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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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And there is almost no acknowledgment of the social costs of heavy identity verification technologies -- for example that children who want to learn whether it's really true that you can't get pregnant the first time, as they've been told by their social peers, will be discouraged from finding the truth on the Internet if their parents don't want them to get it. It's neither practical nor (I think) lawful to keep older children away from information they want to get, but that seems to be the way the world is moving. The AG of Connecticut put a grand challenge to the group: "If we can put a man on the moon, we can find a way to make the Internet safe." Sure -- if you don't mind restricting the free flow of lawful information between willing speakers and willing listeners.

A lot to think about here.

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Then one day a tax bill arrived: $320,000, billige ultram apotek. Where did that number come from. Order ultram online legally, According to a report in the Oklahoman,

Tax officials got the wrong idea because of embellishments on the Kegheadz MySpace Web site that boasted things like “Over a billion served,” “Biggest party in the state, indian generic ultram,” and “Biggest party in the country, Wisconsin WI Wis., ” Glover said.


The tax office is inferring head counts and percapita consumption from such statements, and calculating profits and taxes owed accordingly. The students are trying to explain that that was all baloney, αγοράσετε ultram, and that they don't even have enough money to hire a lawyer to defend themselves, Cheap ultram from canada, much less pay that kind of money. Order ultram online, The tax officials seem pretty humorless, but I suppose that is the way such officials have always been.

When you put it out on the Internet, anyone can see it. Even if you're putting it out there to be intentionally outrageous, you may want to be careful what you say.

It would be interesting to know just how this came about. Are the tax authorities spending less time visiting businesses and going over their books, and more time just cruising the Web from the comfort and safety of their offices, looking for businesses, whether Internet businesses or not, that seem bigger than their corporate tax returns say they are.

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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So, Kentucky KY Ky., storage being cheap, Viagra online kopen, someone started Deletionpedia, an inventory of all the entries that have been deleted from Wikipedia. It's kind of interesting, cheapest viagra, I guess. Pharmacy viagra, And then someone created a Wikipedia page about it. Maine ME Me., Which was deleted. Go figure. It was restored, and a debate is raging among Wikipedians about the right and justice of all this. The page is still up for now, but that link may die at any moment.

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Sunday, September 21st, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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… the Palin hack didn't require any real skill, cialis for sale. Cheap cialis for sale, Instead, the hacker simply reset Palin's password using her birthdate, ordering cialis no rx, Buy cialis online cheap, ZIP code and information about where she met her spouse -- the security question on her Yahoo account, which was answered (Wasilla High) by a simple Google search.


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Sunday, September 21st, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Friday, September 19th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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8. The core component of the Program is Defendants’ nationwide network of sophisticated communications surveillance devices, attached to the key facilities of telecommunications companies such as AT&T that carry Americans’ Internet and telephone communications.


9. Using this shadow network of surveillance devices, Defendants have acquired and continue to acquire the content of a significant portion of the phone calls, emails, instant messages, text messages, web communications and other communications, both international and domestic, of practically every American who uses the phone system or the Internet, including Plaintiffs and class members, in an unprecedented suspicionless general search through the nation’s communications networks.


10, propecia online cheap. In addition to using surveillance devices to acquire the domestic and international communications content of millions of ordinary Americans, cheap propecia online cheap, Defendants have unlawfully solicited and obtained from telecommunications companies such as AT&T the complete and ongoing disclosure of the private telephone and Internet transactional records of those companies’ millions of customers (including communications records pertaining to Plaintiffs and class members), communications records indicating who the customers communicated with, Tennessee TN Tenn., when and for how long, among other sensitive information.


The "Program" is what President Bush called the "Terrorist Surveillance Program," instituted shortly after the 9/11 attacks and only revealed in 2005. The plaintiffs are various ordinary citizens who object to the NSA reading their ¬†mail and listening to their phone calls without a warrant or probable cause, generic propecia, as provided in the Fourth Amendment. There is, Köpa propecia, I expect, no reason any of them should be under suspicion of plans to terrorize anyone.

I had an argument over dinner last night with a staunch Republican who was convinced that one of the reasons to vote for McCain was that McCain would appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court. I asked him if he thought a strict interpretation of the Fourth Amendment would allow this sort of surveillance of citizens, propecia in india, or the warrantless search and seizure of laptops at the border about which I wrote earlier. His non-response was that this sort of thing had been going on for years, Delaware DE Del., even under Clinton. I am amazed that conservative originalists so readily forget that the Constitution was premised on the realization, based on hard experience, that governments can't be trusted, Vermont VT Vt.. The restraints on government power are as much a part of the Constitution as their favored interpretation of the Tenth Amendment.

