Re: Now how they do that ?

2003-11-29 Thread Eric Tully
Apparently the Yahoo (Reuters) story got it wrong. According to two other articles I read, he logged into the AOL account that was configured on the machine that he stole, not his *own* account. No phone home software, no MAC addresses, and no serial numbers in the CPU were used to find the

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin And if they are all armed ? They all starve. Lambs can eat grass, which is usually unarmed.

US spying, directv, shades of global crossing

2003-11-29 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
The parent company of DirecTV, the home satellite service, has promised several federal agencies that it can address concerns about foreign ownership of sensitive U.S. communications systems if it wins approval of its proposed merger with Australian-controlled News Corp. .. But the merger also

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-29 Thread Bill Stewart
Optical Mark Sense - certainly the way to go if you want to computerize, except that the manufacturers aren't big Bush Republican donors. I'm used to mechanical lever machines in Delaware and New Jersey (which seem to mostly work well except for write-in votes), plus the punch-card things in

Re: Now how they do that ?

2003-11-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:12 AM 11/28/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol address, a number that

Re: Now how they do that ?

2003-11-29 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:12 AM 11/28/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White said. That enabled authorities to connect 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