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

Someone Clever Said: Probably the easiest way to implement a flat-rate model )of charging for internet content) would be to create a cap. Let's say that the monthly cap were $20 per month. Everyone would know that if they looked at more than 2,000 pages per month, they would pay no more than $20 per month. This is not implementable - if it were implemented, people would clearly just run proxies to pool everybody's requests through a single machine (not to mention that it is impossible to enforce a single machine per identity to begin with without going for sinister methods). This is typical of the sort of, not just technically, but logically flawed ideas that always come out of these pointless pipedreams not motivated by reality but what people NEED or DESERVE. If any solutions to the actual problems are to come around, then they need to start with the realities of cyberspace, which the penny-per-page idea clearly does not. The first reality of cyberspace is that you do not pay for information. Information, once created, can be copied infinitely, so generally available copies have no value - regardless of the emotionally motivated arguments about what creaters NEED or DESERVE. If one is working on a solution for getting people to pay for information online, then one can be sure one's solution is broken. The second reality is that there is no possible mapping between identity in cyberspace and identity in real life. A single person can be present as a hundred identities, and single identity can represent a hundred people. Any sort of model that includes ideas about any action "per person" is doomed, as is any model that gives an identity negative trust (that is one where an identity can be treated worse then a previously unknown one). The third reality is that all information is equal. If a model measures information in any other unit then bits it is stupid - because one off units like "pages" mean nothing about the actual contents or the the cost of transfer. It is short sited and ends up relying on user hostile (read evil) software to enforce that "page" means the accepted norm. However, that is not to say that the problems facing the web are not real. It did not bother me when pages paying millions for content creation folded - paying for content creation hoping to control the information is stupid, so those pages (like the music and film industries) deserved to fall. However, what we are seeing now is the Web reaching the point where pages like this one are folding under their own popularity - because even though they have no costs for creating the content, they are unable to pay for the service of providing the page - that is a real problem. Everybody who has ever sent an SMS (cell phone short message) or made a local call in Europe knows about overcharging networks. The costs are set not by the actual costs of transfer, but rather by what the companies controlling the networks (usually oligopolies) find they are able to charge people. That is ridiculous and destructive - but it seems that the Internet is the opposite - an undercharging network. The simple truth is that we should be paying when we visit a website - not for the content - you DO NOT pay for content - but for the cost of transfer. It is unfair and unrealistic that a large part of the cost of transfer should fall on the publisher, rather than the person who benefits from the transfer. Systems that do not reflect economic realities are dangerous. While the idea of paying a charge on every single IP package routed sounds like a nightmare to many Internet anarchists - the truth is that the fact that we are not paying is gearing up to be a real threat to free speech online since community run services are seizing to be sustainable. The price should be fair, and much lower than then the penny-per-page proposed above, at least for most definitions of "page" (server transfer costs seem between $.001 and $.01 per Megabyte at the moment) - but I fear for the future of the Web, and the net at large, if it does not come about.

Name: Monica, Age: 18, I think you have to be blonde or half-naked to get a good score around here. Oh well. Anyways, if you feel like talking to a bi 18 year old chick, then I'd be happy to talk.

Recently declassified FBI documents had everything blacked out except this:

Diogenes the webserver(as opposed to cynic) that hosts the mp3's will be down on friday as they're srill attempting to cut the office in half and will be switching off the electricity temporarily

You need to run this on your windoze machine, and see just how manyspyware programs are monitoring you. http://www.lavasoftusa.com

At 1:00 GMT the US Air Force demanded that WWCR relinquish 7.460, due to the ongoing state of emergency. The Overcomer Ministry broadcast was unceremoniously cut off, in the middle of programming.

"The colors of life sting my eyes, Can I still be here?" http://www.colorgenics.com

Finally online: http://www.posteverything.com

http://cdprot.cjb.net/ Let me start off by saying that I don't even know for sure if the protection I am talking about is indeed MediaCloQ(TM)....... The symptoms look like it, but I read that MediaCloQ(TM) protected CD's would transfer you to the MediaCloQ(TM) website automatically (as soon as you insert the CD into a CD-ROM drive) where you can download music files. I recently wanted to make a personal backup of my own CD called "The Loveparade Compilation 2001". CD2 copied fine, but CD1 could not be read by any CD-ROM player or CD burner. It would however play in any normal audio CD player. Now as a decent reverser you must understand my frustration ;-) A friend tried copying this CD with a custom audio CD copier (Philips CDR 765) which actually worked. But if you haven't patched yours to be able to write low-cost non-copyrighted CD-R's with it this is quite expensive. This copy will be able to be grabbed on a normal way. So, next evenings I spend trying to understand what was going on here. I found out that after insertion the laser first goes to the center of the CD (the TOC or Table Of Contents where the index of the CD is stored). After this the laser went to somewhere on the outer side of the disc and started to try to read there. This is where the reader would never stop doing this and some players will hang forever in this phase..... So what idea could be easier than to prevent the reader from reading this outer part? I made 3 paper stickers of about 25 x 20 mm and placed them on the outer side of the CD. Now the reader would read the inner TOC, then go to the outside again and after not being able to read anything there because of the stickers, the reader would be 'smart' enough to decide to stick with the inner TOC, go back to the center and read this TOC as the one and only TOC :-) I am certainly not an expert on CD readers but I think this is what is going on here. If anyone has better ideas, let me know. This protected CD has a so called Multi Session TOC. This is the same when you burn a CD-R and set it to MODE2 / Multi Session when you burn an empty CD-R for the first time. After this a MODE2 CD-R can have multi sessions appended afterwards. For every new session a new TOC is written (with the old data about the files already on the CD-R included). My theory is that this protected CD has also a MODE2 / Multi Session TOC which makes a CD-ROM player and burner decide to search for the latest TOC from the outside to the inner side. With the placed stickers it will not be able to and most CD-ROM players will decide to stick with the center TOC. So now the CD-ROM player will read the CD but unfortunately it will not be able to read the last tracks because my stickers are placed there. So now a second trick is needed. I used a paperclip to push into the little hole on the front of my CD-ROM player to open the door manually. The reader has no idea at all I was doing this so it came out spinning :-) Then I removed the stickers and pushed the CD back in. The last part I had to push a bit harder to make sure the CD would be totally inserted and fit on the spindle again. Guess what? I could now play and grab all tracks as I would do with any non-protected CD! I must say that on one CD-ROM player (TEAC) I had to skip the first block (or 0.01 seconds) in Easy CD-DA Extractor for the first track only (still have no clue why). My Plextor 16/10/40A burner and another CD-ROM player had no problem with this first track. I did try to move the stickers to the outside of the CD until my audio CD player would just be able to play the last track until the last second but the CD-ROM player would not read it anymore. In fact, I would have to move the stickers a whole lot more to the center of the CD before it would be able to read it again. It might be possible that there is no TOC at all on the outside; the inner TOC just points to some music track which will of course not be understood by the CD-ROM player as a valid MODE2 TOC...... The reason why this CD does not automatically transfer you to the MediaCloQ(TM) website like a MediaCloQ(TM) protected CD would do could be that the protection I discuss here isn't MediaCloQ(TM) at all. But it could also be due to the fact that this CD was almost full and that there was simply no space left for a real TOC and a valid data section where an autorun.inf file could be stored which transfers you to their website. Now to summarize this little trick: Place 3 (or maybe more on better CD-ROM players / burners) non-transparent stickers of about 25 x 20 mm on the outside of your CD along the edge. Make sure that they wont stick outside of the CD and press them well, otherwise your CD-ROM player will start making funny noises ;-) Insert the CD into your CD-ROM player and see if the CD-ROM player accepts it (you can see the tracks in your Explorer). If not you can try to move the stickers a bit to the center or place more stickers. Note that my laptop CD-ROM player and one burner I've seen would not be able to read it at all so no guarantees are given here...... Now we have to wait until we are sure that the CD is not spinning anymore. After the CD-ROM player accepted the CD it can still be spinning for a few minutes (my TEAC stopped after more than 3 minutes). I guess to be sure, wait about 5 minutes. If you are impatient here you risk to eject it while it is still spinning and this could damage your CD and who knows the laser of your CD-ROM player, so be warned! Now using a fine screw driver or a paper clip push into the little hole in the door of your CD-ROM player. The trays of some CD-ROM players can be opened totally without the CD-ROM player noticing but I saw one that would re-read the CD after closing the tray again so I would have to open it until halfway, until I was just able to get the CD out. Push your paper clip into the hole until the tray opens. Then pull it out manually (be careful and do it slowly!). Now remove the CD, remove the stickers and place it back. Now push the tray to close it again. Do it carefully. At the end you have to push a little faster to make sure the CD will be inserted entirely. If not, take it out again and try again. Now you can play it and grab it like you would normally do :-) If the first track will play but not grab skip the first 0.01 seconds or the first block. I use Easy CD-DA Extractor which offers this option (at the bottom of the extract window). Enjoy and be happy !

