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SLICK WILLIE'S SHITHOUSE SPECIAL!!!
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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NSF grants to Internet at risk)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: NSF grants to Internet at risk [Seems to me that this dispute involves two perils: class action suits and government funding of technology that can be easily paid for by the private sector. I mean, it's not like the world's corporations hasn't figured out the Internet is important. Besides, government funding often means greater control. Early on in public broadcasting, the government barred TV stations from editorializing. Currently government grants to community radio stations don't go to ones with eclectic and thus probably more interesting programming -- which need the cash the most. And remember that Senate encryption bill that basically said government-funded networks must use key escrow? Obviously the details of the suit and the fund are important here, but the broader point is worth keeping in mind. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:40:17 -0400 From: David Lytel <david(a)lytel.com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Subject: Fwd: URGENT breaking news: Internet funding crisis [personal note snipped. --dbm] Internet Funding Crisis: A Call to Action for CyberCitizens For more information call David Lytel of Sherpa Consulting Group at 1-315-473-8996 or 1-888-GUIDING Unknown to the rest of the world, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is engaged in an effort to remove millions of dollars from the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF) that the Congress has previously made available to invest in new Internet technologies. Lott is trying to repeal action earlier this year that ratified the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund as a congressionally authorized tax on the registration of Internet domain names. This was necessary because of a lawsuit brought against Network Solutions, Inc., which has been acting as a domain registration authority for the Internet under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. In Thomas v. Network Solutions, Inc., 1998 WL 191205, US District Court Judge Hogan ruled that the domain name registration fee was an unauthorized tax. Based on Congress's belated ratification of the fee (in the VA/HUD Supplemental Appropriation bill earlier this year), Hogan ruled that it was authorized. This issue is being appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Regardless of the outcome of the Lott amendment, this means that the DC Circuit will consider the lawfulness of the fund. Lott's maneuver is to add the repeal of the ratification to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which has passed the House and may reach the floor as early as this week. In the Senate, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has passed both the Commerce and the Finance Committees without the change, but Lott is circulating a draft managers amendment that would repeal the ratification. What is at stake: At stake is about $60 million that the NSF would no longer have available to invest in research and development of high speed networks and bandwidth-intensive applications. If this is settled in the courts, about $15 million would go to the attorney for the plaintiffs and most of the rest would be lost to administrative fees as Network Solutions finds ways to make rebates people who have registered domain names. The payoff to individual domain holders would be only a few dollars. The NSF would lose funds that are supposed to be available to aid universities as they upgrade their connections from today's commodity Internet connections to tomorrow's Internet 2 level connections. For the commercial Internet, this means that advanced research on different approaches relieve Internet congestion will be slowed or stopped. The NSF funds experimental networks that address the fundamental problem of traffic congestion on today's Internet. The problem goes beyond the limitations of access technologies such as today's modems or even access technologies such as ISDN. There are segments of what are supposed to be the Internet's high speed corridors that are significantly blocked during periods of peak use. Part of the solution is building more and bigger pipes to carry Internet traffic. But it is also quite likely that demand is growing quickly enough to fill much of this capacity. The Internet traffic problem is not unlike the automobile traffic problem in our major cities in the 1960s, when no matter how many new bridges and highways we built we never managed to get ourselves out of a traffic jam. This is why a significant part of the Internet's original academic pioneers are experimenting with new technologies to separate and prioritize Internet traffic. The Internet's underlying technologies are designed to implement what is called a "best effort" level of servicemeaning that if packets cannot be delivered the Internet keeps trying to send them for three days before giving up. Just as HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes have been part of the solution to the problem of highway traffic, tomorrow's Internet will support quality-of-service or QoS distinctions so that the bits containing an MRI moving between a primary care physician and a specialist are given the priority they deserve over more playful uses of the Internet. While industry is addressing the problem of congestion in various ways, it is often the university research community that produces the innovative solutions that no one has yet thought of. This ability to prioritize packets, in conjunction with the ability to reserve bandwidth in advance rather than just hoping for the best, may be the foundation of tomorrow's multimedia Internet. With the right underlying technologies, tomorrow's Internet will handle voice and video services with greater ease than it handles email and Web pages today. Some of the next generation of Internet success stories will once again come from the networking laboratories of university-based researchers. Who is behind this: The driving force behind the lawsuit is Attorney William Bode in Washington (202-862-4300) on behalf of a client called the American Internet Registrants Association. If Lott is successful the ratification will be repealed and the lawsuit will be settled in favor of the plaintiffs. Although it is not yet possible to link Bode to Senator Lott's actions, a search of the Federal Election Commission's campaign contributors on the Center for Responsive Politics site (www.crp.org) reveals Bode as an active financial supporter of the Republican National Committee, former Senator Bob Dole, and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is chair of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. What CyberCitizens can do: The most important members of the Senate to contact are Lott, Senator William Roth (R-DE, chair of the Finance Committee) and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and the bill's Republican floor manager). It is also useful to contact the Democratic floor manager, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND). A staffer in the office of Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who has sponsored the Internet Tax Freedom Act, says Wyden will not make any effort to get the objectionable amendment removed, saying "we do not have a dog in that fight." Others worth contacting are Finance Committee members Senator Al D'Amato and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from New York, the state with the highest number of 4 year, Ph.D.-granting institutions and the highest number of students at 4 year schools, who would benefit from the NSF funding. Their e-mail addresses: Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) senatorlott(a)lott.senate.gov or fax 202-224-2262 Senator William Roth (R-DE) comments(a)roth.senate.gov Senator John McCain (R-AZ) senator_mccain(a)mccain.senate.gov Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) senator(a)dorgan.senate.gov Senator Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY) senator_al(a)damato.senate.gov Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) senator(a)dpm.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) senator(a)wyden.senate.gov In addition, universities, Internet industry associations and companies should consider supporting Network Solutions in its legal battle over the lawfulness of the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure fund. If any group or individual is interested in filing an amicus brief in support of the lawfulness of the registration fee, they should contact Mark Davies at mdavies(a)mayerbrown.com for more details. For more on the Internet domain name controversy see the Domain Name Handbook at www.domainhandbook.com Others who could be interviewed include: Joel Widder, Deputy Director of the NSF's Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at 703-306-1070 or jwidder(a)nsf.gov Tony Rutkowski, formerly Executive Director of the Internet Society and now head of the independent Center for the Next Generation Internet (www.ngi.org) at 703-437-9236 or amr(a)ngi.org Howard Sartori (202-917-2935), president of the American Internet Registrant's Association (www.aira.org or 202-862-4363) Gabe Battista 703-742-4842) president of Network Solutions, Inc. (www.netsol.com or 703-742-0400) **version 1.2 **end new address: 5 Brattle Road Syracuse, NY 13203-2803 315-473-8996

