Don Farmer of Lufkin, outside of Dallas, said he heard loud noises that lasted for 10 to 15 seconds. The noise sounded like dynamite exploding, and he thought it was an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
Rick D. Husband
William C. McCool
Michael P. Anderson
David M. Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
Dozens of people, including several officers, reported seeing "a ball of fire," Bowie County Sheriff's office dispatcher Jodine Langford said.
"They saw it go out and then break into pieces," she said.
Officials said no tracking data were available.
Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, was among the seven-person crew.
There was no official reaction from the Israeli government, but a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said, "Like everyone else, we are feeling terrible, hoping the slightest hope that still remains at this stage will become a reality."
Shuttle commander Rick D. Husband, pilot William C. McCool, payload commander Michael P. Anderson, mission specialists David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark were also on board.
Columbia is the oldest of NASA's shuttle fleet, first launched in 1981. It was on its 28th mission.
But Pepys reports on these public events not as a professional but as an ordinary observer. He claims no special authority. He is a new kind of reporter. Descriptions of the public realm — funerary processions, incinerated homes, governmental corruption — are accompanied by private confessions. There is a boil under Pepys's chin. He buries his gold and accepts kickbacks. He slips his hands under his mistresses' petticoats, describing onrushing pleasures in a private tongue of multilingual phrases. He gives his wife a black eye; she threatens him with a red-hot fire iron.
Teleportation Takes Another Step
AFP
Jan. 31 — It's not quite "Star Trek" — for Captain Kirk, read a batch of light particles — but teleportation is making headway.
From an idea that was only considered practicable 10 years ago, scientists on Thursday say they have succeeded in teleporting laser photons over two kilometers (1.25 miles), the biggest distance yet achieved
By Ibon Villelabeitia
PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia (Reuters) - Ten hippopotamuses roam wild among the ruins of the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's abandoned country home, leaving huge footprints in the mud and scaring the wits out of the local cows.
Actually, I don’t know. Ask Minotauro, who currently have my backlist there.
When I was in Barcelona it was explained to me how excruciatingly difficult the job of translation is, not only because of the texts themselves, but because the resulting translation must be able to work simultaneously in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico – all slightly different in terms of certain usages.
PAPA LEGBA
The Archangel Gabriel might possibly cut some ice, but I personally would not want to have either Saint Isadore of Seville or Saint Clare of Assisi standing in for the Lord of the Crossroads.
As my friend Johan says, he's the business.
The above is a quote from William Gibson's blog. Click the headline or the pic to go there.
posted by Gary Williams at 10:18 PM
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"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Link courtesy Mandarin Design: click on the headline and make your own blogsticker at the Blogsticker Factory.
posted by Gary Williams at 8:22 PM
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Van gets into CafePress hassle over Santa Cruz Nude Demo Postcards
My buddy Vangelis, who had endless hassles about the pictures he took of the Santa Cruz Nude Demo he published in the Santa Cruz IndyMedia (and the San Francisco IndyMedia, who ended up surpressing them), (earlier stories below and in the archives) now has a sequence of fun starting over postcards he made and offered on CafePress. In my opinion, I think Van was offering them more or less as souveniers for participants (and looking to make a few bucks). Not the photo he was hassled over before, but the distance shot he added as a peace offering, since no-one is recognizable in the distance shot. The reference to "Emerison" is because Van used "Emerson Carter" as a pseudonym.
On the IndyMedia email list from: "Jane Sullivan"
Edison
Hmmm you didn't get model releases and I am being contacted by some
of the participants. I suggest you look at photographers rights at
The Association Photographers of America. You don't want to look at a
lawsuit do you? And selling postcards....not really in the spirit of
the event :(
Jane
from: "Vangelis"
Ahh, so it begins. It was only a matter of time.
For the record, I've responded to her off-list because properly speaking
it's not an SCIMC issue.
Something tells me my entry won't be welcome in SCIF this year. Too bad,
it was gonna be my first.
