Saturday, November 03, 2001

Take a look over at Al Jazeera for footage from inside Kabul that they are not showing on western TV.
http://www.aljazeera.net
Its easy enough to use; just click on the camera icons.
posted by Irdial , 11:57 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 4:54 PM Þ 

Ahhh, that thing is fuckin' great. Most of it sounds like Bush actually said it, testament to his monotonous drone. I was also given that link by a friend... though it was at a warprecords.com/morris or something. Woo!
posted by Barrie , 2:02 AM Þ 
Friday, November 02, 2001
posted by Irdial , 8:42 PM Þ 
Thursday, November 01, 2001
posted by Mess Noone , 10:36 AM Þ 

From: mountain_fed_spring@yahoo.com

"Hello, I do not understand what this place is really
about. Can anyone tell me? I thought it had to do with
interesting radio transmissions and recordings, and it
does seem to be vaguely about that, but then again it
seems to be about something else completely different.
Please help me understand!!! Cheers,"

Please email this dude with your varied and individual explanations!
posted by Irdial , 8:58 AM Þ 
Wednesday, October 31, 2001

A.I.'s last act, after a breathtaking twist and revelation, has been attacked as Spielberg's final seizure of the material from Kubrick, yet another fuzzy happy ending. Yet this ending -- the bleakest of any Spielberg movie and the sweetest and most sentimental of any Kubrick -- strikes me as far from happy. Instead, it's chilling, almost annihilating. And it is far from the only scene that may prove disturbing to young children.
posted by Irdial , 11:54 PM Þ 


NEW CONFORMITY aka(alex p. keaton is back!!!)

Several writers of opinion pieces critical of President Bush’s
leadership or U.S. foreign policy have been roundly criticized or
have even lost their jobs. Some advertisers and local television
stations dropped ABC’s “Politically Incorrect” after host Bill Maher
referred to some past U.S. military actions as “cowardly.”
College professors now worry that the new conformity is having
a corrosive impact on campuses, eroding their historical place as
hotbeds of debate and dissent. During the Vietnam War, college
campuses were at the heart of the anti-war movement. But many
speech advocates say campuses are now far less tolerant of controversy.
“Obviously, the current situation has people really on edge,”
said Harry A. Silverglate, author of “The Shadow University,” a book
that examines incursions on campus free speech. “But it seems now
the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college
campuses-the precise place where you would expect to see the least.”

posted by john , 8:16 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 2:10 PM Þ 
Tuesday, October 30, 2001



ok then there's this
posted by john , 5:21 PM Þ 

1,Baat Niklegi 2, Sarakti 3, Kagaz Ki Kashti
4, Meri Tanhaiyon 5, Chitthi Na Koi Sandesh
6, Dard Se Mera 7, Allah Jaanta
posted by john , 5:19 PM Þ 

"Allah Jaanta Ha"
Jahit Singh & Lata Mangeskar.
Without compare.

"Tere Bina Zindagi"
Lata Mangeskar & Kishore Kumar.
Unfathomable.

"Ishq Mujhko Nahin"
Jagit and Chitra Singh.
Its True.

"Chalte Chalte"
Lata Mangeskar.
Pure Power.
posted by Irdial , 4:51 PM Þ 

Surf the web as it was
http://web.archive.org/
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:07 PM Þ 

Hello there

this is a very cool collection of strange telephone noises made by people back in the 70's. The British ones are very interesting; some sound so much like spooks ladies, but the guy narrating the tape is even better!
posted by captain davros , 11:23 AM Þ 
Monday, October 29, 2001

We have no kings or presidents. We believe in rough consensus and running code.

"The second phase of the experiment Project Cyborg 2.0 is planned for November 2001. This phase will look at how a new implant could send signals back and forth between Warwick's nervous system and a computer. If this test succeeds with no complications, a similar chip will be implanted in his wife, Irena. This will allow the investigation of how movement, thought or emotion signals could be transmitted from one person to the other, possibly via the Internet."

A current fave

"Apple discourages music piracy. The company said it spent more than $50,000 on CDs to make that point at the iPod launch: Apple purchased and distributed 20 CDs to use with each iPod review unit, and iPods out of the box have a sticker reading ``Do Not Steal Music.''
posted by Claus Eggers , 10:55 PM Þ 

Buy NASA software: http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/NASA_1.html
Sourcecode avaliable. Very expensive tough.
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:21 PM Þ 

yes, that is a fact. it has been tested and confirmed by two employees(friends)
i have who work there. both are audio designers with whom i talk often.

when the messages are encrypted they are formatted properly. after being sent, they end
up with the broken lines and have inserted "!"'s. this is not the case when the same
people send messages from home. both are savvy pgp users as well. but hey f-them as
it got figured out and we're back talking again.

now truly we don't really know what they are running in the back-end to do this if
anything. but it is possible using various software to scan for charaters in emails.
and we know ea has the cash to hire some top notch programers. you should see
the building/complex.
posted by john , 9:03 PM Þ 

