Constitution? What Constitution?

2005-09-11 Thread Eric Cordian
There's no civil liberty or Constitutional guarantee the President can't violate, as long as he mentions protecting the nation from terrorism while trying to justify it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html - A federal appeals court ruled

Constitution? What Constitution?

2005-09-09 Thread Eric Cordian
There's no civil liberty or Constitutional guarantee the President can't violate, as long as he mentions protecting the nation from terrorism while trying to justify it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html - A federal appeals court ruled

Re: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

2005-08-26 Thread Eric Cordian
Peter Trei writes: Ryan Lackey needs to star in an Ayman al-Zawahri produced video, making short-lived gurgling and whistling noises. Making a fast buck off an illegal war of aggression is a far cry from running a secure data repository on an oil platform. Eric, I think you could

Re: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

2005-08-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Peter Trei writes: Ryan Lackey needs to star in an Ayman al-Zawahri produced video, making short-lived gurgling and whistling noises. Making a fast buck off an illegal war of aggression is a far cry from running a secure data repository on an oil platform. Eric, I think you could

Re: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

2005-08-25 Thread Eric Cordian
RAW forwards... Wiring the War Zone It's a typical morning at Camp Anaconda, the giant US military base 50 miles north of Baghdad - light breeze, temperatures heading to 100 degrees, scattered mortar fire. Ryan Lackey is getting ready for today's assignment: installing a pair of

Re: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

2005-08-24 Thread Eric Cordian
RAW forwards... Wiring the War Zone It's a typical morning at Camp Anaconda, the giant US military base 50 miles north of Baghdad - light breeze, temperatures heading to 100 degrees, scattered mortar fire. Ryan Lackey is getting ready for today's assignment: installing a pair of

Paintball Terrorist Sentenced

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Cordian
I'd just like to say that the American troops who carried out Bush's illegal war in Iraq, which killled 100,000 Iraqi civilians, are war criminals, and I'd like to encourage all of AmeriKKKa's victims to capture them and bake them in pies, after forcing them to bark like dogs and poop

Paintball Terrorist Sentenced

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Cordian
I'd just like to say that the American troops who carried out Bush's illegal war in Iraq, which killled 100,000 Iraqi civilians, are war criminals, and I'd like to encourage all of AmeriKKKa's victims to capture them and bake them in pies, after forcing them to bark like dogs and poop

Re: The Nazification Of America (Show Me Your Papers - Day 1)

2005-07-02 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: We have literally allowed the Nazification to begin, and we've even welcomed it with eager open arms - all in the name of Fighting Terror. Crystal clear, pure unadulterated bullshit. In anticipation of the Guv'ment ID Needed for Everything/Can't Get ID Without Already

Re: The Nazification Of America (Show Me Your Papers - Day 1)

2005-07-01 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: We have literally allowed the Nazification to begin, and we've even welcomed it with eager open arms - all in the name of Fighting Terror. Crystal clear, pure unadulterated bullshit. In anticipation of the Guv'ment ID Needed for Everything/Can't Get ID Without Already

AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
This just in from CNN: [FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man on suspicion of soliciting offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer. Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for the killing of Schiavo and another $50,000 for the the

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: If the judge's decision had been the opposite, there might be a bounty on his head for that, too. Somehow letting someone who has lived 15 years with a significant brain injury live out the rest of their normal life span just doesn't provoke people the same way dehydrating and

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: She is a corpse with a heartbeat. According to a cast of characters which include a euthanasia proponent, a lawyer at the forefront of dehydration advocacy for the brain-damaged, and a doctor who thinks its morally acceptable to starve Alzheimer's patients to death.

Re: The Register: Anonymity no protection for online libellers

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Mark Weston, technology law specialist at MAB Law, says the ruling was another link in the chain of judicial authority saying that you cannot be anonymous. If they can find out who you are, you aren't anonymous, you are confidential. Anonymous means no trail was created which might be

AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-26 Thread Eric Cordian
This just in from CNN: [FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man on suspicion of soliciting offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer. Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for the killing of Schiavo and another $50,000 for the the

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-26 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: If the judge's decision had been the opposite, there might be a bounty on his head for that, too. Somehow letting someone who has lived 15 years with a significant brain injury live out the rest of their normal life span just doesn't provoke people the same way dehydrating and

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-26 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: She is a corpse with a heartbeat. According to a cast of characters which include a euthanasia proponent, a lawyer at the forefront of dehydration advocacy for the brain-damaged, and a doctor who thinks its morally acceptable to starve Alzheimer's patients to death.

