In today's news of the truly odd.
-
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- A newspaper editor and publisher was arrested for
publishing an article alleging a cover-up in an internal police
investigation he had filed an official complaint about, police records
show.
Dennis Cooper, 66, editor of the we
Net Authority writes:
> Dear Joe Cypherpunk,
> It has recently been brought to our attention that you are, or have
> been, in violation of the Net Authority Acceptable Internet Usage
> Guidelines. It has been reported that you distribute and/or view
> offensive materials over the Internet.
> Ne
Someone wrote:
> #Stella Nickell has never stopped denying she killed her husband
> #Bruce with cyanide in 1986. But now her defense team says they
> #can prove her innocence.
> #Nickell, 57, is serving two 90-year prison terms after being
> #found guilty of putting cyanide
Amusing little story about a minor rental car company that installed
GPS in all its vehicles, and added fine print to its contracts to say
that they will dock clients $150 each time they exceed the posted speed
limit.
One customer was unamused when they lifted an extra $450 off his debit
card, an
Nice little piece on Digital Cash by Declan on Wired.
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44507,00.html
Then Declan tries to explain blind signatures.
> Chaum's method preserved anonymity through a statistical technique. It
> can be thought of this way: A customer of a virtual bank would crea
Statement of Robert Nigh, attorney, on the occasion of the execution of
his client, Timothy McVeigh.
-
At 7 a.m. this morning, we killed Tim McVeigh, the person responsible for
the Oklahoma City bombing. But we did much more than that. We also killed
Sergeant McVeigh, the young man who jo
While reading news on the Net for the daily things that make me go "ROFL,"
I came across this piece by Brock Meeks on MSN singing the praises of
Network Vigilante Mike Echols, and peeing in his bathwater over the fact
that federal child porn laws haven't yet criminalized pictures of kids
being bea
Jim Choate Links:
> http://slashdot.org/yro/01/05/31/192230.shtml
What's interesting about this decision is that it is yet another one
which supports the notion that you don't need a warrant to search and
seize stuff, but only to "look at" what has been seized.
This, of course, is very carnivor
Cops in Idaho got a big surprise when they attempted to force six
young people to leave their rural home, and be placed into state
custody.
Our Idaho Junior Cypherpunks Academy should receive an extra large
subsidy this year.
-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010530/aponline
http://artifact.psychedelic.net/~emc/ailinks.html
There's a new movie by Steven Spielberg, from a project he picked up from
the late Stanley Kubrick, which will likely cause a "Star Wars" like
paradigm shift in our way of looking at computer programs and robots.
The movie is "AI," based somewhat
Steve writes:
> As Tim has mentioned. Sites with controversial content who wish not to
> be at the mercy of ISPs should consider hosting their content via a P2P
> system (e.g., Mojo Nation.)
> They need only provide an automated redirection Web page with no
> controversial content and a Mojo-st
A small addendum. Hostcentric, unhappy at comments about its threatened
unplugging of Phix's web server, unplugged it yesterday. This wasn't even
a day after their email threatening to discontinue service to Phix if the
SafeHaven web site was not dropped.
People thinking of doing business with
Jim Choate writes:
>> I've never said any such thing.
> Don't confuse the issue with a strawman. I didn't say "You said it", I
> said it was a logical and rational reduction of your statements. Simply
> that your position could be explained in a simpler manner. I re-worded it,
> I most certainly
Jim Choate writes:
>> Tim asserts that the falsehood "John is a child molester" should not be
>> subject to either civil or criminal action.
> Exactly. The simple act of making that statement in public or private,
> alone or in a crowd is irrelevant to any action that follows. It therefore
> can
Jim Choate Writes:
> - Each individual should show no self control over their speech,
> they should in fact blabber whatever comes into their heads
> in a continous stream of noise. Otherwise it's 'censorship'
> because somebody might find the silence offensive
I've never s
Jim Choate opines:
> Extortion is theft by threat. The fact that it is done via speech or not
> is irrelevant. It is the use of force that makes this a crime, not the
> mechanism of that force.
