today...
DEFENSE
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
News conference to introduce a plan to address defending the U.S. homeland.
Participants: Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman, Select
Committee on Ethics; Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.;
Joseph Collins, project director,
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Washington Foreign Press Center (WFPC)
Background briefing on a new phase for the "Rewards for Justice" program,
an initiative to prevent international terrorist acts. Foreign media
only please
Location: WFPC, Room 898, National Press Building, 14th
and F St., NW. 2:15 p.m.
Different standards aren't necessarily bad either. Local jurisdictions
have a substantial amount of leeway in ballot design in Florida,
which, Democratic partisan protests notwithstanding, is probably a
reasonable thing.
In other areas of the law, they have the opportunity to craft laws and
Here you go:
http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/jargonizer.cgi
-Declan
At 10:08 12/12/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
With all of the talk recently of recursively-settled agoric market spaces,
multidimensional geodesic actor systems, and other jargon-heavy
marketbuzz, I've made up a little table
I've got an idea! How about one that would make text look like it was
spoken by a Canadian!?!
-Declan
At 16:25 12/12/2000 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:04 PM -0500 on 12/12/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/jargonizer.cgi
Great.
Now all we need is one
At 14:02 12/12/2000 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
Better yet -- John Young. ]:
Modern computer science has not advanced sufficiently to accomplish such a
feat. :)
-Declan
Malaysia Takes Action On Anti-Islam Internet Surfers
By Steve Gold, Newsbytes
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA,
12 Dec 2000, 7:48 AM CST
Insulting Islam on the Internet in Malaysia could prove costly from now on,
as the government has warned that offenders face fines of up to $1,300
and/or three years
[Originally sent to politech at politechbot.com. --DBM]
---
[I believe Americans care a lot about privacy invasions _when they don't
have a choice_ -- such as cops sniffing your house for illegal drugs with
airborne drones or Thermovision 210s. But when Americans _get to choose_
whether to
Robert,
With respect, you're joking, right?
The current system is flawed, true, but an Internet voting system
would likely suffer from far more serious security, authentication,
and fraud problems. This is a recurring topic of discussion in
cryptographic and computer-risks circles. Do some web
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 03:00:47AM -0800, Jonathan Wienke wrote:
Hasn't any seen the movie 6th Day? Who needs a password when you can borrow
the necessary biometric token from its owner if you have a hatchet or decent
knife?
I taped a CSPAN show about two years ago before a bunch of high
Today...
COMMERCE
The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies
+(SAIS)
"Global Cyber Crime: Weak Laws Threaten E-Commerce: But Does Euroopean
Remedy Go Too Far?" including release of a 50-country survey showing
patchwork of outdated and inconsistent laws
Reply-To: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Declan McCullagh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Release: Democracy or Republic?
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:57:19 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft
About the American Hyphen Society
The American Hyphen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit,
grass-roots conciousness-raising/education-research alliance that seeks
to help effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of wide-ranging
culture-, nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-,
A minor clarification: The formal proposal known as "Know Your
Customer" was withdrawn (see my back articles on that topic). But
other regulations in the same vein require banks to require ID.
-Declan
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:18:53AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at
Oh, and the proposed KYC rules would have required banks to go further than
requiring ID (other current rules, as you say, require that) and try to
determine source of funds, etc.
-Declan
You're thinking of something slightly different. The Fed-Treasury-FDIC
action that caused so much fuss
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:08:13PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Actually, I remember someone saying during the Parker case that a
government travel office would make all travel and lodging
arrangements.
My memory is hazy, but I believe this is correct. The form was for
incidentals like cab fare,
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:04:03AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
KEYSTROKE MONITORING AND THE SOPRANOS
A federal gambling case against the son of a New Jersey mob
boss may provide the courts with the opportunity to weigh in
A copy of the indictment is here:
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From: "Patricia Mohr" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cato study: U.S. government leaves public unprepared for terrorism
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:45:44 -0500
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At 01:06 11/28/2000 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Hmmm...
Maybe it was Toto's ersatz-AP web page I was remembering, now that I think
about it, which, of course, Toto *didn't* plead to...
Ah, I think you're right. I don't remember a whole lot of substance backing
that allegation (it didn't
No, if Bush won Florida but not Utah, he'd have
246+25=271, not 270 e.v.
If one elector defected, Bush would win, if two electors defected,
Bush would win (in House), if three electors defected, Gore would win.
-Declan
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:16:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
Do the
s electors would throw it to the house, and
three would make it Gore, as I said on the 8th.
