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Ted Kazinski

Swaz — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:08:06 GMT

I read that Ted Kazinski of "unibomber" fame built all of his bombs with components that we're hand-made (possibly with the exception of the batteries) so they were like works of art or labors of love. Whatever you want to call it.

Does Ted qualify as an "evil scientist"?

Swaz

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Chronic Illnesses and Toxic Chemicals Database + Reality of Tacit Conspiracies

ToxicReverend — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:24:01 GMT

This is being posted because it also reveals some of the things
that can and are hindering the Spiritual Growth (in mass) of
all of humanity - TR

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.
With the exception of the "Straightedge" profile :>

Note the blog titled;
"Osho : The "Love Guru" and Non-lethal Biological Weapons"
posted at
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

..................................

In "other news":

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

This posting could still use some editing.
Feel free to use it as you see fit.
My macular degeneration is forcing me to stop working
on this for now. But I feel the information is too
important not to send out. Please feel free to forward
to journalists that can make use of it, with or with out
credit to myself.

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend

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Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

Reference material is linked into the blog, but is not linked into this posting - TR

Excerpts from the above blog:>

Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times

Quotes from the LA Times Nespaper article:
The study found that medical bills, plus related problems
such as lost wages for the ill and their caregivers,
contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies filed in 2007.

Medical insurance isn't much help, either. About 78% of
bankruptcy filers burdened by healthcare expenses were
insured, according to the survey, to be published in the
August issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

End of quotes from the LA Times newspaper.

The article appears to have been moved to their archives.
A copy is posted at: Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/medical_bills_play_a.php

The article can also be found with the Google search terms;
"Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times"

The entire study can be downloaded from:

Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://pnhp.org/
at
http://pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/

.........

“As an Environmental Technologist, I can not imagine
a health care system that could be viable, when it
ignores the common toxic chemical exposures” -
The Toxic Reverend

The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
By The Toxic Reverend
(No copyright claimed. Edit, post, forward and reproduce at will)

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Please consider this information with the following moral:

Tacit Conspiracy Of Complicity - Simplified:

While walking to work each day, I had to cross a stream. I tossed a

rock in to step on and help myself cross each day, on the way to and from work.

Others saw this and did the same. We never discussed it or talked about it.

It was a tacit conspiracy of complicity.

Most of us never imagined that we would create a damn that would flood our

community and kill so many people.

But the few that did realize the impending disaster, set about preparing to

profit off of the coming tragedy, rather than attempt to prevent it. And what

is even worse, are the "measures" they took to keep the information

concealed so the disaster could not be avoided and they could

"make a killing", in profits.

End of quoted moral from a work in progress titled-
Toxic Revelations
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Leading medical providers like the Cleveland
Clinic and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are
establishing special programs to give platinum
service to the well-heeled. Depending on the
program, the super-rich customers may receive
massages and sauna time along with their
physical, house calls, and step-to-the- front-
of-the-line service in testing facilities (158).

While Linda Peeno MD (featured in the movie
"Sicko") gave sworn testimony to the House of
Representatives on the subject of "Denial of
Health Care Services" to insured American's
(20a).

A Congressional Report states that of the
1,400 chemicals known to cause cancer,
less than 6% are tracked (145B).

The huge transnational companies that
produce toxic chemicals found in
pesticides, herbicides and industrial and
household products profit not only from
the sale of these products, but also from
the symptoms and chronic illnesses that
they can trigger (157).
________

157 :POISON FOR PROFIT
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A
BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz May 15, 2002

This report has been censored from the
Internet and removed from the
Archives Wayback Machine. But a
number of advocates have been
re-posting the report and copies can be
found with a simple Google search on
the title and author:>
"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"

________ ........................

Even more disturbing is what is termed "the revolving door" from
these companies and their executives into many of the high ranking
administration offices of our government, in Washington DC. From
the National Institute of Health to the Food and Drug Administration
and beyond.

"The revolving door" is easily shown with an Internet www.google.com

search term, "revolving door washington DC drugs chemical companies".

In short, "Justice has been sold" (101) and millions of dollars put

into "fixing the sale" ( 49). The Los Angeles Times reported that,

"Drug Companies, HMO's Spend Big To Stop New Laws". They

donated hundreds of millions of dollars to political election

campaigns (49, 159 ).

To quote Senator Amy Klobuchar;

The debate on health care in Washington has been dominated by

the drug companies and the insurance companies for way too long.

When our health care policies are written for the insurance companies

and the drug companies instead of America's families, we get things

like Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D gave the prescription drug

companies something like $90 billion a year in Christmas presents

by banning the federal government from negotiating drug prices.

End of quote from Senator Amy Klobuchar

Drug companies are apparently buying out "grass root

organizations like NAMI (68). While they do the

"Poison for Profit" ( 157).

Use this Google search terms to find copies

"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"
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To simplify the complexity of the
controversy, I will give this example. Bill
Moyers of the Public Broadcasting System
did a show named Trade Secrets and has
created a web page of the same name
(26). There is to much documentation
there to list, in regard to "industry"
covering up the damage to OUR HEALTH
from toxic chemicals, for over fifty years
(26).

Bill Moyers was tested for over 800 toxic
chemicals and over 80 chemicals (at
various levels of exposure) were found, in
him. That presents the potential for more
viable chemicals reaction variations than
the pick six lottery in one patient from the
perspective of Low Dose Cumulative
Effects of Toxic Chemical's ! But
regardless of this, many of the "tolerable
levels of exposure" to a (singular) toxic
chemical have been fraudulently produced
for decades (81).

Current events on this topic of "The Toxic Lotto" that
revolves around the "Toxic Soup" that all of us live in
are at my MySpace profile with links to the
California Biomonitoring Program
and the
"Cumulative Impacts".

Just as toxic chemicals can multiply in their toxicity
when mixed, so can infectious agents increase in their
pathogenic impact. And the the two (toxic chemicals
and infectious agents) usually work in a synergistic
manner.

It is suspected that
Camp Mandalay of the Bohemian Grove
might very well have "inside knowledge" that
other members of the Bohemian Grove are not
aware of.

Many camps in the Bohemian Grove contain very
prestigious visitors. You have camps like Cave Man,
Hideaway, Hill Billies, Hillside, Isle of Aves, Lost
Angels, Mandalay, Midway, Owl's Nest,
Sempervirens, Silverado Squatters, and Stowaway.
Mandalay seems to be the camp for international
relations and consists of many members officially or
otherwise connected to the intelligence agencies.
Mandalay is the only camp you cannot just walk into
and before you are allowed on the compound
someone will ask you who you have an appointment
with. If you're cleared for access, you are taken up the
hill with a Bechtel-designed electric pulley. Many
members of camps like Hill Billies or Stowaway
(Rockefellers and Morgans) have been to Mandalay at
one time or another.

It is believed that camp Mandalay was central to
the "Manhattan Project" (the nuclear bomb),
"Project Paper Clip" (that gave Nazi scientists
new identities and continued their research on
American's) and a host of other well document
experiments on hundreds of American cities.

I am all for telling the other members of the
Bohemian Grove what camp Mandalay has been
up to with the Non-Lethal Biological
Weapons known as Incapacitating Agents,
playing a part in Chronic Illnesses and cancers.
A video titled,
"Biological Weapons Experiments On The American People"
explains it rather well.

Copy / paste of a posting at
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

When it comes to the effects of toxic chemicals on our gonads
and or our sex drive, there appears to be a cover up and
a conspiracy. Unfortunately, it is much worse than that. After
careful investigation, it seems to me that the circumstance are
due more to incompetence and greed.

This membership list of the Bohemian Grove does list
some of the deceased and their causes of death. Such as
John Du Pont (now deceased) of whom was diagnosed as
"insane". He was heir to the Du Pont chemical empire.
Ralph Bailey was a member of Camp Mandalay and Vice-Chairman
of Du Pont Chemical Company. John Du Pont (heir to the Du Pont
fortune) was a member of the "Isle of Aves" Camp.
John Du Pont was not a member of the Mandalay Camp.

I'll get back to that angle, after I clarify a few points....... Maybe
you could ask Mary Moore and Peter Phillips what they think about this ?

The elite of our society (The Bohemian Grove
crowd) can get caught up and effected by this "Toxic Lotto", too.
Only they have the money (cash) or a different type of health
insurance, that enables them to get properly evaluated at
clinics like the
Environmental Health Center-Dallas

I'll clarify a key point. A peer reviewed medical
journal has shown that the majority of mental
illness is due to toxic chemical exposures
and is not as genetic as they had thought.

________________________________________
In reference:
Article titled;
Environmental Connections: A Deeper Look into Mental Illness
Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
Volume 115, Number 8, August 2007
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-8/focus-abs.html
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ) is a a monthly journal
of peer- reviewed research and news on the impact of the
environment on human health.

End of copy / paste excerpts of posting from;
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

____________________

Also note the excerpt from :>

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504
Nazi T4 Genocide Model Openly Touted By Obama Administration Officials

June 3, 2009 (LPAC)—When Adolf Hitler set up his T4 program, dedicated to eliminating "useless eaters" from Germany's hospitals and nursing homes, he turned to a "non-political" body of medical experts to make the decisions as to who should live, and who should die. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this same model is being adopted by the Obama Administration, in its zeal to ram through its genocidal health care "reform."
End of excerpt from:>
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504

____________________

The rough draft of "Toxic Revelations"
has been re-posted at
http://www.puppstheories.com/tr.html

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End of excerpts from:

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

_________________________________________________

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.

Note:

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Easter Sermon 08:
Red Collar Criminals Playing American Roulette With Our Lives
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-sermon-08-achilleas-heel-of.html

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
aka
Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/
aka
The Toxic Reverend
http://www.myspace.com/toxicreverend
aka
Justice Is Homeless
http://www.myspace.com/justiceishomeless
aka
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

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Cloaking devices are almost here!

lemonhead — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:27:24 GMT

Researchers used 3-D metamaterials, or composites with the ability to bend electromagnetic waves, to negatively refract light.
By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
August 11, 2008 10:57 AM

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say they have created materials that bring them closer to creating invisibility cloaks.
They will publish their work in two journals, Nature and Science, this week. The researchers used 3-D metmaterials, or composites with the ability to bend electromagnetic waves, to negatively refract light.

"What we have done is take two very different approaches to the challenge of creating bulk metamaterials that can exhibit negative refraction in optical frequencies," Xiang Zhang, professor at Berkeley's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, said in a statement. "Both bring us a major step closer to the development of practical applications for metamaterials."

Zhang heads the research teams that developed the two new metamaterials. He is also a faculty scientist in the Material Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Berkeley researchers stacked layers of silver and nonconducting magnesium fluoride and cut nanoscale-sized fishnet patterns into them for the metamaterials. They measured a negative index of refraction at wavelengths as short as 1,500 nanometers, or the near-infrared light range, according to a university announcement.

The researchers also demonstrated a second method of negatively refracting light. They used silver nanowires grown inside porous aluminum oxide to create a structure about one-tenth the thickness of a sheet of paper. The metamaterial refracted red light wavelengths as short as 660 nanometers, according to the researchers.

"The geometry of the vertical nanowires, which were equidistant and parallel to each other, were designed to only respond to the electrical field in light waves," Jie Yao, a student in UC Berkeley's Graduate Program in Applied Science and Technology and co-lead author of the study in Science, explained. "The magnetic field, which oscillates at a perpendicular angle to the electrical field in a light wave, is essentially blind to the upright nanowires, a feature which significantly reduces energy loss."

"What makes both these materials stand out is that they are able to function in a broad spectrum of optical wavelengths with lower energy loss," Zhang said. "We've also opened up a new approach to developing metamaterials by moving away from previous designs that were based upon the physics of resonance. Previous metamaterials in the optical range would need to vibrate at certain frequencies to achieve negative refraction, leading to strong energy absorption. Resonance is not a factor in both the nanowire and fishnet metamaterials."
Scientists hope the research can lead to improved antenna performance, reversing the Doppler effect, higher-resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and, eventually, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible to humans.
However, they cautioned that they are far from being able to create invisibility cloaks.

The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research helped funded the research.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/peripherals/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210001982

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Flies get 'mind-control sex swap'

chillycasey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:53:26 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7350403.stm

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update from "the clone wars"

chillycasey — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:55:01 GMT

Not huge news in the big picture, but nevertheless...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6978384.stm

Why bother to post this?
to quote the great M Jackson..."gotta be startin' somethin"

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Urban Legend ? :> Roid-a-cops & police brutality

ToxicReverend — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:11:58 GMT

Roid-a-cops and police brutality on a bad judgment call
By the Toxic Reverend
http://myspace.com/toxicreverend
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

We as tax payers put out a lot of cash to train a policeman.
They join the force, wanting to do good,help people and try to
make a difference in a very screwed up world.

Some times, I have to wonder what changes ? How do some
of them become "bad apples" and give their entire profession a
bad name ?

For a few years, I have been doing research on the effects of
the "low dose cumulative effects of toxic chemicals" with violence
and abusive behavior.

Law enforcement is not except from such toxic chemical
exposures. But they do maintain a harder "front" than most
classes of society, with the "I am fine" presentation. Their
ego's are just that way, or they probably would not be in that
profession. Think about it. They risk their lives on a daily basis
to "uphold the law". They are heroes. And as such, they are
not to prone to saying, they have a problem, of any kind.

While I was researching this issue, I became acquainted
with Mesha. . Her son had been shot 48 times by 9 San Francisco
policeman. She started The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
with the money from the wrongful death suit of her sons murder.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/

Mesha was very kind and patient the times that I have called.
But the other day, she got. She admitted that yes, the toxic
chemicals could also impact a policeman's decision to use
deadly force. But then she asked what I thought might happen
when a "Toxic Victim" that is called "mentally ill" and acting out,
meets up with a policeman on steroids ?

Mesha agreed that everything that I was on about can apply
to such a situation as an unjustified police shooting. But she
also thought that steroid abuse by law enforcement is inducing
some "bad judgment calls", more than anything else. And that
these factors are being protected by the " Blue Wall of Silence".

So being an open minded hippy, I did a couple of Google
searches on the subject. After talking to Mesha about steroids
abuse and that it might play a part in police brutality and shootings.

The results astounded me. Google search terms
"police steroid abuse" and "police steroid abuse testing".

I thought I would find masses of articles about the police busting
people for it. But nooooo, I find massive articles about police
forces around the country being busted for it.

Si I tried posting "Roid-a-cops and police brutality" at
myspace. It would not post. So I sent it to a number of
friends at myspace. They could not get it to post. Though
Ken said a couple of days later that he was able to post it.
Seems there is a tracking program at myspace for censorship.

Anyway, I became rather frustrated and called Mesha. What
I have decided to do is spread a "true rumor" that dies seem
to get "their attention".

I called the Sonoma County sheriff and a captain answered
the phone. He said that the sheriff was unavailable, so I told
him that I did a Google search that shows police departments
around the country were being busted by the feds for steroid
abuse.

I told him the search terms and I could sense the panic
in his voice. I told him that the searches reveal Boston police
being busted by a federal grand jury investigation. Dallas also
came up with the search and too many others to list.

And I only went over the first ten results of the first search term
and twenty of the second. When I got to the one about president
Bush talking about steroid abuse in a State of the Union address,
I stopped. After all, Bush was talking about steroid abuse in
sports. Maybe he should have been a bit more specific and
included law enforcement. You know .... the people that enforce
the laws against such things as drug abuse.

Not that I want to snitch out the feds and risk screwing up any
investigation that they might have. I am not aware of Sonoma
County being investigated for steroid abuse. Maybe it isn't. Maybe
it is ?

What I can point out is what other police departments that
have ignored the abuse of steroids like an ostrich with it's
head in the sand have found.

While they are so bent over with their heads in the sand,
the feds sneak up and give them an exam that nobody likes.
Regardless of sexual orientation.

As the prior mentioned search reveals, it was a Federal Grand
Jury investigation that busted the Boston police department for
steroid abuse.

Maybe if all of the San Francisco MUNI bus drivers that have
to pee in a bottle for random drug screening became aware of this.
They might be able to break the censorship and warn others of
the impeding steroid exams .... or a, the investigations that have
busted so many police departments around the country.

One of my psychologists had told me that "the good and the
bad news it that I am not paranoid or delusional".

Now please excuse me .... I need to get back to editing
"Toxic Revelations" and my Myspace profile / blog. It is
my intention to post this at my blog. If I can ......

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
http://myspace.com/toxicreverend
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Cc
The IDRISS STELLEY FOUNDATION
a nonprofit organization created through the settlement of Idriss Stelley's vs. City & County and SFPD case and its
allocation to his mother Mesha Monge-Irizarry. Her only
child, 23 African American honor student was killed by
SFPD at the SF Sony Metreon on June 13, 2001, 48 shots, 9 officers, as he stood alone in an empty theater.
The Idriss Stelley's case is at the root of the
40-HR mandatory
San Francisco Police Departments
Mental Health Training,
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/

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crossover topic: things to do with removed skin

chillycasey — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:50:13 GMT

I'm importing this from 'Book Lovers' tribe

http://booklovers.tribe.net/thread/8299a4bf-6853-46fe-abed-7b89677a1743

It ain't exactly science (more like "crafts" I suppose), but maybe less squeemish 'evil scientists' would enjoy jumping in...

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The FDA's war on natural medicine

ToxicReverend — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:15:11 GMT

As reported by "News Target" in the attached e-mail
that is pasted in after my signature, and I quote,

"Finally, it's interesting to consider that under these
new FDA guidelines, it will be illegal to hand a child
a glass of raw vegetable juice if it has any health
purpose whatsoever, but it will remain perfectly legal
to drug them up on amphetamines like Ritalin.
So SPEED is legal, but not vegetable juice. ".

End of quote from the attached "News Target" e-mail.

It does seem that many people are unaware
that the school for kids with learning disabilities
and behavioral problems that was featured in
the movie "Super Size Me", were given nutritional
supplements,as well as an organic diet.

" Super Size Me". http://www.supersizeme.com/
They had put the supplements in smoothies,
for the kids to drink.

More information about this (besides the attached fwd)
and groups that are fighting it
can be found at:these web pages :>

The Union of Concerned Scientists released survey results
that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political influence
of science at the FDA.
www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ fda-scientists-pressured.html

More on the FDA corruption being exposed by the UCS
with a simple Google search of the UCS web address and FDA
Example:"FDA http://www.ucsusa.org/ "

International Advocates for Health Freedom
About IAHF (A leader with the FDA - CODEX "war")
The founder of IAHF, John Hammell , has been fighting professionally
for health freedom for 10 years, and first got involved with alternative
medicine after recovering from a life threatening illness in 1980 via a
suppressed alternative treatment mode (orthomolecular medicine)
after mainstream methods almost killed him. His personal belief is
that herbs and other dietary supplements are gifts to us all from
our Creator.
http://www.iahf.com/index1.html

Please note:

The Gulf War Vets have posted
"Beyond Treason"
http://www.gulfwarvets.com

Peer reviewed medical journal articles concerning the use of
natural supplement's with chronic illnesses and "Incapacitating Agents"
See "Treatment Considerations" at http://www.immed.org/
(I.A.'s are a type of biological weapon, such as mycoplasma's).

Blessings,

Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist

aka
The Toxic Reverend
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

--- On Wed 04/11, NewsTarget < insider@newstarget.com > wrote:

From: NewsTarget [mailto: insider@newstarget.com]
To: toxicreverend@ myway.com
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:56:17 -0700
Subject: Additional developments in FDA's declaration of war on natural medicine

NewsTarget Insider Alert (www.NewsTarget.com )

Dear Readers,

A couple of quick developments on the breaking FDA story today. First off, the URL we originally posted in our feature story only pointed to the *short* version of the FDA's downloadable document. The FULL version is found here:

http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/06d-0480-gld0001.pdf

However, as of 7:45PM, Mountain Standard Time, the FDA's document server has frozen and probably crashed. So you may wish to wait until tomorrow to try to download this document. As of this writing, the document is unavailable from FDA servers. (It is possible they may have removed it, although I suspect the server simply crashed.)

It seems ironic that NewsTarget has been subjected to numerous attacks by internet criminals who have so far failed to take our site offline. Yet when we post a single story about the FDA and include a link to a downloadable document, the FDA's own web server crashes.

It's not just us pointing to the document, by the way. Lots of other sites like HealthFreedomUSA.com and JonBarron.org are also pointing to it and urging grassroots action. Word is spreading fast throughout the natural health community. In fact, I believe that Rima Laibow was one of the first people to bring this issue to the forefront, although there could be other groups I'm not aware of who were reporting on this issue long before now. (Sometimes it takes a while for the really big stories to bounce around the industry and get sufficiently noticed. I don't claim to know exactly who reported this first. The strange thing is that the document has been posted on the FDA's website since December 2006. It was buried, though, and probably intentionally.)

Health Freedom Cartoon Posted

The official announcement on this won't go out until tomorrow morning, but we rushed to post an FDA / Health Freedom cartoon on this whole topic late this afternoon. It's quite hilarious and shows a health freedom castle under siege by the FDA (it even has catapults!). Check it out at:

http://www.newstarget.com/021790.html

Speed for kids, but not vegetable juice

Finally, it's interesting to consider that under these new FDA guidelines, it will be illegal to hand a child a glass of raw vegetable juice if it has any health purpose whatsoever, but it will remain perfectly legal to drug them up on amphetamines like Ritalin. So SPEED is legal, but not vegetable juice. Hmmm...

Cigarettes will be legal, but echinacea will be outlawed. Statin drugs will be advertised on television, but green tea will be confiscated by port authorities and destroyed as contraband. Chemotherapy will remain legal, but selling anti-cancer broccoli sprouts will land you in prison.