>> "I have your kid and if you don't put $50,000 in a brown paper bag, I'm
>> sending you an ear."
Be
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft postponed next
> week's execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
> until June 11 and ordered an investigation into the FBI's failure to
> turn over thousands of documents to McVeigh's defense team.
This looks like the govern
Jim Choate writes:
>> If Fred has an odd sense of humor, and tells blind people the opposite
>> of what the traffic lights say, his actual speech needs to be managed.
> You don't 'control the speech' you punish the son of a bitch for at least
> attempted murder. A couple of those and 'odd sense
Tim writes:
> I make it a point not to respond to people who use the tired chestnut
> "Timmy" in their arguments or examples.
If it doesn't apply to you... etc.
The "Timmy" in my hypothetical example isn't you any more than Alice,
John, or Fred are you.
Tim Writes:
>> That would imply that only criminal and not civil action could be
>> employed when someone is injured or made less wealthy by the actions of
>> another, in the absence of contract, consideration, or concrete
>> property right.
> Many actions make others less wealthy. When a Border
Jim Choate wrote:
> Note that at NO time should anyones actual speech be monitored, measured,
> or otherwise 'managed' by any 3rd party. It simply isn't needed.
Oh Bullshit.
If Fred has an odd sense of humor, and tells blind people the opposite of
what the traffic lights say, his actual speech
John Young reports:
> The judge ruled that publication of the names and addresses of
> the cops and their families is protected by the First Amendment.
I'm really torn on this. As you no doubt know, there are numerous Network
Vigilantes who would publish my personal information instantly if th
The government is being real careful not to let Tim McVeigh have a forum
to speak prior to his closed-circuit murder on May 16th. They have
forbiddden any televised interviews, and the lap dogs in the US press are
being very careful to not quote verbatim a single word McVeigh has said,
instead re
Tim Writes:
> I am simply shocked, shocked I tell you, that such a site is making
> monkeys of us all.
> There ought to be a law.
http://tim.may.wasarrested.com/CA/Corralitos
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
Eyewitnesses report former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerry rounded up unarmed
women and children in Vietnam, and ordered his troops to open fire.
Does Sentator Kerry deserve Lethal Injection too?
Perhaps on Pay Per View with the proceeds going to the surviving relatives
of his victims.
-
NEW
> Debating the Ban on Virtual Porn
> By Declan McCullagh
> 2:00 a.m. Apr. 24, 2001 PDT
> WASHINGTON -- A federal law that prohibits creating erotic images of
> minors should be upheld, antiporn groups told the U.S. Supreme Court
> on Monday.
This will be an interesting case.
The precedent for c
Jon Beets writes:
> Hmmm lets see, if I remember right that actually was not an air raid
> shelter it was a military hold which the people of the community were
> told was "safe" to hide in... Or am I just to believe that is our own
> government propaganda?
Yes, it was our own government propag
Well, now that the government's Pay Per View killing of Timothy McVeigh is
less than a month away, the disinformation campaign seems to be ramping up
in order to self-servingly spin his crime.
Witness the following pious piece of crap making the Email route around
the Net. Comments in [] are min
Tim May Wrote:
> Yep, all obvious stuff.
...
> Time for Plan C.
Obvious too that if Jim Bell were a nym, there would be no one to send to
prison.
Now that the standard for sending someone away for five years is nothing
more than a statement by some jackbooted thug that they feel "harrassed,"
Norm writes:
> Can a suspected pedophile claim that a virus downloaded the porn without
> him knowing?
> Preposterous? But can a cop or a lawyer explain why the defense is
> preposterous?
Prior to the mainstreaming of Jesus Freaks and Victimology, I recall that
a study estimated the total numbe
Norm Writes:
> The Judge in the case was a Carter appointee who
> came out of retirement just to hear Als case.
> Judge
> Tanners behavior in the trial created a court
> transcript
> that can only be
Tim May Wrote:
>> I think the Bell case indicates the need for Cypherpunks to start
>> writing code again, and stop engaging in meatspace theatrics.
