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Wednesday, December 11, 2002 |
You thought we were kidding about Big Brother, eh? I wish. The plain fact is Boy George and his corporate toadies want to spy on every aspect of your life. That’s right, they want YOU.
Read down a few articles for info on how you can avoid Big Brother’s ever roving eye, at least on the Net.
Cheers,
Dusty
US eyes Big Brother plan. The Pentagon is looking into ways of monitoring everything everyone does, as part of its war against terror. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
3:23:51 PMGoogle It! 
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Now that the Bush administration is preparing to release the final rules for the secret military tribunals so dear to the heart of Boy George, it’s a good time to look at the sad recent history of military justice. Records show a conviction rate of better than 97% over the last 6 months, FAR higher than any civilian court anywhere in the world.
Cheers,
Dusty
All The Convictions You Could Ever Wish For. Plastic::Politics::Law: A six-month review of 1000 court-martial cases in the US military indicates a legal system more suited to some steamy tropical dictatorship. [Plastic: Most Recent]
3:17:55 PMGoogle It!
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Boy howdy, now THIS is a god idea, eh? Since people are running in droves for software that blocks those annoying pop-up and banner ads, marketing geniuses have decided the answer is to make the BIGGER. Yet another RBMI (really bad marketing idea) in an industry seemingly made up of nothing else.
Cheers,
Dusty
Bigger Web ads endorsed by industry. Seeking to raise online advertising's profile, an industry trade group that includes AOL, MSN and Yahoo endorses a new set of ad sizes that are larger than standard banners. [CNET News.com]
3:13:09 PMGoogle It!
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Here’s a nice little primer from our friends at Kuro5hin on how to maintain anonymity online. It’s hardly complete, but it’s a good start.
If you really want to dive into the intricacies of maintaining a truly anonymous Net presence, I advise you start reading the Usenet groups alt.privacy.anon-server and alt.security.pgp. There you will find all you need to know to throw off Big Brother.
Cheers,
Dusty
How To Post Absolutely Anonymously?. The year is 2007. The "war on terrorism" has gone on for years and there is no end in sight. FBI investigations of "suspicious persons" at American companies and the media frenzy about Middle Eastern terrorists has gotten to the point that many Muslim Americans have lost their jobs because they are considered "security liabilities." Word leaks out that the all-seeing eye of the Information Awareness Office, headed by Bush's crony John Poindexter (the Reaganite of Iran-Contra fame), is using its powers to spy on "leftist radicals," which in actuality is just about anyone criticizing Bush, Israel, American foreign policy in the Middle East, reading Chomsky, or sympathizing with the plight of Muslims. It is the new McCarthyism, and you do not want to be its next victim. What do you do? [kuro5hin.org]
3:09:08 PMGoogle It!
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Stephen Jay Gould. "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." [Quotes of the Day]
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