Our world truly has gone crazy, folks. The insanity has reached a level of saturation that even the 20th century's greatest fiction authors like George Orwell could not have imagined. Who could have possibly guessed the FDA would try to label irradiated food as "pasteurized," or that the Almond Board of California would insist that paseturized almonds are identical to RAW almonds? Who could have predicted that the FDA would ever say something as stupid as, "a glass of vegetable juice is a drug"? And yet that's what they have now essentially stated.

It's only gonna get increasingly bizarre from here forward, I suspect. The FDA is now acting out of desperation and has clearly lost all touch with reality. Its announcements now sound more like the rambling, confused speech of a drug-induced lunatic. Somebody please slap a "Do Not Resuscitate" tag on this organization and let it pass away in peace.

Stay tuned for more updates as this story unfolds. We're wondering if the mainstream media will ever wake up and report anything on this or if, as usual, they will just ignore the topic and keep headlining stories about "dangerous" vitamins.

To your health and freedom,
- Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

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Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist

aka
The Toxic Reverend
Who's a criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

Homicide Charges For Corporations
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime

The Criminalization Of Homelessness;
A Problem Becoming A Solution
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/soberskidrow/parkh.html

The Gospel of Toxic Revelations
^(Rough Draft of "abstract" is posted)^
Biological / Chemical Weapon Information, History & Treatments.
Verifiable sources and peer reviewed medical journals.
http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/tr.html

Please note:

The Gulf War Vets have posted
"Beyond Treason"
http://www.gulfwarvets.com

Peer reviewed medical journal articles concerning the use of
natural supplement's with chronic illnesses and "Incapacitating Agents"
(I.A.'s are a type of biological weapon, such as mycoplasma's).
See "Treatment Considerations" at http://www.immed.org/

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Sound Weapon

Swaz — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:44:03 GMT

Anyone catch that thing on TV about Somali pirates? They attacked a big cruise ship 200 miles off of the Somali coast with RPGs zipping around in speedboats. They couldn't outrun them so they employed this futuristic sound weapon called the LRAD. It's one of the new "Area-denial" technologies that are appearing in the "less-than-lethal" area of weapons research. It's like a three foot or so dish that focuses sound like a machine gun. Like being dipped under 20 feet of water and back a hundred times a second. The pain is supposed to be excruciating.

Anyway the pirates couldn't handle it and split. Would this be an "evil science" or a humanitarian one?

Swaz

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Transcontinental Pentacle Project

Poster_Boy — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:11:54 GMT

For those of you interested in initiating plan nine fom outer space.

http://tribes.tribe.net/transcontinentalpentacle

This is the Transcontinental Pentacle Project. Our plan is to form a transcontinental pentacle across the United States by using laser beams. This in turn will form a giant pentacle which will serve as both a landing guide and a summoning beacon to the demonic hordes which live on the planet Hades which circles the star called Alpha Draconis. In turn, our Satanic majesty will arrive on the planet Earth with his squadron of flying saucers in order to enslave Christian fundamentalists and, oh...raise the dead!

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Criminal Homeless Vets Fwd: The Plight of Damaged Iraq War Vets

ToxicReverend — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:23:51 GMT

As an Environmental Technologist and advocate,
I am well aware of the judicial system being abused
to silence individuals and organizations.

One of the better example that have been well
documented are the various situations in which
this has been done against Earth First. A web
page called "FBI Witch Hunt" has been doing
an excellent job of documenting these abuses.
http://www.fbiwitchhunt.com/

But now they are going a bit to far, and I suspect
that bush and company might be over extending
themselves with this.

Please forward and post.

People need to be aware of this tenth annual
National radio show, that will be broadcast across
our entire country and
"The Plight of Damaged Iraq War Vets".

You can count on the national trend to criminalize
homelessness tto be a topic of discussion.

The Homeless Marathon
February 20th & February 21st, 2007
http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/

*The Plight of Damaged Iraq War Vets*
By Andrew Weaver and Ray McGovern February 5, 2007
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/020507a.html

I highly recommend the Gulf War Vets web page and their
posting of "Beyond Treason" at :>
http://www.gulfwarvets.com
The vets have posted information about biological
weapons and chronic illnesses.

Support our troops, bring them home.

The Criminalization of Homelessness
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/soberskidrow/parkh.html
The above page will be edited with *The Plight of Damaged
Iraq War Vets*, added, asp.

There is a toll free number for the show at their web page,
with listings of which radio stations will be airing the show, in
which cities. People are encouraged to call in, during the show.

There are so many homeless Vets with issues that effect
the health care system of entire country. I am sending out
this e-mail in the hopes of "raising public awareness" to some
of the issues that have been censored from the main news media.

Ironic as that is, since journalists have also been deemed
criminals and or "enemies of the state", in some instances.

What the Vets are going through when they return home
and seek medical care and or a disability evaluation is more
than just a shame. It does appear to be more of a "cover-up".

To think that Vets go to serve our country and become sick
and disabled is one thing. To be denied adequate care and
declared a criminal for the crime of becoming homeless
because of it is," unacceptable".

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
aka
Justice Is Homeless

Who's a Criminal ?
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

No More Red Collar Crime
Homicide Charges For Corporations
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime

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Science & Politics: A Mystical Combination for the Depressed or "Crazed"

ToxicReverend — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:51:41 GMT

Please let me know what you think of this article.
It starts with a "mystery combination" for depression
and takes you right into outrage with our current
political affairs..
I am considering posting this around and self publishing it. T.R.

Title
A Mystical Combination for the Depressed or "Crazed"
By The Toxic Reverend, an Environmental Technologist

No "silver bullet", then, try a "mystical combination".
If you suffer from depression, one of the "magic digits"
listed below could very well be impacting your "state
of mind" and your Spirituality".

Please spread the word.

Of course, there could be "other problems".
My dad died Feb 1st 1993 and I still think of him.
But now I laugh at some of the "good memories".
He used to load the medicine cabinet with marbles.
When nosy people stopped in, you could hear
the marbles plunk down, out of the cabinet, if
they opened it. We had a number of good
laughs with that one. And it has taken me years
to grow to this level of Spiritually grieving his loss
by remembering some of the laughs we had shared.
There are marbles in our medicine cabinet, as I write :)

A variety of studies have documented the importance of the
ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 consumption. Hemp seed oil is
the closest to this optimum ratio of any naturally occurring
oil. Hemp seed oil has a ratio of at least one-to-three,
Omega 3 to Omega 6. Oils with unbalanced ratios have
been shown to have detrimental physiological effects.
In reference: Hemp 101
http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/livingharvest/hemp101.d2w/report

Hemp Seed Oil (in glass)
Live Harvest (sells the hemp oil)
http://www.worldpantry.com/

But then, "the blues" could also be caused by a
toxic chemical insult. Industry has known for over
fifty years that they have been poisoning us and
have paid out millions to cover it op. As documented
by Bill Moyers from the Public Broadcasting System
in his show "Trade Secrets"
http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/index.html

Toxic Deception:
How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science,
Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health.
2nd ed. Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle, and the
Center for Public Integrity. 1999. 250 pp. ISBN 1567511627
ABSTRACTS OF NEW BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH, American Journal of Public Health,
Jul99, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p1120, 2p.
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/td.html

A Congressional Report states that of the 1,400 chemicals
known to cause cancer, less than 6% are tracked
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/lack.html

The California legislators have passed bills to start
testing patients with chronic illness, cancers and other
disorders for toxic chemicals. SB 1379. Also called,
"the Biomonitoring Bill" and is a re-write of SB 600.

The Breast Cancer Fund, which cosponsored CA
SB 1379 has plenty of updated information posted
about SB 1370 and more.
http://www.breastcancerfund.org

Database summarizes between chemical contaminants and
approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.
http://database.healthandenvironment.org/

The database is a work in progress. Many of the members
of this project are with the Breast Cancer Fund
www.breastcancerfund.org
Of which was the main grassroots organization behind
California Senate Bill 1379 to start testing patients for
toxic chemicals. The bill was signed into law 09, 2006
and testing has yet to begin. Numerous organizations and
individuals have joined this database and submit peer
reviewed medical journal articles concerning chronic
illnesses and toxic chemicals.

The simple facts are that chemical companies developed chemical and
biological weapons for our country. Back in World War One and Two,
they made things like nerve gas. At some point, the watered down the
nerve gas and started calling them "pesticides". This report (157)
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html
documents that the chemical companies and the pharmaceutical
companies are really controlled by the same people.

Now that is a business plan, called "Poison for Profit" (157). Even more
disturbing is what is termed " the revolving door" from these companies
and their executives into many of the high ranking administration offices
of our government, in Washington DC. From the National Institute of
Health to the Food and Drug Administration and beyond.

"The revolving door" is easily shown with an Internet www.google.com
search term, "revolving door washington DC drugs chemical companies".

As I have explained on my blog, SB 1379 might get "side tracked", yet.

A number of "peer reviewed medical journals" have found "mycoplasma"
infections in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. The nervous
system of numerous "mentally ill" patients have been shown to be
infected with sub-clinical" (not acute) infections with "mycoplasma's".
http://www.immed.org/illness/Neurodegenerative%20Diseases.html

If you have a "chronic illness"such as "arthritis",
you might want to do a Google search on
"arthritis mycoplasma". Or "cancer mycoplasma"
might show you why this is of concern to you.

"Schizophrenia mycoplasma", " suicide mycoplasma",
" mental illness mycoplasma".

Even the Center For Disease Control now has
reports posted on mycoplasma and cancer
Here is one example of a report posted at the CDC:
)Note the web address of http://www.cdc.gov/ ).

Special Issue: The Center for Disease Control on Mycoplasma's

Infectious Causes of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Cancer
Gail H. Cassell, Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol4no3/cassell.htm

The mycoplasma's have been studied as a
"Stealth Biological Weapon" since the 1940's.
The 1991 Gulf War Vets are sick with mostly the
genetically spliced type. The majority of "other
patients" appear to be infected with the "organic"
type of mycoplasma that was not genetically
spliced (in the 1980's. See Project Day Lily
for details at http://www.projectdaylily.com ).

Peer reviewed medical journals for the treatment
of mycoplasma infections are posted at
http://www.immed.org/illness/treatment_considerations.html
But I highly recommend the main page as a dtarting point
http://www.immed.org/

Another issue are the "Stealth Biological Weapons" that are also
known as "Non-Lethal" and or "'incapacitating agents'. that cause
several dozen chronic disorders.
http://www.immed.org/illness/bioterrorism.html
Peer reviewed medical journals and treatments are linked in at
http://www.immed.org

The United States government has been testing "'incapacitating agents'.
on hundreds of American cities, since the 1940's and the 1991
Gulf War Vets have posted a lot of information about it at
http://www.gulfwarvets.com

Political Affairs has posted a story that names many of the experts
that are outraged about this. Such as Boyle, of whom is now
seeking criminal charges against one of the biological weapons labs.
The story is titled,
"113 Institutions Charged with Refusing to Reveal Biotech Research"
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/4641/1/

Also see ( or just Google "toxic revelations" or "toxic reverend" ):>:

Toxic Revelations and censored military information
Toxic fraud, exposure sources and biological weapons /
chronic illnesses, cancers, sub-clinical infections,
mycoplasma treatment, low dose cumulative ...
verifiable peer reviewed medical journals linked in
http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/tr.html

Corrupted Health Care System:
Documentation about the drug and chemical companies
controlling the politics of health care is posted at
"Toxic Revelations" (a work in progress / editing).
The political aspects are being edited and follow the
money trail to the Bohemian Grove. A Republican
men's club that the majority of the drug and chemical
people belong to. The verifiable reference material is
posted and linked in.

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
An Environmental Technologist

Toxic's Profile - tribe.net
I will be editing "Toxic Revelations" as I can,
and want to add more of this type of information
to it. Blessing's, The Toxic Reverend ...
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

A course of action is accountability for corporations.
Criminal homicide charges for corporations
with ten convictions and no losses ...... read about that at :>

Red Collar Crime KILLS, are YOU their next victim ? Homicide ...
Presently, I am also working on the book, "American Roulette: the Red White
and Blue of crime in America". The "chapter "Toxic Revelations" is in a state of flux ...
www.angelfire.com/nm/ redcollarcrime
Google search term "red collar crime"
Please spread the word.

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Want to know what's on your credit card's magnetic stripe?

santaliscious — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:54:39 GMT

http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/

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Have Fun!

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:44:29 GMT

http://www.amasci.com/weird/const.html

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Strange reply-eating thread

Swaz — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:19:14 GMT

Try trying a response to the Ted Kazinski post. It is siphoned away to the FBI behaviorial unit at Quantico or something. Won't stay uploaded.

(twilight zone music)

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Danger! Do Not Enter!

eris — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:22:51 GMT

http://www.filthylies.net/images/sidenews/warning.gif

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Evil Home Projects

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:40:06 GMT

http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/70b5/

"Electronics fans have waited a long time for this book. Not since 1983 has author Bob Iannini published a collection of his amazing projects - all of them fun, easy and inexpensive to make at home and, best of all, seriously exciting and impressive! Iannini takes the stuff of science fiction and science future and brings it down to size for the home hobbyist. Full of easy-to-follow plans and clear diagrams and schematics, and respectful of your wallet, Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius give you:

Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pretested projects advanced enough for sophisticated electronics enthusiasts but described in sufficient details to be built easily by newcomers.
Explanations of the science and math behind each project (e.g., you can explore different methods of achieving acceleration).
Frustration-free plans - needed parts are listed, along with sources - and most of these projects can be built for $100 or less.

Create, Design, and Build Your Own:

Mass Driver
Pyrotechnic Blaster (used in metal design)
Magnetic Pulse Can Crusher
Robotic Control and other Circuits Disabler with Pulse
Generator
Object Catapult
Electromagnetic Launcher
Laser Beam Cutter
Body Heat Detector
Lightning Bolt Generator
Object Levitation Device
Infrared Viewer
Laser Listening System
Traveling Wave Generator
Multi Vortex Plasma Tornado
Working Star Wars-like Light Saber
Ultrasonic Microphone
Marx Impulse Generator
Sonic Phaser Cannon
Centrifuge Design
Vortex Smoke Ring Machine
Electronic Ventriloquism System
Tesla Coil Creation"

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How much of your body can you live without?

Swaz — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:31:41 GMT

Okay this isn't a post about YOU personally but a human in general. First off, if anyone has ever seen Todd Browning's movie FREAKS there is the black "worm-man" born without arms and legs and rolled cigarettes with his lips, so obviously those are unnecessary for life function.

*You can live without kidneys with dialysis.
*You can live on like 10 percent lung function with oxygen. Like coal miners with black lung or textile workers with brown lung.
*I've heard of lots of people having their spleen removed after accidents and shootings.
*Yah yah. Appendix. I know. That's a given. In fact, with an ass-bypass operation you don't need your ass either.
*Tonsils.
*Teeth.
*Larynx.
*Ears and nose. Burn and cancer-survivors yadda yadda.
*Scalp. I've read of people surviving scalpings by indians where they hid their literal skull under their hat. Also bear maulings on trappers in the old west. Jedadiah Smith for instance.
*Genitals from war or accidents.
*Eyes of course.
*Stomach. You've heard of those super-giant fat people who have most or all of their stomach removed to save their lives.
*When Reagan was shot they took-out like eight feet of his intestines. You have like 20 feet or something in there.

I've seen videos of monkey heads kept alive on heart-lung machines that blinked and responded to stimuli. So since they are close to us in the close-cousin department, my guess is that if there were no such thing as "medico-legal ethics" you might have warehouses full of heads waiting for new donor bodies.

So what's your take? Is nothing but a brain feasable? Forget the ethics. Let's talk science.

Swaz

卐

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Suspended Animation

JDW15217 — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:14:39 GMT

Any evil scientists here interested in experimenting with cryonics, or prolonged anesthesia? ;)

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New Tribe: "Hardware"

Dane — Fri, 13 May 2005 01:06:05 GMT

Hardware. Where our goal is to bring together people for the simple and elegant reason of building cool shit. Or just shit in general.

http://22gunsonfire.tribe.net

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Do They Have To Be A Loved One?

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:51:00 GMT

http://www.lifegem.com/

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New Tribe: "Polymaths: Universal Humans"

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:30:26 GMT

universalhumans.tribe.net

A polymath (also known as a polyhistor) is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. The most common term for this is Renaissance man. Other terms for this are Homo universalis and Uomo Universale which in Latin and Italian respectively is translated as "Universal Man". Many notable polymaths lived during the European Renaissance period, and a rounded approach to education was typical of the ideals of the humanists of the time. A gentleman or courtier of that era was expected to speak several languages, play a musical instrument, write poetry and so on, thus fulfilling the Renaissance ideal. During the Renaissance, Baldassare Castiglione, in his The Book of the Courtier, wrote a guide to being a polymath. On the other hand "polymath" may be applied more strictly, taking Leonardo da Vinci or Goethe as prime examples, and requiring a universality of approach. A polymath may not necessarily be classed as a genius, which is a more debatable classification; and certainly a genius may not display the breadth to qualify as a polymath. Albert Einstein is a prime example of a genius who was not a polymath.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

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Protecting your cubicle from co-workers

santaliscious — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:45:04 GMT

http://www.bleacheatingfreaks.com/science/OB/micromine/

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Build stuff from found items

santaliscious — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:30:38 GMT

http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/index.html

O, the evil that could be done with a Trigatron...

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Funny stuff

eris — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:42:22 GMT

http://www.krazylarry.com/d/20000524.html

http://www.krazylarry.com/d/20001114.html

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not really evil

santaliscious — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:01:27 GMT

But I thought you'd be interested:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/7796925370303347/

Breaking into a Kryptonite bike lock with a bic pen.

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DIY genetic engineering!

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:58 GMT

http://www.dnahack.com/

"The website for Amateur Genetic Engineering"

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Website new to me

eris — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:36:07 GMT

Maybe not new to other evil geniuses out there, but then again, not everyone has time in their day of creating new world population decimating diseases to surf the web.

http://www.trygve.com/evilonabudget.html

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Evil genius training?

santaliscious — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:51:46 GMT

New game: http://www.howevilareyou.com/us/

Sounds kinda fun. Anyone tried it yet?

ken

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Spud Guns

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:21:15 GMT

http://www.spudtech.com/default.asp

http://www.spudfiles.com/

in theory, these things are just used to fire potatoes and stuff; in reality, there are plans for BB machine guns, general purpose pneumatic/mechanical launchers, etc.-

couple this w/ the old match-heads-in-a-tennis-ball bomb and...

?

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Evil Biotechnology

bstring — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:28:20 GMT

http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/genetics/biotechnology_evil.htm

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TOYS!!!

bstring — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:56:25 GMT

http://www.shomertec.com/index.cfm

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Russia with love

bstring — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:34:17 GMT

Interfax. Thursday, Aug. 12, 2004, 1:47 PM Moscow Time

MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Ketamine, a psychotropic anesthetic, may soon be legalized for veterinarians, the Russian Federal Drug Control Service says.
The Agriculture Ministry has submitted to the government a draft resolution which would legalize ketamine for veterinarians, service deputy head Lt. Gen. Alexander Mikhailov said on Thursday.
"The problem of ketamine veterinarian usage must be resolved soon. It has dragged on and became painful both for veterinarians and drug controllers," he said

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Hypothetically...

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:27:35 GMT

http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=36e79df6-8c0c-452b-90ef-aa0c347e48b5&_message_resource=info.post.created&tribeid=6ce37acd-17fb-46c1-b23b-49c0b4faf7a7

Any evil suggestions to help this gal? Surely [evil] science can conquer a mere car alarm...

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Spiders!

bstring — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:37:02 GMT

http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/spiderweb/
wow.

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Evil Scientists

bstring — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:25:23 GMT

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040524/portrayal.shtml

The Portrayal of Scientists in Science Fiction
By Lucy A. Snyder
24 May 2004

Introduction
Science fiction has influenced our cultural attitudes towards science and scientists from its earliest days. Memorable characters such as Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, and Dr. Strangelove have entered the common cultural lexicon, and have become paradigms of our fears of and attitudes towards science and its practicioners. Over the years, science fiction has been a gateway through which young people have been introduced to the excitement of scientific discovery. In this way, science fiction has encouraged people to learn about science and, in some cases, to become scientists.

In his 1990 article "Scientists in Science Fiction: Enlightenment and After," Patrick Parrinder recounts astronomer Patrick Moore's suggestion at the 1955 UNESCO conference that "scientifically sound" science fiction would be a good recruitment tool for countries to use to encourage young people to pursue careers in science. Outside fandom, many people dismiss or ignore science fiction, perhaps because they see it as being irrelevant to what happens in the real world. But many scientists and science enthusiasts consider science fiction to be "their" fiction. science fiction fans naturally have an interest in science, and historically a significant minority of science fiction writers have been scientists themselves.

Authors such as Marcel LaFollette and Dorothy Nelkin have documented how the mass media has portrayed scientists and how these portrayals have affected public perceptions and government policies. But comparatively little research has been done on the portrayal of scientists in science fiction.

Sources and Methods
It is difficult to figure out exactly how much science fiction's portrayals of scientists affect public perceptions, mostly because little research has been done to figure out how scientists are portrayed by science fiction authors. The most significant research in this area was done by Walter Hirsch in 1958.

Hirsch analyzed 300 stories published in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1950. He noticed a steady decline in the number of stories that featured scientists as main characters. He also noted that there was a marked decline in the portrayal of scientists as heroes as opposed to their portrayal as villains, although on the whole heroic scientists still outnumbered the villains 18 to 2.

Hirsch's study was a good one, for its time. The problem is that nobody has done a qualitative/quantitative follow-up study on Hirsch's findings. Parrinder's article "Scientists in Science Fiction" was the only substantive recent treatment of the subject that I was able to find.

