Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Adam Back wrote: This is cryptic Adam made a funny. You hay have a future as a comic if crypto ever falls flat. If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the

Slashdot | Coming Soon: Burn Proof CDs

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/27/2339254.shtml -- If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? The Armadillo Group

Slashchoate | Spam Prince URLs Himself Into Killfile

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Scannell
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=safe=offq=Stop+%22Jim+Choate %22+Spam Committing random acts of journalism and PR since 1987

Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim's been pinged on this many, many times. He used to include tens of kilobytes of HTML pages with his postings, but at least he's gotten over that. I've come to the conclusion that Jim is unable to see things from another's viewpoint, and so regards it a bad trade to spend 30 seconds of his

Slashchoate | Spam Prince URLs Himself Into Killfile

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Scannell
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=safe=offq=Stop+%22Jim+Choate %22+Spam Committing random acts of journalism and PR since 1987

Congress in action

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE Human Cloning Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on "Issues Raised by Human Cloning Research." Location: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. 12 noon Contact: 202-225-2927 http://www.house.gov/commerce

RIAA takes over FCC

2001-03-28 Thread Blank Frank
Napster, the song swapping service, is being sued for millions of dollars by the producers of the prestigious awards show, the Grammys. The National Academy of Recordings Arts and Sciences (NARAS) says the service enabled users to

you may only speak what the RIAA allows

2001-03-28 Thread Blank Frank
The RIAA has asked the court to order Napster to use a "filter in" method, which would allow songs that Napster is authorised to distribute to be placed on its system, rather than blocking the swapping of copyrighted music placed on its

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
--- Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Physical anonymity is getting harder, but it's less hard in big cities. There are a lot of anonymous people in cities. Those guys you see sitting on the side of the road asking for money, they're anonymous. As far as you're concerned anyway. Lost in the

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
--- Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been 30 years since I read The Time Machine, but didn't the Eloi only have 1 L in their name? Yeah, I know. Got pissed off after finding out that *ALL* fictious and real names are taken. If you care, find an anonymizer to read your webmail

Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:51:34AM -0400, Adam Back wrote: This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your subject line. Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your own summary, or something? If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not

RE: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Peter wrote: I've come to the conclusion that Jim is unable to see things from another's viewpoint, and so regards it a bad trade to spend 30 seconds of his own time to save man-hours of wasted effort by his readers. I'm torn between this "social retardation" explanation and the feeling

RE: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread STEELEYE
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Re: CDR: Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
Jim is about as educable as a California politican, and even less friendly. He has shifted from being an eccentric list member to something closer to a list-saboteur. -Declan On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:51:34AM -0400, Adam Back wrote: This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be

Fwd: Barr Works to Reform Secret Evidence Laws

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
From: "Walsh, Brian J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Barr Works to Reform Secret Evidence Laws Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:14:17 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Brian Walsh WEDNESDAY MARCH 28, 2001

Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Jim is about as educable as a California politican, and even less friendly. He has shifted from being an eccentric list member to something closer to a list-saboteur. -Declan This thought has occurred to me, too. At least once a month, a large

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Anonymous
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Choate blathered: Anonymizer.com does cookie blocking with the premium accounts, I believe. And now they have your credit card #... No, ninny, they do not. Anonymizer accepts cash payments. https://www.anonymizer.com/signup/sign_up.shtml Why don't you check

Re: CDR: Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
You're one to talk. Money order sales are recorded on video camera. Each money order has a time stamp with vendor ID. I can't speak for youk, but it would take me as a LEA about 5 minutes to take a money order, find the vendor, and get subpeona on the video surveillance. At that point I have

Another point about 'anonymous cash payments'

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
The UPS uses very effective computer character recognition. How long do you think it'll take 'em (if they aren't now) to drop a traffic analysis system in there to look for 'known writing samples'? Not very long I suspect. And mail is tracked with respect to pickup by the very way it's sorted in

A hint about strategy and tactics, one about cops, and , general system analysis

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
Never assume your opponent is a fool, even if they are. Always try to make your opponent think you are. They are not stupid. They are motivated and believe in what they are doing. These are the kinds of people that believe you made a mistake and they're willing to spend whatever it takes to

Re: CDR: Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote: The only way to pay in cash is two either send it through the mail (you do know about the cash sniffing dogs used at the UPS and airports don't you?) "cash sniffing dogs?" C'mon, jim, I'm pretty paranoid, but that's just *out there*. Got a cite? I

Feds Take Aim at Cash Smuggling

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.apbonline.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/12/29/customs_seize1229_01.html -- If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary

Cash sniffing dogs

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
Go to google.com use 'cash sniffing dogs' Enjoy the extensive reading. If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? The

RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Jim wrote: Money order sales are recorded on video camera... All? Everywhere? I doubt it, but that's what good theatrical makeup is for. ...Each money order has a time stamp with vendor ID. I can't speak for youk, but it would take me as a LEA about 5 minutes to take a money order,

Worried about rf snooping and bugs? (Home made plasma balls in your microwave :)

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/jlnlabs/html/oa_plasmoid.htm -- If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? The Armadillo

RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: Jim wrote: Money order sales are recorded on video camera... All? Everywhere? I doubt it, but that's what good theatrical makeup is for. I haven't seen a MO vendor that was video recorded in years. It wouldn't surprise me if the MO

Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread John Young
Now the Western Washington District Court has removed all TIFF images of court filings. Whether that is due to Judge Jack's expanding his order forbidding public disclosure of discovery materials after we put a bunch of Jim's filings on the Net, or another counterterrorist ploy to censor Jim

Typo: RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote: I haven't seen a MO vendor that was video recorded in years. It wouldn't ^^^ wasn't If the law is based

Re: Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Olsen
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Young wrote: Now the Western Washington District Court has removed all TIFF images of court filings. Whether that is due to Judge I'd bet one of the various search engines will have them archived... Since when did

Re: CDR: Re: Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: Since when did search engines archive images? Quite a while now. Google for example has a long history of being a saviour for many a lost webpage. You can also look at the various database projects that 'store the Internet'. IBM has one.

