This Memorable Day
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html The Wall Street Journal November 2, 2004 COMMENTARY This Memorable Day By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 2, 2004; Page A22 In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presidential election. Imagine George McClellan recognizing an undefeated Confederacy in March 1865. Consider an eight-year Jimmy Carter tenure. Or contemplate Walter Mondale taking over from a defeated President Reagan to implement unilaterally a nuclear freeze, Mike Dukakis asking Saddam to leave Kuwait, or Al Gore mobilizing America to invade Afghanistan. We are now faced with the same critical choice. Today's vote determines how the United States finishes the present war against terrorists, and, indeed, whether we continue to defeat Islamic fascism and those Middle East autocracies that fuel it. * * * John Kerry sees our struggle as an unending law enforcement problem, akin to gambling and prostitution. Thus the terrorist attacks of the 1990s were not deadly precursors to 9/11, but belong to a now nostalgic era of nuisance. In contrast, George W. Bush envisioned September 11 as real war -- a global struggle against Dark-Age extremism, striving for a modern nuclear caliphate that could blackmail the industrialized world and destroy Western liberal values. So Mr. Bush took terrorist killers at their word, convinced that such evildoers, like a Hitler or Stalin, had no legitimate complaint against America. Rather, they murder out of a deep frustration that Western-inspired freedom is on the march, threatening both Islamic fascism and those repressive regimes that hand-in-glove with them have deflected their own failures onto the United States. John Kerry promises help is on the way to remove President Bush, who has, according to Mr. Kerry, lied when he is exposed as incompetent. Such strident condemnation ignores the stunning victory over the Taliban, the first voting in Afghanistan in 5,000 years, the removal of Saddam Hussein with scheduled elections for next January, positive changes in Libya, Pakistan and the Gulf States, and the absence of another 9/11-like attack here at home. Moqtada al-Sadr and Osama bin Laden now whine about American retaliation and send out peace feelers. But their apprehension arises not because of Sen. Kerry's rhetoric or his promises of U.N. collectivism. Rather, the specter of four more years of a resolute George W. Bush equates to their continued defeat. Their trepidation was shared by the 1980 hostage takers in Tehran, who relented in terror of an inaugurated Ronald Reagan warning them of the impending end to Carteresque appeasement. Most of Sen. Kerry's allegations about this war ring false or insincere because he shifts in tune to mercurial polls. The senator's yes/no/maybe public statements and votes reflect the perceived daily pulse of the battlefield -- and his lack of either a strategic understanding of the war or faith in the skill and resoluteness of the U.S. military. He insists that there were no al Qaeda ties to Baathists, but we see them in postbellum Iraq, knew of them during the first World Trade Center bombing, and once accepted President Clinton's claim for them during his 1998 retaliation against the Sudan. WMD are likewise derided as a chimera. But President Clinton, Sen. Kerry, and Sen. John Edwards are all on record frantically warning about Saddam's bio-chem arsenal -- with others citing intelligence confirmation from Vladimir Putin to Hosni Mubarak. During the three-week war, American troops in the field did not don bothersome chemical suits because of President Bush's naïveté or duplicity. In Sen. Kerry's world, brave folk such as Iraq's Prime Minister Allawi, the Poles, and the Australians are belittled as hollow and bought allies, while Germany and France, that profited lucratively with Saddam, will be invited to join the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, now dubbed analogous to the Bay of Pigs. The explanation for Saddam's removal, in Teresa Heinz Kerry's words, is blood for oil, a mantra echoed by Fahrenheit 9/11, MoveOn.org, and bin Laden's latest infomercial. But after the invasion, petroleum prices soared. Iraq's national treasure is for the first time transparent and autonomous. France, Russia and the U.N. can no longer appropriate it. President Bush, once libeled as the villainous Texas oil schemer, is now reinvented on the campaign trail as Sen. Kerry's clueless naïf, bullied by a sinister OPEC. True, much of the Kerry negativism derives from opportunism. Yet there is also a logic that explains the flip-flopping, rooted in deep-seeded doubts about both the utility and morality of using American military power. Thus Sen. Kerry voted against many of our present weapons systems. That obstructionism explains why in 1988 he looked back at the Reagan strategic build-up as one of moral darkness. Mr. Kerry, as a soldier and a senator,
Re: This Memorable Day
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RE: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy
That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy. Come on! The bar slut has passed out on the pooltable and Bush's fratbrother Mr Kerry hasn't had his go yet... -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:37:28 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/01/opinion/01mon4.html?th=pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times November 1, 2004 EDITORIAL OBSERVER Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy By DOROTHY SAMUELS t is only inevitable, I suppose, that some big issues never make it onto the agenda of a presidential campaign, and other lesser issues, or total nonissues, somehow emerge instead. Electoral politics, as Americans are regularly being reminded these final hard-fought days before the election, is a brutal, messy business, not an antiseptic political science exercise. That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy. President Bush's antipathy to open government continues to garner only a