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There's a Cray for sale at eBay. 3 more hours to get it. Current price: $44,000.69.
Sierra Times - Libertarian Presidential Candidate Fails to Make Party Ballot in Arizona: Arizona is going to run L. Neil Smith for president and Vin Suprynowicz for VP. Good choices.
Gore Will Say Anything - GORE-ITIS: The Best of Al Gore's Lies and Exaggerations: a compendium of algore's lies, which reminds me of one of my favorite jokes. [mind]
Q: What's the difference between a politician and a statesman?A: A politician tells lies, and I don't know any statesmen.
Steward Alsop at Fortune - What Ever Happened to Great PC Software? [mumble]
The personal-computer industry used to make great software: fast, intuitive, well-integrated programs. Recently I've discovered that the software I use--the stuff that is installed on my personal computer, not the stuff that I get from the Web--really sucks. The situation will only get worse: Software companies seem to have decided that fixing and upgrading their products is neither useful nor profitable.
Will Rodger at USA Today - 'Carnivore' unlikely to be validated: Five groups of researchers that the injustice department hoped would do a technical review of Carnivore have refused because of the rules imposed on them. [cafe]
"This is not a request for an independent report," says Jeffrey Schiller, a computer network manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was asked to work on the review. "They want a rubber stamp."
Interstar Networks - Java RSA Cryptography Library: They must have been just waiting for the patent to expire. RSA removes their patent restrictions and, boom, here's an open-source Java implementation. I haven't played with it, and probably won't for a while. JSSE will work for me, I think (code is written but not yet debugged). [cafe]
Ed Parker at Sierra Times - Our Last Last Chance: Mr. Parker says that with this week's millenium summit at the UN, America's last chance has passed. The New World Order is here. The only thing left to do is to fight when leviathan's minions arrive in your town. This story will likely reappear here next week. [sierra]
America is gone. Babylon is here. It's time to change strategies before the enemy can deploy. Forget protest, redress of grievances, writing your congressman, peaceable assembly. Forget educating your couch-potato neighbors, writing editorials for your local papers, flying your flag upside-down. Forget your call-in shows, C-Span, petitions, videotapes, and conferences. Forget your Constitution.Remember your Bill Of Rights. These rights didn't come from the Constitution, they came from the Creator. And remember to pray.
The uncouth horde has declared war on us, and it's time to fight fire with fire.
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Murder is wrong. Self defense is not. Nor is defense of one's family, friends, property, town, city, state or nation. If such defense requires aggressive action against an approaching foe, it is still defense. You don't wait until the snake bites you before you shoot it, you don't let a scorpion sting you before you squish it. You are within your legal rights to shoot a knife-wielding attacker when he is yet twenty feet from you because it is recognized that he presents a lethal danger to your person. He is one and a half seconds from slicing you open at that distance. It's only murder if you go out to make murder. It's not murder if an enemy comes to you demanding your submission with the threat of death, injury or deprivation for refusal.
Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.Com - UN Millennium Summit: Globalist Dream Is Your Worst Nightmare: commentary on the creation of a UN standing army at the millenium summit. A global war-making, er... peace-keeping, force. And then there's the coming UN tax. Bastards! Strangely, Chinese President Jiang Zemin was the one who stressed national sovereignty against the back-drop of world government. There's an archive of all the statements made at www.un.com/ga/webcast/statements/ including Komrade Klinton's. [market]
Clinton was on full display for all the world to see and hear, as he dared to beat his chest over the alleged "victories" of internationalism over its Balkan and Middle Eastern enemies:"One essential lesson of the last century is this: There are times when the international community must take a side -- not merely stand between the sides. For when good and evil collide, even-handedness can be an ally of evil..."
The first sentence of the above peroration describes how a world state is today being generated: the UN has gone from mediator to judge-jury-and-executioner in less than a generation. From its original Charter, which unmistakably protects the sovereignty of member states, we are progressing to a higher stage in the evolution of global governance -- in which national sovereignty is clearly relegated to the Museum of Outdated Conceptions, along with the US Constitution, the Magna Carta, and other such relics of the reactionary past.
bob lonsberry - Should Tax Men Count America's Guns? Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, has proposed a $50 transfer tax on all guns. Another senator who would swing were L. Neil's zeroth amendment the law of the land. Mr. Lonsberry doesn't like it either, but he's a bit more subdued than I in his response. His response? "Vote republican."
¶napster is a Napster client written in Java. I downloaded it, and it runs, but I couldn't try anything because I don't yet have a Napster account and this client doesn't support creating new accounts. [meat]
"Blocks is an anonymous distributed file transfer system designed for people with permanent 'always on' Internet connections like DSL lines or cable modems. It allows you to anonymously upload files from, and download files to the Blocks server 'network'. Blocks is cross-platform, open-source and free." Similar to FreeNet/Gnutella with a few differences. Files are split into 64Kb blocks (hence the name), indexing is done by local caching of distributed advertisements, not distributed searches, so index traffic happens only when something changes, not on every search. Each application acts as client, server, and caching proxy. The cache is encrypted, and deleted every time you stop the server. Hence, there is no way for anyone to detect what files you've uploaded, downloaded, or been a proxy for. It's in the public domain. Looks neat. I haven't tried it. Currently available as a Win32 binary, cross-platform source, or Linux binary. [meat]
"Beeyond is a system for building and running secure documents and database-backed network applications with Java user interfaces. It is powerful and inexpensive enough to be used for all kinds of applications...". This looks really interesting. It's got a Java thin client, an application builder, a scripting language, a server, their own free encryption library, etc. [meat]
