Jupiter's position tonight will be in opposition, or directly opposite the sun as seen from Earth. That means it will be brightly illuminated, especially for viewers in the Northern Hemisphere. The last time the gaseous planet with the large red spot was in opposition and overhead at midnight on New Year's Eve was in 1752, and the next time will be in 2084.

The server-software: Apache/1.3.22 (Darwin) mod_perl/1.26 Darwin?? target="_new"> <<< oh how we love HTML!!!! Big up the BLOGDIAL posse! How do you pronounce "Oekaki" ???!!

happy new year everyone. what's the impending url of this page you speak of mikkel?

ny times reports re:search for obl "What was a high priority for the Bush administration in recent weeks seems now to have lost much of its impetus." kinda makes you wonder what they really wanted in the first place. tabloid headline political agendas are more and more the norm while we the people never really existed in the first place anyway. more like we the consenting pawns. it's truly ashame

The box that you use to post text is broken in Mozilla, and all standards compliant browsers. Also, the nifty tools are missing, like the spellchecker, and the pushbutton HTML formatters and URL maker. Mozilla displays blogger generated HTML ok, its just the M$ centric tools that dont work. Ive tested this with Konquer, Mozilla and Opera.

Computers are useless: they can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso

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Thrreds: Bad Blogdial is "on its face"; in oter words, everything that is there is readable. You cannot dissapear into a thread, and loose the thrust. I want to read what you have to say, or go to where you want to point. There are plenty of good threaded sites. Out of the MANY people who ave signed up for Blogdial, only a handful are regular posters. Certainly, if and when we do a new system it will have some much needed features: Automagic parsing of Blogdial into a text only mailout that is mailed to the mailing list, after the last post falls off the bottom. Automagic N00king of lamaz who dont post at least once per week. Some kind of cool karma feature, related to free beer.

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As soon as irdial.com is online, we will be able to do many, many cool things. We will be running it on FreeBSD. Just start from there.

Surprise surprise: "The site www.blogger.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000." http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.blogger.com&submit=Examine Perhaps now that EV has publicised the security breach at Blogger, MANY more people will be trying to break in to it. This also explanis (partially) why blogger wont work with any browser other than IE. I think most people assumed that it was run on some UNIX; someone so smart, who wrote something so cool couldnt possibly be so stupid as to base the whole system on M$/IIS. Or so we thought.

nmap -sF -v -v {blogger ip} -P0 -O -p "1-500" that should give it up whoa dav, that looks like a dildofone. nah, just kidding. lots of holiday cheer from kat and i to all of you. love!!!!!

I want to know if Blogger is being run on M$/IIS or UNIX....Ill check later. I have a suspicion that its run on M$/IIS. The passwords should have been encrypted of course, as a matter of routine. Its the one reservation that I always had about Blogger, but measured against the fun it brings, its been worth the risk.

Dreadful dreadful dreadful! You are in good company Claus; i n00ked one of my W98 installations when trying to back it up onto an identical capacity HD. I backed it up in the WRONG DIRECTION. Doh! As for a bootable Win2K CD, and I presume that you are fast, you can usually find one on Morpheus or of course IRC. When you loose an installation and data that you have been tweaking and preening for ages its like a part of you dies. Its a horrible, sickening hollow feeling... Chrismas dinner with the family. The absurd to write about, to boring to write about. Got bored. Idle hands do the devils work....hope you had some backups.. As for me, Ive been running Linux non stop for the whole holiday, uptime 6days plus. Compiled and ran Mplayer, updated my Mozilla build... DivX:-) under Linux is =rock solid= Xine is the best player so far, though it chokes on the Afgan episode of South Park; bad audio.... Drank not so much this year, and no cigars.

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A disturbance in the Force... In a metaphoric sense, we are looking for evidence of a developing global consciousness that might react to events with deep meaning. http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html

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The back of the note features the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, as well as the skyline of lower Manhattan. The view is approximately what one would have observed from Hoboken, N.J. prior to Sept. 11, 2001. http://www.matthewtrump.com/newthousand.html

...The government cannot interfere with a Right. Bear with me as I repeat this essential precept in several different ways so that you might understand: "Rights" do not come from civil government. We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable Rights. According to the Declaration of Independence, the ONLY reason government exists (it uses the phrase "instituted among men") is to protect Rights. You cannot be granted Rights you already have. The word: "Unalienable" means it cannot be taken from you. If something can be lawfully taken from you, then you didn't have a right to it. Government must protect Rights, not regulate them. Governments are instituted among men to secure those Rights. "Rights" are above government. The exercise of a Right cannot be infringed. A Right cannot be taxed. The exercise of a Right cannot be taxed. The power to tax is the power to destroy. You cannot delegate to your civil servants the power to regulate the inalienable Rights of others... ...You become internal to the government. You have accepted appointment to a government office. The office of "Person" (see Appendix D). Your Constitution was written to control government, not people. And, you've enlisted into the government. You can now expect to be regulated. And, just like other forms of enlistment, you can expect to be treated harshly. Those who hold this government office are now required to sign Forms under the Penalty of Perjury... ...Here are some more details for those who are doing homework: "Hypothecation" is a banking term. "Hypothecation" is defined in Section 14(a) of the Federal Reserve Act as an offer of assets owned by a party other than the borrower as collateral for a loan, without transferring title. The United States is the borrower. You are the party other than the borrower. On your behalf, and with your consent, your representatives borrow most of your national debt from the Federal Reserve Bank. Section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 USC 411) says that Federal Reserve Notes are obligations of the United States. This is true even if the Federal Reserve is not a government agency, because the government has promised to repay the loans to this privately owned corporation. Federal Reserve Notes are backed by the full faith and credit of hypothecated assets (such as your future labor). According to the Legislative History of Public Law 94-564 "The U.S. commitment to redeem international dollars for gold became a physical impossibility". That's right! Your bankrupt government cannot repay Foreign lenders their gold. They will soon claim their collateral. You are the collateral.... ...Livestock has owner granted rights also. Just because your current owner can be nice to you, doesn't mean you are free, nor does it mean you won't be sold. Just because you can vote for President, doesn't mean you are free. In fact, it is proof that you are a slave.... ...I will also show you later that civil rights must be regulated, and that natural rights cannot be regulated. Real rights do not come from government. Government cannot grant rights, although they often refer to their privileges as rights.... ...There is only one Sovereign, and He will judge you on the judgement day. But, from the government's point of view, those who created government, and their posterity, are their sovereigns. Civil servants must do two things: obey their masters and control their subjects. Your government only writes laws for their subjects. They call their subjects by the term "persons". Government does not write laws to control their masters. Your government calls their masters non-persons. "Persons" are people who are under the government. "Non-persons" are people who are above the laws of their servants. They are above the government they control. LAW COMES FROM NON-PERSONS. Read Appendix D now.... ...If you cannot govern yourself, others will govern you. No matter how much they demand. Whether you like it or not.... http://www.ptialaska.net/~fmetcalf/mark_of_beast/Chap15.htm

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A few short weeks ago, my boss came up to me at work and told me one of the most chilling things I've ever been told in person, "Lee, one of our senior vice presidents just called me and asked me to immediately escort you to the fourteenth floor. I have no idea what this about." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/12/20/211923/84

Whether you agree or not with their views isn't really relevant, it's their decisions :) This is exactly and precisely what I believe. What I think and believe only applies to me, and It is not my place to impose my beliefs on other people and by extension other countries. It is anathema to me that another persons beliefs should be forced upon me or the country where I live. My way of thinking and behaving protects those people in other countries who want to do national service, carry ID cards, be numbered, sell thier organs, pray to statues, not pray to statues. whatever. You are free to do what you want, as long as you dont try and make me do it, or submit to your ways. If you try and do that, then you must die.

