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Put it where the SUN don't shine...
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Microsoft spoofers, who work for Palladium Interactive software, didn't let the feel-good fest rain on their parade. They said their tiny Larkspur, Calif. company drew lots of interest in their parody of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 98 operating program, which goes by a name that can't be mentioned here because of its sexual connotations. The program includes games such as Billagotchi, an on-screen "cyber pet" that people need to feed money and tend to his needs or else he throws a tantrum. For example, the parody includes an icon for "MS Exploiter" that links to a Palladium Web site. And in a skit based on Star Trek, cartoon characters from the Star Ship Explorer blow up the SS Netscape. "The party line is if you don't have a booth, you can't hand out literature," said Rebecca Murphy, director of product marketing for the firm. "We're just trying to have some fun."

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Re: The Illusion of Freedom
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Monty Cantsin wrote: >Nerthus wrote: >>Monty Cantsin wrote: >>>However, most people who engage in war are not in any sense free and >>>the single most apparent feature of life in a military organization is >>>the elimination of freedom and privacy. >>> >>>It is most often the case that in order to wage war, one must first >>>become enslaved. >> >>Those who wage war are rarely the slaves. Those who die usually are. >>The "cannon fodder" you mentioned. > >"Okay soldier, let's see that pass!" Is this the treatment accorded >to a free man? Clearly not. Let me rephrase what I said since it appears it was not as obvious as I had thought. Those who wage war (the politicians/"kings") are rarely the slaves. Those who die (the soldiers/citizens) usually are. The soldiers and citizens are the pawns and other chessmen on the chessboard who are sacrificed to protect the king of their color while attempting to checkmate the king of the other color. All chessmen are expendable, except the two kings. When one of the kings is checkmated, the game is over. Note: the king can be checkmated without the loss of a single chessman, though it is rare. However, the possibility exists. Think about it. Nerthus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNHtawOFWwZe05jcJAQGvZggAhDzCHUGgXEsKkPIEoiuhfqIDVsjVDEnY xDHeJcaBnTQmlp3bbqapgEyfMwisxGKOqYkEe4UknKkGgTfSFZZ/3lpaY7ljbowE qaeO/yHrJOhABeGnBQgLNJUpF5JyA29nGNqyjaKS8u9fi6hN5VeE+UgoLagRwwnf fyphD9Q6hzvaka0TeeLua9h294HgHXu7L8CSUvsTlnA4CEHfebMxDIkyBE6k2TOV UWDZusi9Qs/vr1MRDAD5+9i1OdIqS+YZedpE/yt7w+xsqZr/+W9bz4rSc3Feba6h PipF0Jb5SBwIv4C6bRuHIpJ9mbm3C5LNbTq84RKaCVU0xp+SMWQB1g== =4XaY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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"Good job NANAE. You really fucked up royally." (was: Furor over Spam)
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

tweek(a)netcom.com (R R M Tweek) wrote: > I think it's fucking funny if you ask me. The unworthy "databasix goons" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > were concerned just about this sort of thing occuring. Isn't it amazing how they can "predict" thing like that? > I hope that > LOA was running some sort of caller ID, or supeonas the phone records > of those calls who step across the line and made threats in their 4am > phone calls. Can't wait to see how this story sways the congresscritters > when Sanford tries to spin this incident his was in the anti-spam legislation > hearings. Maybe you ought to give (or sell cheaply) your fellow "databasix goon" Gary Burnore the clue that if he's going to call an alleged "spammer" on the phone at 2 AM and ream him about a Usenet post, that he shouldn't brag about it publicly. And yet he did exactly that. Would it be any wonder if people were to start suspecting that he might have done the same thing again? Now go subpoena those phone records. You might want to concentrate on calls made from the Raleigh-Durham, NC area. If you're alluding to the fact that Ron Guilmette may have been responsible, since the disinformation team at DataBasix has accused him practically everything else, you have about as much chance of proving that as O.J. Simpson does of "finding the real killers". > Good job NANAE. You really fucked up royally. One could conceivably substitute "DataBasix" for "NANAE" in that flame. --

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Re: Report on UN conferen
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mikhael Frieden <mikhaelf(a)mindspring.co> wrote reg. "illegal immigrants": > > In a much more fundamental sense, if they were not given > > constitutional protections they really could be rounded up and > > bussed across the border. > > And what would be wrong with this? > Not a damned thing. While in this country they are in the act of > committing a crime. Once they have been deported they have > stopped committing the crime and then they can plead to appear > in court. It used to be, that people are "felons under an increasing number of laws". Now we've congressed to an "increasing number of felons regardless of what they do" (their "crime" is being from "other side" of the pencil-lines, that the statists have drawn on their papers). Even the "freedom-loving", no-boundaries etc. Cypherpunks fall over those imaginery "border-lines", without having it ever dawn on them, that *everything* done now to "illegal immigrants" will one day soon be extended to the government-issued passport/digital VeriSign-Tax-ID bearing "Americans" as well. (Please refer to the "War on Drugs" for proof of patterns.) In fact, it's being done already. The systems developed to "track down illegal aliens" can track ANYBODY for that matter. AnybodyHomeMonger

