Re: "F*ck the South"

[Steve Schear]

At 12:40 PM 11/22/2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
A hilarious rant. You can hear this
guy's anger ain't just for show, too-->
www.fuckthesouth.com
-TD
Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to
leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part
of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those
are states we want to keep.
And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal
Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The
Authentic America. Really?
Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers
you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think
they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your
assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to
read the first half of the fucking sentence? 
The Mother Jones article link to by this article spouts the same
gun-control BS that the liberal press repeats ad nauseam day in and day
out.  "Regarding the second broad question of individual versus
state-militia rights, the Court held in its 1939 United States v.
Miller decision that individuals have in effect no right to
keep and bear arms under the amendment, but only a collective right
having "some reasonable relationship to the preservation or
efficiency of a well-regulated militia." Lower courts have
consistently applied the Miller decision in upholding various
gun-control laws over the years. "
Not quite.
Recent History
The story begins with the National Firearms Act of 1934, which was the
first federal law regulating firearms. Prior to that time, it was
generally believed that the Constitution did not grant the federal
government this power. The Firearms Act levied a prohibitive $200 dollar
tax on machine guns and sawed off shotguns. Government officials claimed
that these were the weapons of choice for the criminal gangs that evolved
during prohibition.
This law was enacted during a period when a determined effort was being
made to expand federal police power at the expense of the states. A
crafty legislative tactic of that time was to construct new federal
criminal laws as commerce measures, which could be justified as revenue
producers in the event they were challenged by supporters of state's
rights. Some have speculated that the 1934 Firearms Act was passed to
provide job security for federal agents who were threatened with
unemployment by the repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1933.
Like most criminal cases, U.S. v. Miller involved some unsavory
characters. Jack Miller, a bank robber and moonshiner with many enemies,
felt the need to carry a sawed off shotgun without paying the tax. He and
his associate, Frank Layton, had the misfortune to be caught transporting
it from Oklahoma to Arkansas and were arrested in June of 1938 by federal
agents on charges of violating the Firearms Act.
They were brought before United States District Court Judge Heartsill
Ragon in Fort Smith, Arkansas who encouraged them to plead not guilty and
appointed an attorney to represent them. He then found in their favor,
declaring that the relevant section of the Firearms Act was in violation
of the Second Amendment and therefore unconstitutional.
Federal law enforcement authorities were not pleased. Judge Ragon's
decision threatened the expansion of federal power, so the case was
quickly appealed to the Supreme Court. Jack could not afford legal
representation and died of gunshot wounds before the hearing date. His
co-defendant Frank Layton apparently decided he wasn't interested in
defending his or our rights under the 2nd and took four years
probation.
That a Supreme Court case could be decided without the court hearing both
sides of the argument seems bizarre. Yet this was the perfect opportunity
for advocates of greater federal power to advance their agenda. With no
opposition, they could not lose. Despite the lack of defendant
representation the opinion, written by Justice James Clark McReynolds,
was notable in that it did not completely cave in to the government
demands. The resulting decision issued in May of 1939 stated that
"in the absence of any evidence" the Supreme Court could not
say that a sawed off shotgun had any relationship to the
militia.
The critical point here is the absence of evidence. Of course that was
literally correct, since Miller's side never showed up in court. If there
had been a N. R. A. Miller might very well have gone differently. After
stating the court's opinion, McReynolds included passages from various
historical sources to show that the militia consists of all able-bodied
men who have a right, perhaps even a duty, to own firearms suitable for
military service. There was little reason to include these references
unless McReynolds wished to protect the Amendment from further
encroachment.
The case was returned to the lower court where Miller, if living, could
have made further arguments on his own behalf. He co

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>Must have passed some kinda big supplemental.

Cheers,
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By Al Kamen

 Wednesday, November 24, 2004; Page A19

Some Secret: Open House, Open Bar



Remember a while back when it came out that intelligence agencies such as
the National Security Agency -- the supersecret spy crowd -- did not have
the resources to keep up with the flood of intercepts to be able to
translate terrorists' chatter on a timely basis?

This naturally caused a big fuss, and Congress pledged big bucks to get the
spooks up to speed. Seems to have worked out fine, judging from an invite
we got to attend an open house Dec. 7 at the National Cryptologic Museum
behind the Shell station at Fort Meade.

Lots of fine finger food to be had, including a "brie encrote with brown
sugar and pecans," some "Swiss cheese and chablis stuffed mushroom caps," a
bit of roast turkey with cranberry mayo and "mini pumpkin cheesecakes."

