Re: The Nazification Of America (Show Me Your Papers - Day 1)
On 1 July, J.A. Terranson wrote... For those of you who may have missed it, today was the first day of the new Real ID Act, a/k/a, the American Nazification Papers Act. I wouldn't have know myself except that I recently moved, and wanted to exchange my current Illinois drivers license for a Missouri one. If they federales are going to make it so difficult, one might as well start a new identity. How does one go about constructing a new identity now? Birth certificate. What kind of certification are they looking for? The state seal? That's easy enough to fake. Do they do verification? How much? What if it comes back negative? What's their response to, The state records must be screwed up? That's a plausible excuse for anyone who can claim to be born before modern computerization... at least anyone no longer in HS. What are the ID requirements for getting a SSN? Since it's goal is to con SSN holders into paying their fair share of tax revenue, the gov can't be too picky. Once one have those two, one can get a passport, no? Aren't those three items are acceptable proof of identify for a DL?
Re: The Nazification Of America (Show Me Your Papers - Day 1)
In anticipation of the Guv'ment ID Needed for Everything/Can't Get ID Without Already Having ID state, I got government ID last month, before the regulations went into effect. When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good
Well, James Dobson (right wing Christian evangelical) is targeting some of these same judges, so I don't think the Democrat Republican division you're pointing to here is all that valid. In other words, some of those same judges are hated by the right. Thomas in particular is hated by the Right, but everyone, left, right, and center hates the majority decision in Kelo. Polls on major news sites indicate 1-3% support for the decision. The question is not whether there's a division -- of course there is -- but whether liberals are upset enough about this decision to turn against justices who mostly support the modern liberal paradigm. From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:09:31 -0700 -- Bush's favorite judges are radical activists when it comes to interference with most civil rights For the most part, it was conservative judges, judes hated by the democrats with insane extravagance, that voted for against this decision. Bush's favorite judge is probably Thomas, who voted against this decision.
Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good
How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can easily be replaced.) thermite through the engine block, frag bomb in the engine compartment, torch any remaining hoses, slice the tires, puncture the brake lines. you don't need someone to tell you this. takings clause abuse has been going on for a long time.
Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good
Yeah, but this steps crosses a line, I think. Before, your home could be taken for a public project. Now, the supreme court has ruled that your home can be taken for a public project that consists entirely of private development, in the name of the public good, which is supposed to equal higher tax revenues. What this equates to is, whoever had more money than you can take away your home. Previously, it was just the occasional men-with-guns that could do this, but now they effectively have proxies everywhere. The principle of using the takings clause to transfer private property to private parties has already been approved by the Supremes. This is but another variation. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=usvol=467invol=229 From: A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:36:27 -0700 (PDT) How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can easily be replaced.) thermite through the engine block, frag bomb in the engine compartment, torch any remaining hoses, slice the tires, puncture the brake lines. you don't need someone to tell you this. takings clause abuse has been going on for a long time. Dousing the 'dozer with gas and throwing a match may suffice. The two ex-Caltech-student co-conspirators in the Los Angeles area Hummer dealership fire are still at large. Maybe they'll make their way to Connecticut or NYC* and put their skills to use for a worthy cause... rather than for the Marxist ELF. * http://www.nyclu.org/eminent_domain_lj_article_060105.html
Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good
From: A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] The principle of using the takings clause to transfer private property to private parties has already been approved by the Supremes. This is but another variation. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=usvol=467invol=229 Interesting that the author of that opinion was O'Connor, who authored the *dissent* from this week's opinion. Apparently, taking property from one private individual and giving it to another is fine with her if the one you're taking it from is a member of an (evil by definition) oligopoly. O'Connor's dissent in the recent case is full of hair-splitting about why this transfer isn't for public use while the other one was, but all of her arguments would have and should have applied to the earlier case as well. There is a special place in Hell reserved for people like her who open the proverbial barn door and then proceed to complain when the whole herd stampedes through. The key word is principles: O'Connor should find some and try applying them consistently. In her defense, she *thinks* she's identified a legitimate distinction. She thinks there's a fundamental difference between taking property for the purpose of economic development and taking property to break up a landholder oligopoly on a small island. Unfortunately, she's wrong. She's a two-bit socialist in the realm of constitutional takings. She has no compunctions about taking from the rich and giving to the poor, or taking from someone to protect the environment. But she starts whining when the court decides to take from the (relatively) poor and give to the rich. As for Berman... (quoting O'Connor's dissent from Kelo) In Berman, we upheld takings within a blighted neighborhood of Washington, D. C. The neighborhood had so deteriorated that, for example, 64.3% of its dwellings were beyond repair. 