rival gangs and bounties on heads

2001-05-17 Thread Blank Frank
http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/los_angeles_metro/20010516/t41102.html Alleged Bounty on Officers Investigated Times Staff and Wire Reports Lo

Label releases copy-protected CD

2001-05-15 Thread Blank Frank
Tuesday May 15 10:00 AM EDT Label releases copy-protected CD with Pride By Gwendolyn Mariano CNET News.com As teenagers slip through Napster (news - web sites)'s increasingly dense filters for the latest pop craze, veteran country music singer Charl

MK ULTRA CHIX

2001-05-15 Thread Blank Frank
This story goes well with the MKULTRA docs at http://intellnet.org/mkultra/ http://www.newsnet5.com/news/specialassignment/news-specialassignment-76226320010509-130538.html Woman Learned How To Kill As A Child Father Taught Her To Seduce Foreign

not getting it in Quebec

2001-04-20 Thread Blank Frank
By mid-afternoon, protesters tore down a section of the concrete and chain-link security barricade and pelted police officers in riot gear with cans, bottles, rocks and stuffed animals. Officers responded by lobbing canisters of tear

censorship of http://www.amiblackornot.com/

2001-04-20 Thread Blank Frank
ACLU to help Pitt student in Web site dispute Thursday, April 12, 2001 By Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette Staff Writer The American Civil Libert

siege up north

2001-04-19 Thread Blank Frank
QUEBEC — Police sealed off the heart of old Quebec City on Thursday, creating a heavily guarded security zone to keep protesters and possible violence aw

LATimes: FBI's E-Mail Surveillance Getting Boost

2001-04-19 Thread Blank Frank
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010419/t33196.html FBI's E-Mail Surveillance Getting Boost Policy: Justice officials likely to call for continuing 'Carnivore,' with privacy protections adde

very effective communication

2001-04-17 Thread Blank Frank
EC Wrote: > "Terror is a very effective form of communication." > --Delenn, Babylon 5 "Terrorists are the only true avant-garde artists because they're the only ones who are still capable of really surprising people." ---Laurie Anderson

Stalking Louis Freeh

2001-04-17 Thread Blank Frank
Although ChoicePoint says it has records on nearly every American with a credit card, it doesn’t always provide access to that data. The company’s Autotrack service is popular with many age

genetic databases: not just for iceland anymore, good for warrants

2001-04-10 Thread Blank Frank
Some months ago someone posted about genetic databases being harvested from Iceland, and suggested other places were being surveyed too. Here's a ref for disbelievers. And an unrelated ref on *using* the *state's* DB to bust people based on that DB alone. _Science_ v 291, 16 mar 2001, p 2075:

Germans bring fascism back

2001-04-10 Thread Blank Frank
[Achtung: Despite the jab, I realize you can substitute "Amerikan" for "German" and "kiddie-prawn" for "nazitunz" -Ed.] Tuesday April 10 1:41 PM ET Germany Cracks Down on Internet Nazi Music Trade By Adam Tanner BERLIN (Reuters) - German police swooped

the consequences of innumeracy on IP enforcement

2001-04-10 Thread Blank Frank
Jury Intended Higher Award Against MP3.Com NEW YORK--A federal judge is considering what to do about an almost $300,000 copyright infringement verdict aw

school censorship

2001-04-09 Thread Blank Frank
Apr 6, 2001 - 01:16 PM Confederate T-Shirts Spark Fashion Fight in Southern Schools By Russ Bynum Associated Press Writer RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) - Zane Dunn wore a banned T-shirt to school and became a rebel wit

TannerWatch

2001-04-09 Thread Blank Frank
Bockwinkel, a former newspaper photojournalist and editor, captured Arends' assault of Coffey on film. (The clear and graphic pictures can be viewed on the CLEAN Web site at http://www.clean.org/photos/photo1.html ). In one photo, Arends is choking the petite Coffey in a parking lot; her body is r

private reputation services

2001-04-09 Thread Blank Frank
Found this: What is AttorneyBusters.com? AttorneyBusters.com was created as a vehicle to encourage attorney ethics and responsibility, and promote laws that would discourage attorneys from abusing special protected privileges. Attorney privileges must be preserved, but used with responsibilit

Grand Jury testimony vs. the Constitution

2001-04-04 Thread Blank Frank
At 10:29 PM 4/4/01 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >In light of recent "situations" involving cpunks and the courts, I've been >thinking about the 5th Amendment. > >I pose two questions: > >If called to testify in a criminal case, and asked the question "Are you >known by any other names" (or a derivative

Sethy needs to grow up

2001-04-04 Thread Blank Frank
At 11:18 PM 4/2/01 -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote: >And since John Young already >threw me into the flaming-pit, I thought I'd give the question a try >in public. He warned you, yet you attacked; so he defended himself. Next time, RTFM. Sunlight is good.