Our very fine invite with the NSA gold-embossed seal notes "Open bar."

Must have passed some kinda big supplemental.

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Notes Spotted by Soldier Lead G.I.'s to Rebel Cache

[R.A. Hettinga]

The New York Times

November 29, 2004
MOSUL

Notes Spotted by Soldier Lead G.I.'s to Rebel Cache
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

OSUL, Iraq, Nov. 28 - At first the suspect was merely one of 115 Iraqis
whom American troops corralled for questioning on Saturday night in a
particularly nasty part of Mosul. But his belligerence stood out. And then
he made his move.

 Sitting where the troops had ordered him to sit - in front of an open-air
cigarette store - the suspect flicked out of his pocket several folded
sheets of handwritten notes. It was clear he hoped the pages would land
unnoticed amid the clutter of the store just a step away.

 They did not. A soldier scooped them up and handed them to an Iraqi
interpreter working for the Americans. "Who has this? He is an insurgent!"
shouted the interpreter, known only to the soldiers as Jeff the Fighting
Kurd.

 Jeff and another interpreter quickly translated the pages for the American
officers who gathered around.

 One passage mentioned a proposal for a large-scale attack against American
troops, according to the interpreters. Another urged attacks on the
families of Iraqis thought to be working for the Americans. Another
described "how to get money and use the money for jihad," an interpreter
said. And still another underscored the importance of "bringing information
about who is working for the U.S. forces."

 An American commander told embedded journalists not to report other
passages - more specific, descriptive and pointed - for fear of
jeopardizing efforts to gather intelligence and prevent attacks on American
forces.

 Suddenly, the night's operation was not over. Soldiers found keys on the
suspect and took him the short distance to his two-story home in Old Mosul,
a densely populated warren of rundown homes in central Mosul thought to be
a haven for hard-core insurgents in this northern city of two million.

 They walked inside, through a 15-foot-square courtyard, past two women, an
elderly man, a child and a young boy, to another room packed with papers.
They moved upstairs, past a flower bed, and found two rooms that contained
all sorts of electronic equipment, the troops said.

 "There was a large stash of bomb-making material, switches, wires, just a
trove of stuff," said the American commander, Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, whose
battalion controls much of western Mosul. "Papers on how to launder money
and others that talked about the ineffectiveness of some of their weapons
systems against us and how they need to change." A 55-gallon drum of
bomb-making material and 2.5 million Iraqi dinars - about $1,700 - was also
found, he said.

 The papers retrieved from the man in front of the cigarette stand, he
said, were "minutes from some type of meeting of terrorist cells where they
discussed money laundering, recruitment, weapons effectiveness and future
operations."

 This is how it goes in the war against the insurgents in Mosul. Apparently
having learned that direct attacks on American troops and their heavily
armored vehicles are a difficult if not suicidal approach, insurgents often
keep to the confines of sympathetic neighborhoods. They come out to try to
pick off American troops patrolling the city or to launch mortars at
American bases. But most of their efforts lately have been to kidnap,
brutalize and kill young Iraqis who have joined the nation's new security
forces or who are thought to be helping the Americans.

 So for American troops here, success often means catching a break or two
from a steady routine of raids and searches into places like Old Mosul, a
one-square-mile district in the center of the city that is home to as many
as 500,000 people.

 Sometimes troops go into insurgent areas for the principal purpose of
drawing their fire - so the Americans can shoot back and capture or kill
them. Such missions are very frustrating when the insurgents do not take
the bait, as was the case during a rainy three-hour operation into Old
Mosul last week.

 But on Saturday, the troops had help. Riding in a 19-ton armored Stryker
vehicle was "the source," an informant who, despite never leaving the
vehicle, was bedecked in a full-face scarf, a Kevlar helmet, and large
black sunglasses.

 Using informants can be tricky business, Colonel Kurilla is quick to
concede. They can be motivated by revenge, and some do not have a good
track record.

 With the informant in tow, troops raided an Old Mosul mosque and
surrounding homes in the morning, detaining eight people whom the informant
- peering through an on-board video monitor linked to a large camera atop
the Stryker - identified as insurgents. But there was not much evidence.
The most excited one of the Iraqi commanders became was when he brought a
pair of rubber boots out of a home and laid them at the feet of several
American soldiers, exclaiming, "Ali Baba!" The troops, mystified, went
inside the hou

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Re: geographically removed?