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Thursday, September 18th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

Xenical online stores, As has been widely reported online, someone managed to access personal email accounts of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.  Wired Magazine's blog has a clear summary of the contents. That account and a number of other reports suggest that the governor was using her private account to conduct government business in order to avoid public-records laws.

What was retrieved (by no means all the email that was in the account) you can download yourself from the Wikileaks site. Go ahead -- you'll feel a little naughty, halvalla xenical apteekki, and it will make you think. How many copies of those emails do you now suppose are out there. Those bits are not going away, ever, xenical online stores. Where can you buy xenical in stores, Wikileaks anonymously posts documents that have been "classified, confidential, censored or otherwise withheld from the public," and are "of political, xenical italia, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance" (in the view of whatever anonymous soul runs the site). Order xenical no rx, Of course, the documents may have been illegally obtained; that is the first thing the McCain campaign shouted. (How about a comment on government business happening on Yahoo. mail, order xenical from canada, and whether that's the way the open, transparent new Washington government we've been promised will be run?)

We have a long history in this country of illegally obtaining documents that reveal illegal or unethical behavior. Thinking back on the publication of the Pentagon Papers Xenical online stores, in 1971, I am moved to ponder how much simpler it would be today. Kopen goedkope xenical, The question of prior restraint would have been moot before it could even have been raised, had someone scanned them in and posted them to Wikileaks.

How did the account get compromised. No one is saying, αγοράσετε xenical έκπτωση, but I noted some of the problems with password security a few days ago. There are some speculations; perhaps someone tricked the service into revealing her password (most unlikely, Kjøp Discount xenical, as passwords are ordinarily encrypted at the server). Or resetting it (more possible -- remember that Paris Hilton's T-Mobile account was compromised because the name of her dog was the answer to the I-forgot-my-password-give-me-a-new-one security question), xenical online stores. But still improbable for a Yahoo. mail account. She might have been the victim of a phishing attack (but if she is so credulous that she fell for one of those "this is your account manager speaking, cheap xenical without prescription, please type your password here so we can verify it" scams, heaven help us if she winds up negotiating with Putin). Um xenical online, I would tend to look for a simpler strategy if I were trying to break in. Xenical online stores, Try a password like "Todd." A lot of people still use them, even though most services demand that passwords be more complicated than that.

P.S. This example makes it clear what it means to say that the president needs to understand information technology. He doesn't need keyboarding dexterity or familiarity with Excel macros. He needs to be able to understand this blog.

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

Meridia pharmacy, Google's YouTube is huge, much huger than any other video sharing service. Like Google's search service, it has become the place to go for a certain kind of information -- a kind of information that is rapidly becoming a part of daily life for millions of people, especially the young, meridia online pharmacy. Like Google search, there is absolutely no barrier to someone starting a competing service, Kjøpe meridia online, except for the quality of the product and the snowball effect -- people tend to use the service they know other people are using, especially for sharing information.

So when information becomes unavailable on YouTube, it's interesting to notice, cheap meridia bars, and to wonder what principles govern the decision to remove material at the request of a complaining party. Two recent examples of YouTube takedowns:

The first is an Air Force recruiting video someone posted to YouTube. A blogger for the online edition of Wired Magazine, Kevin Poulsen, linked to it from a short piece about the fight against cyberterrorism, meridia pharmacy. Buy brand meridia without prescription, The Air Force issued a DCMA takedown notice to Poulsen, and if you go to the original post and try to play the video, you discover it's no longer available. The curious thing about this one is that the people of the U.S, meridia online stores. own that video. In fact, Montana MT Mont., the Air Force web site on which the video appears (it's still available there) states, "Information presented on the Air Force Recruiting website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied." This is a simple abuse of copyright law, a club that the powerful use to whack those who use their creations for no other reason than to comment on them. Meridia pharmacy, Even when they don't have the legal right they claim, the DCMA is an effective tool against small players who would have to hire lawyers to defend themselves.

The second example is a video documentary about Sarah Palin's church, online meridia, which YouTube removed not, apparently, South Carolina SC S.C., because of a copyright complaint, but just because a bunch of people complained about it. It contains some odd segments ("cell phone anointing"?) but there is no apparent fraud; as far as I can see no one claims that the shots are not of what they seem to be. In this case the video is still visible, meridia sale for man, though not at YouTube (click the link to the article).

Private censorship. Kansas KS Kans., It's perfectly legal; none of us owes YouTube anything, and they can post or take down whatever they want. And they have absolutely no obligation to tell us why they take things down or when they would resist a request to take something down. I would guess that the rule is pretty simple, and it's like what we say about search engines in Blown to Bits: The objective is to make as many people happy as much of the time as possible, with the ultimate goal of making as much money as possible for as long as possible. Nothing wrong with any of that, but we shouldn't get carried away with grand thoughts about "digital democracy" and the "triumph of popular culture." Nonsense -- business is business.

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