At 12:46 PM 1/30/2003 -0800, Jane Sullivan wrote:
>Edison
>Hmmm you didn't get model releases and I am being contacted by some of the
>participants. I suggest you look at photographers rights at The
>Association Photographers of America. You don't want to look at a lawsuit
>do you? And selling postcards....not really in the spirit of the event :(
>
>Jane
/\oO/\ Vangelis - Life is my religion; the world is
my altar.
Tower of High Sorcery, Scott's Valley.
PGP encrypted mail preferred, key ID: 0x475EF91F
I sent Van a note asking about the postcards. Van replies to me:
At 05:24 PM 1/30/2003 -0500, Gary Williams wrote:
>What's this about selling postcards? Can I get one?
Hey, you've got a Cafe Shop too huh? Hmm.... hehe, "Axis of Weasels",
cute. And of course the good ol DeCSS gear.
Mine's at http://cafeshops.com/network23tv. Although the ones Im printing
off of my own hardware are even better, if you ask me. I've been giving
out the singles so far, just to gauge response and advertise, but I've been
thinking I should sell the singles for $2 since the printing costs are
getting up there. However, if it's just a free sample ya want, no
problem. Next SCIMC meeting? I gave out a bunch last Sunday. Traded
Bradley for some of his new SCIMC bumper stickers (which Ive since been
stealthily planting all around town in strategic locations.)
Oh, that is if I'm not gone that weekend - Valentine's Day and all, the
girlfriend and I may be doing Tahoe.
If you wanna give me an address, what the heck - I'll slap a stamp on one
and send it to ya instead (check the website and tell me which version you
want). It's not like that's hard. Walking to the mailbox - oooh, exercise.
I sent Van my mailing address and he promised to mail me a card. (And we exchanged some gripes about people not granting white men rights to anything ((especially my ex!)).)
and email on the IndyMedia list from Van again:
Here comes round 2! Sullivan backed down, but now some Paul Franklin guy
is demanding I take down the cards on CafePress.
I told him to get lost, so he'll probably threaten CP next. I assume
they'll cave in to fear and just kill my site. If not right off the bat,
then as soon as they get some "cease and desist" threat on any random
lawyer's stationary.
Ironic, isnt it - activists stage a publicity event designed to send a
message to the world, and then they try to supress that message. It's a
miracle that they accomplish anything at all.
-Van
/\oO/\ Vangelis - Life is my religion; the world is
my altar.
Tower of High Sorcery, Scott's Valley.
PGP encrypted mail preferred, key ID: 0x475EF91F
Good luck, Van!
Update: Van replies to somebody else:
At 03:42 PM 1/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Seems Ms. Sullivan (whoever she is), on behalf of anonymous participants
>in the protest, is grumbling now. The word "lawsuit" has already been
>tossed out once. She's also launched one trial arrow about my not getting
>release form signatures from people.
Just for the record since the subject was already broached here, Jane
Sullivan has dropped the subject, saying that she was only the messenger
and that she's not looking to sue anybody.
Since she seems to be a luminary in the local indy film scene, I wanted to
clear her name instead of letting rumors grow.
/\oO/\ Vangelis - Life is my religion; the world is my altar.
Tower of High Sorcery, Scott's Valley.
PGP encrypted mail preferred, key ID: 0x475EF91F
Generally-speaking, there are two types of key establishment techniques: 1) techniques based on asymmetric (public key) algorithms, and 2) techniques based on symmetric (secret key) algorithms. However, hybrid techniques are also commonly used, whereby public key techniques are used to establish symmetric (secret) key encryption keys, which are then used to establish other symmetric (secret) keys.
Currently, one (1) FIPS-approved* secret key-based technique, is specified in FIPS 171, Key Management Using ANSI X9.17.
Apparently nearly everybody has closed port 1434 and most of the SQL servers have been patched or taken off-line or put behind a firewall with the appropriate filters in place, so the SQL Slammer worm is less of a problem that it was a few days ago.