[James A. Donald]

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Major Variola:
> > > Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can 
> > > always be defeated by cranking up the police state a 
> > > notch.
> > >
> > > This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems.

James A. Donald:
> > The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment 
> > system gets swarmed by conmen and fraudsters.   We have a 
> > long way to go before police states are the problem.

Steve Furlong
> Heh. When the stasi come a-callin' tell them they'll have to 
> wait because you've got bigger problems. Wonder how well that 
> would work?

The stasi are not a callin yet on ecash, and have not been 
particularly effective against people publishing bittorrents.

> I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is 
> ripe for fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a 
> mature system make use of trusted intermediaries?

People issuing e-cash systems want to be irrevocable and 
anonymous, in part because the market niche for revocable 
payments is occupied by paypal and credit card companies, but 
they are running into trouble from fraudsters.  They also have 
trouble from states, but as yet the trouble from states is 
merely the usual mindless bureaucratic regulatory harassment 
that disrupts all businesses, not any specific hostility to 
difficult-to-trace extranational payments.

> The vendors register with the intermedi- ary *, who takes 
> some pains to verify their identity, trustworthiness, and so 
> on, and to keep the vendors' identities a secret, if 
> appropriate. The sellers pay the intermediary, who takes a 
> piece of the action to act basically as an insurer of the 
> vendor's good faith. If there's a problem with the service or 
> merchandise and the vendor won't make good, the intermediary 
> is responsible for making the buyer whole. Is there some 
> reason this wouldn't work? If not, why hasn't anyone tried it 
> yet? Not enough cash flow to make it worth their while?

Lots of people have tried it, with varying degrees of success. 
Not much demand for it yet.  A big problem is that whenever any 
such a website achieves some degree of acceptance, a storm of 
fake websites appear imitating its name, its look and feel, 
with urls that looks very similar. 

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1. Blonde in a Snowstorm  
A blonde got lost in her car in 
  a snowstorm. She remembered what her dad had once told her. ''If you 
  ever get stuck in a snowstorm, wait for a snow plow and follow it.'' 
  Pretty soon a snow plow came by, and she started to follow it. She followed 
  the plow for about 45 minutes. 
  Finally, the driver of the truck got out and asked her what she was 
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A road construction manager needed 
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  They are each assigned a section of the road. The first day, the blonde 
  paints 2 miles, the redhead 1.5, and the brunette only 1. On the second 
  day, the blonde paints 1 mile, the brunette 2, and the redheaed 2.5. 
  On the third day, the blonde only gets 1/4 of a mile done, the redheaed 
  3, and the brunette 3.5. The manager decides to talk to the blonde. 
  
  "You haven't been painting as much road as you did on the first 
  day,'' the manager said. ''What's the problem?'' 
''I'd be painting more, but the 
  bucket keeps getting farther and farther away!''' 
  
  
  
  

  

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

[James A. Donald]

--
James A. Donald:
> > Permanent holy war in Iraq would keep them busy and out of 
> > mischief WITHOUT permanent large involvement from American 
> > military.

Steve Thompson
> True, but there's a question of the waste of resources and
> man-years that would come from such a circumstance.

All the oil money has been wasted, most of the humans in the
middle east have suffered poverty, ignorance, lack of freedom
and the unproductive absence of useful labor.

All my life, people have been proposing to solve this problem.
Nearly every American president since 1950 announced some big
and expensive initiative that would supposedly solve this
problem, or make some substantial progress towards a solution.
What is your solution?

> And then there's the ethical[1] side of the coin: do the
> (largely financial benefits) that might come from a civil war
> in Iraq really justify the consequent standard-of-living for
> the residents of Iraq?

And your remedy for improving the standard of living in the
arab world is?

James A. Donald:
> > Plus, of course, they would be pumping oil like mad in
> > order to fund it.

Steve Thompson
> Aren't we all about to run out of oil soon anyways?

Forty years or so, according to estimates by the more sane and
conventional authorities.

James A. Donald:
> >  the people who organize large scale terror can be
> > identified, particularly by locals and coreligionists,
> > which is why they have been dying in large numbers in
> > Afghanistan.

Steve Thompson
> Um, what planet are you on?

The planet where the Afghans held an election, in which nearly
everybody voted, some of them several times, and the Taliban
were unable to carry out any of the threats they made against
the voters, which indicates that the Afghans have been pretty
efficient in killing Taliban.