The principle that slavery is wrong is not dissoluble. Once they can compel you to kill as a slave in the army, they can compel you to be sterilized, take vaccination, and do anything they want, because you are nothing more than a numbered piece of property. If you think that its OK to be a piece of property, and all of your countrymen think that too, I don't have a problem with you, or your country, I simply choose not to live there. What I DO have a problem with, and I will be repeating myself, is when people from other countries try and tell me what I can and cannot do in the jurisdiction that I have chosen as my home. This is the fundamental difference between the British and the Europeans. They cannot accept that their ways and beliefs are not suitable for everyone. They think that if you do not do as they do you are wrong, and therefore must be compelled to be and live as they do. Doing what you want in your own house, on your own time and in your own jurisdiction is your business. If the Europeans understood that and were hot hell bent on trying to homogenize the whole world, we would be able to live side by side with them without any problems or acrimony.

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From ZDNET http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,119574-992766,00.html Name: Angered, Location: Withheld, Occupation: IT "In less than 48 hours, 150 Secret Service men and other law officials served 30 search warrents in 14 cities around the nation " The quote above wasn't from this month, this year, or this decade. It was from May, 1990, from "Operation Sun Devil", a crackdown on "hacking and phreaking" BBSes, way before the web. Has the flow of that information been hampered? Absolutely not. This is nothing new. The FBI and Customs Servic are a bunch of blathering goons. Look at Alan Doody, and his stupid self-congratulated over-annunciated spittle ridden speech about this recent bust.. Wow, 63 people caught. My oh my. All the feds have done is shoot themselves in the foot. They found a group of people that were the enemy of the oh-so-benevolent Great Corporations of this country. So, what did they do? The same thing the RIAA did with Napster and P2P: They fired a few shots into that mass of "offenders".. They hit a few, but they caused the vast majority just to scatter and take things underground. Good for the warez scene. Bad for the FBI. Now, there will be fewer major conglomerated groups. The warez groups will be small, isolated, and harder to find and infiltrate. As things always will be. In reality, I don't think warez does one tenth the damage companies claim.. As if a 12 year old would have bought Photoshop otherwise.. And the ignorant asses who yell "but they broke the law" are just that, ignorant, illiterate sheep. A law is only as good as the people's will to follow it. Bobby Teenager trading software with his friends on IRC is not costing the software industry billions, and those kids CERTAINLY should NOT do "HARD TIME" as one FBI moron quoted. If anything, it's building experts in that software early, who will pay for it later. What the he11 is wrong with our stupid country?? If the FBI is concerned about the scourge of software piracy, why don't they raid a few large corporations and see how many license violations they'll find there? Go to one building of one fortune 500 company, and I guarantee you'll net way more than -63- violators there. But of course, these days, the FBI does not protect the citizen. It's the citizens against the corporations.. And if any FBI agent reading this is worth his salt (And I'm sure some are reading).. Think about what you're doing. Do you really think individuals trading software causes any harm? Do you really think they deserve hard time? This has been going on since computers started. It is more the norm than an exception -- and the most pirated companies (MS, Adobe) are doing just fine. I'm a computer programmer, and I expect that my software will be used 'illegally'. However, I don't give a rat's a$$ about the guy down the block who even makes copies for all his friends. It's the large, rich company who COULD buy my software but instead installs 500 illegal copies at one site that I'm concerned about. Note, not one corporate work center was raided. Just individuals. And it won't put a dent in anything. Pathetic, but what else do you expect. I'd love to have a one-on-one debate with an FBI agent who supports this, however I fear with the recent attitude in this country, I wouldn't be safe speaking my opinion.

All of this should come as no surprise to anyone. People have always been stupid, and the reason that there has been any freedom at all is because there has been a gentlemans agreement that freedom is the best way to go. It has alway been understood (and in the case of the constitution of Germany, explicitly stated) that rights are conditional. Now that there has been a supposed change in conditions, they are changing the mode of operation, knowing that the populations are so very stupid and asleep that they will accept anything that is forced on them, without question. In the UK, bombing by the IRA has been happening for decades. Some of the bombs have been incredibly large and destructive, yet, throughout all of this time, the government has never felt the need to strip away all of the rights that have been part of the gentlemans agreement for 1000 years. It is only now, when there is an attack on another country that the peoples rights are to be revoked. This is clearly absurd. There is no reason why such measures should be brought in in the UK. No other country in the EU is doing this (partly because they have no freedom in the first place), so why has the UK done this? That is irrelevant. The point is why is everyone not up in arms over this? How is it that a single man can wipe away 1000 years of building towards a free country, destroy it without any justification at all, and not even a whimper from the population? I have not even mentioned the millions dead in several brutal wars, where British men and women fought to protect the UK from enemies world wide. Sadly, even the people with some intelligence simply cannot understand the power of the number 1. If they understood that, nothing like this power grab would be possible. I have not met anyone who thinks that these measures are needed or right, yet, the power of the individuals is contained by each individual because they refuse to communicate in a "linked arms" fashion. What I mean by that, is to say that no one is saying "I am not going to accept this, and no one that I know is going to either." That alone would be sufficient. Then of course, there are the people who actually think that people being numbered like pigs is an OK thing to do. These people are the worst kind, because not only do they not lend thier power of 1 to the cause of keeping people free, they are actually propagating a -1 input, which dampens down the effect of mass refusal. The only way that a reversal of this situation can come about is if there is an outrage on a massive scale that will change the minds of the population, that effects everyones pockets and lives. Quite what that could be eludes me, but it looks like an impossible task. Firstly, the currrent "anti terrorism laws" have to be removed from the books, in thier entirety. Then the UK must remove itself from the EU. The second is more likely than that first. When the ECU comes into use in January, shopkeepers, hotels and many businesses will begin to accpet it in excange for goods an services. When toursits come to the UK, they will bring Euros with them and will not use Sterling. Why should they change thier money twice when they are simply passing through the uk on a European tour, when every shop in the UK accepts ECU? The value of the pound will be damaged by this. No one will want the pound, because you will not need it to operate in the UK. Everyone with a Sterling account will see that thier savings have lost value. They will be furious. The UK will either have to join the Euro and take the loss, or outlaw the use of the Euro in the UK to try and bolster the value of the pound. I have been in countries where there are two currencies running side by side; the local currency always looses becuase the stronger, foreign currency, is, for many reasons, stronger. Its astonishing that no one has spotted this....or maybe they have. Either way, the pound and the value of the savings in millions of Sterlings accounts is doomed unless something is done to protect the integrity of the pound. Lets see what happens. Either way, for the record, we are NOT going along with it, DO NOT support it, and refuse to co-operate with it. Period. We will NOT accept the Euro in exchange for our goods while the pound is the legal tender of the UK. We ALREADY encrypt our mail so that it cant be read. We ENCOURAGE you to do the same.

totally amazing cnn poll: Do you agree that governments should be able to detain terror suspects indefinitely without trial? Yes 80% No 20% "hey you, suspect......." claus, just bitching and ranting. i'm just confused anymore. is there a brain sucking machine somewhere up in space taking all of our precious bodily fluids? i think that there must be as i just don't get how anyone could buy a kid rock album. the arts need artists not 'stars'. bah bah.....

natalie d served me coffee this morning! yes, yes as i awoke to drive my lovely wife to work, we stopped for coffee and snacks to find natalie as cheerful as you would imagine for someone who has "lost/misplaced" their id card. she spoke in kind of a manly voice and spit a lot. as she ran around behind the counter pouring steamy coffee she shouted gwb quotes, saying "we will get them", "kill the educated", "zeke hile" and other memorable snipets from our 'leader of the FREE world' & friends. it was quite a morning.... "The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!" --from the first pres debate but who is to blame? are YOU wearing nikes? am i? do we care? should i keep laughing?