As meg says, I've played in this rodeo before...
Oh, the pic and the headline above are linked to the Internet Storm Center -- click on it and bookmark, it's a good place to know about.
posted by Gary Williams at 11:09 AM
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SUIT NETWORK SURGERY
for
Dummies
MEG, you may need this!
At Mandarin Design, it sounds like the suits and the network security nits have walked into a wall again. As you may have been noting from my quotes from intrusions@incidents.org, the SQL slammer worm has been giving folks fits. One thing I haven't passed along is that Micro$oft has included its SQL code in a variety of other products, Visio and a variety of MSDE products, because the i@i debate has been pretty techie and not particularly illuminating yet. But apparently a lot of folks are discovering vunerabilities that aren't exactly obvious or straightforward. So the nits at work have apparently been looking for somebody to pass the blame to. Go read meg's blog today and you'll get some of the idea. (The bit about "security issues" is fairly funny if you're an out-of-work programmer like me...)
Anyhow, meg published a table setup about "XXX for Dummies" books awhile back (a week or so ago) and asked for our versions, so mine is up-left there. It seems appropriate. Here's the code (if you want to make one for yourself):
Anna at Belligerent Bunny Blog found a fascinating Darpa development, Loki. Sure looks cool. Wonder whether it will work.
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Thursday, January 30, 2003
Anybody know what Slow And Heavy excercise means?
A couple of weeks ago, I remember one of the women bloggers talking about Slow And Heavy as an excercise regimen. But I can't remember who, where or when. So yesterday I was talking to a friend from California, and she was talking about excercising at the gymn, lifting weights and doing cardio-aerobics and such, and I tried to tell her about Slow And Heavy, but I couldn't remember enough to tell her much, except that it involves doing very slow lifts with large weights, and that it was some kind of excercise fad and she should ask her training folks at the gym and one of them might know what it was.
So then I remembered Marn, but couldn't find her site. So I chased around (I remember is was on Diaryland, which I consistently think of as Dairy-Land, Moo! so I clicked on Dogs Don't Purr, which is also in Diaryland, and used the host-supplied button to look at the list of blogs there. And couldn't find it. I did find some truely weird ones (poetry on bright orange backgrounds and such), but no weight-lifting women. Finally I started going through my Favorites list (I like Netscape's word, Bookmarks, better) and, lost in the lower levels of the unclassified blogs (with Jerry Pournelle's and such), and, while I was waiting for some random site to load (veeerrrrry slooooowly), the mousepointer wandered up the list and the little pop-out label had Diaryland in it, and I looked again and it was Marn's site.
Since today I've been adding sites from other countries (like yesterday I added Tim Blair from Australia, cause he answered my spam with a link, and Merde and the frogman, cause I figured they had good sites, and I owed 'em) like Iranian Girl and the photo site from either Iran or Iraq that I can't pronounce (found it via Iranian Girl's links), I decided I should add another woman's site and added Marn's Big Adventure. But today Marn is talking about earning a virtual rubber duck for completing the first 10th of her 500-mile "run" to nowhere, and when I clicked around to see if I could find a Slow And Heavy reference all I found was Beaker, I gave up. Besides maybe it was the Pink Letter From Gotham or Jane Galt or daGodess or Dogs Don't Purr. Almost certainly not Anna Belligerent Bunny or meg from Mandarin Design. Who knows.
Do you? Slow And Heavy, anyone?
posted by Gary Williams at 11:39 PM
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My store, permission from the dissident frogman, and an apology
Dear Gary Williams,
Although I can't say I disapprove this use per se, I must tell you honestly that I became irritated by the fact that your request for permission is coming after the actual creation of the shop and its promotion on your blog, particularly since you apparently dropped the "credits" part.
I couldn't find any clear statement about the author (yep, me) of the original design, over the whole store. What's more, the way you put it on your blog is somewhat ambiguous in my opinion.