> The people who, as you say, organize large scale terror tend
> to be protected by virtue of large bureaucratic firewalls,
> legislated secrecy, misdirection (smoke and mirrors), and
> even taboos.

The average Afghan warlord is untroubled by any of this crap. 
He sees someone who looks suspicious, says "Hey, you don't look
like you are from around here.  What are you doing?"  If he
does not like the answers, he brings out his skinning knife,
and asks a few more questions.  If the answers make him even
more unhappy, he hands his skinning knife to the womenfolk, and
tells them to take their time.

> But perhaps you are not referring to Western terrorists, but
> are expecting your reader to assume that terrorists always
> wear turbans, and who generally will live and operate in the
> Middle-Eastern theatre. Perhaps you have forgotten about the
> people who planned and executed the operations that helped
> South-American tyrants form up and train their death- and
> terror-squads?

The parties that sponsored death squads of Latin America, when
victorious, held free and fair elections, which they won, and
those they had been fighting lost.  The death squads were an
response to Soviet sponsored attempts to subjugate, enslave and
terrorize Latin America, and when the Soviet Union passed, so
did the death squads.

It seems most unlikely that Al Quaeda, the Taliban, and the
rest, if victorious would hold free and fair elections, or be
capable of winning them.

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Re: Patriot Insurance

[James A. Donald]

--
On 25 Nov 2004 at 21:42, Tyler Durden wrote:
> Well, I guess I agree. However, there is some issues of 
> Cypherpunkly importance here, particularly concerning 
> nation-states fighting other nation-states. Though I can't 
> consider myself a true-believing anarchist, my own personal 
> reason for continuing to post on the subject was to 
> illustrate that, as long as Group-of-Bandits X continues to 
> utilize our tax dollars to fuck over geographically removed 
> Group of Bandits Y (and their citizenry), then some form of 
> local resistance a la Blacknet (and arguably more drastic 
> measures) might be called for, irregardless of how much 
> Group-of-Bandits X (and their hypnotized citzenry) believe 
> they're marching on God's orders.

I would like to clarify my own position, which is in some 
important ways different from your own:  I am not in favor of 
myself, or any one else in America, being sacrificed for the 
greater good of Iraqi democracy, and since Iraqi democracy is 
likely to consist of 51% voting to bugger the other 49%, I can 
understand the position of those Iraqis who are fighting to 
resist the imposition of democracy.  But if they fight by 
taking hostages and mutilating them on television, then by all 
means let us have them sodomized.  I don't want Americans sent 
to fight by their stupid government, but if they are sent to 
fight, I am in favor of them winning and the guys they are 
fighting dying, and if it means destroying the village to save 
it, serves the goat fuckers right. 

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Re: Tin Foil Passports?

[R.A. Hettinga]

At 8:02 PM + 11/29/04, Justin wrote:
>There has always been an uneducated class.

Spoken like a true elitist. The sins of compulsary government education are
not necessarily the sins of education in general...



and, today...



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Re: Tin Foil Passports?

[Justin]

On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> >Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222
> >Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00
> >   low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the
> >   cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't
> >   they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a
> >   joke?"
> 
> What is most poignant about this post is the lack of education of /.
> authors.  Don't they teach Maxwell any more?  Is Faraday just the guy
> who said ...

Standardized education. We can't have anyone teaching to the 50th
percentile, even assuming the median teen-citizen can handle basic
calculus and E&M.  Teachers must teach one or two sigmas below that
level, and anyone who gets hyperactive in such an inane educational
environment is malfunctioning and requires medication.

There has always been an uneducated class. These days, its members can
be found in gangs, sitting at home watching TV and drinking beer, or
hanging out on slashdot writing open-source software.

-- 
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use."  --Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Diapsalmata

IBM, Sony to detail 'Cell' PS3 CPU February 2005

[R.A. Hettinga]

The Register


 Biting the hand that feeds IT

The Register » Personal » Consoles »

 Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/29/ibm_sony_cell_debut/

IBM, Sony to detail 'Cell' PS3 CPU February 2005
By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk)
Published Monday 29th November 2004 11:17 GMT

IBM, Sony and Toshiba - the three companies behind the 'Cell'
microprocessor - will formally detail the chip's workings at the
International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) on 6 February 2005,
the trio said today.

IBM and Sony also said they were now ready to announce the promised
Cell-based workstation, which should enable software developers to begin
coding for the PlayStation 3, itself set to be based on the new chip.