Someone Clever Said: "Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's the other way around"

EUGENE (Reuters) - Ken Kesey, whose 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' celebrated the challenge to soul-crushing authority and whose drug-infused exploits inspired the hippie movement of the 1960s, died on Saturday of complications from liver cancer, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 66. In a legendary 1964 trip, Kesey set off across the United States in a psychedelic painted tour bus called "Furthur,'' throwing parties featuring LSD and holding court over a group called "The Merry Pranksters'' whose exploits became the basis for Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.''

Against the forces of opression http://uk.eurorights.org/

critical mass was reached when the fcc gave away the publics air waves to the likes of ted turner and rupert murdoch. complete theivery of public domain. how can one own a frequency? well..... ......

(AP) -- The Northern Lights appeared with rare intensity in skies across the United States, treating onlookers as far south as Georgia and Alabama to a shimmering display of blue, red and green. The ghostly streaks, also known as the aurora borealis, are rarely seen south of Canada and Alaska. Monday night's display began around 8:50 p.m. EST, prompting alarmed calls to law enforcement authorities. Sonoma County, California, emergency dispatcher Randy Muelheim said some callers thought it might "be a terrorist thing."

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey (CNN) -- Saying that innocent women, men and children are being subjected "to blind wrath, misnamed as a holy war," Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Friday delivered indirect criticism of the the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Speaking at a United Nations-sponsored symposium at Seton Hall University, Khatami said that "an obscure misrepresentation of Islam terrorizes the world." He called for a worldwide coalition of "compassion and violence, as opposed to violence and terror."

Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-055.asp Originally posted: November 08, 2001 Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft� Internet Explorer Impact of vulnerability: Exposure and altering of data in cookies. Maximum Severity Rating: High Recommendation: Customers should consider disabling active scripting in the Internet Zone and the Intranet Zone. Customers using Outlook Express who have not set OE to use the "Restricted Sites" Zone should do so as a best practice. Affected Software: * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Technical description: Web sites use cookies as a way to store information on a user's local system. Most often, this information is used for customizing and retaining a site's setting for a user across multiple sessions. By design each site should maintain its own cookies on a user's machine and be able to access only those cookies. A vulnerability exists because it is possible to craft a URL that can allow sites to gain unauthorized access to user�s cookies and potentially modify the values contained in them. Because some web sites store sensitive information in a user�s cookies, it is also possible that personal information could be exposed. Microsoft is preparing a patch for this issue, but in the meantime customers can protect their systems by disabling active scripting. (The FAQ provides step-by-step instructions for doing this). This will protect against both the web-hosted and the mail-borne variants discussed above. When the patch is complete, Microsoft will re-release this bulletin and provide details on obtaining and using it.

                            Internet Servers     Intranet Servers     Client Systems
Internet Explorer 5.5       High                 High                 High
Internet Explorer 6.0       High                 High                 High

To disable: * On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click the Security tab, and then click Custom Level. * In the Settings box, scroll down to the Scripting section, and click Disable under "Active scripting" and "Scripting of Java applets". * Click OK, and then click OK again. All blogdialers know that the buttons used to post here in IE use active scripting, so once you turn it off you will have to use Mozilla http://www.mozila.org or another browser to post, or, enable active scripting just when youre here. Its amazing isnt it? Sites will be able to get your cookies, look into your shit and fuck with your identity. Like I said before, I dont have a problem with companies getting big and people getting rich, but I do have a problem with people and companies who thirsto for world domination (without good reason :] )

Americans Target Of Largest Media Brainwashing Campaign in History Executive Intelligence Review http:///www.larouchepub.com Introduction: Are You Brainwashed? Are you brainwashed? What about some of your neighbors, are they brainwashed? Before you answer that, let us ask you a few preliminary questions: Do you believe that the United States was struck by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11? Do think that the people behind that attack were "Arabs" and that its "mastermind" was this fellow Osama bin Laden, operating from a cave in Afghanistan? Do you believe that the way to stop terrorism is to hit them hard, to hit them at their "bases" in such places as Afghanistan, and to hit the nations who might sponsor them, like, say Iraq? And what about the economy? Do you think that the recent fall of the stock market, and the weakness in the economy, have been caused by the Sept. 11 attacks? Well, if you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you probably are brainwashed! If you answered "yes" to more than one, you are definitely a "goner."

http://go.stileproject.com/?v=jjap1.asf

Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:10:05 +0100 To: declan@well.com From: Ulf Hedlund Subject: Swedish national radio bans SETI software Conspiracy theory has reached the state owned public service radio in Sweden, "Sveriges Radio" (www.sr.se). They have banned all use of the SETI software and says that three of the technicians from the IT department are going to be relocated. According to the head of human resources, Per Thorsell, this is due to the fact that they don't know if the software is actually performing search for extraterrestrial life. "The software could be used by some service for other purposes, i.e. calculation of missile ballistics", he says.

oh no! thankfully he wasn't hurt. poor little prince..

"Today will be nothing like yesterday" Howard Jacques

US Congressman bockled from flying by Air France Issa, an Arab American, had been profiled and denied permission to board a flight. I thought that was rather amazing -- a U.S. congressman being singled out in such a way. As a result, I thought it might be worthwhile to pursue this story, and invited Issa to join me on the program. Issa, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, was scheduled to fly from Washington's Dulles Airport on October 4 to Saudi Arabia. He was traveling with his Democratic colleague from Florida, Robert Wexler, on a Congressional fact-finding mission. Wexler was already on board the plane when Issa arrived at the gate about an hour and 15 minutes before the scheduled departure. "They punched me in the computer, took my tickets, my boarding passes and my passport, and walked me out of sight for about 20 minutes," he said, referring to the Air France gate personnel. "And when they came back, they had taken my boarding passes away and handed me back my ticket, and said, "You're going tomorrow." http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/

Link between pirated CDs, terrorism alleged ... Prosecutor Carlos Calcenas said he believes the pirate CD business is underwriting terrorist activities and that Barakat is just one of dozens of Arab merchants who operate fronts in the tri-border region for terrorism-related activities..... http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/08/inv.terror.south/index.html

Original internet style madness: http://www.fsinet.or.jp/%7Esokaisha/rabbit/rabbit.htm