trivial level of attention compared with the pressing matters that seem to be engaging the country at the moment, including, in no particular order, the Red Sox, Iraq, terrorism, taxes and the mysterious iPod-size bulge visible under the back of Mr. Bush's suit jacket at the first debate. But the implications for a second term are ominous. Beyond undermining the constitutional system of checks and balances, undue secrecy is a proven formula for faulty White House decision-making and debilitating scandal. If former President Richard Nixon, the nation's last chief executive with a chronic imperial disdain for what Justice Louis Brandeis famously called the disinfecting power of sunlight, were alive today, I like to think he'd be advising Mr. Bush to choose another role model. As detailed in a telling new Congressional report, Mr. Bush's secrecy obsession - by now a widely recognized hallmark of his presidency - is truly out of hand. The 90-page report, matter-of-factly titled Secrecy in the Bush Administration, was released with little fanfare in September by Representative Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform, and one of the most outspoken critics of the Bush administration's steady descent into greater and greater secrecy. The objective was to catalog the myriad ways that President Bush and his appointees have undermined existing laws intended to advance public access to information, while taking an expansive view of laws that authorize the government to operate in secrecy, or to withhold certain information. Some of the instances the report cites are better known than others. Among the more notorious, of course, are the administration's ongoing refusal to disclose contacts between Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force and energy company executives, or to explain the involvement of Mr. Cheney's office in the awarding of huge sole-source contracts to Halliburton for Iraq reconstruction; the post-9/11 rush to embrace shameful, unconstitutional practices like secret detentions and trials; and the resistance and delay in turning over key documents sought by the Sept. 11 commission. The report lists many other troubling examples as well. Mr. Bush and his appointees have routinely impeded Congress's constitutionally prescribed oversight role by denying reasonable requests from senior members of Congressional committees for basic information. They forced a court fight over access to the Commerce Department's corrected census counts, for instance, withheld material relating to the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and stonewalled attempts to collect information on meetings and phone conversations between Karl Rove, the presidential adviser, and executives of firms in which he owned stock. The administration has also taken to treating as top secret documents previously available under the Freedom of Information Act - going so far as to reverse the landmark act's presumption in favor of disclosure and to encourage agencies to withhold a broad, hazily defined universe of sensitive but unclassified information. Under a phony banner of national security, Mr. Bush has reversed reasonable steps by the Clinton administration to narrow the government's capacity to classify documents. Aside from being extremely expensive, the predictably steep recent increase in decisions to classify information runs starkly counter to recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission geared to
Re: This Memorable Day
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations - UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones. Peter.
Re: This Memorable Day
At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations - UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones. Yup. That's Davis' point, actually. Fuck with the West, we kick your ass. BTW, the Greeks at naval battle of Salamis were arguing, violently, the very night before the battle. The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: This Memorable Day
At 10:31 AM -0500 11/2/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. More recently, and closer to Hanson's point in the article, both of Lincoln's elections were very close. But, after Lincoln's second inauguration, Grant took charge of the Union Army and began killing Confederates (and Union soldiers) in a series of horrific battles culminating in the end of the Civil War. Expect more carnage than culture when Bush is elected. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Re: This Memorable Day
And an admirable role model for the Simian's memory: An avenging rebel terrorist shot Abe, not Grant, who suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, after lollygagging in the animal-beshat White House, lost that, took up liquor, became a helpless drunk, friends caretook his inept pickled carcass for a few years then he wrote a vain, distorted book about his carnaging of the rebels, and worst comedownance, got entombed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, so it is said, but who knows what military-industrial effigy lies in that grafitti-and-dogshit-smeared pile overlooking beshitten liberal-elitist, nest of rebellious vermin Columbia University, Riverside Church, the National Council of Churches, and best, squalid, infested, periodically ractist white-massacreing Harlem. Still, when you visit Grant's Tomb you see mostly well-dressed African Americans studying the memoria displayed welling tears at the piles of war dead, the freed slaves, the army grunts and officers gauntly posed in muddy filth. A tourist bus roars in, pinky blobs waddle into the high-domed gloom, see no cafe, no gift shop, come out to circle the monument looking for something to buy or eat or video. Nothing there like the rest of the homeland shopfested US. What the fuck they mouth, fart, scratch, heave their globs fore and aft, struggle to re-mount the bus, stare out the dark glass at me in my Swift Boat get-up, jesus-bearded, gut abusting, carrying a Viet Vet begging sign that says Apocalypse Now or Else.