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Diamonds, diamonds.
by cypango＠mxtro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: Don't type your yes/fraud response into your computer
by A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> At base, the moral to the story is that a compromised user machine >permits essentially any and all activities to be suborned. Only a smart >card mechanism stands a chance of standing up to this, but that, in effect, >makes the smart card the 'user machine'. True and has been one reason the smartcards/tokens/etc have been available for years. The other side of the coin is expense - for a smart card and reader you are looking at over $100. For a token alone (you enter the one-time response) $30-$60. In a mass-market environment, this is not supportable. OTOH, keyboard sniffing software is easy to detect because it must go resident and it must intercept the keystrokes. The fact that no software has bothered to do this does not mean that it cannot be done. The easiest way for such software to act would be to ignore the machine software and when sensitive material is to be passed, to do so via direct port (hardware) access - been a while since I looked at it but AFAIR is around port 60h. (PC type machines) This would take care of anything sitting on Int 09 or Int 16 since it would be bypassed. Often a problem that looks difficult when viewed as a whole becomes simple once you disassemble it. Rather than try to find a workaround for a machine you do not trust, why not develop a means to trust it ? Can do with software alone and that is cheap. Warmly, Padgett ps Dave, what is this thingie on the 21st ? May be in the area (opportunity for plug here 8*). pps Before y'all get too wrapped up in free-speech vs libel in the US I would suggest studying the difference between criminal law and civil.

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Re: Further costs of war
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Fabrice Planchon wrote: >On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 02:20:34AM +0100, Anonymous [Monty Cantsin] wrote: >> Fabrice Planchon wrote: >> >Once again, if 1812 the [British] invasion [of the United States] actually occured,... >> >> They burned the White House to the ground. Does that count? ;-) > >Oups... of course I made a typo, and everybody read "in 1812 >yadayadayada". And yes it counts and I like it... I assume you are in the U.S. on a visa, right? I would recommend using a remailer for this sort of seditious comment. (Seriously!) >...(just because the initial reason for this mess was the tentative >to take over Canada, and it just illustrates that the US were already >as any other country, trying to take over their neighbours ;-) Of >course nowadays you don't see that they miserabily failed on that >occasion) As late as the 1930s, the U.S. Army had detailed plans for an invasion of Canada. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHpuAJaWtjSmRH/5AQGbXwf8C7ydmQft6ooWXS5iJm7nZvSqLpgPLdBL rfbaNSu08/tgWjVpTY/LHzwcNmBGn29vIzUrNY9b+cy3ROlXf1XFfZf6sVyei9Lf WPG6AFT3MxbcHF8RoknJUCYmImPTCWKtVeCKoscyEfhIj6uG9m8gbVF5TlwT90C7 cb+OdRBprnY2OUlEWhNAQ++tTpr7lhLlQY4qe5Tah5Jk95iMcZZghyqX0//4zb9t Fak1REGlnXIq+pvJQcYulJQL5iorbuETOIEekOimCiCW9pqq1xjXLdG24rXqg1V5 4r6NPcdCq15Z9o83j+r7+yJlt90ibSv/rAnNHncEwmA0EHZlcVjGtA== =7xnG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Free speech and jlist groups press conf on ratings (12/1)
by Mikhael Frieden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:34 PM 11/24/97 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > > ** MEDIA ADVISORY ** > > Press Conference on Internet Ratings and Filtering > > >WHO: Internet Free Expression Alliance (IFEA) > >WHAT: Press conference announcing the formation of IFEA, a coalition of >organizations devoted to the continuation of the Internet as a forum for >open expression and to identify new threats to free expression and First >Amendment values on the Internet, whether legal or technological. > >WHEN: Monday, December 1, 12:30 p.m. > >WHERE: First Amendment Lounge > National Press Club > 14th & F Streets, N.W. > Washington, DC > >WHY: To address the free speech issues raised by proposals to rate >and filter "objectionable" content on the Internet. Is there any suggestion as to the first meaning to define "objectionable"? Of course not. That would limit the number of expense paid trips around the country definitions the organization paying the bills does not agree with. "Objectionable" means anyone can write off a pseudo-vacation. And you do not eveb have to show up for the sessions and interupt the sightseeing tour. -=-=- The 2nd guarantees all the rest.

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News of Jim Bell
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous forwarded three local news stories about Jim's sentencing: http://jya.com/jimbell6.htm An excerpt: In a hearing in U.S. District Court in Tacoma this morning, Bell 's public defender and an assistant U.S. Attorney recommended a 6-to-12-month jail sentence for Bell as part of a plea-bargain agreement. But federal probation officers recommended a sentence of 27 months. In doing so, they said they were looking at the "totality" of Bell's behavior, including the threatening nature of his Internet essay, "Assassination Politics." As a result, U.S. District Court Judge Franklin D. Burgess said he was uncomfortable with the situation. "Somehow I am getting a feeling that somebody knows more about something than I do," Burgess said. Also reported: Jim had encrypted some of his files. And though "Bell plead guilty to relatively innocuous charges" IRS investigators compared him to The Unabomber and Tim McVeigh, and claimed he was "part of a far darker scheme to assassinate IRS agents and topple the U.S. government."

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Re: BIOS Help
by Brandon Crosby 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Hi Brandon, > > > Does anyone know where specs for Award BIOS chips are? I accidentily > > locked mine and lost the password. > Contact Award directly. If you have the data off the tag on the BIOS chip as > well as the version data on boot you should be able to get a technical > manual for the particular BIOS your computer uses. Note however that these > manuals are generaly not cheap, sometimes costing a couple hundred dollars. > The reason for the price is that it describes the BIOS to such a deep > extent. > > Review your motherboard, there is usualy a jumper that allows the BIOS > to be reset. The process usualy goes like: > > - turn computer off > - locate jumper and short with a shorting-block > - turn computer on then off > - remove the shorting-block > - the BIOS should be reset > > Don't know if Award has a webpage but you might try www.award.com or one > of the search engines. > Thanks for your help [and, to someone else for the default password]. OK, not much of a thankyou, I guess... [The default passwd worked] What is a 'Magic Password'? -Brandon Crosby

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