Q. FetaPets are amazing! This is the best idea I've ever heard. It seems too good to be true. Is this site for real? A. You are not dreaming. You are only seconds away from ordering your first FetaPet. You will know it is real when you feel the constant, never ending love from a FetaPet. Q. Isn't what you're doing unethical? A. There is nothing unethical about love. Q. Is it true that I could get eight FetaPups for free if I killed my pregnant dog? A. No, that is absolutely untrue. Q. What's the difference between a pile of dead babies and a pile of marbles? A. You can't load the marbles into a dump truck using a pitch-fork. Q. How many FetaPets have been sold? A. If you measured the number of FetaPets sold in love, the love would stretch from the earth to the moon and back 57 times. Q. I've heard so much about FetaPets. All of my friends have them. How do I get mine? A. Order your FetaPet by clicking on the links below. Q. FetaPets are disgusting! They look like dead animals in jars. Don't you think they're gross? A. Listen. You don't have to tell me they're gross. I have to touch the things. Q. Isn't it wrong of PayPal to shut down your payment service simply because of a few e-mails from unloving people? A. Yes. And those people are exactly the ones who would benefit the most from receiving the love from a FetaPet. Q. Why do they call it PayPal when they don't let you pay and they're not your pal? A. The domain name CockSucker was already taken. http://www.fetapets.com/

The Phantom Edit 1.1 cuts out many problems, the main one being The Midiclorian Heresy.

These two links change everything: http://www.wildform.com/ http://sponsorships.doubleclick.net/top10/default.htm

Anthony Manning - Chromium Nebulae I find, this LP should licence the German grammophon. A classical author simply. Super+diagonally in each regard, very much crunchy, and, as on most its other LPs no longer in such a way Gloeckchen vernarrt. In the reason ` Chromium Nebulae might be ' the entire Locust/Disjecta surrounding field into the bag. Much loop-oriented music, which again and again destroyed its own sounds under the hand, without sounding academic thereby. In completely self-willed way this is the plate of Anthony Manning, which is still at the earliest Techno, but it is also clearly as a follow-up of Sun RA to see. Very very closely, but never pressing.

http://fantabulosa.com/products/erniexq/features.html

"When Justice Becomes Outlawed... Then The Just Must Become Outlaws"

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http://www.h69.net/ http://www.limmy.com/ http://www.dreamless.org/

http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1813233 Military Bars Green Party Leader from Flying posted by declan on Saturday November 03, @12:36PM from the airports-are-now-a-no-speech-zone dept. As one of the U.S. Green Party's top officials, Nancy Oden is used to controversy. But Oden never expected to be hassled by National Guard troops at her hometown airport of Bangor, Maine on Thursday and barred from flying out of it. She thinks it's because of a Green Party statement she co-authored that ran in the local newspaper. The statement calls for universal health care, limitations on free trade, and a stop to "U.S. military incursions" including the bombing of Afghanistan. (The Green Party has labeled the U.S. military action an act of "state terrorism.") Oden's unsuccessful attempt to fly to Chicago for a Green Party national meeting follows a Philadelphia man's unpleasant experience after reading the wrong book at an airport, a California journalist's headaches for daring to take photos inside an airport, and the arrest of another man in Germany for bringing politically-unacceptable reading material to an airport. Also see Indymedia coverage of Oden's experience; the transcript of our interview with her from her home in Jonesboro, Maine is below.

"Do you have tee-pee for my bunghole?"

[....] Steve Uhrig, president of SWS Securities in Harford County, which provides intelligence and eavesdropping equipment to the NSA, said that before the attacks, he had sold the NSA a stash of "suitcasekits," portable listening devices best used against targets like the suspected terrorists. The kits, which are disposable and last about six weeks, travel well over rugged terrain and can track low-powered radio transmissions - especially those produced by people hiding with generators and ham radios, he said They can also help locate signals being "hidden" next to larger signals, Uhrig said. [....] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.ar.nsa03nov03.story

Coooool! http://www.liquid.se/pong.html

http://www.ops.dti.ne.jp/~thirdorg/su17.html

Any clues as to how I should feed WGET?
I think the normal method is to approach the cage downwind and lob packets of pork scratchings from a safe distance...
The problem appears to have been the syntax of robts.txt (quoted below) which doesn't seem to be very intuitive. Its fixed now anyway (sort of) and I actually tested it this time so download away.
Me, on the other hand, you should feed cakes.

The UK Campaign for LOGO FREE TV http://www.logofreetv.org.uk/ File next to CUT "Campaign for Uncensored Television". Sick of seeing Dragonball-Z cut to pieces? And all the other Sci-Fi thats butchered? Join CUT; we want clear admissions before the start of any edited film or programme that cuts have been made, with information on exactly who made the cuts and why. If you knew how many cuts there were in TV programmes you would be VERY surprised indeed. Did you know that there are two versions of "The Abyss"? There is one where the mouse is seen under the cage breathing liquid (for the tough North American market), and one where this scene is panned and scanned so that you dont see the mouse suffer (for the wimpy Europeans). Who wants to be the webmaster for this operation??

Anyone trying to download the MP3's from the webserver may have experienced some dificulties today. I got back into the office today after ten days of commuter hell/working elsewhere to find someone had decided to saw the office in half so I had to move all the servers (especially the ones that were half broke and held together with metaphorical gaffer tape.) On a brighter note I did learn today that hiding under your desk with your hands over your ears, going la-la-la I can't see you, is apparently NOT appropriate behaviour in the modern office.

Take a look over at Al Jazeera for footage from inside Kabul that they are not showing on western TV. http://www.aljazeera.net Its easy enough to use; just click on the camera icons.

Bushwhacked!

From: mountain_fed_spring@yahoo.com "Hello, I do not understand what this place is really about. Can anyone tell me? I thought it had to do with interesting radio transmissions and recordings, and it does seem to be vaguely about that, but then again it seems to be about something else completely different. Please help me understand!!! Cheers," Please email this dude with your varied and individual explanations!

A.I.'s last act, after a breathtaking twist and revelation, has been attacked as Spielberg's final seizure of the material from Kubrick, yet another fuzzy happy ending. Yet this ending -- the bleakest of any Spielberg movie and the sweetest and most sentimental of any Kubrick -- strikes me as far from happy. Instead, it's chilling, almost annihilating. And it is far from the only scene that may prove disturbing to young children.

NEW CONFORMITY aka(alex p. keaton is back!!!) Several writers of opinion pieces critical of President Bush�s leadership or U.S. foreign policy have been roundly criticized or have even lost their jobs. Some advertisers and local television stations dropped ABC�s �Politically Incorrect� after host Bill Maher referred to some past U.S. military actions as �cowardly.� College professors now worry that the new conformity is having a corrosive impact on campuses, eroding their historical place as hotbeds of debate and dissent. During the Vietnam War, college campuses were at the heart of the anti-war movement. But many speech advocates say campuses are now far less tolerant of controversy. �Obviously, the current situation has people really on edge,� said Harry A. Silverglate, author of �The Shadow University,� a book that examines incursions on campus free speech. �But it seems now the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses-the precise place where you would expect to see the least.�

http://ww.indymedia.org

ok then there's this

1,Baat Niklegi 2, Sarakti 3, Kagaz Ki Kashti 4, Meri Tanhaiyon 5, Chitthi Na Koi Sandesh 6, Dard Se Mera 7, Allah Jaanta

"Allah Jaanta Ha" Jahit Singh & Lata Mangeskar. Without compare. "Tere Bina Zindagi" Lata Mangeskar & Kishore Kumar. Unfathomable. "Ishq Mujhko Nahin" Jagit and Chitra Singh. Its True. "Chalte Chalte" Lata Mangeskar. Pure Power.

yes, that is a fact. it has been tested and confirmed by two employees(friends) i have who work there. both are audio designers with whom i talk often. when the messages are encrypted they are formatted properly. after being sent, they end up with the broken lines and have inserted "!"'s. this is not the case when the same people send messages from home. both are savvy pgp users as well. but hey f-them as it got figured out and we're back talking again. now truly we don't really know what they are running in the back-end to do this if anything. but it is possible using various software to scan for charaters in emails. and we know ea has the cash to hire some top notch programers. you should see the building/complex.