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Shouted down by ingnorant sheeple mob! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucrr/20011218/cm/_quot_give_me_liberty_or_quot_shut_up_ya_bum__1.html

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Ive been programming since the early '80s, first in Assembly, then in BASIC and most recently Perl. You simply have to suspend belief when you are trying to learn a new language. If you try and understand it all at once, you will fail, and feel stupid. Programming is a tool that you use to perform discreet tasks. If your task does not require that you write files to disc, then you dont need to know how to do that. You need to know just enough to do the job at hand, and no more. The incremental approach is best, and its also cool to have a good book by an author that you can get along with. My entry into modern languages was very lucky. Im interested in operating systems, and installed early versions of Red Hat. This was a great way to learn about Linux/UNIX, and the different shells and command line tools. Then, I got a book on UNIX, and learned even more. Then I got "Learning Perl" and by then, most of the ideas were familiar, and picking Perl up has been a breeze. Its very important to be open to failing when you are a programmer; its the only way to learn how to fix things. Total knowledge is not necessary for this in any way. You have to trust that the pieces will suddenly fall into place, a light will suddenly illuminate your head and it will all coalesce into a coherent single package that you can RuLe with. Then of course, you will be unable to communicate with anyone that does not programme. I am convinced that the act of learning a programming language changes the way that you think. I find that when people use gramatically incorrect english, I have to think to myself "You didnt mean to say that, but I know what you are trying to say". Your need for linguistic accuracy and correctness is very strong; forget watching the TV news, it will drive you iNsAnE! (especially Sky News). As for working for other people, all I can say is that dealing with computer illiterates who want programming done is the shortest path to the insane asylum. Trying to explain the most simple concepts, and watching peoples eyes glaze over is something that "Mr. Irdial" has had to put up with for literally decades. Get used to it. Unless everyone is sprayed with Geek Gas and is transformed into a real person, you will have to put up with this aspect of your existence FOREVER.

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"The obviousness of disaster becomes an asset to its apologists--what everyone knows no-one need say--and under cover of silence it is allowed to proceed unopposed." -- Theodor Adorno

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I just had a thought; monkeybrains.com decided not to cooperate with the feds, but what about the other 17+ email addresses where badtrans trafic was being dumped? Did the other site owners give in to the FBI?

Try www.cnn.com in the passwords section; logins compromised!!!!! Utterly and completely unreal. also compromised: http://www.the-times.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk http://www.silicon.com (99 results) [and this is supposed to be read by and run by computer literate people. They had THE MOST episodes of compromised passwords of all the domains that I tried!] Please try out the form and see what compromised domains you can find, and post them~

In particular, suck_my_prick@ijustgotfired.com began receiving emails at 3:23 PM on November 24. Triggering software automatically disabled the account after it exceeded quotas, and began saving messages as they arrived. The following day, MonkeyBrains' mail server was sluggish. Upon examination of the mail server's logs, it quickly became apparent that 100 emails per minute to the "suck_my_prick" alias were the source of the problem. The mails delivered the logged keystrokes from over 100,000 compromised computers in the first day alone. One of the most basic tenets of an authoritarian state is one that claims rights for itself that it denies its citizens. Surveillance is perhaps one of the most glaring examples of this in our society. Accordingly, rather than hand over the entire database to the FBI, MonkeyBrains has decided to open the database to the public. Now everyone (including the FBI) will be able query which accounts have been compromised and search for their hostnames. Password and keylogged data will not be made available, for obvious legal reasons. The database is available at http://badtrans.monkeybrains.net

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From: "Erich M" To: Declan McCullagh Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:33:48 +0100 Subject: Bin Laden's communications system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Declan, Here is the gist of three stories in German linked below cu erich If Bin Ladens Voice really could be identified on intercepted radio communications as some US Media report, he most likley used used a Handset of the "High Power HF SSB System" by the Australian manufacturer Codan. These Shortwave SSB [Single Side Band modulation] radio systems [voice and data] are used by most of the UN and many NGO relief orgs [UNHCR, UNICEF, Omar, Red cross] The Codan Marketing Manager confirmed that they had to ship over one thousand additional units to resupply the losses of those organisations in Afghanistan. Taliban/Al Quaeda systematically robbed those Codan Systems and used them to hide their communications. Can you imagine how difficult it was for the US to identify a communications station as a target when it was active with a hardware id and a callsign belonging to a UN organization? In many of the cases when relief orgs were hit by US missiles a Codan station was also destroyed. Codan System typically consists of automobile transceivers, a powerful base station [up to 1 KW covering the whole shortwave spectrum] plus a number of handsets. Each base station can handle up to 400 [!] radio telephony channels, Codan also delievers radio modems Shortwave, being the dirtiest of all spectra of course does not allow reliable on- the-air voice encryption - way too much noise around. Data transmissions are very slow [1Kbit/sec is "fast"] because of high data transmission error rates. Strong encryption systems are difficult to apply - if one character ist corrupt, the whole message remains unreadable - so even embassies around the world use some kind of Baudot-like numerical Code: Information is coded in groups of five numbers. All an easy prey to ECHELON I'd say. Al Kaida did not communicate via PGP or Steganography in pornographic images - God forbid! They used stolen two way radio hardware from relief organizations with stolen callsigns. The challenge to US surveillance was to identify whether a voice speaking in Pashtu [or some other dialect] belonged to the enemy. Or not: four Afghan engineers of a UN technical aid unit were killed by a cruise missile beginning October, the building contained a Codan base station. Full text http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/11357/1.html Abridged version http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=99932 first story http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=98032 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 -- QDPGP 2.61c Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBPByUrCfG0CJMDx3nEQIOrwCgjQShV/LhGNK3/NglAorcYO7OwRgAoLpR AIb+EJiXUJMZn5tGJq2JytCa =Bcui -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

that is truly something. if we could flash forward a couple decades i wonder what we'd see. facism all over with the press numbing the minions with mcrib and 'survivor'. apathy mixed with brainwashing as the mini mall slips into thewhitehouse. well at least the whitehouse front office....but down in the basement hitler and the duke boys will be plotting the next in' sync tour. oh, i'm sorry that was last week....

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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for an immediate end to Mideast violence. The resolution would also have laid the groundwork for establishing international monitors in Palestinian areas, which Israel is opposed to. Washington said the U.N. was not the proper forum to resolve Mideast violence and, as a permanent member of the Security Council it had the power to veto the resolution introduced by Egypt and Tunisia. It was the second time in less than a year that the United States had used its veto power to effectively kill a resolution that would create a monitoring mechanism for the protection of Palestinian civilians.... http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/15/un.resolution/

