#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Six Other Things the Office of the Vice President Actually Is
posted by seti at 2007-06-22 23:32

Mutiny-: Hilarious
seti: Funny because it's all true, too!

Subprime
posted by seti at 2007-06-22 15:02

Fastest Woman Talker In The World
posted by seti at 2007-06-22 13:06

Email is entitled to the same constitutional protection under the 4th amendment as telephone calls and postal mail.
posted by manchicken at 2007-06-22 12:12

anonion: this would be the same constitution that provides for habeas corpus?
anonion: E_TOO_CYNICAL
anonion: /me aborts and coredumps

Kaboom
posted by seti at 2007-06-22 11:26

1. AES seems weak. 2. Linear time secure cryptography
posted by seti at 2007-06-22 10:37

coderman: "Now get paranoid - Suppose AES-256’s designers had evilly arranged matters so that some “code of the code� (known to them) unexpectedly, contained a remarkably low-weight word (known to them)..."
coderman: "That would constitute a trapdoor enabling cracking it with much smaller effort 64w .
coderman: "If w = 7 then AES-256 would be as easy to crack as the cited attacks on DES (only 2^42 pc-pairs needed)!"

Why all fakes lead to China
posted by coderman at 2007-06-22 09:40

coderman: that capacitor dielectric shit storm that caused bleeding motherboards was pretty funny.

The best and latest range of wound components & computer accesories
posted by coderman at 2007-06-22 09:37

Mutiny-: "Wound" like "coderman is wound up pretty tight today" not "wound" like "that girls vagina looks like a hatchet wound."

Oh here we go again... It's anonion chump monologue time. Jesus get a fucking del.icio.us account like everybdoy else.
posted by Mutiny- at 2007-06-22 08:57

est: it's ironic that in his first mono-thread of the evening, he discussed "spam-intolerance" and "censor[ship] by flooding"
anonion: isn't it?
anonion: i liked the comment on "censorship described as free speech".
anonion: of course, it could be that the channel name here is ironical, and I somehow missed that.
Mutiny-: just another on the long pantheon of lusers who doesn't realize that #infoanarchy is ironical.
anonion: /me fetches lart for mutiny

Queensland officer acquitted of killing aboriginal man
posted by anonion at 2007-06-22 08:00

anonion: the argument being that because the injuries were "accidental" therefore the officer was not responsible despite that he blithely filled out paperwork while the man writhed on the floor
anonion: the case has led to riots and a special order from government to try the officer, and even so somehow the emphasis has been placed on whether he "meant" to harm the man, not on whether he took any action to ensure his welfare.
anonion: this in the face of royal commission into black deaths in custody some years ago, which ordered police to ensure that every care be taken so that such occurences DO NOT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.
anonion: police staffing levels on the remote indegenous community: one. How is a lone officer expected, and how did he expect, to successfully and safely take ANYONE into custody?
anonion: good story here
anonion: In some ways this was a triumph for the Aborigines: "Palm Island Mayor Delena Oui-Foster says locals wanted a conviction but they are thankful there was a trial, the first of a police officer over a black death in custody."
anonion: the initial investigation was carried out over a beer by mates of the officer, and the medical evidence which showed that the officer had caused the injury was only established after the body was exhumed, showing the initial investigation was poor
anonion: "I thought he was foxing it, I thought he just didn't want to go into the cell," Hurley said.
anonion: Hurley, we thought YOU were foxing it. . that YOU didn't want to go into the cell. How wrong can you be, huh?
anonion:
anonion: one (huge, non-indigenous) officer on duty for a place which is rated by Guinness Book of Records as "the most dangerous place in the world outside a conflict zone" .. got your priorities right, QLD?
anonion: beautiful summary, still stands: "a drunk Aboriginal man was arrested for swearing at police. Less than an hour later he died with injuries like those of a road-trauma victim. The police claimed he tripped on a step. The community didn't agree and burnt down the police station."
anonion: "From 1918, Aborigines were sent to the Palm Island Mission in leg irons, deemed variously: 'a troublesome character'; 'a larrikin'; 'a wanderer'; 'a communist'. Usually they had made the mistake of asking about their wages, or practising traditional ceremonies."
anonion: cf Australian film "Turkey shoot" which i dunno maybe its similar but with clean white people ..
anonion: the endemic racism, and sexism exemplified by the practise of pack-rape known locally as "training" previously documented in the nearest mainland town of Ingham
anonion: sees the local administrative centre of townsville labelled as KKK capital of Australia
anonion: Australian Army base know what I'm talking about
anonion: KKK is something to do with kittens, right?
anonion: seems like a well-written history of palm island and the case
anonion: "in an 8 month period in 2003, there were 16 youth suicides and 8 domestic murders on the island. The community of 3500 indigenous people is squeezed into about 220 houses, averaging 17 people to a house"
anonion: well if the world didn't protest the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, why should anyone protest China's games in 2008?

The Law and Media Censorship in Australia
posted by anonion at 2007-06-22 07:55

Melbourne Indymedia is dead.
posted by anonion at 2007-06-22 07:21

anonion: a recent but historical discussion
anonion: suggested fix includes "userids to enable priveledged posting" so IndyMedia Melbourne is dead, whichever way you look at it .. killed by the spam gene
anonion: "being fully catalogued by Google News, and for this to happen we must show we exercise editorial control over those postings"
anonion: perhaps .. killed by the spam-intolerance gene is more accurate. Who cares about the trash spammers and trolls? what was more valuable, indymedia, or silence?
anonion: melbourne indymedia voted: silence
anonion: the only repair I would accept would be a 'filter by author' button, or similar
anonion: the more tools you provide for censorship, the more censorship will occur .. the fact the censors currently have to censor by flooding shows that the original design is good -- they have no other tools except the tool of speech.
anonion: If you change IndyMedia to appoint its own censors, it will not be Indy Media .. it will become just more Media.
anonion: see wikimedia for examples.
anonion: if you indymedia operators want a blog, frigging get a blog.
anonion: just please do not pollute the world with more censorship described as "free speech". I already have laundry powder, thanks very much.
anonion: "I have also contributed to the hidding of tens of thousands of commercial, porn, abuse, libellous, and vacuous spam to the site, including hidding more than 200 articles by yourself or those associated by you in the last 4 days."
anonion: perhaps displaying comments in a thread tree helps users to select them for themselves ..
anonion: like this
anonion: perhaps a giant link to this article, along with thread-tree-display could cure 90% of indymedia problems
anonion: teach a man to fish ...
anonion: looking carefully, /me notices that when viewing "all postings including the ones that have been hidden by mods" that the view is useless .. because of the repeat-attempts by people of re-posting posts that mods have hidden ... something for the mods and devs to think about.

http://paste.lisp.org/display/43241
posted by [azoic] at 2007-06-22 04:22