Re: The Register: Anonymity no protection for online libellers

2005-03-24 Thread Eric Cordian
Mark Weston, technology law specialist at MAB Law, says the ruling was another link in the chain of judicial authority saying that you cannot be anonymous. If they can find out who you are, you aren't anonymous, you are confidential. Anonymous means no trail was created which might be

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Zooko writes: I am about to accept an exciting job that will preclude me from contributing to open source projects in the distributed file-system space. I will miss the Mnet project! Good luck without me! Is there a network currently running? At one time, I had 5 gig of Mnet

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Zooko writes: I am about to accept an exciting job that will preclude me from contributing to open source projects in the distributed file-system space. I will miss the Mnet project! Good luck without me! Is there a network currently running? At one time, I had 5 gig of Mnet

Re: End of a cypherpunk era?

2005-03-05 Thread Eric Cordian
Someone writes: I never saw this kind of thing as being central to the cypherpunk concept. In fact, to me it seems like the wrong direction to go. The point of being a cypherpunk is to live in cypherspace, the mythical land where online interactions dominate and we can use information

Re: Florida man faces bioweapon charge

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pastes: ... Steven Michael Ekberg, 22, had at least 83 castor beans and other byproducts consistent with the manufacture of ricin in his possession, the FBI said. ... They said they also found, in a cardboard box in Ekberg's room, glass vials containing white granules suspected of

Re: Florida man faces bioweapon charge

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pastes: .. Steven Michael Ekberg, 22, had at least 83 castor beans and other byproducts consistent with the manufacture of ricin in his possession, the FBI said. .. They said they also found, in a cardboard box in Ekberg's room, glass vials containing white granules suspected of being

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: The fact is that those who did not vote effectively voted for Shrub. You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem. Inaction is not good enough. This would only be true if the President were elected by popular vote. In states where one candidate

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-06 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: The fact is that those who did not vote effectively voted for Shrub. You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem. Inaction is not good enough. This would only be true if the President were elected by popular vote. In states where one candidate

Re: Why you keep losing to this idiot

2004-11-04 Thread Eric Cordian
I think this is the answer: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. Isn't that what Democracy is all about? The 51% simpletons imposing their will on the 49% non-simpletons? Proportional representation is our friend. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What

Re: Why you keep losing to this idiot

2004-11-03 Thread Eric Cordian
I think this is the answer: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. Isn't that what Democracy is all about? The 51% simpletons imposing their will on the 49% non-simpletons? Proportional representation is our friend. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What

So Who Won?

2004-11-03 Thread Eric Cordian
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

So Who Won?

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Cordian
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Re: 100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? Most AmeriKKKans are too stupid to know that when their Poodle Press talks about airstrikes against insurgent safehouses, they really mean bombing civilian neighborhoods to scare the

Re: 100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? Most AmeriKKKans are too stupid to know that when their Poodle Press talks about airstrikes against insurgent safehouses, they really mean bombing civilian neighborhoods to scare the

FBI Raids Indymedia

2004-10-09 Thread Eric Cordian
According to http://www.indymedia.it/, the FBI seized Indymedia's servers from their host, Rackspace. Thursday Oct 7 2004, at 6 PM, FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia's provider with offices in the US and London) to remove physically two of our servers. The order was so

FBI Raids Indymedia

2004-10-08 Thread Eric Cordian
According to http://www.indymedia.it/, the FBI seized Indymedia's servers from their host, Rackspace. Thursday Oct 7 2004, at 6 PM, FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia's provider with offices in the US and London) to remove physically two of our servers. The order was so

Recruiting Only Smart People

2004-09-13 Thread Eric Cordian
Google has an austere black on white billboard ad which simply reads. www.{first 10-digit prime found in the consecutive digits of e}.com People arriving solve another puzzle, and then can use the answer as a password for a website that greets them with the message... One thing we

Recruiting Only Smart People

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Google has an austere black on white billboard ad which simply reads. www.{first 10-digit prime found in the consecutive digits of e}.com People arriving solve another puzzle, and then can use the answer as a password for a website that greets them with the message... One thing we

Re: Gilmore case...Who can make laws?

2004-09-07 Thread Eric Cordian
TD writes: This describes the Government as creating secret laws. But, theoretically, only the congress and the Senate can create new laws, correct? The Executive branch has never been empowered to create laws, and I'm thinking these travel laws did not go through congress or the senate.

Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

2004-09-07 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pastes: Tim Radford, science editor Tuesday September 7, 2004 The Guardian Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden wrote: I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. Of course, others can (and most probably will) choose to ignore the official statement, or even declare himself to be leader and 'officially' rescind that

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-24 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden wrote: I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. Of course, others can (and most probably will) choose to ignore the official statement, or even declare himself to be leader and 'officially' rescind that

Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Was that our John Young on the Daily Show, talking about being visited by FBI agents, with the title Anarchist under his name? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Was that our John Young on the Daily Show, talking about being visited by FBI agents, with the title Anarchist under his name? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Re: IRS may use First Data info for help in finding tax evaders

2004-08-09 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pasted: A federal judge has granted the Internal Revenue Service the right to seek information from First Data Corp. about certain credit-card transactions the company has processed. The IRS wants the information as part of its crackdown on tax evaders. Specifically, the IRS wants

US Seeks Bobby Fischer Extradition

2004-07-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Now that AmeriKKKa has successfully invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq in violation of international law, tortured with impunity, and mocked the rest of the world with its arrogance, what will it do for an encore? Settle old political scores, of course. So it comes as no surprise that the US

Re: UBL is George Washington

2004-07-07 Thread Eric Cordian
Sunder wrote: Right, WTC as a target doesn't make any strategic sense. Doesn't hitting a world financial center impede the funding of imperialism? If you apply the same standards the US uses to classify dual use infrastructure, and organizations linked to the enemy, I think the WTC is pretty

Respect for the Judiciary

2004-06-24 Thread Eric Cordian
I wonder if any such noises were heard during the Jim Bell trial. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0624041pump1.html - JUNE 24--While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged

Respect for the Judiciary

2004-06-24 Thread Eric Cordian
I wonder if any such noises were heard during the Jim Bell trial. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0624041pump1.html - JUNE 24--While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged

Citizen Units Must Give Names

2004-06-21 Thread Eric Cordian
One used to have the right to be known by any name one wished, as long as one did not do so for the purpose of committing fraud, or impersonating someone else. One certainly has an absolute right to refuse to speak to a government employee when accosted. So it is difficult to understand the

Citizen Units Must Give Names

2004-06-21 Thread Eric Cordian
One used to have the right to be known by any name one wished, as long as one did not do so for the purpose of committing fraud, or impersonating someone else. One certainly has an absolute right to refuse to speak to a government employee when accosted. So it is difficult to understand the

AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up

2004-06-18 Thread Eric Cordian
You may remember back in 2000, former literary icon turned copyright pest Harlan Ellison sued AOL because people were able to access a couple of his short stories in the Usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book, prompting AOL to block the newsgroup on its servers. This earned Ellison a Big Brother

AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up

2004-06-18 Thread Eric Cordian
You may remember back in 2000, former literary icon turned copyright pest Harlan Ellison sued AOL because people were able to access a couple of his short stories in the Usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book, prompting AOL to block the newsgroup on its servers. This earned Ellison a Big Brother

Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there. It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an advance fee. But Nigeria is a

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
David Howe writes: Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone calls. Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Think of it as evolution in action. I think we've identified another applicant on the short list for Tim May's old job. :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there. It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an advance fee. But Nigeria is a

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
David Howe writes: Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone calls. Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.

Re: Science: throttling computer viruses

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola writes: Computer viruses and worms are an increasing problem throughout the world. By some estimates 2003 was the worst year yet: Viruses halted or hindered operations at numerous businesses and other organizations, disrupted cash-dispensing machines, I have a dual boot

Re: Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-30 Thread Eric Cordian
An Metet writes: Eric Cordian quotes: FBI Shill: Are we gonna exterminate the rat? Hale: I'm going to fight within the law and, but, ... if you wish to, ah, do anything, yourself, you can. You're such a liar. I don't know why I even bother to respond to you. You left off

Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Federal Prosecutors say the conviction of Matthew Hale on charges including trying to have a federal judge killed sends an important message. But don't they always? The plot to kill the federal judge in this case consisted of a recorded conversation with an FBI Informant which went something

Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Federal Prosecutors say the conviction of Matthew Hale on charges including trying to have a federal judge killed sends an important message. But don't they always? The plot to kill the federal judge in this case consisted of a recorded conversation with an FBI Informant which went something

Re: Usenet Dead. Film at 11

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH clipped: search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for millions of uncensored movies and photographs and serve up an all-you-can-eat taste of 'the Internet gone wild!' There used to be a service called Boypics, which thumbnailed and decoded all of Usenet's picture newsgroups