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The BBC said this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1705000/1705079.stm "The US Customs Service believes the Warez community is responsible for almost 90% of the pirated software sold over the web." But the US Customs Service ACTUALLY said this: Source: http://www.customs.gov/121101f.htm Tuesday, December 11, 2001 U.S. Customs Dismantles One of the World's Most Sophisticated Internet Piracy Networks 'Operation Buccaneer' Targets 'Warez' Cyberspace Gangs And Their Multi-Billion-Dollar Software Piracy Scheme WASHINGTON, DC-The U.S. Customs Service today executed 37 search warrants in 27 U.S. cities in connection with Operation Buccaneer, an unprecedented investigation into a global network of cyberspace gangs responsible for pirating billions of dollars worth of software over the Internet. Law enforcement authorities in four foreign nations simultaneously executed an additional 19 search warrants and arrested five individuals in connection with the case. The software pirated by these groups included expensive business software, firewall and other security software, and copyrighted games, music and digital videos. Operation Buccaneer is the first federal investigation of Internet software piracy to reach across international borders. Beginning at 10:30 Eastern Standard Time today, U.S. Customs agents executed search warrants on major universities, businesses and residences around the country, seizing computers and computer hard drives used to store and distribute pirated software. Today's enforcement actions were closely coordinated with authorities in Australia, England, Finland, and Norway. "Operation Buccaneer is the largest and most extensive investigation of its kind," said U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner. "This investigation underscores the severity and scope of a multi-billion-dollar software swindle over the Internet, as well as the vulnerabilities of this technology to outside attack." The enforcement actions today mark the first overt phase of a fifteen-month undercover investigation by the U.S. Customs Special Agent-in-Charge Office in Baltimore, Maryland; the U.S. Customs CyberSmuggling Center (C3) in Virginia; and the Justice Department's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in Washington, D.C. Operation Buccaneer targeted the WAREZ community, a loosely affiliated network of software piracy gangs that engage in the duplication and reproduction of copyrighted software over the Internet. It is estimated that the WAREZ community is responsible for nearly 90% of the Internet sites that offer pirated software. Now, how did " responsible for nearly 90% of the Internet sites that offer pirated software" turn into "90% of the pirated software sold over the web"??? This is an important distinction, and the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the US customs stated about the Warez groups: "What is the motivation of these groups? Do they do it for money? DrinkOrDie and other Warez groups steal software for the mere challenge and fun of it. Reputation is everything to them. Earning an online reputation as the fastest to steal, "crack," and release high-quality, pirated software over the Internet is most important to them. Groups compete against each other in these efforts. Some even have web sites celebrating their greatest pirating feats. They also view themselves as Robin Hood figures -- pirating new software so it can be distributed freely over the Internet. They seek an Internet devoid of rules or law." Wether the stated losses due to warez are lies (12 Billion lost sales is being claimed, which is clearly bullshit) most of the facts presented by the FBI about how and why warez groups exist have been stated correctly; these people do it for fun, and not for profit. They are of course, not "Pirates". Pirates sell other peoples software, wheras Warez d00dz are interested in how fast they can move Warez, how fast they can crack Warez and how quickly they can get the latest Warez. Selling Warez is despicable to them. Anyone that can use Google can understand this, but aparently, the BBC cant even READ.

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Warez Raids >Seems that no one was arrested (in the US, at least - 5 people were in England). >One customs agent said each computer has an average of 1-2 terabytes of software (Wired article). Wow. 1-2 terabytes is the street value.

Many moons ago, Irdial-Discs mirrored a German magazine called "Radikal", because its publication in Germany was forbidden. Now, thanks to the European arrest warrant, people in the UK can be arrested for publishing something that is illegal in Germany, even if its legal to publish it in the UK. We can now be arrested for mirroring files, and publishing in this free country, by authorities from less free countries. This is totally unacceptable. I couldn't give a FUCK about how anybody, anywhere wants to live, that's not my business. No one outside of the jurisdiction where someone lives has the right to arrest a person via an externally generated arrest warrant. This is one of the most basic ideas of sovereignty. Everyone that I know says that the line has now been crossed, and that they will under no circumstances, comply with this totally insane legislation. I for one, am totally fed up with these people invading and eroding the UK. They all need to FUCK OFF back across the channel. Now, having said that, I could be ARRESTED for XENOPHOBIA, according to the European arrest warrant treaty!!!!! Among the other "Crimes" listed in this abominable treaty are: CYBER CRIME you what? ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING OF CULTURAL DRUGS like music maybe? FALSIFICATION OF MEANS OF PAYMENT bullshit nothing to do with terrorism COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY OF THE EURO bullshit nothing to do with terrorism CORRUPTION bullshit nothing to do with terrorism AIDING AND ABETTING ILLEGAL ADMISSION bullshit nothing to do with terrorism TRAFFICKING OF STOLEN VEHICLES bullshit nothing to do with terrorism VOLUNTARY HOMICIDE bullshit nothing to do with terrorism CRIMES AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT can you believe it PARTICIPATION IN A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION like blogdial? EU CRIME what the fuck is THAT? LAUNDERING OF MONEY FROM CRIME bullshit nothing to do with terrorism FRAUD (INCLUDING AGAINST THE COMMUNITIES FINANCIAL INTERESTS) bullshit nothing to do with terrorism RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA bullshit nothing to do with terrorism COUNTERFEITING OR PIRACY OF PRODUCTS be real you bastards FALSIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS bullshit nothing to do with terrorism ARSON bullshit nothing to do with terrorism and some other bullshit. All of this is being brought in because of TERRORISM. WHAT THE FUCK DOES PIRATING HANDBAGS HAVE TO DO WITH TERRORISM you idiots??? They are simply shovelling all this bullshit into the treaty as a power grab. The European bill of human rights is a piece of toilet paper. Just ask the poor suckers who just spent a MONTH in a Greek jail because they like looking at jets. The British simply will not put up with this. It might take some outrageous cases to get everyone here VERY VERY ANGRY, but in the end, the UK will finally have to leave Europe, because it is run by a load of power crazed, craven abusers of human rights, and we have no business dealing with them on ANY level, much less allowing their vile, irrational legal systems to invade and corrupt this island.

What is a: "Grave Robbing Histo-Bunker"? Best answers win a prize in the post!

Bush has pulled out of the treaty. NO NO NO you idiots!!!!!!

A Dreamworks/Pixar/ILM production! http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/ret.bin.laden.videotape/

"They seek an Internet devoid of rules or law." http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/technology/11CND-PIRACY.html

where are you in canada? i'm in vancouver. desert island tops: monk and coltrane at the five spot monk genius of modern music 1 cybotron enter an arp 2600!!!! ramones rocket to russia beatles magical mystery polygon window everything..... ..........this is realy hard....... i need stuff and you are making me realize it.grrrrr

Russia and many U.S. allies have warned Bush that withdrawing from the pact might trigger a nuclear arms race. Critics of the plan also question whether an effective system can be developed without enormous expense. Conservative Republicans have urged Bush to scuttle the ABM, rejecting proposals to amend the pact or find loopholes allowing for tests. -flexin'. frankie say: relax scary

that's great as i want to travel anyway. who's deciding? i'm for the uk but sonar would be a good choice as well. then we can all go back to london for free drinks right?? anyway....that hat is like something you'd wear to the blue oyster.
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Roots in the UK, the rest of your hair is in the US. scary

If I were a work of art, I would be M. C. Escher's Lizards. I am a bizarre juxtaposition of the real and the unreal. Based in the realm of mathematics, my two-dimensional appearance belies a complex and free-willed behaviour which both delights and confuses people. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test

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Panasonic. After they were made to drop the "a" I always thougtht that they should have called themselvs "Pantone" Just think of the endless permutations of color and sound that they could have played with....http://www.pantone.cz/

a quarter for an old alter boy father.....?

yo no installo language packs......yo. detroit , la , pittsburg, queens, brooklyn........it's automatik. i'm wasted on friday night. yeah for me. fucking sh*t man i'm sick. the flu. i deserve a break today!!! i'm going to go and put on energy flash. oki!!!, may i dare suggest a blogdial get together. a face to face interact as apposed to our tried but true post method. we all get together some night some wherever. we can afford it if we want it enough; you know what i mean right??? is anyone game. fu*k i'll fly international for the conference of web geeks such as ouselves. please don't blame me for such an up front suggestion but i've had a bit much of the e.t. sauce and i'm ready for the haps. whatever they might be blogdialians. you name the country and the date and let's all do our best to get there. signed wasted and deserving it!!!-john

