#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

http://www.babyrockrecords.com
posted by cryptomail at 2006-08-17 21:57

cryptomail: "Do you really want your baby listening to Tool? Hell, yes! Instead of distorted guitars and thunderous drums, weve used mellotron...."

Judge orders halt to NSA wiretap program
posted by coderman at 2006-08-17 17:24

coderman: jesus christ! the body may be battered and bruised, but the soul of america burns on!
Mutiny: <NSA> OooooooooooookAY! wink
coderman: note that this only applies to the terrorist surveillance program. we'll have to wait to see how the internet backbone tap case goes...
cryptomail: YAY
Zerodhero: But who is actually going to enforce this and how?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/17/domesticspying.lawsuit.ap/index.html
posted by Zerodhero at 2006-08-17 16:41

Zerodhero: ETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.

Rabbis on Jewish Law: enemy in time of war has no "innocents"
posted by nnnnn at 2006-08-17 12:32

nnnnn: and yet they happily refer to their own "civilians" in the same statement

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posted by nnnnn at 2006-08-17 12:17

Battlefield "Mine 2" vid
posted by Oliver at 2006-08-17 12:16

Oliver: some nice comedy in there

Transgenic grass on the loose
posted by Fawn at 2006-08-17 06:54

Google gives city free Wi-Fi - Internet company's hometown of Mountain View gets network
posted by coderman at 2006-08-17 05:01

coderman: "The online search company said in a briefing Tuesday that the $1 million network spans virtually all of the 12 square miles of Mountain View and will not require advertising support." - how many AP'
coderman: how many AP's does a million bucks buy?
coderman: quick, someone in mtn view grab kismet...

Where's the OWL?
posted by cryptomail at 2006-08-17 04:17

Analysis of the UK "terror" arrests by someone with a clue and some credibility for the topic
posted by cgiirc at 2006-08-17 01:39

cgiirc: link gleaned from schneier blog comments
cgiirc: schneier discusses the vast improbility of smuggling onto a plane a useful quantity of volatile checmicals and then managing to make them do something of your choosing, using only shampoo bottles and this shoe
cgiirc: another project for 'mythbusters'?
cgiirc: given the vast improbability, and the apparent unpreparedness of the arrested subjects (most had no passport) the question is why were they arrested so soon, rather than continue to monitor and thereby catch more of their (supposedly) nefarious colleagues?
crapname: what makes a democracy different isn't the government, it's the people