Do you meant to tell us that that EA sports DELIBERATELY corrupts pgp messages by adding characters to messages ??!!

pgp scrambling fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok you guys, ck this out. i have a friend at EA sports who was always getting his pgp messages scrambled. consistent bad packet errors. we tried many things as we were sure ea didn't want encrypted messages being sent out of ea due to their game secrets being given away. so below is a message from him. you will notice that "!" have been inserted to scramble the packets. if these are taken out and the lines moved up to form a solid message then it can be decrypted!!!!!!! can i win the pgp prize now??????? thankfully it go figured out. if you guys ever run into this problem you know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use Comment: Support the freedom of expression, use PGP qANQR1DBwU4Do9YN/HCrC04QB/48FZk3yDaCgtBqm1+VUY7pKBb8pcNLvKU/DuC5 JrelqRqRNcwFfatQ+1MOY1bjJXCxmD9xjbje9QDZNEHicohaNkrZuNk4p9mphdzS j9MLq/NF6DbgK9f/DpKPkQleSl4o34P1ZQ07W66rEdQC3dOHYWXuIEyUL2rBBrVH E3ZN06FGoOgn7jePVM2RkMAHCsrKDrtgnhWTlay02mzw7COYB3KC/xFlUJPf65pb x9dA3do9z41ywmOpNLyuDDSCkLw/kTkOGtqlf7ejVCpkg24rzc0PA/m5OOntEbmu MvLhaiZGVGjtJuVnbdHBpcBAPaEk4D+k11YZ7/BkaGKZFTNgCACHJXfbiex5QfBU QLrRVnhb8CM4OBooM5bqELD4OhqSIPJrba3ir26ltcSdtXdRtrRdczWBU/Be6HH3 JxJPSlcKvSeIAX9rEMpzS4yczPQNv9Jyfz9ba9Vz8Rel4GFcOGLjGH7v/+rl70BO FeZU+GgBHCUyRq0czRi7uxVdQEQptwpQ91ZYQPkdnBL3BDvFTEgdQsFu8b2hYKK2 sX3tA5sbF4CcNOH7bcDx3+ARYLNkWQhiT+Zb2CVUD6Q1m6bpUyU5ZT0hVE1sIRcu Ccm8OZSkeoloG7xAEAIixZPVdQkFU/flvZ7YHERHxZrc/Jkp3k+uDcX/Q2/12ZAo Glosn44PycAt91LCA1OqmLuVigU/qbWf+OK8NgyvJdIqvJobJ0QRGBsYqm3jJnfF RBTVmHD/GFjjX7w/BODc7sc8t98NvuXqjcIyMxJndEsYVljNiJaXVKv0! XqiX7wdT h++4a45MmaUA/dJHIKxUObUoVDjZGE9NYGcFQs7VHpRJqzxKdgMxZ4wI/KIuTFWC RmyT1YvJeFLsy5vYK4lFKM/QWLMQK0G0rE9i5kMpVZr5tDvrPNRDKITfOOfT+Gug 44huMTyavCcSNBR/1oL3xTGj9VD2GRFnuN1dXoeAlMGuHuu7sds5AQqYK5KKwuwV LcYdlDai =dmUL -----END PGP MESSAGE----- 'She'd better be a red hot navigator..'

Shields Up! http://213.40.196.62/media/660.htm

NB: take a look at Softwar! NO XP FOR THE ARMY Dept. of Defense officials have nixed a large buy of the Microsoft XP operating system and any PCs that have XP installed. The U.S. military has determined that the online registration of the Microsoft operating system simply gives up too much information about the Defense Dept. computers and software. I CAN SEE YOU TOO The move by U.S. law enforcement to ban anonymous Internet Web browsing has had unintended consequences. Anonymous web browsing was very popular with U.S. intelligence agencies and government military users who did not want others to know exactly what information was being accessed. Although the government may now be able to more easily track U.S. citizens on the Internet - the same is true in reverse. For example, on Oct. 24 at 5:30 pm the Bush White House visited the http://www.softwar.net website and downloaded information on the China-Gate scandal.

The war against terrorism is a fraud http://mirror.icnetwork.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11392430&method=full http://www.johnpilger.com

"Professional terrorists know how to cover their tracks, for example they use pre-paid mobile phones once and throw them away," said Mr Bowden. "Reports of the September 11 hijackers indicate they used web-based email from public terminals. It is not persuasive to argue for privacy to be sacrificed in the name of fighting terrorism if the measures would not be effective."

You are running Mojo Nation right? http://www.mojonation.net

From refusal to obey, From the love of far away, From forgetfulness to pray, Save us Bid

"My Philosophy , in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpse of his life, with productive achievement as his nobelst activity, and reason as his only absolute" *

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http://aqua-soft.micinc.com/

US special forces beat retreat as enemy 'fought back like maniacs' By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/26/war226.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/26/ixhome.html

The real meaning of XP 1. XP is for eXPensive Never in the history of the PC has the part of the operating system been so pricey. 2. XP is for eXPires Microsoft has invented the software that eXPires as the customer can only install the software a certain number of times. If you have a virus, need to upgrade your hard drive, want to clean up your HD, add another component, change PC or any other reason to install, your software gets closed to death. 3. XP is for eXPloit Knowing the care microsoft gives to security, this meaning is close to become reality. 4. XP is for eXPlosion eXPlosion of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks as windows XP gives raw socket acces to the mass of home users. (read http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm and http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19332.html ) 5. XP is for eXPected It took 10 years to microsoft to deliver a operating system that doesn't crash or need a reboot multiple times a day. At last ! 6. XP is for linuXPreferred For all the above reasons. 7. XP is for eXPose your personal data to Microsoft. 8. XP is for eXperience Problems 9. XP is for eXtra Profits. 10. XP is for eXtraneous Programs Bloated beyond reason.