The partners describe Cell as a 64-bit POWER-based "multi-core system" for
computers and next-generation digital home appliances. Crucially, each core
can run a single operating system, or run their own OS independently of the
others. OS options include real-time support.

With the confirmation that Cell is indeed derived from IBM's POWER
architecture, and given they way the chip's designers discuss it more in
terms of a general-purpose CPU than the more console-oriented Emotion
Engine of the PS2, it's clearly going to raise the possibility that the
part may be of interest to Apple.

And since IBM is also working on the CPU for Xbox 2/Xbox Next, there's the
chance of a certain degree of software compatibility there too, though
clearly the use of different high-level APIs will limit games and
application portability.

The chip's makers note that Cell is not only a multi-core architecture -
like the anticipated 'Antares' PowerPC 970MP - but multi-threaded too,
though it's not yet clear whether support for multiple threads takes places
within each core level, HyperThreading-style, or Sony and co. are simply
talking about spreading threads across cores. IBM's POWER 5 architecture
supports simultaneous multi-threading, so it seems likely Cell will too.

IBM and Sony also talk about big memory and I/O bandwidth - no great
surprise there, given it's a 64-bit processor and what IBM has demonstrated
with existing POWER and PowerPC processors. More interesting is the
integration of a security sub-system. The companies don't go into any
detail, but it sounds not unlike VIA's PadLock technology with its hardware
random number generator. Mention is made of "high-level media processing",
which could be a reference to AltiVec, the PowerPC SIMD engine.

There's also the suggestion that Cell will use a SpeedStep-style power
conservation technology, allowing the chip to reduced its clock frequency.
IBM's 90nm PowerPC 970 already has something along these lines.

Contrary to past speculation that Cell would ship at 65nm, its makers today
said it will debut as a 90nm part using IBM's SOI technology.

As for the Cell-based workstation, it's clearly only at the prototype
stage, IBM and Sony having come up with an "experimental model".

Still, it packs 2 teraflops into a standard (presumably) rackmount box,
apparently, with what sounds like multiple, multi-core chips operating as a
kind of cluster-in-a-box configuration. ®

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Re: geographically removed?

[Tyler Durden]

Steve Furlong wrote...
I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for
fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make
use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi-
ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity, trustworthiness,
and so on, and to keep the vendors' identities a secret, if appropriate.
The sellers pay the intermediary, who takes a piece of the action to act
basically as an insurer of the vendor's good faith. If there's a problem
with the service or merchandise and the vendor won't make good, the
intermediary is responsible for making the buyer whole.
There's nothing particularly unreasonable about this, from a risk 
persepctive. In fact, credit card companies already work like this more or 
less...they can afford to protect cardmembers from Fraud precisely because 
of the economies of scale. As for the card industry itself, it is already 
reputation based. People pay up not because they're afraid to get arrested 
or litigated against, but because they want to preserve their Reputation 
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RE: Oswald

[Tyler Durden]

> > Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he
> > offed the sex & drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did.

I dunno...seems like the man had his priorities straight, at 
leastimagine bonin Marilyn Monroe high to the gills on painkillers and 
speed...come ON, gotta love the guy.

Funny, though, how the American public idolizes and fetishizes that 
guy...George W would have slaughtered "commie" JFK in the last couple of 
elections. It seems we can't get enough of star-spangled myths.

Anyone seen "Born on the 4th Of July"? The opening scene of a pastel 
American flag waving in the breeze is absolutely brilliant, given the rest 
of the film (I'm thinking this is John Young's favorite film!)

-TD

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RE: Oswald

[Trei, Peter]

Steve Furlong wrote:
> Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> > Bill Stewart wrote:
> > >Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports 
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/
> > >that there's a new video game "JFK Reloaded"
> > http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/
> > 
> > I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the Bridge With the
> > Secretary variant.  Wonder what Teddie will say about that one.
> > 
> > Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he
> > offed the sex & drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did.
> > 
> > And a hell of a shot as well.   Gotta respect that, with a 
> bolt-action,
> > no less.
> 
> A piece-of-shit boltie. I don't believe the official story, myself.

Hitting at a upper-body sized target at less than 90 yards, 
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barrel. The slow steady movement of the car makes it 
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Baltimore cleans house, plans de-listing

[R.A. Hettinga]

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Baltimore cleans house, plans de-listing
By electricnews.net (feedback at theregister.co.uk)
Published Friday 26th November 2004 11:50 GMT

Baltimore Technologies has embarked on a series of housekeeping exercises,
but the former security firm has given no indication of its plans for the
future.

