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The Real THR34T KR3W: The Story of Hacker Connor Hansen

Amazing hacker jargon. Couldn't understand 80% of it, but a great read nevertheless.

oh, by the way, I need to appologize to my faithful readers. I've replaced the haloscan comments with the indigenous blogger once, and in the process lost all your words of wisdom. sorry.

If nothing else, at least:

FOSS = M$ 4LE$$

:: All for Peace Radio ::

The Palestinian organization Biladi - The Jerusalem Times and the Israeli organization The Jewish-Arab Centre for Peace, Givat Haviva, which are partners in the youth magazine Crossing Borders and maintain a long-standing, good and egalitarian working relationship, propose to create a joint radio station broadcasting in Hebrew, Arabic and English, which aimed at a wide audience amongst both people and provides messages of peace, cooperation, mutual understanding, coexistence and hope.

Nice, but so far their transmitter is stuck at the Israeli customs.
Political harassment? I think not. Just good old bureaucratic sludge.
But you can hear them on-line.

http://www.allforpeace.org/

http://62.90.170.8:554/ramgen/broadcast/test.rm
mms://192.117.122.109/vop_high

Gusher At The CremeCityPop.com - Indie Music And Arts From Milwaukee, WI USA

Test your connectivity. How many of these have you already seen?

http://www.cremecitypop.com/George_W_Bush_Mock_Photo_Collection.html

Re: Re-4: Website Feedback

Dear Isolese,

I advise my contacts not to use internet explorer, and so do several
distinguished computer security agencies. I also advise buisnesses to
keep their web sites standard compliant, and not try to enforce a
technological religion on their clients.

By the way, I tried your site with IE, and it didn't work either.

thankfully,

Yishay Mor

organics@abel-cole.co.uk wrote:

>Dear Yishay,
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>We advise our customers to use internet explorer when visiting our website. W
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>Kind Regards
>Isolese
>Abel & Cole
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Re: סר×?× ×?ת

Gil asked (and I translated) :
Do you support the right of soldiers to refuse to evacuate settlements? If so, there's thousands considering refusal. If memory serves, you advocated the right of a soldier to refuse an order he morale objects.

Oh, very simple.

I support the right of non-violent resistance, even in the form of civil disobedience, as long as the following conditions are held:
0. The act is non-violent, passive, and clearly defined ("I refuse to do X, under Y circumstances, because of Z).
1. It is an individual act, by which I mean that the resister had taken the time to consider his / her act thoroughly, reflected on its implications, studied the political philosophy involved, and balanced the good achieved by the act with the harm it causes.
2. The resister takes full responsibility for his / her actions, and accepts their consequences.

Yigal Amir, for instance, satisfies conditions 1 and 2, but not 0, which is the most fundamental.
Rabbis Shapira, Tau et al. are violating condition 1, and should be prosecuted for incitement to mutiny. Anyone who follows their call without considering it carefully and taking responsibility should be court-martialed for mutiny.

But then, its also complicated. Comparing anti-occupation refusal to pro-occupation refusal is like comparing self-defence homicide to first-degree murder. I refused because I believed that my act was an extreme measure required to protect the existence of Israel as a just, democratic state. They refuse to help Israel become such a state. Since the discussion here is out of the bounds of the law, it is purely moral. In that sense, I can object to their refusal on moral grounds, on the premise of my fundamental moral objection to the occupation and the settlements.

Breaking News

Our correspondent M.B.S reports:

A tragic fire on Sunday morning, October 10, 2004, destroyed the
personal library of President George W. Bush.


Both of his books have been lost.


A presidential spokesman said the President is devastated, as he had not
yet finished colouring the second one.

I'm not dead II, or the double edge of spam filters

Its really impossible to use email these days without a spam filter. The problem is, the mail I send to my friends is sometimes filtered out. No, I'm not trying to sell \/1agra. Just that when I'm not in the office, I have to use an alternative mail server, and so my address is unknown to the filter.