This is somehow confirmed by what I've read from other bloggers linking to this information:
"Gary Williams is selling Axis of Weasels merchandise!" (Shark Blog)
"WEASELWEAR! Get your Axis of Weasels shirts, caps, briefcases, and – ooh la la! – thongs and panties here." (Tim Blair)
"Axis of Weasel Store
Gary Williams has set up a store for all your Axis of Weasel needs.
I'm sure they take euros, now that Vichy francs and Reichmarks have been abolished." (Amish Tech Support)
There goes the dissident frogman and his paternity on the artwork. Down in the dustbin of oblivion...
Don't get me wrong: I'm not talking about "copyrights" and I'm not talking about "infringement".
I'm talking about civility, elegance of conduct and respect for the fruit of other people's work.
Savoir-vivre, as we, bloody froggies use to say.
Granted, it's a bit old fashioned but that's one of the very few remains of our (well, err...) glorious past, so we sure stick up for this one.
Look at this store of yours from the point of view of the creator of the artwork you used and tell me if you really think it's fair to start making money out of someone else's guts before actually asking for his/her permission. No matter what the "Law" would or wouldn't say, since "Law" is definitely not the point here.
I wrote "someone else's guts" on purpose, because that's what every work of creation is.
The fact that I made these pictures "for fun" and gave them away as desktop wallpapers "for free" does not mean it's being expelled out of my a*** and down in the loo without me caring for what will happen to it next.
Every creator's piece of work, should he/she be a writer, a painter, a cabinetmaker or whatever else, is like a child to him/herself.
We conceive them, we give them birth and we nurture them.
And we sure don't like to see our children being hijacked and exploited.
So now... the deed is done and there's hardly anything I can do without looking like I am the bad grouchy guy.
Consequently, I grant you my permission to use my artwork on the products you already set up in your store.
Since I can use any extra money to renew the dissident frogman's hosting subscription, I'll accept a share on the benefits if you still keep up with your generous offer to concede me a part of the money you'll be making with my work.
I know how CafePress works, since I already set up some stores and used their service. If you agree, I'll be sending you the details of a PayPal account on which I'd like you to address the installments.
I have no other option but to trust you on this.
Hope you'll live up to my expectations,
Best regards,
the dissident frogman
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http://thedissidentfrogman.now.nu/
art against europpression
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Williams" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 04:40
Subject: want an Axis of Weasels cap? or teddybear? (SPAM and request for permission)
> I just created a cafeshops store including Axis of Weasels caps, a clock and
> stuff. Take a look at my blog or the store if you like.
>
> I asked W at merde to forward a message to you, since I couldn't get through
> to your site earlier. But now I did, so here's the request: do you approve
> of this use? Do you want a share, or a fee for the use of these partial
> images?
>
> Be well and happy!
> --Gary
> ----
> Homepage: http://home.corninglink.com/gwms
> Resume: http://home.corninglink.com/gwms/resume.htm
> Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/
> Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/
> Phone: (607) 775-0408
>
First, the apologies: I'm sorry I didn't wait to get permission before creating the shop -- I guess I just got excited. I did write as soon as I could. As for credit, I put credit in the write-up I put in the blog, but I don't know how to add text to the store. I'll go look at the site and see if I can figure that out. I will say that I included the URL for the dissident frogman in the weasel picture, deliberately, so credit will go where credit is due. Hope that helps.
When I used the images in my blog initially, I did send notice and ask for permission for use -- while I didn't get a response from the dissident frogman, I did get permission from W at Merde in France, which I took to be an ok for that use (since I assumed, without evidence except association between web sites) that you folks know each other.
And yes, when I get money from the store, I'll send you half of what's from any of the Axis of Weasels products. (As of this afternoon, CafePress said there was $22 coming...sometime...)
Frogman, please accept my apologies for not waiting for definite permission.
