the company considers spam-friendly. Haight # acknowledges the influence his organization, and other anti-spam # efforts, can exert on an ISP, but he says no one has a right # to operate a service that lends a hand to spammers. # # "Freedom of speech is not 100 percent," says Haight. "You're # not allowed to come into my home to preach to me... Open servers # are responsible for making copies of unsolicited commercial emails # and sending it to people who don't want it." # # Gilmore argues that by making decisions about what to allow or # disallow over their network, ISPs risk losing the common carrier # status that protects them from legal liability for their # customer's actions. # # "Ultimately, they should be a pipe. They shouldn't care what # content goes through. For them to say, well, we'll send your # IP packets... except when you send this particular type of IP # packet, it takes them out of the realm of a common carrier," # says Gilmore. "That puts the entire Internet in jeopardy." 6/13/2000 Hannity & Colmbes, Representive Dan Burton, giving his URL to where he put a report critical of Clinton on the WWW: "It's at indiana.com" [confers with someone off-screen] "It's at indiana.gov.com"

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