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Okay, "no chem-trails from commercial aircraft." In the next sentence you blatantly admit the military has been "spraying people with sh.t for years." Thank you for that. Now it's all so clear to me........
But I can assure you, there is no chem-trails from commercial aircraft.
Originally posted by defcon5
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This is what spraying (military or otherwise) looks like:
Not this:
Originally posted by Zaphod58
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The top one is, the bottom one isn't. In fact there are some amazingly beautiful pictures of contrails floating around.
Although the "trade secret" ingredients are well protected by the manufacturer, a recent study contracted by the EPA [10] and other sources strongly imply that these ingredients are salts of barium and/or calcium.
Diisononylnaphthalene (a.k.a. dinonylnaphthalene)
Dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid
Dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid, barium salt
Dinonylnaphthalene sulfonic acid, calcium salt
Read em and weep. An additive used in Jet fuel as an anti-static agent can cause extended contrails which could be classified as a chem-trail because of the Barium. chem-trails.... This particular anti-static agent is used in most jet fuel.
Q) How long do contrails last? A) Anywhere from less than a second, up to several hours. If depends on the atmospheric conditions at the altitude the plane is flying. It's unrelated to the weather on the ground. This is an oft-asked question. The answer is reasonably straightforward, but misunderstanding is common. To understand why a contrail can last as little as a fraction of a second, or as long as several hours, you need to understand what a contrail is, and how it forms. Here's another question, which has the same answer: Q) How long does a snowflake last? Why is this basically the same question? Because contrails are generally made of ice crystals. Jet exhaust contains a lot of water vapor (the chemical reaction actually produces more water than there was originally jet fuel), and when this gets shot out of the back of the engine at 2000MPH, it hits the frigid air (typically colder than -40 degrees), and the water vapor condenses and freezes, very quickly, into tiny ice crystals, just like snowflakes. So why do these ice crystals sometimes stay around for a long time, and sometimes vanish in seconds? The temperature is well below freezing, so they can't melt, can they? This is puzzling, because it involves something that most people know nothing about: "sublimation". Sublimation is when a substance (in this case, water), goes directly from being solid to being vapor (a gas), without actually melting into a liquid. It's like evaporation, except instead of a liquid evaporating, it's a solid (ice). If the air is dry (i.e. there is little water vapor in it), then the ice crystals will quickly sublimate into vapor, and the trail will vanish quickly. However, if the air already has a lot of water vapor in it, then the ice will sublimate slower, and the trail will last longer. If the air has so much water vapor in it already that it can't hold any more (i.e. it's "supersaturated"), then the ice crystals can't sublimate, and so the contrail will stay around for a long time. The ice crystals might even attract water from the air, if there is enough, and the contrail will get thicker. Winds might make the contrail spread out to even cover the whole sky. The above is a simplification, as other factors like temperature, pressure, and sunlight have an effect. But it explains the basic reasons why some trails last only a few seconds, and some can last for hours, and spread out to cover the sky. Finally, there is one more way of asking the question: Q) How long do clouds last? This is the same question because contrails are clouds. Contrails are physically very similar to cirrus clouds (except they are long and thin), and so they act almost exactly the same. You see cirrus clouds that last for hours, so why not contrails?
The assertion that the government is spraying noxious chemicals on its own people from high flying military aircraft needs some real substantiation than just reports of seeing contrails in the sky and claiming they are making people sick. While there have been reports of similar activity in the past, merely seeing a jet contrail in the sky does not prove anything. Persistence of contrails is neither an indication that they contain some kind of chemical, nor that it is some kind of spray. As a matter of fact, sailors have known for years to look specifically at the patterns and persistence of jet contrails for weather forecasting. If a jet is flying through air at altitude with a low humidity, the moist air from the jet engine might produce a slight, short-lived contrail. These short-lived contrails are a sign that the weather will be fair. A thick, long-lasting contrail indicates humid air high in the atmosphere, and can be an early sign of a storm
Several scientific studies are also being conducted with respect to contrail formation and their climatic effects. "Cirrus clouds affect Earth's climate by reflecting incoming sunlight and inhibiting heat loss from the surface. Ordinarily, cirrus clouds are only weakly influenced by most ground-based human activities, because of their high altitude. However, increasing levels of high-altitude jet air traffic may alter the regional climatic effects of cirrus because aircraft condensation trails (contrails) often produce new cirrus, which could differ in their radiative properties."
Originally posted by rickymouse
Read em and weep. An additive used in Jet fuel as an antistatic agent can cause extended contrails which could be classified as a chemtrail because of the Barium. chemtrails.cc... This particular antistatic agent is used in most jet fuel.
Although the "trade secret" ingredients are well protected by the manufacturer, a recent study contracted by the EPA [10] and other sources strongly imply that these ingredients are salts of barium and/or calcium.
If one phenomenon gives away the presence of metals in the aerosol, it would be the large number of high altitude rainbows produced by contrail aerosol. Virtually unheard of prior to 1990, bright rainbows, sometimes referred to as "circumhorizon arcs" or more commonly, "chembows," can be observed regularly wherever jet aircraft fly.
When parts of clouds are thin and have similar size droplets, diffraction can make them shine with colours like a corona. In fact, the colours are essentially corona fragments. The effect is called cloud iridescence or irisation, terms derived from Iris the Greek personification of the rainbow.
Iridescence is seen mostly when part of a cloud is forming because then all the droplets have a similar history and consequently have a similar size. Sometimes iridescence can be seen far from the sun but is most frequent near to it.