And thanks to the four folks who bought t-shirts...
Update: I just went up to CafePress and found the text box where you write a "description of the store" and added credit to the dissident frogman for the Axis of Weasel images used, and gave credit to Andrés Guadamuz González, Law Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, for what I believe is public domain material quoted in the appendix to his DeCSS paper I quoted below. And I sent a copy of the top of the store with the new text to the dissident frogman asking if he wanted it reworded. And I realised I needed to do the same for the law article (I'd sent a notice that I'd quoted from his article here in my blog and used material from the appendix in the store earlier), so I copied the letter I sent to the frogman and sent that to Mr. (or Dr.?) Guadamuz González too.
Whew! I've never done this sort of stuff on the net before (most of what I've published or sold has been through places where I worked, where they had staff who cleared permissions for you, duh...) Well, like I said, I think everything I've used is public domain, I have asked for permission and now tried to make sure I've given proper credit. We'll see how this works...
Further Update:Andrés Guadamuz says that the Appendix material is public domain. Here's my original letter to him and his reply:
[mailto:gwms@corninglink.com]
Sent: 31 January 2003 00:50
To: a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk
Subject: notice of quotes and linkage
I quoted your article about DeCSS on my blog and provided links to your
paper and your email, http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/
and used what I believe is public domain material quoted in the
appendix of your paper on a mug, a frisbee, a poster and other things at
a CafePress shop. http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/
From: "Andres Guadamuz" <a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk>
To: "'Gary Williams'" <gwms@corninglink.com>
Subject: RE: notice of quotes and linkage
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:05:32 -0000
Hi,
I am grateful for that, thanks! Yes, the appendix information and the
perl script are all public domain, but as you may have noticed with the
article, there may be an argument as to whether posting the number may
be legal. Gratefully, the DVD-CCA has not come knocking on my door...
yet.
Andres
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Williams
Next thing will be RIAA banging on my door for quoting DeCSS, right?
posted by Gary Williams at 7:03 PM
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Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper. While there are dozens of other sites on the web devoted to Stephen Hawking's scientific achievements, I am unaware of a single site (aside from this one) devoted to his career as a lyrical terrorist.
Despite three critically acclaimed albums and nearly ten years on the mic, Stephen Hawking remains virtually unknown as a musician. Well to hell with that noize, this is a new millenium and my boy MC Hawking is gonna be crazy large! So check out the crib.
This graph shows the number of distinct sources we have in our database for each second.
The important thing to realize is that this was a 'traffic limited' worm. Most worms are "victim limited". As such, the number of hosts they infect in each time interval is proportional to the number of already infected hosts and the number of hosts that are left to be infected. (for the math geeks: dI/dt=I(v-I) I: infected hosts, t time, T total reachable hosts, v initially vulnerable hosts )
This worm was different. The worm has a very fast ramp up, but as it saturates the pipes, the infection rate drops and stays constant at this lower rate.
I did plot this in http://isc.sans.org/initialrate.gif the curve would have the same shape for a 'victim limited' worm. But you would see less new infections after the traffic levels off. (unless you have significant cleanup at the same time, which I
doubt after 20-30 Seconds)
So what does this mean:
(1) this wasn't realy a 'flash worm' as I thought initially, even
though it was close.
(2) using a better targeting algorithm, e.g. like Nimda, would
have made this worm more dangerous than it already was.
(3) if you setup filters as a stop-gap measure, be very careful
as you remove them and watch traffic for a while. (don't remove
the filter as you are about to go home for the day)
If you look at the number of cumulative IPs scanning for port 1434
Quantum Mechanics Of Sandwiches In Lunchboxes
Sandwiches Are Actually Different At Different Locations
by Roel van der Meulen (vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl) written 09 Dec 1993
This article is classified "Partly real, partly fictional"
An extremely important aspect of hitchhiking is lunch. There are different
ways to provide for lunch. I will discuss one of them.