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ok now this you'll love!!! E.T. has that drunk 'vibe' about him. wouldn't you say? mac....was he more like bender? all of these cute harmless drunk aliens. alf, mac, et...the list goes on. troublemakes...orshould i say....oh yes, dare i say.... ....moneymakers. hey kids, it's cute to be drunk out of context to your home world. is this telling our kids to go to alien planets and get shit faced?? what would jerry falwell say to this blasphemy? i emplore you jerry. denounce e.t. too before we have all of our white children flying their spaceships to get drunk on venus. venus, the female planet!!!! oh, no!!!!

et was a drunk alien that had lost his way. i'll bet he even stole from that family he lived with. who were they? the barrymore's right? d. For maximum satisfaction, E.T. should (1) buy less candy, more beer (2) buy more candy, less beer (3) remain in his present position, since that position is the best attainable one(very zen choice) (4) phone home e. In equilibrium, how many packages of Reese's Pieces (including fractions, if necessary) would E.T. be willing to trade for one bottle of Coors? bring back any memories???

Is there anyone here who has NOT seen E.T?

Aibo custom code pulled from website Imagine this. You're selling a product which is one of the first of its kind. It's very expensive. Your main audience at the moment is going to be early adopters until you can get the price down some. Fans of the product tend to be enthusiastic folks who form communities based on your product. One day you discover that someone has managed to take your product and modify it so it does more than it could do originally. This person puts up a Web site and gives away the modifications for free. What do you do? Do you A) welcome the innovations the early adopter is creating for your product, with an eye to leveraging them into product enhancements for the future? Or do you B) Send a lawyer after them and claim copyright infringement? In my ideal world, I'd choose A. Sony, recently, chose B. When an intrepid Aibo owner figured out how to make his dog do new tricks, Sony's lawyers asked him to stop. (You can get more information on this controversy at http://www.aibopet.com/ as well as links to other sites and movies of Aibos doing tricks no longer available.) I'm really surprised about this. I don't know what Sony hoped to accomplish but I don't think it worked; I'm going to think about this every time I need to buy an electronics item.

nice. and thanks.. "jangling observation", is that a possitive?

Oh Yeah. http://www.conran.com/img/eat/restaurants/zinc_bar_pic.jpg

Paintings Too Perfect? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/arts/design/04OPTI.html
Paragone http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/technology/05VIRU.html You need to put a user name and password to get into NYT. If it asks you to log in, use "cypherpunks/cypherpunks"

Thanks to you Anthony for that post. To whom it may concern, this is part of why Anthony is "one of the great ones". A looser would have deleted the post the next day in embarrasement. But in this case, there is nothing to be embarrased about, its a great post, a pure post, a pleasing post. And a pissed post. BRAVO Anthony, we love you, respect you and are glad to know you.

Words that are thier own opposite: )>>aught = all, nothing )>>bill = invoice, money )>>comprise = contain, compose )>>custom = usual, special )>>dust = to remove, add fine particles )>>literally = actually, figuratively )>>model = archetype, copy )>>moot = debatable, academic )>>note = promise to pay, money )>>peer = noble, person of equal rank )>>put = lay, throw )>>puzzle = pose problem, solve problem )>>quantum = very small, very large (quantum leap) )>>ravel = entangle, disentangle )>>resign = to quit, to sign up again )>>sanguine = murderous, optimistic )>>scan = to examine closely, to glance at quickly )>>set = fix, flow )>>skin = to cover with, remove outer covering )>>strike = miss (baseball), hit )>>table = propose [British], set aside )>>temper = calmness, passion )>>trim = cut things off, put things on

London Perl Mongers http://london.pm.org/nx_meetings/2001_june.shtml

Honestly, I will not buy another music CD until the RIAA pulls their head out of their ass! Which seems like it will be a long time...I think they should sue Microsoft. Without their operating system, 90% of these "infringers" would not be able to trade "infringing items". And why stop there? The computer makers are just as much at fault! And the phone companies - they provide the most of the lines that all of this "illegal" trading goes on over! And the doctors for delivering the babies who grew up to be "infringers". Etc... http://www.perlguy.net/

Brown is the new Black http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1693000/1693678.stm

Ummmmm do we know this person? http://vectorx.org/~coa/coa_in_bed.jpg

Pentagone The worm arrives in a message with the subject "Hi" and the following text in the body of the e-mail: How are you? When I saw this screensaver, I immediately thought about you. I am in a harry, I promise you will love it! Attached to the message is what appears to be a screensaver file, Gone.scr, a compressed copy of the worm. When the file is opened, Pentagone will infect the victim's PC, attempt to stop a variety of antivirus and security applications and then, if successful, delete all the files in the folders containing those applications. AtGuard's Personal Firewall, ConSeal's PC Firewall, Kaspersky Lab's AVP, Network Associates' McAfee VirusScan, Symantec's Norton Antivirus and Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm are among the programs that the worm attempts to deactivate.

And not only is it insane to pay for something that you cannot use the way you want and where you want, but if you fail to keep up your subscription, you loose access to the songs that you have already downloaded. We call this "taking the piss".

Die Die Die!!!! http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT34SL8SSUC&live=true&tagid=ZZZLZDL1B0C&Collid=ZZZT22LCC0C

Irony: heh...I had my dumbass hat on today. It fits tight. I wear T-Shirts over jumpers cause I dont like Irony. Not even with a steam Irony. I walked through Hyde Park at 11PM. Its lit by Victorian gas lamps; a very beautiful type of light. There seems to be a move afoot in London to replace the hideous orange sodium street lights with bulbs that generate white light. This is good for telescope people...no more sodium filters.....

"Semplicemente perch� queste trasmissioni sembrano non esistere. Quanto ho scoperto per la prima volta l'esistenza delle number station ho iniziato una ricerca disperata alla caccia di ogni tipo di informazione..." -yo no understando!! congrats...

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If you have ever been on a bicycle in Oxford Street you will know why the C5 was an impossibility for UK roads. Look at that promo shot. A sad man sitting in the rain. What the marketing people were trying to tell us with this pathetic picture we can only guess. They should have been horsewhipped for letting this picture be taken, let alone released to promote a new vehicle. Would YOU want to be the man in that picture?

"I've just fucked myself up the ass." -egad! did you get it on video?