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RE: Musings on getting out the vote
And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang and Kodos. So far, the only things Kerry seems to have promised is that he'd be better at doing all the crazy shit Bush has dove into. So when they ask me (at the corner of Wall and Broadway), Are you a John Kerry Supporter, I reply, Well, 'supporter' is not the word I would use. And then I 'move on'. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Musings on getting out the vote Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:42:41 -0600 (CST) rant Several weeks ago, a couple of MoveOn droids showed up at my door to take a survey. I told them that yes, I was a registered republican, and that yes, I was voting for Kerry, so fuck off. Last week, while I was away, they came back to check that [my wife] was still planning to vote for Kerry. Today, after two hours in line, after braving the lawyers with the republican stickers hovering over the line, and challenging voters who Seem A Little Dark For This Part Of Town, and casting my vote for the guy I hate the least [Kerry], we were walking to the car and were again accosted by a couple of *very pushy* MoveOn droids: Sir! Sir! Have you voted? Yes. Go away. Sir! Wait a minute! Have you been contacted by your MoveOn representative yet? (as he tries to physically insert himself between me and the street) Yes. Too many fucking times: get out of my fucking way! First of all, while I appreciate their willingness to help throw the angry little midget fuck in the whitehouse out on his ass, they are alienating people. I *guarantee* the sight of me fighting off the MoveOn people made a mental impression on the hundred plus people on line. Second, I signed up to drive folks to the polls today for a few hours, *with* MoveOn. I also came very close to saying fuckit - these assholes need an IMMEDIATE attitude adjustment, or they are going to help turn the vote *away* from their supposed goal. /rant -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF An ill wind is stalking while evil stars whir and all the gold apples go bad to the core S. Plath, Temper of Time _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Nokia, Philips trial NFC for Wireless Ticketing
http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=1812 Nokia, Philips trial NFC for Wireless Ticketing Nokia, Royal Philips Electronics together with Rhein-Main Verkehrsverbund (RMV), public transport authority for Frankfurt's greater area, today announced a joint project to trial a Near Field Communication (NFC) ticketing solution that uses mobile phones to access an existing contactless smart card ticketing infrastructure. The trial, which starts early 2005, will enable RMV's current customers to use Nokia 3220 phones equipped by tailored Nokia NFC shell covers to gain access to a local bus network in Hanau, a city near Frankfurt. As a result, travelers can enjoy a convenient and secure solution designed around their needs to buy, store and use tickets with their Nokia 3220 mobile phones. About Near Field Communication (NFC): Evolving from a combination of contactless identification and networking technologies, Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless connectivity technology that enables convenient short-range communication between electronic devices. NFC offers the ultimate in convenience for connecting all types of consumer devices and enables rapid and easy communications. It is the perfect solution for controlling data in our increasingly complex and connected world. NFC technology evolved from a combination of contactless identification (RFID) and interconnection technologies. NFC operates in the 13.56 MHz frequency range, over a distance of typically a few centimetres. NFC technology is standardized in ISO 18092, ECMA 340, and ETSI TS 102 190. Near Field Communication is also compatible to the broadly established contactless smart card infrastructure. The ticketing solution will be demonstrated at the CARTES IT SECURITY trade show in Paris (2-4 November). As the first live NFC-based ticketing application of its kind, the trial will use Nokia 3220 mobile phones with a contactless NFC solution, based on the Nokia NFC shell - the mobile phone's outside cover. The RMV electronic ticketing application will be securely stored on an integrated smart card controller in the phone, and is fully compatible with today's smart card-based ticketing products. Users will simply need to touch their phones against the contactless reader as they get on and off the bus to register their journey. This trial will provide the partners with practical experience of NFC-enabled mobile ticketing on a check-in/check-out basis, paving the way for broad adoption of the technology. The mobile phone offers customers a quick and convenient way to use the public transport network, and RMV is at the forefront of understanding how customers will approach the technology. As an integrated device, the mobile phone can also be used as a resource for transport information, such as timetables, as well as being a terminal for ticketing. For RMV an important feature of the project is that the Nokia NFC shells are compatible with the contactless smart card infrastructure already installed in Hanau. Nokia is taking a leading role in bringing easy and convenient touch-based interactions to the market. Local ticketing is a great example of how mobility can bring completely new value to consumers and companies that serve them. This