Some hitchhikers prefer to prepare their lunch in advance. They make a few
(2-120) sandwiches and put them in a specially designed lunchbox or
lunchbag. This is also common practice among the people who have this idea
stuck in their head that they have to frantically work at least eight hours
a day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, to EARN money in order to live
and buy. Needless to say, an infertile thought.
What everyone experiences when applying this lunching technique is that the
prepared sandwiches actually taste different at different locations. On the
move (or at work) they taste fresh and revitalizing. On the other hand, if
around lunchtime one finds oneself at the preparation location (home?)
and discovers the completely forgotten lunchbox, one will find that the
sandwiches have changed into a mummifying sponge-like substance. (It is not
advised in this situation to leave the sandwiches for the next day. Unless
of course you are one of those beings who likes its greens (and has the
stomach for it.))
Some people might say this is a psychological phenomenon. Rest assured: IT
IS NOT. This is yet another example of the consequences of the macroscopic
form of Quantum Mechanics. Once the sandwiches are prepared and put into
the box, their state can be described by a rather complex wave function.
This wave function indicates the probability of finding an edible lunch in
your lunchbox and it collapses to a definite state whenever the lunchbox is
opened.
Dobby, the computer-animated elf in the new Harry Potter film, could be at the centre of a court battle over his resemblance to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
A Russian law firm is reportedly drawing up legal action against the special effects people who dreamt up Dobby, arguing that the ugly but caring elf has been modelled on Mr Putin.
The Kremlin and Warner Bros, producer of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, have declined to comment but the controversy has stirred emotions in Russia.
The colliding galaxies known as The Mice and their black holes will eventually merge into a single giant galaxy. Such mergers can generate a quasar phase of galactic evolution.
‘Co-evolution’ theory shakes up dark reputation
By Robert Roy Britt
SPACE.COM
Jan. 28 — Black holes suffer a bad rap. Indicted by the press as gravity monsters, labeled highly secretive by astronomers, and long considered in theoretical circles as mere endpoints of cosmic evolution, these unseen objects are depicted as mysterious drains of destruction and death. So it may seem odd to reconsider them as indispensable forces of creation. Yet this is the bright new picture of black holes and their role in the evolution of the universe.
INTERVIEWS WITH MORE than a half dozen experts presently involved in rewriting the slippery history of these elusive objects reveals black holes as galactic sculptors.
In this revised view, which still contain some highly debated facts, fuzzy paragraphs and sketchy initial chapters, black holes are shown to be fundamental forces in the development and ultimate shapes of galaxies and the distribution of stars in them. The new history also shows that a black hole is almost surely a product of the galaxy in which it resides. Neither, it seems, does much without the other.
The emerging theory has a nifty, Darwinist buzzword: co-evolution.
basically, it tells you how many reports (packets) we received
that implicate the source hitting a given number of distinct targets
at that particular date using the listed targetport. The 'authors'
column shows how many DShield users reported this source/date/targetport
combination. All anonymous submissions count as one author.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are bare breasts, naked bottoms and a cover girl wearing three well-placed shells and a bit of sand, but this is no girlie magazine. It's historical. It's cultural. And it's definitely geographic.
The venerable yellow-bordered magazine, long a repository of gorgeous family-friendly photography, is publishing its first swimsuit issue, on newsstands and online Saturday.
A "Unified Theory" For Calculus ROLLA, Mo. --
A University of Missouri-Rolla mathematician's research into a "unified theory" of continuous and discrete calculus is gaining the attention of mathematicians worldwide for numerous applications, including the study of insect populations.
Dr. Martin Bohner, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at UMR, introduced his work on dynamic equations and time scales at the American Mathematical Society's annual meeting in January 2002 in San Diego. Bohner's paper, "Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales," was recently cited as "Fast Breaking" by ISI Essential Science Indicators. The designation means the work represents scientific contributions that are just beginning to attract the attention of the scientific community. Bohner co-authored the paper with Dr. Donald Lutz of San Diego State University.