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Does God know Peano Algebra?
by strawman＠ehmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

or does she not care if strong atheists couldnt reason their way out of a trap made of Boolean presumptions? a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, but zero knowlege is absolutely subversive... --------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email from Canada.com at http://www.ehmail.com

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:29:28 -0400 > From: Sunder <sunder(a)brainlink.com> > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > Why would they implement it when they can simply have their software scan the > BIOS code if that's what they feared? It may cost them $10k each, but it'll > cost them millions to design and scan every notebook type on the planet, and No, again, they only have to scan the BIOS types and there are only a couple thousand (if that many) of those. It really isn't that complicated, there are only a few cpu's, there are only a few glue chip sets, only a few video driver chip sets, only a few LCD panels, etc. Admitted when multiplied together there are a lot of combinations. Now the board manufacturers, the BIOS manufacturers, and the various glue chipset makers get together and share data and the manufacturers look to their marketing to define their target point. Then they do a cost analysis on the chipset combo's and pretty soon you find the market only handles a handful of fundamentaly different machines. If there was as much variety at the hardware level as you assume nobody could afford to introduce new computers every few months. > then they'll have to get their hands on newer models as soon as they hit the > market. You're talking about a project that's bigger in magnitude than the > NSA. No it isn't. All it takes to get the BIOS before it hits the market is get a license agreement with the BIOS manufacturer. Hell, when I worked at Compu-Add we did this sort of stuff with Award and Phoenix all the time. We would get alpha copies to test in our new hardware on a regular basis. > Why should YOUR BIOS need to contain encryption code or device drivers for that > matter? All it needs to do is to HIDE the existance of the extra partition. And the code in the BIOS which means it needs to be hidden just like some viruses. Realisticaly it isn't this complicated. All one needs to do is write a program that allows the operator to talk directly to the hard drive controller. At that point it's a trivial matter to go out and find those hidden partitions. You could use normal drive recovery software if you had a mind, and that only costs a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and can be bought in the back of Computer Shopper. > You patch your BIOS by replacing a few bytes of code with CALL's and NOP's. > Maybe 4-8 bytes at most to modify. The routine that checks for the track range > is only several bytes: > > > Somehwere in INT13 code: > blah > blah > blah > CALL biospatch > NOP ; to fill in the overwritten code to the next opcode > > > biospatch PUSH AX ;save the register if you need it > MOV AX,switch ;get the value of the hack switch switch > JE popbye > POP AX > CMP AX,1234 ;or whatever register or whatever value > JLE bye > deny MOV AL,FAIL ;some reg and some value that says error, likely AL > RET > > popbye POP AX > bye ;insert the code that you overwrote with your CALL to this patch > re > RET > > > Homework: Someone please take this code, optimize it for size and build a TSR > patching INT 13 that JIM can install and run under DOS. Don't bother, I already know how to do that. This would stand out like a sore thumb. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb 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: Speaking of political consims - Land of the Free (fwd) [fun]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From consim-l-return-15556-ravage=ssz.com(a)net.uni-c.dk Tue Sep 22 23:33:14 1998 Mailing-List: contact consim-l-help(a)net.uni-c.dk; run by ezmlm Reply-To: consim-l(a)net.uni-c.dk Delivered-To: mailing list consim-l(a)net.uni-c.dk Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 04:04:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Tracy Johnson <tmj(a)primenet.com> To: consim-l(a)net.uni-c.dk Subject: Re: Speaking of political consims - Land of the Free In-Reply-To: <85037379.36082228(a)aol.com> Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980923040158.6538C-100000(a)usr09.primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Actually