348 U. S., at 30. It had become burdened with overcrowding of dwellings, lack of adequate streets and alleys, and lack of light and air. Id., at 34. Congress had determined that the neighborhood had become injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare and that it was necessary to eliminat[e] all such injurious conditions by employing all means necessary and appropriate for the purpose, including eminent domain. Those are good reasons for the government to do something, although I can't agree that taking the property to raze it and sell it to developers -- no matter what the reason -- qualifies as public use. To be constitutional, they'd have had to turn the area into a public park or a museum or something. A reasonable action under our current system of government and jurisprudence could have been for the D.C. city council (which can be overridden by Congress, but Congress generally leaves it alone) to enact a health and safety law requiring the property owners to fix things, and fining them and having the city fix things if the property owners did not comply. If fixing meant razing the buildings and putting up tents, so be it. But no level of government had the right to take titles from the land owners unless the land would then be put to public use. I don't philosophically support that solution because it violates private property rights. If someone wants to live in an unsafe or unhealthy environment with no light and no alleys, the government shouldn't have the power to intervene. But it's widely accepted in urban areas that the government has the power to intervene on the basis of gross neglect of public (e.g. tenant) health and safety, and that's a somewhat better and less intrusive way of fixing the situation in Berman without going so far as taking the property away from the landholders. The opening paragraph of Berman admits that the property, once taken, may be (i.e. will be) sold to private developers. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=casecourt=USvol=348invol=26 So, while O'Connor shouldn't be defending either decision, at least there was some basis for the government to do *something* in Berman. And at least, because O'Connor wasn't part of that decision, she can't be accused of violating her own principles in Kelo with respect to Berman.
Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good
At 10:19 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jay Listo wrote: Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you know you've been Bush-whacked. Maybe you should take another look at who voted how. The Bushies dissented on this opinion. Go figure. Not surprising at all. The Bush camp's court agenda is spearheaded by members of the Federalist Society which wants to roll back many of the SC's decisions of the early-mid 20th century (esp. the Social Security Act and the expansion of the Commerce Clause during FDR's reign). The conservative justices happen to be correct about that. If there is a need for expansion of federal power, the solution is to pass an amendment, not to read into the commerce and general welfare clauses what was never there. If the judiciary keeps supporting both good and bad laws on the basis of Congress's interstate commerce power, eventually something is going to break. Either we're going to have a civil war or the judiciary is going to have to start contradicting its earlier opinions. We the people should start a campaign to pass amendments in these various areas so that the Supreme Court can revise its earlier opinions without placing laws like the Civil Rights Act completely in jeopardy. These are a few areas which amendments could target: healthcare limiting complexity of the tax code if not repealing the 16th A. NBC weaps (chems def'd by LD50 and quantity for gases and liquids) reiterating the 2nd amendment with the exception of any banned NBC regulation of airspace up to a certain altitude acknowledgment that the U.S. has no authority over outer space civil rights - discrimination clarifying property rights (in light of Kelo) If we don't need or can't agree on amendments in those areas, respective legislation must be nullified. The Kelo decision is simply incorrect, so an amendment correcting it is virtually mandatory. We have no right to healthcare or welfare, and laws granting either are invalid. We have a right to make, buy and sell any weapons we wish, and laws stating otherwise are invalid. We have a right not to be discriminated against by the government, and by purely public institutions, and at polls. We have no right to equal treatment by private corporations or private individuals. We have a right to use the EM spectrum as we wish, and we have a right to possess whatever substances we want. I don't like some of those facts, but they are facts. In order to change them, there is no alternative except to pass constitutional amendments. Otherwise, the government will continue on the path from incoherence to collapse.
Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push
Major Variola writes... If you physically destroy the keys or the data, there is little to gain by torturing you or your family. That is superior to gambling that your deeper duress levels are convincing to the man with the electrodes. Are there any publicly available documents that detail interrogation protocols and what brainwave patterns and bloodflow look like during truth telling and lying? Preferably something that gets into how to consciously alter brainwave patterns and bloodflow with this application in mind... A document with a thorough discussion of various depressants on such an interrogation process would also be most interesting. We all know that no lie detector is not perfect, but trying to convince captors that I'm part of a minority of subjects -- those who appear to be lying when they're not -- is not my idea of fun.
Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?
Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08: Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was sent to me) contained stegoed information, but that it was intercepted in transit and the real message overwritten with noise or whatever? Hardly, given the simple fact that well-encrypted content is indistinguishable from noise.
San Francisco Combatants
I find it interesting that live transmission of Enemy Combatant Radio at 93.7 FM lags about 2 minutes after mp3 broadcast at http://radio.us2.indymedia.org:8000/playlist.pls?mount=/ecr I cannot think of rational explanation why would the signal be delayed - maybe someone versed in FM broadcast technology can offer some ? 93.7 is San Francisco Liberation Radio (micropower license-free :-)
Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device, if forced on individuals by a government entity, would violate fourth amendment protections against self-incrimination. DUI laws requiring breath or blood tests do the same thing. But you wouldn't mind if insurance companies required the device in order for you to get a policy (whether or not it called the police or just the insurance company) ? Right ?
mail?
So is the list up or what? Havn't gotten any mail from it for awhile, although zoneedit's dns servers were hosed yesterday, but I'm getting mail now. Also see the cpunks archives are not there for the last week. And trying to send a test post to cpunks gives me this: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 550 5.7.1 Fix reverse DNS for 68.23.77.18,or use your ISP server.) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to gw.lne.com.: MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 5.7.1 Fix reverse DNS for 68.23.77.18,or use your ISP server. 554 5.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service unavailable [-- Attachment #2 --] [-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --] I'm not having any problem email elsewhere that I've found so far.
Re: Homeland Security Act Affects Amateur High Power Rocketry
Sheesh -- somehow I though Sensenbrenner, at least, was smarter than this (although I knew Kohl wasn't) don't any of these people have a clue as to how ridiculously easy it is to make blackpowder from scratch in 100lb plus quantities? Including making the charcoal and the potassium nitrate? And sulfur, of course, is an extremely common agricultural chemical available literally everywhere, even easy enough to dig your own in some places. Duh! Double duh! All they are accomplishing is making a hassle for muzzleloader and rocketry buffs.
Duct Busters
Put a duct tape on the rear window of your car, diagonally corner to corner. Spread the word.
Dynamic DNS services with mail relaying
Are there any dynamic DNS services currently out there that provide mail relaying capability? DHIS used to do it, at least for their original users, but has recently broken their relaying system and don't seem too eager to fix it.
Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone
Bill Stewart said: At 12:31 PM 01/14/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: I saw mention on the Yahoo news site that some health clubs and gyms are already taking steps to limit the types of cellphones allowed in the changing areas (and maybe elsewhere). Hey, some people get their privacy by going to places that have Rules about the kind of video-broadcast technology that's allowed, some people build it using Technology like cell-phone jammers, while others of us accomplish it by having figures that nobody's going to bother photographing :-) Unless you are being rebirthed by a home applicance. http://pics.nikita.ca/artificial-gravity/bill.jpg
Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary
SIgh. Although I read May's Crypto Anarchy piece and liked it, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that he's just another dimwitted fascist who by accident had a few interesting ideas. You're Guilty for Not Doing Your Homework. Mr. May's views on sick, disabled, niggers and women are available to everyone with access to usenet archives, which means everyone. For example, type this: 'disabled author:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (sans quotes) in with all of the words field at http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search and you'll get the idea. It doesn't mean that I don't credit him for efforts in other areas. People are too complex to be classified on one aspect only. Would I fuck a beautiful female republican ? Most certainly. Even Bush saying sensible things doesn't make them wrong.