ticketing trial will provide us with valuable experience to meet requirements from mobile operators, transport operators and end-users going forward. said Jarkko Sairanen, Vice President, Strategy and Planning, at Nokia Technology Platforms. With NFC we are delivering on our promise of providing simple and easy-to-use solutions to complex problems, commented Reinhard Kalla, Vice President and General Manager of Identification at Philips Semiconductors. Together with Nokia and RMV, we have developed the first ticketing application for NFC technology, providing an example of how an intuitive, touch-based solution can simplify the daily lives of users. About the solution Jointly developed by Philips and Sony, NFC enables touch-based interactions in consumer electronics, mobile devices, PCs, smart objects and for payment purposes. Consumers are seeking easier ways to interact with their immediate environment and want to experience easy communication between their electronic devices and gain fast access to services. An intuitive technology, NFC bridges that connectivity gap and allows the connected consumer to interact with their environment. The trial implementation is in line with the Association of German transport operators (Verein Deutscher Verkehrsbetriebe ,VDV), specification that has been developed for a country wide electronic ticketing core application (VDV Kernapplikation). NFC is compatible with Sony's FeliCa(TM) card and the broadly established contactless smart card infrastructure based on ISO 14443 A, which is used in Philips' MIFARE® technology. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar
Germans Use Nokia Phones in Wireless Ticket Trial
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=technologyNewsstoryID=6686622 Reuters Germans Use Nokia Phones in Wireless Ticket Trial Tue Nov 2, 2004 06:04 AM ET HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia said on Tuesday its phones would be used in a project to test wireless public transport fares in Hanau, near Frankfurt in Germany, beginning early next year. The trial, in cooperation with the public transport authority for Frankfurt's greater area and electronics group Philips, begins next year. It will enable owners of Nokia's 3220 handset to equip their phone with a high-tech shell used to pay for and store electronic tickets. The shell, developed by Philips, contains technology that makes the phone compatible with Hanau's existing ticketing system. Users will simply need to touch their phones against the contactless reader as they get on and off the bus to register their journey, Nokia said in a statement. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Re: This Memorable Day
At 11:58 AM -0800 11/2/04, John Young wrote: Grant, who suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, Actually, he suicided himself with cigars, having died of throat cancer... ;-) Seriously, any future crypto-anarchy / anarcho-capitalist society is probably not going to succeed unless it can project *more* force than we can project currently with force monopoly -- not less. That *doesn't* mean centralized, but it certainly means *more*. Peace Kills. Violence will always be conserved. More is more. :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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IEEE Signs VoteHere's Jim Adler for Book on Electronic Voting
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041102/dctu029_1.html Yahoo! Finance Press Release Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.; VoteHere, Inc. IEEE Signs VoteHere's Jim Adler for Book on Electronic Voting Tuesday November 2, 1:00 pm ET PISCATAWAY, N.J. and BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), under its Standards Press program, has engaged with VoteHere, Inc. Founder and CEO, Jim Adler, to write a book on electronic voting security and voter confidence. Tentatively titled: Where's My Vote? A Framework for Securing the Electronic Ballot and Gaining Voter Confidence, the book will explain how technology can enhance electronic voting and prove that votes are counted properly. Where's My Vote will discuss the issues and analyze the technology behind electronic voting, verification, and audit. Electronic voting technology has ignited a national debate surrounding the security of our elections. This book will establish a framework for secure election systems, now and in the future. A book on voting security is an important contribution to the current debate, said Susan Tatiner, Associate Managing Director for Technical Program Development in the IEEE Standards Association. Mr. Adler is a recognized expert and pioneer in electronic voting technology. Upon their agreement Mr. Adler commented, I believe these issues are very timely and my hope is that the security solutions discussed in this book can help guide election reform, so that election leaders and voters might better understand the fundamental science of elections and the proper role of technology in providing transparent and auditable elections. What has been missing in the electronic voting and ballot verification debate is a scientific framework to break through the issues regarding the current election system. Where's My Vote provides this framework in the context of providing a unified theory of elections for verification and confidence. Jim Adler is Founder and CEO of VoteHere, the leading worldwide provider of electronic voting security technology. Mr. Adler is widely regarded as an authority on the subjects of cryptography, Internet security and e-voting. Mr. Adler co-chairs the IEEE voter-verifiable standards group and served on California's groundbreaking 1999 Internet Voting Task Force. He has testified before U.S. Congress, the European Parliament, and state legislatures on the subject of e-voting security. About IEEE The IEEE has more than 360,000 members in approximately 175 countries. Through its members, the organization is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE produces nearly 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering, computing and control technology fields, and has over 870 active standards and 400+ in development. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors more than 300 technical conferences each year. Additional information about the IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org/. About VoteHere VoteHere, Inc. is an industry leader in secure, patented voter verification and election audit technology. VoteHere technology has been used in over 90 elections in the U.S. and Europe, for over 50 worldwide clients and partners, reaching nearly 13 million voters. For more information about VoteHere, visit the company's website at http://www.votehere.com. Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.; VoteHere, Inc. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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- Forwarded message from jrandom [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: jrandom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:35:10 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [i2p] weekly status notes [nov 2] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi y'all, time for the weekly update * Index: 1) Net status 2) Core updates 3) Streaming lib 4) mail.i2p progress 5) BT progress 6) ??? * 1) Net status Pretty much as before - a steady number of peers, eepsites fairly reachable, and irc for hours on end. You can get a peek at the reachability of various eepsites through a few different pages: - http://gott.i2p/sites.html - http://www.baffled.i2p/links.html - http://thetower.i2p/pings.txt * 2) Core updates For those hanging out in the channel (or reading the CVS logs), you've seen a lot of things going on, even though its been a while since the last release. A full list of changes since the 0.4.1.3 release can be found online [1], but there are two major modifications, one good and one bad: The good one is that we've dramatically cut down on the memory churn caused by all sorts of insane temporary object creation. I finally got fed up with watching the GC go mad while debugging the new streaming lib, so after a few days of profiling, tweaking, and tuning, the ugliest parts are cleaned up. The bad one is a bugfix for how some tunnel routed messages are handled - there were some situations where a message was sent directly to the targeted router rather than tunnel routed prior to delivery, which could be exploited by an adversary who can do a little coding. We now properly tunnel route when in doubt. That may sound good, but the 'bad' part is that it means that there's going to be some increased latency due to the additional hops, though these are hops that needed to be used anyway. There are other debugging activities going on in the core as well, so there hasn't been an official release yet - CVS HEAD is 0.4.1.3-8. In the next few days we'll probably have a 0.4.1.4 release, just to get all that stuff cleared up. It won't contain the new streaming lib, of course. [1] http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/history.txt?rev=HEAD * 3) Streaming lib Speaking of the streaming lib, there has been a lot of progress here, and the side by side comparison of the old and new libs are looking good. However, there is still work to be done, and as I said last time, we're not going to rush it out the door. That does mean that the roadmap has slipped, likely in the range of 2-3 weeks. More details when they're available. * 4) mail.i2p progress Lots of new stuff this week - working in and out proxies! See www.postman.i2p for more information. * 5) BT progress There has been a flurry of activity regarding porting a BitTorrent client as of late, as well as updating some tracker settings. Perhaps we can get some updates from those involved during the meeting. * 6) ??? Thats it for me. Sorry for the delay, I forgot about that whole daylight savings thingamabob. Anyway, see y'all in a few. =jr -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQYf9PBpxS9rYd+OGEQIoGQCgvDKydGRT42tO9bwWutAwnoolpj0AoNyX Z1ThyrjEZjAttC/wChPN43aD =SJDa -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ i2p mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://i2p.dnsalias.net/mailman/listinfo/i2p - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgp8Bbu2KrtAF.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: This Memorable Day
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations - UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones. Yup. That's Davis' point, actually. Fuck with the West, we kick your ass. Well it wasn't the point I was trying to make, which was comparing it to predictions made by (the propaganda division of) another super-power in the mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because God/righteousness/whatever was on their side, and all they had to do was hold out a bit longer. Compare the general tone of the WSJ article to the one in e.g. the first half of http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/htestmnt.htm. Peter.