"We cannot as a nation allow very legitimate public anxiety to immunize the Administration and Congress from their obligation to protect the Bill of Rights and the fundamental values that document embodies," said Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU's Washington National Office. http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/index.html

http://www.infowars.com/

Got this on the (rather excellent) snuggles mailing list from http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/1636242&mode=thread Disney Channel cartoon portrays music downloads as evil Monday October 22, 01:09 PM EDT [ Multimedia ] - by Tina Gasperson - The Disney Channel cartoon series The Proud Family (Flash plugin helpful), aired an episode on Oct. 5 entitled EZ Jackster . In the storyline, EZ Jackster is a Napster-like site, and the show's little heroines get addicted to the service and play a part in the downfall of the music industry. Disney is one of the backers of the SSSCA proposed legislation that is scheduled for a hearing before Congress Oct. 25. The TV summary site, TV Tome, shows this synopsis of the episode in question: "After Penny spends $125 on CDs with her five-cent salary, she meets a boy, Mega, who tells her about a napster-like website he made called EZ Jackster. All weekend she was sitting at the computer, downloading music from EZ Jackster. Finally, Dijonay comes over and asks what she was doing over the weekend. Penny asks Dijonay if she can keep a secret, knowing that she can't. Penny tells Dijonay to tell everyone she knows about EZ Jackster. Her telling everybody about EZ Jackster has a ripple-effect all around the world. From India to Africa to Suga Mama! But rap singer, Sir Paid-A-Lot is threatened by this because he got a five-cents salary instead of his million-dollar salary. But suddenly, after wrestling, the news interrupted the next program telling about EZ Jackster. It shows a house of where the EZ Jackster-spreader lives. Oscar comments how ugly the house is, not realizing it was their house. Trudy is mad at Penny for stealing music so she takes away her computer. Later, Penny gets a call from Mega, asking if she is still using EZ Jackster. Will Penny listen to her parents?" A post forwarded to the Linux-Elitists mailing list from one of the show's viewers gave the rest of the details about the decidedly pro-SSSCA plot: 1. Girl working at her antiquated computer her dad gave her in her room. 2. Mystery guy (cool hip hop looking dude in black) shows up at her window and supplies her with an up to date computer, takes her into "the Matrix and shows her a web area called Free Jackster where she can get all the music she could ever want FOR FREE, 3. The girl asks if this is illegal and mystery guy explains it is our birthright to have free music, creativity should not have a price 4. Girl gets addicted to collecting free music, her obsession leads to telling all her friends. soon the site is getting millions of hits from kids to grandmothers. 5. Next scene at the The Wizard Record Label board room where "Sir Paid Alot" enters to complain his royalty check was only five cents. This alerts The Wizard (head of the label) that there is a retail problem he needs to look into. 6. Teen Girl's house is surrounded that night by police and press and she is arrested for illegal downloads, gets a warning,. The news makes it clear that millions of people can't be stopped, Parents take computer away from girl and explain why free downloads is STEALING -- kind of an abirdged explanation of how copyrights work. 7. Next scene, Asian Guy's retail record store is empty, guy is crying on the floor. Teen Girl who happens to work at the store show up to work, Asian guy fires her for supporting all the free downloads 8. Next scene charts showing record sales are down down down to nothing because people get the music for free 9. Mystery guy shows up at teen girl's window again to try and convince her to go back to downloading but she says NO 10. Guy: "You still downloading?" Teen Girl: "Downloading is stealin'." Mr. Guy from Free Jackster: "I know you are afraid I am trying to show you a world without rules." Teen girl says, "No, its wrong."

check this out everyone. please let me know your thoughts!

doubles ok so, i am gettting married next week on nov. 3rd. this is a 'formal elopement' with only our families being invited. on feb 2nd we are having another ceremony for our friends et al blah blah. so..... 1. the date? 02-02-02 2. it is our second time getting married 3. it's two holidays(groundhog day's and kat's fathers birthday) 4. kat's father is a twin. 5. the wedding will be performed by a libra at a gemini's house. (i am a gemini and kat is a libra therefor: 2 libra's 2 gemini's) i know there was more but i can't remember them now. p.s. 11 is TWO one's. p.p.s. crass is nifty

The date of the attack: 9/11 - 9 + 1 + 1 = 11 September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11 After September 11th there are 111 days left to the end of the year. 119 is the area code to Iraq/Iran. 1 + 1 + 9 = 11 Twin Towers - standing side by side, looks like the number 11 The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11 I Have More....... State of New York - The 11th State added to the Union New York City - 11 Letters Afghanistan - 11 Letters The Pentagon - 11 Letters Ramzi Yousef - 11 Letters (convicted or orchestrating the attack at the WTC in 1993) Flight 11 - 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11 Flight 77 - 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11 Response: Oh my God! How worried should I be? There are 11 letters in the name "David Pawson!" I'm going into hiding NOW. See you in a few weeks. Wait a sec ... just realized "YOU CAN'T HIDE" also has 11 letters! What am I gonna do? Help me!!! The terrorists are after me! ME! I can't believe it! Oh crap, there must be someplace on the planet Earth I could hide! But no ..."PLANET EARTH" has 11 letters, too! Maybe Nostradamus can help me. But dare I trust him? There are 11 letters in "NOSTRADAMUS." I know, the Red Cross can help. No they can't... 11 letters in "THE RED CROSS," can't trust them. I would rely on self defense, but "SELF DEFENSE" has 11 letters in it, too! Can someone help? Anyone? If so, send me email. No, don't... "SEND ME EMAIL" has 11 letters.... Will this never end? I'm going insane! "GOING INSANE???" Eleven letters!! Nooooooooooo!!!!!! I guess I'll die alone, even though "I'LL DIE ALONE" has 11 letters..... Oh my God, I just realized that America is doomed! Our Independence Day is July 4th ... 7/4 ... 7+4=11! PS. "IT'S BULLSHIT" has 11 letters also.

The Foldover Game

heh... http://www.theregister.co.uk/media/657.zip

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----



		      Mad as Hell about the DMCA
			 By "Beale Screamer"


This document is intended as a position paper on copyright and the
abuses the copyright system has undergone, especially with the
introduction and abuse of the notorious Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA).  This document is originally distributed with software
that in fact clearly violates the DMCA, and so this gives background
on why I would write this software.  I hope that anyone who uses this
software reads the "README" and "LICENSE" files in the same
distribution, and respects my wishes as to how the software should be
used.  I do not want to create massive copyright infringement, but
rather hope to give people the tools to regain the rights that have
existed for centuries with respect to copyright, and are now in danger
of being taken away in a most uncompromising manner.

Copyright has always been intended as a balancing act between the
rights of authors/publishers and the rights of consumers.  Technical
advances are making it possible for publishers to take away
technically what they would have a hard time justifying legally or
morally.  And unfortunately, in a misguided attempt to address
copyright issues in the digital age, the U.S. government has given
legal backing to the technical means through the DMCA, outlawing
attempts at circumventing these technical protections.  In effect,
this gives publishers full and complete control over copyright issues,
without the annoyance of actually having to go through the usual
legislative debate and judicial review.  As a shock to no one, the
publishing industry (particularly the MPAA and RIAA) have used the
DMCA as a bludgeon to attack anyone who suggests that consumers and
citizens have rights too.  I hope people take my civil disobedience as
an opportunity to send a message to publishers.  To borrow words from
Howard Beale in the movie "Network," just yell to the publishers "I'm
mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"


DISCLAIMER

I am neither a lawyer nor a copyright expert, so my personal opinions
are really those of an "interested outsider."  I have done extensive
reading on the basis and history copyright, as well as following the
most visible current legal cases regarding the application of
copyright and the DMCA.  But clearly no one should take any of the
information or ideas of this document as legal advice or precedent!  I
*am* an expert on the technical issues involved, and plan on being a
thorn in the side of the publishers until they adopt a more reasoned
and reasonable approach.  The current climate regarding these issues
leaves me little choice except to remain anonymous.  I don't intend on
being a martyr, or on spending the next decade of my life defending
myself in legal proceedings.


HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT

The history of copyright has been written many times, but a good,
brief account is available from the Association of Research 
Libraries [1].  For the past several centuries, copyright law has 
tried to balance the rights of consumers with incentives to authors
and publishers for promoting their work.  It is quite explicit in the
intent of copyright that in the sale of a copyrighted work, "once
purchased the copyright owner does not control the use of the work" [1].
Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and expert on these issues,
echoed this observation in an interview when he pointed out that "The
traditional idea of fair use - and the law has been extremely vague in
defining this - is that the copyright owners do not have the right to
perfectly control how you use their copyrighted material" [3].

