Re: FBI agent: I am Big Brother

2000-04-06 Thread Edwin E. Smith
What wasn't covered here, and I had hoped it would be, is the fact that the chief reason for the need of this massive invasion of privacy is the growth of the criminalization of victimless crime. For those who don't know precisely what a victimless crime is and why they require the invasion of

article on witness protection

2000-04-06 Thread truck1
I am interested in an article sent to you around Feb. 10, 1996 on the witness protection program. All I could find was that it appeared in the NYT Sunday Magazine. If you could would you please email me a copy of the article or the address in which to locate it online. Thank you Wilda Willis

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As CorporateBullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-06 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
> But if you know of a better government to live under, might I humbly > inquire as to why you CHOSE to live here? If I knew of a government > which was more to my tastes, I'd make myself a citizen of it. Since the days of Empire it has been the British tradition to travel to far off and inhospi

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully GetsComeuppance

2000-04-06 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
> Yes, they were directly responsible for that change. It was in extremis, > however. We bankrupted them (or forced foreclosure on the bankruptcy, if > you prefer), by forcing them to keep up with us. They didn't try. Despite the massive US conventional arms buildup the USSR did not substantial

Re: Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in Understanding

2000-04-06 Thread david
At 06:28 PM 4/6/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >There has NEVER been a free market in human history. Theory may say they >are good, though I can use that same theory to show why they will >monopolise naturaly. Lightly regulated is the best you can do. > Lightly regulated equals just a little bit of soc

Can hyperlinks be outlawed?

2000-04-06 Thread Anonymous
salon.com > Technology April 6, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/04/06/decss Can hyperlinks be outlawed? Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, a banned DVD-decryption program. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Damien Cave In a fresh attack on DeCSS, a program that decrypts DV

Re: Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-06 Thread David Marshall
"..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hardly. More along the lines of sheeple liking a pretty GUI, and right now there > are no alternatives in their eyes. Show most users a *NIX box and they're gonna > ask you why you're still using DOS... (True, I know a few that actually said that...) I can v

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 09:21 4/5/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote: >And why all the focus on Microsoft? Cisco and Intel both have larger >market shares of their respective (and key) markets. So? > >Some of the typically clueless around here have alleged that Microsoft was >trying to defeat its competitors and that this is

Re: Computer "journalism" is hopelessly ill

2000-04-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 10:07 4/1/2000 -0800, ericm wrote, quoting Tim: > > Optical mice have been available for at least 15 years, in consumer > > models. In workstation models, longer. I think both Logitech and > > Mouse Systems were selling them. > > >SUN 3s and I beleive SUN 2s came with them. As have many Righ

Disk INsecurity:Last word on deletes, wipes & The Final Solution.

2000-04-06 Thread Gary Jeffers
Jim Choate writes "...Fourier Analysis..." for ressurecting wiped data. This is interesting but a question arises: How do you interrogate the data? That is: what INT's (pc interrupts) do you use to look at the data? Actually, maybe I should say the sectors rather than the data. Are these und

Offer 06.04.2000

2000-04-06 Thread andre . goldenstein
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Offer 06.04.2000

2000-04-06 Thread andre . goldenstein
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Re: Mises Institute Reaction to Microsoft Ruling

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Vogt
Reese wrote: > Sure you do - you call it the Official Secrets Act (or something like that) > though. Anything your gov't thinks might compromise national security or > whatever, they squelch. You can't export it, can't even engage in it > domestically, if you can't even say it or write it down.

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate BullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Vogt
Reese wrote: > Of course not. They wouldn't. Europe is largely socialist, ROTFL let me guess: you've never been to europe.

Re: Census Terrorism

2000-04-06 Thread Bill Stewart
I looked at the census forms on the Feds' web site. They don't have the exact versions, and it's hard to navigate through the file-your-census-online pages if you don't have a real paper form with the magic numbers on it, but it's close enough to get the general idea. The Long Form does ask white