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Bring Life to Gardens by Attracting Butterflies and Birds
Butterflies and birds bring gardens to life. Invite them to your yard by planting a variety of flowers and native plants in a sunny spot.
How To Grow a Garden Butterflies Can't Resist:
- Plant masses of flowers that can easily be spotted by butterflies.
- Grow butterflies' favorite colors: red, orange, yellow, pink and purple. They love plants with flat flower heads or ones that grow in clusters. Ask your Garden Center associate to help you find the best butterfly flowers for your climate.
- Plant flowers that bloom at different times, so butterflies can find nectar throughout the season. Use annuals and perennials, flowering shrubs, vines and trees.
- Grow something for caterpillars to eat, such as milkweed, butterfly weed, aster, sunflower, hollyhock and snapdragon.
- If you don't have a garden, plant in containers, hanging baskets or window boxes instead. Butterflies will find them.
How To Grow A Bird-Friendly Garden:
- Offer your feathered friends a backyard buffet by planting annuals and perennials with large seedheads, such as sunflowers, black-eyed Susans and coneflowers.
- Hummingbirds drink nectar and are attracted to red, orange and blue flowers.
- Don't forget water: A birdbath or fountain is very popular. Clean it regularly.
- Grow plants that bloom at different times so birds can always find something to eat.
- Don't deadhead the flowers you're growing for birds – that's their dinner!
Do not spray chemical pesticides on plants that birds and butterflies might eat.
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There are countless coat styles available this season in varying lengths, patterns and materials, so kids everywhere are bound to find something they like. As many parents know, that is half the battle! If your child likes the coat and feels comfortable wearing it, then you won't have to fight with them to put it on every time they want to go outside.
Lila Metcalf, mom-preneur and owner of Urban Kidz in Scottsdale, believes that comfort is a huge part of getting kids to wear their coats. She also feels that comfort in itself is a new fashion statement for kids.
Tunic-length jackets and long sweaters are big this season, says Metcalf. This follows suit with the popularity of tunics, and longer shirts and sweaters. Jackets also tend to be thinner and more lightweight. "Comfort is a big thing," notes Metcalf. Gap's comfortable sherpa-lined denim and corduroy coats are great for older boys.
According to Metcalf, layering is also a big trend in kids' coats this season. "One of the biggest trends is the double jacket, which is actually a two-in-one," she says. The jacket encompasses a hooded sweatshirt inside a denim jacket, and the pieces can be worn separately. "Whether or not you live in the snow, layering is important and it is a huge trend this season," says Metcalf.
While black, brown and denim tend to be favorite color choices for boys, Metcalf agrees that there are some great bright coats out there this season for girls and boys. She notes that girls are wearing more brown than black, and adds, "There are more colors [available] and [coats] are not as dark and dreary." She loves the color trend and notes that oranges and reds are big this year, even for older kids. "Color brightens everything up and makes everyone happy," she adds.
This year let your child help select their winter coat. It will give kids a sense of independence, plus they will be able to express their individuality through their coat. And with all the styles out there, they are sure to pick something that will meet mom approval, too!
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Hiya peeps! So I know it's been a while. But I feel like people have just come to expect that from me. But here's another chapter! *yaay* It's not mah best, but it'll get me back into the swing of things. So enjoy and please please update! :)
The phone was ringing. The phone was ringing, and her heart was pounding, and Jackson was too close, his cologne was too strong, she was going to pass out, she couldn't do this, what could she say?…
"Lux Atlantic Hotel, this is Cynthia speaking, how may I help you?"
Lisa was drawn out of her daze by the ever so perky voice of her coworker. She took a deep breath and pictured her father sitting at home, oblivious to everything happening, and cleared her throat. "Cynthia, it's Lisa."
"Oh hi! You're up late, is everything ok?"
Her nerves were so high she almost laughed, but caught herself just before the noise escaped her lips. "Yeah, I'm fine."
It was quiet for a second before Cynthia prompted her. "Sooo, what's up?"
Think, think, think…Jackson's grabbed her arm tightly and Lisa glanced over at him, eliciting a "hurry the fuck up" look from her captor. She tried pulling out of his grasp but he wouldn't give in, so she gave him a frustrated look in return and decided to stall for as long as possible. "How's everything for the Secretary?"
"Same as before, I think we're pretty set. Honestly Leese, I know you're worried but I have it all under control."
"I know." Suddenly a thought occurred to her. The phone was on the opposite side of her face, out of Jackson's line of sight. She didn't know if he could hear Cynthia on the other end, but after a quick prediction of the possible consequences, decided it was worth a shot. She slowly moved her thumb up the keypad, keeping it close to her ear, in an attempt to find the 'end' button. Her voice became louder and more determined as she focused on keeping Jackson distracted from her movements. "There's a small problem, though. Nothing huge, I just need you to do me a favor."
"Alright, what's that?"
As her finger found the desired button, Lisa took a breath, looked at Jackson who gave her an encouraging nod, and held down the button. There was a brief beep and as the line and eventually the phone went dead, and an odd combination of relief and anxiety filled her body to the point where she wasn't sure she could remain conscious for much longer. She kept her gaze focused on her knees, hoping she could convince Jackson for just another minute.
"I need you to switch Keefe's room from 3825 to 4080…..yeah….no, there's just a plumbing problem. It should be figured out by tomorrow but I don't want to take any chances….the code? It's 70482….thanks Cynthia, you're the best. I'll call in the morning."
She shut the phone fast and handed it to Jackson, her heart racing, hoping more than anything he would believe she went through with it. She sat still on the bed, waiting for him to yell or hit her or call the man outside of her father's house, but none of that happened.
"See Leese?" Jackson said, pocketing the phone, "it wasn't that hard, was it?"
She let out a sigh of relief as the tears threatened once again to spill down her cheeks. She shook her head and gripped the edge of the bed, sliding away from him after realizing he had let go of her arm. "It's your turn."
"My turn for what, exactly?"
"You know what. Call off your man at my father's house."
Jackson looked away for a moment and pursed his lips thoughtfully before shaking his head. "Sorry Leese, can't do that. Not yet."
The tears couldn't be contained anymore, but now they were due more to anger than fear. "I did what you asked, you don't need me anymore. I need to know my father is safe."
"As much as I'd love to leave you to yourself and get on with my life, I have the unfortunate task of babysitting you until I receive confirmation from my man at the hotel. The alternative is much less pleasant, Leese, so I suggest you shut up for now and get some sleep."
Lisa shuddered at the thought of what the "alternative" could be, but decided not to argue with him at the moment. She clenched her jaw and slid back against he headboard of the bed, crossing her arms and keeping an eye on Jackson. He seemed incredibly relaxed and at home in her room, sliding off his jacket and reaching for the remote control. He pulled a chair across the room so it sat between the bed and the door, and plopped down in it, seemingly paying no attention to a growingly anxious Lisa.
In an attempt to calm down, she closed her eyes and rested her pounding head against the wooden headboard. She was happy Jackson seemed to believe the phone call, but was terrified he would somehow find out she had lied. She needed to find some way to call her dad and tell him to leave. The problem was that her phone was currently in Jackson's pocket, leaving her with very little options. Getting out of the room was her best bet, but then she would need to find a phone before Jackson had a chance to call his dog. And there seemed to be no way out now that he was sitting in front of the door. But she was far from giving up, and she absolutely did not want to stick around for when Jackson got a call confirming she had not gone through with their bargain.
She glanced around the room looking for anything she could use to fight, or escape, but nothing seemed to jump out at her. But then she noticed the placement of the bathroom. Like any standard hotel room, the bathroom was right next to the exit. If she could somehow get out into the hallway, maybe she could get someone to help her. She couldn't imagine Jackson would risk getting caught by the other hotel residents by following her. But he still had the phone…
Fuck it, it's worth a shot. She scooted over to the edge of the bed and stood up, her heart racing with anxiety. Jackson did not miss the movement and immediately looked over, giving her a hard but amused stare.
"And where do you think you're going?"
"I have to use the bathroom."
Jackson pursed his lips and stared at her for a moment longer, deciding whether he would allow that. It wasn't long though before he stood up and walked over to her. Lisa flinched backwards when he went to grab her arm and pushed him away. "I can walk by myself, thanks."
Jackson smirked and stepped aside, allowing her to pass with mock politeness. As soon as Lisa walked forward though, she almost wish she had allowed him to stand next to her as it was immensely more frightening not being able to see where he was.
Jackson reached forward and opened the bathroom door, walking in first to scan the surroundings. After deciding there was nothing weapon-like in the room, he walked out and leaned against the wall. "Two minutes." He said.
The door slammed shut as Lisa hurried to gain some privacy. Immediately after the lock clicked, the stress from past hour washed over her and she slid down on the ground, allowing her tears to finally flow freely. She put a hand over her mouth in an attempt to muffle the noise from her panic attack, fully aware of how close Jackson was standing from the door.
Out of all the hotels in America, Keefe had to come to the Lux. She had already felt like karma owed her a solid, but it didn't look like life was ready to stop shitting on her quite yet. She was tired of it. She would not let Keefe or her father die, and she absolutely would not give Jackson the satisfaction of her obedience.
Slowly, she calmed down and dragged herself up from the floor. She grabbed the edge of the sink for support and stared at herself, disheveled and tear stained, yet looking more determined than she had felt all night. As she turned on the faucet and soothed her red cheeks with cool water, she contemplated her options. She figured she had maybe another hour or so before anyone would notice the switch had not been made. That didn't give her a lot of time, but she also wasn't planning on sticking around too much longer to test out that time frame. Leaving the water running, she looked around the small room for anything she could use against Jackson. There wasn't much- a few complementary bottles of shampoo and conditioner, some towels, a ceramic soap dish…that might work. She held it in her hand and weighed it. It was small and light, but she figured some damage could be done. Keeping it in her hand, she quietly opened a drawer to her left and found something more useful. Inside was a small plastic hair dryer, heavier than that of the dish and hopefully something that could inflict more harm. She wrapped the cord around her hand and held the handle, feeling the adrenaline begin to course through her body. It would have to do.
She turned off the water and faced the door, taking a deep breath. Before she could chicken out, she slowly turned the handle and found Jackson closer than he had been when she had entered. He had the phone in his hand with the screen facing Lisa, anger flashing through his cerulean eyes.
The phone had been turned back on, and listed there for Lisa to see was a list of four missed calls from the hotel, and one missed message. In her shock, Lisa forgot for a moment about the dryer behind her back as Jackson pressed the 'play' button.
"Hey, Lisa, it's Cynthia. I don't know what happened, you got cut off before I could hear what you wanted me to change. I hope it wasn't anything too important, if you get this-"
Finally she snapped out of her daze. As Jackson stood there listening to the message, Lisa whipped her arm out from behind her and whacked her captor in the face with her makeshift weapon. It was harder than she had thought possible, and even though Jackson was able to lift his arm up in a belated attempt to dull the force, he fell back against the wall, gripping the side of his face with a groan. Without hesitating, Lisa stepped forward and hit him again, this time successfully sending him to the floor. A small trickle of blood fell from a gash on his forehead and he seemed, for now, to be unconscious. Shakily, and grateful she had had surprise on her side, she knelt down and picked up the phone, never taking her eyes off of the immobile Jackson, and slid over to the door.
She fumbled with the handle before realizing it was bolted shut, and just as she turned the lock she heard Jackson move behind her. She let out a whimper as Jackson started to stand again, and threw the door open and ran down the hallway just in time.
She heard Jackson yell incoherently behind her, making her move faster. The elevator was too far away, so she flew to her right down another hallway towards the stairwell, slamming the door open with an echo and jumped the stairs two at time. She flipped the phone open as she ran and held down her speed dial, effectively dialing her father.
"Come on come on!" she yelled, hoping beyond anything he would answer. She still had eight flights of stairs to travel down before she hit the lobby, and Jackson couldn't have been far behind but she didn't dare look. Finally, after racing down another floor, her father answered.
"Hello?" He said, sounding groggy and half asleep.
"Dad! You need to get out of the house, get out now!"
"What? Leese, what's wrong? Are you ok?"
She turned another corner, stumbling over the stairs, trying to focus on moving and talking at the same time. "No just please, don't use the front door, you need-"
The phone flew from her hand as Jackson finally caught up with her and she was pushed against the wall with violent force. She blacked out for a moment as her head hit the stone, and the next thing she knew Jackson had her wrists above her head with one hand and her mouth covered with his other, keeping her pinned tightly to the wall.
"Do not mess with me, Lisa." He said in a menacing whisper, his face barely an inch from her own. She struggled in his grip, her screams for help muffled behind his hand but hopefully loud enough to get someone's attention. He quickly switched positions and grabbed her throat, silencing her further.
"We are going to walk back up to your room now, quietly and without causing suspicion. If you behave-" he tightened his grip for emphasis "-I will think about sparing your father's life. Do you understand?"
Lisa tried nodding her head, but even then he held on longer than necessary. Just when she thought she would black out, he let go and she fell to the floor, tired and gasping, her vision bombarded with colorful dots. After a moment he lifted her up again, keeping a vice like grip on her arm. He leaned in close to her ear, his breath tickling her neck. "You're going to regret doing that."