Peter
--
From: Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 12:37 PM
To: Trei, Peter
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subjec
The story is cited on perpetualelection.com. --Declan
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:12:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Florida Electoral delegate for Dubya, (an unknown
number of electoral votes), is threatening to vote
for Gore. Apparently she is free to do so.
Her name is
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:08:01AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
A "vote at home" protocol is vulnerable to all sorts of mischief that
has nothing to do with hackers intercepting the vote, blah blah.
Righto. Absentee ballots require a witness, usually an officer (if
you're in the military) or a
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:07:40PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
I did some more digging on various Florida sites which discuss
absentee ballots.
It looks like Florida makes a clear distinction between what I'll
call "ordinary absentee ballots" and what I'll call "military
absentee ballots."
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
At 5:53 PM -0500 11/13/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:08:01AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
A "vote at home" protocol is vulnerable to all sorts of mischief that
has nothing to do with hackers interceptin
Austin,
Thanks for your note. I respect what you're trying to do at ZKS. I think
that if ZKS succeeds, the world will be a better place. Further, I have a
tremendous deal of respect for some of the very excellent people you have
hired.
But wishing something to be true does not make it so. My
At 11:36 11/11/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
So, yes, I would say that there must obviously be other language on this.
If not, then you could have the journalistic scoop of the century, er, for
a few
Not this time. Some additional research says that the federal "Uniformed
and Overseas Citizens
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:39:31PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:58:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I vote you are hereby ex-communicated from the Cypherpunks club,
joining Dimitry Vulis.
At 07:05 PM 11/9/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Huh? Tim has been
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:54:44AM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
So I repeat my question. Does Jim Bell, aside from signing a statement
prepared for him by the government, in order to avoid a much longer
sentence, acknowlege annoying the IRS with unpleasant-smelling chemical
substances? A
BTW I tried to get a copy of Bell's case file (including the search
warrant affidavit that Jeff Gordon co would have had to swear out)
but as of midweek it was still sealed.
-Declan
Also see:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/10/0028217mode=nested
On this topic.
-Declan
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:52:49AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
An ISP trade organization has commissioned a paper detailing the
legal basis (or lack thereof) for law enforcement requests to
Eric,
I invite folks to read the full article at:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40102,00.html
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/11/101218mode=nested
I'm not taking a position on Bell's case. I do need to tell my readers
why was locked up earlier, and that seemed a
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:05:54AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Hilarious. Things are falling apart better and with more acrimony
than I'd hoped.
[...snip...]
And so it goes, with recounts, judicial adjustments, do overs, and
other such things requested in dozens, then hundreds, then thousands
Amusing. But that's a suggested ballot, and not one that's legally
required. Which was my point.
At the very least, the law is not as clear as the Dems want to claim.
-Declan
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:42:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Declan, King of the Wired, wrote:
#TO VOTE for
Huh? Tim has been posting such articles for years. You weren't around
for the Y2K discussions.
-Declan
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:58:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Spooky Cypherpunk Niggar Tim May Moroned:
#When I hear Jesse Jackson saying that unless the Palm Beach voters
#
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:40:10AM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
Browne was the un-canidate in this election. The press went out of their
way to avoid mentioning or reporting on him in any way, shape or form.
Yes, and no. We profiled him at Wired; I mentioned him in about seven
articles. LA Times
I suggest that we find one county for each state that we believe to be
representative, let them vote, and then extrapolate from their results
and assign electors accordingly.
Or perhaps one household per state. I volunteer Tim and his cats to to
represent California. I know the way Nietzsche
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:22:21PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
At 7:05 PM -0500 11/9/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James "too damn bad about the 19,000" Baker
ain't no piece of cake either, FYI.
He's right about the "19,000 spoiled ballots." Four years ago there
were 16,000 spoiled ballots in
Just in time for Tuesday's election, Wired News has compiled a tech
scorecard for the U.S. Senate.
The list sorted by last name:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39923,00.html
Sorted by score:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39978,00.html
Info on House of Representatives
Blanc,
The election is nigh, but I would still be interested in writing about
Jim Bell's apparent latest legal trouble if it escalates. (That is, if
it's related to his previous arrests, and I suspect it is.)
If Bell is unable to post, you or any other cpunk can reach me at 202
986 3455 or this
And anonymous ways to pay for it/obtain it online...
-Declan
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:04:10AM -0800, petro wrote:
Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It appears that ZKS is yet another company that fell prey to the DigiCash
"we know better than the market what the market wants"
Source? TV show? Date? Transcript?