However, the situation today with the DMCA is precisely the opposite
of this intent: the use of the DMCA often does not have to do with
limiting copying or distribution, but rather with restricting the use
of the copyrighted work.  The violation of this intent was described,
among many other places, in quote taken from a New York Times article
in which they wrote "In the past, when a company published a book, the
fair use rights of readers limited its control over the work. But if
the same company issues a book today and encrypts it, its control over
readers is far greater -- in fact, almost unlimited -- unless there is
a right of access to the material."

The DeCSS case is a particularly flagrant example of this: the DeCSS
code does not have any effect on DVD pirates, who can simply copy a
full disk as-is.  The entire purpose of using CSS by DVD publishers
seems to be to restrict how the material is used!  The purpose of
DeCSS was to allow legitimately purchased DVDs to be played on Linux,
a system that at the time did not support DVD playback.  It is
abundantly clear that this is 100% OK with respect to copyright;
however, it violates the DMCA, since the *use* of the material is in a
manner inconsistent with what the publisher desired.

The erosion of the reader's/listener's rights has been a steady process
for many, many years.  The limited time granted for copyrights has
been repeatedly lengthened, and now is a totally preposterous 70 years
past the death of the author.  While the "limited time" is no longer
terribly limited, the introduction of the DMCA goes even farther in
this extreme by allowing publishers to have an infinite-time monopoly
on a work: they can simply put technological protection measures on a
work, and the DMCA makes removing those measures a crime even when the
work is no longer covered by copyright!

The best treatment I've seen of these issues is an excerpt from Siva
Vaidhyanathan's book "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of
Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity" that was
published on msnbc.com [2]. If the bulk of the book is as good as the
excerpt, this will be an outstanding book, and I take the liberty of
quoting quite a bit from this work here.  As an overall background to
copyright, Vaidhyanathan begins with the following:

    Copyright, when well balanced, encourages the production and
    distribution of the raw material of democracy. But after more than
    200 years of legal evolution and technological revolution,
    American copyright no longer offers strong democratic
    safeguards. It is out of balance. And our founders - especially
    Thomas Jefferson - would not be pleased.

    Copyright was created as a policy that balanced the interests of
    authors, publishers, and readers. It was not intended to be a
    restrictive property right.

I have to agree that the founders would not be pleased with what is
happening today.  Vaidhyanathan quotes the following passage from
Thomas Jefferson regarding copyright: "It's peculiar character, too,
is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the
whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction
himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me."

One of the big successes of publishers such as the RIAA and MPAA has
been a steady erosion and public brain-washing regarding the point of
copyright.  A simple but effective measure has been the modification
of terminology that is used for copyright violations: they speak of
people "stealing intellectual property" or "theft of copyrighted
music" in the trading of MP3s.  The wide-scale copying ala Napster
clearly is copyright violation, but "theft"?  The definition of
something being "stolen" means that it is taken from the rightful
owner - and the owner no longer has possession of that item.  As
Jefferson observed several centuries ago, this simply doesn't apply to
the types of material that are copyrighted.  Making a copy of an item
doesn't in any way remove that item from the original possessor, so
"theft" is clearly an inaccurate terminology.  However, the
publishers' insistence on using that word, and the public's acceptance
of it, means that a much more negative light is cast on an action
that, while wrong, is nowhere near the severity of a true "theft."

The use of terms "theft" and "intellectual property" cleverly casts
copyright issues as being "property" issues, although Jefferson and
other founding fathers explicitly did not accept the idea of writings
as property.  Remember: just because the publishers want you to think
of recordings and music as property does not make it so!

One final quote from Vaidhyanathan, this time talking directly about
the DMCA:

    This law has one major provision that upends more than 200 years
    of democratic copyright law. It forbids the "cracking" of
    electronic gates that protect works - even those portions of works
    that might be in the public domain or subject to fair use. It puts
    the power to regulate copying in the hands of engineers and the
    companies that employ them.

The last sentence is vital: the regulatory role regarding copyright
has now been fully turned over to the publishers and technology
producers.  Congress has explicitly written itself out of the loop on
such regulatory issues, and has thrown the balance between publishers
and citizens entirely to the control of the publishers.  The citizens
have lost their voice in these matters, and unless Congress acts to
drastically change the DMCA and reassert the consumer side of the
balance, we simply will have no say in what rights the publishers
deign to allow us to have.


HOW THINGS SHOULD BE

Any Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme has two sides: on the one
hand, the most obvious use is to take away the rights of the consumer.
On the other hand, it can in fact be used to give the consumer *more*
possibilities than existed before.  I think the idea of limited time,
full-length previews, or time-limited Internet-based rentals is
excellent.  If DRM was *only* used for this, in order to give us more
options than we previously had, I would not have taken the effort to
break the scheme.  What is bad is the use of DRM to restrict the
traditional form of music sale.  When I buy a piece of music (not rent
it, and not preview it), I expect (and demand!) my traditional fair
use rights to the material.  I should be able to take that content,
copy it onto all my computers at home, my laptop, my portable MP3
player, ...  basically anything I use to listen to the music that I
have purchased.  I can't do this at all with Microsoft's DRM scheme.
Ideally, I would see two types of sales: limited, clearly spelled-out
licenses for rentals and previews, and traditional sales, where the
content is not protected, and ideally is provided in an open,
non-proprietary format.  As long as publishers insist on removing our
rights in a traditional sale, we will continue to fight back with
technical and legal measures.

To complicate matters in the specific case of Microsoft's DRM version
2 technology, not only are licenses applied, but there doesn't seem to
be a clear way to even see what your license really enforces.  A
technically skilled person who knows how the scheme works can look
through the binary license file, find the ACTION strings, and figure
out what restrictions the license imposes, but the overwhelming
majority of people simply will have no idea what license they have
purchased.  If a publisher decided to hide a 5 year expiration date in
the license, for whatever reason, the average consumer would have no
way of knowing this.  And after 5 years, your license would go away,
and there would be nothing you could do about it.

Laws passed by the government should not simply do corporate bidding.
Congress is supposed to be there to protect *our* rights, but
unfortunately, money talks, and that seems to be the basis of the
DMCA.  Even with legal issues put aside, technology has the ability to
take away our rights, especially if cryptographic "secure hardware"
gets incorporated into devices.  The government should be using its
power to *limit* that, not enhance it!  In other words, the government
should be passing laws that guarantee that the citizens retain their
fair use rights, *regardless* of what the technology allows.  And laws
should somehow (escrowed keys for corporations, perhaps!?)  be in a
position to guarantee that technical measures expire at the same time
the copyright does, forcing the work into the public domain as has
been happened historically.  And finally, if the technology is used
for new services, laws should ensure that the technology should be
designed in such a way that full disclosure of license restrictions is
made to the consumers.

I'm not sure I hold out much hope of this happening.  The publishers
will certainly fight strongly against it.  But until such changes are
made, expect to see me and others like me doing acts of civil
disobedience in order to salvage what we can out of this travesty.


CURRENT ABUSES

The DMCA has been used in a reprehensible fashion in at least 3 cases:
the DeCSS case, the case of Edward Felton, and the case of Dmitri
Sklyarov.  The DeCSS case was mentioned above, where the MPAA used the
DMCA as a weapon to attack a tool whose primary use is to make legal
use of legally obtained material (DVDs).  However, since the
particular use is not sanctioned by the MPAA, they used the DMCA to
criminalize what would otherwise have been a perfectly legal use.