And I found it to be rather lacking in the way of real analysis. Parrinder frequently cites Hirsch and states matter-of-factly that "One of the most striking features of the science fiction of the last twenty years is that scientists are far less commonly represented in it than they used to be." Later on, Parrinder asserts:

Not only do scientists in science fiction often appear as lurid, melodramatic and evil, but they frequently . . . evoke the pre-scientific past. That is, the evil scientist -- or the future scientist surviving into a post-industrial society -- carries with him the trappings of sorcery, wizardry, and alchemy.

Parrinder does not specify which science fiction he was referring to; while his comments are perfectly valid descriptions for the science fiction written as late as the '60s and '70s, they do not mesh well with what I have been reading in more recent science fiction magazines.

My doubts about Parrinder's research increased when I reached his comments on cyberpunk at the end of the article. He argues:

It would seem that the image of the hero as discoverer has given place to the hero as information-processor, operating on knowledge that already exists. The hacker's function is not to increase knowledge but to keep it circulating, sapping the power and wealth of the corporations which monopolise it. Science as social currency is taken for granted in these novels, but it is no longer seen as a disinterested pursuit and the age of the great discoverer has long vanished. Science-fiction writers under fifty no longer seem to believe that scientists have the future in their bones. It could be that this message is getting through to the readers, too.

Parrinder completely misses the fact that cyberpunk hackers are no more portrayed as scientists than were the old time rocket jockeys like Buck Rogers. The fact that the hackers in William Gibson's Neuromancer are referred to as "cowboys" should have tipped Parrinder off to the fact that hackers "ride" the data stream, making them analogous to the old-time astroheroes who ride faster-than-light spaceships. Hackers are not scientists and no reasonably intelligent science fiction reader sees them as such.

As I scanned his notes and bibliography, I noticed that he drew primarily on secondary sources, and there was no sign of his having done original qualitative/quantitative research of the type that Hirsch had done. So I decided to do my own research to see how far off the mark Parrinder's article is when it comes to more recent science fiction.

To this end, I examined mid-'90s science fiction stories in the top three science fiction magazines (based on circulation and the amount they paid writers): Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, and Omni. Short stories were selected instead of novels or movies because:

1. Most science fiction fans agree that science fiction movies and TV shows are not representative of cutting-edge science fiction.

2. Short fiction provides the same diversity in subject matter and authorship as do novels, though in a much more manageable format.

Comparing my results to Hirsch's seemed like a reasonable thing to do, but I also realized that his research might have been flawed by bias or incompleteness. So I decided to do a brief comparison analysis of science fiction short stories from the '50s by looking at two "Best Of" anthologies from 1952 and 1956. I picked science fiction from the '50s as a comparison partly because this is when Hirsch did his research and partly because this was the time of the big post-war government push to funnel huge amounts of money into scientific research all over the country.

Results and Discussion
In The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952 anthology, the stories are filled with gloomy predictions of the future, often predictions of nuclear holocaust (5 of 18 stories, 27.7%). This is to be expected, since it had only been seven years since Fat Man and Little Boy ended World War II. Stylistically, the stories are fairly primitive (but still a good read). The characters seldom rise above one dimension, and sophisticated descriptions and internal metaphors are pretty much non-existent.

Six of the stories (33.3%) feature scientists as main characters. Of these scientists, four are physicists (possibly more fallout from the Manhattan Project), one is a physician, and the other two are physical scientists. And of the six stories, three portray the scientists in a distinctly negative light.

The most damning story is "Balance" by John Christopher. In "Balance," the world is controlled by competing scientific factions who resort to spying, theft, and murder to gain or keep power. The main character, a retired chemist, is ordered by his bosses, United Chemicals, to find and murder a super-genius child who has been created by the Geneticists to insure and increase their power. All the scientists in this story come off as greedy, evil, crude, paranoid beings who are barely evolved from apes. This theme of governmentalized scientists destroying the world was echoed in the other negative stories, though not to the same degree.

The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 is another story, however. The 14 tales in this anthology are more complex than their 1952 counterparts. These stories show more fleshed-out characters (though they're not completely three-dimensional) and spend more time on description.

In agreement with Hirsch's findings, the 1956 anthology has a smaller percentage of scientific characters than does the 1952 anthology: in the 1956 anthology, 4 of 14 stories (28.5%) feature scientists as prominent characters.

But the scientists are of a distinctly different sort. Of these four stories, one portrays a white male physicist, one portrays a beautiful, alien, female psi-therapist (a psychologist who uses psionics to heal her patients), and two others portray psychiatrists.

Only one of the four stories portrays its scientist negatively, but this story is supremely negative. "Judgement Day," by L. Sprague de Camp, is a character study of Dr. Wade Ormont, a physicist working at a nuclear research facility who discovers that a particular type of nuclear chain reaction would blow the crust off the earth. The physicist is portrayed as a cold, bitter, socially inept, slightly psychotic man: in other words, he is a stereotypical mad scientist, harking back to turn-of-the-century science fiction. But de Camp crawls inside the stereotype, explores it, and makes it chillingly believable, perhaps in an effort to explain the mentalities of the physicists who willingly created the atomic bomb.

In summary, the '50s anthologies I sampled portray scientists as main characters in 10 out of 32 stories (31.3%), and of these 10, 4 are negative portrayals. This essentially matches Hirsch's and Parrinder's claims.

But once I started to look at '90s science fiction, Parrinder's claims seem much less valid.

I went through six consecutive months of Analog and analyzed the stories in the same way that I had the '50s anthologies. Of the 36 total stories in these issues, 16 (44.4%) featured scientists as main characters. And of these portrayals, none were negative except insofar as scientists were shown to be fallible human beings.

The scientists who behave heroically are typically young and a little reckless, while those who are meek and perhaps a little cowardly are older and are shown to have good reasons for their behavior. The only scientist who does something shocking and nasty (hunting down a beautiful tree faery and ripping it open and eating it raw and perhaps alive) is shown to be acting from deeply-ingrained human instinct. On the whole, the scientists portrayed in Analog are likeable, highly intelligent, and occupy a sort of moral high ground. There is also a much greater diversity of scientists in these stories as compared with the '50s anthologies. In addition to the traditionally-portrayed medical doctors and physicists, the stories featured liberal doses of paleontologists, ecologists, and other biologists.

Science is portrayed as the key to advancing (and perhaps saving) humanity, and a running theme in the stories is the unfair, irritating, and potentially dangerous confinement of science by the government or corporations refusing to fund what scientists need. Two stories in particular highlight this theme.

The first is "Tide Pools," by Kevin J. Anderson. In this tale, the main character is a woman who travels through alternate times to locate medical cures that scientists in other realities have discovered. She brings back the formulas for the drugs, and her company markets them as their own. The protagonist's husband is dying of a rare neurologic disease, and her company refuses to let her try to find the cure on the grounds that the time she spent searching for it wouldn't be cost effective (only eight people in the country have the disease). She tries to find a cure in her native time, but discovers that the only neurologist who researched the disease stopped being able to get funding and abandoned his research. The heroine decides to break company rules and searches for a cure in other time lines. She eventually finds one, but by this time his disease is too advanced to be curable.

The second Analog story that deals with the dangers of under-funding is "Pibloktoq," by Paula Robinson. This black comedy is set on a cramped station on the moon in which all the inhabitants have grown short-tempered and are prone to what look like brief fits of relatively non-violent insanity. The protagonist, a psychologist named Morgan Diersing, comes on board to try to help the inhabitants. The space station inhabitants need more room to cure their madness, but no one on Earth will send them the materials to build additions to the station.

In summary, the Analog stories are distinctly pro-science and pro-scientist. The scientists are protagonists, not heroes; the reader sympathizes with them, likes them, and roots for them in their struggles against governments and corporations (businessmen, bureaucrats, and military figures are the most frequent antagonists). But these scientists do not behave "heroically" in the traditional sense: they never do anything as dramatic as saving the world à la Dr. Zarkov in the old Flash Gordon serials.

The six months of Asimov's stories I examined showed several similarities with the Analog stories, but there were also some interesting differences.

Of the 49 total Asimov's stories, 32 (65.3%) were what I consider to be science fiction. The remainder were fantasy, ranging from speculative fiction about Picasso to a tale about medieval vampires. Of the 32 genuine science fiction stories, thirteen (40.6%) featured scientists as major characters. This percentage is similar to what I saw in Analog, and it contradicts Parrinder's assertion that fewer and fewer scientists are being portrayed as main characters in science fiction.

As mentioned, there were some distinct differences between the portrayals of scientists in Analog and Asimov's, and I think that this is related to the willingness of Asimov's editors to include obvious fantasy in a science fiction magazine. First of all, Asimov's featured an even greater variety of scientists. Physicists were outnumbered by both biologists and social scientists. Medical doctors also outnumbered physicists, and the stories also featured computer scientists and an oceanographer.

These diverse scientists were more completely humanized than the scientists in Analog. While the scientists are mostly portrayed as doing good for the world, and three are portrayed as being geniuses, they are also shown to have basically the same mundane problems as everybody else. The scientists have family problems and wants and needs that have nothing to do with science.

In "Chemistry," by James Patrick Kelley, the protagonists are two female medical students who decide to go out to a futuristic singles bar to have a fling before finals. In "The Facts of Life," by Brian Stableford, the main character is a teenaged boy named Benjy who, when faced with a mentally abusive father and a disintegrating home life, escapes into his hobby of doing ecology/evolution experiments with microbes. In "Guardian of Fireflies," by Patricia Anthony, the protagonist is an AIDS-infected physicist who is standing watch in a field where a man has been trapped in a freakish quantum bubble. The physicist knows that the trapped man is sure to suffocate before he can be freed, and he spends much of the story contemplating this and his own impending death from AIDS.

Analog's theme of "everything would be better if they'd just give us more money" is absent from the six months of Asimov's that I examined. The stories in Asimov's portray science as a basically good and necessary thing, but it doesn't receive the same kind of unconditional love it gets in Analog.

For one thing, Asimov's features two negative portrayals of scientists. The first negative portrayal is in Robert Reed's "Blind". The antagonist, Dr. Jefferson, is an oceanographer whose whole life has been consumed by his lust to be the first to find a deep-sea descendant of the plesiosaur. The reader sees Jefferson as a fat, slovenly, abrasive, humorless, obsessed guy you'd generally want to choke. But at the end of the story, when another team beats Jefferson to the plesiosaur find and he is reduced to tears, the reader begins to see Jefferson as pathetic rather than malicious.

The second negative story is "A Hand in the Mirror," by Sonja Orin Lyris. The main character is a computer scientist named Reskin. Reskin is doing advanced research to develop a form of virtual reality that reads the user's mind. Reskin is portrayed as a cold, unethical jerk, and he demonstrates a hidden sadistic streak near the end of the story.

But the portrayals of Jefferson and Reskin are a far cry from the mad scientists of the '50s anthologies. Both Jefferson and Reskin are shown to have some good qualities, and, more importantly, neither of them is likely to kill or physically harm anybody, much less endanger mankind, as was de rigeur for the old-time mad scientists.

And there was one Asimov's story in which the scientist acts as a genuine hero. "Kahmehameha's Bones," by Kathleen Ann Goonan, charts the life of Cen, a homeless Hawaiian teenager who is visited by what is apparently the ghost of Kaiulani, the last Hawaiian princess who tried to keep Hawaii independent and died a tragic death in her twenties. Cen is befriended by a math professor who teaches Cen math and science. He has a remarkable talent for physics, and he realizes that Kaiulani is not a ghost but a manifestation of some kind of temporal disturbance. He decides that he must try to figure out some way to save Kaiulani from dying young.

In contrast with the complex portrayals of scientists in Asimov's, the stories in Omni were of little help to my research. For a magazine whose non-fiction articles were all about slick science and futuristic gadgets, their fiction section was astonishingly low in real science fiction content (by "real science fiction" I'm referring to stories that deal with believable scientific/futuristic extrapolations rather than magic). In the 14 issues I examined, a grand total of 3 stories (21.4%) portrayed scientists, all of whom were physicists (possibly excepting a butterfly collector who, I guess might have qualified as a scientist had he actually collected any butterflies in the course of the story).

One of the three stories, "The Relativity of Chaos," by Michaela Rossner, portrays the physicist Erwin Schrödinger as a cat hater who uses the family cat in his famous cat-in-the-box observer-effect experiments (really, he's just trying to kill the cat). This portrayal is a distinctly negative one, but since the story is told from the cat's perspective, Schrödinger doesn't get much characterization beyond all the nasty things the cat thinks about him.

Basically, it was hard to figure out if Omni's stories supported or contradicted Parrinder's claims because the magazine's stories were mainly modern fantasy and magic realism rather than science fiction. If somebody were to do a more in-depth analysis of current science fiction than I have done here, it would probably be necessary to sample the last few years of Omni to get a feel for what their fiction editors and writers were doing.

Conclusion
Omni aside, it seems that Parrinder's gloominess over the status of scientists in science fiction is unfounded. The stories I sampled from Analog and Asimov's show about a 10% increase in the portrayal of scientists as main characters over the stories in the '50s anthologies, although more comprehensive research would be needed to determine if this is a statistically significant variation. But a more important change is beyond doubt, especially when compared with the science fiction of the '20s and '30s: the mad scientist has been virtually banished from the pages of the best science fiction magazines. Scientists are now portrayed as real people instead of scary stereotypes.

And that's got to be worth more than numbers.

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bstring — Fri, 21 May 2004 02:02:36 GMT

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Robocops ready for England fans
By Chris Millar, Evening Standard
20 May 2004
English football fans heading to Euro 2004 were warned today they face a force of hi-tech "robocops".

Portuguese police have spent £8 million on an armoury to crush hooliganism at the tournament and will have on standby a rapid-reaction force of specially trained riot officers. The list of how the money has been spent shows the scale of preparations for the arrival of

1.2 million fans on 12 June. It includes 17,640 pepper sprays, 1,465 riot truncheons and 40 stun-grenade launchers.

Officers have been issued with latest-generation technology including 45 frequency jammers capable of disabling mobile phones to prevent gang leaders organising fights.

The rapid-reaction force will be on hand to back up "softly, softly" officers should trouble break out. Four high-powered water cannon mounted on riot vans will be supported by hundreds of National Guards on horseback and a permanent reserve of 4,000 police on foot.

General Leonel Carvalho, in charge of policing the event, warned: "I would like everything to go without any trouble but that is not going to happen. Portugal is now better protected - these are powerful tools of persuasion. We won't stand for any trouble."

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RFID Credit Cards!?

bstring — Wed, 05 May 2004 02:14:14 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/13/goodbye.swipe.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- The familiar process of buying something with a credit card -- handing the plastic to the clerk or swiping it yourself, then waiting for approval and signing the receipt -- could be headed the way of the mechanical brass cash register.

For more than a year, MasterCard and American Express have been testing "contactless" versions of their credit cards. The cards need only be held near a special reader for a sale to go through -- though the consumer can still get a receipt.

The card companies say the system is much faster and safer because the card never leaves a customer's hand.

"In some instances it's faster than cash," said Betsy Foran-Owens, a MasterCard vice president. "You're eliminating the fumble factor."

MasterCard has been testing its PayPass system mainly in Orlando, Florida, and promises a nationwide rollout in 2004, beginning primarily at quick-service restaurants and other places where people tend to be in a hurry.

American Express has mainly done pilot runs of its Express Pay service in the Phoenix area, though the company expanded it to New York ferry terminals on the Hudson River this week.

The new credit cards work much like the Speedpass system that ExxonMobil has accepted for quick payments at its gas stations since 1997. But the keychain fobs carried by Speedpass' 6 million users are good only at ExxonMobil stations and a handful of other retail outlets.

In contrast, credit cards that incorporate the technology could be used anywhere regular plastic is accepted, as long as stores install the new readers. The card companies have worked out technical standards that would let one reader handle multiple brands of contactless cards.

Still, you probably will leave home without one of the new cards for a while. Forrester Research senior analyst Penny Gillespie predicts it will take a few years for contactless cards to go mainstream.

Visa USA has developed contactless capabilities but is holding off on a launch because "consumers seem to be content using the cards they have in their wallet," Visa spokeswoman Camille Lepre said.

The new cards have chips imbued with radio-frequency identification, or RFID, the technology that Wal-Mart, the military and other institutions hope to begin using soon to precisely track inventory.

An ExpressPay key from American Express, a radio frequency credit card, can be used with a special reader at a checkout counter.
While old-fashioned credit cards store account information on a magnetic stripe that has to be swiped, the contactless cards keep their data on chips inside the plastic.

American Express' ExpressPay uses a keychain fob, like the ones used by ExxonMobil Speedpass and similar to the tags in supermarket discount programs.

"I like that it's on your keychain and it's fast to use," said Kristie Beenau, 36, of Peoria, Arizona, who has used ExpressPay for about six months at a CVS Pharmacy and fast-food restaurants. "I charge everything anyways. Now I wave it rather than get my card out. It's more convenient."

MasterCard's PayPass comes on a regular-sized card that also has a magnetic stripe for swiping if need be. MasterCard also has done tests in Dallas with Nokia Corp. in which the RFID chip is embedded in the plastic casing of a cell phone.

The contactless cards have no battery or power. When they near a reader, they are jolted to life by the reader's electromagnetic waves. A small radio antenna in the cards instantly transmits account information to the reader.

The transaction then proceeds through the credit card network just as if the card had been swiped.

In theory, the transaction could be intercepted without a consumer's knowledge by a technologically savvy thief intent on cloning a card. That's because RFID transmissions themselves are not encrypted.

However, the thief would have to get quite close to his target or have a very sensitive reader.

Also, the account number on the contactless cards is useful only in the RFID system -- it's not the same as a user's credit card number. A crook would thus not be able to use the card number to go on a fraudulent Internet shopping spree, for example.

There would be other hurdles.

American Express makes the RFID reader verify the card's authenticity with a "challenge-response" exchange that depends on 128-bit encryption encoded on the chip. That strength of encryption is considered safe against "brute force" attacks, in which a hacker tries every possible combination.

MasterCard says it uses a different security system but would not provide specifics.

"I have some faith in the credit card companies," said Henry Holtzman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab who started Presto Technologies Inc., a now-defunct company that sought to develop in-home applications for RFID tags on consumer products. "I trust them because fraud is a serious issue they have to deal with."

Others are more skeptical. Simson Garfinkel, another MIT researcher who follows RFID, said credit card companies ought to be using "smart" cards with public key cryptography, a very strong form of security.

Jeff Chasney, chief technical officer of CKE Restaurants Inc., which runs the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast-food chains, says the new cards are likely to increase sales because they are so easy to use and ensure that a consumer won't be limited by the cash in his wallet.

But even Chasney, who is considering a contactless card trial, worries about the use of RFID in the cards.

"I would suggest to you," he said, "the greatest obstacle is going to be security."

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Ancient Atom Bombs.

bstring — Thu, 06 May 2004 05:38:13 GMT

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Nuclear Explosions of Ancient Times
Date: Sunday, February 08 @ 17:40:04 PST
Topic: Paleo-astronomy/contact

When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the magazine Free World, has given certain archaeologists a turn. They have been digging in the ancient Euphrates Valley and have uncovered a layer of agrarian culture 8,000 years old, and a layer of herdsman culture much older, and a still older caveman culture. Recently, they reached another layer of fused green glass. It is well known that atomic detonations on or above a sandy desert will melt the silicon in the sand and turn the surface of the Earth into a sheet of glass. But if sheets of ancient desert glass can be found in various parts of the world, does it mean that... (read more to see photos)

...atomic wars were fought in the ancient past or, at the very least, that atomic testing occurred in the dim ages of history?

This is a startling theory, but one that is not lacking in evidence, as such ancient sheets of desert glass are a geological fact. Lightning strikes can sometimes fuse sand, meteorologists contend, but this is always in a distinctive root-like pattern.

These strange geological oddities are called fulgurites and manifest as branched tubular forms rather than as flat sheets of fused sand.

Therefore, lightning is largely ruled out as the cause of such finds by geologists, who prefer to hold onto the theory of a meteor or comet strike as the cause. The problem with this theory is that there is usually no crater associated with these anomalous sheets of glass.

Brad Steiger and Ron Calais report in their book, Mysteries of Time and Space, that Albion W. Hart, one of the first engineers to graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was assigned an engineering project in the interior of Africa. While he and his men were travelling to an almost inaccessible region, they first had to cross a great expanse of desert.

"At the time he was puzzled and quite unable to explain a large expanse of greenish glass which covered the sands as far as he could see," writes Margarethe Casson in an article on Hart's life in the magazine Rocks and Minerals (no. 396, 1972).

She then goes on to mention: "Later on, during his life he passed by the White Sands area after the first atomic explosion there, and he recognized the same type of silica fusion which he had seen fifty years earlier in the African desert."

Interestingly, Manhattan Project chief scientist Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to be familiar with ancient Sanskrit literature. In an interview conducted after he watched the first atomic test, he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita: "'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.' I suppose we all felt that way."

When asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, "Well, yes, in modern history." David Hatcher Childress in Nexus magazine.

Libyan Desert Glass

Pieces of Libyan Desert Glass weighing as much as 16 pounds are found in an oval area measuring approximately 130 by 53 kilometers. The clear-to-yellowish-green pieces are concentrated in sand-free corridors between north-south dune ridges. The origin of this immense deposit of glass has been attributed by some to ancient nuclear explosions and alien activities, but investigating scientists have always been satisfied with a meteor-impact hypothesis.

A recent study also opts for this explanation, although no one has found a crater of suitable size or other supporting evidence.

Evidence at Mohenjo-Daro

When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city.

And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing? Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? Furthermore, there is no apparent cause of a physically violent death.

These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal.

Other cities have been found in northern India that show indications of explosions of great magnitude. One such city, found between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, seems to have been subjected to intense heat. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! And since there is no indication of a volcanic eruption at Mohenjo-Daro or at the other cities, the intense heat to melt clay vessels can only be explained by an atomic blast or some other unknown weapon.The cities were wiped out entirely.

