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2002-12-02
Don't listen
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Daft story from Bruce Schneier's cryptogram! He is commenting on an
article (the link to which is below). I don't have a link to the
cryptogram issue (i get it in email):
This article says: "The al-Qaeda terror network has begun using hackers
who break into websites to create secret pages that send messages to
its followers, Internet specialists say." This makes absolutely no
sense, and is a sad example of the mindless anti-terrorist
computer-security hype we're hearing these days.
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/179588.htm
Also of interest, and from the same source is this tip:
Fascinating Congressional testimony by NSA Director Michael Hayden. He
explains how NSA worked on terrorism pre- and post-9/11, and then tells
Congress that they can best help him by going back to their
constituents and finding out where the public wants to draw the line
between liberty and safety. Required reading.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/0210hrg/021017/hayden.pdf
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Found this on http://incunabula.org/blog
http://www.angelfire.com/clone/disclosure666/index.html
http://disclosure.topcities.com/index.html
From 1993 to 1996 I was involved in research at a Government facility
on developing a machine capable of materializing or manifesting
objects, circumstances and acclerating thought forms.
Please mirror this information on as many servers as you can. Hereby
permission is granted to freely distribute this information with the
restriction that you do not take credit for the machine, technology or
research described herein. Reference can be made to Deepstar -
California for the author / inventor of this machine.
I've nicknamed this machine "the ark of the covenant"
Noted side effects while being in the presence are:
1: Machine tends to "come alive" or begins to display a consciousness
of it's own.
2: Amplification of thoughts, feelings and emotions while near or
around the machine.
3: Computer operations are affected and you can have fun with this.
Most noted computer malfunctions are programs that open/close on their
own, and other odd things.
4: The room, when activated will achieve a warmer temperature.
5: Healing while near the machine.
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Efforts to speed up evolution/mutation through genetically modifying
plants/animals by incorporating human cancer causing genes into their DNA.
Ethics are challenging, to say the least:
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,846528,00.html
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taken from boingboing.net:
In 1988 scientist Viktor S. Grebennikov discovered that some types of
insect chitin contain anti-gravitational properties.
Based on this opening and by using bionics principles, the author
designed and builded antigravitational platform, and also, practically,
developed principles manned flight with the speed up to 25 km/min.
Since 1991-92 years the device was used by the author as a means of
fast movement.
http://www.yeahbutisitart.com/cgi-bin/graffiti/show.pl?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boingboing.net%2F
http://antigravitypower.tripod.com/Grebennikov/index.html
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internet and education...
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge59.html
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Get your war on: commentary on Henry Kissinger's new job and more:
"When Dick Cheney weeps, is the oil coming out of his eyes leaded or
unleaded?"
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war17.html
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Commentary on economic commentary:
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6791
"This article reports on how the pharmaceutical industry has managed to
produce medical research that helps to promote its drugs. This includes
paying researchers to write articles touting the benefits of their
drugs. In some cases, these articles are ghost-written by the company's
writers, with researchers accepting a fee to put their names on the
article. These sorts of abuses are exactly what economic theory
predicts would occur when the government grants a patent monopoly."
It is good to see rebuttals like this one, which relates to an article by
Amy Goldstein in The Washington Post:
At one point it asserts that "the system... is expected to face
enormous strains starting next decade as Americans live longer and the
large baby boomer generations starts to retire."
This is not true. The retirement of the baby boomers has been long
anticipated. To help deal with the costs, the program has been building
up a large surplus, which is currently more than $1.3 trillion.
According to the most recent Social Security trustees report, the
program will be able to pay all benefits until the year 2041 with no
changes whatsoever. The projections also show that Social Security will
always be able to pay a higher benefit, in today's dollars, than that
received by current retirees, even if no changes are ever made.
Or to Mark Landler of the New York Times:
Later the article comments that the tax increases have not been
accompanied by "efforts to reform Germany's hidebound labor market, or
overhaul its outmoded health-care and pension systems. These steps, the
critics say, require unusual political courage." The article does not
indicate how it has determined that Germany's health-care and pension
systems are outmoded. Its health-care system costs approximately 60
percent as much as the one in the United States, and leads to better
outcomes in the form of longer life expectancies and lower infant
mortality rates, so it does not appear to be outmoded by standard
economic criteria.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6791
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Storms Above the Desert
History of some weather/storm research in New Mexico
http://www.nmt.edu/mainpage/storms/
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Why tubes are so good for music:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/select/0898/tube.html
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Two on Russia...
Aftermath and questions following the theatre siege:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/839035.asp
Anti-human tendencies among Russian archons:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/839232.asp?cp1=1
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Spam:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/28268.html
"CDs of 150 million email addresses can be bought for as little as $100
online"
Imagine if all those people sued the guys/gals selling the addresses. Say
they each sued for a dollar (you could easily argue spam costs you that
much a year).
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Havent QC'd this one at all, but found it in nb stuff and it looked
interesting:
Building PCs for stability:
http://as1.emv2.com/I?X=0ad065ef34cfbc977d3f13812fd34a6c
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Pretty astonishing email from EMI Germany to a customer who complained that
the CD he had bought would not play on his CDRom drive:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28009.html
The tone is incredibly disrespectful and, in my opinion, a little bizarre!
Definitely worth a read.
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Diversification:
http://www.marx-computers.com/Tea/index.htm
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Some links on open source film/video software, with a linux slant:
Film Gimp is a motion picture editing tool. Not for video editing. Rather
for touching up individual frames (e.g. to take dust out!). Uses 16bit
colour (normal gimp does 8bit) and has concept of sequential images (so you
can clone from the previous/subsequent frame to get a speck of dust of the
image). It has been used in major films involving animation (e.g. Stuart
Little, Scooby Doo):
http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/
Open-Source Video Resources for UNIX: collection of links. I've selected a
few of particular interest (to me). It is worth going through the links
from this page. They cover topics other than video (e.g. sound, graphics),
and topics useful to users of systems other than Linux...
http://www.the-labs.com/Video/
Making a digital VCR, based on a Linux PC:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/1/31/18749/1930
This article also has some good links. e.g. on Firewire (IEEE 1394) support
in linux. The following page appears to be the main page on the topic, and
links to hardware compatability lists and the like:
http://www.linux1394.org/
"Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent
integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to
the camera. It captures video to disk in RawDV and AVI format". It uses
some vi keybindings, so it must be good!
http://kino.schirmacher.de/
Coriander is an app. for controlling IEEE-1394 cameras under linux:
http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/PEOPLE/DOUXCHAMPS/ieee1394/coriander/
Cinelerra, "an advanced compositing and editing system for native Linux at
no cost to users". Obviously never used it, but it seems to be quite
flexible (authors certainly talk it up that way).
http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
Broadcast2000 was the predecessor to cinelerra, there are tutorials here:
http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/howto/broadcast2000/index.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/11/magazine/broadcast2000.html
Happened across "Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA)":
http://www.ladspa.org/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/02/02/ladspa.html
Video4Linux has tonnes of links:
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
Coincidentally, Toms Hardware has a review of a product for doing this kind
of work. Price is about EUR750. Not so much a review really, more like a
list of features with some screenshots.
Video Editing For Beginners: Matrox RT.X10
http://www.tomshardware.com/video/02q4/021126/index.html
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