Re: Making the Agora Vanish
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:13:53PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: > You don't suppose they are arranging a little "accident" in prison > for JeffG's peace of mind, do you? It will be interesting to > watch. > Actually one of Bell's chief accusations against the government during trial was that they arranged a similar "accident" against him -- an assault by another prisoner, Ryan Lund. See his filings for more details. -Declan
RE: Making the Agora Vanish
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Greg Broiles wrote: >Consider Jim Bell in light of your objections above - do you consider him >"controlled"? If so, then the control you speak of is hardly sufficient to >prevent forbidden activity. If not, then what makes you think that other, >more clueful people can be controlled? Jim Bell? Controlled? HA! Jim is going to live out his prison term, and then he's going to get out. I would just hate to be Jeff Gordon when that happens. Of course, Jeff was a witness in this case as well as being the plaintiff and chief investigator. So he may come full circle and go into the Witness Protection Program. New name, new place, new job, new face. But making someone like Bell as angry as he's got to be at Jeff Gordon right now - and leaving him alive - is totally nuts. You don't suppose they are arranging a little "accident" in prison for JeffG's peace of mind, do you? It will be interesting to watch. Bear
RE: No*Trace Computer Security Software
> "formerly available only to high level government agencies" > which is code for either "marketing dept. says it would sound cool" or "it no longer offers acceptable levels of security so it's free for public consumption (remember skipjack?)" or "we don't need it now that we've upgraded our computers from the old IBM PC-XTs to the newer and more powerful 286" phillip
RIAA Warns SDMI Hackers
RIAA and The SDMI Foundation on April 9 warned Ed Felten and his researchers not to publish their paper about the weaknesses of the SDMI content protection system at the 4th International Information Hiding Workshop to be held April 25-29, 2001. Their paper is public: http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm (41K text with 11 images) Zipped text and images: http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.zip (328K)
Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk
At 4:08 PM -0400 4/20/01, Faustine wrote: >Quoting "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> -- >> At 08:28 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: >> >True, but my point was that the 'Samuelson technical stuff' has its >> place. >> >> All that technical stuff is in the Friedman's books, > >I still think the quickest way to get a firm technical grasp of >micro and macro >economics is to sit down and work through problems for yourself with textbooks >like Samuelson's and Krugman's, respectively. Perhaps so...IF one wants to be a university-trained economist, suitably-trained for work at Bank of America, U.S. Steel, Yale University, etc. Likewise, IF one wants to be a university-trained physicist, reading Jackson's electrodynamics book is advised, as well as Weinberg's field theory book, and so on. Likewise On the other hand, the idea of a _reading list_ is not to recommend textbooks which are for two semester courses, typically. Rather, it's to give newcomers the basic tools to understand the gist of the discussions. Sorry you think people interested in Cypherpunk issues should sit down and spend several months "working through the problems" in Samuelson. You need some grounding in common sense. Inasmuch as you have not been posting interesting articles to Cypherpunks, I have to conclude you are Yet Another Grad Student who has discovered the list and who is now recommending that "serious scholars" study as you claim to have studied. Feh. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
Re: summit of the americas - the fun begins (fwd)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: I very much enjoyed hearing your report! May be able to get a busload up there up there to Montreal... mabye tomorrow... can go partying and get a little rioting in. Never really liked Montreal itself though... kinda dirty... disproportionate amounts of whores and strip bars and stuff... and angry francophone police... haha! :) > i agree - proud to be a canadian today - even though i don't know where it > is anymore. but seriously - the fun has yet to begin. tommorrow is the Mmm!!! Hard to define Canadianism these days... there sure is a lot to like... but at the same time... there is... a pervasive attitude of "the government knows best" and all that... things happen... which shouldn't... in a truly free society... people don't seem all that motivated... when it comes to protecting personal liberties etc... as our American friends... Examples : * The "dangerous offender" concept, where people are locked away indefinitely... often for non-violent acts! * The prohibition of things like mace, nunchaku and stun guns - basically any weapon-like thing... I'm sort of a... part-time gun nut... I find this pretty disturbing that we're about to be a nation of disarmed citizens... since most shootings are done by police with their array of sophisticated weaponry and surveillance technologies... * The lack of a right to freedom of expression. I was