While the skeletons have been carbon-dated to 2500 BC, we must keep in mind that carbon-dating involves measuring the amount of radiation left. When atomic explosions are involved, that makes then seem much younger.

Huge Unexplained Crater Near Bombay

Another curious sign of an ancient nuclear war in India is a giant crater near Bombay. The nearly circular 2,154-metre-diameter Lonar crater, located 400 kilometres northeast of Bombay and aged at less than 50,000 years old, could be related to nuclear warfare of antiquity.

No trace of any meteoric material, etc., has been found at the site or in the vicinity, and this is the world's only known "impact" crater in basalt. Indications of great shock (from a pressure exceeding 600,000 atmospheres) and intense, abrupt heat (indicated by basalt glass spherules) can be ascertained from the site.

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Bullet Proof TownCar

bstring — Wed, 05 May 2004 03:04:53 GMT

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/14/eveningnews/main611897.shtml

(CBS) Ford calls it "an elegant answer to a hostile world." It looks like an ordinary limousine. But it's not, reports CBS Correspondent Anthony Mason.

"This is called the Lincoln BPS - Ballistic Protection Series," said Rick Bondy who handles security for the Ford Motor Co.

That's right, an armored Lincoln Town Car.

The BPS is bullet resistant. The doors are reinforced with ceramic and steel. The windows are more than an inch and a half thick.

Handguns and hunting rifles can't penetrate the car. Neither can assault rifles.

This car was Bondy's idea.

A former Secret Service agent, Bondy serves as bodyguard to the company president.

"It boils down to do I wanna stop these. Or do I wanna stop these," he said, holding bullets in his hand.

The price for this kind of peace of mind? About $145,000 a car. And Ford figures it can sell 300 this year.

In the post 9/11 climate of fear, the armored car market has been growing twenty percent a year. GM has also designed an armored version of its Cadillac DeVille.

"You have celebrities, CEOs of companies, VIPS," said security consultant Charles Fredericksen. He says he'd recommend them to his clients.

"They could start firing shots at you. And you're gonna go home and get a new paint job. And everybody's gonna go to bed safe and sound that night," he said.

Even if the tires are shot out, the BPS has "run flat inserts" bolted to the wheel.

"You can drive on all four of them with no tires at all," said Bondy. "But it's just great when somebody's trying to kill you."

Ford likes to say its vehicles help you "escape" everyday hassles. But now it has made a real getaway car.

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bstring — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:38:52 GMT

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Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter
by Geoffrey Sonnabend
An Encapsulation by Valentine Worth

In his three volume work Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter, Geoffrey Sonnabend departed from all previous memory research with the premise that memory is an illusion. Forgetting, he believed, not remembering is the inevitable outcome of all experience. From this perspective,

"We, amnesiacs all, condemned to live in an eternally fleeting present, have created the most elaborate of human constructions, memory, to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrieveability of its moments and events."

Sonnabend did not attempt to deny that the experience of memory existed. However, his entire body of work was predicated on the idea that what we experience as memories are in fact confabulations artificial constructions of our own design built around sterile particles of retained experience which we attempt to make live again by infusions of imagination - much as the blacks and whites of old photographs are enhanced by the addition of colors or tints in attempt to add life to a frozen moment.

Sonnabend believed that long term or "distant" memory was illusion, but similarly he questioned short term or "immediate" memory. On a number of occasions Sonnabend wrote, "there is only experience and its decay" by which he meant to suggest that what we typically call short term memory is, in fact, our experiencing the decay of an experience. Interestingly, however, Sonnabend employed the term true memory, to describe this process of decay which, he held, was, in actuality, not memory at all.

Sonnabend believed that this phenomenon of true memory was our only connection to the past, if only the immediate past, and, as a result, he became obsessed with understanding the mechanisms of true memory by which experience decays. In an effort to illustrate his understanding of this process, Sonnabend, over the next several years, constructed an elaborate Model of Obliscence (or model of forgetting) which, in its simplest form, can be seen as the intersection of a plane and cone (1.1). It is this model that Sonnabend first came to understand during the sleepless night in September, 1936, at the Iguassu Falls. By the end of his life this model reflected a complex of forms and designations including such terms as the cone of confabulation, the perverse and obverse atmonic discs, spelean ring disparity and the attitude and altitude of experience(1.2).

In its most basic form Sonnabend's model of obliscence consists of two elements: the Cone of Obliscence and the Plane of Experience (sometimes also known as plane experience).

All living things have a Cone of Obliscence by which the being experiences experience. This cone is sometimes also known as the Cone of True Memory (and occasionally the Characteristic Cone.) Sonnabend speaks of this cone as if it were an organ like the pancreas or spleen and like those organs its shape and characteristics are unique to the individual and remain relatively consistent over time. This cone (occasionally referred to as a horn) is composed of two elements - the Atmonic Disc (or base of the cone) which Sonnabend described as "the field of immediate consciousness of an individual" and the "hollows" (or interior of the cone). A third implied element of the Characteristic Cone is the Spelean Axis, an imaginary line which passes through the tip of the cone and the center of the Atmonic Disc. The Spelean Axis can be thought of as the individual's line of sight or perspective, with the eye of the individual firmly held at the intersection of the Spelean Axis and the Atmonic disc.

The second element of the basic Sonabend diad <196> the Plane of Experience is far more dynamic. Planes of Experience are always in motion, always (in Class I planes) moving from the Obverse Experience Boundary (or leading edge) to the Perverse Experience Boundary (or trailing edge).

In the course of its migration, the path of a Plane will cause it to intersect the less dynamic Cone of Obliscence. The intersection of the plane and cone creates what Sonabend called the Spelean Ring (or Spelean Disc.) When such an intersection occurs, a three tier series of events ensues, which (from our perspective) would be described as:

(1) being involved in an experience

(2) remembering an experience

(3) having forgotten an experience.

Under "normal" circumstances, the Obverse (or leading) Experience Boundary is the first element of the plane to cross the Atmonic Disc. This situation creates the condition we describe as being involved in an experience. Once the Obverse Experience Boundary clears the Atmonic disc we say that we remember the experience. And when the Perverse Experience Boundary clears the cone altogether, and we no longer "truly remember" the experience and we say we have forgotten the experience. From our perspective, at the intersection of the spelean axis with the atmonic disc, this series of events is seen as a progressively constricting or diminishing disc - in other words experiences pass and memories fade.

Every Experience Plane has a pitch or attitude as well as an altitude. The pitch of a plane can be thought of as the angle at which it comes into contact with a particular cone. This pitch effects the length of the decay of the experience. Similarly, the altitude of a plane can be can be seen as the elevation of the plane in relation to a particular cone. The altitude of the plane effects the apparent intensity (or brightness) of the experience in question.

Sonnabend devised a system of classification of experience based on the division of the planes into four groups (1.5), depending on the pitch or attitude of the plane:

Group 1 within 7 degrees of arc of vertical
Group 2 between 8 degrees and 90 degrees of arc

Group 3 between 91 and 173 degrees of arc
Group 4 between 174 and 180 degrees of arc.

Beyond 180 degrees a plane reverts back to a Group 1 plane (but changes to Class II which will be discussed later).

Clearly, a Group 1 Experience Plane with a vertical or nearly vertical experience pitch passes through the cone (and, accordingly, from memory) far more rapidly than a Group 2 plane with, for example, a 53 degree experience pitch.

A normal individual under normal circumstances is primarily aware of Group 1 and Group 2 planes with the great predominance being Group 2. According to Sonnabend, however, there is absolutely nothing to indicate that the population of planes is not evenly dispersed among the groups and classes - which is to say that for every Group 2 plane there exists and Group 3 plane and for every Group 1 plane there exists a Group 4 plane as well. The great majority of volume three of Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter is devoted to the discussion of Group 3 and 4 planes as well as the whole world of Class II, or negative experience pitch planes, in which the Perverse Experience Boundary in fact leads the Obverse.

The Group 3 & 4 planes, in conjunction with the Class II planes, make up, according to Sonnabend a full three quarters of the experience of everyday life. Yet, because of the nature of the construction of these experiences, we are, by and large, unaware of, even, their existence. When we are aware of these experiences they appear to us as fleeting or insubstantial and we ascribe to them such names as premonition, Deja vu and forebodings. It is precisely this area of Sonnabend's work that has, on the one hand, caused such controversy while, on the other, provided a structure and a vocabulary with which to discuss these often difficult experiences. For example, let us consider the case of a Class I, Group 3 plane. In this case, the Obverse Experience Boundary is still the leading edge of the plane, however, its first point of contact with the Characteristic Cone is not the Atmonic Disc, as is the case with "normal" Group 1 and 2 experiences but, the Obverse Experience Boundary, in fact, first contacts the cone's "hollows", that part of the cone with which we associate the sensation of memory. Accordingly this class of experience has a quality of being pre-remembered or foreshadowed.
http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/oblisci.htm

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terrorist.org

bstring — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:48:26 GMT

TERRORIST NETWORK Security Advisory

Date: 3 January 2003
Author: Paul A. Watson
Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer URL Obfuscation

Vulnerability Product: Internet Explorer 6.0

Description: Internet Explorer (IE) contains a flaw in the way it displays URL’s in the address bar and status bar. The flaw allows an attacker to embed an HTML link to an arbitrary site in a web page or email message that appears to point to a trusted site. If the victim hovers their mouse over the malicious link the Internet Explorer status bar will display the URL of the trusted site. If the victim clicks on the link they will be directed to the attacker's server, but the IE address bar will falsely indicate the location to be the trusted site. The only way to identify a malicious link is to examine the HTML source of the page providing the link. Attackers can use this flaw to trick victims into visiting malicious web servers, while believing they are browsing a trusted server. This can result in victim disclosing sensitive information or downloading and installing malicious software.

Exploit: This exploit utilized the @ feature which allows a URL to contain information prior to the site link, which is excluded once the link is clicked, such as http://username@www.terrorist.net. If the attacker includes an encoded null 0x00 before the ‘@’ symbol, the status bar will display only the text prior to the ‘@’ symbol. Furthermore, if the attacker includes a binary character of 0x01 before the encoded 0x00, the address bar will also display the text prior to the ‘@’ symbol after clicking the malicious link.

Proof of Concept Code: The website www.dc2600.com provides a list of current news articles from around the web. Each URL is encoded as describe above, and appears to link to www.terrorist.net, although the real link points to the valid source of the news articles.

Status: As of 1/3/2004, there are currently no patches available to correct this problem.

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Sonic Orgasm?

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:10:10 GMT

Howdy!

(Originally posted this in Aural Sex & a few others, but not too many replies)

Altho lots of abstracts are available online detailing using infrasound and other EM ranges to 'tune' to a specific body part/locale and make it vibrate according to its resonant frequency, none of them detail the frequencies used...

Anybody else interested in this line of inquiry, and/or have more info?

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USA Patriot Act of 2001

eris — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 05:44:52 GMT

Think your home is where cops have to ask if they can look around, or at least have a warrant? Think again.

"I want to examine here a single section of the USA Patriot Act –section 213, definitely one of the most sinister provisions of this monstrous statute.

In euphemistic language that conceals the provision ’s momentous significance, section 213 states that with regard to federal search warrants “any notice required ... to be given may be delayed if ... [1] the court finds reasonable cause to believe that providing immediate notification of the execution of the warrant may have an adverse result ...; [2] the warrant prohibits the seizure of any tangible property ... except where the court finds reasonable necessity for the seizure; and [3] the warrant provides for the giving of such notice within a reasonable period of its execution, which period may thereafter be extended by the court for good cause shown. ”

Section 213 may be couched in Orwellian terminology, but there is no doubt about what it does.

Section 213 is the first statute ever enacted in the history of American criminal procedure to specifically authorize an entirely new form of search warrant –what legal scholars call the sneak and peek warrant (also dubbed the covert entry warrant or the surreptitious entry warrant). A sneak and peek search warrant authorizes police to effect physical entry into private premises without the owner ’s or the occupant ’s permission or knowledge to conduct a search; generally, such entry requires a breaking and entering."

www.law.uga.edu/academics/...iles/dwilkes_more/36sneak.html

Do a google search, using "surreptitious entry warrant" or "sneak and peek entry". There are NO SET LIMITATIONS that this must be for a terrrorism suspicion, even though it is a statute in those particular new sets of laws. Adopted 2002.

Police state anyone?

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Valuable Publication

bstring — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:22:10 GMT

COMPUTER CORNER
#179
Digital Evidence - Trends by: Michael J. Phelan
DEA Digital Evidence Laboratory

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An article in your local newspaper on January 1st undoubtedly contained an annual New Year’s article or column entitled: “What’s In and What’s Out”. The reading of this column in my local paper caused me to reflect on what’s “in” and “out” in the domain of digital evidence forensics. I think it is important to reflect periodically on how things are changing, in order to assess the trends in digital evidence technologies and evidence examination methodologies. The rapid changes in digital evidence forensics can be far reaching, and can affect laboratory equipment and software procurement strategies, design of standard operating procedures, and development of examiner training requirements.

My list for this year was surprisingly large. Much has changed, or is in the process of significantly changing.

End of DOS

DOS based computer evidence examination tools are “out”. GUI based tools using the Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP platforms are “in”. DOS based forensics tools are just too slow to process modern high capacity hard drives. However, you still need to keep your DOS operating system software and DOS forensic tools handy, in case you ever have to access your archived files.

Write Blockers

Software based write blocking technology is “out” and hardware based write blocking technology is “in”, at least in the case of Microsoft based operating systems. Unix operating systems are still best protected from deleterious change by using the native “read only” commands embedded in all Unix systems.

Evidence Copying

Evidence copying using sector by sector copying (physical data acquisition) techniques of entire hard drives is “out”, and copying techniques involving selected files, data folders, or hard drive partitions (logical data acquisition) is “in”. The volume of information now maintained on many business computers or computer networks has become enormous. Physical data acquisition is simply not practical when large servers, computer networks, or data farms/warehouses are encountered.

Evidence Storage Format

Evidence data acquisition involving the duplication of hard drive data is “out”. Copying data into “image” files (consisting of files with all of the hard drive data and formatting structure), that are easily mounted as virtual drives (no hardware interface issues), are “in”. Use of image file formats saves examiner processing time by eliminating hardware complexity problems and simplifying hard drive format access methods.

External Media

External storage media technology continues to rapidly change, and maintaining the appropriate hardware “reader devices” is a constant challenge. Previously mainstream technologies such as floppy diskettes or Iomega Jaz and Zip cartridges are becoming obsolete (“out”), while replacement technologies such as CD’s, thumb drives, memory sticks, and DVD’s are “in”. Surprisingly, however, tape technology continues to play an important role in data backup. In addition, acquiring and maintaining a robust collection of PDA docking (recharging) cradles is becoming essential to laboratory operations.

Potential Probative Information Recovery

The nature of digital communications is changing from file transfers containing documents or e mails, to web based communications containing web based e mail or e commerce transactions. The impact of these changes on digital forensics is significant. Extensive data recovery involving traditional techniques, such as active file browsing or erased file recovery, is diminishing (on the way “out”), and processing (carving) of hard drives for non file keystroke data that is stored on the hard drive as unallocated clusters (i.e., in “free space”) or in the “swap file”, is increasing (“in”).

Evidence Integrity

The technology used to validate copies of the original evidence has significantly evolved. The use of data packet communication algorithms, commonly known as a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), is “out”, and global hard drive or file data integrity checks, known as hash algorithms, are “in”. Hash techniques such as MD 5 have a higher statistical probability calculation of certainty than a CRC check. The purpose of the CRC or hash check is to assess (within a certain degree of statistical probability) that a digital file copy containing binary data is the same as the original file from which it was copied. Such calculations are usually expressed as one in 28, 216, 224, or 264 possibilities that two different binary data sets (such as a file, partition, or hard drive) could have the same hash value. Larger hash value calculations increase the certainty of estimating the uniqueness of data sets.

Forensic Software Architecture

Standalone forensic tools are “out”, and multi functional software examination software suites are “in”. The integration of multiple digital forensic examination tasks such as imaging, browsing, keyword searching, and carving, in one unified software program, has simplified laboratory operations by making it easier to conduct examiner training, coordinate software upgrades and validate the examination software. The integrated tools enhance examiner proficiency by enabling the user to utilize one common set of software commands to process a wide variety of hard drive formats (FAT 32, NTFS, HPS, etc.).

Legal

On site copying of evidence at businesses and professional offices is “in”, and physical removal of the computers to a digital evidence laboratory is “out”. Courts are becoming more reluctant to authorize removal of computers, especially in cases involving businesses where both licit and illicit records may be commingled. Having robust on site backup equipment and software is essential to the effective operation of a digital evidence laboratory.

Questions or comments?
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0204/mg0204.html

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Evil Scientists are Dying out

eris — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:36:49 GMT

While there can be no doubt that the number of irritating scientists has increased exponentially in the post-WWII era many have argued that there has not been a concomitant rise in the number of evil scientists. Some have even suggested that there has been a relative, or even absolute, decline in the number of evil scientists in the past fifty years. As a result of their elusive nature it is difficult to quantitate just how many scientists dedicated to evil there are. While we have our doubts about the inflammatory theories propagated by some of the evil science old guard, we were so impressed by their "Endangered Species" metaphor that we decided to outline it here.

It runs something like this. When ecologists study an endangered species they look at several key areas of an organism’s life cycle to determine what is going wrong. Specifically, they want to evaluate the reproductive fitness of the organism (including both biological fitness and the availability of breeding grounds), it’s access to food and other resources, and any predators that may be affecting its success. Assuming that there is a threat to the future of evil scientists we must examine the corresponding metaphor for each of these areas in their life cycle.

First of all, are evil scientists being generated as quickly as they once were? Are their breeding grounds being destroyed? We think so. In a recent college poll evil science ranked forty-seventh in career choices, falling behind both proctologist and guano salesman. Despite its obvious glamour, students are being steered away from this exciting career. Some of this may be a result of mentors who no longer want to train evil scientists. This is perhaps not surprising since the young evil scientists tend to either murder their mentors or at least fail to participate in the team spirit needed to ensure that the mentor rides to victory on the backs of his students. Institutions are also rapidly downsizing their evil science departments. Evil scientist training costs almost as much as jet fighter pilot training. That’s a lot to ask from universities busy milking their alumni for money to improve their business schools.

For many of the same reasons discussed above the resources necessary to sustain evil scientists are dwindling. Departments are shrinking and becoming more cost constrained. The days of a department head shifting money from basic patient care to Dr. Valek’s reanimation project are unfortunately long gone. Such cutbacks force evil scientists to look for careers elsewhere.

Finally, the traditional predators of evil scientists are as active today as they ever were. It seems that overzealous do-gooders are everywhere. Once upon a time it was only the odd super-hero in reflective tights, but now it seems everyone has a bone to pick with evil science. If they aren’t storming the castle with an angry mob they are lobbying congress to prevent research on this or that topic for the incredibly rational reason that God told them it was bad.

While most of the advocates of this argument suggest that it spells the end of evil science we aren’t convinced. Assuming it is true, it may actually be a good way of ensuring the perpetuation of only the finest in evil science. In the early part of the century, every corner had a eugenicist and quality probably did suffer as public esteem rose. Perhaps what we are seeing are the selective pressures that will create fewer, but superior, evil scientists for tomorrow.

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New pictures

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:48:05 GMT

New photos added of hacked tv station.

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Inter-dimensional beastie display?

eris — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 02:51:27 GMT

Decay is a considerable impediment to morphological studies. Therefore scientists have been searching for centuries for suitable preservation techniques. With the invention of plastination it has become possible to preserve decomposable specimen in a durable and lifelike manner for instructional, research, and demonstration purposes. During a vacuum process biological specimens are impregnated with a reactive polymer developed specifically for this technique. The class of polymer used determines the mechanical (flexible or hard) and optical (transparent or opaque) properties of the preserved specimen. Plastinated specimen are dry and odourless; they retain their natural surface relief and are identical with their state prior to preservation down to the microscopic level; even microscopic examinations are still possible.

The plastination technique replaces bodily fluids and fat with reactive polymers, such as silicone rubber, epoxy resins, or polyester: in a first phase solvent gradually replaces bodily fluids in a cold solvent bath (freeze substitution). After dehydration the specimen is put in a solvent bath at room temperature for defatting. The dehydrated and defatted specimen is then placed into a polymer solution. The solvent is then brought to a boil in a vacuum and continuously extracted from the specimen; the evaporating solvent creates a volume deficit within the specimen drawing the polymer gradually into the tissue. After the process of forced impregnation the specimen is cured with gas, light, or heat, depending on the type of polymer used.

"Slice plastination" is a special variation of this preservation technique. When applying this method, whole bodies or body parts (mostly deep-frozen) are first cut or sawed into 2-8 mm thick slices. These slices are then placed between wire nettings, where they are dehydrated, defatted and finally saturated with polymers in a vacuum. The impregnated slices are cured between sheets of film or casted with additional polymers in a flat chamber composed of glass plates to give them a smooth surface. The refraction index of the applied resins determines the optical properties of plastinated body slices. Body and organ slices produced with epoxy resins result in transparent specimens with good coloration of individual tissues; polyester resins permit an excellent distinction between white and grey brain matter and are thus used for the plastination of brain slices.

Plastinated organs and body slices are a novel teaching aid for cross-sectional anatomy which is gradually gaining importance and can be easily correlated with radiological imaging. Series of transparent body slices are helpful for manifold scientific research activities. In addition, they are a suitable diagnostic means in pathology, as they allow rapid macroscopic and diagnostic screening of entire organs or operation preparations; they still allow for selective analyses of pathological tissue regions with conventional microscopic methods.