More Nonsense from Frog Remailer Operator

2001-03-28 Thread twpansy
Originally appeared in newsgroup alt.privacy.anon-server... Subject: Re: [INFO] Keep tuned: Script-Kiddie and ilk against Frog From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I Sent Your Saddle Home) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:05:45 GMT On 28 Mar 2001 15:05:28 -, Frog-Admin threw some more dry wood on his funeral

Welcome to Sybase on the Web

2001-03-28 Thread Sybase Web Accounts
Welcome to Sybase on the Web! This confirmation message is sent to all users when they create a Web based account with Sybase. Your Sybase username is: cypherpun You have registered with Sybase using the email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to change your account information go

Re: Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: Since when did search engines archive images? If you know of a machine that searched that site and it hasn't been too long the images will be in the cache as well (if it's turned on). So, if you looked at the site yesterday, those images are

RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Jim wrote: I haven't seen a MO vendor that was video recorded in years. It wouldn't surprise me if the MO companies didn't require it. I don't intend to spend my time researching it. Nor do I. It was you that made the claim, however. The burden of proof is yours, not mine. Citation to

Re: CDR: Re: Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread John Young
Fuck Jim's CDR. The WWA images were available only through the PACER subscription service, so they are not likely to be archived on the Web unless somebody else did it. We downloaded many, but not all of them, and not all provided full copies of filings; some offered only the first page.

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You're one to talk. Money order sales are recorded on video camera. Each money order has a time stamp with vendor ID. I can't speak for youk, but it would take me as a LEA about 5 minutes to take a money order, find the vendor, and get subpeona on

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You're one to talk. Money order sales are recorded on video camera. Each money order has a time stamp with vendor ID. I can't speak for youk, but it would take me as a LEA about 5 minutes to take a money order, find the vendor, and get subpeona on

Re: CDR: Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:53:03PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Jim: You really don't like to let facts to get in the way of your brilliance, do you? Check: https://www.anonymizer.com/signup/sign_up.shtml. To quote: Yep, Lance has been far better than most in accepting cash/money order/etc. I

Re: CDR: Slashdot | Nuremberg Files Decision Overturned

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
See also: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01860.html -Declan On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:26:56PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote: Somebody should tell Jim Bell... http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/28/2130219.shtml --

Re: Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
Very interesting. Knowing the way government bureaucracies work, it's probably just coincidence, but I wouldn't rule out a more sinister explanation. Then again, all of Bell's motions that are in the online docket would be in the physical one, too, so it's just security though obscurity, at best.

Re: Gun Activists Have A Stake Against Filtering Software[Censorware]

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0800, Tim May wrote: When the State has the power to take monies and then decide how and when to dole them back out, it is using its coercive powers to regulate behavior just as surely as if it had banned behaviors outright. Right. If only the

Encouraging Terrorists is Legal

2001-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
A US Federal Appeals Court has tossed out the $109 million verdict against anti-abortion activists who ran a website called "The Nuremberg Files", which listed the personal information of abortion doctors, and cheered whenever one of them was killed. The Judge opined that as long as the

Virginia law bans anonymous remailers

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
See also: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01862.html http://www.spamlaws.com/state/va.html 18.2-152.4. Computer trespass; penalty. B. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to sell, give or otherwise distribute or possess with the intent to sell, give or distribute software which (i) is

Re: Gun Activists Have A Stake Against Filtering Software[Censorware]

2001-03-28 Thread Tim May
At 11:27 PM -0500 3/28/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0800, Tim May wrote: When the State has the power to take monies and then decide how and when to dole them back out, it is using its coercive powers to regulate behavior just as surely as if it had banned

Ninth Circuit ruling re webpage threats

2001-03-28 Thread keyser-soze
Participants and spectators in Jim Bell's trial next week in Seattle might be interested in this case, released by the Ninth Circuit today, concerning the use of a web page to publish addresses of third parties, and whether or not such publication is protected by the First Amendment where it's

RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: Nor do I. It was you that made the claim, however. The burden of proof is yours, not mine. ??? The claim is that it is unlikely there are any MO vendors which are not protected by a video camera currently. In fact, probably haven't been for quite

Re: CDR: Re: Screwing Jim Bell 5

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
At one point, Jim refused to waive his right to a speedy trial, so part of the rushed nature is due to his decision. (Perhaps a conscious one to spend as little time as possible in jail. Or perhaps he refused to waive that right before he knew he was not going to get discovery documents, etc.)

Re: Encouraging Terrorists is Legal

2001-03-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
In fact, Jim was quoted as saying -- I'm watching what I type since the Feds appear to be watching this list and chatting among themselves and other folks involved in this case about what is posted -- that he explicitly was *not* going to violate the law. -Declan On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at

EDGAR Online makes SEC information printable.

2001-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings from EDGAR Online! Your trial continues! Since registering for the two weeks free a couple of days ago, you've already received the IPO Express Daily Report, with an after-market overview of what's happening in the IPO market. But that's just the beginning (literally - an S-1 filed

Re: Virginia law bans anonymous remailers

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Stewart
Remailers aren't for falsifying email transmission information - they're for concealing and deleting that information. You're not pretending that your mail originates at foo.remailer.net, you're just not telling anybody how it got there. Even a nymserver doesn't do that - [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't