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August 11, 2015
Have you heard? LIVE Entertainment, Inc., is sponsoring the Woozworld's Next Superstar competition this year. You've heard the work of LIVE's famous artists, such as JennySwift, Jayrell Williams, and Four DirectionZ, but what do we really know about this multimedia corporation??
LIVE Entertainment's CEO is notoriously reclusive – no definite photo of the man or woman leading the company exists. But that's never stopped your dedicated reporter from bringing you the news everyone else is afraid to print!
Wooz Weekly has managed to contact an artist that recently left LIVE Entertainment Records under mysterious circumstances. "I was never introduced to the CEO formally," our source reveals EXCLUSIVELY to your inexhaustible detective, "But I've certainly seen her sweeping imperiously down the hallways: Lady Wooz!"
That's right! Wzw High's snooty fashion teacher has exchanged the classroom for the boardroom as LIVE Entertainment's CEO! "Apparently, Lady Wooz is terrified of pineapples," our singing source confides. "And there were just too many potential tropical fruit incidents possible at a high school." As a corporate CEO, the fashionista can safely shut all pineapples out of her sight.
Not only has Lady Wooz left Woozworld High, it seems she took another former employee with her! That's right, Woozens: Janitor Beex is now PRODUCER Beex!
The former LIVE artist tells Wooz Weekly, "Producer Beex is definitely the louder of the two. I can just hear him now… When he didn't like the track I was singing, he would shout, 'OI, GET YER KNACKERS TOGETHER AND QUIT SPITTIN OUT TRASH! I DONT WANNA TAKE YER TO THE CURB!'" Big words from a former janitor!
Why did Lady Wooz and former Janitor Beex leave Wzw High together? Is there a blossoming romance that led them both to same corporation? When will they reveal themselves to the general public? And will Wzw High be able to find replacements for its fearsome fashion teacher and anti-joy janitor in time to start the new school year?
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I was gonna go to Milford tonite, but I didnt put my back seats in. Oh well
A few days away....
Ill have the silver civic and probably be under a tent. Next to a Red van and Green Explorer.
I'll have a red mountaineer with NY plates....im a big guy, cant miss me. Still no amps or subs in, just spent the day driving to CT for a graduation, and then driving back, on 2 1/2 hours of sleep. Gotta get those amps in tonight and the subs too....then some sleep, and laeving at like 9 am
Get them in!
Well my back windsheild still isnt fixed so I obviously cant go.
when i mapquested the address it wouldnt work anyone else have that problem? i still gonna try and go but just as a spectator. if anyone can figure it out i need directions from Keene NH 03431 thanks
GL people!
I couldnt go:(
My knee is totally fvcked
Well who ever goes... please PLEASE get pics!
I forgot my cam, so i didnt get any pics, but if i find any, i'll post a link.
Show was pretty **** good, probably like 70ish cars if i had to guess, but got REALLY hot (the temp gauge on my truck spiked like 99 at a few points of the day)
Met most of t-rex, pretty good, and helpful guys.
T-rex took 1st in stock 1, stock 3, stock 4, and SS 2
I took 1st in stock 2 with a 150.0
High of the day was 158.9 i think, followed by a 158.2 in the same class (i decided to sit in the car while he was testing it, boy, was that fun lol.
Oh yeah, and 4 of the 5 loudest were using American Bass 150.1's (i was the only one in the top 5 to not use them, maybe i am missing out out something??)
All T Rex has 150.1s
Except me, Manny, and Nate.
Yea it was a 158.9 in ss2
Yeah, it was my first time ever breaking the 150 mark. Hows the civic doing?
Waiting for new amps :)
Ill post up pics when they come in next week.
Nice, did i hear something about you running AB's?
I had them. They werent doin it for me on 12v
Im getting much more powerful amps for 12v :)


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General Banter / Re: RAISE THE JOLLY ROGER« on: July 23, 2015, 11:33:31 AM »
Some guy was wearing last years disc golf day shirt 2 rows behind home plate last night. I also ran into Murph!!
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Hey Scott I thought of something else that would be sweet to have at this event and possibly even keep up at the DD store. I would love it if you guys had a net and radar gun to see the speed guys can throw. With Simon Lizotte posting his MPH it makes me want to know what my mortal arm can accomplish. I think it would be something most guys would think was cool. You could even do something like at an amusement park where guys pay a few bucks and if they can guess their exact speed on their third throw they win a voucher or disc or something. I think it would be popular. Just throwing it out there!Now that's a novel idea!!


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Nonaxiomatisability of equivalences over finite state processes
This paper considers the existence of finite equational axiomatisations of behavioural equivalences over a calculus of finite state processes. To express even simple properties such as \mu x E = \mu x E[E/x] some notation for substitutions is required. Accordingly the calculus is embedded in a simply typed lambda calculus, allowing such schemas to be expressed as equations between terms containing first order variables. A notion of first order trace congruence over such terms is introduced and used to show that no finite set of such equations is sound and complete for any reasonable equivalence finer than trace equivalence. The intermediate results are then applied to give two nonaxiomatisability results over calculi of regular expressions.
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Memories of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale are pleasant ones for many people. Even though there was economic turmoil and uncertainty, the auction performed strongly during its two-night run, Aug. 8-9, in upstate New York. Sheikh Mohammed's enthusiastic spending provided a big boost to the market.
Read what buyers and consignors had to say:
Guinness McFadden, Three Chimneys Sales: "It was stronger than you would have expected and Sheikh Mohammed played a big role in that. But it's still real money in the consignors' hands, so I was very pleased. Any time the stock market dips so much, it makes you feel a little uneasy, but the right people were here and we had a ton of vet work (on the horses). It made me feel good.
"This is the absolute pinnacle of the market. People who play at this level, while affected by that kind of a (stock market) drop, are less affected than the people who shop in book four through book six (of the catalog) in September (at the Keeneland yearling sale). In huge recessions, fortunes are made, and the people buying these horses are the ones making those fortunes. I think even in a downturn there is huge opportunity. You can take the opportunity to pay $600,000 for what would have been a $1.2 million horse. We're still in the bottom of the market, so there is still great value to be had."
Headley Bell, Mill Ridge Sales and Nicoma Bloodstock: "I thought the sale was terrific. All the indicators were up even though you've got a down economy. It indicates there were good horses here that people wanted. Even if Sheikh Mohammed was very active, there were certainly people underneath (as underbidders). I don't think there were consignors underneath on all those horses, so that means there is depth to the market.
"It (a sharp downturn in the stock market) always matters, but this is a game of the wealthy and they have a passion for this; they love it. There were some nice horses here and they want to compete at the top level. That's the bottom line. It's really all about the job that Saratoga has done or Fasig-Tipton has done to recruit these quality horses. The level of quality has increased every year in the time that Sheikh Mohammed has been (attending the sale). We wouldn't have brought (the $1.2-million colt out of) Easter Bunnette here if we didn't feel there was the strength in the market to do that."
Gerry Dilger, Dromoland Farm: "I thought the people were here to buy the horses. Even with all the talk about the stock market – the stock market this and the stock market that – people wanted nice horses. I think they had their minds made up to buy good horses and that's what they did.
"Friday (Aug. 5) we were very busy. Saturday (Aug. 6) we were a little bit less busy and I thought that was because of Friday. Sunday (Aug. 7) we were swamped; I couldn't believe it. I've been coming here for years, and there was more action yesterday morning (Aug. 8), the day of the sale, than in previous years, I thought."
Steve Young, bloodstock consultant: "I'm sure that there were people who looked at it (the stock market fluctuations and other economic concerns) two ways. There were some people who, I think, were greatly affected by it and then there were other people who are probably insulated enough that they think that when things are bad it is a better opportunity for them. I know more about horses than I do about money.
"Saratoga is a boutique sale and I don't think anybody comes here with the idea that they are going to steal a horse. It's never been like that and probably never will be. The results say that the horses brought plenty of money. I think it was bidder against bidder more than bidder against the reserve."
Meg Levy, Bluewater Sales: "I thought the sale looked quite good, considering all the (negative economic) factors. I thought the horses matched up with the prices. People were aggressive bidding for what they wanted.
"I think supply meets demand in this sale. The sale's gotten smaller, and the sale team does a great job (selecting horses). Look at the individuals and the pedigrees that were in this sale."
Bruce Hill, Live Oak Plantation: "I guess it was just one of those deals where people looked at it (the economic turmoil) as an opportunity to do something in a weak market. I just think everybody had that same idea and it kind of jumped up the average.
"(When we bid) we just go in knowing what our number is on a horse we like and we don't try to be so smart as to think we know exactly what Sheikh Mohammed or anybody else is doing. We pay attention to our own business and we don't worry about what other buyers are doing. We know what our number is and we go to it, and if they (other buyers) run past it, we stop. And if it happens to be Sheikh Mo that we were bidding against, so be it. We don't try to outthink it that much."
"There are always good horses here. Was the quality as deep as last year? Maybe not. But it still was very deep. There were plenty of good horses."
Anthony Stroud, English bloodstock agent: "It (the sale) has gone against all the economic trends of the world and there's also been rioting in London. But people see a nice horse and they think that racing is fun, so sometimes they put everything else aside, embrace the sport, and swim against the current. Overall, Darley and Sheikh Mohammed are a huge, huge key to the whole thing. He (Sheikh Mohammed) is an amazing man.
"I think there were some very nice horses and they were quite outstanding individuals. Stallions like Medaglia d'Oro and Bernardini have appeal on both sides of the Atlantic (Ocean) and I think those horses that do have joint appeal are so important because the difference between America and Europe is just so great right now. If you have a Medaglia d'Oro, a Bernardini, a Street Cry, or a Giant's Causeway (yearling), it's a big help."
Dale Romans, trainer: "It's been real tough to buy. There are some good horses here."