Re: Usenet Dead. Film at 11

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH clipped: search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for millions of uncensored movies and photographs and serve up an all-you-can-eat taste of 'the Internet gone wild!' There used to be a service called Boypics, which thumbnailed and decoded all of Usenet's picture newsgroups

Re: US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

2004-04-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola (ret) writes: What is bizarre about offering a contract? Get your filthy hands off my desert xor suffer for not doing same The US said the same (with a more temperate piece of real estate) to the UK, once. Apparently some need to be reminded that gentlemen don't occupy

Re: US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

2004-04-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola (ret) writes: What is bizarre about offering a contract? Get your filthy hands off my desert xor suffer for not doing same The US said the same (with a more temperate piece of real estate) to the UK, once. Apparently some need to be reminded that gentlemen don't occupy

US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

2004-04-15 Thread Eric Cordian
For extra credit, try to find even one mainstream newspaper in AmeriKKKa's Rah Rah free press in which this international wireservice story is printed. See the Neocons argue that because the story only appears in the Arab press, it can't be true. Hey, it worked with Accused Jewish War Criminal

US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

2004-04-15 Thread Eric Cordian
For extra credit, try to find even one mainstream newspaper in AmeriKKKa's Rah Rah free press in which this international wireservice story is printed. See the Neocons argue that because the story only appears in the Arab press, it can't be true. Hey, it worked with Accused Jewish War Criminal

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

2004-04-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Eugen Leitl pastes: File-sharing to bypass censorship By Tracey Logan BBC Go Digital presenter If there's material that everyone agrees is wicked, like child pornography, then it's possible to track it down and close it down Ross Anderson, Cambridge University I think the problem here

Re: On Needing Killing

2004-04-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all that, I think that cypherpunks, and people in general, give far too little respect to words, as if words are a vague, unimportant, and remote link in the chain of causation of acts or failure-to-acts. I don't

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

2004-04-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Eugen Leitl pastes: File-sharing to bypass censorship By Tracey Logan BBC Go Digital presenter If there's material that everyone agrees is wicked, like child pornography, then it's possible to track it down and close it down Ross Anderson, Cambridge University I think the problem here

Re: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue to attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default. There are different levels of illegal. The most important one is the

Re: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue to attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default. There are different levels of illegal. The most important one is the

The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
It's really getting to the point where judges don't even go through the motions of respecting the Constitution any more. All they have to do is recite the magic words that Society's Overwhelming Interest in protecting its children, police officers, kitty cats, or whatever, overrides whatever

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
Bill Stewart wrote: Marbury vs. Madison was an entertainingly kinky case, but the ability of judges to declare laws or executive actions Unconstitutional and therefore void is the main thing that's made the Bill of Rights effective (to the extent it has

The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
It's really getting to the point where judges don't even go through the motions of respecting the Constitution any more. All they have to do is recite the magic words that Society's Overwhelming Interest in protecting its children, police officers, kitty cats, or whatever, overrides whatever

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
Bill Stewart wrote: Marbury vs. Madison was an entertainingly kinky case, but the ability of judges to declare laws or executive actions Unconstitutional and therefore void is the main thing that's made the Bill of Rights effective (to the extent it has

Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May observes: Meanwhile, the black folk kept listening to Rev. Jess Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton tell them that they were owed reparations, that they were owed a series of entitlements. No suprise that a large fraction of negro teens subscribe to the view that reading be for whitey. In

Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May observes: Meanwhile, the black folk kept listening to Rev. Jess Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton tell them that they were owed reparations, that they were owed a series of entitlements. No suprise that a large fraction of negro teens subscribe to the view that reading be for whitey. In

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Michael writes: Being from Germany I would like to detest that statement. The German law clearly defines what is hate speech. It is not an easy task as you can see in a six month trial. It is the outcome of the trial which condemns Germany. THe length of the trial is an unimportant data

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-27 Thread Eric Cordian
Michael writes: Being from Germany I would like to detest that statement. The German law clearly defines what is hate speech. It is not an easy task as you can see in a six month trial. It is the outcome of the trial which condemns Germany. THe length of the trial is an unimportant data

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Eric Cordian
A Berlin criminal court sentenced 38-year-old Michael Regener to 40 months in prison after a six-month trial that tested the boundaries of free expression in a nation with strict laws against hate speech. Of course, that should be a nation with strict laws against free speech. Crying Hate

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Eric Cordian
A Berlin criminal court sentenced 38-year-old Michael Regener to 40 months in prison after a six-month trial that tested the boundaries of free expression in a nation with strict laws against hate speech. Of course, that should be a nation with strict laws against free speech. Crying Hate