The catch is, if I can't get through, I can't tell my friends to change their filter settings to let me in. I mean, and subject line I can think of to try and fool the filters, the damn spammers have already thought of before me. duh!

So, in case you're expecting an email and wondering why you haven't heard form me, please scan your spam folder for ymor at ukfsn.com or yishay dot mor at virgin dot net or yishaym at yahoo dot com.

And if you're a spammer, don't bother to harvest these - I have a filter configured to reject any mail from an unknown address.

A must have for fans of Anthony Giddens.


Fans of Foucault, Butler and McRobbie are also welcome.

The inhabitants of the village of Budrus have been struggling consistently against the Separation Fence since December 2003. Theirs is a popular struggle, encompassing all the villagers, men and women, young and old, of all political affiliations. they have chosen the path of non-violent resistance, with remarkable persistence and resolution, despite the violent reactions of the army. As a result, they acquired significant achievements, and the course of the Fence was almost completely moved to the 1948 border line. The present discord is about 2 fields which the state of Israel wants to confiscate for the construction of the Fence. Our partnership with the people of Budrus started with a joint demonstration last March. Since then our ties have grown tighter.

http://www.taayush.org/20040928-budrus.html

Its just a Tomer thing, no real need for alarm

I know this doesn't mean anything for most of humanity, but I still think this phrase should be immortalized.

Oh, and by the way, I'm not dead. Its just my IM link that is. For some strange reason, since my trip to Lisbon last week, I just can't connect to any IM. Tried everything - fondling the XP personal firewall settings, running heavy duty diagnostic tools (by the way, hcp://system/netdiag/dglogs.htm is not a bad start). Nothing. Can't connect, and don't get any error msg. I feel so isolated!!

Ha'aretz reports:

Courage to refuse have been nominated for the nobel peace prize by two former winners: 1996 prize winner Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, a bishop from East Timor who led the struggle against Indonesian rule, and 1992 winner Rigoberto Menchu, who led a struggle for native Indian rights against an oppressive Guatemalan regime.

After serving between 553 and 693 days in military and civilian prisons, the five draft resisters, Haggai Matar, Noam Bahat, Adam Maor, Shimri Zameret and Matan Kaminer have been officially informed that they are hereby released from the ranks of the army.


You can use the e-mail addresses at http://www.refuz.org.il/ContactUs.html to congradulate them.

The essence of british cusine -
Take a good idea from somewhere you colonized and make it into a gu.

I guess some blogs do have an audience greater than 3.

In just under 100 hours, we have smashed through our one million download campaign--with 6 days still to go! This is the fastest adoption rate we have ever experienced, higher than every previous Firefox release. But it's not time to relax our efforts. How soon can we break through 2 million? We'll have more information on a new campaign on Monday.

The BBC reports:

Some 30% of people have their best ideas in bed compared to just 11% who have them at their desk, according to research by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA).

The conclussion? According to the researchers, install beds in offices.
er, sorry, but maybe people are tyring to tell you something - like that their work is so dead boring, they are more creative sleeping?

What do you get if you run windows on a mobile device? A mobile virus.

Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.

(I just learned the origins of spam).

For a few years now, political pundits have been talking about how we can't gut our civil liberties in order to beat the terrorists. There's another danger afoot. It's time for critics to start speaking up against gutting our notions of good art in order to beat Bush.

Charles Taylor, In a Salon review of Spike Lee's She Hate Me.

Aug. 28th is Software Freedom Day.

The Onion reports:

Kerry unveils one-point plan for better America

WICHITA, KS—Delivering the central speech of his 10-day "Solution For America" bus campaign tour Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry outlined his one-point plan for a better America: the removal of George W. Bush from the White House.

and a good plan it is!

According to the NY Times, IBM plans to contribute its Cloudscape code to Apache. Cloudscape is a pure Java DB. Apache is an open-source foundation.

Another nice example of open-source gaining grounds in the commercial world. Although I must say I find IBM's valuation of the code at $85 million a bit, ur, creative.

BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).

They also have a few other nice Mozilla extensions.