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Re: Alexander Fairbairn - Cockburnspath
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Re: James Fairbairn - Cockburnspath
Tara Hawkins 12/23/01
Dear Tara
Firstly I have to congratulate you on your work on the family tree.
My attempts are at a very embrionic stage at the moment although i'd like to do more.
All I know about my Alexander (b1901) is that he had a brother David John and a sister Mary. His dads name was Alex and his mum was also a Fairbairn called Jean Marie (nee fairbairn) and they have some connection to Banks Cottage. near the path leading down to the cove. Distant cousins are Ann and Francis Fairbairn who as of 1999 lived around the corner from the cottage.
Have you come across any of these in your work,Ijust want to get a foothold in this. Would like to try getting onto the censuses of the time but don't know where to look1
Any help would be appreciated
Liz Fox


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text: Hi,I am using Intel Q45 Express chipset with TPM version 1.2 specs ofTCG. The kernel version is 2.6.30. Problem is that the TPM driverscannot provide functionality to the TCG TSS giving error message:"TCSD TDDL ERROR: Could not find a device to open!"The device node in /dev is also not being created which should be"/dev/tpm". If created manually then still it does not work.What should be done?Thanks.--Shaz


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Bad example. Radio is inherently a broadcast medium, e-mail is more-or-less directed.
Really? Care to say how? Do you mean a backdoor in the program (the source is available) or a problem with the encryption algorithms? Are you a mathematician? Do you think the NSA has managed to prove that factoring isn't NP (which would be quite an accomplishment, esp. for a government organization)? Or, maybe, you mean that they've managed to prove that problems in NP can be solved more quickly (which would be the greatest mathematical achievement in decades). Truth is, if factoring cannot be solved in less than polynomial time, no organization, no matter how many mathematicians they employ, is going to be able to crack PGP fairly quickly.
Heard of TWINKLE [counterpane.com]? How far ahead of this do you think the NSA might be?
FWIW, I once worked a case for the FDLE, after which they tried to recruit me for their computer crimes unit. They were quite sanguine about encryption, saying they regularly shipped encrypted documents off to the NSA for decrypts, depending on how crucial they were to the case.
Also remember that given access to the private key, keylength is less important than passphrase strength.
It takes some work to use PGP securely, and ultimately, if some TLA wants your cleartext, they'll get it one way (cracking crypto) or another (Van Eyck, TEMPEST).
Let's start by realizing that different people have different sets of ethics, and not everyone believes that the government has a strong sense of ethics. For example, I am confident that the government is extreamly hypocrytical, which by my sense of ethics is one of the worst things possible.
Asking dictionary.com about 'principle' gives "basic truth, law, or assumption", "A rule or standard, especially of good behavior" and "The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments".
When you say "It's also a matter of principle that criminals need to be stopped...", it's reasonable for me to ask "Who's principle, who's ethics, which laws, and at what price?"
The question many people are raising is if catching the criminals is important enough to justify breaking the law, violating the constitution, and ignoring the bill of rights.
My answer is "No, of course it isn't worth it! The rules of society, as described by the constitution, make it clear that catching the criminals is NOT the most important thing."
Let me make this as clear as I can manage. The 'betterment of society' is not served, and is in fact harmed, by a law enforcement group which intentionally violates the law, ever, even once. It doesn't matter if they catch a thousand murders and ten thousand rapists at the same time, if they had to violate one law to do so, they have made the world a worse place. It's simply a matter of principle.
Obviously my principles are different from yours.
And to answer your question, it depends on the criminals. In particular, it depends on what laws they are guilty of breaking. I mean, it makes a big differance if they are all guilty of murder, say, or just, you know, jaywalking or speeding or maybe growing a bit of pot and then smoking it.
Wow. I'm just amazed.
You can't argue with logic like that. You can point and laugh, but you can't argue with it.
Just for the record, in order to prove that it can be done, I deny them. I also deny your god. Please refrain from stating that it isn't possible, as it obvious is. Tell me again that I can't deny something, and I'm likely to do just that, if I want.
It is my belief that criminals can be caught and punished without breaking the law. It takes a little more work, but it's still possible.
Breaking the law in order to catch someone and punish them is a lot like the death penalty. Is it fair for me to assume that you don't agree with the death penalty?
"And as I believe I've said before, sin is sin, and trying to count the "amount" of sin is a foolish and pointless exercise. If you are guilty of a crime, you must be punished. It's as simple as that."
You seem to be confusing 'sin' with 'crime'. Crime is defined by society. 'Sin', for those who believe, is defined by some higher power.
the important point here is that society can, and often does, change the definition of crime. Drinking alcohol in the United States is a good example. It's legal. It's illegal. It's legal again. Of course, this caused some confusion.
It is my belief that there currently exist many laws which actively harm society. Society would be better off without some of the laws.
I'm willing to suppose it may be a bit of a leap for you to agree that some laws harm society. Let's see if we can agree that there are laws which are just downright silly, and don't need to exist.
Please refer to www.dumblaws.com [dumblaws.com] and see if you can find even one law which makes something a crime when it need not be.
Failing that, please explain the ethics behind this law:
New Mexico, Las Cruces:
You may not carry a lunchbox down Main Street.
Is this a crime because The Lord told someone it should be?
Is it a sin?
Does it harm anyone?
Can you suggest any possible reason for this law?
Can you begin to understand how I might think that someone might be guilty of a crime yet still not need to be punished?
...we have a set of ethics which we were given by the Lord.
"Sorry, we could have stopped it, but I would have had to jaywalk to do so,
... And our Lord Jesus H. Fucking Christ spread his buns, and said: "Thou shalt not jaywalk, and always cross on thy green lights"... [Peter 89:45.12]
Here's my mirror [respublica.fr]
The idea that the FBI can scan E-mails as they enter or leave your ISP sounds scary at first, but what you have to remember is that you are not a criminal. They're hardly going to want to read your E-mail about your trip to see your sister at BJU are they? It's not like there are people reading your personal mail, it's just a machine and can't make value Judgements on what you write.
So, if you're not afraid of the FBI looking at your e-mails to your sister, you're surely not afraid at letting ME look at those same e-mails, no?
By the same token, you won't mind either me looking at those e-mails you sent to that chick you met last month at Catalina, no?
Can't you see it's a matter of principle, or are you just dumed-down by mass-media hysteria not to realize your fundamental rights are being trampled???
Here's my mirror [respublica.fr]
Just encrypting your e-mail with PGP is not enough. The sender and recipient histories can still be tracked. Here is my proposed solution to this problem...
Have several anonymous remailers scattered around the world with well published public keys. Each remailer will decrypt the message with it's private key, find the new sender in the decrypted message, strip the original envelope information, and send the message along to the next remailer.
Your message ends up encrypted in multiple layers that get stripped off one by one by each remailer. Eventually, it will get to its destination where the recipient will strip the last layer of encryption off.
This way, there is no reasonable way anybody can track who you're getting messages from, or who you're sending them to. Even if the remailers keep connect logs, or message logs, you still can't tell.
I'm thinking of writing this up as a python script that uses gpg and that can be set up as a filter in your
And they use the magic words "drugs" and "terrorism", so anything they do is ok. Really.
"'National security': the root password to the [United States] Constitution." - Phil Karn
Someone who makes jokes about black people being "shiftless" in emails is unfit for public office, and as a citizen, I have the right to know that I'm being asked to vote for a Kloset Klansman.
So you've never done or said anything in your life that wasn't politically correct? Even back before there was a concept of politically correct? Never told or laughed at a blonde joke? I hope you never plan to run for office, then - I guess you wouldn't get your vote.
The public will just have to continue to evaluate candidates on the same basis that we evaluate each other - based on what they say and what they do in public. You have no right to anyone's private communications, and without a court order neither does the government.
BZZZZT, wrooong, but thank you for playing.
Steganography isn't for keeping information unreadable.You can already do that with encryption. The point is that you may not be able to send encrypted information through open channels without a man in black coming to your door and busting your aft section for "hindering the work of law enforcement" or something like that.
The point of steganography is to hide the fact that you're communicating encrypted data in the first place.
Yes, that smells like security through obscurity, but imagine this: You have an encryption algorithm so devious that it's unbreakable (in reasonable time, I mean) and the resulting data is indistinguishable from the stuff you get from
Admittedly there are some caveats to this particular technique (although they can mostly be avoided if care is taken):
Unfortunatly encrypting the content of SMPT transfers/http doesn't protect against traffic analysis. Oh well...
It doesn't even protect against the FBI getting the plaintext. Remember, the wiretaps they're talking about here are with the (sometimes grudging) consent of the ISP, so if encrypted SMTP became the norm they'd just require the ISP to provide them with the private key of the mailserver as well, or to provide a tap into the unencrypted stream within the server software itself. The only way to be sure of your encryption is to trust both ends of the link.
I enjoy comments such as yours, as it gives me an opportunity to trot out one of my favorite qoutes:
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
According to you, we in the USA no longer need the 1st, 2nd, 4th or 5th amendments. Why should the FBI (or any LEO) be burdened by having to go to a court for a search warrant? surely, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear if they show up and ask to inspect your residence. And why shouldn't criminals be made to testify against themselves???Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'm gonna trust 'em to be honest. They wouldn't break any laws, like allowing the White House access to background check files of potential political foes. They wouldn't plant evidence, or give false testimony (hey to the L.A. PD!), nor do anything unjust!
No, never!
At the surface, it seems like they should be able to brute force it consistent with the court order for the wire tap. Just out of curosity, though, what about the DMCA's protections on decoding encrypted information?
To wit: From Jack Valenti's, MPAA Chairman, deposition [cryptome.org]:
10 Q You said any use of DVD that involves
11 coping is illegal. Is that right?
12 A I think what I said was, any time you
13 circumvent encryption according to the DMCA you're
14 violating the law. That's what I said.
It seems to me, if DMCA is used that broadly, couldn't it be used to argue against the FBI decrypting email communication?
Just a thought.
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Hmmm but if the carnivore has spotted the names of various drugs in a disproportionately large number of ur emails, isnt that grounds for a warrant?
And then Kahuna wrote back:
But it can't do that. I mean, it won't just "notice" them. Its a computer. If its purpose was to scan for drug references in all emails, they could do that, but it would have to beon purpose. They couldn't use the "plain sight" defense to validate the evidence, because it requires an extra deliberate step to gather. You can't get a warrent based on evidence that you should have needed a warrent to get. It taints the process all the way down the line.
That's true... if the FBI is interested in a criminal prosecution. As far as I know, but I am not a lawyer nor particularly knowledgeable in the area, the Exclusionary Rule (legal precedent that says you can't use tainted evidence in court) is the only significant disincentive for an illegal search.
If the FBI or other law enforcement agency is more interested in simply harrassing, intimidating, or embarrassing a target, then the Exclusionary Rule has no practical effect.
I just saw Guilty by Suspicion on video the other night. True story, McCarthy era: film director harrassed by FBI agents, blacklisted because he wouldn't testify that his friends were Communists.
Our protagonist in the movie (Robert DeNiro) was investigated and bullied on suspicion of something that isn't (and wasn't) even illegal. The only prosecutions coming out of the McCarthy investigations were for perjury and contempt of Congress, against people who either wouldn't talk to the HUAC or who were caught lying to it. Nobody was convicted of merely being a Party member. But that didn't stop the FBI and the HUAC from carrying out their dirty tricks. And the FBI couldn't be challenged under the Exclusionary Rule because they weren't presenting evidence at trial.
Yes, it would be extremely difficult or impossible for law enforcement to use evidence inappropriately gathered by Carnivore in a criminal trial--they really do have to follow the rules there. But it would be relatively easy to use Carnivore or a similar device to gather information for other purposes, given just a little cooperation from ISPs.
I honestly don't think harrassment or intimidation is the primary purpose of Carnivore. It actually seems pretty mild compared to other more intrusive and less targeted means of investigation. But don't assume that the Fourth Amendment will protect you outside of a criminal courtroom!
Oh, I absolutely agree! The FBI proposes to commit a crime (violation of the Fourth Amendment), and in fact has thereby already committed a crime (conspiracy to deprive citizens of civil rights under color of law). They must be stopped. QED.
"The FBI defends Carnivore as more precise than Internet wiretap methods used in the past. The bureau says the system allows investigators to tailor an intercept operation so they can pluck only the digital traffic of one person from among the stream of millions of other messages. An earlier version, aptly code-named Omnivore, could suck in as much as to six gigabytes of data every hour, but in a less discriminating fashion."
This sounds like it is indeed meant for targeting specific suspects, after having obtained the legal permission to do so. Is it open to potential abuse? Certainly - but aren't unencrypted internet data transmissions open to snooping anyway? This just sounds like a high-powered info-sifter...
So Linus, what are we doing tonight?
If they have a warrant to collect emails to/from a specific person, fine. If they don't have a warrant, any evidence collected is inadmissible in court.
Why don't you learn what you're talking about before throwing accusations like that around, and if you're going to accuse people, have the guts to do it with your name attached.
But it can't do that. I mean, it won't just "notice" them. Its a computer. If its purpose was to scan for drug references in all emails, they could do that, but it would have to be on purpose. They couldn't use the "plain sight" defense to validate the evidence, because it requires an extra deliberate step to gather. You can't get a warrent based on evidence that you should have needed a warrent to get. It taints the process all the way down the line.
-Kahuna Burger
OK, breath deeply. Now lets think about this. Why was the fourth ammendment introduced in the first place? There were no phones, there wasn't even much of a postal service yet. But there were homes and doors and people capable of breaking them down to search your home. And there were police who might hear that you were seen leading a little kid into your home just before he was reported missing, and they might want to search your home. So we have the means to search your home and people who would want to. What do we do? We write an ammendment that says they can't do it unreasonably and a bunch of laws laying out a "reasonable" procedure.
Now the present. We have something besides your home, the internet, which people may want to search. We have ways for them to search it. And we still have an ammendment and a bunch of laws that say when and how they can do it. The existance of wiretap orders for other people who have given law enforcement enough justification to get a warrent, has nothing to do with your 4th ammendment rights, because they aren't searching and seizing you! As we understand carnivore and are discussing it, noone is spying on you.
Jon had it exactly right. As long as the FBI has the right and in fact the duty to obtain search or wiretap warrents, they will expand those rights into new forms of communication. It no more invades your rights than a legal, warrented search of your neighbor does.
-Kahuna Burger
PS, some people have expressed distrust at the number of internet wire tap orders obtained. But I'd be a lot more worried if they weren't getting any. Their going through the warrent process indicates that those warrents are neccassary, indicates that they are working within the system. Not perfectly, but its an indication that internet wiretapping is being taken as seriously as phone tapping. And thats what we want, right?
And one more time, they aren't reading the email of anyone except those who are on the carnivore tapes when they pull them. Saying otherwise is kinda like claiming that if I listen to police traffic on a scanner I am in fact listening to all my neighbors' cell phone calls because the equipment I have hears all of them not just what I'm tuned in on. Or that if I search DejaNews for "the keeper" I'm also performing an inapropriate background check of my potential employees by looking for their email addresses on porn, gay and alternative lifestyle newsgroups. Because, hey, that info is being scanned by the same program that gives me back my search results.