-Declan
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:20:10PM -0600, Gary Jeffers wrote:
My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting.
http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm
find string: Connie Chung
A good example of the tremendous degree
Some more details:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/03/1852255
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:42:36PM +0100, Tom Vogt wrote:
it seems that core (i.e. the root servers) has deleted the entry for
vote-auction.com - while the whois still works and their primary
nameserver (in austria)
At 09:04 10/30/2000 -0600, Carskadden, Rush wrote:
where he actually says this himself). Under no circumstances do I consider
it wise to fly in the face of checks and balances when your cause is
"right" but you do not have the majority power. There is a reason that
Congress makes laws, just as
-0600, Carskadden, Rush wrote:
Comments below:
-Original Message-
From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 5:17 PM
To: Carskadden, Rush
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Parties
Rush is clearly someone with too much time
Speaking of such, here are some actual facts. I wrote about Rasmussen in a
recent Wired article. Here's what their polls say:
http://www.portraitofamerica.com/html/poll-1468.html
Earlier this year, Rasmussen Research conducted a survey
measuring the electorate along a
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/30/2058257mode=nested
Why Bill Joy is Elitist, Myopic, and Wrong
By Lizard
October 30, 2000
The smallpox vaccine will cause people to turn into cows. Trains
cannot be permitted to travel more than 20 miles per hour, or else
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:23:31PM -0500, Carskadden, Rush wrote:
Eric,
Glad to hear that all it takes to "get your vote" is a reckless
executive pardon of criminals that is designed to utilize executive power to
bypass the checks and balances system and negate the efforts of the
Rush is clearly someone with too much time on his hands and too little
(demonstrated) ability to think things through. I apologize for being
uncharacteristically blunt, but the essay below is terribly
naive. You might as well try to draft C.J Parker for president.
First, political parties are
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
___
For Immediate Release October 27,
2000
STATEMENT BY
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:15:06PM -0700, Nathan Saper wrote, quoting me:
For instance, what are the economic effects?
Again, it depends on the economic framework under which we are operating.
Nope. You don't get it. Economics is in part hte study of people
acting in their own rational
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
And once again the "civil libertarians" have gotten the issues
confused. The First Amendment does not say that ordinary subpoenas,
discovery, and court orders for some reason do not apply to
bookstores!
Two thoughts:
* It is
Perhaps this is one reason why Ralph Nader is reportedly drawing
crowds of 5,000 at rallies. He's active: Bashing Gore, attacking
corporations, etc. No philosophical twaddle (oh, it might have its
place but not in politics) about landing on someone's balcony and
trespass righs.
-Declan
On Tue,
It's a not entirely uninteresting approach, but one doesn't have
to resort to libertarian rights-theory to refute it (not that
arguing about rights is going to resolve anything anyway).
Simple pragmatism can do the same. I mean, Nathan, have you ever
considered what happens when taxes are
*
More privacy stuff at: http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=privacy
*
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/25/2351218mode=nested
Democrats Criticize Census Data Sharing
posted by cicero on Wednesday October 25, @06:49PM
from the
http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/magazine/text/excerpt.asp?afl=rsnlngF
eatureID=120lngStyleID
What's in your top five from the past year?
Being John Malkovich; East Is East; Shall We
Dance? I liked Gladiator
At Wired News, we've compiled a list of the technology voting records of
each member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
That meant picking seven tech bills and grading all 435 legislators -- at
least the ones who showed up those days -- on their floor votes. If they
chose to take a
the time
being, and if we feel strongly about these issues, we need to accept that
our representation may not be hearing us. Is it because we aren't
speaking loudly enough on these issues?
ok,
Rush Carskadden
-Original Message-
From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAI
bills that the prez signed today...
On Tuesday, October 24th, 2000, the President signed into law:
H.R. 1509 Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation
H.R. 3201 Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site Study Act of 2000
H.R. 3632 Golden Gate National Recreation Area Bountary Adjustment
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Lotus-FromDomain: WEBER
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:22:26 -0700
Subject: Zero-Knowledge -- Open Source Initiative = Responsible Privacy
Hi Declan,
I wanted to let you know that Zero-Knowledge Systems today announced that
it has
open-sourced its
Right. While I feel some sense of moral obligation to feel compassion
for victims of genocide in Africa, the reality is that traffic in
downtown Washington affects me more.
To paraphrase:
One person dying is a tragedy
One million dying is a statistic
One billion lost in NASDAQ value is a
responded in this manner.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day and realize that this was not
about you ... I just wanted off the list.
