Strange spam

2003-01-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
I just got this spam, and I was wondering if it was a honey-pot. Anyone? The site exists, and advertises games and movies for download. -- Peter Fairbrother Frank You've gotta see this website: http://209.132.227.38/lotr/index.htm I just downloaded Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone

2003-01-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
The whole Cell Phones - The Next Generation thing has been a pure marketing scam from the beginning. Experience demonstrates that any term with generation in it is pure BS, technically and financially. Most advances in technology are illusions created by dumbing down of the populace. = end

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy shit! I could done better than this! (ie, I THOUGHT this would be outrageous and amusing but it kinda sucked black prison dick.) -TD From: Sleeping Vayu - Vayu Anonymous Remailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary Date:

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Tyler Durden
My thought was that James is some kind of Fed. I suspect Chomsky is one guy they most don't want around these days. His accusations on the Chomsky dis website were technicalities and hair-splitting, even somantic. Chomsky is an in-your-face fuckin' giant. And even if you don't agree wih his

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Weber
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:25:01 +0100 (CET) From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RIAA turns against Hollings bill The New York Times is reporting at

The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
from today's white house briefing... QAnd if I can ask you one final question -- what can you tell us about the Texas Tech problem, bubonic plague samples apparently missing from a lab there? MR. FLEISCHER: I'm aware of the report, and this is a matter that the FBI and the CDC have

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-16 Thread Petro
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:15:57AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: On the other hand, if the US were following the traditional model for defense rather than having a standing army stomping around the world, it's highly unlikely that somebody like Al Qaeda would have attacked the World Trade Center,

Re: Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-16 Thread Petro
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:22:18AM +0100, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Instead, any cop who shows such blatant disrespect for life and property as the Tennessee cops in question should himself be shot in the face with a shotgun, and left on the side of the road to rot.

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Petro
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:29:22PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 02:25 PM 01/13/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: The hunting post was obviously a joke, as the final line made clear. The real joke was that some readers would fail to see that the first line was a joke, would believe that

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:09, Petro wrote: Now, hunting black _helicopters_ is a different matter, you realize What is the recommened minimum caliber for taking one, and how does one get it to the taxidermist? I don't have a copy of _Unintended Consequences_ handy, but I

Cypherpunks agree to develop voluntary speech code

2003-01-16 Thread Tim May
Posted on Tue, Jan. 14, 2003 NEW YORK (Routers) - Cypherpunks gathering for their annual conference decided today to adopt a voluntarily-developed speech code for their members, covering what they may write, say, or code. The voluntary standards will be submitted to the Department of Justice

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-16 Thread John Kelsey
At 10:40 PM 1/13/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote: ... Personally, I was shocked, *shocked*, to see the supreme court make a decision on the basis of politics instead of a careful reading of the constitution. Everything the Supreme Court

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:46 PM 1/15/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: A huge fraction of the population wasn't in the cities and town at all, where the plague spread most virulently, and so their survivors didn't inherit immunity. The

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote: Does anyone know a source for a spam list for US military? It would be great to start spamming them with messages about how much they are hated by the entire world, how little real support they have at home - We hope you don't come home, sucker, unless

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Anonymous
Does anyone know a source for a spam list for US military? It would be great to start spamming them with messages about how much they are hated by the entire world, how little real support they have at home - We hope you don't come home, sucker, unless its in a bodybag. - and other nice, morale

Re: Strange spam

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Shaddack
I just got this spam, and I was wondering if it was a honey-pot. Anyone? The site exists, and advertises games and movies for download. Classical porn and warez scam. The site itself is an attempt to extract your email out of you for the purpose of spamming you. Offers you a set of nicely

Re: Strange spam

2003-01-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Thomas Shaddack wrote: I just got this spam, and I was wondering if it was a honey-pot. Anyone? The site exists, and advertises games and movies for download. Classical porn and warez scam. The site itself is an attempt to extract your email out of you for the purpose of spamming you. [..]