Paranoia is one of the many reasons I don't vote libertarian. I keep one of the others in my wallet.
-Kahuna Burger
I'd say no. The article was perfectly clear. The idea is to get messages for people/accounts on which there is a warrent. The computer sifts the data for those messages, and only saves those ones. The people whose messages are analysed by the computer but not saved, not read not noted, have suffered no invasion of their privacy.
Look at it this way. What if the police were snooping on conversations over short wave radio by tuning to the frequency of the people they were interested in. Could you seriously say that every person in the area using a short wave radio had had their privacy invaded because the radio equipment used at some level recieved every signal, even though the police only heard and recorded one? Its just as silly to claim that they are "invading" anyone's privacy but the person whose messages they actually read when they download the carnivor files.
People who have a problem with the ability of law enforcement to get warents for wiretaps, should just say so. But when everything turns into some "Big Brother" paranoia rant, it just diminishes your credibility when you try to alert people to a real problem.
Heh, story of SlashDot : The Hacker Who Cried 'Big Brother'
-Kahuna Burger
Again...what I am suggesting is truely trivial difference, if they are truely only doing what they claim to be doing. However it protects the people at large, if their intions are other than their claims. Seems like a win all around (unless of course your an FBI agent who wants to abuse your carnivorous machine)
Actaully, I wonder about that. I have not had a lot of expereince with the rules of evidence, but would having a third party route all the data really result in as high a "quality" of evidence as the FBI harvesting it themselves? The advantage I see of the Carnivore method is that the data is filtered directly from the "feed". In your suggestion, could the ISP really guarenty the completeness of the info they were providing? Would their credibility become another route by which the data could be attacked (so, you claim to have provided these forwards to the FBI of the defendant's email. But as the provider, you are certainly capable of making a indistinguishable forgery of such a mesasage, right? Did you have any billing problems with the defendant?)
On a slightly more serious note, your method would require the FBI to tell the ISP exactly who the target was, risking a civilly disobedient ISP doing the forwards, but tipping off the subject of the surveillance. Of course with Carnivore, if the ISP couldn't tell what it was scanning for, they wouldn't know that it wasn't pulling an "echelon".
So, the best case senerio (given the existance of wiretapping laws, etc) would be: FBI shows up with a machine and two peices of paper. One is a authorized warrent, the other is a third party affidavate (I dunno, someone backed by the ACLU) stating that the filtering is programed only to pick out the email address of one individual, the one covered under warrent. You could even have the third party program and install the Carnivores, and then provide the kit and kaboodle to the FBI at the end, giving them the data and the chance to confirm that said 3rd party programmed it corectly.
Of course a system like that would take a lot of work to get in place and people with the energy to do that much work on this topic generally wouldn't like it because its compromise. So they will probably just keep doing it the way that makes some people nervous, and those people will keep making noise. Real life is too bad that way.
-Kahuna Burger
Are you not trusting the FBI, or not trusting the technology? The entire point of the system is that the FBI isn't just browsing through and deciding to take your messages. "They" aren't doing the sorting, no individual is going to say "hey! I know we just had a warrent for guy X but a line in guy Y's email caught my eye and I think we should look into it!" In fact, that is exactly what this systen is meant to avoid. Get it? The entire point of carnivore is to 1) save man hours, and 2) avoid invading the privacy of people who aren't covered by the warrent.
Why is this bad? Given the existance of wiretapping warrents that can be applied to electronic communications, how can you guys possibly object to a technological solution to decrease the human instinct to notice things other than what they are looking for. Computers don't see anything except what they're looking for. Have you ever done a web search for breed rescues and had your computer say "Hey, this isn't related, but there a kinda neat article over on Slashdot about overclocking."? No? Me neither. But I regularly browse the "new titles" section of the library for one topic and end up with an interesting book on something else. If you are concerned about law enforcement exceeding their warrent, you should be celebrating Carnivore.
If, on the other hand you just salivate like pavlov's dogs at the words "wiretapping" and "messages" Carnivore would be a bad thing by definition.
-Kahuna Burger
Marcus Thomas, chief of the FBI's Cyber Technology Section at Quantico, said Carnivore represents the bureau's effort to keep abreast of rapid changes in Internet communications while still meeting the rigid demands of federal wiretapping statutes. "This is just a very specialized sniffer," he said.
He also noted that criminal and civil penalties prohibit the bureau from placing unauthorized wiretaps, and any information gleaned in those types of criminal cases would be thrown out of court. Typical Internet wiretaps last around 45 days, after which the FBI removes the equipment. Mr. Thomas said the bureau usually has as many as 20 Carnivore systems on hand, "just in case."
Mr. Thomas is entirely correct --- Carnivore is just a very complicated sniffer. And while privacy advocates are correct --- the government COULD sniff anyone. But the government COULD also wiretap anyone. The rule of law is what prevents that. The FBI can pay through the nose if they get caught making illegal wiretaps.
The Carnivore system is perfectly consistant with the current laws and norms on government surveilence. To question Carnivore but allow for regular wiretaps, is in my opinion, an indefensible view point.
've wondered about this one for a while. In the MS v. DOJ thing, apparently they used a bunch of emails from Billy G. as evidence.
Admittedly, I didn't follow it all that closely, (by them time I had first heard about it, I was sick of hearing about it) but why didn't he just say "I didn't write that."
It should be virtually impossible to prove that email was written by any particular person. I could set my "Real Name" to Bill Gates and send out an email, or if I really wanted to put effort into it I could even make it look like it really came from email@example.com. It's not that hard to create a file with a certain set of text in it, so an email header that says "this is from person X" doesn't at all guarantee that it actually is.
While it's true that it's easy to forge email on the internet, that's not where the billg mail came from in the Microsoft case. In that case, the email was from Microsoft's internal email system. It had been turned over to the government as part of the pre-trial discovery phase, which is basically when the lawyers for the two sides are allowed to demand that the other side turn over information that might be relevant to the case.
Furthermore, the emails weren't just random mails from billg to the rest of the world. They were part of multiparty email correspondance on particular issues. IOW for Gates to disavow the emails, he would have had to claim that someone was not only forging his name but was also intercepting his personal emails and forging a conversation on his behalf. Not only that, but they were doing so not on some leaky internet system but on Microsoft's presumably secure internal system, and that the other people he was corresponding with, who presumably encountered him at least occasionally in person never brought up the topic of the emails in non-email conversation so that the forgery never came to light. That claim would be so obviously bogus that all it would do is damaged Gates's credibility as a witness and not impeach the credibility of the email at all.
Next thing you know DOJ discovers incriminating emails on Gates' machine from the MS internal network. Of course, more work would be required than just that one little act, but the philosophical point is that email is just bits on hard drives, and is therefore no more reliable than heresay, which is inadmissable.
Yes, and written letters are just bits of ink on pieces of paper, but using them is quite common in legal circles. Fairly reasonably, if I ask you for your records and I find something incriminating in them (and bear in mind that you also have to provide copies to the court, so I can't change them and claim that they're original) it should be your burden to prove that the incriminating comments were forged, rather than mine to prove that they're genuine! If anything, people should be suspicious if they show something unusually exculpatory, since you're far more likely to modify them in a way that reflects well on you than to forge records that incriminate you. In any case, IIRC these aren't emails from Gates's desktop machine; they're from the corporate email archive.
Getting back to something closer to the article that triggered the discussion, the FBI isn't talking about either of these things. They're talking about intercepting email in transit, so my original interpretation of the more conventional approach to header forging is more of what the FBI would be interested in. In thise case, though, the FBI's tap is actually less likely to be forged than a random email, since they're going to be tapping his immediate upstream connection, so a forger would need to insert their forgeries exactly there rather than at any random point in the network. As for the FBI being able to forge the email, they could potentially do that no matter what system you used, so you're going to have to trust them to be honest in any case.
One interesting aspect of this is that it suggests that if you're a criminal you shouldn't PGP sign your incriminating emails. If they're PGP signed, it provides the FBI with excellent evidence to use in court that they're not forged; unsurprising since proving authenticity is the intent of signing them. If they're unsigned, though, it'll be a lot easier to claim that the FBI forged them. You can probably enhance the effect by signing all of your non-incriminating emails (which you figure that even the most hardened criminal would have) so that you can intimate that the FBI forged the incriminating ones but were unable to forge the signature since they didn't have your private key.
At the end of the day we all know that they almost certainly cant crack PGP encrypted stuff... except that I only started using PGP for vaguely sensitive mail when i first heard about the echelon system.
I was always aware that my comms could be intercepted and certainly running a packet sniffer on a network brings in some interesting stuff, but I never really considered it was practical to filter all online traffic in that manner.
The govt have coming forward and said "Guess what? We're already doing it!!" probably does about the same good for PGP usage as handing out $10 bills with every download.
It really is a shame that the bulk of the public dont understand the reasons why encryption is a good thing. Sadly the conventional press tend to see it more as a system for protecting criminals rather than free speech, and popularist public opinion is against PGP.
It does not matter what the FBI says, they may not do this and be in compliance with our Constitution.
Let your representatives know that you don't want the Constitution ignored, or vote for a candidate that will demand that the government complies.
Look for a candidate at the Libertarian Party home page [lp.org].
Got Freedom? [lp.org]
("apt-get install postfix-tls" if you use Debian.)
Take a look at RFC 2446 (Transport Layer Security) and RFC 2487 (SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS) for details.
For an implementation, look at postfix-tls:
Postfix : Wietse Venema Wietse Venema [mailto];
TLS extension : Lutz Jänicke Lutz Jänicke [mailto]
Start with the postfix site [postfix.org] and then the TLS site [tu-cottbus.de] if you don't have the ability to apt-get source I guess.
Sigh, the FBI does rquire a warrant to use Carnivore, and to top it off, it's _really_ hard to get. As for tossing extraneous data, it's the software that analyzes all the traffic, not humans. IANAFBIA, but from my experience, c-vore only _collects_ data on the target, agents don't even see the rest of the cruft.
Let's get off of our parannoid horses for a minute, and think about this rationally. Do you _really_ think that the FBI would waste the thousands of hours of manpower it would require to manually analyze just one hour's worth of unfiltered data? Even if they did see that metallica.MP3 file you e-mailed to your aunt, would they really care enough to note who you are? Of course not, they're after the sick-ass guy who brags about whipping pre-pubescent girls and rubbing salt in their wounds (trust me, I'm _not_ overstating this).
Besides, if you really need to overthrow the gov't (of course one day we will, history teaches us that) you'll just have to use encryption...
The scariest part of this is that people can, and frequently DO send e-mail from different places. Also, multiple people frequently use the same phone line. So consider these two situations:
It is very easy to forge e-mail. What's to stop someone from forging e-mail in the name of someone in two places? Nothing of course. What guarantee is there that the FBI will understand that they could easy get false data? None of course. Since we're already setting up classes of crimes for which "innocent until proven guilty" is no longer upheld (in practice), it won't be long until someone is convicted of a crime based upon what is fraudulent electronic evidence.
Of course it has probably happened already.
So I think that stories like this should be brought to a greater attention (read: Joe User should notice that). And we should get used to "sealing" our email with PGP like we're used to seal our envelopes.
One other nice thing about encrypted email is: your ISP couldn't be held responsible for anything you say. I'm responsible for what I say, and you are responsible for what you say, and not vice versa. And this should be true for everyone.As long as PGP can't be decrypted, we can shrug our shoulders at stories like this.
If the government has a technique that can decrease crime, prevent terrorism, and save lives, how can you be opposed to it?
Pol Pot and Yeng Sari had such highly successful techniques. Cambodja virtually had no crime. It also did not have any literate cittizens left and had 25% of the population killed.
Hitler also had such technique. The crime level in Nazi germany was very low. There were almost no pedofils left in Germany for example. So if broght now Hitler Germany would not have had any "child p0rn" problems as there were no consumers for "chid p0rn" left. He simply treated them like the jews. Actually jews had higher survival rates than pedos and gay in Nazi Germany and Stalin USSR.
Stalin and his followers also had such technique. The crime level in the ex-eastern block was never asv low as in nazi germany but it was mostly petty crime. Not shooting in the streets like now.
Are all these compelling reasons for us to restore anyone of these? Clone them maybe?
"It's the electronic equivalent of listening to everybody's phone calls to see if it's the phone call you should be monitoring," Mr. Rasch said. "You develop a tremendous amount of information."
This guy is right on the money. This isn't about targeting a suspect and confirming other evidence (as wiretapping is meant to be), but about trolling for suspects. Why should electronic communication be legally less protected than telephone communication?
I wouldn't much mind if this sort of thing required a warrant and if they were required to toss any data without a specific person's (or IP, at the outside) name/id on it. There's no need for this level of invasion. I also suspect, rather like the cybersensor filters, they're going to pick up more false hits than real crime, and wind up investigating and harassing uninvolved people.
Now here's an argument for better encryption.
It's so double plus good to be alive and protected by the Ministry of the FBI!
Until I found a website for an automated
search warrant request software package.
Like most of you, I don't do anything that anyone would be concerned about. I don't even keep copies of DeCss around, nor do I download metallica songs. And after seeing the anonymous family photo with the cucumber, the dog and what appears to be a small cheerleading squad, I haven't much interest in downloading Pr0n. With caffeine as my only drug, I'm not exactly worried...
I even pay my parking tickets and cable bill.
What is scary is the website I found (there are at least three packages for this)detailing software designed for automating search warrant requests (probable cause, non?) and capable of processing over 1100 search warrant requests per hour!
I found these sites by accident while looking for information on search engine technology in 1996. I won't list the URLS, but you can find them. One site talked about how much faster it would be when electronic authorization (EDI) interaction became available.
Imagine how low the threshold of probable cause will slip once some eager programmer decides that online email profiling data can go immediately into the search warrant request software, returning approval in under thirty seconds.
There are no laws saying that e-mail, packet scans and IP traffic logs cannot be held indefinately, or archived for the last 120 days. This didn't apply to telephone calls - while call logs could be accessed, recording the actual conversations required a warrant - so speech that occured before the warrant was safe, or left as hearsay evidence. With digital archiving of all traffic, the landscape has changed.
In the future, search warrants will effectively be *retroactive* - and can contain complete records of what you've done for months.
For most people, privacy is seen as a way to hide indiscretions from general knowledge, or as a way to "get away" with crime. It isn't - that's a small quirk that can be handled through our current legal system.
Privacy is really the way that we guarantee our right to stay at arm's length from our government (well, at least the individuals in it) and our ability to disagree and express that disagreement (without fear of punitive retaliation)to those in power, be they government officials, Microsoft or the MPAA.
As long as we have that, everything else in a democracy can work. We don't really want a truly libertarian state (Been to Moscow lately?), but a democracy that embraces responsibility and liberty like RSM embraces pizza and ego.
So Get off your dead asses
and write those letters now!
BTW, how does wiretapping interact with encrypted data? What if they tap the email and discover that it's all PGP'ed? Can they brute-force it?
A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected.


