Re: Lying With Pixels
At 11:34 PM 8/20/00 -0400, Jiggs McManus wrote: Television is about to become a much higher grade narcotic. http://www.techreview.com/articles/july00/amato.htm ""The ability to manipulate video data in real time, he says, ""has just as much potential as some of these forerunners. ""Now that you can alter video in real time, you have changed the world, ""he says. That may sound inflated, but after looking at the Katarina Witt demo, ""Winarskys talk of "changing the world" loses some of its air of hyperbole. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. Quite a change from the Desert Scam news coverage, where the video clips of the cruise missile hitting the precise target were alleged to have been made in advance :-) Bill Stewart, reporting from Oceania.
Re: Breaking eggs
Yes. That would be what I believe. Let's turn the question around- is it morally correct to throw someone in jail for a year or more for an action which has not caused the slightest injury to anyone based on the argument that the action MIGHT cause injury to someone? If that action was randomly shooting a gun into a crowd of people and by some act of God didn't actually cause the bullet to strike any person or property causing damage. I say yea, lock them away and a year wouldn't be long enough. Some actions while not actually causing injury shouldn't be tolerated. -- Matt ElliottHigh Performance Data Management Team 217-265-0257mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CompUSA repair works with FBI
excerpt: He said Nevitt turned in his old PC to a CompUSA repair shop in July, but they could not fix the computer and replaced it with a newer one. Under the terms of the swap, Mann said, CompUSA took legal possession of the old computer and then consented to a search by federal forensics technicians, who found the pictures on the hard drive. http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/08/17/childporn0817_01.html
Re: Breaking eggs
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Matt Elliott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that action was randomly shooting a gun into a crowd of people and by some act of God didn't actually cause the bullet to strike any person or property causing damage. I say yea, lock them away and a year wouldn't be long enough. Some actions while not actually causing injury shouldn't be tolerated. That's the reason that tentative is punished (almost) as if it succeeded. Mark
Re: Firm Tracks Access of Medical Info
"Tim" == Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim If visitors to Intenet sites wish to be untraceable, they can Tim of course use Web proxies, Freedom, Hotmail/MyDeja-types of Tim cutout accounts, and so forth. The problem is that it isn't quite that simple anymore. Some of these tracking systems are combining different pieces of technology against users, such that it will defeat various proxies, sometimes even Freedom. Coremetrics, for example, uses obfuscated JavaScript code to swipe personal information out of forms that the user presumably fills out for the purpose of telling the vendor where to ship stuff. The data are stuffed into the query string of a fetch for a web bug that takes place -- which has a persistent cookie, of course. Freedom will be defeated in the case of a site that's using SSL, since the web bug request will also be an SSL request in that case. Details are at http://www.interhack.net/pubs/intimately/. Of course, there are still things that can be done, including blocking traffic to data.coremetrics.com and disabling JavaScript that will work, but the whole issue here is an arms race. This is basically as it's always been, but without disclosure of what's happening in these systems, the level of technical prowess needed to monitor the monitors and to eliminate their cruft is getting higher. The trick that we have now is defeating these tracking systems and making our solutions available. [Upon reflection, it seems that this means that things are pretty much as they have always been...] -- Matt Curtin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