> First, Bell's actions are not the actions of most members of this
> mailing list. Frankly, this is a logical error: referring to
> "Cypherpunks
Ah, I see Declan has posted his impressions of Day 5 on Wired News.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42951,00.html
> Jim Bell's Strange Day in Court
> by Declan McCullagh
> Bell's lawyer, Robert Leen, twice asked U.S. District Judge Jack
> Tanner to halt the proceedings because his
DCF wrote:
> Save that the Feds have no interest in proceeding against any list
> posters with cash and brains (or perhaps self-control).
I think the Bell case indicates the need for Cypherpunks to start writing
code again, and stop engaging in meatspace theatrics.
Then no one would be on trial
Norm Deplume wrote:
> Law And Justice
> by Irv Benzion
...
> You are probably unaware as was I that it is illegal to criticize a
> federal judge or his/her actions or to cause "disrespect" to the federal
> court system. A federal judge may if in his/her opinion such an
> occurrence arises, iss
Does anyone know why the Cypherpunks archive at
www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/ has been down for over a day now?
If it's just a DNS problem, could someone post a numeric IP.
Thanks.
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The
Anonymous writes:
> Note that everyone who has ever disagreed with Mr. Echols is by
> definition a "child sex predator and child pornographer" and winds up
> having any personal information Mr. Echols can scrape up on them placed
> on Mr. Echols Web site of "child sex predators and child pornogra
Alan Olsen wrote:
> It is illegal and it *IS* pyramid scam. Anyone who tells you it is not is
> trying to "gift" you.
Christians trying to get other Christians to help them, in order that
still other Christians will help those Christians, is an "Illegal Pyramid
Scheme?"
We seem to have laws ag
A US Federal Appeals Court has tossed out the $109 million verdict against
anti-abortion activists who ran a website called "The Nuremberg Files",
which listed the personal information of abortion doctors, and cheered
whenever one of them was killed.
The Judge opined that as long as the defe
Blank Frank wrote:
> McVeigh's Former Attorney Willing to
>Testify Against Nichols
This was the guy who acted like he was on the prosecution payroll
all during the trial, right?
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be
The AP is reporting that the three year old son of a police officer, in
Clarkesdale, Mississippi, climbed into the back seat of the family truck
while his off-duty father stopped for gas, picked up dad's pistol, aimed
it at the gas station attendant, and shot him in the face.
The attendant, an un
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Internet is the ability of
small groups of motivated individuals to create the types of privacy
intrusions that used to be the exclusive domain of governments, law
enforcement, and credit bureaus.
Gone are the early days when the Net was solely governmen
An anonymous twit writes:
> Anger expressed by commission is usually justified by laudable motives,
> e.g. concern for the well-being of the victim. The expression of the
> anger is dictated by the desire to wound while concealing the intention
> to wound -- even the existence of the anger. This
Declan McCullagh wrote:
>> I guess Declan must feel that as long as it's James Dalton Bell, and
>> his elderly parents, who are the only likely victims of the anal
>> plungering such comments engender, that it's great journalistic fun to
>> put "Cypherpunk Terrorist Vows Revenge" articles at the
Robb London writes:
> Attorney General Ashcroft personally approved your subpoena, and that
> of another reporter who published admissions by James Dalton Bell.
I'm sure he did.
> The Government is not seeking any source material, notes, or other
> unpublished material from you by virtue of thi
> Uh... Clue alert! It was the clueless teacher who brought the
> charges and the prosecutor dropped them stating that the teacher could
> have no expectation of privacy in a classroom of 30 students. That neither
> sounds like the government nor the prosecutors.
In a criminal case, the plain
More "Zero Intelligence" from the public school system.
http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/national/ap448.htm
-
NAVARRE, Fla. (AP) -- A high school student has been charged with
violating Florida's wiretapping law after tape recording a chemistry class
lecture.
Asher Zaslaw, 17, pleaded not
Remember quite some time ago, when then NY Attorney General Dennis Vacco
tried to jump-start his bid for re-election by seizing the news servers of
two local ISPs claiming that he had busted a "Virtual University Devoted
to the Sexual Abuse of Children" and that the two ISPs in question
provided c
48 matches
Mail list logo