MIT to put bomb / drug making info on net

2001-04-04 Thread Blank Frank
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/technology/04MIT.html?ex=987386578&ei=1&en=077d52b01c55685c Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free By CAREY GOLDBERG CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 3 — Other universities may be striving to market their courses to the Internet masses in hopes of dot-com w

Monty Python, with Tim May and Eric Hughes

2001-04-03 Thread Blank Frank
At 09:28 PM 4/3/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Cypherpunks and AP play a key >role of the government's case, with Tim May and Eric Hughes being >mentioned, and this is just Day One. The anarchist (tm) Black Block of Seattle was a psyop to prime the grand jury's adrenals. Channelling JY's d

have you heard of cypherpunks?

2001-04-03 Thread Blank Frank
At 05:26 PM 4/3/01 -0400, John Young wrote: >Tacoma 2PM >A party said the first question asked of prospective >jurors was: "have you heard of cypherpunks?" Yeah, it was Jude M's nickname for a friend's intellectual-clique. . This is your brain. This is your brain on crypto. Any questions?

Student Sues Over Ban on 'Straight Pride' Sweatshirt

2001-04-03 Thread Blank Frank
http://foxnews.com/fn99/national/040301/straight_pride.sml Title: Student Sues Over Ban on 'Straight Pride' Sweatshirt US WORLD MARKETWIRE POLITICS FOX LIFE VIEWS SPORTS ON THE AIR VIDEO Student Sues Over BanOn '

monopolists

2001-04-03 Thread Blank Frank
"I am aghast that a bunch of thieves like Napster could end up winning because they have 60 million users It's like making a drug dealer a pharmacist because they sell a lot of drugs." — Liquid Audio CEO Gerry Kearby on Napster's underground success. He sure likes state-bl

Re: AP is *not* the point

2001-04-01 Thread Blank Frank
At 07:38 AM 4/1/01 +0200, Anonymous wrote: > >>Um, he's not *advocating*. He pointed out that such systems were >>inevitable. > >So he is new Galileo then. > Darwin, not Galileo. Darwin said, "offspring inherit traits from parents" and "some traits are more helpful than others", "ergo selection

AP is *not* the point

2001-03-31 Thread Blank Frank
At 05:20 PM 3/31/01 -0500, Seth Finkelstein wrote: >Tim May wrote: >> them. I now understand why Jim Bell is advocating the >> assassination-by-lottery of judges and prosecutors. Fuck the State, >> Man!" Um, he's not *advocating*. He pointed out that such systems were inevitable. He was pointin

refs on "What is a publisher"

2001-03-30 Thread Blank Frank
This post contains refs to answers to the question, "What is published?" for patent (prior art) reasons. You may find it also bears on "Who is a publisher?" (with accompanying questions about their 'privledges' if any). (FYI; Forwarded from a private list.) > any more word on what it takes t

some southerners need killin'

2001-03-30 Thread Blank Frank
State funding makes this a censorship case; religion makes it a freedom of- case too. Mar 30, 2001 - 07:37 AM Florida University Under Fire for Play With Gay Christ Character The Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Several state

how to screw a teenager from the other side of the world

2001-03-29 Thread Blank Frank
Pitzer kept chatting to the teenager, while her mother contacted the local police officer, Constable John Rei, who came to the house. "I just got her to keep chatting in the chat room," Rei said. "W

you may only speak what the RIAA allows

2001-03-28 Thread Blank Frank
The RIAA has asked the court to order Napster to use a "filter in" method, which would allow songs that Napster is authorised to distribute to be placed on its system, rather than blocking the swapping of copyrighted music placed on its servi

RIAA takes over FCC

2001-03-28 Thread Blank Frank
Napster, the song swapping service, is being sued for millions of dollars by the producers of the prestigious awards show, the Grammys. The National Academy of Recordings Arts and Sciences (NARAS) says the service enabled users to

shithead federal public defenders

2001-03-26 Thread Blank Frank
Hey Aimee, check out the ethics on *this* dude... McVeigh's Former Attorney Willing to Testify Against Nichols Jones said he believes usual attorney-client privilege - which prohibits attorneys from disclosing what defendants tell them - no longer

Re: CDR: Re: hello

2001-03-23 Thread Blank Frank
At 01:05 PM 3/23/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> how do i talk to fbi agents? i know everything. jfk, martin luther king, >> landing o nthe moon. all of them. > >I'm sure there are millions of ways to talk to FBI agents. > >Walk up, look them in the eye, smile pleasa

8 year old arrested for paper gun, words

2001-03-22 Thread Blank Frank
Irvington Pupils Face Charges for Playing With Paper Gun. March 22, 2001 IRVINGTON, N.J. (AP) _ Two second-graders playing cops and robbers with a paper gun were charged with making terroris