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Nomen Nescio schrieb am Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:25:01AM +0100: [...] a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for the system to be offered in a free market? Let technology companies decide whether to offer Palladium technology on their computers or not. Let content

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread Will A. Rodger
Nomen said: How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for

RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread Nomen Nescio
The New York Times is reporting at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/technology/14CND-PIRACY.html that the Recording Industry Association of America, along with two computer and technology industry trade groups, has agreed not to seek new government regulations to mandate technological controls

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread John Gilmore
How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for the system

RE: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread Trei, Peter
John Gilmore[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Nomen writes: How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

2003-01-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
I have a news analysis up at News.com that, perhaps, may shed some light on what's actually going on: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980671.html -Declan On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:25:01AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: The New York Times is reporting at

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:44 PM 1/16/03 +0100, Anonymous wrote: Does anyone know a source for a spam list for US military? Use google. Search for @*.mil Also large bureaucracies use standard forms like First.Surname@blah or FSurname@blah Be subtle. Ask them to disable their weapons and defect. Tell them you

Fear and Loathing in Afghanistan

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
We were somewhere around Kandahar, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like I feel a bit light headed, maybe you should fly And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like antiaircraft fire, all

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Anonymous
Major Variola said: Be subtle. Ask them to disable their weapons and defect. Tell them you don't hate americans, just the regime. Subtle? I was thinking more of billboards and posters around every military base -- So long, GI We'll have lots of fun with your wives and girlfriends

Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:20 PM 1/15/03 -0800, Petro wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:15:57AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: On the other hand, if the US were following the traditional model for defense rather than having a standing army stomping around the world, it's highly unlikely that somebody like Al Qaeda

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:18 AM 1/16/03 +, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: And all westerns have some level of aquired imunity, for we are the Surely you mean inherited, not acquired. descendents of the plague survivors. See _Guns Germs and Steel_ Note however, without occasional plagues, a population

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread André Isidoro Fernandes Esteves
On Thursday, 16 de January de 2003 02:20, Tyler Durden wrote: Actually, this may turn out to be more an academic issue than anything. If someone wanted bubonic or pnuemonic samples, all he'd have to do is just grab someone from the western hospitals that contract it each year. Contrary to

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 14 Jan 2003 at 21:48, Tyler Durden wrote: My thought was that James is some kind of Fed. I suspect Chomsky is one guy they most don't want around these days. His accusations on the Chomsky dis website were technicalities and hair-splitting, even somantic. Liar: Chomsky claimed

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, this may turn out to be more an academic issue than anything. If someone wanted bubonic or pnuemonic samples, all he'd have to do is just grab someone from the western hospitals that contract it each year. Contrary to popular belief, it still exists, but we have effective treatments

Israeli Death Squads to Operate in US

2003-01-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Here's an interesting news story which quotes a bunch of sources as claiming that Israel plans to commit targeted killings in the United States and other friendly countries, and quotes some other sources as saying the story is rubbish. There is some historical precedent here. On July 21st, 1973,

Pete Townshend and Pee-Wee

2003-01-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Remember that age verification service which got busted a few years back when the feds managed to convince a jury that the owners were the madams of a child porn bordello, based on two overseas sites which featured illegal material?

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: There is a new oil pipe line being completed through turkey-caspian sea.once thats over the war should start. Russia will never give US its support-the russians are looking big to invest in iraqi oil once the u.n sanctions are lifted.Most of asia also

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Iraqi high ranking officers had the oppurtunity to defect in the 1991 war too. By the way how many of these officers who go for battle ever check e-mail. --- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: radio broadcasts and leaflets dropped from airplanes instead. .

RE: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Trei, Peter
André Isidoro Fernandes Esteves[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Thursday, 16 de January de 2003 02:20, Tyler Durden wrote: [...] Contrary to popular belief, it still exists, but we have effective treatments against it. [...] -TD And all westerns have some level of

Re: An Alternative Police Force (was Re: RFE/RL Crime and Corruption Watch Vol. 3, No. 2, 16 January 2003)

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:46 PM 1/16/2003 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 4:10 PM + on 1/16/03, RFE/RL List Manager wrote: AN ALTERNATIVE POLICE FORCE By Roman Kupchinsky A good related paper can be found at http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/jointsessions/grenoble/papers/w8/armao.pdf entitled, A STANDARD

An Alternative Police Force (was Re: RFE/RL Crime and Corruption Watch Vol. 3, No. 2, 16 January 2003)

2003-01-16 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 4:10 PM + on 1/16/03, RFE/RL List Manager wrote: AN ALTERNATIVE POLICE FORCE By Roman Kupchinsky Police formations in the states of the former Soviet Union are a formidable force in those societies. In Russia, there is the Interior Ministry (MVD) with its subunit, the State