Thanks so much!
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Declan
McCullagh
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:09 PM
TED]
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: Cypherpunks Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Protecting Our Children
Makes it a crime not to keep the cough medicine in the triple
lock gun cabinet it also mandates? Or just gives more money
to the DEA to
(resend)
SOCIAL ISSUES
News conference to highlight the negligence of the House of Representatives
to act on sensible gun safety proposals.
Participants: Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.; Rep. Nita Lowey,
D-N.Y.; Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., and
Nina Butts, Texans Against Gun Violence
I spoke Thurs night at the University of Virginia
(http://www.politechbot.com/p-01393.html). I talked a lot about
cypherpunkly topics (added some stuff that I haven't seen here, and plan to
turn into an article) and even gave the how-to-join address of the cpunx list.
Below is a response from
We ran a review of it at Wired, and I showed it at my CFP'99 event. It's
worth buying, if just for the this-is-a-first-and-sort-of-strange value.
-Declan
At 17:16 9/24/2000 -0400, Templeton, Stuart wrote:
here's something i dug up... at..
Carl is most certainly not an idiot. In fact, there might be a reasonable
argument for this: You're changing the defaults of a contract by specifying
what should be interpreted as reasonable authentication or not. Still,
I don't agree with it, and it's something that should be left up to the
[A veteran free speech activist in Cambridge, Mass. sent me this. Any
offers of mirroring should go to the list, where I assume they'll be duly
forwarded. I wonder how long the HTML files in question here would last on
a Geocities/etc account. --Declan]
---
Hi Declan,
I know you're aware of
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FC: Clinton administration takes on Napster in court case
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:16:42 -0400
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i
The Clinton
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:27:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-JID: 602169
Subject: U.S. Justice Department, Leading Technology Association Launch
Web Site...
U.S. Justice Department, Leading Technology
te:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
One reason to punish a crime (rather than an attempt) more seriously
is that there is usually some sort of damage, at least with traditional
crimes. Murder, rape, theft, etc.
Right. Damages, however, are Torts rather than Crimes.
(translation
Decision is at:
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08117.PDF
Final judgment and order:
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08118.PDF
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html
Studios Score DeCSS Victory
by Declan
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38207,00.html
Lieberman's Privacy 'Tap' Dance
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
7:53 a.m. Aug. 15, 2000 PDT
The Democratic Party platform that delegates will
adopt this week embraces personal privacy
despite the checkered voting record
Jon,
Greetings! Haven't heard from you in a while.
Briefly we want to be able to allow posts from anonymous and pseudonymous
accounts. Thus the list cannot accept posts only from its members, at
least easily. This has been discussed at length in (gasp) the archives.
-Declan
On Sun, Aug 06,
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37920,00.html
Army Battle-Ready for Convention
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
8:40 a.m. Aug. 1, 2000 PDT
PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Army is prepared to respond to
disruptions ranging from civil disobedience to nuclear
explosions
infocalypse. Here's an excerpt from the hearing transcript (why weren't
drug smugglers mentioned? someone's slipping).
I take that back. That scare story appears later on (keep reading)...
-Declan
KEVIN DIGREGORY, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, DOJ
As we have seen throughout history,
Someone, I think Bill, talked about the FBI's usual n-horsemen of the
infocalypse. Here's an excerpt from the hearing transcript (why weren't
drug smugglers mentioned? someone's slipping).
Interestingly enough, except for a passing reference by one witness ("I
support encryption"), that was
One industry's terrorism is another man's Napster.
True, there's little hope of being able to challenge all these laws in
court, and even if possible, the Supreme Court is not that likely to
see things through cpunx lenses.
(There's also a side issue of legitimizing groups that don't always
When it comes to maintaining the size of government or giving more
money to police, there is rarely gridlock. Look at the ever-increasing
FBI budgets, for instance.
If there were a terrorist attack that the FBI says could have been
prevented by Carnivore, I suspect you'll see what little
Forget four days.
I had my story up on wired.com, at least arguably more mass media
than Drudge, within a day.
-Declan
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:40:00AM -0700, Anonymous wrote:
The drudge factor: it took less than 4 days for story to migrate from
cpunks to mass media.
I would suggest
Jim, I think, with respect, you completely understand Tim's point.
Democracy is a political process. Tim is advising precisely the
opposite -- direct action and monkeywrenching the political process.
That you haven't picked this up after years here is interesting.
Or perhaps you were making a
I just skimmed the below, but it seems a very nice writeup.