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If you are receiving calls from telemarketers in the UK, the only course of action you can take is to register yourself on a "Do Not Call" (DNC) list, which is not managed by BT. It takes up to 28 days for your number to be removed from these marketers databases. BT (or at least, the robots manning the phones at the call centers) claim that they cannot block calls from the numbers of telemarketers. This is bullshit. BT records EVERY NUMBER that makes a call in the UK. They could easily block the numbers coming from telemarketers. We were told, however, about a "service" called "Choose to Refuse" which you have to pay for quarterly. With this service, you can block up to 10 numbers from calling your fone. http://www.bt.com/informationandservices/malicall/pages/fra5.htm. It should be obvious even to the most completely brain dead that BT have seen a market in nuisance calls. We were told that these marketers have multiple lines (20 or something, "I dont know how many" said the robot) this means that if the telemarketers have more than 10 lines, you cannot block them all with CtF. BT know who these people are. They make money every time these telemarketers call your fone. They WANT telemarketers to call your fone. This is why they make it hard for you to stop telemarketers from cold calling you. What I cannot stand is the lying. They have the numbers. They have the reverse lookup capability. They have the systems (BTs computer network is bigger than NASAs) they could easily do what needs to be done to block these calls, but instead, they train their useless robots to LIE, so that they can continue to transact calls, and route you to more chargeable services that you dont need, which do not have the nesecarry capacity to block sufficient numbers. We spoke to two liars. The first one, sitting in "The Advice Bureau" said that hang-up calls come from telemarketers, and that the ONLY way to stop the calls is to apply to be put on the DNC list. We know about fones, knew that this MUST be bullshit, and so called the "Nuisance Calls Bureau", who immediately blurted out "You just finished a call from one of my colleagues, who told you that you must apply to be on the DNC list" WTF???? I thought that I just called another "Office"??!? The second robot then told me that, "there is a service called Choose to Refuse...." Now, why didn�t the robot BiaTch #1 who I called first tell me about CtF in the first place? Why would I CHOOSE to keep getting nuisance calls for a freakin MONTH when there is a possibility that there is something that I can do about it RIGHT NOW? They are lying so that you continue to get the calls, and they continue to collect the charges. Normally, calls to these centers are recorded for training purposes. We all know this. I made a point of complaining that BT should be more proactive in blocking these calls, and said that I know that these calls are recorded, and I am saying this so that whoever listens to these calls gets the message. He replied: "Oh no no, these calls are not recorded". Hmmmmmm how did she know that I made a call to one of her colleagues in another office? Some record that I called BT and complained must have been made right you stupid BiAtCH. BT are total bullshit. They are delaying the roll out of Broadband because they want 56k ers to keep running up h00j fone bills. They refuse to empower fone users with useful services so that you can control who can and cannot call you. Their staff lie so that they can continue making money out of telemarketers who automatically spam-call residential customers millions of times a week. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/17260.html http://www.btopenwoe.org.uk/

time, space, transmat.... like this?? or like this? take me to dildo island pleeze

Quick reminder; dont forget to make your HTML links live with the globe tool in the toolbar which sits at the far left of the line that includes the "post & publish" button. If you can't see that button, because you are using Mozilla or some other cool browser, then do it by hand (very carefully, cause if you leave out the " for example, the Blogger HTML breaks) or nevermind, ill do it.... phew!

interesting dualism: having found myself saying NO to ftaa and nafta. protesting and the like and against the wto, i am now stuck in the middle of trying to secure a nafta ok to a rushed work 'visa' in canada. basically i am married to a canadian citizen and have an offer from a canadian comany for a healthy salary. since being married and now residing here in vancouver, bc i have applied for landed immigrancy. this is permenant residence inside canada without the right to vote but with all benefits included. big deal i won't be able to vote in canada. ok so since i am applying for perm residence i am not allowed to also apply for a work visa as i have intent to stay perm here and work visa is only for a temp stay. so the comapny with whom i have signed the offer letter has their lawyer on it drafting a letter, under nafta, upon which i will be able to short cut the standard work visa application(it's basically a fast track pilot program currently being tested out). the laywer is having lunch with a friend at canadian visas r' us to try and get him to sign off on this deal. ok, now the odd things are as follows: 1. i am saying yes yes to nafta!!!! 2. it comes down to someone deciding on my case arbitrarily. 3. i am saying yes to back room dealing!!! funny that the governmental structure makes it so hard for families to be together. basically if this didn't happen today and another option didn't pan out i won't be able to work here until my L.I. papers came thru which could be 6 months offically making me a burden and in turn keeping money out of the economy albeit my small salary comapred to canadian gnp but still i am here regardless right??? anyway i just thought you all would find human duality interesting. i surely do. wish me luck!!

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yeah, well windows. that's a drag. ie is embedded so far down in their crap os that it's like a ticking timebomb. a reinstall overtop('upgrade') usuall takes care of any issues but the problem is their registry. it's like a closet that can't be cleaned out properly. here's a laugh!!!!!!!!! character 1:that complete nobody zero rob zombie said it best himeslf; "and so to-the-point that you can't mess with it." -so don't you zombified zerk. the ramones don't need you capitalising on their ground breaking success. sorry if your zombie or white zombie or whitesnake whatever band didn't make it, that's your problem. go wash dishes or something. rob zombie "asshole" here's a quote:"whereas most stuff from that time period makes me nauseous." � Rob Zombie rob you make me nauseous!!!! character 2: what is motivating johnny ramone? the profits better be going to charity. someone stop this madness.

My windoze installation died this weekend, because some appz wiped some DLLs. Had to do a complete re-install to get the frickin install up again, and because these were core DLLs, the windoze installer WOULD NOT EVEN RUN UNDER WINDOZE. I had to run it from *DOS*. After installing again to get rid of the NTLDLL.DLL missing error, a NEW missing DLL showed up: ADVAPI32.DLL, which totally locks you out of the networking if its the wrong version. Amazing. This DLL is related to IE5. In order to repair your IE5, you need to run the very small setup.exe, which downloads the cabs & shit to your machine. Ummmmm wtf if the DLLs you are trying to replace PREVENT YOU FROM CONNECTING?? Catch 22: you cant use the setup util to repair the files because you cant get online because the DLL is the wrong version and you cant repair the files without getting online to get the new DLLs. Booted into Linux, tried to find the DLLs individually. M$ doesnt offer DLLs individually, not even key DLLs like this one. There is a site in RUSSIA thats called "DLL world" but it was broken when I went there. It had a HuGe list of DLLs all there for you to grab. I didnt need this to happen this weekend. These core DLLs fucked up my system, breaking all my crucial apps and delaying some work. How many man hours (as in MANKIND) do you think have been lost due to Windoze crashing? Take a look at alll the webpages devoted to solving DLL problems, and you will be able to make a guess of some kind. It must be in the millions of hours. "Now, strike out with your hate"....if only!

everything passes mikkel, anthony's advice is good advice. best wishes!!!

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re: the demise of snail mail: would it be a good thing. will it be? things change and that is enevitable i suppose but it's not us versus them on the hardcopy- digicopy(the paper vs. pixels comment) issue. having a shippng infrastructure is necessary unless we all have one of those replicators from star trek. so speeding it's demise is to what ends. i still like getting b-day cards from my grandmother and i need to ship goods to and fro. basically what i am saying is that until we each have a proper file sharing mechanism and more importantly until people grow up on the soul age tip and get some more experience about themselves(even capitalism is too much of an advanced system where the median of people is now)we need snail mail. this article is narrow minded, if that's not a rude thing to say but i find it just bitching about something without really getting into it; gettting into the real deal. what's the point? i mean really is all creative thought dead right now? nothing is happening. i have continuely been let down over and over again by the selling out/sheeping that is going on. music/art/text/dance everyone is just bullshitting themselves while they bitch about how bad it is without ever getting into the reasons . i know many people, many who bitch and say what we should be doing then pop in their pete tong(or even worse plastikman) cd. i was at an anti-war protest in late september and...good, great! .. yes no war indeed. but as the same old chants we being chanted with the apethetic flags being raised i swear i felt like running up and grabbing the mic and screaming "who's wearing nikes? come on be honest everyone. how much do you really waNT CHANGE?." and on a bigger scale that's the problem holding us back from truly demising snail mail and human waste.....and..... war. i hope i'm being clear because it's an intangeble thing and i'm not a writer. it's not so simple as put your money where your mouth is. or maybe it is? in most cases even the underground is the problem..is there an underground? should there have to be? candy and brainwashing.

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NORTHERN LIGHTS: A powerful solar explosion on Nov. 22nd hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space and toward our planet -- possibly joining another CME already en route. The expanding clouds could trigger geomagnetic activity when they sweep past Earth on Nov. 24th and/or 25th. High-latitude sky watchers are likely to see Northern Lights this weekend, especially during the hours around local midnight on Saturday and Sunday. Prospects for middle-latitude observers are less certain. Tune in to SpaceWeather.com for details and updates.