Re: Misconceptions about how remailers work
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: A nice article, although I was under impression that basically the remailer network was no longer operable. Wanted to send some joke stuff through them and was unable to do so due to lack of working remailers. According to http://stats.melontraffickers.com, at this moment: Out of the 43 Cypherpunk and 51 Mixmaster remailers (53 unique addresses) on these stats there are 27 CPunks and 37 Mixes over 98.0% in terms of overall reliability. The remailer network has never been healthier. Perhaps you need to update your keyrings and stats as to ensure you are using remailers which are still operating reliably? Individual remailers do come and go over time.
Re: NSA Show Sexually Arouses Hanssen
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:46:22 -0500, jya wrote: Horses, guns, right and wrong, winners and losers, the USA v. the World. Simple-minded erotic pleasures, silliness writ larger than the wee woeful penis. Hanssen is us, or at least those who harbor dreams of conquest. Hanssen's fall has nothing to do with lying, or betraying trust, or trafficking in secrets, dead-dropping names to be killed, outing safehouses, gps'ing the other side's drops, moving money, competing with other chess players, or causing the death of people who were ratted out. After all, that was basically his job description. The problem wasn't his actions or their deadly results, rather is was that instead of doing it to the people he was assigned to do it to, he did it to the assigners. His controllers knew that it was a high honor and a duty to civilization to do it to others, but horrible treachery and murderous treason to do it to them. No where in the agency's whining about Hanssen do we lament what it is: our stock in trade, our claim to budget, or reason to walk fast, stare cold and hard and answer no questions, our right to subject others, our freedom from being an object, a thing, like those to whom we apply the craft, foreign and domestic. The ecumenical way.
Brin's ISP
How long do you think it would be before the ISP described below would receive a cease and desist letter, ordering it to remove the cameras, in order to protect customer privacy? My mind is churning...one would think there'd be a cute techno-fix to this...oh wait, what about some form of brute force? Probably won't work but, call it brainstorming... 1)In addition to having ISP services, the ISP also functions as a sort of info safe-deposit box-type place (where floppies and such are stored and loaded on request), except... 2) The boxes have a space-age plexiglass wall between the box and the main area 3) Each box is rented out to a different person 4) Only the rentees have the keys to open the boxes, and they do so only via blacknet, and there's no record of who rents what box (see 6). 5) Many of these customers may have chosen to place a little camera in their box, say to watch over their property The idea here is that in order to shut down the cameras, they have to find every single owner, clearly not a very fruitful task if the proper measures have been taken. Of course, they'll probably be back with a big can of black paint, but 6)that's exactly when each ownee can send a signal trashing any data with their names or other info on it. Also,I'm wondering if some IR can penetrate paint... ALright, alright, THIS idea probably has lots of holes in it, but the idea isn't to knock down ideas but to come up with something that works. TD
[BrinWorld] Store spycam witnesses beating
Woman wanted for child abuse after store spycam witnesses beating: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/09/20/video.child.beating/index.html SOUTH BEND, Indiana (CNN) -- The woman caught on videotape seemingly beating her 4-year-old daughter in the parking lot of a Kohl's Department Store in Mishawaka, Indiana, is wanted in Texas for skipping a court date -- on charges that she shoplifted from a Kohl's in Fort Worth, Texas. Police are searching for Madelyne Gorman Toogood, 25, identified by authorities as the woman seen in the videotape repeatedly striking her daughter, Martha, after putting the little girl in a van. Police said Toogood is from Texas, where she was arrested on March 27 and charged with shoplifting from the Kohl's store in Fort Worth, according to Fort Worth Police Lt. Jesse Hernandez. A spokeswoman from the Tarrant County district attorney's office said that a warrant was issued for Toogood's arrest when she missed a May 9 court date. Mishawaka, Indiana, Police Chief Anthony Hazen said Toogood's sister, identified as Margaret Dailey, has been arrested and charged with failing to report child abuse. Dailey was also seen in the video, police said. Hazen said authorities are optimistic that we will find this young girl and her mother. Maggie Jones, deputy prosecuting attorney for St. Joseph County, said the sister was not cooperating, and her office was considering filing felony charges against her for assisting a criminal. Battery charges against Toogood are expected to be filed later Friday, Jones said. If convicted, Toogood would face a maximum of three years in prison. Hazen said police are very worried about the child, who appears in the video to receive several blows that could have caused