Do you meant to tell us that that EA sports DELIBERATELY corrupts pgp messages by adding characters to messages ??!!
posted by Irdial , 8:53 PM Þ 

pgp scrambling fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ok you guys, ck this out. i have a friend at EA sports who was
always getting his pgp messages scrambled. consistent bad packet errors.

we tried many things as we were sure ea didn't want encrypted messages
being sent out of ea due to their game secrets being given away. so below is a
message from him. you will notice that "!" have been inserted to scramble
the packets. if these are taken out and the lines moved up to form a solid
message then it can be decrypted!!!!!!! can i win the pgp prize now???????

thankfully it go figured out. if you guys ever run into this problem you know
what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use
Comment: Support the freedom of expression, use PGP
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!
XqiX7wdT
h++4a45MmaUA/dJHIKxUObUoVDjZGE9NYGcFQs7VHpRJqzxKdgMxZ4wI/KIuTFWC
RmyT1YvJeFLsy5vYK4lFKM/QWLMQK0G0rE9i5kMpVZr5tDvrPNRDKITfOOfT+Gug
44huMTyavCcSNBR/1oL3xTGj9VD2GRFnuN1dXoeAlMGuHuu7sds5AQqYK5KKwuwV
LcYdlDai
=dmUL
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

'She'd better be a red hot navigator..'
posted by john , 7:59 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:41 PM Þ 

Hello people. My first posting on Blogdial:
This m$n.com business has caused a quite a stir in the Opera community, and for those of you not following the events, there's been a discussion at Slashdot, and plenty of news coverage. Other browsers like Mozilla were also barred from entering after msn changed their page.

The message first appeared on Hotmail a couple of months ago, although it is not as strict there as on MSN, which won't let you in even if you try to disguise Opera as MSIE 5.0. It actually looks for the string 'Opera' in the user-agent string the browser sends. Talk about discrimination! I had to hack my opera executable to remove 'Opera' from the user-agent string to be able to enter MSN. Not that I would ever want to go there any more though...

Of course Opera renders the page perfectly fine, and in a press release from friday, Opera Software asks you to view the release as XHTML (bottom of page) first in Opera, then in IE. I used version 6.0 of IE, and it totally crashed, although the page is perfectly valid XHTML, according to the WC3 validator. So much for standards compliance!
The MSN page, on the other hand, is shock full of XHTML errors, and shows that MS's propaganda about Opera not supporting the standard is total bulls***.

The Evil Empire has actually backed on this in the news now, and all in all it's created lots of positive press for Opera, so hopefully it will make it an even bigger threat to IE's hegemony in the future, I would think.

And btw, Opera 5.5 will soon be out. Looking forward to it!

Stian
posted by Stian , 12:39 PM Þ 

NB: take a look at Softwar!

NO XP FOR THE ARMY
Dept. of Defense officials have nixed a large buy of the Microsoft XP operating system and any PCs that have XP installed. The U.S. military has determined that the online registration of the Microsoft operating system simply gives up too much information about the Defense Dept. computers and software.

I CAN SEE YOU TOO
The move by U.S. law enforcement to ban anonymous Internet Web browsing has had unintended consequences. Anonymous web browsing was very popular with U.S. intelligence agencies and government military users who did not want others to know exactly what information was being accessed. Although the government may now be able to more easily track U.S. citizens on the Internet - the same is true in reverse. For example, on Oct. 24 at 5:30 pm the Bush White House visited the http://www.softwar.net website and downloaded information on the China-Gate scandal.
posted by Irdial , 12:16 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:10 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 8:35 AM Þ 
Sunday, October 28, 2001

"Professional terrorists know how to cover their tracks, for example they use pre-paid mobile phones once and throw them away," said Mr Bowden. "Reports of the September 11 hijackers indicate they used web-based email from public terminals. It is not persuasive to argue for privacy to be sacrificed in the name of fighting terrorism if the measures would not be effective."
posted by Irdial , 8:21 PM Þ 

You are running Mojo Nation right?
http://www.mojonation.net
posted by Irdial , 8:16 PM Þ 
posted by alex_tea , 8:01 PM Þ 

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html


"We feel that there are real opportunities with evil, and that when evil is
integrated it into our next generation of Windows products consumers
willappreciate evil on their desktop," said Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates. "Businesses haven't been able to fully realize their evil potential. With evil integrated into Office 2001, corporations big and small will
begin to see enhanced evil productivity."
posted by Niclas , 6:06 PM Þ 

From refusal to obey,
From the love of far away,
From forgetfulness to pray,
Save us Bid
posted by Irdial , 5:37 PM Þ 

"My Philosophy , in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpse of his life, with productive achievement as his nobelst activity, and reason as his only absolute" *
posted by Irdial , 12:29 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:09 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 11:39 AM Þ 

US special forces beat retreat as enemy 'fought back like maniacs'
By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/26/war226.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/26/ixhome.html
posted by Irdial , 11:36 AM Þ 
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