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Re: This Memorable Day
At 5:21 PM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: another super-power in the mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because God/righteousness/whatever was on their side Relativism does not a fact make, Peter. Germany 1944 does not equal USA 2004, no matter how hard you twist the kaleidoscope. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: This Memorable Day
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Germany 1944 does not equal USA 2004, no matter how hard you twist the kaleidoscope. Fighting an unwinnable war always seems to produce the same type of rhetoric, whether it's the war on some drugs, the war on anyone Bush doesn't like, or the war on anything non-German. The only thing that changes over time are the identities of the bogeymen that are used to justify it. (Do you seriously think the war on bogey^H^H^Hterrorism can ever be won? Leaving aside the obvious debate that you can't even tell who you're at war with, how do you know when you've won?. We have always been at war with Terroristia) Peter.
Re: This Memorable Day
At 6:29 PM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Do you seriously think the war on bogey^H^H^Hterrorism can ever be won? You're gonna love this one: You can't have terrorism without state sponsors. We take out (by whatever means at hand...) state sponsors of terrorism, and, hey, presto, no terrorism. Iraq. Syria. Iran. Libya. Doesn't look so hard to me. Oh. That's right. Libya rolled over. Americans -- actually westerners in general -- may win ugly, Peter, but, so far, they win. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
RE: Musings on getting out the vote
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Re: This Memorable Day
At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations - UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones. Yup. That's Davis' point, actually. Fuck with the West, we kick your ass. BTW, the Greeks at naval battle of Salamis were arguing, violently, the very night before the battle. The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
RE: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy
That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy. Come on! The bar slut has passed out on the pooltable and Bush's fratbrother Mr Kerry hasn't had his go yet... -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:37:28 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/01/opinion/01mon4.html?th=pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times November 1, 2004 EDITORIAL OBSERVER Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy By DOROTHY SAMUELS t is only inevitable, I suppose, that some big issues never make it onto the agenda of a presidential campaign, and other lesser issues, or total nonissues, somehow emerge instead. Electoral politics, as Americans are regularly being reminded these final hard-fought days before the election, is a brutal, messy business, not an antiseptic political science exercise. That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy. President Bush's antipathy to open government continues to garner only a trivial level of attention compared with the pressing matters that seem to be engaging the country at the moment, including, in no particular order, the Red Sox, Iraq, terrorism, taxes and the mysterious iPod-size bulge visible under the back of Mr. Bush's suit jacket at the first debate. But the implications for a second term are ominous. Beyond undermining the constitutional system of checks and balances, undue secrecy is a proven formula for faulty White House decision-making and debilitating scandal. If former President Richard Nixon, the nation's last chief executive with a chronic imperial disdain for what Justice Louis Brandeis famously called the disinfecting power of sunlight, were alive today, I like to think he'd be advising Mr. Bush to choose another role model. As detailed in a telling new Congressional report, Mr. Bush's secrecy obsession - by now a widely recognized hallmark of his presidency - is truly out of hand. The 90-page report, matter-of-factly titled Secrecy in the Bush Administration, was released with little fanfare in September by Representative Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform, and one of the most outspoken critics of the Bush administration's steady descent into greater and greater secrecy. The objective was to catalog the myriad ways that President Bush and his appointees have undermined existing laws intended to advance public access to information, while taking an expansive view of laws that authorize the government to operate in secrecy, or to withhold certain information. Some of the instances the report cites are better known than others. Among the more notorious, of course, are the administration's ongoing refusal to disclose contacts between Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force and energy company executives, or to explain the involvement of Mr. Cheney's office in the awarding of huge sole-source contracts to Halliburton for Iraq reconstruction; the post-9/11 rush to embrace shameful, unconstitutional practices like secret detentions and trials; and the resistance and delay in turning over key documents sought by the Sept. 11 commission. The report lists many other troubling examples as well. Mr. Bush and his appointees have routinely impeded Congress's constitutionally prescribed oversight role by denying reasonable requests from senior members of Congressional committees for basic information. They forced a court fight over access to the Commerce Department's corrected census counts, for instance, withheld material relating to the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and stonewalled attempts to collect information on meetings and phone conversations between Karl Rove, the presidential adviser, and executives of firms in which he owned stock. The administration has also taken to treating as top secret documents previously available under the Freedom of Information Act - going so far as to reverse the landmark act's presumption in favor of disclosure and to encourage agencies to withhold a broad, hazily defined universe of sensitive but unclassified information. Under a phony banner of national security, Mr. Bush has reversed reasonable steps by the Clinton administration to narrow the government's capacity to classify documents. Aside from being extremely expensive, the predictably steep recent increase in decisions to classify information runs starkly counter to recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission geared to
Re: This Memorable Day
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations - UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones. Peter.