Choatian agriculture

2001-03-22 Thread Blank Frank
At 09:43 PM 3/21/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Aimee Farr wrote: >> You gnaw at a branch and call it a root. > >Opposite ends of the same thing. You can't have one without the other so >in a very real way to eat a potato Only JC would introduce a tuber into a discussion of roo

embedded PGP boxes

2001-03-21 Thread Blank Frank
These are current contest-projects I have no association with. See http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/advertising/press/finalists.php Dave Baker: P(aranoid)GP A keysigning station and standalone data signer, for people who are paranoid about untrusted computers,

innocent get 5th too

2001-03-19 Thread Blank Frank
John Young, you get the 5th too Mar 19, 2001 - 11:49 AM Court Says Innocent Can Refuse to Testify By Anne Gearan Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - "Taking the Fifth" is an option open to the innocent as well

germans .mil punts US software for security reasons

2001-03-19 Thread Blank Frank
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17679.html German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping By: John Lettice Posted: 17/03/2001 at 18:59 GMT The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are pulling the plugs on Microso

judges needing organ harvesting -school censorship

2001-03-19 Thread Blank Frank
School's Ban of Manson T-Shirt OK By Laurie Asseo Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A former high school student says he had a free-speech right to wear Marilyn Manson T-shirts to class. But school officials banned

Digital Body Wire Systems

2001-03-16 Thread Blank Frank
Digital Body Wire Systems Conventional analogue body wire systems suffer from vulnerability to monitoring. They are also susceptible to drop-outs if the transmitter moves out of range and temporary loss of communication results. On the receiver side, the usage of audio cassette recorders to reco

censorship and violence in SoCal

2001-03-16 Thread Blank Frank
According to the lawsuit, district officials told the librarians ... the books presented a safety hazard because students who checked them out might be harassed by other students. http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/20010316/t23049.html Noisy School Meeting Over Books on Gay Achievers

equal protection in texas and privacy

2001-03-15 Thread Blank Frank
Mar 15, 2001 - 10:39 PM State Sodomy Law Ruled Constitutional by Appeals Court By Kristen Hays Associated Press Writer HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas appeals court upheld the state's sodomy law Thursday in the case

content owners vs. ISPs

2001-03-15 Thread Blank Frank
"Copyright holders aren't going to be happy with Freenet and Gnutella," Mohr said. "They are going to want to start monitoring people at the ISP level, and that means there is going to be a coming war between individual privacy v

pave the earth

2001-03-14 Thread Blank Frank
Militant environmental group targets FBI, others By SAM STANTON Scripps-McClatchy Western Service March 13, 2001 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two weeks after claiming responsibility for its first arson attack in California, the Earth Liberation Front has issued a nationwide call for "militant direct act

all we want is to send geese to france

2001-03-13 Thread Blank Frank
>No, you can't stand naked in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge high on >PCP proselytizing for a child-porn church while waving a full-auto firearm. Hey, all we want to do is stand in the Golden Gate Park with a joint and without a bra, while reading SubGenius literature and blowing bubbles.

AP for SA judges

2001-03-13 Thread Blank Frank
Mob Hacks Guatemalan Judge to Death By Will Weissert Associated Press Writer Tuesday, March 13, 2001; 3:17 p.m. EST GUATEMALA CITY –– More than 1,000 people in a northern Guatemalan town attacked a judge a

One source of JC's inferiority complex

2001-03-12 Thread Blank Frank
At 05:54 PM 3/12/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >course content, lab design, etc. Not bad for somebody without a degree >I've always felt. Plenty of folks sans degrees have a clue, though, Jim...

Jim C's rocket supplies

2001-03-11 Thread Blank Frank
At 07:46 AM 3/11/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > >> Platinum costs vary, but I've never seen it above $500/oz, >> and I think it's more often about $300, e.g. about the price of >> good marijuana, which far more than 1 in 1000 hobbyists can afford :-) >> H

transparent DeCSS: digital circuit better than perl?

2001-03-11 Thread Blank Frank
At 01:51 PM 3/10/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >DVD CSS decoding in 7 lines of perl is a cute hack, >but it doesn't accomplish one of the main goals of DVDCSS, >which is to explain the structure of the lame crypto algorithm. >Even if you unwrap this to put the white space back, >it's dense unreada

expensive tradecraft, to catch a spook

2001-03-07 Thread Blank Frank
03/06/2001 - Updated 10:32 PM ET FBI bought nearby house to spy on Hanssen By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The FBI secretly bought a house near the suburban home of Robert Hanssen just nine days after investigators be