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Local History Buffs Commission Repainting of Timucuan Images; 16th Century Depictions Don't Stand Up to Scrutiny by Scholars
Soergel, Matt, The Florida Times Union
Byline: Matt Soergel
For a long time, many serious people looked at some ancient European engravings and thought: Yes, that's what life was like for the 16th-century inhabitants, French and Indian, of a marshy part of what would become Jacksonville.
Archaeologists, scholars and museum curators believed this. One student even wrote an entire thesis on the tattoos on the natives in the old illustrations.
It's not like there's much other actual evidence of what that time and place was like, after all.
So academics and authors were willing, perhaps, to overlook details that seemed a little off - the Florida mountains rising up in the distance, for example, or the big human ears on an alligator so super-sized it could star in its own Syfy network movie.
In the past decade, though, there's growing thought that there's much more wrong than right in the engravings of old Fort Caroline. Perhaps, some say, artist Theodor de Bry made them up completely.
"I am going to assume we have been duped," the University of Florida's Jerald Milanich wrote in a 2005 article in Archaeology magazine.
De Bry's works, he lamented, were not what so many researchers had thought - a "miraculous portal to the past."
A Jacksonville Beach-based environmental group believes, though, that some new paintings can open that time portal just a crack. Perhaps wider.
It commissioned 10 artists, chosen after a nationwide contest, to take de Bry's engravings and, basically, fix them.
They came up with brand-new paintings that incorporate actual Florida landscapes - de Bry never left Europe - and modern scholarship on the area's original people and animals.
Consider de Bry's depiction of a native village - a tight cluster of native huts huddled inside high walls. That was so wrong, in so many ways, said Keith Ashley, a University of North Florida archaeologist who's spent years digging in the area.
He much prefers the new version, which shows a native village sprawling next to a saltwater marsh, free of any high walls.
"The actual environment looks like Florida. The plants look like Florida, like a village on a barrier island," Ashley said. …