Humiliating the Conquered, Part II

2003-12-22 Thread Eric Cordian
If you think it was embarrassing for the former regime in Iraq to see their fearless leader getting a public louse inspection, just wait until Christmas, when America again demonstrates it can walk the streets of Baghdad with impunity. Yesterday, the crew of WWE Smackdown arrived in Baghdad to

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-20 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: Well if there is no legitimate authority, then state of nature applies. Give him the justice that Mussolini and Ceasescu got. Hang him by his feet from a lamp post in central Baghdad for his victims to use as pinata Bear in mind that we could probably find plenty of

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: Well if there is no legitimate authority, then state of nature applies. Give him the justice that Mussolini and Ceasescu got. Hang him by his feet from a lamp post in central Baghdad for his victims to use as pinata Bear in mind that we could probably find plenty of

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Eric Cordian
James A, Donald writes: I see: So when the US army is so unkind as to film Saddam acting submissive, this is a shocking violation of his human rights, and your bleeding heart feels for him deeply. But when, however, people fly a plainload of passengers into two tall buildings and murder

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Natt writes: You're one-hundred percent correct. I saw that sack of shit Rumsfeld on a press conference this afternoon where he answered the specific question of does parading Saddam around violate the Geneva convention.? Rumsfeld also revealed that the CIA has taken over the Saddam

Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently no one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3 gig of the address space. This is almost as funny as early linux kernels in

Re: Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Eric Tully writes: I've heard that argument before (last time I heard it was a problem with a PGP implementation) and I never understand what people are trying to prove when they say it. Let me simplify. I found it startling that a Redmond-level bug was in a mature open-source project, the

Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently no one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3 gig of the address space. This is almost as funny as early linux kernels in

Re: Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Eric Tully writes: I've heard that argument before (last time I heard it was a problem with a PGP implementation) and I never understand what people are trying to prove when they say it. Let me simplify. I found it startling that a Redmond-level bug was in a mature open-source project, the

Airplane Comedy

2003-11-29 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku=a102 I'd love to see John Gilmore wear this on his next airline flight. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Airplane Comedy

2003-11-29 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku=a102 I'd love to see John Gilmore wear this on his next airline flight. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola wrote: You put nukes in subs to avoid getting them blown up esp. by a first strike. You mean like the Jews blew up the Iranian nuclear reactor? So whoever nukes Israel had best do so without a piece of real estate associated with it, because the sub nukes will persist. Even

Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
So much for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, right? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 - Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Peter Beaumont in London and Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem Sunday October 12, 2003 The Observer Israeli and

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
Yes, I truncated the URL http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1061381,00.html So much for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, right? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 - Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Peter

Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
So much for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, right? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 - Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Peter Beaumont in London and Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem Sunday October 12, 2003 The Observer Israeli and

What Really Happened to Whatreallyhappened.com

2003-10-27 Thread Eric Cordian
Everyone's favorite link farm of news stories which annoy Neocons, http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ disappeared suddenly and has been unavailable for 2 days now. Anyone know What Really Happened to it? Hopefully just a minor hardware problem. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:.

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2003-10-26 Thread Eric Cordian
David Howe writes: I doubt the NSA need, trust or want anyone else's actual software for EC Nonetheless, it's an indication that they don't think RSA has much of a future. So now they have a public key cryptosystem with smaller key lengths, and a more obtuse one-way function that can't be

Re: base conversion

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Sarad AV writes: If we are to convert a k-bit integer n to a base b number,it takes us O(log n) if the base b is a power of 2. eg. converting (1)base to base 16 0001 ^^ 1F in hex. using a look up table. Is there an algorithm with time complexity O(log n) which

Re: base conversion

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Sarad AV writes: If we are to convert a k-bit integer n to a base b number,it takes us O(log n) if the base b is a power of 2. eg. converting (1)base to base 16 0001 ^^ 1F in hex. using a look up table. Is there an algorithm with time complexity O(log n) which

Re: [cdr] MRS. MARIAM ABACHA

2003-10-02 Thread Eric Cordian
MRS. MARIAM ABACHA writes: IT IS WITH HEART FULL OF HOPE THAT I WRITE TO SEEK YOUR HELP IN THE CONTEXT BELOW.I AM MRS, MARIAM ABACHA (WIDOW) THE WIFE OF FORMER HEAD OF STATE OF NIGERIA, GENERAL SANI ABACHA WHO'S SUDDEN DEATH OCCURRED ON THE 8TH OF JUNE, 1998. AS A RESULT OF CARDIAC ARREST

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