The world's first neutrino telescope is up and running, UCI scientists say.
By PAT BRENNAN
The Orange County Register
Tiny black holes whizzing through the Earth's atmosphere several times a minute. Gravity "leaking" into other dimensions. A solution to a mystery that vexed Einstein to his grave.
It sounds a lot like science fiction, but it isn't. Each of these fantastic possibilities - and a good many more - could be made real with the help of a giant instrument in the Antarctic ice that one astrophysicist compared to Galileo's first telescope. AMANDA, a hunter of ghostly particles known as neutrinos, is ready to go to work. Scientists are now fine-tuning the instrument.
"We are going to look for the most powerful and exotic objects out there," said astrophysicist Steven Barwick of the University of California, Irvine, now at the South Pole, where the temperature are -4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Update: I hope the folks I spammed (I put (SPAM) in the subject line to warn off anyone who might be offended) don't mind too much. And I hope the dissident frogman gives me permission to use the image fragments I copied (I couldn't get through to his site for most of this afternoon, so I sent him email via Merde in France, who I thought might be able to forward the request). Anyways, today I ran across some spam for CafePress in the email I've been getting from Bravenet and the other services I've signed up with recently and decided I'd set up a store. I fiddled with the Axis of Weasels images I used below and did a GIF of the DeCSS Prime number I quoted today in Andrés Guadamuz González's law journal article writeup and used both images to make up the T-shirts, thong, panty, tote bags and other stuff, including the things pictured above.
And thanks to Stefan Sharkansky for the fast response and the quick link.
Further Update: And thanks to Tim Blair for the compliment and the link.And, Joanie, daGoddess, says,"Ooooh! I needed new spam! I was running low. Thank you!"
The frantic message came from the corporation's information technology workers: "HELP NEEDED: If you have servers that are nonessential, please shut down."
The computer system was under attack by a rogue program called SQL Slammer, which affected servers running Microsoft software that had not been updated with a patch — issued months ago — to fix the vulnerability. The worm hindered the operations of hundreds of thousands of computers, slowed Internet traffic and even disrupted thousands of A.T.M. terminals.
But this wasn't happening at just any company. It was occurring at Microsoft itself. Some internal servers were affected, and service to users of the Microsoft Network was significantly slowed.
The Drug War Vigil Memorial Group is a social justice think tank that was founded in the fall of 2000. We are five medical cannabis users, dedicated to ending the War on Drugs. We as a group collectively recognize that the militarization of this medical issue and the criminalization of the chronically sick, terminally ill and chemically dependent has resulted in the needless loss of human life, and that this is the true crime.
We create and promote social justice journalism and the 2002 Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl Drug War Vigil Film Festival was one such example. We are proud to announce the 2nd Annual Drug War Vigil Film Festival to be hosted again in May 2003. Our group is honored to be affiliated with this world-class event and thank Marc Emery for his extraordinary activism in action in support of this event.
Send us your films of 30 mins or less on any topic related to cannabis, drugs and the drug war. Submitted only in plain old VHS tape or Hi-8 or digital 8.
The films will be screened and judged by participants at the Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl May 1-4 2003, in Vancouver, BC.
The film chosen for first place will receive a Grand Prize of $2000 US. Cash prizes totalling $2700 US will be awarded for the top four runner-up films. Other runners-up shown on pot-tv.net will receive honorariums of up to $250.00 US.
You must register your film for entry by March 14, 2003 to be eligible. We will need to receive the finished film by April 14, 2003.
[Live Without Dead Time]
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Andrés Guadamuz González
Law Lecturer
University of Edinburgh
a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk
Abstract
The DVD video format has become one of the most important developments in the home entertainment market since the popularisation of the magnetic video recording. The film industry delivered this format with a built in security system which was supposed to avoid illegal copying of the discs, much as what is taking place with the music CD and the almost indiscriminate copying of music into MP3 format over the Internet. This was achieved by means of encryption technology.