once banned by an Ontario court from speaking about IT security issues with anyone outside the government! "... without benefit of due process ..." - just like that Not right, I feel. Ha! Judge Dobbs, wherever you are... :P And let's here it for CSIS, Michael Eschli, Cindy Hopper and the whole gang of retired overweight FBI agents who defend our nation against hippies and students bent on having a good time! Let's hope they enjoy themselves... their $28,000 Canadian annual salaries don't allow for too many vacations... HAHAH! But as nations go... it's nice isn't it... usually peaceful... I like Canada... I'm glad to be here... but it shouldn't stop us from endeavoring to change the world just because we are lucky enough to enjoy a little freedom... we should party all the more... and rejoice that we won't be... immediately executed... I certainly don't go for the idea that Canadians are well, particularly responsible for the freedoms we enjoy... we just seem to be... lucky!?! We've never had to really defend what we have... have we? That is to say... I don't think we're a relatively free place to live because of anything we've done... just... luck? > big rally - and there are several busloads of college and university > students on the way. the place is a zoo - and tonight as the beer starts > rolling the crowds will start trowling. HAHAHA!!! OH YA! Gotta chug down the good ol' Canadian Beer "I AM CANADIAN" -- Molsen's beer ad I gotta get up there And the gorgeous weather is just bound to be a contributory factor, HAHA! :) > canada is the land of some of the worlds finest party animals, and god > bless them for that. i just hope it does not get too messy. our prime Hey that's right eh? > minister must be fuming. i would not be surprised if cretien pops a cork > tonight and we have a full scale war tommorrow. then there is the HAHAHAH! "Dis riod is band, all you people go home, ore ay vill call oud da militia!" (Well at least there's the Alliance now... someone to vote for... besides the Marijuanah Party...) > potential for bombs. quebec is full of weapons - and the biker gangs are > pissed off with the feds, would not be surprised if they atten the show. OH ya!!! I don't want to think about those... the biker stuff... seems incidental to me. Seems to me the reason they've been doing well lately is because of the weak government. I know a bunch of places in town... where illegal activities occur every day... you know, the usual stuff... but... not the fun stuff... the dirty nasty stuff... anyway - have buddies who have worked in & around these places... apparently local officials & corporations are paid off... to look the other way... I can't think of examples of biker violence against government agencies...? Not very well informed about it but... it seems to be... you know... business as usual... If there are bombs I just hope it's done right... like... we don't want innocents injured or anything... Some free dope would be a good sign from the biker dudes... that'd be nice... give away a couple hundred thousand sheets of those white clinical LSD blotters they make up there... pass 'em around... Personally I would rather see stuff like... oh, some colored smoke bombs... flash-bangs... stink bombs... calcium carbide etc... you know, the fun stuff... that won't hurt anyone... and hopefully some action on the electronic front too... transmitters broadcasting freedom propoganda on police frequencies & commercial st
Re: summit of the americas - the fun begins (fwd)
Quoting Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: > > > I've been enjoying the summit of the americas summit. So far I've > seen - > > people in gas masks (most canadians own gas masks - as i told my > friend > > steve when he asked why - you never know), a guy in a bunny outfit, > and > > two guys dressed as nuns. I'm glad I mooked this event in my > > PDA. Wonderful show - now the police are firing rubber bullets - and > tear > > gas. > > HAHA! > > EXCELLENT (snip) What we should be working toward is encouraging more libertarians to be in a position to participate IN the meetings--and I don't mean just that in the sense of all that whiny 'place at the table' pie-in-the-sky horseshit, but actual real-live policy analysts people are willing to listen to and take seriously. Who stands a better chance of having real power and influence: someone throwing rocks on the outside or or someone drafting reports on the inside? Something to think about. 'Raising public awareness' with costumes and stunts is one thing, affecting national policy decisions is quite another. There's the kind of debate and rhetoric that's useful on TV, and there's the kind of analysis that makes a discernable impact. I'm not saying the former doesn't have its place--but for a cause to rely on it to the exclusion of more serious methods creates a nasty PR problem. For instance, I can assure you that no one at the IMF or the World Bank ever gave a crap about anything anyone ever said while wearing a turtle suit. Appealing to emotion is most effective on the stupid: if we're mainly interested in whipping up a lot of support from stupid people I guess that's the best way to go. But being included in the debate in a meaningful way is going to take a lot more than that. ~Faustine. 'We live in a century in which obscurity protects better than the law--and reassures more than innocence can.' Antoine Rivarol (1753-1801).