FLUENT and naif british reporters

2001-03-06 Thread Blank Frank
Greene writes in http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17361.html Presently, FLUENT can translate Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Ukrainian, Reuters says. The omissions are almost as telling as the langu

sssh, pig latin is a trade secret like CSS

2001-03-06 Thread Blank Frank
Can I tell someone about how the Aimster Pig Encoder works? IMPORTANT WARNING: DO NOT TELL ANYONE how the Aimster Pig Encoder works. Disclosing how the Aimster Pig Encoder works may be a violation of a federal law ca

pig latin for RIAA pigs

2001-03-06 Thread Blank Frank
Why would I need the Aimster Pig Encoder? As of Sunday March 4, 2001, at midnight, Napster began monitoring the file names that its users put into the Napster database, for the purpose of blo

Tomlinson spook book download -FREE

2001-03-05 Thread Blank Frank
Your members can now download a copy of Richard Tomlinson's book THE BIG BREACH from the internet at no charge. Simply log on to: http://www.thebigbreach.com/download/

AIMSTER uses DMCA "no RevEng" against RIAA

2001-03-05 Thread Blank Frank
Excerpt: In addition, Aimster is attempting to shield itself behind the very law the entertainment industry has used to go after file-swapping company Napster. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law backed by music companies and other larg

Tomlinson spook book download -FREE

2001-03-05 Thread Blank Frank
Your members can now download a copy of Richard Tomlinson's book THE BIG BREACH from the internet at no charge. Simply log on to: http://www.thebigbreach.com/download/

US GPS source code copied

2001-03-05 Thread Blank Frank
Hacker snags U.S. satellite software, codes By Robert Lemos CNET News.com An international investigation has turned up evidence that a hacker stole source code for classified software used by the U.S. Defense Department to control satellites and

Re: hack

2001-03-05 Thread Blank Frank
At 12:37 AM 3/5/01 -, kavin regni wrote: >I really want your help. >could you hack e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send me the password? >It would be great:) Please send your credit card info to this address and we will bill you only $9.95 (USD) for this service. We use a secure server, so you

Re: The Private Secretary Of The Most Honorable Sir

2001-03-04 Thread Blank Frank
At 12:51 PM 3/4/01 -0600, Aimee Farr wrote: >The Most Honorable Sir: > > >And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely >toy; but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the >lord, Host of Many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her -- the S

Nutella -the best lube for child raping

2001-03-01 Thread Blank Frank
"millions of Internet users would associate the word 'Nutella' with a virtual conglomerate of copyright pirates and friends of child pornography, rather than the family-friendly nougat spread." http://www.th

spook bugs hosed by Hanssen

2001-02-28 Thread Blank Frank
Spy Suspect May Have Revealed U.S. Bugging Espionage: Hanssen left signs that he told Russia where top-secret overseas eavesdropping devices are placed, officials

11 year old shot in back by SWAT is collateral damage

2001-02-23 Thread Blank Frank
SWAT Officer Cleared in Fatal Shooting of Boy, 11, During Modesto Raid From Associated Press MODESTO, Calif.--A SWAT team officer who shot

More buffer fun with e-bizcards this time

2001-02-23 Thread Blank Frank
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41994,00.html Beware Those Insidious Vcards by Michelle Delio 10:00 a.m. Feb. 23, 2001 PST Those little virtual business cards that some people attach to their e-mails might be dangerous. Microso

NZ gets CALEA

2001-02-23 Thread Blank Frank
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,662392a1896,FF.html Police to pay Vodafone $1m to tap criminals 22 FEBRUARY 2001 Vodafone customers will no longer escape surveillance after police complete a

mandatory state ID cards & constitutionality of prof licensing

2001-02-23 Thread Blank Frank
Workplace Anger Over Police Screenings ID and fingerprint requirements for Anaheim alcohol establishments disturb employees, union and legal experts. By KIMI YOSH

Time to liberate the brits..

2001-02-21 Thread Blank Frank
13. - (1) A person in a public place commits an offence if he- (a) wears an item of clothing, or (b) wears, carries or displays an article, in such a way or in such

people to kill

2001-02-15 Thread Blank Frank
Thursday February 15 2:42 PM ET New Jersey Student Posts 'Hit List' on Internet MIDDLESEX, N.J. (Reuters) - An eighth grader was suspended from a New Jersey middle school this week after posting a ``hit list'' of fellow studen

ernest & young & zks

2001-02-13 Thread Blank Frank
AF wrote: >ERNST & YOUNG VETERAN TAMAS HEVIZI NAMED PRESIDENT AND CEO OF >ZERO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS Pretty ironic. E & Y was the firm that did a private forensic investigation of air stewards' home computers because they were annoying an airline.

anonymity

2001-02-05 Thread Blank Frank
It proved that, in an electronic age, all communications were traceable and attributable, Mrs Bowman said in a statement. . Bush alert over pupil's prank The threats to George W Bush prompted a major alert