Re: This Memorable Day
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This Memorable Day
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html The Wall Street Journal November 2, 2004 COMMENTARY This Memorable Day By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 2, 2004; Page A22 In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presidential election. Imagine George McClellan recognizing an undefeated Confederacy in March 1865. Consider an eight-year Jimmy Carter tenure. Or contemplate Walter Mondale taking over from a defeated President Reagan to implement unilaterally a nuclear freeze, Mike Dukakis asking Saddam to leave Kuwait, or Al Gore mobilizing America to invade Afghanistan. We are now faced with the same critical choice. Today's vote determines how the United States finishes the present war against terrorists, and, indeed, whether we continue to defeat Islamic fascism and those Middle East autocracies that fuel it. * * * John Kerry sees our struggle as an unending law enforcement problem, akin to gambling and prostitution. Thus the terrorist attacks of the 1990s were not deadly precursors to 9/11, but belong to a now nostalgic era of nuisance. In contrast, George W. Bush envisioned September 11 as real war -- a global struggle against Dark-Age extremism, striving for a modern nuclear caliphate that could blackmail the industrialized world and destroy Western liberal values. So Mr. Bush took terrorist killers at their word, convinced that such evildoers, like a Hitler or Stalin, had no legitimate complaint against America. Rather, they murder out of a deep frustration that Western-inspired freedom is on the march, threatening both Islamic fascism and those repressive regimes that hand-in-glove with them have deflected their own failures onto the United States. John Kerry promises help is on the way to remove President Bush, who has, according to Mr. Kerry, lied when he is exposed as incompetent. Such strident condemnation ignores the stunning victory over the Taliban, the first voting in Afghanistan in 5,000 years, the removal of Saddam Hussein with scheduled elections for next January, positive changes in Libya, Pakistan and the Gulf States, and the absence of another 9/11-like attack here at home. Moqtada al-Sadr and Osama bin Laden now whine about American retaliation and send out peace feelers. But their apprehension arises not because of Sen. Kerry's rhetoric or his promises of U.N. collectivism. Rather, the specter of four more years of a resolute George W. Bush equates to their continued defeat. Their trepidation was shared by the 1980 hostage takers in Tehran, who relented in terror of an inaugurated Ronald Reagan warning them of the impending end to Carteresque appeasement. Most of Sen. Kerry's allegations about this war ring false or insincere because he shifts in tune to mercurial polls. The senator's yes/no/maybe public statements and votes reflect the perceived daily pulse of the battlefield -- and his lack of either a strategic understanding of the war or faith in the skill and resoluteness of the U.S. military. He insists that there were no al Qaeda ties to Baathists, but we see them in postbellum Iraq, knew of them during the first World Trade Center bombing, and once accepted President Clinton's claim for them during his 1998 retaliation against the Sudan. WMD are likewise derided as a chimera. But President Clinton, Sen. Kerry, and Sen. John Edwards are all on record frantically warning about Saddam's bio-chem arsenal -- with others citing intelligence confirmation from Vladimir Putin to Hosni Mubarak. During the three-week war, American troops in the field did not don bothersome chemical suits because of President Bush's naïveté or duplicity. In Sen. Kerry's world, brave folk such as Iraq's Prime Minister Allawi, the Poles, and the Australians are belittled as hollow and bought allies, while Germany and France, that profited lucratively with Saddam, will be invited to join the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, now dubbed analogous to the Bay of Pigs. The explanation for Saddam's removal, in Teresa Heinz Kerry's words, is blood for oil, a mantra echoed by Fahrenheit 9/11, MoveOn.org, and bin Laden's latest infomercial. But after the invasion, petroleum prices soared. Iraq's national treasure is for the first time transparent and autonomous. France, Russia and the U.N. can no longer appropriate it. President Bush, once libeled as the villainous Texas oil schemer, is now reinvented on the campaign trail as Sen. Kerry's clueless naïf, bullied by a sinister OPEC. True, much of the Kerry negativism derives from opportunism. Yet there is also a logic that explains the flip-flopping, rooted in deep-seeded doubts about both the utility and morality of using American military power. Thus Sen. Kerry voted against many of our present weapons systems. That obstructionism explains why in 1988 he looked back at the Reagan strategic build-up as one of moral darkness. Mr. Kerry, as a soldier and a senator,
Re: This Memorable Day
At 10:31 AM -0500 11/2/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. More recently, and closer to Hanson's point in the article, both of Lincoln's elections were very close. But, after Lincoln's second inauguration, Grant took charge of the Union Army and began killing Confederates (and Union soldiers) in a series of horrific battles culminating in the end of the Civil War. Expect more carnage than culture when Bush is elected. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