Google adwords are much more powerful, because they are precisely targeted. Pyrads are viewed by anyone visiting the blogger site, so if your site was offering tools for blogger or blogging, like blogdex, then you would have got a higher click-through rate. Google adwords allow you to specify the search terms that will trigger your ad to display. So, if you are trying to sell electric guitars, you would specify that your ad is shown whenever someone seearches for Fender, Gibson, Shergold etc, and of course "eletric guitar". This way, only people who are interested in what you are selling see your ad. This is MUCH more powerful than the scatter gun approach of buying ads on sites that are unrelated to what you are doing.

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What we want for Christmas The original WD1000 already provides both excellent capacity and performance, but Western Digital isn't sitting idly by - instead, the company is aggressively continuing its campaign to produce a complete line of high-end products with two new offerings. First, the WD1000 is now also available with an 8 MB buffer size, increased from the original 2 MB. Secondly, Western Digital has also introduced a 120 GB drive. The 120 GB is not particularly exceptional in and of itself, as Maxtor now offers 160 GB at 5400 rpm and IBM is close to releasing their new drive series with capacities up to 120 GB as well, but WD has never really tried to compete in the high-end sector before. Hard drive models from big players such as IBM and Maxtor have typically served as the examples for high capacity and performance in most reviews. Now, Western Digital is pushing their own high-end products, in an effort to improve their reputation. The 100 GB drive with 8 MB cache could be very interesting for entry-level RAID configurations. RAID controllers supporting Modes 0 and 1 have been around for some time now, but high-end models with RISC chips and support for large caches (e.g. Promise SX6000) are gradually threatening the traditional domain of SCSI drives: servers and workstations. Although IDE drives certainly won't ever be able to replace high-end SCSI drive arrays, they still provide features such as hot-swapping, and thus might possibly gain market share. Whether that's the intention behind the powerful IDE products or not, these new drives make the high-end IDE drives attractive once again. http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/00q3/000724/index.html

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� Terrorist finances: Allows immediate freezing of assets of overseas individuals and groups that support terrorists. What this and the other financial measures in the USA will do is create a huge pressure for the non-western countries to set up thier own independent banking systems. These guys are not stupid. They are able to write software, use hardware and are more than capable as business men. It will be comparatively easy for them to set up international banking that is totally separate from compromised western banks. This will have several effects. It will hurt business for western banks, diminish the influence of western governments and empower every other government that sits in places where these free banks operate. This may be the one thing that marks the end of the Western Empire, bringing about the start of the empire that will replace it. Imagine it; "International Sharia Banking System" with one billion people throughout the world using it. The infrastructure to do this already exists. Now there is a reason to do it. No one wants thier private and personal activities monitored, and in such a new system, you can bet that this will not happen. People will flock to it, and not just muslims. Soon after, it will become impossible to do business in the world without dealing with ISBS banks.

Anti-terror bill damned for catch-all powers Government accused of smuggling in draconian laws Alan Travis, home affairs editor Wednesday November 14, 2001 The Guardian The government's new anti-terrorist bill was last night attacked as a cover to smuggle into law draconian new police powers that have little direct connection to the war against terrorism. Publication of the bill yesterday revealed it contains drastic measures such as making it a criminal offence to publish details of the movement of nuclear waste trains, and the power to jail for up to a month an animal rights extremist who refuses to remove a disguise such as a mask or face paint. Details of the 125-clause bill, which is expected to become law by Christmas, confirm that suspected terrorists who could be interned for up to six months will not hear evidence from intelligence services that led to their detention as they and their lawyers will be excluded from parts of their hearings held in camera. Their interests instead will be represented by an advocate appointed by the attorney general. Civil liberties groups last night voiced concerns that the anti-terrorism, crime and security bill goes far further than dealing with the specific threats posed by the September 11 attacks on America. The bill will allow confidential information about an individual held by any government department or local authority to be disclosed to the police and intelligence services for any criminal investigation - not just an investigation into terrorist offences. Home Office officials yesterday cited the example of an official in the Department of Transport passing confidential information about a train driver if that person was known to be wanted by the police. During the eight weeks it has taken to draft the bill it has grown from just 40 clauses to 125 as other measures have been added. Some, including clauses relating to internet surveillance and disclosure, are powers that have failed to win parliamentary approval in the past. John Wadham, director of Liberty, last night said that while the internment proposal was by some way the worst threat to civil rights, "other illiberal measures are being smuggled in under the cover of proposals to deal with the events of September 11. Too many of these proposals risk falling short of the highest British standards of justice". But the home secretary, David Blunkett, insisted that the legislation contained "proportionate and targeted measures which will ensure and safeguard our way of life against those who would take our freedom away". Ministers believe that about 16 suspected terrorists would have been caught by the detention powers had they been in force last year. "Because we are talking only about a handful of people, we are not threatening the civil liberties of this country, but we are ensuring those handful don't threaten those civil liberties," Mr Blunkett said. My emphasis. This really is the most flagrant piece of doublespeak, shameful in that he really thinks that the public are as brainless as seaweed, shameful in that he does not think that he is obliged to give a good reason (or even a good SOUNDING reason) for these clearly iNsAnE clauses. Declassifying dope to "C" is not enough of a trade off if you are trying to slip through crap like this ol' buddy! He denied that the new offence of incitement to religious hatred would prevent reasoned debate, humour or criticism of religions or religious practices, stressing the new crime would protect atheists as much as Muslims. The Home Office minister, Beverley Hughes, confirmed that plans for a much wider ranging anti-terrorist conspiracy law announced last month had been dropped. Ministers have also torn up plans to backdate to September a new offence of making hoax calls about anthrax and other noxious substances. The number of such calls has dropped sharply. Although the opposition parties have said they will support the bill when it has its second reading next week, they made clear their unease yesterday. The Liberal Democrat spokesman, Simon Hughes, said the legislation was a "mixture of the welcome, the reasonable, the worrying and the completely unacceptable". He said that while the detention powers would have to be renewed every year there were no similar expiry dates for the majority of emergency powers in the bill. "Liberal Democrats will only support emergency powers restricting liberties if they have strict time limits and are in place for the shortest possible time," Mr Hughes said. The ban on publishing details of movements of nuclear waste trains comes in clause 79, which outlaws unauthorised disclosures that may prejudice the security of any nuclear premises or nuclear material. Clause 93 makes it a criminal offence punishable by up to one month in prison to refuse a reasonable police request to remove a disguise such as a mask or face paint in a place where a senior police officer believes serious violence may take place. The emergency measures � Detention of suspected terrorists Applies to foreign nationals certified by the home secretary as threats to national security. Detention will be reviewed every six months by a commission which will hear intelligence evidence in camera. Appeal allowed only on points of law. Powers will need annual renewal by parliament. wont stop terrorism. if you cant completly investigate someone in less than six months, then you need to be in another job. indefinite detention is unnessecary, useless and highly provocative, since its only muslims who are going to be locked up. � Incitement to religious hatred Penalty of up to seven years for using "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour intended or likely to stir up hatred against a group of people because of their religious belief (or lack of religious belief)". killing free speech wont stop terrorism, this is just nonsense. � Airport security New powers will allow police to stop, detain, question and search aircraft passengers within Britain and to remove and arrest someone who refuses to leave an aircraft. wont stop terrorism; hijackers appear to be totally normal passengers, and are trained to pass any inspection. � Hoaxes Creates new offence of threatening to use noxious substances, such as anthrax, smallpox and acid, to make people believe there is a threat to human life or health. wont stop terrorism, but will save the resources of the police & emergency services. � Internet data Requires internet service providers to retain data of internet and email traffic, such as itemised billing - but not content - for 12 months for use by police in serious crime investigations. To be renewed every two years. wont stop terrorism. this is just a sneaky power grab. they cant bring in laws like this openly, because they KNOW that they are immoral unjustifiably and wrong. � Weapons of mass destruction Makes it an offence to aid the overseas use or development of chemical, nuclear, biological or radiological weapons. wont stop terrorism, and yes, people other than the british CAN do mathematics, chemistry, biology and physics. this will do nothing. � Civil nuclear industry Bans publication of details of security of nuclear sites, transport of nuclear materials and sensitive nuclear technology such as uranium enrichment. wont stop terrorism, but WILL protect the interests of the nuclear industry. hmmmmmm � Withholding information Makes it a criminal offence to fail to disclose information to the authorities that could help to prevent terrorist attacks. wont stop terrorism and already covered by other legislation � Security services Wider powers for MI6 and GCHQ to carry out "intelligence gathering" outside Britain. will prevent terrorism � Disguises Makes it a criminal offence to refuse a police request to remove hand and face coverings, such as masks and face paint, in certain public order situations. Could be used against animal rights extremists. ha ha ha! you fuckin ejeets! � MPs bypass Anti-terrorist measures agreed by EU ministers to become law in Britain without need for legislation in British parliament. you cant stand the debate, so "just do it" anyway. shame! � Terrorist finances Allows immediate freezing of assets of overseas individuals and groups that support terrorists. wont stop terrorism, but will allow access into everyones private business. � Bribery and corruption Introduces crimes of corruption committed by British citizens and companies abroad and by foreign nationals in Britain which "help to undermine good governance and contribute to the conditions which engender terrorism". wont stop terrorism, and will hurt british business abroad where bribery is a key business tool. These "measures" are nothing more than an admission that they cant do anything at all to stop a few people from bringing everything to a crashing halt. They have to be seen to be doing something, so thats what they are doing, "something", not something sensible, something useful, something intelligent, something smart, something effective, something timely, something wise, something long-term, just "something", which in this case, means taking out thier long and dusty shopping list (that they have been accumulating for 20 years) of all the shitty legislation that they KNOW would never get through the process normally, and pushing it through to the detriment of everbody. To add insult to injury, they dont even have the manners to make up good excuses for this bullshit. What they refuse to accept is that the people who do this stuff are INVISIBLE and 100% compliant with all laws, UNTIL THE MOMENT OF EXECUTION. This makes it IMPOSSIBLE to intercept these individuals. Legislation will not prevent these acts. GET OVER IT.