Gunther von Hagens invented plastination at the Institute for Anatomy at Heidelberg University in 1978 and has developed it further ever since. Plastination has gained general acceptance and is carried out in many institutions throughout the world. Particularly the hard-weariness, dura-bility, and lifelike state of plastinated specimens as well as their high instructional value have contributed to this acceptance.

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Dr. Evil

eris — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:01:28 GMT

http://www.blockdeath.com/

Check out "occupational hazards", third display.

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More interesting supply spots

eris — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 04:15:06 GMT

http://www.evidentcrimescene.com

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Oops...

bstring — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:23:46 GMT

My bad... I was trying to make a post about the mad science tribe that jaqueline was talking about and I deleted the thread all spaced out... dumb dumb dumb me. sorry sorry sorry. I need to take a nap...
B-

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Google VS Evil

bstring — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:38:12 GMT

Google vs. Evil

The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business.

By Josh McHugh

Life used to be so much easier for Sergey Brin. In the autumn of 1998, he and Larry Page unleashed Google with a clear mission: Help computer users find exactly what they want on the Internet. Newbies flocked to the site, grateful for a simple search engine that was both powerful and intuitive. More sophisticated techies came to appreciate Google's computational elegance and its willingness to shun the "portal" model that crammed ecommerce down their throats. Within months, Google became one of the most popular sites on the Web - and not long after that, "Google" became a verb. Today, Internet users spend about 15 million hours a month on the site. Google.com logs more than 28 million visitors each month, nearly as many as Yahoo! and MSN. Nearly four out of five Internet searches happen on Google or on sites that license its technology.

Google owes its swelling popularity to deft algorithms that quickly divine what's useful on the Web. But there's more to it than that. At Google, purity matters. Over the years, Brin and Page have resisted pressure to run banners, opting instead for haiku-like text ads and unintrusive sponsored links. They've taken a stand against pop-ups and pop-unders and refused ads from sites they consider to be overly negative. All the while, they've stubbornly kept the Google homepage concise and pristine. On just a faint whisper of a marketing campaign, the company pulled in an estimated $70 million last year (a third from licensing fees and the rest from ads).

The Google strategy appeals to every engineer's sense of The Way It Should Be. Build the best entry in the science fair. Do not tart it up. Do not make it more clever than it needs to be.

But a funny thing is happening on the way to Internet adulthood - Google's awkward teen years. The company's growth spurt has spawned a host of daunting questions that no data-retrieval system can easily answer. Should Google play ball with repressive foreign governments? Refuse to link users to "hate" sites? Punish marketers who artificially inflate site rankings? Fight the Church of Scientology's attempts to silence critics? And what to do about the cache, Google's archive of previously indexed pages? In April, the German national railroad threatened legal action to remove an obsolete site containing sabotage instructions.

Most major companies refer to a detailed code of corporate conduct when considering such policy decisions. General Electric devotes 15 pages on its Web site to an integrity policy. Nortel's site has 34 pages of guidelines. Google's code of conduct can be boiled down to a mere three words: Don't be evil.

Very Star Wars. But what does it mean?

"Evil," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "is what Sergey says is evil."

Of the Google triumvirate, Schmidt makes sure the company stays on course financially and strategically; Page keeps busy in the R&D lab, cranking out new features; and the 29-year-old Brin, in his role as Google's conscience and head policymaker, spends his days gripping the moral tiller - and in so doing, imposes his worldview on everyone else.

That puts Brin at the flashpoint of most of the major Internet-related controversies. He knows his decisions have far-reaching consequences. He feels the pressure that attends Google's growing power. "I do get fairly stressed," Brin says. "I'd like to feel a little less scrutinized."

Google has succeeded by adhering to one, pure principle: Do good by users. Now, for the first time in its history, Google is facing rifts between what's good for users and what's good for Google. And Sergey Brin is finding that purity just doesn't scale.

II.

Don't be evil. Brin has had to refer back to those three words quite a bit over the past year. Governments, religious bodies, businesses, and individuals are all bearing down on the company, forcing Brin to make decisions that have an effect on the entire Internet. "Things that would normally be side issues for another company carry the weight of responsibility for us," Brin says.

In March, lawyers representing the Church of Scientology requested that Google stop linking to a Norwegian anti-Scientology site called Operation Clambake. The church claimed the site, xenu.net, displayed copyrighted Scientology content and that by providing links to the information, Google was in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Much to the dismay of many First Amendment fans, Google caved, removing the offending pages from its index.

In May, Anita Roddick, the outspoken British founder of the Body Shop, blasted Google in her blog for yanking a text ad for her site. Google's explanation: Roddick had called actor John Malkovich a "vomitous worm" in her blog, violating a Google policy against accepting ads for sites that are "anti-" anything. After Roddick protested, Google offered to reinstate the ad in exchange for a promise from Roddick that she would remove the Malkovich reference from the first page of her site. When she refused, Brin had a decision to make: Should he give in and accept Roddick's money, or stand by his principles? He chose his principles.

Three months later, Daniel Brandt, who runs google-watch.org, attacked PageRank, the algorithm at the heart of Google's vaunted system, accusing the company of being unfair and undemocratic. Brandt urged the FTC to investigate Google and regulate it as a public utility - as a company that, in effect, controls access to the Internet's natural resources. The mainstream press tended to dismiss Brandt as a webmaster spurned by a low Google ranking, but in the online forums and weblogs, many agreed with his assertion. As far as search engines go, Google has become the only game in town.

Then in the first week of September, Brin found himself pulled into matters of foreign policy. He received several emails from users telling him that the Chinese government, worried about political dissent in the weeks before the 16th Chinese Party Congress, had shut down access to the site. "Our Chinese traffic was down by a factor of five," Brin says. "We were blocked."

Brin was no expert on international diplomacy. So he ordered a half-dozen books about Chinese history, business, and politics on Amazon.com and splurged on overnight shipping. He consulted with Schmidt, Page, and David Drummond, Google's general counsel and head of business development, then put in a call to tech industry doyenne Esther Dyson for advice and contacts. Google has no offices in China, so Brin enlisted go-betweens to get the message to Chinese authorities that Google would be very interested in working out a compromise to restore access. "We didn't want to do anything rash," Brin says. "The situation over there is more complex than I had imagined."

Four days later, Chinese authorities restored access to the site. How did that happen? For starters, the Chinese government was deluged with outcries from the nation's 46 million Internet users when access to Google was cut off. "Internet users in China are an apolitical crowd," says Xiao Qiang, executive director of New York-based Human Rights In China. "They tend to be people who are doing well, and they don't usually voice strong views. But this stepped into their digital freedom."

The quick workaround: Chinese authorities tweaked the national firewall, making the new Google China different from the site that was turned off. Today, Chinese who use Google to search on terms like "falun gong" or "human rights in china" receive a standard-looking results page. But when they click on any of the results, either their browsers are redirected to a blank or government-approved page, or their computers are blocked from accessing Google for an hour or two. "They have a new mechanism that can block the results of certain searches," Brin says. Did Google help China find or obtain the filtering technology? "We didn't make changes to our servers" is all he'll say.

In late October, a report by two Harvard researchers revealed that Google had begun filtering its own servers to block users in Germany, France, and Switzerland from accessing sites carrying material likely to be judged racist or inflammatory in each country. Neither Brin nor anyone else at Google will talk about about the preemptive self-censoring moves in Europe.

In the wake of these international incidents, members of Google's loyal, tech-savvy constituency began to question the company's motives. "I am a little on the fence about Google's latest actions," wrote Brian Osborne, a staff writer for Geek.com, a news site. "On one hand, I understand Google's stance that it must remain in compliance with German and French laws. Nevertheless, Google is putting itself on a very slippery slope."

III.

"What is this?" asks a visitor squinting at the form he must sign before proceeding to the cafeteria at Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters. "An NDA? To have lunch?"

The receptionist shrugs. "This is Google," she says. "They're crazy that way."

The Googleplex, contrary to almost every written account of the place, is hardly a haven of easygoing geek whimsy. The cafeteria is adorned with a tie-dyed banner, but the Google employees aren't humming any Dead songs. Most of them appear deadly serious. Brin's second-floor office overlooks a courtyard festooned with empty hammocks. A book about Enron rests on his coffee table.

Brin's designation as Google's policy maven is relatively new. He, the big thinker, and Page, the mad scientist, complemented each other and shared nearly every role in Google's early years. "Larry was always the driver," says Scott Hassan, who did much of the programming for the original Google. "A big part of his role was going around and yelling 'Why can't it do this? Why isn't this working?'" Brin would sit next to Hassan and watch him write code, pointing out errors and taking an occasional turn at the keyboard.

The frenetic Page looked at all the popular engines at the time and decided they were going about search the wrong way. By relying on HTML code - meta tags as well as page text - they would bring back all sorts of irrelevant information and open themselves up to massive manipulation by webmasters looking to increase their own rankings. Brin took Page's observation and ran with it. He figured the best way around the problem was to harness the vast repository of human judgments already preserved on the Internet in the form of hyperlinks. "Most people search for local maximums - like figuring out how to get the best car, the best immediate situation," Hassan says. "Sergey is always searching for global maximums."

By 2001, Google's breakneck growth convinced Page and Brin it was time to establish a more rigid structure. Page handed over the CEO title to Schmidt and became copresident with Brin. The move freed up Page to focus on developing his knack for product development (as a child, he crafted a printer out of spare parts and Lego blocks). Brin's passion for the big picture made him the natural choice to spend time on Google's growing role in the world.

Which means Brin's views on politics and policy matter quite a bit. Not that he's willing to talk. He tells me he listens to NPR on his morning drive to work. I think Democrat and ask about his voter affiliation. He says he votes across party lines. Independent? He smiles and tells me there's no easy shortcut toward figuring out how he comes to his decisions about good and evil. And even if there was, he wouldn't let me in on it. If I succeed in figuring out exactly what he considers good and evil, people who don't care about Google users might start gaming him the way they try to game his search engine.

Born in Moscow and raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC, Brin grew up listening in on conversations at the dinner parties thrown by his father, a math professor, and his mother, a NASA scientist. Talking about his decisions and the values he holds most dear, Brin chooses his language carefully, but one word he repeatedly comes back to is "useful." And while Google's policy decisions over the past year look a bit haphazard at first glance, they begin to make more sense in a worldview where usefulness is the paramount virtue.

Aside from the indisputable goodness of causing hard-line Communist Party officials to say the word "Google" to one another for a few days, it's difficult to say on which side of the good-evil line the company's China resolution falls. Brin seems at peace with how it all turned out. "Political searches are not that big a fraction of the searches coming out of China," he says. "You want to look at the total value picture that a search engine like Google brings and think of all that it's used for."

But Xiao Qiang, the activist, thinks the company should have taken a firmer stand. "Ultimately, China's state censorship mechanism will have to submit to this growing demand for freedom from Chinese netizens," Xiao says. "It's important to protect integrity, particularly for an Internet firm."

On the same day that China blocked access to Google, it also flipped the switch on AltaVista. AltaVista issued a defiant statement to the media and went on to list several ways to access the site. Months later, AltaVista is still blocked. Brin figures that by meeting China halfway, Google remained available - and useful - to visitors and also preserved its advertising revenue there. "You have to look at the total value picture," he says.

What about the Scientology mess? Didn't Google give in too easily? Jennifer Urban, a fellow at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and a member of Chilling Effects, an organization formed to document attempts to stifle speech on the Internet, says that from a legal standpoint, Google's hands were tied. "To qualify for safe harbor protection from liability, they really have to err on the side of taking down the link," Urban says.

In fact, Google didn't fold entirely. After consulting with Brin, Kulpreet Rana, Google's head of IP, found a way that Google could comply with the law without letting the Scientologists erase their critics from the Internet. The solution: When Google gets a request to remove a link under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA Section 512, it substitutes a link to a form on the Chilling Effects' site. The form contains the Web address of the page in question, and anyone still interested in the site can direct their browser to the address.

Does abiding by the letter of a bad and flimsy law absolve Google from charges that it squashed free expression? Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is certain that a vigorous legal challenge would put an end to the steady flow of Section 512 filings Google receives but admits she doesn't expect Google to devote its resources to such a broad fight. And while some cheered Google's workaround as evidence of a rebellious bit of payback - a small point scored against the enemies of unfettered speech - the move is another instance of Brin choosing the path of usefulness over a righteous crusade.

IV.

If Brin's code of good and evil permits the company to negotiate with sovereign governments and allows for some legal meddling from unpopular religions, there is no wiggle room - no gray area whatsoever - when it comes to those who attempt to subvert the power of Google to their own commercial ends. One thing Brin is sure of: On the side of evil lies trickery.

I ask Brin to imagine, for a moment, running his company's evil twin, a sort of anti-Google. "We would be doing things like having advertising that wasn't marked as being paid for. Stuff that violates the trust of the users," he says, describing a site that sounds not unlike the pay-for-placement search site Overture. "Say someone came looking for breast cancer information and didn't know that some listings were paid for with money from drug companies. We'd be endangering people's health."

The anti-Google might also be more amenable to the growing business of "optimization," the altering of Web sites so that they rank higher in search engine results. For a fee, there's help for a Dallas plumber who's unhappy that his site is on the 17th page of results when someone types "Dallas plumber" into Google. An optimizer will tweak the site in such a way that boosts it to, say, the 3rd page of results.

To pull this off with Google, an optimizer needs to understand how the company's search mechanism works. Google uses 100 or so closely guarded algorithms to determine its search results. The best known of the lot is called PageRank, which allocates relevancy to a page according to the number and importance of pages linked to it, the number and importance of pages linked to each of those pages, and so on. One ploy is to create "link farms," in which an optimizer gets clients to link to one another, racking up relevancy points. In general, optimizers make a living by guessing what Google regards as important. The way Brin sees it, the optimizers are co-opting Google's bond of trust with its users. He regards optimizers the way a mother grizzly might regard a hunter jabbing at her cub with a stick.

Every month, when Google updates its index and its mix of algorithms, it rakes a disruptive claw across the optimizers' systems. In the industry, the monthly shuffle is known as the Google Dance, and Brin doesn't mind letting on that if Google ends up dancing all over the optimizers, so much the better. "When we change and improve our technology, things get shuffled around," Brin says, "and sometimes it has a disproportionate effect on optimization sites."

Consider the case of Bob Massa, a former solid oak dining room furniture salesman who lives in Oklahoma City and runs SearchKing, an optimization company he started in 1997. Last summer, Massa received a rare gift from Google in the form of the Google Toolbar, a software program that lets users perform searches without going to Google.com. More important for Massa, the Toolbar shows the approximate PageRank, on a scale of one to ten, of whatever page a user is visiting. It was the first time since Brin and Page were in grad school that they'd shared so much technical information. After years of watching Google's every move like an Etruscan high priest trying to augur divine intent from cloud formations, Massa had a piece of the goods. On August 9, Massa started selling optimization based on PageRank.

After the Google Dance of September 20, most of Massa's customers suddenly found themselves in a heap at the very bottom of Google's 3 billion site index. It seems that the improvements Google had made included a severe downgrade of sites with links to SearchKing. Massa's customers, needless to say, were very, very unhappy. "Everyone thinks I'm the biggest idiot in the world for making Google mad," Massa said in October.

He filed suit a few weeks later, charging that Google downgraded his customers' scores in a deliberate attempt to put him out of business. The suit asks for an injunction forcing Google to restore the scores to pre-Dance levels, and seeks $75,000 in damages. "It's a classic good versus evil thing," says Massa, turning Brin's framework back on Google itself. "I knew they wouldn't like it. I didn't think they'd go so far as to wipe out all these little people."

The day Massa's suit was filed, the reaction from the Slashdot crowd and most other forums was predictably vociferous, with posters stumbling over themselves to craft metaphors painting Massa as a criminal suing his victim. But gradually, a surprising number of people, while careful not to look as though they were defending Massa, began tagging the search engine as a Google-opoly. It's hard to sympathize with a David as parasitic as Massa, but Slashdotters tend to be uneasy with Goliaths of any stripe, especially when their methods are kept secret.

And the real problem with Massa is that he's simply the termite Brin is able to see. There are thousands more behind the wall, invisibly boring away at the very structure of Google's house. "It's easy to become overly obsessed with those kinds of things," Brin admits.

It would make things a lot easier for Brin if the world's webmasters would just act as though his site didn't matter, but that's not human nature. There's no way around it - as long as Google remains the search engine of choice, the arms race between Google coders and the hordes of optimizers will go on.

V.

As proficient as Google is at revealing information, Brin is adept at keeping key morsels under wraps. In a way, that makes a lot of sense. Although the obvious image of Google is one of accumulation, the essence of data retrieval is just the opposite. Google is about division and subtraction, narrowing down billions of choices before revealing the most promising. Brin's world isn't as simple as visible equals good, hidden equals evil. Google's effectiveness as a search tool depends largely on how well it's able to shroud the site's inner workings from the commercial interests that clutter so much of the Internet today.

But here's the thing: If Brin thinks his job has become more difficult over the past year, it may soon become near impossible. In September, at the height of the China controversy, Google legal eagle Drummond spotted an article about the prospect of a Google IPO, which, the story said, might be the spark to ignite the dormant public offerings market. Drummond forwarded the story with some sardonic comments. In his office, Brin tries to find the email for me but can't. He notes the irony in that, and goes on to paraphrase the note: "Oh, OK, now we're going to reform the Chinese government - and on top of that, we're going to fix Wall Street."

Schmidt claims the company is in no rush to go public, but his appointment and the hiring of CFO George Rayes last August were unmistakable steps in that direction. When the IPO comes, it will bring riches - and more problems.

As a private company, Google has one master: users. As a public company, there are shareholders to worry about. And more than happy users, shareholders want ever-greater profits. Thus far, Brin and Page have succeeded in standing up to pressures that might compromise Google and the user experience. Google's influential stand against pop-up ads extends beyond its own domain - the company rejects advertisers whose links take Google users to pages that feature pop-ups. (AOL followed suit in October, announcing its own pop-up moratorium.) But when Google becomes a public company, shareholders might force the site to take a more amenable position, if the price is right. After all, for several years, Yahoo! refused to accept anything but fast-loading banner ads, claiming that it was looking out for users. That policy lasted until right about the time that the company's stock price began to cave.

Such pressure could cause Brin to rethink other policies, like his decision to refuse all alcohol and tobacco advertising. The fact that Google accepts advertising for adult content sites is an intriguing commentary on Brin's morality: Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not. It's a policy that would become progressively harder to defend were Google to go public. Then there's the Google cache to consider. Today's users love having access to a warehouse of information that was once published on the Internet but has since disappeared. Some information goes away for a reason, though. The cache could get Google in trouble, and Brin & Co. could soon find themselves facing all sorts of libel, defamation, or copyright lawsuits.

Increased competition may also cause Brin to do other things he's loath to do. So far, Google has gotten by without much in the way of competition from the other Internet superpowers. But in May, Yusuf Mehdi, the head of MSN, said he views Google as "more of a competitor than a partner" in the effort to become the default homepage on millions of browsers. What if, as Google.com solidifies its position as the focal point of the Internet, Yahoo! and AOL begin to rethink the millions in licensing fees they pay to what has become a top competitor? Brin may be forced to make the kind of concessions that he's thus far reserved for international governments.

The utilitarian manner in which Google has achieved its success has made it a sentimental favorite among the code-parsing set. Tech-community sites like Slashdot are almost uniformly pro-Google. Those with the temerity to bring lawsuits against Google ultimately feel the burn of online flames, watching their servers wither under the quasi-zealous wrath of thousands of engineers defending one of their own. But as Google is forced to make more concessions to realpolitik, its bonds with that idealistic constituency will inevitably continue to fray.

And without any sort of technological lock-in, it would be very easy for Google's visitors to simply start using other search engines. Fast Search & Transfer, based in Norway, boasts a 2.1 billion-page index at www.alltheweb.com, and its search engine works as quickly as Google's. What's more, it does a complete crawl of the Internet every 7 to 11 days compared with Google's 28 days. What if an influential group of politically active netizens makes a rousing case for boycotting Google on the grounds that it is anti-free speech and in cahoots with repressive governments? How long can a hugely powerful company that plays its decisions so close to the vest and refuses to justify itself publicly count on the devotion of the average information-hungry Web user?

It's inevitable that a company of Google's size and influence will have to compromise on purity. There's a chance that, in five years, Google will end up looking like a slightly cleaner version of what Yahoo! has become. There's also a chance that the site will be able to make a convincing case to investors that long-term user satisfaction trumps short-term profit. The leadership of the Internet is Sergey Brin's to lose. For now, at least, in Google we trust.

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evil or madness...

morph — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 01:07:28 GMT

which begat which??

is evil inherently insane and thus mad?

or does one go mad and possibly evil?

inquiring minds would like to know.

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image

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:36:47 GMT

Image is important when you are the figure head to an evil organization!

Do you want to portray yourself with physical quirks?
* shaving off all the hair on your head
* developing a facial scar
* losing a limb and replacing it with a hook or bionic limb (I recommend the bionic limb).
* carrying around a favorite pet
* wearing all black, or perhaps some sort of flashy body armor all the time
* eye patch... or keeping some sort of your face always hidden in some way (mask?)
* some super duper new-fangled form of transportation that you always use (read this as hover chair.. .a segway wouldn't command the respect you need).
* always wearing sunglasses or some other device that doesn't allow other people to look you in the eye
* using a venitlator (this may work in convincing your enemies you are weak... when infact you do not need the ventilator... pretty cool idea)

Is being terrifying, different, and slightly freakish an important part of evil science? What can be gained by looking like an average citizen? What are the pros and cons of different self-images?