Increasing the level of appalling behavior, the SDMI Foundation
threatened to sue Professor Edward Felton for disclosing an attack on
several of the SDMI audio watermarking technologies, even though the
attacks were performed at the specific invitation of the SDMI
Foundation!  By participating in the SDMI challenge, and rejecting any
claims to the cash prizes offered, the challenge announcement clearly
allowed Felton to retain rights to publish details of his work.  In
the DeCSS case, Judge Kaplan decided that DeCSS could be suppressed,
despite first amendment concerns, because computer code was not
allowed the same rights as English prose.  This seems to contradict
the decision in the Bernstein case that source code is protected
speech, but this is just one of the many decisions Kaplan made in this
case that were very poorly thought-out.  Kaplan decided that code
wasn't protected speech, so Felton's paper carefully avoided including
any code, and stuck to straight English descriptions.  Even so, the
SDMI Foundation, in its initial threats to sue Felton and his research
group, was somehow trying to make the argument that English
descriptions are no longer protected speech.  This is clearly absurd,
and the RIAA and SDMI Foundation have apparently understood this and
backed off in their initial threats, now going so far as to claim they
never intended to sue.  However, their actions with Professor Felton
are clearly at odds with their later revised history of events.

Finally, the case of Dmitri Sklyrov is perhaps the most appalling of
all.  Among its other problems, the DMCA has taken what has
traditionally been a civil matter (copyright issues) and criminalized
certain actions.  Dmitri Sklyrov wrote a program that removes
protections from Adobe e-books, restoring traditional fair-use rights
to e-book owners.  Furthermore, he wrote this program in Russia, where
it is not illegal.  His company (and I don't believe there are any
claims that he did this personally) distributed his unlocking software
from a U.S. website, and on the basis of this Sklyrov was arrested
when he made a trip to the U.S.  Sklyrov has actually spent time in
jail on these extremely flimsy grounds, and faces a criminal
prosecution in the matter.  Despite the fact that Adobe has
subsequently said it doesn't wish for Sklyarov to be prosecuted, the
government is continuing in its case.  This is apparently the reward
that the government gives for people who stand up for their fair use
rights under copyright law, and is the primary reason I'm remaining
anonymous.


FUTURE

What does the future hold?  Hopefully, the government will start
acting to protect citizen's rights instead of corporate interests.  If
this doesn't happen, expect to see many of the current DRM schemes
being very publicly broken as an act of protest.  I will stay quiet
for a while, until any publicity of this current work dies down, but
there are many, many others out there that have the ability to do
precisely what I've done, and are in fact doing so right now.
Remember: "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take this any
more!"


REFERENCES

[1]  http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html
 
[2]  http://www.msnbc.com/news/594462.asp?cp1=1
 
[3]  http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/30/lessig.html


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Some Personal Views from Around the World of ID Cards. Read it and weep. from Privacy International In 1994, in an attempt to discover the problems caused by ID cards, Privacy International compiled a survey containing reports from correspondents in forty countries. Amongst the gravest of problems reported to Privacy International was the over zealous use or misuse of ID cards by police - even where the cards were supposed to be voluntary. One respondent wrote : On one occasion I was stopped in Switzerland when walking at night near Lake Geneva. I was living in Switzerland at the time and had a Swiss foreigner's ID card. The police were wondering why I should want to walk at night to look at the Chateau de Chillon. Really suspicious I suppose, to walk at night on the banks of the lake to look at an illuminated chateau (I am white and dress conservatively). I had to wait for 20 minutes whilst they radioed my ID number to their central computer to check on its validity. Correspondents in most countries reported that police had powers to demand the ID card. A correspondent in Greece reported: In my country the Cards are compulsory. If police for example stop you and ask for identification you must present them the ID or you are taken to the police department for identification research. Police were granted these powers in the late 1980s, despite some public misgivings. Non European countries reported more serious transgressions, In Brazil, for example: They are compulsory, you're in big trouble with the police if they request it and you don't have one or left home without it. The police can ask for my identity card with or without a valid motive, it's an intimidation act that happens in Brazil very, very often. The problem is not confined to the police. Everybody asks for your id when you are for example shopping, and this is after you have shown your cheque guarantee card. We also other similar cards. Nobody trusts anybody basically. Predictably, political hot-spots have seen widescale abuse of the card system: One problem that Afghans encountered carrying these "tazkiras" (ID cards) was during the rule of the communist regime in Afghanistan where people were stopped in odd hours and in odd places by the government's Soviet advisors and their KHALQI and PARCHAMI agents and asked for their "tazkiras". Showing or not showing the "tazkira" to the enquiring person at that time was followed by grave consequences. By showing it, the bearer would have revealed his age upon which, if it fell between 16-45, he would have been immediately taken to the nearest army post and drafted into the communist army, and if he refused to show, he would have been taken to the nearest secret service (KHAD) station and interrogated as a member of the resistance (Mujahideen), imprisoned, drafted in the army or possibly killed. Many countries reported that their ID card had become an internal passport, being required for every dealing with people or institutions. In Argentina, according to this correspondent, the loss of the ID card would result in grave consequences: I got my first personal ID when I turned seven. It was the Provincial Identity Card. It looked like the hardcover of a little book with just two pages in it. It had my name, my photograph, the fingerprint of my right thumb, and some other personal data. I never questioned what was the logic about fingerprinting a seven-year old boy. It was suggested that identification was one of the major purposes for the existence of the Police of the Province which issued the card. It was required for enroling in the Provincial School I attended. Attending the primary school is compulsory, hence everybody under twelve is indirectly forced to have the Card.Well, this Book was required for any sort of proceedings that the person wanted to initiate, e.g. enrol at school, buy a car, get his driving license, get married. Nobody could do anything without it. In addition, it became a prerogative of the police to request it at any time and place. Whoever was caught without it was customarily taken to jail and kept there for several hours (or overnight if it happened in the evening) while they "checked his personal record". In effect, Argentine citizens have never been much better off than South-African negroes during the Apartheid, the only difference is that we Argentinians did not have to suffer lashings if caught without the pass card. As for daily life without the ID, it was impossible. Of greater significance is the information that ID cards are commonly used as a means of tracking citizens to ensure compliance with such laws as military service. Again, in Argentina: The outrage of the military service was something that many people was not ready to put up with. Nevertheless, something forced the people to present themselves to be drafted. It was nothing more or less than the ID. In fact, if somebody did not show up, the army never bothered to look for them. They just waited for them to fall by themselves, because the ID card showed the boy to be on military age and not having the necessary discharge records by the army. Provided that in the country you could not even go for a walk without risking to be detained by the police, being a no-show for military duty amounted to a civil death. Another respondent in Singapore noted that many people in his country were aware that the card was used for purposes of tracking their movements, but that most did not see any harm in this: If that question is put to Singaporeans, they are unlikely to say that the cards have been abused. However, I find certain aspects of the NRIC (ID card) system disconcerting. When I finish military service (part of National service), I was placed in the army reserve. When I was recalled for reserve service, I found that the army actually knew about my occupation and salary! I interpreted this as an intrusion into my privacy. It might not be obvious but the NRIC system has made it possible to link fragmented information together. The consequences of losing ones card were frequently mentioned: A holiday in Rio was ruined for me when I was robbed on the beach and had to spend the rest of the brief holiday going through the bureaucracy to get a duplicate issued. One way round this (of dubious legality) is to walk around with a notarized xerox copy instead of the original. The Brazillian experience shows that the card is often misused by police: Of course violent police in metropolitan areas of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro love to beat and arrest people (especially black/poor) on the pretext that they don't have their ID card with them. In some countries, denial of a card means denial of virtually all services: ID cards are very important in Vietnam. They differentiate between citizens and non-citizens. People without an ID card are considered as being denied of citizenship and all the rights that come with it. For example, they cannot get legal employment, they cannot get a business license, they cannot go to school, they cannot join official organizations, and of course they cannot join the communist party. They cannot travel either. (Even though in practice, they bribe their way around within the country, they would face big trouble if got caught without ID card.) The same problem occurs in China: I personally feel that the card has the following drawbacks: It carries too much private info about a person. We have to use it in almost every situation. such as renting a hotel room, getting legal service from lawyers, contacting government agencies, buying a plane ticket and train ticket, applying for a job, or getting permit to live with your parents, otherwise your residence is illegal. In a lot of cases, we are showing too much irrelevant information to an agency or person who should not know that. The card is subject to police cancellation, and thus without it, one can hardly do anything, including traveling for personal or business purposes, or getting legal help or obtaining a job. The government has been using this scheme too often as a measure against persons who run into troubles with it socially or politically. The identity card is showing your daily or every short-term movement, and can be used to regularize and monitor a person's behavior and activity. One Korean professor reported that the national card was used primarily as a means of tracking peoples activities and movements: If you lose this card, you have to report and make another one within a certain period. Since it shows your current address, if you change your address then you must report that and make a correction of the new address. If you go to a military service or to a prison, then the government takes away this identity card. You get the card back when you get out. You are supposed to carry this card everywhere you go, since the purpose is to check out the activity of people. There are fines and some jail terms if you do not comply. If you board a ship or an airplane, then you must show this card to make a record. You need to show this card when you vote. Former presidential candidate Kim, Dae Joong could not vote for his own presidential election because his secretary forgot to bring Kim's card. He had to wait for a while until somebody bring his card. Many government employees make lot of money selling information on this card to politicians during election season. Police can ask you to show this card and check whether your identity number is on the wanted list or not. There is a widespread prejudice between the people of some local areas. This card shows the permanent address of you. And it allows other people to successfully guess the hometown of your parents. One Portuguese man studying in the United States reported an obsession with identity in his country: I keep losing my ID. card, and people keep asking for it. It seems like it's needed for just about everything I want to do, and I should really carry it around my neck or have it tattooed on my palm. The information on it is needed for everything. Many buildings, perhaps most, will have a clerk sitting at a "reception desk" who will ask you for your id. They will keep it and give it back to you when you leave. Few people seem bothered with this, but then they don't keep loosing they're cards like I do. SO I usually threw a little tantrum "Are we under curfew? Why do I have to carry my id with me anyway?" Our tolerant culture invariably leads the clerk to take whatever other document I happen to be carrying -- usually my bus pass, which I loose less often. After a while I surrender and go get myself a new id. card. It takes 1/2 a day or more to do this and -- guess what -- you need your old id. card. It's more complicated if you've lost it. Then finally I am legal again for a while. It's partly due to the Portuguese obsession with identity. Everyone carries both they're mother's and father's last names. Others confirmed the traditional problem of counterfeiting: It costs only 300 rupees ($10) to get a counterfeit ID card. The system hardly works. We all know how fake IDs (one guy's photo, another one's name) can be obtained so people can have their friends take GREs and TOEFLs (national tests) for them.