My general-audience pieces from yesterday and today are at wired.com.
-Declan
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:11:02PM +0200, Anonymous wrote:
The trial against 2600 Magazine commenced at 9am today (Monday) in the
federal court house at
(resend)
Michael: Have you forgotten what list you're on?
Unlawful government eavesdropping should not primarily be fought in
Washington. It should be fought with technology. The ACLU and EPIC are
good for defensive battles only, and when it comes to restraining
government surveillance, they
Jim,
Come, now. You're saying that if I run a mailing list and bounce email
because of probable-spam source address, I'm an "accomplice" to some
act for which I'm legally liable?
Please give me a cite to any court case that backs you up.
(Hint: You won't be able to.)
-Declan
On Wed, Jul
Automated filtering is censorship.
We don't want censorship.
This is nonsense. Censorship is performed by government entities.
Last I checked, there's no state action here. Don't like it? Start
your own list. But don't whine.
-Declan
PS: Even your "predictable permutation" of
***
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:57:26 -0700
From: Jennifer Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Oracle Corporation
To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[personal note snipped --Declan]
Statement of the Oracle Corporation
June 27, 2000
Oracle Corporation hired Investigation Group
Jim, please do post whatever answers, if any, you get. And please change
the list address. Toad.com is so, shall we say, 1997?
-Declan
At 01:12 6/21/2000 -0700, jim bell wrote:
Jim Bell
June 19, 2000
Court Clerk
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Docket # CR 97-5270-FDB
Dear Sirs:
I am
Some pornographic images BAIR approved as OK and a Perl test-script:
http://www.well.com/user/declan/bair/
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36923,00.html
Smut Filter Blocks All But Smut
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 a.m. Jun. 20, 2000 PDT
When
***
Photos from investigation:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/act-investigation.html
***
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37022,00.html
MS Espionage: Cash for Trash
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
6:00 p.m. Jun. 15, 2000 PDT
WASHINGTON -- When Jonathan
At 09:23 6/13/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote:
If ZKS crashes and burns with an investment pool of several tens of
millions of dollars--someone told me they'd raised more than US$75M, but I
haven't looked closely--then "educated investors" will likely avoid this
type of market.
At CFP, ZKS told me
And what "bill" might that happen to be?
-Declan
At 11:02 6/8/2000 -0500, Cynthia Williams Wright wrote:
Could you please e-mail me some information on the bill that "will harm
children" but help pedophiles?
I am doing an article on online pedophiles, and would appreciate any help
you can
Maybe we should feel the same way about Microsoft. :)
Of course the black helicopters will eventually come. And it is important
that they do. The value of Havenco is that every fight against tyranny
requires a martyr. Their willingness to serve in this role is admirable
and
should be
A followup article on the legal aspects is here:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36756,00.html
My favorite quote from an international law prof at Georgetown University:
"I suspect we could blow them out of the water, although I wouldn't
recommend that, and if they were in fact
That's a better suggestion than mine. It may even be implementable using
standard majordomo config files with regex matching; I'd have to reread the
manual.
Design question: What happens to rejected posts (missing the CP or whatnot
from Subject: line)? The default behavior for majordomo would
The story is not written by a mainstream journalist, and is a hoax. There
are subtle errors, omissions, and clues that another reporter can pick up.
Then there are the more obvious ones. FinCEN's director is not named J. Lee
Thomas, for instance:
http://www.treas.gov/fincen/infinc.html#dir
Even more interesting than the Peacefire study, arguably, are the responses
to it from blocking software vendors when I asked them why they apparently
have double standards. And conservative groups weren't happy about excerpts
of their pages being blocked as "hate speech" or whatnot:
Neil:
Did you mean to say the Washington Times?
-Declan
(who rather enjoyed The Probability Broach)
At 14:50 5/23/2000 -0600, L. Neil Smith wrote:
Tom --
I'm forced to concede that the Moonies do some good things. The
_Washington Post_ is one of the best papers in the country,
This is, sadly, not a joke.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36442,00.html
New Privacy Threat: Genealogy?
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 p.m. May. 18, 2000 PDT
Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about the oft-cited
privacy threats
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36310,00.html
Metallica Net Parody Flashy Fun
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 a.m. May. 13, 2000 PDT
WASHINGTON -- If you thought the spectacle of a heavy-metal band
whining to Congress about the Internet was hilarious
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 a.m. May. 9, 2000 PDT
Opponents of a bill to restrict drug-related
information online are asking members of the House
Judiciary Committee to reject it at a scheduled
vote Tuesday morning
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