The company has organised a general meeting of shareholders for
mid-December, to approve a plan to consolidate its share structure. The
company currently has 40,000 shareholders, 24,000 of whom own less than 125
shares. At the current share price, 125 shares are worth around £22. To cut
the cost of servicing these shareholders, old shares will be combined in a
new share, at a ratio of 125 to one. Anybody who owns less than 125 shares
will be paid the value of their shares and will cease to be a shareholder.
American Depository Shares (ADS), which allow people to trade Baltimore's
shares on the US markets, will be worth 1/625th of a share.


The company will also cancel its stock market listing in London and remove
itself from the US ADR system. A stock market listing might complicate
potential plans to sell the company, it says.

"The board does not believe that, in the company's current situation where
it is essentially a cash shell, it is in the company's best interests to
incur the costs involved in maintaining such a listing," Baltimore said in
a statement.

The announcements come after Baltimore's whole slate of directors - who
were responsible for a painful asset sell-off process - were removed due
the efforts of a outspoken shareholder, Acquisitor Holdings. The proxy
battle between the two sides saw Acquisitor accuse Baltimore's caretakers
of destroying shareholder value, while Baltimore's board complained that
Acquisitor had no firm plans for the company's future.

In other comments in Thursday's announcement, Baltimore said it is asking
UK courts to force Earthport to lodge security to defray the legal costs
arising from Earthport's £13m lawsuit against Baltimore, which was filed
earlier this year. It is not backing down in face of Earthport's claims of
fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misstatement and breach of
contract, saying that they are "inadequately particularised" and "without
merit."


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Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers

[R.A. Hettinga]

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 Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/lycos_europe_spam_blitz/

Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers
By Jan Libbenga (libbenga at yahoo.com)
Published Friday 26th November 2004 16:31 GMT

Lycos Europe has started to distribute a special screensaver
(http://makelovenotspam.com/intl) in a controversial bid to battle spam.
The program - titled Make Love Not Spam, and available for Windows and the
Mac OS - sends a request to view a spam source site. When a large number of
screensavers send their requests at the same time the spam web page becomes
overloaded and slow.

The servers targeted by the screensaver have been manually selected from
various sources, including Spamcop, and verified to be spam advertising
sites, Lycos claims. Several tests are performed to make sure that no
server stops working. Flooding a server with requests so that the server is
unable to respond to the volume of requests made - a process known as a
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack - is considered to be illegal.


Lycos believes the program will eventually hurt spammers. 'Spamvirtised'
sites typically don't sell advertising, so they have to pay for bandwidth.
Therefore more requests means higher bills, Lycos argues.

A spokesman for Lycos in Germany told The Register he believed that the
tool could generate 3.4MB in traffic on a daily basis. When 10m
screensavers are downloaded and used, the numbers quickly add up, to 33TB
of 'useless' IP traffic. Seems Lycos may hurt not just spammers. ®

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3D Biometric Facial Recognition Comes To UK

[Eugen Leitl]

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/28/0155210
Posted by: timothy, on 2004-11-28 10:11:00

   from the are-you-ready-for-your-closeup? dept.
   [1]Roland Piquepaille writes "In the UK, where the recent Queen's
   speech about national identity cards generated lots of -- mostly
   negative -- coverage, another potentially invasive technology is being
   tested with very few criticism. For example, several police
   departments are now testing a 3D biometric facial recognition software
   from [2]Aurora, a company based near Northampton. The use of facial
   recognition 'is rapidly becoming the third forensic science alongside
   fingerprints and DNA,' according to a police officer who talked to BBC
   News for '[3]How your face could open doors.'" (More below.)

   [4]Click Here 

   "The company claims its software is so sophisticated it can make the
   distinction between identical twins. And if the civil liberties groups
   continue to be neutral, this technology could also be deployed in
   airports or by private companies. Even banks are thinking to put
   cameras in their ATM machines to identify you. The good thing is that
   you will not have to remember your PIN. On the other hand, as with
   every new technology, is it safe for your privacy and is it possible
   to hack the system? [5]Read more before making your decision."

References

   1. http://www.primidi.com/
   2. http://www.facerec.com/
   3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4035285.stm
   4. 
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5659&alloc_id=12309&site_id=1&request_id=6430161&op=click&page=%2farticle%2epl
   5. http://www.primidi.com/2004/11/26.html

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