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BARCODES!!!

bstring — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 21:36:59 GMT

for those of you not blessed enough to be in my FAKEID tribe here is something to keep you busy...

http://turbulence.org/Works/swipe/barcode.html

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Hacking News Stations...

bstring — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:28:53 GMT

This is a hilarious story I just saw in a friends livejournal.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8191
Inspiring...
B-

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Just a warning...

bstring — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:39:08 GMT

I am god online, don't fuck with me.
B-$tring @
www.dis.org

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Funding

davandal — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:48:57 GMT

As an Evil Scientist a time will come where funding will become an issue. Sure, it might not be a problem right now, but expenses come along and things get out of hand. And let me be the first to say, "Mom, can I borrow eight-hundred-million dollars so I can build my underground lair?" rarely works. Parents and Family in general are usually good for about one or two nuclear missiles, but after that most are tapped.

Let's evaluate some of the expenses here, your lair, your lab, weapons, transportation and a lifestyle worthy of the leader of the whole known planet. These things all cost money and that's an issue.

With all that in mind, I thought I would give you all some ideas. Understand, I already have my lair floating right outside the earths orbit and as soon as I complete my rail gun I shall level some worthless country such as Australia and you will all bow to me. So I am happy to offer you my assistance.

There are many routes an Evil Scientist can take to gain funding. And if "Get a job" comes to mind for any one you are a fool. Explain to me how one plans to establish global domination if half your resources go to rent and you still have bills beyond that? No, you need to see things on a larger scale, that's why I am here.

Possibilities

1: Syndicated or Organized Crime
Me, I have a flare for the dramatics, and the Italians, Russians and Mexicans have all shown us that this method works, it both estblishes control of an area and brings in large ammounts of money. The problem with this is it's a full time job, you have to manage your underlings, let people be boss of areas and bleh, it never works. In the long run you lose sight of the prize and become another crimelord, later to be killed, left laying there in a pool of cocaine mixed blood.

2: Religion, Set up a cult and let them give you thier money.
This plan will work for a reasonable period of time. The sheep love to hear tales of a new savior, messiah or chance at a new life. With a little imagination and a few henchmen it's not hard to get people to sign over thier life savings to the 'Church of the next Millinium.' The problems here are people want to see the messiah on occasion, taking you away from work. And Jesus, let's just say Jesus doesn't like anyone else getting his money, so your going to get attention, sooner or later that turns to government attention. One thing leads to another, and you are the next David Koresh, if you plan to go this route, I recommend having a plan for the end, make sure you go out in a dramatic fashion, if not, then at least have lots of Jim Jones kool-aid on hand.

3: Education, Professor or Professional Student.
Aaah, the clasic route. This, honestly, is the ideal situation. You teach students the basics of how to make LSD or MDMA during the day and you spend your nights with your real work. Lap costs are tossed out the window as you have the schools facilities at your disposal. The problems here are simple, too many people pay too much attention to what you do. Weather it's one of your associates whose trying to make a name for themselves, or worse yet, the nosey student. This leads to one thing, death, you have to have someone killed, then someone starts asking around, you need to have them killed and it goes on and on. Sure, it sounds great, you have lots of extra bodies to experiment with but sooner or later your henchmen don't have any free time because they are too busy disposing of corpses.

4: Incorporate yourself
Now we have all "Accidently" ran across that formula that increases ones genitals to twice thier natural size, or the pill that re-closes the hyman. You could sell these things, they would make money. Sure, I know, I believe the same as you, if they were smart they would figure these things out for themselves, but sometimes sheep need to be led to food. The problems here are simple, the FDA starts paying attention to your work, people's parents did messed up drugs as they were growing up and thier screwed up DNA causes them side-effects on your creation. It's a good idea, but it could lead to a lot of court time and un-needed attention from the government, I recommend against it, but it's up to you.

5: Government Grant
Got a syringe and a monkey? Your all set for a govermnent grant. Fill out the form, send a picture of you injecting the monkey, make up some story about how your making a formula that will make the americans supreme and bam, the money rolls in. And for a few years this is great; year 1 passes"Look the Monkey is still alive," Year 2 "Still alive," year 3 "Monkey died, need more money" and so on. This will work for about the term of a presidency, as soon as a democrat gets back in office tho, sheesh, they actually want to use the countrys money for the country and they cut your funding.

6: Investments and Insider Trading
Martha Stewart was on the right track here. She had her work well in progress, a Camera, Recorder or DNA Sampler in every home. She had enterprised and was well placed for global domination. Her secret was not only the fact that she was selling her experiments to every home, but also she was doing some smart investing. The problems here are obvious, people see you making lots of money, they get involved. And before she could have all the people killed, news got out and now she's got issues. But when this is all over, with her deployment we could be calling Earth "Martha-Land" So keep your eyes on these developments.

Mix and Match, combine two, whatever works for you. If your smart and planning ahead, you'll keep certain elements in your plan for global domination. Style is one of these, I mean, after you take over the world have you thought about your perfect race? Who will suffer and do the jobs no one wants, who will be the slaves and who will be your people.

Also, make sure your plans are attractive to the public, if you setup a cult make the "Holy Land" someplace like Amsterdam or Hawaii, a place people want to go. If you Incorporate yourself make a product people will buy or use, no one needs a remote control dinosaur, regardless of how well it hides your survailance equipment. Above all, don't forget your overall goal, keep your eye on the prize.

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Axis of Evil

SummerSaharSupaStar — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 02:12:48 GMT

Axis of Evil by John Cleese
Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name.

"Right. They are just as evil . . . in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils . . . best at being evil . . . we're the best."

Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded that they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil.

"They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"An axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussien. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and a secret handshake. Ours is wickedly cool."

International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the "Axis of Somewhat Evil," forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the "Axis of Occasionally Evil," while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally Disagreeable."

With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the "Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics." Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the"Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America," while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the "Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick."

"That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell

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Stalking

bstring — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:23:05 GMT

http://www.searchlores.org/imagesta.htm
Enemy tracking
Stalking trough images

The ban of modern digital cameras

Try searching for images using an arrow like img_0022.jpg or, as Jeff pointed out some days ago on one of ours messageboards, use img_1449.jpg instead.

Canon ixus uses that kind of file naming (http://www2.goldfisch.at/knowledge/245). A DV camera, on the other hand, would name everything DVxxxxx, where x is a digit, not a description of what you shoot.

But we are not yet finished... as e pointed out, not only it is, which such a name, a Canon picture but it has been uploaded by means of direct tapping of the memory card into Windows, not through the Zoombrowser program that comes with the camera. The Zoombrowser converts the file name from IMG_xxxx.JPG (living in folders of the serially numbered format %%%CANON on the CF card)
into another format,
xxx_xxx.jpg
which is another kind of serial number, living in date-formatted folders on the HD.

Each digital camera has it's own naming convention. For example, a Minolta Z1 baptizes all pictures PICTXXXX.JPG (XXXX = consecutive ascending numbers), so if you search for PICT0022.JPG or for PICT1449.JPG (respecting Jeff's original finding), you will find (a lot of) MINOLTA pictures on the web.

Now, I hear you all cry loud, "why should we care?"

Because you can use this for STALKING purposes...

As DQ pointed out: Just have a look at the EXIF data from the jpg file. Some cameras have a watermarking feature which is quite nice for stalking purposes. If you were so silly to enter your name into the firmware of the Canon camera, for instance, all fotos taken with it will carry your name, unless (what you should do in that case) you reformat the fotos or strip the EXIF data away.

And, as Jeff pointed out, those automatic filenames give up alot in some cases... One example:
***** ANSI SECTION *****

00000006: JFIF
00000017: DExif
000000A4: Canon
000000AA: Canon PowerShot A100
000000CF: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
000000EB: 2004:
000000F3: :07 16:
00000121: 0210
000001D5: 0100
00000295: 2004:
0000029D: :06 16:
000002A9: 2004:
000002B1: :06 16:
00000439: :PowerShot A100 JPEG
00000455: Firmware Version 1.
000005C9: 0100
00000619: Exif
00000669: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
00000685: 2004:
0000068D: :07 16:
000006A3: 0210
000006F1: 0100
Canon Powershot A100; taken on the 6th; Firmware 1; - no watermarks in photoshop; no names in properties
Now you know what and how to look for things, in any OTHER automated named images...

As always, on the deep deep web.

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Recruiting

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:43:59 GMT

The Staff

There are few options to consider here. It is of course possible to mix and match; however, one should always remember to consider overall appeal and try not to combine radically different styles. It is essential to keep support staff to a minimum. The point is that even in isolation a scientist may need some help, but no Evil Scientist is trying to run a major research lab. Security is also a major concern. Keeping tabs on a trusted henchman or a couple of automatons is one thing, managing a slew of underlings can become trying as they will invariable start demanding things like health care and pensions. Can you really be bothered dominating the world and handling such trivialities? Bearing this fact in mind any of the following can be used for that extra bit of support.

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Automatons: In a modern lab these will almost certainly be a major component of the support staff. Various robots to handle sample retrieval, perform experiments and keep tabs on intruders are always welcome. Moreover, this is one case where numbers aren't necessarily a hindrance. In the antique lab automatons are somewhat harder to come by. The best one is likely to find is the odd brass clockwork robot or semi-autonomous mechanical contraption.

Golems: These fall into two categories: the intelligent and the moronic. Both are usually created from inanimate matter, whether base or organic. Intelligent golems are essentially artificial people who were created to help out in the lab (or perhaps just to show that the lab could do it). Androids as well as intelligent reanimated corpses and artificial intellects (i.e. conscious computers) fall into this category. This kind of assistant can be very handy, as they tend to show childlike devotion and are often gifted with exceptional strength or intelligence. The downside is that they often resent either being created or being treated like indentured servants, and their useful traits can then make them very threatening. Moronic golems are usually efforts to create intelligent golems that went awry. When they are docile they are basically zombies who can be useful in gross physical activities but not much else. When they are emotional they are usually far more dangerous than they are worth. We highly recommend the inclusion of some kind of off switch (perhaps a hidden explosive in the brain equivalent?) in any golem. However, make sure that nobody else learns about this. If someone else does happen to find out you can rest assured that the heads of your golems are going to be flying off at every inopportune moment.

Henchmen: While the evil scientist may not be a social butterfly he need not shun all human company. A few close friends come in very handy - both as confidants and as accomplices. Usually they aren't quite as smart, wealthy, famous, or in any way equal to their scientist friend; however, they may have some unique skill (particular contacts, the ability to pick locks, make grilled cheese sandwiches, etc). These should usually only be used in the singular unless as part of the crew of some vessel. While their loyalty and intelligence make them usually more useful than their idiotic namesakes these same characteristics make them more dangerous. They are often smart enough to realize when they are being employed in some immoral undertaking. Moreover, they may sabotage some critical enterprise if they think they are actually helping their friend.

Idiotic Henchmen: These come in a number of forms but usually are beings deformed (usually both physically and mentally) by birth or accident who are dependent on the scientist for their very existence. As such they are willing, and often eager, to be of great assistance to him. Unfortunately, they are usually rather cowardly and almost always intellectually limited. They can be employed in a number of unsavory tasks but usually cause more harm than good when asked to undertake more complex schemes. Moronic golems created from already living parts (beast-men for instance) also fall into this category. Think Igor.

Regular Folk: There is no reason that a Evil Scientist can't employ regular people to assist him just like any other scientist. Such individuals can be lured either with pay, offer of some intellectual reward or through more coercive means. In all cases a more important division is in how much they know. Those who realize the ultimate aim of the research they are involved in probably belong more in the realm of henchmen as they presumably share some of their employers goals. By contrast, most of the individuals in this group are laboring on some task whose purpose is not immediately evident and thus have no idea that they are part of a larger scheme.

Supernatural Agents: These are almost more trouble than they are worth. The amount of work you are going to put into controlling a lesser entity for anything more than disposing of the odd nuisance is absolutely not worth the gain when an out-of-work Hell's Angel (and let's face it, they're all out of work) can do the job as easily. And any powerful entities? Trouble. Sure the demons in the movies always get tricked by some quick witted good guy lawyer, but that's the movies. These are smart critters and and sooner or later you're going to get screwed by them. Our advice is to stick to technology and allow the new agers to go dance around trees. For most cases we'd place aliens in this realm as well. They are fine as experimental subjects, but making deals with them for service is a mistake.

Supervisors/spies/soldiers: There is often a time in any evil scientist's career when he is forced to work under an evil dictator/madman. While this can be handy for resource problems and does provide a handy force of assistants, it is generally more of a hindrance. Your laborers are usually loyal more to their leader's cause than to you and they are constantly going to be spying to report back to him. If you have to work in this kind of environment we highly recommend that you develop some kind of technology to subvert their loyalties.

A Word About Uniforms

This is a relatively minor stylistic point but one worth mentioning. If you are going to have more than a few minions see that their style is homogenous. When your henchmen start showing up to work in ripped jeans and t-shirts you might as well hang up your hat. We suggest lots of black, skull detailing is also as plus.

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Language Patterns

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:07:34 GMT

Reversing language patterns
I have randomly taken from today post two snippets :-)
Now tell me, this one:

man..could ya pleeeeez send me ( if ya got it ) the Casmate crack ???
need the shit bad..gonna d/l the software directly form the casmate site..
And this one:
I subscribe to a very good service: LinkAlarm that periodically
checks the links on my pages (now well over 200 links). Do you use it?
have been written by the same person?
The answer is NO, they have been written by two different persons, but how can I be so sure? The language patterns differ, yet this could of course be intentional. You will know why, I believe, as soon as you have read the content of this page.
(*I have published the 'solution' at the bottom, in reverse order, you'll check later :-)

Well, reversing language patterns seems to be something pretty new: I could not find much on the web. So I'll try to summarize, and slowly add in this page, what I have noticed experimentally until now. I'll also teach you my own best stalking method: Fravia's stalking tablet (TM :-)
Please take note that in the following, as usual in our reversing tradition, with "target" I intend the person (and pseudo) you want to find more data about (and if possible his real identity)

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There are many 'inconscious' characteristics in someone's writings and ramblings, and contraryly to what you may think, email communication does indeed carry A LOT of clues that are as useful as the usual body language clues you costantly check when you communicate physically with someone or all the clues given by your partner's voice when you are at the telephone.
Some of these clues are of linguistical, other of grammatical and others are of what I would call 'Internettical' type... with this I mean clues that neither voice nor paper printed communication usually convoy.
Since we must start from somewhere, as first clue I would use the "gender" differences.
For gender here I do not mean that you can state if your target is a woman or a man (if you could it would be probably a pretty poor target :-)
I mean that you can state if your target uses 'male' or 'female' patterns in his communication... chances are that if he uses these patterns under one bogus identity, he'll use them under all other ones as well... :-)
Now, please, understand me correctly, because I do not want to be pulled into any useless 'gender style' discussion... and I know that many American friends are obsessed by this kind of crap (writing she/he and so on). So let's be clear: I have always been convinced that, apart from minor obvious physical differences, there is NO real difference between Women and Men, in all good or evil characteristics of our specie. Women can (and of course should, with bona pace of all species of religious idiotical fundamentalists) drive, kill, write, love, play and fight as well as any man, and anyway there are so many women with male psychological characteristics and so many men with female psychological characteristics that I believe it does not make much sense to differenciate anything between the twin parts of our race.

Yet among the few physical differences cited above is the well known fact that women give birth to children, and this, added to society pressures, common tradition, biased instruction, television crap, advertisement conditioning, you name it, makes a LOT of almost inconscious differences and can actually give us the possibility of reversing (in part) the 'gender leaning' language patterns of our target.

In other words analysing usenet style emailings you may check if your target has a more "female" or a more "male" personality basing on the following:

The male style is characterized by adversariality: put-downs, strong often contentious assertions, lengthy and/or frequent postings, self-promotion, and sarcasm (not always witty).

The female-gendered style, in contrast, has two aspects which typically are found together: supportiveness and attenuation.

Male-targets use more coarse and abusive language and seem to change their opinions slightly less often than females-targets.

Female-targets send more messages explicitly referring to other members of the group than Male-targets.

Context differences certainly may obscure or speciously highlight your results. Always work cum grano salis. In the usual context of Internet discussion groups "normal" group psychology does not apply. Group membership on usenet is very large and members do not know all others in the group (especially if there are a large number of "lurkers", people who read messages but does not write responses and therefore are invisible inside the discussion).
Morever on Usenet the task is mostly not to produce a specific result, but rather to generate ideas and discuss them.

Male-gendered targets in discussion groups use language that a) states facts without personal ownership, b) challenges group members, c) calls for explicit action, d) is argumentative, e) uses coarse and abusive language, and f) attempt to indicates the members status.

Female-gendered targets in discussion groups use a language that a) self-discloses, b) states personal ownership of opinion, c) apologizes, d) asks questions, e) uses "we" pronouns, f) responds directly to others in the group, and g) seeks to prevent or alleviate tension or arguments.

Exactly as we have a male/female differenciation, there are MANY other 'sharp edges' that you can use to stalk your target, as you will see in my tablet below.

Keep in mind that computer conversation draws from features of both written and oral discourse and as such has a whole serie of linguistic and textual patterns: Emphatic, Humorous, Informal.

Syntactic informality often takes the form of incomplete sentences and conversational cadences. For instance

"Waitamoment!... what d'you mean?"; "Hmm, I see. . ."; "Mmm, no, no... I didn't mind it..."
The informal, conversational rhythm created by the "Hmm", "Mmm" and the ellipsis is clearly intended to evoke (although through written means) spoken discourse. Similarly, , "Wouw", "Sigh", "Gulp" and "Gasp" are used occasionally to mimic vocalizations or paralinguistic features.

Another device used to mimic characteristics of speech is the textual indication of emphasis on words or phrases (present in many messages). For example, some targets OFTEN use capital letters to create the sense of oral emphasis, others *use asterisks*, others S P A C E S and some use the html tags, inside their emails, <u> for this same purpose </u>.

Such emphasis cannot be indicated in the written text using underlining or italics, because most protocols for exchanging electronic mail, don't support them yet (expect an explosion of clues as soon as colors will be commonly email exchanged :-)

All these clues depend from the alphanumeric characters of written text, that are used to evoke the emphasis of speech.

In some cases, exclamation points add oral emphasis, as in the subject line "No No! Flush it!!"

Yet there are also involontary clues:
A good stalker always takes note of how many exclamation points and how many question marks the target 'commonly' uses. There are many different patterns:
?
? (space and question mark)
??
???
? ? ? and so on
This is of course true also for commas, colons,semicolons , and (parenthesis ) that may or may not be spaced before the preceding word.
Another typical involontary clue is due to the 'typing habits' of your target. He may, for instance, often enough write 'inetresting' instead of 'interesting'; 'nuff' instead of 'enough', and so on and so on. This is of course pretty rare, yet it happens in less evident parts of the message. For instance, does your target break line
when he wants to substantiate a point? Does he write short or long sentences? Does he use tirets - like this - or rather parenthesis (like this)? And what about his emotycons? :-] is NOT :o)

Finally, does he write "i use" or "I use"? Often enough email is sent WITHOUT any automated spelling correction check whatsoever.

There are also 'comportamental" e-mail clues, for instance there are some email comments, on a thread, that at times clearly resemble those that occur in a face-to-face meeting, when a speaker turns towards and briefly addresses one of the individuals present, but without yielding the floor to that person: "What's your opinion about this, Brick?" "Hope to hear from Cal about this stuff!

This kind of attitude pattern can constitute a very STRONG clue when you try to identify a target.

Another example is when you suspect, examining the thread, the existence of private, backchannels between your target and somebody else.
Backchannels, on usenet, are nothing else than the electronic communication between two or more individuals that is not sent to the group as a whole.
This can at times be evinced from the contexts. Such messages, like whispered side conversations in a meeting, involve concerns or strategies adopted by allies on particular issues.
In this cases you may try to find out which are the 'allies' and the 'reference points' of your target inside the group and attack from those sides.
You'll VERY FREQUENTLY find this when you stalk trolls (see enemy.htm), because trolls are trollyng mostly IN ORDER to find and contact other trolls-savy.

Yet another 'comportamental' example is the interplay among MORE THAN ONE fictious identities. In Balif's example (see enemy.htm), you have seen how his target used a whole plethora of faked personalities in order to create a 'group' impression. Of course the more fictious identities you identify, the easier it is to see the common sharp edges they possess.

Thus the language of Usenet demonstrates several characteristics more typical of oral communication in an organizational setting, casual conversation or, rather, organized meetings.

In fact the syntax and word choice often evoke conversational informality, emphasis, rhythm, and even vocalizations. On the other hand, the messages may also evince characteristics of written discourse such as formal wording, careful composing and editing, and textual formatting.
A typical case is when there is a LIST of points

1) inside
2) your target's
3) email
There is also at times an interesting evidence of patterns that are a distinctively characteristic of web interaction. Many messages display ascii graphic, typographical ascii jokes, signets and subject line humor, patterns also that are very unlikely in written and oral discourse. All such patterns ca be, at times, interesting clues.
These clues and patterns reflect both the capabilities of the web and the characteristics of the group. The interactivity of oral discourse is in fact supported and encouraged on Usenet by the ability to engage in rapid exchanges and to collect and respond to embedded excerpts of previous messages. At the same time the asynchronous nature of the web and the editing capabilities of the participants' email applications allow reflection and crafting patterns more characteristic of the written discourse. The web's ability to support informal textual exchanges allow a playful relationship with the text, or to indulge in flaming.

Of course all sort of interaction, the characteristics of the individual targets, their social community, and their motherlanguage influence the particular combination of linguistic and textual characteristics that they express.

Do not underestimate the richness and complexity of email communication... as soon as you'll have learned your stalking abc you'll never miss much all the clues that the real, non virtual world gives you when you communicate.