This essay deals with the cracking of DVD encryption and its further diffusion as a computer programme named DeCSS, which has been made available over the Internet in various formats, including t-shirts and a numerical representation of the code. There are three court cases based on the online posting of this programme, two in the United States and one in Norway. The article starts by describing the technology involved, as it is felt by the author that some of these technical issues are of importance to the legal implications of the case and should be understood properly. The article then deals with the developments in all of the three cases up to this date. The essay then finishes with a look at the legal issues involved, including hyper-linking, trade secrets, freedom of speech and the translation of DeCSS into numerical format.
Keywords: Encryption, Prime Numbers, DVD, Hyper-linking, DeCSS
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This is a Refereed article published on 6 December 2002.
Citation: Guadamuz A,'Trouble with Prime Numbers: DeCSS, DVD and the Protection of Proprietary Encryption Tools', The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) 2002 (3)
<http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-3/guadamuz.html>.
This article also includes the following version of DeCSS!:
Here are Bill's latest filings:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/purdy.declaration.012703.doc
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/purdy.1a.claim.012703.doc
According to Bill's declaration -- in a move sure to please the judge and
the Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering lawyers representing the WashPost -- he
registered these domains on Monday:
www.iLOVEtheWashingtonPost.com
www.iHATEtheWashingtonPost.com
www.SatanLOVEStheWashingtonPost.com
www.JesusLOVEStheWashingtonPost.com
-Declan
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From: "William S. Purdy" To: "Declan McCullagh" Subject: Bill Purdy says, "Thank you God for Politech FREE thinkers."
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:50:39 -0600
Dear Declan,
Thank GOD for Politech, and for the Politech free thinkers that read
Politech. Many of your readers that emailed responses (and there were a
very large number of them) DO NOT share my views on abortion, and don't
particularly like my means of communicating my opinions about abortion,
i.e. the graphic pictures of aborted babies. But ALL of them know what is
at stake here, and have the intellectual capability to prioritize the
issues at hand as to the issue of immediate importance. They all were VERY
SUPPORTIVE and offered very positive advice as how to defend my rights to
speak within domain names. Many also offered their opinion as to whether
to go to Jail over this issue, and offered other means to legally defend
these rights without going to jail. Many also answered the several
questions I had about what Federal prison will be like. Declan, I think
you'd be surprised at how many of your faithful readers have jail-time
experience - ha!
To all of you Politech readers that responded to my plight I say a great
big, "THANK YOU." I have pretty much decided that I will GO TO JAIL
before I will "purge" my registration and use of the domain name
www.TheWasingtonPostJESUS.com. It absolutely makes no sense to me that I am
allowed to have or speak www.TheWashingtonPostSUCKS.com and
www.TheWashingtonPostSATAN.com but I am not allowed to have or speak
www.TheWashingtonPostJESUS.com. I don't know if the well-known Jesus
people or the celebrity Christian preachers will come to my defense or not,
but what the heck, I have the Politech people coming to my defense! I
figure I have the best possible defense, the prayers from fellow Christians
working for justice from above, and power of intellect and academic
persuasion from the Politech intellectuals here on earth. Thanks again
Declan to you, and to all your wonderful readers. "Thank God for Politech,
and for the Politech FREE thinkers."
Yours, Bill Purdy
P.S. USA TODAY thinks it's an important
issue: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-24-domain-jail_x.htm
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Savage Penguin runs one of my photos on Jimmy Kimmel fan page
Paul at Savage Penguin got thoroughly Farked yesterday, and I noticed a plea for Jimmy Kimmel pictures, so I sent him one I took when I covered BattleBots in San Francisco. He wrote back today and said he's put it on his fan page for Jimmy: http://kimmel.savagepenguin.com/misc/index.htm. Go take a look, it's a pretty good shot (third one from the top).
Oh, yeah, the full collection of bots shots are here.
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