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Louisiana's contributions to the blues are often overshadowed by its contributions to styles like jazz and Cajun. But the roots of the blues run deep in Louisiana. Musicians from every corner of the state have helped shape this classic form while pushing it in entirely new directions—you can hear echoes of it in zydeco, jazz, and the legendary New Orleans rhythm and blues that sparked rock 'n' roll.
The Music: Blues
The blues is the music of the rural South arising near the end of the 1800s. It draws from a number of African-American traditions including spirituals, work songs, field hollers and ring shouts. The classic blues song is built around a "12-bar blues" chord progression with the lyrics following a pattern of a line sung twice, followed by a longer third line. Of course there's nothing rigid about the blues. Each song is as individual as its performer.
The People: Blues
You can hear the blues' origins in Lead Belly's songs. Born Huddie Ledbetter in 1888, the Mooringsport native's repertoire included spirituals, folk songs, prison songs and ballads—and, of course, the blues. Likewise, the sound of early Louisiana blues was captured on the recordings of Robert Pete Williams of Zachary.
New Orleans gave rise to performers like James Booker, Snooks Eaglin, Earl King and the legendary Professor Longhair, whose weaving of Caribbean rhythms and the blues created New Orleans' distinct style. Upriver in Baton Rouge, swamp blues took root under the direction of producer Jay Miller who recorded artists such as Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Silas Hogan, Henry Gray, Lonesome Sundown and Lazy Lester. The North Shore community of Pontchatoula claims Irma Thomas as a native.
Of course, scores of other blues greats have called Louisiana home including Raful Neal, Buddy Guy, Ernest "Tabby" Thomas and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. And the state continues to nurture a new generation of performers such as Tab Benoit, Larry Garner, Kenny Neal and Chris Thomas King.
The Experience: Blues Music
Live blues is easy to find throughout Louisiana both in nightclubs and at festivals such as the annual Baton Rouge Blues Festival and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post3408408457339838231..comments2017-10-19T02:21:49.868-04:00Comments on One Extra Degree: Keeping It All in Perspective!Amandahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-9384182103875640082013-01-26T15:33:41.352-05:002013-01-26T15:33:41.352-05:00Found this cute book and you tube video called Goo...Found this cute book and you tube video called Good night ipad. Just thought it went well with this reflection.
ChrisChrishttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-7401729550237537942013-01-24T20:52:00.564-05:002013-01-24T20:52:00.564-05:00Hey Amanda! Just wanted to let you know that "...Hey Amanda! Just wanted to let you know that "The Case of the Missing 100th Day Bottle" was removed by the seller from her TPT store. From her comments, it doesn't sound like it will be reposted.
CamilleCamillehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-10072389598836846312013-01-23T06:10:34.933-05:002013-01-23T06:10:34.933-05:00This blog is very helpful and important for studen...This blog is very helpful and important for student who loves read online. And want online assignments and  finance assignment help. Thanks and Keep continue help.assignments webhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-76257675084026503972013-01-21T23:03:24.810-05:002013-01-21T23:03:24.810-05:00I really admire your work and your willingness to ...I really admire your work and your willingness to share. However, I respect you as a person...as a teacher...as a friend even more.Jenny Mutchlerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-19383908279325257192013-01-21T21:16:35.377-05:002013-01-21T21:16:35.377-05:00Amanda, LOVE your reflection and love reading your...Amanda, LOVE your reflection and love reading your blog. I too feel like every time I start to write for my blog, I need to start with "Sorry it's been a little while." Why do we put these expectations on ourselves? I guess I feel like any of my 100+ followers will forget about me if I don't share something weekly, but for the top blogs I follow, I don't feel that way. I just check my blog roll whenever I have time (like today :) And stalk away...I always try to read older posts from my favorite blogs to see what I have missed since I checked out.