RE: Musings on getting out the vote
And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang and Kodos. So far, the only things Kerry seems to have promised is that he'd be better at doing all the crazy shit Bush has dove into. So when they ask me (at the corner of Wall and Broadway), Are you a John Kerry Supporter, I reply, Well, 'supporter' is not the word I would use. And then I 'move on'. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Musings on getting out the vote Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:42:41 -0600 (CST) rant Several weeks ago, a couple of MoveOn droids showed up at my door to take a survey. I told them that yes, I was a registered republican, and that yes, I was voting for Kerry, so fuck off. Last week, while I was away, they came back to check that [my wife] was still planning to vote for Kerry. Today, after two hours in line, after braving the lawyers with the republican stickers hovering over the line, and challenging voters who Seem A Little Dark For This Part Of Town, and casting my vote for the guy I hate the least [Kerry], we were walking to the car and were again accosted by a couple of *very pushy* MoveOn droids: Sir! Sir! Have you voted? Yes. Go away. Sir! Wait a minute! Have you been contacted by your MoveOn representative yet? (as he tries to physically insert himself between me and the street) Yes. Too many fucking times: get out of my fucking way! First of all, while I appreciate their willingness to help throw the angry little midget fuck in the whitehouse out on his ass, they are alienating people. I *guarantee* the sight of me fighting off the MoveOn people made a mental impression on the hundred plus people on line. Second, I signed up to drive folks to the polls today for a few hours, *with* MoveOn. I also came very close to saying fuckit - these assholes need an IMMEDIATE attitude adjustment, or they are going to help turn the vote *away* from their supposed goal. /rant -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF An ill wind is stalking while evil stars whir and all the gold apples go bad to the core S. Plath, Temper of Time _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: This Memorable Day
And an admirable role model for the Simian's memory: An avenging rebel terrorist shot Abe, not Grant, who suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, after lollygagging in the animal-beshat White House, lost that, took up liquor, became a helpless drunk, friends caretook his inept pickled carcass for a few years then he wrote a vain, distorted book about his carnaging of the rebels, and worst comedownance, got entombed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, so it is said, but who knows what military-industrial effigy lies in that grafitti-and-dogshit-smeared pile overlooking beshitten liberal-elitist, nest of rebellious vermin Columbia University, Riverside Church, the National Council of Churches, and best, squalid, infested, periodically ractist white-massacreing Harlem. Still, when you visit Grant's Tomb you see mostly well-dressed African Americans studying the memoria displayed welling tears at the piles of war dead, the freed slaves, the army grunts and officers gauntly posed in muddy filth. A tourist bus roars in, pinky blobs waddle into the high-domed gloom, see no cafe, no gift shop, come out to circle the monument looking for something to buy or eat or video. Nothing there like the rest of the homeland shopfested US. What the fuck they mouth, fart, scratch, heave their globs fore and aft, struggle to re-mount the bus, stare out the dark glass at me in my Swift Boat get-up, jesus-bearded, gut abusting, carrying a Viet Vet begging sign that says Apocalypse Now or Else.
Re: This Memorable Day
At 11:58 AM -0800 11/2/04, John Young wrote: Grant, who suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, Actually, he suicided himself with cigars, having died of throat cancer... ;-) Seriously, any future crypto-anarchy / anarcho-capitalist society is probably not going to succeed unless it can project *more* force than we can project currently with force monopoly -- not less. That *doesn't* mean centralized, but it certainly means *more*. Peace Kills. Violence will always be conserved. More is more. :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Florida 2.0
At the moment, the (no paper backup) touch-screen machines in Florida aren't matching their manual voter counts. In the meantime Ohio has the highest punch-card voting machine count in the country. Are we having fun yet? Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: This Memorable Day
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations - UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones. Yup. That's Davis' point, actually. Fuck with the West, we kick your ass. Well it wasn't the point I was trying to make, which was comparing it to predictions made by (the propaganda division of) another super-power in the mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because God/righteousness/whatever was on their side, and all they had to do was hold out a bit longer. Compare the general tone of the WSJ article to the one in e.g. the first half of http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/htestmnt.htm. Peter.