RICO gets exported
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=579307 The untouchables 2001-04-20 03:29:12 The untouchables Apr 19th 2001 From The Economist print edition The profits from organised crime are soaring, and its bosses are invulnerable. That is why so many top policemen want new laws, of the sort America used against its mafia FOUR months ago, Tony Blair summoned the heads of Britain's intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to a meeting at Downing Street. The purpose of the unprecedented summit was to discuss the alarming growth in organised crime. All that resulted from the meeting, at least in public, was a bland statement that the government was determined to crack down on organised crime. But the threat is regarded as so serious that ministers are wondering whether to introduce a law like America's Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organisations Act (RICO). Aimed at those who engage in "a pattern of racketeering activity", RICO helped smash the New York mafia families in the 1980s. Bosses received long sentences for offences ranging from extortion to murder, after a surveillance operation involving 171 court-authorised wire-tapping and bugging operations monitored by hundreds of FBI agents. In its evidence to Lord Justice Auld, who is examining the case for criminal-law reform, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is arguing that Britain should have something
Re: summit of the americas - the fun begins (fwd)
i agree - proud to be a canadian today - even though i don't know where it is anymore. but seriously - the fun has yet to begin. tommorrow is the big rally - and there are several busloads of college and university students on the way. the place is a zoo - and tonight as the beer starts rolling the crowds will start trowling. canada is the land of some of the worlds finest party animals, and god bless them for that. i just hope it does not get too messy. our prime minister must be fuming. i would not be surprised if cretien pops a cork tonight and we have a full scale war tommorrow. then there is the potential for bombs. quebec is full of weapons - and the biker gangs are pissed off with the feds, would not be surprised if they atten the show. estimate are that the police expect some 30 - 40 thousand people. it's study week in canada fur students - so go figure. regards joe p.s. proceedings for the summit are now delayed 1 hour - building for meeting has been sealed - air conditioning units have been turned off to avoid tear gas getting into the building. On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Zak wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: > > > I've been enjoying the summit of the americas summit. So far I've seen - > > people in gas masks (most canadians own gas masks - as i told my friend > > steve when he asked why - you never know), a guy in a bunny outfit, and > > two guys dressed as nuns. I'm glad I mooked this event in my > > PDA. Wonderful show - now the police are firing rubber bullets - and tear > > gas. > > HAHA! > > EXCELLENT > > We've had our gask masks seized on numerous occasions! Some of them have > been to the RCMP evidence unit three times! HAHAHA! > > Yep they seize 'em and say, "we're testing them for traces of narcotics". > BOZOS!!! You believe it? They've even threatened to arrest us for > possession of body armor, gas masks etc. Is taking all the [primitive > powder charge] firearms away not enough? > > They get away with all kinds of atrocious violations of personal liberties > in Canada. Pleasant country for the most part, friendly citizens, but > overdue for revolution!!! > > > The protesters are having a bit of fun with the tear gas. the best way to > > describe what going on is tear gas foot ball. the police lobby tanks of > > tear gas at the growds and the crowd throw it back into the police > > lines. And this has only started. Just wait till tonight - the montreal > > crowd has not yet arrived. three more days of this. the canadian police > > are going to be nervous wrecks. > > YA JUST LIKE SEATTLE! JUST LIKE DAVOS > > TWO DOLLAR CANADIAN PIGS!!! THEY CAN'T STOP US ALL > > WAIT 'TILL THE MAGNETRON COILS FIRE > WAIT 'TILL THE ANTI-SAT EMP SYSTEMS JUICE UP IN OUR BACK-YARDS!!! > WAIT 'TILL THE CPIC CENTER IS SEIZED BY MOBILE NETWORK ENTITIES?!?! > > WP!!! > > DOWN WITH DA QW33N!!! > > [AMUSEMENT PURPOSES ONLY] > > Zak Power > executive consultant / ZENCOR Technologies International > SAVE # 674520faefcda17618badce99031d44343d2ddec > TIP # ZAK > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.zencor-international.com/~zak > 599-B Yonge Street #280, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y-1Z4 > (416)-820-3304 extension 220 > > > ZENCOR TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL > http://www.zencor-international.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine > > iD8DBQE64KxIM5wijxP3eRIRAmaNAJ4mRevf0Y6p9NZHXEq/RMVKg9G4HgCgzOY2 > q16XqITMuEKUcT3J/GH/vF4= > =ML3B > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- Joe Baptista The dot.GOD Registry, Limited The Executive Plaza, Suite 908 150 West 51st Street Tel: 1 (208) 330-4173 Manhattan Island NYC 10019 USA Fax: 1 (208) 293-9773