I say today, we all commit to STOP APOLOGIZING for it being a while...we are ALL busy people who work our petuties off! And, I think everyone will just be happy when we have the time to share something new. tamaralynn @lifeloveliteracy.blogspot.comhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-20719629243252472252013-01-21T10:25:36.836-05:002013-01-21T10:25:36.836-05:00Very well said! Bridget Literacy Without Workshee...Very well said!

Bridget
Literacy Without WorksheetsBridget Shttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-52881554051266925502013-01-21T10:09:49.300-05:002013-01-21T10:09:49.300-05:00Wow! This was exactly what I needed to hear! I a...Wow! This was exactly what I needed to hear! I am a new blogger, but I already feel like it is consuming too much of my time. Like you, I started blogging to share my ideas and to hear from others. I want it to be a fun creative outlet for me at the end of a busy day, not another thing on my to do list. I can already feel myself getting stressed out about how many followers I have and about what I am going to post. I don't want to feel that way. I need to find balance, so I can have time to serve God, spend time with loved ones, and relax. Thank you for the reminders and helping me achieve perspective.

Becky
Compassionate Teacher
Beckyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-80779030650264402262013-01-21T09:37:17.110-05:002013-01-21T09:37:17.110-05:00You just blew me away with what you wrote. You na...You just blew me away with what you wrote. You nailed it for this Type A wants to do it all person :) Anyway, love your heart and if my blog/TPT ends up even a little like yours then I know I've done well. Not because of the hits or followers, but because to me you have heart and are extremely thoughtful of others and that should be our ultimate goal :)Faith Wheelerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-56542210783488797632013-01-21T02:03:14.993-05:002013-01-21T02:03:14.993-05:00Kim- I completely understand what you mean! But yo...Kim- I completely understand what you mean! But you know what... I don't have a lot of money, so I don't do the giveaways and and try to gain more followers. I just blog about the fun stuff we do and share most of what I make for free. (I've got a few things up on TPT that I worked really hard on this summer... but not much!)
Just be yourself, and post what makes you excited about your class! That's what I do... and 3 years later, I'm at 960 followers. I never post about how many followers I have either- but just for you to know- it took me 3 years to get there... But even if I only had 10... it wouldn't matter to me b/c I love sharing what I do and make! Keep it up girl! That's why we all blog--- b/c we enjoy it! Jessicahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-3013270921918391892013-01-21T01:58:52.174-05:002013-01-21T01:58:52.174-05:00Amanda- I can't believe what a breath of fresh...Amanda- I can't believe what a breath of fresh air you just gave me! I have been struggling with managing my time for the past 4 years and this year I started my masters on top of everything else! I've been taking a little "hiatus" from blogging since I started school this year because it was getting to be a hassle to post anymore. As much as I miss it sometimes, I still felt guilty and bad about myself because I wasn't doing all these amazing things like all I see on pinterest and my favorite blogs! And then there's all the nitty gritty stuff that comes along with creating freebies and packs to sell on TPT. I've been so discouraged lately b/c it seems like I was stepping on people's toes that I didn't mean to be, or something I created is similar to another person's I had never seen before. I just haven't been enjoying it like I used to. I kind of miss how it was a few years ago before everyone and their mom had a blog! I get overwhelmed by the amount there is on my blog roll now! But you expressed your feelings to beautifully and I couldn't agree with you more! So thank you for posting and sharing all your wonderful work you have so far! =) Have a wonderful week!
JessicaJessicahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-43958254892818057212013-01-21T01:01:51.938-05:002013-01-21T01:01:51.938-05:00What a curious pic the first one. Love it. Thanks ...What a curious pic the first one. Love it. Thanks for the piece of advice.

Best,
Ramon
Fonts 4 Teachers
Fonts 4 Teachers in TPTRamon Abajohttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-47730515662008932582013-01-21T00:40:47.261-05:002013-01-21T00:40:47.261-05:00Love this! :) LeanneLove this! :)

LeanneLeannehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-70224948045840963462013-01-20T23:40:55.824-05:002013-01-20T23:40:55.824-05:00Thank you for your advice. I also had the flu and ...Thank you for your advice. I also had the flu and it whipped me out. I'm glad you are feeling better.

Cara
The Teacher's BackpackThe Teachers Backpackhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-66548739422302388842013-01-20T19:37:12.991-05:002013-01-20T19:37:12.991-05:00Great post! Please savor every moment with your hu...Great post! Please savor every moment with your husband!!!!
Camille
Camillehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-32763654983134119542013-01-20T19:28:06.185-05:002013-01-20T19:28:06.185-05:00Loved this post. AMEN!Loved this post. AMEN!Miss Nelsonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-57343679136618317692013-01-20T19:23:51.272-05:002013-01-20T19:23:51.272-05:00Hi Amanda! Thank you for your take on new bloggers...Hi Amanda! Thank you for your take on new bloggers. As a new blogger myself, I was feeling "unwanted" in the blogging world from so many of the bloggers I had loved to read, when I just wanted to do what everyone else was doing! :) Share ideas! I had been blog stalking and taking ideas for about a year and just wanted to start giving ideas back! I realized that I will just have to write how I want and what I want and if people like it and my ideas they will follow me and come back! On another note, I purchased your Strategy Songs and LOVE them! We have played the inferencing song EVERY single day since I bought it! Thank you for blogging about Rebecca's Mystery Bottle 100th Day Investigation! I love that kind of stuff and already put it in my cart to buy!
Thank you for all you do and your POSITIVE outlook on new bloggers and TpTers! :) Kim
TheVeryBusyFirstGradersKimhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-13699540141148660842013-01-20T19:15:08.360-05:002013-01-20T19:15:08.360-05:00Great advice! I've had similar thoughts and ha...Great advice! I've had similar thoughts and have struggled with comparing myself to other bloggers and creators, but I'm not them! I can only be myself!

Sarah
Learning is for Superstars
FB pageSarah Hankinsonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-29172124232514110722013-01-20T19:06:24.066-05:002013-01-20T19:06:24.066-05:00Very good advice. And what a BEAUTIFUL sunset! R...Very good advice. And what a BEAUTIFUL sunset!

Rebecca
Ladybugs LoungeRebecca H.https://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-557592942256975114.post-39873093234992240182013-01-20T18:25:41.092-05:002013-01-20T18:25:41.092-05:00You took the words out of my mouth! You are simpl...You took the words out of my mouth! You are simply amazing.
It's hard to keep yourself grounded and keep things in perspective, especially when you see others around you succeeding in so many things.

I {seriously} just had this intervention with myself a couple weeks ago. I don't want to loose sight of why I began my blog 2 1/2 years ago! I have gained so much from so many teachers {YOU} and am a better teacher because of it!

Thank you for sharing your words of wisdom!
I loved it!!!!
:)
Kelly
Beg, Borrow, StealMrs. McHaffiehttps://email@example.com