severe trauma. The beating occurred last Friday, when a surveillance camera recorded two women -- identified by police as Toogood and her sister -- walking with two small children as they departed Kohl's department store in Mishawaka, near the state's northern border with Michigan. The women had attempted to return several items, but were refused and were asked to leave, said Hazen. The suspect became angry, and left the store, the chief said. I believe (store personnel) followed them out through the camera system and witnessed the incident. As the camera tracked them from the store to a 2002 white Toyota Sequoia SUV in the parking lot, one of the women -- identified by police as Toogood -- placed her 4-year-old daughter in a rear seat. The woman, wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt, her blond hair in a ponytail, looked around the parking lot and -- for about 25 seconds -- shook the girl and hit her in the face. You can see the woman grab one of the girl's ponytails and forcibly shake her, Jones said. Not even counting all of the blows we saw the woman make, that constitutes battery. Using the videotape, police traced the vehicle to the woman's family and impounded it. Jones said family members told her the girl was one of the woman's three children. But the woman's relatives have been less than cooperative in helping authorities locate the girl, Jones said. The sister, who has not been identified by name, claims not to know where her sister is, Jones said. Authorities also said they had spoken with Toogood's husband, who had not led them to his wife. It was not clear if the two live together. I've been in police work over 20 years, and I've never seen such a horrendous attack on a small child, said Mike Samp, assistant chief of the Mishawaka Police Department. Samp said the family members told authorities the woman had left the state. But he was not persuaded. My hunch is that she's still here. That's why we're continuing to pursue this so vigorously. Authorities have urged anyone with information about how to find the woman or the girl to call the Mishawaka police at (574) 258-1684. It made me sick to think that that child is still with that mother and, quite frankly, if the mother is willing to do that in a public parking lot, what is she doing at home? Jones asked. Our immediate concern ... is to locate the child and get the child out of the environment. CNN Correspondent Gary Tuchman contributed to this report.
Re: On the outright laughability of internet democracy
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:22:15 -0400, you wrote: At 4:35 PM +0200 on 8/11/02, Anonymous wrote: Next, the internet boogeyman. Nope. Just the clueless only knows one austrian remailer boogeyman. Watch me make him go away: *Plonk!* Based on your inability or unwillingness to address the issues identified specifically, that is pretty good course of action on your part. I would think you might be interested in going deeper, as Blind signatures for untraceable payments is directly applicable to both digital settlement and digital voting. See http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-4/voting.html for an interesting little article of introduction about the topic. And there are many others more current and deep. Those issues, remaining unaddressed by you, include: The sold vote boogeyman. You need to submit evidence that anonymous internet voting is more likely to be fraudulent than paper, voter-present by mail voting. You have submitted none, and the cryptography word is insufficient to scare me off. The bogus digital voter registration boogeyman. You may also wish to show how digital voter registration cards would be more likely to be bogus than Motor Voter, no-id required registration cards. Good luck. The crypto boogeyman. I challenge you to show that current, published crypto voting protocols cannot accomplish the following: 1. one digital sig, one vote, the first one, and the others are discarded 2. no dig signature, no vote 3. no dig voter registration, no dig sig 4. anonymity, i.e., no connectibility between the voter's choice and his identity. 5. auditability, i.e., connection between each voting lever throw and a dig sig for the current vote. Next, the internet boogeyman. It's just a pipe/wire/whatever. Bits. Don't be afraid. If the bits are properly signed, no problem and whether internet bits or voter-machine-punched-paper-tape-bits is irrelevant. They are not strengthened or weakened by the mail server applied to their transmission, by the way. Cheers!
Re: Hollywood Hackers
Jack Lloyd wrote: On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Steve Schear wrote: Looks amazingly familiar. Could it be, could be, could it be Mojo Nation (now MNet http://mnet.sourceforge.net )? Or OpenCM (http://www.opencm.org) -Jack On the OpenCM webpage, it proclaims on the right hand side: OpenCM is designed as a secure, high-integrity replacement for CVS. Briefly, OpenCM provides ... cryptographic authentication and access control,... The OpenCM project was originally started because we needed a secure, high-integrity configuration management system and on the left hand side of the page it says: At the moment, we do not support non-Javascript browsers. If they are concerned about security, Shouldn't they be avoiding javascript?