Re: summit of the americas - the fun begins (fwd)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: > I've been enjoying the summit of the americas summit. So far I've seen - > people in gas masks (most canadians own gas masks - as i told my friend > steve when he asked why - you never know), a guy in a bunny outfit, and > two guys dressed as nuns. I'm glad I mooked this event in my > PDA. Wonderful show - now the police are firing rubber bullets - and tear > gas. HAHA! EXCELLENT We've had our gask masks seized on numerous occasions! Some of them have been to the RCMP evidence unit three times! HAHAHA! Yep they seize 'em and say, "we're testing them for traces of narcotics". BOZOS!!! You believe it? They've even threatened to arrest us for possession of body armor, gas masks etc. Is taking all the [primitive powder charge] firearms away not enough? They get away with all kinds of atrocious violations of personal liberties in Canada. Pleasant country for the most part, friendly citizens, but overdue for revolution!!! > The protesters are having a bit of fun with the tear gas. the best way to > describe what going on is tear gas foot ball. the police lobby tanks of > tear gas at the growds and the crowd throw it back into the police > lines. And this has only started. Just wait till tonight - the montreal > crowd has not yet arrived. three more days of this. the canadian police > are going to be nervous wrecks. YA JUST LIKE SEATTLE! JUST LIKE DAVOS TWO DOLLAR CANADIAN PIGS!!! THEY CAN'T STOP US ALL WAIT 'TILL THE MAGNETRON COILS FIRE WAIT 'TILL THE ANTI-SAT EMP SYSTEMS JUICE UP IN OUR BACK-YARDS!!! WAIT 'TILL THE CPIC CENTER IS SEIZED BY MOBILE NETWORK ENTITIES?!?! WP!!! DOWN WITH DA QW33N!!! [AMUSEMENT PURPOSES ONLY] Zak Power executive consultant / ZENCOR Technologies International SAVE # 674520faefcda17618badce99031d44343d2ddec TIP # ZAK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zencor-international.com/~zak 599-B Yonge Street #280, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y-1Z4 (416)-820-3304 extension 220 ZENCOR TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL http://www.zencor-international.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine iD8DBQE64KxIM5wijxP3eRIRAmaNAJ4mRevf0Y6p9NZHXEq/RMVKg9G4HgCgzOY2 q16XqITMuEKUcT3J/GH/vF4= =ML3B -END PGP SIGNATURE-
summit of the americas - the fun begins (fwd)
in case anyone is interested - on CNN -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:26:51 -0400 (EDT) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: STEVE MARMOTT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: summit of the americas - the fun begins I've been enjoying the summit of the americas summit. So far I've seen - people in gas masks (most canadians own gas masks - as i told my friend steve when he asked why - you never know), a guy in a bunny outfit, and two guys dressed as nuns. I'm glad I mooked this event in my PDA. Wonderful show - now the police are firing rubber bullets - and tear gas. The protesters are having a bit of fun with the tear gas. the best way to describe what going on is tear gas foot ball. the police lobby tanks of tear gas at the growds and the crowd throw it back into the police lines. And this has only started. Just wait till tonight - the montreal crowd has not yet arrived. three more days of this. the canadian police are going to be nervous wrecks. regards joe -- Joe Baptista The dot.GOD Registry, Limited The Executive Plaza, Suite 908 150 West 51st Street Tel: 1 (208) 330-4173 Manhattan Island NYC 10019 USA Fax: 1 (208) 293-9773
Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk
Quoting "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -- > At 08:28 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: > >True, but my point was that the 'Samuelson technical stuff' has its > place. > > All that technical stuff is in the Friedman's books, I still think the quickest way to get a firm technical grasp of micro and macro economics is to sit down and work through problems for yourself with textbooks like Samuelson's and Krugman's, respectively. Personally, I started with Rand at 15 and worked my way through a lot of the whole damn Laissez Faire book catalog before I ever got around to the purely analytic stuff. I really do think it would have been easier for me to get the technical basics by working through problems for myself first. My basic error was that I was so swept up in the social and political ramifications of these works, my own personal analytic rigor took something of a back seat. And, being so convinced of the fundamental 'rightness' of my free market heroes, I could hardly even see it. If you don't have the ability to analyze