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Now have a look at the semplified version of fravia's stalking tablet (TM):
Fravia's stalking tablet, public version 2.003, end july 1998
Target name: enemy@somewhere.com Candidate: sillybozo@that.one
Clue Definition Example Target Candidate
TICS measure whether or not the message body gives clues about frequent typing mistakes/particularities of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "inetresting enough" "'nuff said" "gimme a note" "least, but not last"

SELF verbal self-disclosure, statements by the author of the message about the author of the message: 0 = no 1=yes. "I'll trade ya shit", "I still like Netscape", "I'm an email junkie", "My hair is black" but not "My mother's hair is black" or "My cat is black"

GRAMMAR measure whether or not the message body gives clues about the education of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "the distinction between amateur and professional" "I gave him an acknowledging e-mail wave and he answered in kind " "an unjustifiable extravagance"

OPINION measure statements of the personal opinion of the message author; it had to indicate the first person directly or indirectly. 0 = no opinion was present, 1 = opinion was present. "I think lusers should be banned", "Chocolate is a favorite flavor of mine", "I love lollypops".

FACT measure statement of fact (whether or not the fact was correct), without first person reference to the message sender: 0 = no statement of fact, 1 = one or more statements of fact. "God has created the earth and Winsconsin." "The government is loaded with freeloaders." "Communists rule." But not "according to me"

KNOWLE measure whether or not the message body gives clues about the level of computer/internet knwoledge of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "operands which are addresses will get added the image base of the DLL" "get a trowaway account at any third-party service provider so as to throw a bulk mailbomb past his first line blocks. The account will cease to exist in short order, but you'll have already tested his precious defending bots"

BIAS measure whether or not the message body gives clues about characteristical idiosyncrasies of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "women always make the best trollees as they have a logical reasoning capacity of zilch" "the mark of a gullible American that will almost certainly believe anything you tell him"

APOLOGY measure any form of apology (implied or direct): 0 = no apology present; 1=slight apology; 2 = clear apology. "I wanted to apologize" "I am sorry I said what I said", "I take my words back", "please accept my apologies."

QUESTION measure the presence of questions: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "How can I ban him from this group?", "Where can I find Softice?."

ACTION measure any call for action on the part of the reader: 0 = no, 1 = main content of the message. "Visit this URL" "Write your congressman." "Go see this movie."

CHALLENGE measure the presence of a challenge, dare, or bet: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "Demonstrate that you can hack that backdoor!" "I challenge you to support that statement." "Let's see if you can do that."

FOREIGN measure whether or not the message body gives clues about the mother language of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "what the cuckoo are you saying?" (german) "I am conscient " (french) "Settember" (italian)

COALIT1 measure degree of agreement or disagreement with another person or statement previously appearing in the group discussion. 0 = no reference to another person's message, 1 = mild response to other persons on the group, 2 = strong response to other persons on the group. "I really agree with Bertie." "I think Bertie and Godzill's ideas suck."

COALIT2 measure the use of the first person plural pronouns (we, us) towards others on the group 0 = no, 1 = yes. "We are dealing with a DLL here" "We seem to be able to takle these guys well." "Good for us!"

FLAME1 measure levels of argumentativeness of a message: 1 = positive, neutral or no opinion to 6 = hostile: profanity, tirades, to 10 = ignoring completely the original issue. "I have to take issue with you on that one." "Only a real dork would hack such a stupid server."

FLAME2 measure levels of the use of coarse or abusive language in a message: 0 = no abusive language to 10 = abusive aggression about content and persons in and out of the group. "I can only say that you must be a real asshole." "F*uck you." "You sure do go to great lengths to make yourself looking like an asshole."

FLAME3 measure efforts to prevent or alleviate tensions or arguments in the discussion: 0 = no such efforts, 1 = tries to calm ongoing tension. "I think things are getting out of hand here. Let's cool the tirades and get back to the point."

STATUS measure whether or not the message body or header give clues about the personal status of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "WarezDood" "mwr (Master "white" reverser)" "Sysop" "ThATVerYSpEcia1Dudez" "Administrative contact: "

TIME measure the reliability of email timings: 0 = no statement possible, 10 = target always emails at 15:00 GMT See headers

GEOGRA measure the reliability of geographical clues: 0 = no statement possible, 10 = target lives in Indianapolis "July is really pretty hot this year!" (northern emisphere); "I had to call the Landrat" (Germany/Austria) "No kidding? Here in Detroit?"

Gotcha! (0=FALSE 1=TRUE)

I don't think it needs a lot of explanations, keep in mind that the PURPOSE of the above tablet is not so much to understand directly WHO is your target, but to understand if your target is in reality the one candidate you suspect. Once you have zeroed in, you'll stalk the (presumibly less protected) other PSEUDO in order to find out -if all works well- WHO is your target... and some luring techniques (and social engineering) will at that moment be quite useful, see my luring.htm section...

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A word of warning:

You found my site and you are reading this, therefore you have now a relatively "high" level of web-lore and reversing knowledge.
Until recently I kept this section of mine in a "closed" server with other mildly powerful and potentially dangerous tutorials and tools. I am now going public with my stalking lore because spamming has taken incredibly annoying proportions and I have decided to create as many powerful reversers as possible in order to tackle and destroy the commercial idiots.
Yet, as you perfectly know, knowledge can be used either for good or for evil. Knowledge, especially this kind of knowledge, is a powerful weapon. You may use it to defend yourself but you may not use it to offend innocents
I hope to have you at my side, fighting on the web for knowledge and against all commercial zombies, but I obviously cannot avoid you joining the dark side, should you want to... if you do, however, take care not to meet me.

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Equipment

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:03:11 GMT

Obviously, this list of supplies is open to alteration. Every evil scientist is going to have his own needs and every occasion is going to require slightly different equipment. However, you can't always prepare a unique kit before an outing. This is an outline of a few things that you should always have ready to take with you at a moment's notice.

A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.P.Q.R.S.T.U.V.W.X.Y.Z

Bug Repellant - It may seem like a relatively minor issue, but it's tough to remember how to operate your death ray when you are thinking about one of those really annoying bites right behind your ear. It may also cut down on nasty infections, and maybe turn off some of the huge alien bugs that eat human brains.

Camera Equipment - You don't want old Dr. Sinister to laugh at you when you tell him how big the dragon you saw was. Get it on film. You can always doctor it later if it turns out that the dragon really wasn't all that large. Probably ought to leave the video camera at home though, makes you look like a tourist.

Communication Equipment - You're going to want to be able to call someone for help if things get too rough for even you to handle. Smoke signals and satellite phones may work okay for exotic locales on earth, but you might also want to consider bringing along some more heavy duty stuff. Interdimensional pulse generators, faster-than-light EM bursters. Use your own judgement, but always remember the batteries.

Cosmetics - Sure, you may think that you don't have room for the shaving kit and contact supplies. Big mistake. Negotiations with aliens are nearly twice as likely to be productive (and prevent you from getting eaten) if you are well groomed. Cologne is probably a mistake as you never know when the scent is going to be similar to someone's favorite dish.

Drums - We're kind of ambivalent about this. If you have some hippie on your team who is going to want to play the things all the time, just leave them at home. (Or shoot him.) However, if the group can show a little restraint about getting in touch with their inner children, bring these along. Maybe with a bell or two as well. These drive a lot of ghosts (and even the odd demon) right up the wall.

Encounter Suits - Protection is what you are after here. The big plastic space suits that they wore in Outbreak may be good at scaring natives (which is a worthwhile activity in and of itself) but aren't going to deter most things with big teeth. Think metal. Lots of metal. Generally you are going to need some sort of motor to move all this metal. You're an evil scientist, come up with something good. If you can attach the guns right to the suit, so much the better. Oh, and make sure that you waterproof the thing.

The Evil Science Survival Guide - It's small and we guarantee that you have already probably forgotten some of our advice. Since you can never count on transstellar internet connections, we recommend the paper edition. Go for the vinyl backing as you don't want vampire drool ruining the thing.

First Aid Kit - Sooner or later someone is going to get hurt. Hell, people need medical care when they go to Disney World. You think there aren't going to be casualties when you start fighting zombies? You'll want all the traditional stuff, Band-Aids, rehydration packets, and anti-malarials as well as the more exotic stuff like anti-alien venom and brain transplantation equipment. Bring as much as you can carry. You'll be thankful you did when a demon rips you in half.

Formalwear - Again, you may raise your eyebrows at this. What use could a tuxedo possible serve? First of all, how much more space is it really going to take up compared to all the other crap you know you are going to fill your hovercraft with? Secondly, being an evil scientist is more than doing evil science. It is also about looking good while doing evil science and even an fat, ugly, hairy cyborg evil scientist is going to look good in a tux (well, better at least).

Garlic & Wolfsbane - Sure, the stuff may ruin your breath, but it's pretty good at keeping vampires and werewolves at bay. Supposed to control blood pressure, prevent cancer and keep bugs away too. Go for the clove necklace angle if you can, the ladies love that.

Guns - As every American knows, you should always carry lots of guns with you. The bigger the better. If you have access to cruise missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, particle beams, whatever, bring them too. Don't forget to bring along a standard ballistic gun for the silver and iron bullets.

Henchmen - You'd be amazed how bored you can get traveling to someplace to run down some evil artifact. It's always nice to have someone to play darts with. More importantly, its always nice to have someone to walk in front so they can absorb the impact of the booby traps. After all, what are friends and employees for?

Holy Symbols - These probably aren't going to be much help for evil scientists (who tend to be about as faithful as ferrets in heat). Still, it never hurts to brandish them at evil creatures of the night. At the very least they are good for dramatic poses. Bring your photographer.

Incendiary Stuff - You'd be amazed the number of creatures that dislike fire. If you decide to frighten off a band of witches with a fire and then start rubbing to sticks together, well, good luck. We recommend a little napalm. Also works well on vampires.

Iron Nails (bullets, nails, filings) - Why take you chances with steel? Demons hate this stuff. If you have a refrigerator to keep it cold, so much the better. Beside, you can rub the rust all over your hands for great blood gags.

Location Equipment - If you are trying to get some place the first thing you have to know if where you are. (Man who walk on water get wet. We really should write for a fortune cookie company.) To accomplish this you should carry all manner of GPS, widget, chronography, and navigation equipment. For dimensional and temporal travel you will probably need more advanced stuff. Of course, if you are competent enough to be undertaking such travel you already know that.

Passports, diplomatic pouches, etc. - You haven't really experienced bureaucracy until you've tried to bring your collection of preserved alien brains through customs. Make sure you have an array of forged (or better yet real stuff if you have some government official that you can blackmail) documentation to get whatever you want past the peons who have no idea about the true value of your work.

Psychic Blockers - You should probably just build these into the helmet of your encounter suit. However, since you have to go to the bathroom once in a while and don't want your henchmen to have their brains sucked, you might want to come up with a pill. Whatever you do, just make sure that you bring some form of protection. It only takes once you know.

Rations - You are going to get hungry, and if you stealth boat crashes in the Himalayas there probably isn't going to be a McDonald's around. Sure, sooner or later you are going to start eating your companions, but why hurry? Bring along plenty of peanut butter and bananas. Oh, lots of chocolate too. Mmmm, peanut butter and chocolate.

Sharp things (knives, stakes, etc.) - These come in handy for a variety of reasons although they can make it difficult to get past the metal detectors in the airport. Generally, the longer they are the more impressive. Be careful though, you don't want anyone thinking that you have a Napoleon complex.

Silver Bullets - These are just about the only sure way to kill a lycanthrope. You might also want to invest in a silver knife or two. Be careful though, too many silver accoutrements and people will start questioning your virility. Don't forget that silver bullets are also exceedingly effective against evil cowboys.

Surveillance Equipment - While your eyes are a great tool for seeing things, they don't give you a lot of warning if they see a tiger running at you. They usually just give you enough warning to soil yourself before you're toast. We highly recommend that you bring along plenty of remote sensing equipment to prevent this from happening. Tools that expand your senses (nightvision goggles for example) also come in handy, particularly for impressing natives.

Tasers - There are rare occasions when you would rather stun something than kill it. Stunguns, particularly electric tasers, are great for this. The fun of watching somebody twitch when they get hit by one is really more than half the fun.

Translation Equipment - The last thing you want is to be in desperate need of something belonging to a bunch of natives and be forced to kill them all because you can't make yourself understood. In order to avoid such an event make sure that you bring along a translator, either electronic or human. Either way, just make sure that it works. You don't want to be insulting the husband of a high priestess when you are really just asking for directions.

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Clones

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:57:33 GMT

DID MAD SCIENTISTS CLONE RICHARD SIMMONS?

LONDON - A renegade biologist announced that he not only cloned the world's first human, but that he successfully cloned Richard Simmons.

Dr. Nunzio Alti-plano, a well-known fertility expert, made the shocking announcement in London recently, claiming that a likeness of Richard Simmons - identical down to the smallest cell - is currently thriving in its crib at the doctor's secret laboratory, somewhere in the Canary Islands.

"This is an enormous breakthrough," gushed Dr. Altiplano.

"Not only have I duplicated a human being for the first time in world history, I have duplicated a great human being.

"I have set the guidelines for all future human cloning - to propagate only the best in mankind."

Altiplano, who was in London to visit Dolly the sheep, said he first hit on the idea of cloning Richard Simmons while doing sit-ups to the chatty celebrity's workout video, Sweatin' to the Oldies.

"It struck me that this was a man," explained Dr. Altiplano, "the kind of man the world needs more of. His incredible wit and sagacity made me see that there should be more men like Richard Simmons - many more.

"And I intend to make many more clones of Richard - an army of them - to help the world."

The cloning was denounced by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in England, whose members have publicly referred to Dr. Altiplano as "a madman" on more than one occasion.

"They said that Napoleon was mad," responded Dr. Altiplano. "They said Hannibal was mad, and that Caesar was maddest of them all!

"I say let time decide who is right."

- By John Thomas

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Gay-AWAY!

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:32:12 GMT

NEW SPRAY WARDS OFF GAYS -- LIKE BUGS!

By BRETT ANNISTON

CHICAGO -- Guys, are you constantly pestered by hot-to-trot homosexuals? Well, now you can ward off unwanted advances with a new spray that shoos away pesky gays like bugs!

"Simply spritz on Gay Away and even the most aggressive male suitor will suddenly stop batting his eyes and ignore you as if you weren't in the room," boasts Chicago chemist Dr. Martin Habelton, who invented the repellent and sold the idea to a manufacturer in April.

Test-marketing of the anti gay spray, which also comes in roll-on form, has been a hit with 600 heterosexual male volunteers coast to coast.

"I'm ramrod straight, but for years, gays would always approach me, even at the most macho events -- bowling tournaments, pro-wrestl-ing fights, even at a rodeo," says a 41-year-old Houston volunteer named Simeon R.

"I have no idea why they singled me out. Maybe 'cause I have a habit of whistling Bette Midler songs, I dress neatly and have that sissy-sounding name.

"It got to the point where I actually had some business cards printed up that read, 'I appreciate the interest, but I'm not gay. Please leave me alone.'

"I'd distribute them at parties and whenever I walked into a bar, just so these tooty-fruity guys would know right off the bat I wasn't one of them.

"Now, while I'm wearing Gay Away, I never get hassled."

Gay Away works much like insect repellent.

"Contrary to popular belief, insect repellents don't really 'repel' insects, they actually make you invisible to bugs by blocking their sensors. Gay Away uses the same principle," explains Dr. Habelton, who says he was inspired to invent the product because his good looks, soft-spoken manner and weak handshake have made him a "lifelong target" of homosexuals.

All males emit sexual attractants known as pheromones, that are smelled subconsciously. Homosexuals emit a slightly different version, he says.

"Many perfectly straight men send a chemically similar version -- which gays pick up as a 'vibe' and can't resist responding to," Dr. Habelton says. "Gay Away makes you invisible to this 'Gaydar' just like the Stealth Bomber is invisible to radar."

And the breakthrough will be a boon for the growing number of wimpy-looking white-collar criminals who find themselves headed for prison, he says.

"You can wear a pink jumpsuit, carry a purse and sing show tunes in the shower and your most ardent admirer will ignore you," brags Dr. Habelton.

Gay Away isn't cheap -- a 7-ounce can will retail for $45, according to the manufacturer, which plans to have it on store shelves by Christmas.

Gay-rights organizations were initially outraged at the product, some branding it "repugnant." But surprisingly, some have endorsed the spray.

"Scores of gay men are beaten savagely each year because some idiot says he was getting hit on," says a spokesman for the San Francisco-based Gay Equality Now.

"If homophobic jerks dousing themselves in this stuff cuts down gay-bashing, we're all for it."

Published on: October 31, 2002

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Brain Control

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:27:58 GMT

SCIENTISTS CREATING EVIL SUPERBRAIN TO DOMINATE WORLD!

A TEAM of evil neurosurgeons plan to surgically connect all of their brains together, creating one superbrain of astounding intelligence with which they can take over the world.

"They've already done some preliminary work on this scheme," says a source with Interpol, the international police agency. Surveillance photos of the 12 surgeons were shown at closed-door meetings of high-level lawmen at Interpol's recent General Assembly in Benidorm, Spain.

"We're looking at whether this group had any connection to the huge power blackout in the U.S. and Canada in August.

"The consensus is they probably did," he adds grimly. "And if they succeeded in disabling the power grid, there's no telling what they might do next."

The source says investigators are monitoring the activities of the scientists, who operate at a research facility in northwestern Canada. "So far we've had no proof that they're doing anything but legitimate neurological research, so we can't just move in and shut them down," he says. "But we are looking at them very closely."

Investigators believe the surgeons' plan is to "tie into the worldwide computer networks governing financial markets, international trade and the flow of information, and override those systems so that they can exert total control," says the source. "They may already have taken over at least one of the world's biggest media companies.

"We also know that they are solidifying their power by installing an army of henchmen in governments and economic organizations around the world. They have people on Wall Street, in the Tokyo stock exchange and in the World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund.

"You think it was just 'economic conditions' that had the markets flopping around like a dying fish on a dock? It was these eggheads, playing around. And they made a killing, you can be sure of that."

But investigators are encouraged by the emergence of an informant from among the scientists' force of operatives.

"We're only getting information piecemeal, since they've isolated their people so that they only have small pieces of the puzzle," he says.

"The information we do have suggests that they are working toward becoming one single, unstoppable force that can rule the world just by thinking it," he says.

"They appear to view the world as their personal plaything -- like a giant game of Risk."

Published on: November 5, 2003

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Weekly World News

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:25:45 GMT

WOMEN WITH BIG BOOBS ARE SMARTER

BIG-BOOBED gals have a new reason to stick out their chests with pride. A surprising study proves they're more intelligent than their small-breasted sisters!

The study of 1,200 women conducted by Chicago sociologists comes in the wake of a recently released report stating that blonde rocket scientists outnumber brunettes.

"Although I hate to admit it, we found that women with big busts average 10 IQ points higher than less well-endowed women," reveals lead researcher Dr. Yvonne Rossdale, herself a meager 32A.

"The myth that women with voluptuous figures are not smart should now be shelved, along with the misconception that all blondes are dumb."

Dr. Rossdale measured the busts of women in Illinois, Kansas and Ohio and then divided them into five categories: Extra-small, Small, Medium, Large and Extra-large. These categories roughly corresponded to commercially available bra sizes, A, B,C, D and DD or above.

She then gave subjects in each category a standard IQ test and found that women in the Large and Extra-large category scored an average of 10 points higher than women in the Small and Extra-small categories. Medium-sized ladies had a three- to four-point edge over the flat-chested group.

"This is a wake up call to employers to drop the notion that women with large breasts are dumb," Dr. Rossdale says.

"Rather than automatically assuming that a woman with tremendous 'hooters' belongs in the typing pool, she should be considered for the executive track."

Experts aren't sure why bigger headlights translate into more brain power.

"One theory is that the female hormone estrogen, which is responsible for breast development and is also believed to give women extra protection from heart disease, may also play a role in intelligence," Dr. Rossdale says.

American women have the largest breasts in the world and our nation's knockers have been increasing in volume with each generation. According to a recent report, the average U.S. cup size has ballooned to an impressive C.

That, the sociologists speculate, may explain why the United States leads the world in science and technology.

"Well-endowed women, many of them shyly concealing their assets behind lab coats in research and development departments across the country, could be considered America's secret weapon," the researcher observes.

The false notion that bosomy babes are dumber than those who sport teensy "mosquito bites" is probably the fault of men, the sociologists theorize.

"It may simply be that men pay less attention when a large-breasted woman speaks," suggests Dr. Rossdale.

"She could accurately explain Einstein's Theory of Relativity to him, but if he's transfixed by her cleavage, it's doubtful he'll remember a single word she said. He'll remember her as sexy but stupid."

Published on: November 27, 2003

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Arkansas Engineering Test

bstring — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:08:10 GMT

We challenge any so-called smart-ass Yankee to take this exam
administered by the University of Arkansas Engineering Department: with
vital input from the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North
and South Carolina, Missouri, Mississipi, Tennessee, Kentucky and West
Virginia!

1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree
that will support a 10-pound possum.

2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed
on blocks in your front yard? A '65 Ford Fairlane, a '69
Chevrolet Chevelle or a '64 Pontiac GTO.

3. If your uncle builds a still which operates at a capacity
of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car
radiators are required to condense the finished product?

4. A woodcutter has a chainsaw which operates at 2700 RPM. The
density of the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 470
per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree
diameter is 14 inches. How many Budweisers will be drunk before
the trees are cut down?

5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented its charge
of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage decrease
in the ozone layer?

6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers
with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch
length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine.
When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?

7. A man owns a Tennessee house and 3.7 acres of land in a
hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has five children.
Can each of his grown children place a mobile home on the man's
land and still have enough property for their electric
appliances to sit out on the front porch?

8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards down
a steep slope on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail.
Given average traffic conditions on secondary roads, what is
the probability that the truck will strike a vehicle with a
muffler?

9. A coal mine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous
Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is
issued at the beginning of the 3rd shift. How many cartons of
unfiltered Camels will be smoked during that shift?