Melodyne is a programme that allows a completely new approach to the handling of audio material. It analyzes the pitch and time of monophonic audio files (from, for example, singers, wind or string instruments) and offers the opportunity to change whole melodies in a way only previously possible at MIDI-Level. Melodyne is able to change the musical parameters of voices or instruments without any actual influence on the character of the recording. Melodyne extracts the pitch and the rhythm, and provides an area in which to play with the audio material. Any change in this material is interpreted by the software in a musically intelligent manner and the result will always sound natural. Working with Melodyne is as easy as editing notes with MIDI. Pitch shifting and formant correction by more than an octave are performed without affecting sound character and velocity. New melodies can be invented with a given material and unpleasant intonations can be corrected with a mouse click. A change in intonation is possible by an increase or decrease in phrasing or vibrato. A change in formant is produced by an amplification or diminution of the resonance volume, thus making a trombone out of a trumpet sound or a tenor out of a soprano voice. Flexible time-stretching allows the acceleration or deceleration of a single note or of a whole arrangement through the concept of local sound. There are no limits to deceleration, and a standing sound will be the ultimate result when velocity is zero. Melodyne recognizes the rhythm of music, as each given note "knows" its place within a beat. Notes can thus be quantified automatically, and they can also be synchronized to a reference melody with a mouse click. Via copy and paste, a new melody can be derived from single notes or a new arrangement can be created from single tracks. Differences in beat will be corrected automatically. Melodyne can handle up to 24 tracks in real time.

And with 58 endless rotaries, the Waldorf Q easily doubles the number of controls of other synths.

Seizing Dictatorial Power

By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- Misadvised by a frustrated and panic-stricken attorney general, a president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to dictatorial power to jail or execute aliens. Intimidated by terrorists and inflamed by a passion for rough justice, we are letting George W. Bush get away with the replacement of the American rule of law with military kangaroo courts. In his infamous emergency order, Bush admits to dismissing "the principles of law and the rules of evidence" that undergird America's system of justice. He seizes the power to circumvent the courts and set up his own drumhead tribunals ? panels of officers who will sit in judgment of non-citizens who the president need only claim "reason to believe" are members of terrorist organizations. Not content with his previous decision to permit police to eavesdrop on a suspect's conversations with an attorney, Bush now strips the alien accused of even the limited rights afforded by a court-martial. His kangaroo court can conceal evidence by citing national security, make up its own rules, find a defendant guilty even if a third of the officers disagree, and execute the alien with no review by any civilian court. No longer does the judicial branch and an independent jury stand between the government and the accused. In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination "a full and fair trial." On what legal meat does this our Caesar feed? One precedent the White House cites is a military court after Lincoln's assassination. (During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus; does our war on terror require illegal imprisonment next?) Another is a military court's hanging, approved by the Supreme Court, of German saboteurs landed by submarine in World War II. Proponents of Bush's kangaroo court say: Don't you soft-on-terror, due-process types know there's a war on? Have you forgotten our 5,000 civilian dead? In an emergency like this, aren't extraordinary security measures needed to save citizens' lives? If we step on a few toes, we can apologize to the civil libertarians later. Those are the arguments of the phony-tough. At a time when even liberals are debating the ethics of torture of suspects ? weighing the distaste for barbarism against the need to save innocent lives ? it's time for conservative iconoclasts and card-carrying hard-liners to stand up for American values. To meet a terrorist emergency, of course some rules should be stretched and new laws passed. An ethnic dragnet rounding up visa-skippers or questioning foreign students, if short-term, is borderline tolerable. Congress's new law permitting warranted roving wiretaps is understandable. But let's get to the target that this blunderbuss order is intended to hit. Here's the big worry in Washington now: What do we do if Osama bin Laden gives himself up? A proper trial like that Israel afforded Adolf Eichmann, it is feared, would give the terrorist a global propaganda platform. Worse, it would be likely to result in widespread hostage-taking by his followers to protect him from the punishment he deserves. The solution is not to corrupt our judicial tradition by making bin Laden the star of a new Star Chamber. The solution is to turn his cave into his crypt. When fleeing Taliban reveal his whereabouts, our bombers should promptly bid him farewell with 15,000-pound daisy-cutters and 5,000-pound rock-penetrators. But what if he broadcasts his intent to surrender, and walks toward us under a white flag? It is not in our tradition to shoot prisoners. Rather, President Bush should now set forth a policy of "universal surrender": all of Al Qaeda or none. Selective surrender of one or a dozen leaders ? which would leave cells in Afghanistan and elsewhere free to fight on ? is unacceptable. We should continue our bombardment of bin Laden's hideouts until he agrees to identify and surrender his entire terrorist force. If he does, our criminal courts can handle them expeditiously. If, as more likely, the primary terrorist prefers what he thinks of as martyrdom, that suicidal choice would be his ? and Americans would have no need of kangaroo courts to betray our principles of justice. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/opinion/15SAFI.html