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@ Devil Woman: http://www.halcyon.com/cyber/misc-pics/bettyblue.png
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# Chinese e-commerce site attacked. (BBC) Police are attempting to track
a hacker who shut down a leading Chinese e-commerce web site. The fiend:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_674000/674038.stm
# Also - Web hackers strike again - nobody is safe - run and hide:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_657000/657783.stm
# A-Z: Hack attack - when the world is hacked, will society fall?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_639000/639248.stm
# Beating the hacker attack - a good offense is the best defense:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_638000/638166.stm
& NET-NANNY CRACKED - The Breaking of Cyber Patrol® 4. Several attacks are
presented on the "sophisticated anti-hacker security" features of CP4, a
"censorware" product intended to prevent users from accessing Internet
content considered harmful. Motivations, tools, and methods are discussed
for reverse engineering in general and reverse engineering of censorware
in particular ... Excerpts from the list of blocked sites are presented
and commented upon. A package of source code and binaries implementing the
attacks is included. http://hem.passagen.se/eddy1/reveng/cp4/cp4break.html
[ this brilliant work was forwarded via http://www.politechbot.com/
For more info see http://www.politechbot.com/p-00994.html and
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=censorware
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=loudoun ]
: Have you uncovered any ill-kept secrets lately? Have you demonstrated the
moral corruption and/or incompetence of authoritarians? Has retaliation been
swift and deadly? Will the conspiracies re-group and proceed to their goals?
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# Yowie hunters head for the hills near Gympie. AAP -- To some it's just a
huge, hairy joke, but 12 deadly serious men plan to search for that large,
ape-like and always elusive creature, the yowie. "There were thousands of
yowies up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia, and they had terro-
rised people over the last few years, usually in less densely populated
areas." http://news.ninemsn.com.au/05_technology/story_15992.asp
# Not every mystery has a paranormal explanation - just the interesting
ones: http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/stories/000311/3740391.html
# ETs INVADE USA! http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=68304
@ VIRUS CULTURE: http://www.mtsu.edu/~english/weinstock.htm
: Have you experienced anything paranormal lately? Are you sure it's really
paranormal? Just because *you* couldn't figure it out, does that make it
mystical? Have you chased any elusive creatures? Have they chased you? Why?
# Pollster: Americans put high priority on spirituality. DENVER - This is
a "bull market" in spirituality as more and more Americans seek their
own mystical experiences. http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0311n.htm
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@ Eve Is Again Listening to the Voice of the Serpent. Eve fell for the fruit
but Adam fell for Eve. There is a replay of the garden incident in the end
time. Satan's plot is to corrupt woman and ruin the race. Womanhood of
America is running headlong to harlotry. Instead of the Bible, movie
stars set American standards. http://members.aol.com/libcfl/woman.htm
# Natural Passion. Rape is as much a feature of the normal landscape of
sex as flirting or courting. Power is not the issue: spreading genes is.
So sez: http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns222611
# Outrage as professors claim rape is natural - "cut off their scrotums!"
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640&pg=/et/00/3/9/ecnrape09.html
: Is your sexuality evil/natural/neutral/boring/odd? Do y'r belief/knowledge
systems inform you of proper/normal/acceptable sexual behaviors? D'ya ignore
the teachings and just do whatever the hell you want to do? Have you bred??
@ I'M YOUNG & BURNING WITH SEXUAL DESIRE & SEXUAL TORMENT. WHEN DO I HAVE TO
MARRY? WHEN MUST WE MARRY? WHAT OF PORN? WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT THE BURNING?
http://www.etext.org/Religious.Texts/Polyamory/UnderageSexBurning.txt
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# Crows Wield Beak-Crafted Tools. It was dogma for decades, but the notion
that tool-making distinguishes humans from other animals turned out to be
a flattering delusion. But of all the animal artisans, only humans seemed
to shape tools according to a set pattern and with a favored hand. Now, an
ecologist claims to have found both those traits among crows in the south-
west Pacific. http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/03092000/grapha.htm
# A face in the flock - Sheep use facial clues to tell friend from foe in
their flock. And like people, they use the right side of their brain to
tell each other apart, a finding sure to provoke debate on how our brains
became asymmetrical. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_222922.html
: Are you smarter than other animals, aliens, angels, adaptive systems? Do
you use your head as a computer, paperweight, hammer? Do you create unique
patterns? Do mammals, avians, reptiles, bacteria cut better crop circles?
# In the foothills of the headlands. What is our most distinctive attribute?
Our incisive minds? Our manual dexterity? Our ability to solve The Times
crossword in under 12 minutes? Evolutionary biologists who think that
little bit more deeply might come up with a surprising answer -- our
heads. [nok-nok-nok] http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000309/000309-6.html
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# Brain cell 'chorus' appears as attention increases - order from
cacophony: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/jhun-bcc030800.html
@ Links - Neuro Ring: http://www.pitt.edu/~mattf/NeuroRing.html
@ Human Brain Project: http://www-hbp.scripps.edu/HBP_html/HBPsites.html
# Sleep longer, learn better - sleep forever, learn everything, eh?
http://www.exn.net/html/templates/htmlpage.cfm?ID=20000307-53
@ Links - Sleep Home Pages: http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/
@ Sleep, Dreams & Wakefulness: http://ura1195-6.univ-lyon1.fr/index_e.html
: Have you tuned-up your brain lately? Do you use relaxation, meditation,
drugs, sex, food, money, electronics, hope, implants, water, drills, fire?
Have you marketed your tune-up method? Do you sleep well anyway? D'ya dream?
# H.L. Mencken would have loved today's diet/nutrition gurus, with outland-
ish/contradictory theories, all backed by rock-solid scientific "proof"
www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/068/living/Food_fight_showdown_at_the_USDA+.shtml
# 'Herbal fuel' inventor busted. (BBC) A scientist who became famous in
India for inventing a herbal fuel for cars has been arrested for fraud.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_674000/674039.stm
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