and critique any work 'from it's underbelly', so to speak, you're basically stuck taking someone else's word about their conclusions-- and in no position to debate issues with people who made hardcore analysis part of their intellectual toolkit. And frankly, that's a shitty place I don't want to be. When it comes down to a question of partisans and ideologues versus analysts and scientists, I think we all know where to put our money. So if the people we look up to take this approach, why shouldn't we? > and where there was a > conflict between sound economics, and the politically correct fashions > of the day, Samuelson tended to cringe before whatever was PC fashion, > until the fashion changed and he could get away with more accurate and > realistic economics. I'm not out to say what a great guy he is, only that his technical introductory 'econ 101' textbook was helpful to me. Though now that I think about it, his 1958 volume on linear programming might be of interest to anyone interested in the turnpike conjecture of linear von Neumann systems. > Most infamously, when many observers noticed that the Soviet Union was > imminent danger of collapse, he assured us the Soviet economy was > working just fine. Join the club on that one, heh. Though I do know of one senior analyst who said that CIA's economic over-estimates were actually a good thing in the long run, in that it led to the Reagan defense build-up, which in turn put us in a stronger negotiating position, which forced them into Glasnost, and thereby for a quicker demise for the whole system than if we'd got our economics straight in the first place. Have to find the spin wherever you can, I guess! ~Faustine. p.s. if any of you haven't already seen the Laissez Faire book catalogue, it's http://www.laissezfairebooks.com/. Get Tim's books there, heh. 'We live in a century in which obscurity protects better than the law--and reassures more than innocence can.' Antoine Rivarol (1753-1801).
RE: Making the Agora Vanish
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, James A. Donald wrote: >A number of countries, notably the Soviet Union, have outlawed crypto >without much apparent effect. In Russia that could be because now they cannot even collect taxes effectively. If we consider the former Soviet Union, the foremost point about steering of resources in a centralized society applies: the goals perceived as primary tend to receive more than their fair share of attention, while the "secondary" ones wither and die. When there still was a Soviet economy, crypto was a non-issue, and hardly received notable attention outside the intelligence community. And now that the SU has collapsed, the number of *real* problems far outweighs Crypto and the Gang. Besides, to date crypto simply hasn't been so significant a threat. Once it's touted as the number one threat to the organized society (i.e. the only reason there is drug trade, kiddy porn, terrorism, AP, whatever), this is bound to change. Plus, it was only a couple of years ago when online communication became relevant to the majority of Western people, and computational capacity reached a level to allow comprehensive Big Brother monitoring of transport data. Even if the last five years have been sort of slow on the list, it doesn't mean the world hasn't changed. What I'm really saying is, if one is an advocate of anonymity, one now has to plan for a climate where protocols cannot be widely published, all secure communications have to be deniable as well, crypto advocacy is no longer perceived as an eccentricity, but a threat comparable to terrorism, and all public communication can be monitored and at the very least partially analyzed. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
Yale Censors Student Paper Over Bush Daughter Flap
*** http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/20/1711257 Yale Censors Student Paper Over Bush Flap by cicero on Friday April 20, @12:06PM If you didn't know any better, you might think that Yale University cared about free expression for its students and campus newspapers. Just look at its breathtakingly sincere official policy on how important free speech is to the health and diversity of the campus community: http://www.yale.edu/ycpo/undregs/pages/II.html ...a free interchange of ideas is necessary... the university must do everything possible to ensure within it the fullest degree of intellectual freedom... we commit ourselves to the idea that the results of free expression are to the general benefit in the long run, however unpleasant they may appear at the time... Because few other institutions in our society have the same central function, few assign such high priority to freedom of expression... What a sham! As soon as a student newspaper published something that controversial about one of President Bush's daughters, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg called the editors into her office and gave them a severe dressing-down