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Which amongst you do not think that this is insane/wrong/crazy/immoral/harmful/stupid/backwards/inflamatory/racist/inhuman/dumb/anti-christ/unbelievable speak now, and if you say that you think its ok, then I will just have to kill you. ********* From: Bretton Vine To: declan@well.com Subject: national ID cards Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:20:55 +0200 Declan Here in South Africa we are issued with an identity number at birth made up of date of birth, a number allocation for male or female, a number for race and another number for nationality. For example, a white male born born on 1 October 1999 would have a number such as: 991001 5000 08 2 The second number (4 digit) is for sex: 0001 - 4999 for females 5000 - 9999 for males The third number (two digit) is for race The last number for nationality, At age 16 an ID book is issued. This ID book has a picture, a page for record of voting, a page for endorsements, Drivers license page, Driver's license endorsements, and space for 6 firearm licenses. In order to get your ID book you must have your fingerprints recorded. Recently drivers licenses were made available in credit card format as well, but these are not accepted as proof of identity. ID Books must be presented in so many activities. * Opening a bank account, or a credit facility: present your ID book which is then photocopied and the copy stored with your application. * Hiring a movie for the first time at a video rental? Often you must leave your ID book with the shop. (Aimed at preventing theft apparently) * Stopped at a traffic roadblock? You must present your ID book and drivers license. * Buying a plane ticket? In some places you must present your ID book as well. * Going to a doctor for the first time, or to a hospital - present your ID book. Copies of your ID book exist all over the place. Even if you close a credit account or store account, they still keep the copy and application. And yet we have one of the most progressive constitutions in the world :-/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Its extremely important to READ when you try and talk about something important like PGP. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD, or BULLSHIT) is extraordinarily damaging; it sends out false signals to the weak minded and damages the hard work that people do to try and get everyone on the same page as far as privacy and liberty are concerned. Anyone who can READ will know that GNUPG is an OPEN SOURCE PROJECT; that means that anyone can download the source code, read it, make sure that it is free of back doors, compile it and then run it. It doesnt matter who funds the development, because you (or someone you can trust) will always be able to read the source, and make sure that it does what it is supposed to do. The German Government in this case is acting in a very enlightened way. GNUPG cannot be sabotaged; they know this. They are supporting it as the only viable way to protect thier citizens against echelon. It is the stated recommendation of the EU in response to the Echelon threat that all EU citizens encrypt thier email and communications with a robust system, and to that end, the German Govt. is financing the development of GNUPG. PGP/GNUPG is not crippled, has no back doors, and can be trusted. Bullshit like this has been circulated since the earliest versions of PGP were released. READ ABOUT THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING and UNDERSTAND the people and motivations behind it. Once you do that, you will find that your feelings toward PGP and Open Source will grow exponentially stronger, as you realize just how important a resource this type of operation is, and how much the programmers are giving the community for free.

FBI to employ Torture: Civil Rights out the window

Silence of 4 Terror Probe Suspects Poses Dilemma By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 21, 2001 FBI and Justice Department investigators are increasingly frustrated by the silence of jailed suspected associates of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and some are beginning to that say that traditional civil liberties may have to be cast aside if they are to extract information about the Sept. 11 attacks and terrorist plans. More than 150 people rounded up by law enforcement officials in the aftermath of the attacks remain in custody, but attention has focused on four suspects held in New York who the FBI believes are withholding valuable information. FBI agents have offered the suspects the prospect of lighter sentences, money, jobs, and a new identity and life in the United States for them and their family members, but they have not succeeded in getting information from them, according to law enforcement sources. "We're into this thing for 35 days and nobody is talking," a senior FBI official said, adding that "frustration has begun to appear." Said one experienced FBI agent involved in the investigation: "We are known for humanitarian treatment, so basically we are stuck. . . . Usually there is some incentive, some angle to play, what you can do for them. But it could get to that spot where we could go to pressure . . . where we won't have a choice, and we are probably getting there." Among the alternative strategies under discussion are using drugs or pressure tactics, such as those employed occasionally by Israeli interrogators, to extract information. Another idea is extraditing the suspects to allied countries where security services sometimes employ threats to family members or resort to torture..... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/A27748-2001Oct20.html

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Just in case you havent heard, Mozilla .95 is out http:/www.mozilla.org. Its the most excelent of browsers! When you download it, you MUST try Gestural Browsing http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures" Very cool, very modern, very efficient.

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