Justin Thyme has been doing these games for years with our player teams at conventions, but without computers. On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 BillR54619(a)aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 9/22/98 5:18:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > olboggy(a)hotmail.com writes: > > Hasbeen Interactive announces its new, Java-enabled, interactive WWW gaming > experience, BILLOMACY. "Billomacy" extends the concepts pioneered in the > classic TAHGC game, DIPLOMACY, placing you in a virtual social computing world > full of sovereign, petty, and touchy players. How many of them can YOU piss > off, and still stay in the game ? For the goal of BILLOMACY is not to win, but > to keep the game going for as long as you can. Chat and email functions allow > you to communicate with the other players almost instantaneously, to plot your > vast right wing conspiracies, or to indulge in hurling anathemas in the form > of press releases. The possibilities are endless !! Each game lasts as long as > you want to keep playing, from just one evening, or until kingdom come. > BILLOMACY supports an infinite number of strategies and playing styles, from > the passive-aggressive "Kaiser Wilhelm" mode to the sneaky, unprincipled, > "Guilliame Talleyrand" mode, not to mention the famous "Wild Bill" cowboy > mode, and of course, the ultimate in popularity, "Bill Clinton, Secret Agent > Man", which allows you to enter our special "adults only" area for phone sex > and other goodies. And for the spiritually inclined, we have included the high > toned "Billy Graham" sermonizing option, for a low extra price. BILLOMACY, the > favorite interactive game of (who else) Bill Gates, is an experience we think > you'll really like !! > > --- > > Bill R. Tracy Johnson tmj(a)primenet.com

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:10 PM 9/21/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >It is further clear the police don't carry them for their own protection >either. Wonder why they do carry them?... The fastest practical way to disable a metazoan is to puncture the circulatory system supplying their brain. Any questions? "Go for the head shot" -a former employee of the President

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Forwarded mail...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:15:33 +0200 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > It is only rarely we get the sons of bitches on > tape, and then you'll have to pardon us for > exploiting it. Take what you can get and run like hell with it! > The only regret is that Frank Zappa was not alive > to put it all to music. I hadn't even thought of the potential for yellow snow rides... ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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new sci am articles on encryption
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

the new issue of scientific american features articles on encryption and hacking. one is by Phil Zimmermann, on public key cryptography. A policy article by Rivest (of RSA) argues against encryption restrictions in the US. a long article on internet hacking and breaking and entering describes the basic process that hackers use. Rivest uses the analogy of "gloves" for encryption, in the sense that we shouldn't outlaw gloves because the govt needs always to obtain fingerprints for identification. furthermore, "key escrow" is like gluing fingerprint copies to the bottoms of gloves, another waste of time.

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churches
by harvest1＠altavista.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Chruches, Pastors and Ministers: To those of you that are searching. I would like to invite you to view my web page. You just may find something in there that may help you in your search. www2.sosinet.net/~harvest1/communion.htm Since, this message is a one time post only. It is not necessary to respond. Prophet Leamon.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:00 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >I (as a militant atheist) merely say that if you can define your God, I can >probably prove he doesn't exist. Unless, of course, your definition is so >broad as to have no meaning in the first place. As a thinker I find the term atheism dignifies the concept of theism, so I find it offensive. Theists are primitives and one needn't stoop. In my religion, saying unprovable things in public is a stonable offense. Joe Momma

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