about how some kinds of speech is less worthy than others. The article in question had appeared in Rumpus, and quoted friends of Yale student Barbara Bush saying that the Secret Service wasn't doing a particularly splendid job of protecting the president's daughter. "On April 12, nearly a week after the issue had appeared in dining halls and newsstands around campus, Trachtenberg called Rumpus Editor in Chief Jared Leboff '03, Managing Editor Matt Johnson '03 and the article's author, Nathaniel Pincus-Roth '04, into her office. Following that meeting, Rumpus removed the current issue from the tabloid's Web site," the Yale Daily News reported on Friday. The Rumpus website, www.yale.edu/rumpus, now says: "Issue is Currently Unavailable." We know that Secret Service agents have an unfortunate habit of intimidating everyone from 58-year old women upset over anti-gay politicos to people who photograph agents picking their noses to gaming companies, so it's not a stretch to say they didn't like how they were portrayed in the Rumpus piece and complained to Trachtenberg. The truth, though, is that censoring the article from the paper's website won't accomplish much. It had been published a week prior, so anyone on campus who wanted to read it probably did. A better -- and far more distressing -- explanation is that Trachtenberg and Yale wanted to curry favor with the newly-inaugurated president and his administration. No word yet on when Yale will rewrite its "free speech" policy to bring it into line with reality. (PS: Yale has a habit of blocking non-university visitors from reading its policies, so its free speech policy will be mirrored here: http://www.cluebot.com/docs/yale.speech.042001.html) *** http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=15559 Published Friday, April 20, 2001 Rumpus scolded for Bush story Yale tells tabloid to yank Secret Service story from its Web site BY CHARLOTTE DEWAR YDN Staff Reporter Rumpus is no stranger to controversy, but a recent article the campus tabloid ran on the first daughter is giving it national exposure and trouble with the Yale administration. A story that ran in Rumpus' April edition about alleged mishaps in the Secret Service's protection of Barbara Bush '04, the daughter of President George W. Bush '68, landed the tabloid's editors in hot water with Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg, who charged Rumpus staffers with exploiting Bush's presence on campus. At least two national publications, The Washington Post and tabloid The Star, have also taken an interest in Rumpus' report on Barbara Bush's security detail. The cover of Rumpus' April edition screamed "O Daughter, Where Art Thou," and included a story on Barbara Bush's Secret Service attache at Yale. On April 12, nearly a week after the issue had appeared in dining halls and newsstands around campus, Trachtenberg called Rumpus Editor in Chief Jared Leboff '03, Managing Editor Matt Johnson '03 and the article's author, Nathaniel Pincus-Roth '04, into her office. Following that meeting, Rumpus removed the current issue from the tabloid's Web site. [...] The original Rumpus story claimed that on at least two occasions, the Secret Service officers assigned to Bush have inadvertently lost contact with her. Sometime last month, Rumpus reported, Bush and friends were driving to New York City when the agents following them got stuck at a toll booth for lack of the "E-ZPass," which electronically deducts tolls as cars drive through. [...] Trachtenberg was critical of the story's accuracy and appropriateness, and
Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk
-- At 08:28 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: >True, but my point was that the 'Samuelson technical stuff' has its place. All that technical stuff is in the Friedman's books, and where there was a conflict between sound economics, and the politically correct fashions of the day, Samuelson tended to cringe before whatever was PC fashion, until the fashion changed and he could get away with more accurate and realistic economics. Most infamously, when many observers noticed that the Soviet Union was imminent danger of collapse, he assured us the Soviet economy was working just fine. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG bnTvwrk29oVjTzwk9ruUBvz/i2xr2EwvmLo5zhBP 4QBahbyjUAVp/xz3m33YPWIgNKGjLP/I9sS4kxOTg - We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald
RE: Making the Agora Vanish
-- At 10:16 AM 4/17/2001 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > Agreed, to a degree. But it isn't very difficult to outlaw crypto, and to > effectively control its use for online anonymity A number of countries, notably the Soviet Union, have outlawed crypto without much apparent effect. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2N0WOfom61NwBEFtGEKg6GSk8eVEn5xFHZ6PdEgQ 49+xxoHmcmoLqXn0BECQQUU7NqlfL27gzWqh9sLQ9 - We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald
