Saturday, November 10, 2001

(AP) -- The Northern Lights appeared with rare intensity in skies across the United States, treating onlookers as far south as Georgia and Alabama to a shimmering display of blue, red and green.

The ghostly streaks, also known as the aurora borealis, are rarely seen south of Canada and Alaska.

Monday night's display began around 8:50 p.m. EST, prompting alarmed calls to law enforcement authorities.

Sonoma County, California, emergency dispatcher Randy Muelheim said some callers thought it might "be a terrorist thing."
posted by Irdial , 12:25 PM Þ 

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey (CNN) -- Saying that innocent women, men and children are being subjected "to blind wrath, misnamed as a holy war," Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Friday delivered indirect criticism of the the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Speaking at a United Nations-sponsored symposium at Seton Hall University, Khatami said that "an obscure misrepresentation of Islam terrorizes the world."

He called for a worldwide coalition of "compassion and violence, as opposed to violence and terror."
posted by Irdial , 12:22 PM Þ 

Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection


http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-055.asp

Originally posted: November 08, 2001

Who should read this bulletin:
Customers using Microsoft® Internet Explorer

Impact of vulnerability:
Exposure and altering of data in cookies.

Maximum Severity Rating:
High

Recommendation:
Customers should consider disabling active scripting in the Internet Zone and the Intranet Zone. Customers using Outlook Express who have not set OE to use the "Restricted Sites" Zone should do so as a best practice.

Affected Software:

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0


Technical description:
Web sites use cookies as a way to store information on a user's local system. Most often, this information is used for customizing and retaining a site's setting for a user across multiple sessions. By design each site should maintain its own cookies on a user's machine and be able to access only those cookies.

A vulnerability exists because it is possible to craft a URL that can allow sites to gain unauthorized access to user’s cookies and potentially modify the values contained in them. Because some web sites store sensitive information in a user’s cookies, it is also possible that personal information could be exposed.

Microsoft is preparing a patch for this issue, but in the meantime customers can protect their systems by disabling active scripting. (The FAQ provides step-by-step instructions for doing this). This will protect against both the web-hosted and the mail-borne variants discussed above. When the patch is complete, Microsoft will re-release this bulletin and provide details on obtaining and using it.

Internet Servers Intranet Servers Client Systems
Internet Explorer 5.5 High High High
Internet Explorer 6.0 High High High


To disable:
* On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click the Security tab, and then click Custom Level.
* In the Settings box, scroll down to the Scripting section, and click Disable under "Active scripting" and "Scripting of Java applets".
* Click OK, and then click OK again.

All blogdialers know that the buttons used to post here in IE use active scripting, so once you turn it off you will have to use Mozilla http://www.mozila.org or another browser to post, or, enable active scripting just when youre here. Its amazing isnt it? Sites will be able to get your cookies, look into your shit and fuck with your identity. Like I said before, I dont have a problem with companies getting big and people getting rich, but I do have a problem with people and companies who thirsto for world domination (without good reason :] )

posted by Irdial , 11:42 AM Þ 
Friday, November 09, 2001

G.O.D.
sorry claus, tooo cool to leave broken! ./a
posted by Claus Eggers , 1:39 PM Þ 

Weekend escapades for the unsatisfied
http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php3?client=drugs
…what happend to a cup of tea and Bach on Radio Four
posted by Claus Eggers , 1:35 PM Þ 

Americans Target Of Largest Media Brainwashing Campaign in History
Executive Intelligence Review http:///www.larouchepub.com

Introduction: Are You Brainwashed?

Are you brainwashed? What about some of your neighbors, are they brainwashed? Before you answer that, let us ask you a few preliminary questions: Do you believe that the United States was struck by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11? Do think that the people behind that attack were "Arabs" and that its "mastermind" was this fellow Osama bin Laden, operating from a cave in Afghanistan? Do you believe that the way to stop terrorism is to hit them hard, to hit them at their "bases" in such places as Afghanistan, and to hit the nations who might sponsor them, like, say Iraq?

And what about the economy? Do you think that the recent fall of the stock market, and the weakness in the economy, have been caused by the Sept. 11 attacks? Well, if you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you probably are brainwashed! If you answered "yes" to more than one, you are definitely a "goner."
posted by Irdial , 9:45 AM Þ 
Thursday, November 08, 2001









posted by Irdial , 10:52 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 10:43 PM Þ 

Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:10:05 +0100
To: declan@well.com
From: Ulf Hedlund
Subject: Swedish national radio bans SETI software

Conspiracy theory has reached the state owned public service radio in Sweden, "Sveriges Radio" (www.sr.se). They have banned all use of the SETI software and says that three of the technicians from the IT department are going to be relocated. According to the head of human resources, Per Thorsell, this is due to the fact that they don't know if the software is actually performing search for extraterrestrial life. "The software could be used by some service for other purposes, i.e. calculation of missile ballistics", he says.
posted by Irdial , 10:39 PM Þ 

Like, today, yesterday will be nothing
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 7:46 PM Þ 



oh no! thankfully he wasn't hurt. poor little prince..

posted by john , 6:26 PM Þ 

"Today will be nothing like yesterday"
Howard Jacques
posted by Irdial , 6:10 PM Þ 

US Congressman bockled from flying by Air France
Issa, an Arab American, had been profiled and denied permission to board a flight. I thought that was rather amazing -- a U.S. congressman being singled out in such a way. As a result, I thought it might be worthwhile to pursue this story, and invited Issa to join me on the program.

Issa, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, was scheduled to fly from Washington's Dulles Airport on October 4 to Saudi Arabia. He was traveling with his Democratic colleague from Florida, Robert Wexler, on a Congressional fact-finding mission. Wexler was already on board the plane when Issa arrived at the gate about an hour and 15 minutes before the scheduled departure.

"They punched me in the computer, took my tickets, my boarding passes and my passport, and walked me out of sight for about 20 minutes," he said, referring to the Air France gate personnel. "And when they came back, they had taken my boarding passes away and handed me back my ticket, and said, "You're going tomorrow."
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/
posted by Irdial , 11:19 AM Þ 

Link between pirated CDs, terrorism alleged
... Prosecutor Carlos Calcenas said he believes the pirate CD business is underwriting terrorist activities and that Barakat is just one of dozens of Arab merchants who operate fronts in the tri-border region for terrorism-related activities.....
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/08/inv.terror.south/index.html
posted by Irdial , 11:13 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 11:10 AM Þ 

Q. FetaPets are amazing! This is the best idea I've ever heard. It seems too good to be true. Is this site for real?
A. You are not dreaming. You are only seconds away from ordering your first FetaPet. You will know it is real when you feel the constant, never ending love from a FetaPet.

Q. Isn't what you're doing unethical?
A. There is nothing unethical about love.

Q. Is it true that I could get eight FetaPups for free if I killed my pregnant dog?
A. No, that is absolutely untrue.

Q. What's the difference between a pile of dead babies and a pile of marbles?
A. You can't load the marbles into a dump truck using a pitch-fork.

Q. How many FetaPets have been sold?
A. If you measured the number of FetaPets sold in love, the love would stretch from the earth to the moon and back 57 times.

Q. I've heard so much about FetaPets. All of my friends have them. How do I get mine?
A. Order your FetaPet by clicking on the links below.

Q. FetaPets are disgusting! They look like dead animals in jars. Don't you think they're gross?
A. Listen. You don't have to tell me they're gross. I have to touch the things.

Q. Isn't it wrong of PayPal to shut down your payment service simply because of a few e-mails from unloving people?
A. Yes. And those people are exactly the ones who would benefit the most from receiving the love from a FetaPet.

Q. Why do they call it PayPal when they don't let you pay and they're not your pal?
A. The domain name CockSucker was already taken.

http://www.fetapets.com/
posted by Irdial , 10:02 AM Þ 

The Phantom Edit 1.1 cuts out many problems, the main one being The Midiclorian Heresy.
posted by Irdial , 9:48 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:45 AM Þ 

Anthony Manning - Chromium Nebulae
I find, this LP should licence the German grammophon. A classical author simply. Super+diagonally in each regard, very much crunchy, and, as on most its other LPs no longer in such a way Gloeckchen vernarrt. In the reason ` Chromium Nebulae might be ' the entire Locust/Disjecta surrounding field into the bag. Much loop-oriented music, which again and again destroyed its own sounds under the hand, without sounding academic thereby. In completely self-willed way this is the plate of Anthony Manning, which is still at the earliest Techno, but it is also clearly as a follow-up of Sun RA to see. Very very closely, but never pressing.
posted by Irdial , 9:44 AM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 12:25 AM Þ 
Wednesday, November 07, 2001
posted by Irdial , 9:28 PM Þ 

"When Justice Becomes Outlawed...
Then The Just Must Become Outlaws"
posted by Irdial , 9:27 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:22 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:44 PM Þ 

http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1813233

Military Bars Green Party Leader from Flying posted by declan on Saturday November 03, @12:36PM from the airports-are-now-a-no-speech-zone dept.

As one of the U.S. Green Party's top officials, Nancy Oden is used to controversy. But Oden never expected to be hassled by National Guard troops at her hometown airport of Bangor, Maine on Thursday and barred from flying out of it. She thinks it's because of a Green Party statement she co-authored that ran in the local newspaper. The statement calls for universal health care, limitations on free trade, and a stop to "U.S. military incursions" including the bombing of Afghanistan. (The Green Party has labeled the U.S. military action an act of "state terrorism.") Oden's unsuccessful attempt to fly to Chicago for a Green Party national meeting follows a Philadelphia man's unpleasant experience after reading the wrong book at an airport, a California journalist's headaches for daring to take photos inside an airport, and the arrest of another man in Germany for bringing politically-unacceptable reading material to an airport. Also see Indymedia coverage of Oden's experience; the transcript of our interview with her from her home in Jonesboro, Maine is below.
posted by Irdial , 3:46 PM Þ 


"Do you have tee-pee for my bunghole?"
posted by Irdial , 12:40 PM Þ 

[....]
Steve Uhrig, president of SWS Securities in Harford County, which provides intelligence and eavesdropping equipment to the NSA, said that before the attacks, he had sold the NSA a stash of "suitcasekits," portable listening devices best used against targets like the suspected terrorists.

The kits, which are disposable and last about six weeks, travel well over rugged terrain and can track low-powered radio transmissions - especially those produced by people hiding with generators and ham radios, he said

They can also help locate signals being "hidden" next to larger signals, Uhrig said.
[....]
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.ar.nsa03nov03.story
posted by Irdial , 12:19 PM Þ 

Heh heh, finally got my PGParty prize today. I was expecting something like this, but for some reason was thinking Liras or Pesos. Ace!
posted by Barrie , 8:29 AM Þ 
Tuesday, November 06, 2001

FRINGE CULTURE, POP AND PERVERSITIES
Knud Romer one of Denmarks finest. Starring in Lars von Triers dogma flick 'Idioterne'. He has a different e-mail now.
http://www.art.a.se/96/jorg/
posted by Claus Eggers , 8:25 PM Þ 

Kristian Vester aka. Goodiepal on Betalounge.com with Kit Clayton
http://www.betalounge.com/stuff/lounge11-1-01.ram
posted by Claus Eggers , 8:16 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:40 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:20 PM Þ 

Any clues as to how I should feed WGET?

I think the normal method is to approach the cage downwind and lob packets of pork scratchings from a safe distance...

The problem appears to have been the syntax of robts.txt (quoted below) which doesn't seem to be very intuitive. Its fixed now anyway (sort of) and I actually tested it this time so download away.

Me, on the other hand, you should feed cakes.
posted by paul , 12:02 PM Þ 

The UK Campaign for LOGO FREE TV
http://www.logofreetv.org.uk/

File next to CUT "Campaign for Uncensored Television". Sick of seeing Dragonball-Z cut to pieces? And all the other Sci-Fi thats butchered? Join CUT; we want clear admissions before the start of any edited film or programme that cuts have been made, with information on exactly who made the cuts and why. If you knew how many cuts there were in TV programmes you would be VERY surprised indeed. Did you know that there are two versions of "The Abyss"? There is one where the mouse is seen under the cage breathing liquid (for the tough North American market), and one where this scene is panned and scanned so that you dont see the mouse suffer (for the wimpy Europeans).

Who wants to be the webmaster for this operation??
posted by Irdial , 10:17 AM Þ 
Monday, November 05, 2001

On a A.I. note – I concur. Seeing that flick felt a bit strange during the movie. I hadn’t been to the cinema for many years, as I think not very much of the movies they put on. Being an avid Kubrik fan, and his ‘2001 – a Space Odyssey’ being my favourite movie, I decided to delve into the perverted pleasure of seeing just how, and how much, Spielberg and the Hollywood machine had killed this Kubrik love child (pardon the pun). By the way, I like ‘2001’ because of the esoteric story and lavish room for the time-emptiness counter-pointing leitmotif. I find it very interesting, deep and profoundly disturbing.

As I watched the A.I. plot unfold, I felt disapointed because of the banal story line, or more so, the way it was told. Yet something was wrong.
When I got out of the cinema, I mumbled something about ‘Spielberg really killed this one’ or something to that effect. Still that sentence didn’t feel right. It wasn’t before I read Akin’s note on A.I. I noticed. This was no Kubrik movie, nor was it a Spielberg one. The story had come through, disguised in Spielberg emotional drama, disguised in the legacy of Kubrik. I had been set up, lured into the story and had been completely annihilated by the endings paradoxical perspective, in the sense that it’s a metaperspective. Questioning what being ‘human’ is. Once you figure that out, you figure out the ending.
A shining masterpiece. Five Michellin stars.
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:36 PM Þ 

Call me cunt
but I do like the new Aphex album.
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:28 PM Þ 

Aye, I'd noticed it was gone this morning.

Still having trouble accessing it with WGET though, which is a shame since it's bloody marvellous when it can get through. I'm using

wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.mp3 http://diogenes.2bet.co.uk/irdial/disk2/disk2/stephen%20mcgreevy/disc%201

as suggested in the WGET manual to get the Stephen P McGreevy stuff (he's not mentioned in the manual, the technique is!). But the only thing it'll download is

"# allow wget except for outfile.html
User-agent: Wget
Disallow: outfile.html

# go away - no robots here -they're ugly and they smell of machine oil
User-agent: *
Disallow: /"

Any clues as to how I should feed WGET?






posted by captain davros , 7:39 PM Þ 

Anyone trying to download the MP3's from the webserver may have experienced some dificulties today. I got back into the office today after ten days of commuter hell/working elsewhere to find someone had decided to saw the office in half so I had to move all the servers (especially the ones that were half broke and held together with metaphorical gaffer tape.) On a brighter note I did learn today that hiding under your desk with your hands over your ears, going la-la-la I can't see you, is apparently NOT appropriate behaviour in the modern office.
posted by paul , 2:46 PM Þ 
Sunday, November 04, 2001

re: lost and found.

Remember the ISIC card that was posted a few weeks back? I bought a hi-8 video tape the other week in a charity shop for 25p (given that they're between £8 - £18 it was a baaargain). Got it home, and found half the tape was of a family testing out their new video camera at Christmas 1995!

Now of course I can't bring myself to tape over it.

I wonder if they meant it to end up in the charity shop?
posted by captain davros , 11:00 PM Þ 

So, got my PGParty price today. 5000 in cash on a very nice diploma. I've decided not to cash this one in.
A guy who apparentlly needs a bit of dough is the German former-hacker-now-security-expert Kim Schmidtz. What a ride.

A lot of great info

Oldie but a goodie...

B.T.W. When you install Sun's Java on your Windoze box IE will be much faster on pages with Java on them. I belive that Microsoft deliberately have made their Java enterpreter really slow.
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:22 PM Þ 
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