10. At a reduction in the gene pool variability rate of 7.5%
per generation, how long will it take a town which has been
bypassed by the Interstate to breed a country-western singer?

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Anti Science

bstring — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:21:03 GMT

I know it's hard to believe, but sometimes scientists are stupid. Perhaps because President George W. Bush declared last week "Protection from Pornography Week," I spent a lot of time thinking about dubious public policies that grow out of bad science.

Uppermost in my mind was a study conducted by a limelight-loving geneticist named Eric Vilain at UCLA, who studied the brains of embryonic mice and declared he was well on the way to discovering how humans become gay and transsexual. What his team of researchers actually discovered was that the brains of male and female fetal mice were slightly different on the genetic level. And these differences preceded the period of development when the mice started producing testosterone or estrogen.

The neat part of the study, then, was discovering that gender differences in mice aren't entirely the result of hormones. That's cool; it's a great discovery and has the potential to explain a few things about humans after a great deal more research has been done. A smart, ethical scientist would emphasize that more research needs to be done before we know what any of this stuff means for humans, whose brains are infinitely more complicated than those of mice. We don't even know if these genetic differences exist in the human brain yet, and we also don't know what the differences mean in mice.

But Vilain, wanting no doubt to get his study splashed across the pages of more widely read periodicals than Molecular Brain Research, decided to creatively embellish his work. He told countless reporters that his research could explain "why we feel male or female" and that this meant "physical attraction was hardwired by the brain." He even suggested this might reveal why women "can sometimes articulate their feelings more clearly" than men can. Headlines across the country declared "the brain may hard-wire sexuality before birth."

This is bad science at its most absurd and damaging. Vilain leaped to the conclusion that humans share these sex-specific brain differences with mice (there is nothing but speculation to support this claim); and he simply fabricated the idea that the genes might have something to do with sexual attraction and articulating feelings clearly. Why should sex determination in mouse brains have anything to do with what humans find physically attractive? And, given that these are mice brains we're talking about, it's hard to imagine the genes in question affect "articulation."

Possibly the worst part of all this is the public health policy Vilain suggests we might institute based on his work. Noting that thousands of babies are born every year with ambiguous genitalia, he suggests we could test human brains to see what gender they are in order to determine what sex to assign to such babies. Right now the policy on what to do with them varies from region to region: doctors in San Francisco suggest parents wait and allow their children to decide what gender they want to be; doctors in Butte eyeball the hapless infant's genitals and simply make a judgment call. On Vilain's suggestion, however, doctors would check gene expression in the baby's brain and determine his or her gender thusly.

Great. We are now mandating human medical policy based on mouse brains.

Of course, nothing could be more stupid than a new scholarly book coming out from Cambridge University Press just in time for Valentine's Day next year. Based on the alleged social scientific research of a University of Haifa philosophy professor named Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, "Love Online: Emotions on the Internet" attempts to lay the groundwork for a new understanding of romance based on what people do in AOL chat rooms. As if 1995 had never happened, Ben-Ze'ev gushingly informs us about what "virtual sex" is and explains that some people wonder "whether it's cheating."

While this makes Ben-Ze'ev a little behind the times, it's not really bad science. Where he gets into hot water is in a series of chapters devoted to the idea that people have "privacy" online, and that as a result they are able to develop new kinds of relationships. The problem is, Ben-Ze'ev makes no distinction between perceived privacy and actual privacy. Without once nodding to the technical impossibility of privacy and anonymity on AOL or practically any online community, Ben-Ze'ev's findings are useless. He has based his entire analysis of a sexual culture on faulty definitions.

Just because it's called science doesn't mean it isn't basically just somebody's moronic fantasy.

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deadly viper assasin

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:49:18 GMT

http://www.deadlyviperdispatch.com/(z5z0mh45l5iv0rrtvssnpv55)/login.aspx

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innocuous scents

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:51:29 GMT

hey... just thought I'd do some preference tests.

Name different innocuous smells... you know: smell that wouldn't raise a group of peoples' suspicions is they started smelling it in, say, a movie theatre... or someother decently large enclosed area that people gather in.

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portal device

SummerSaharSupaStar — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:35:42 GMT

Does anybody out there have the formula for an electron transport portal device that sidesteps the Heisenberg Uncertainity principle? I seem to have misplaced mine....

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Dating a Hacker...

bstring — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:33:08 GMT

http://www.grrl.com/hackerboy.html

Hacker boys are a growing breed of fellas you'll probably end up dating at one time or another. They aren't quite as disturbed as a Goth boy or depressed musician, but they do have their annoying moments.

Many people online have their own definition of what a hacker is, but for this dating section we'll make it fairly cut and dry. "Hacker" is a loose term meaning any boy who spends so much time on his computer that he finds it neccessary to break into other people's computer systems (mostly big corporations) purely out of boredom. Sometimes they approach relationships as though there's a reset button nearby. But here's some tips to help you in the quest to capture the heart of your own self-proclaimed cyborg.

Resist the temptation to ask your hacker boy to perform illegal crimes to win your love. Hacking into the phone company to change your phone bill might be romantic at first, but if the Feds come a knockin', you could sharing a jail cell.

Know jargon words such as "phone phreaking" and "black box." This will come in handy when he calls to cancel your dinner plans because he has just been arrested for changing his grades in the University computer room.

Remind him that going to a 2600 meeting does not count as a date.

Beware of the hacker whose secret wish is to become a machine. Lots of hackers have this cyborg fantasy in common. The most they'll probably end up doing is get a tacky tattoo of metal ripping through his arm.

Read books by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick. Many hackers fancy themselves as cyberpunx and like to discuss topics such as memory implants and information smugglers.

Repeat to yourself at least once a day that it's perfectly fine that you're human. Hackers have a way of treating their girlfriends as would-be fembots. Be yourself.

Don't be angry if your hacker boy spends loads of time on his computer instead of with you. He'll do this a lot because that's what hackers do. (duh). To hackers, computers and time are relative.

Have some used, waterproof clothes to go dumpster diving late at night. An old-school hacker will want to spend romantic moonlit nights snooping around dumpsters behind computer companies and universities.

Encourage your hacker boy to get a second phone line. After all, you don't want to compete with the modem for his attention.

If you expect your hacker to go outside and enjoy the great outdoors, you'll have a long wait. Most hackers like to stay indoors in front of the computer. He may occasionally venture outside to go to a computer swap meet.

Many hackers preach the motto "All information must be free and accessible," but don't assume he means he'll be an open door of communication in regards to your relationship.

If your hacker boy has a slight interest in biogenetics, don't let him talk you into being a techno guinea pig. This means saying no when he asks to implant a tracker microchip in your wrist. Make your pets off limits while you're at it.

Be flexible when it comes to his online pals. He may want to spend hours and hours chatting with his fellow Lone Gunmen about how to take down the NSA rather than chat with you about your day. Just be suspicious if he's partial to sex chats with strangers.

Be prepared to watch movies like Akira, Tetsuo, Hardware, The Matrix and Blade Runner many a Friday night. If he loved Johnny Mnemonic, get a new boyfriend. That movie sucked.

Expect all holiday, anniversary and birthday gifts to come from Fry's Electronics or another Radio Shack-esque store.

Learn UNIX. Possibly C. Don't ask. Just do it. Oh and if you really want to impress him, learn Lex, Yacc and Emacs. Demonstrate Perls of wisdom, weild VI like a wizard and explain why Linux is the only moral OS choice.

Hackers are still deep-down social misfits. This means he'll probably play a lot of Illuminati or RoboRally instead of wanting to go out to a party or dance club. Deal with it.

All contents copyright © 1998-2004 by Bonnie Burton.

DISCLAIMER: By the way, these tips aren't meant to upset the actual punkers, stoners, musicians, ravers, goths and other types who visit Grrl.com. Sure not all musicians care more about their guitars than their girlfriends, and not all stoners eat tons of Ho-Hos, and not all goths wear black eyeliner, and not all ravers take E. But that's not the point. THIS IS IN JEST AND GOOD FUN. Learn to laugh at yourself a little. After all, not only have I dated all these stereotypes, but at different points of my life I was each of these stereotyoes myself -- except for the Redneck, that is.

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New Evil Product

bstring — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 08:29:04 GMT

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Recent Evil Science in Sicily!

Kaatbad — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:37:44 GMT

Devil in the detail of Sicily's mysterious village fires

John Hooper in Rome
Wednesday February 11, 2004
The Guardian

Is Lucifer loose on Sicily? No lesser figure than the honorary president of the International Association of Exorcists believes he may be.
"What is happening is what normally happens when the devil enters the lives of those who let him in," Father Gabriele Amorth said yesterday as scientists and officials confessed themselves unable to explain a string of fires and explosions which began in the middle of last month in the fishermen's quarter of a Sicilian village.

Thirty-nine inhabitants of Caronia, on the north coast, were preparing to spend their third night away from their homes last night, having been evacuated at the weekend.

Since then, in an operation that could have come straight from the television series X Files, a multi-disciplinary team of experts armed with measuring devices has been examining the area for clues to the spontaneous combustion of washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, electricity meters and cables.

Gianfranco Allegra, of the Italian Centre for Electro-technical Experimentation, told the newspaper Corriere della Sera that he had watched as "an electrical wire lying on the floor that was not plugged in to the mains inexplicably caught fire". When he reported the incident to his superiors in Milan he was told to sober up.

What makes the incidents all the more puzzling is that the area has been without an electricity supply since January 4.

On Monday the affair took a new turn when a chair burst into flames. Then a fire started in a water pipe.

The mayor of Caronia, Pedro Spinnato, said yesterday: "I have no idea what is going on."

He believed that arson had been ruled out.

Tullio Martella, the regional civil defence chief, said the fires and blasts seemed to derive "from a dispersion of electrical energy, but the origin of the presumed dispersion has yet to be determined".

The houses in which the fires have broken out are all in an area 350 metres (about 380 yards) by 70 metres between the shoreline and a railway.

At first suspicion centred on the railway line, but that has now been discounted.

Yesterday technicians were busy measuring emissions from local mobile telephone facilities.

But Fr Amorth said they should not rule out vibes of a different sort.

"The priest of the parish ought today to go and bless all the houses that have witnessed paranormal phenomena, because that is what they are," he said.

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advice

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:44:13 GMT

what's the best way to get rid of your accomplice?

(1) would you go through some elaborate murder scheme (naturally the perfect murder such that you yourself wouldn't ever be implicated)?

(2) would you kidnap him, lobotomize him, and dump him somewhere in an impoverished nation to be sold into slavery?

(3) would you scheme against him to illegitimicize his work or possible resort to blackmail, thereby crushing his career and leaving him quivering as pile of pulp in the corner but otherwise unmarred?

(4) would you simply hire someone to take care of the details (the less you know the better)?

(5) or, would you split your spoils 50/50 and go your seperate ways so that another partnership may be achievable in the future if necessary?

(6) something else?

what have people tried in the past, and what were the results?

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Reverse Social Engineering

bstring — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:18:59 GMT

Reverse social engineering

SOCIAL ENGINEERING IS the salacious second cousin to hacking. It's a glorified term for conning, equivalent to using the word sanitation engineer when you really mean garbage collector. But it's also undeniably rather glamorous – social engineers don't spend hours in front of the computer screen poring over code and running port scans like hackers do. They get passwords and other secret information by manipulating people.

The beauty part of social engineering is that most people understand how it works. Few people truly appreciate a novel buffer overflow attack launched against certain insecure Web applications. But almost anyone can understand the cunning required to pretend you're a phone repair technician in order to coax access codes to your local telecom switching station out of a middle-management type.

Social engineering is a tried-and-true covert intel-gathering method outside the world of hacking too. Investigative journalists might, for example, pose as mental patients in order to find out how state institutions treat people when the media isn't watching. A university student might pose as a teaching assistant to gain access to a certain professor's office, which just happens to contain copies of an upcoming exam.

Recently, for my own odd reasons, I've been mulling over the idea of reverse social engineering. What exactly would that mean? I found a few descriptions of it on security Web sites, where it's treated as a subset of social engineering. According to analyst Sarah Granger, reverse social engineering is sort of like social engineering crossed with reverse psychology. Instead of pretending to be somebody who needs help in order to gain information from employees of a company, you pretend to be someone in a position of authority to whom employees will turn for help. A common example of this strategy would be to attack a Web site in some way and then list yourself as the administrator to contact with problems. When people write to you and ask for help fixing the site, you require them to give you some kind of information to "verify" who they are. Then you repair the site, keep the information, and nobody is the wiser.

This, to me, makes no sense as a definition. I'm looking for something that's more like a combination of social engineering and reverse engineering: a term that describes the process that occurs when you take apart some social device or phenomenon in order to understand it, then proceed to recreate it in a way that suits you. Reverse engineering, remember, is what you do when you take apart a piece of hardware or software to figure it out. Sometimes the process involves building a copy of it for your own uses.

So, by my lights, reverse social engineering would describe what Galileo did, or Karl Marx. Both took apart the universe, piece by piece, in order to understand physical and social mechanisms.

Armed with my own definition of reverse social engineering, I have a little project I'd like to work on in 2004. Not one to start small, I propose a hack on the concept of private property. Certainly I'm not the first person to try this: everyone from Marx to Richard Stallman has been there before me. But there's no harm in revisiting a favorite exploit of reverse social engineers.

First, consider what private property is: a thing, idea, or location that belongs exclusively to an individual or corporation. At its most basic level, this kind of ownership can be fairly helpful; it keeps me from using somebody else's toothbrush or firewood. At its most abstract, private property means I can't walk in certain locations or play copyrighted songs in a public place.

Why do we have private property? There are many ways to answer this question that range from the political to the psychological, but I'd wager that most of them boil down to one thing. We use it to measure value, whether emotional, economic, or social. The more private property I have, the richer I am. Privately held items of all kinds are generally valued more than publicly held ones. Even when it comes to romantic relationships, people tend to rate monogamous ones – in which I have exclusive rights to access my partner sexually – more highly than polyamorous ones.

What would happen if we engineered a slightly different version of private property? We could pick one aspect of the concept and just tweak it a little, perhaps removing the connection between value and exclusivity. The more exclusive an item, the less we would value it. Thus, I could still have my private toothbrush, but it wouldn't be worth very much. Other items, like a car or a building, would grow in value the more they could be shared with other people.

Annalee Newitz

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Henchmen

bstring — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 08:22:06 GMT

"When I chat with other supervillains, they often ask me, 'What kind of benefits do you offer your underlings?' To which I answer, 'Benefits'?? It's benefit enough that I allow them the honor of serving me, before I casually kill them off!'
HENCHMEN ARE NOT 'EMPLOYEES'-- THEY ARE SLAVES!
Benefits, my ass! Any time one of those idiots annoys me, I kill him -- imagine if I had to pay for burials! I'd go broke! That's why I keep man-eating boars, for crying out loud. Even the bikini girls by the lagoon have to pay their own dental. What am I, a charity?"
-- Professor B. Von String, DoC

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smoking

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:40:53 GMT

There is an add campaign out right now telling people that each cigarette smoked shortens your life by 7 to 11 minutes.

I'd like to do a study on the quality of life of the last several years of a great number of senior citizens' lives and figure out what is the average length of time on the end of life where quality of life is so bad the average American would prefer to miss out on it. My theory is that shortening of Americans' lives is actually beneficial to the situation our country is in now.

Pro-longed life expectancies are draining our social security reserves, not to mention crowding our medical facilities, and all in all is a financial burden on the nation. Further, with few exceptions including but not limitted to people going for humanitarian scholarships and people who enjoy training service dogs to visit seniors, there aren't many people who benefit from having the bulk of senior citizens in our society today.

I believe with the result of this research we can campaign for a blanket regulation imposing smoking quotas on all persons over the age of 65.

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where should I build my lab?

LawnGnome — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:37:07 GMT

I'm kind of new to the mad/evil scientist thing. I have good intentions (well not GOOD but you know what I mean) and I'm working on building up my overseas account to fund my laboratory, but I need to start looking into where I want to build so I know what kind of budget I'm looking at here. And so I decided to turn to you all to see what places you've had success with. I would like something with a good view. I'll be living there after all. And accesability (preffribly line of sight) to a major city would be ideal though not essential. A space platform would have been cool but a bit out of my price range sence I'm just starting, and I was looking at the thousand islands because of the weather and space, but too many tourests. So any ideas?

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Norton ghost

shatter_old_profile — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:37:48 GMT

anyone have a boot disk image I could get?

Mine died and my cd is 60 miles away.

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Evil Projects

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:03:44 GMT

Those few true evil geniuses who are going to go on to greatness in the world of evil science probably don't need our help with decorative suggestion. More importantly, they can't really be all that brilliant if they need us to tell them what they should be researching. However, we recognize that hard work is almost as important as godlike insight. That being the case, here are a few subjects that have kept evil scientists busy for generations. Work away at them oh uninspired neophytes and see if you can come up with some new angle.

Remove a Brain

Admittedly, it is something of a cliché. Still, we haven't really seen it done successfully, and think that the possibilities are pretty impressive. Find an unwitting subject, maybe a mouth breather who won't miss it, and remove their brain. Oh, here's the catch. You have to keep the body alive and functional. Maybe try a transplant with someone else, an animal, an alien? What about some mechanical replacement, autonomous or some sort of remote control? Don't forget lots of prominent sutures, everyone loves those.

Corrupt the youth

Everyone knows about the schizophrenogenic potion of Dr. Jekyll and how it resulted in the freeing of his sinister alter-ego Mr. Hyde. A lot of people aren't aware that he couldn't reproduce his elixir (one of his ingredients was actually an impurity that he wasn't able to discover before his untimely demise). While we'd obviously like to know how to make such a substance for purely academic reasons, we have a more practical goal in mind. Try to develop a substance or apparatus that could result in the corruption of vast segments of humanity. Sounds pretty easy? We don't think so. Maybe one hundred years ago shattering moral standards would have been an easy task. Today? Well, we think people are already pretty horrible. Don't believe us? Well, make them worse then tell us about it.

Prey on the Vain

The council of evil science has already awarded the inventor of olestra one of their highest distinctions, and with good reason. This brilliant individual has managed to prey upon humanity's vanity to get them to eat a substance that actually causes a syndrome referred to as, "anal leakage." Admittedly, we're impressed. But we'd like to see how much farther we can push this. Would people eat a substance with negative calories if they knew it would reduce their lifespan by fifteen years? What about if it would cause scaly lesions, but only in areas not publicly seen? Go crazy.

Perform a Supernatural Dissection

We're sick of alien autopsies. Sure, they were cool at first but the cravings for fame have got the better of more than one evil scientist. Now you can watch cut-rate versions of some guy in a white coat cutting open a bulbous head on network television. Where's the excitement in that? At least we have the satisfaction of knowing that the egotistical moron who leaked that tape is getting laughed at as a fraud. A more interesting, if more challenging examination would be one on some kind of supernatural being. We've never seen one, but Time Magazine tells us that 68% of Americans believe in angels. We'd like to see what one looks like from the inside. Do they even have corporeal bodies that we can cut? Do you need some kind of holy scalpel? The questions are endless. Try to answer them.

Build a Decent Cyborg

Everyone's heard about all the cyborg failures out there. It seems like every evil scientist with a spare circuit board is sticking it in some poor soul's head and seeing what happens. Turns out the most frequent event involves the newborn cyborg turning a massive machine gun (that the scientist thought would be a nice addition to the creature's forearm) on the hapless inventor and everything else in the area. Come to think of it, this is pretty much what happens whenever anyone creates any kind of robot or artificial intelligence regardless of whether it has organic components. We'd like to see if the whole genre of killer robot is a waste of time. Build a robot or cyborg that exhibits some level of loyalty. Get to it boys (and girls).

Create a True Doomsday Virus

This seems like a pretty straightforward request. To be honest we are pretty certain that most of the really nasty "emerging" diseases out there were just warm-ups for one of these. However, we have our doubts whether any of you young punks are really up to this challenge. Sure, you might be able to create something with incredibly high mortality or with phenomenal transmission features, probably even a few with both. But what kind of global fatalities can you achieve? Nature's managed over 30% in some pretty large locales. Think you can beat her? Just a matter of splicing a little influenza and ebola? The gauntlet's down, impress us.

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Titanium Sporks!

bstring — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:41:18 GMT

http://www.tadgear.com/x-treme%20gear/snowpeak_titanium_spork.htm

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minion acquiring

Sat, 07 Feb 2004 06:13:11 GMT

What is the best ways you've found to acquire minions?

* recruit them (this was easier back a couple decades ago when religious clans were more prevailant).

* create your own (but perhaps don't fit them with machine guns for arms until you've had them around to imprint on you for a little while)

* buy them (shop around for vendors. You can buy great quality minions for really cheap! Some even come with nano-technology implants included to keep them in line).

* kidnap them (eliminate the middle man... this takes a much larger investment of your time though)

* spawn them (ah... who better to serve you than your own flesh and blood??)

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Women and Language

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:58:13 GMT

Fine:
This is the word we use at the end of any argument that we feel we are right about but need to shut you up. Never use fine to describe how woman looks. This will cause you to have one of those arguments.

Five minutes:
This is half an hour. It is equivalent to the five minutes that your football game is going to last before you take out the trash, so it's an even trade.

Nothing:
This means something and you should be on your toes. "Nothing" is usually used to describe the feeling a woman has of wanting to turn you inside out, upside down, and backwards. "Nothing" usually signifies an argument that will last "Five Minutes" and end with the word "Fine".

Go Ahead (with raised eyebrows):
This is a dare. One that will result in a woman getting upset over "Nothing" and will end with the word "Fine".

Go Ahead (normal eyebrows):
This means, "I give up" or "do what you want because I don't care". You will get a raised eyebrow "Go ahead" in just a few minutes, followed by "Nothing" and "Fine" and she will talk to you in about "Five Minutes" when she cools off.

Loud Sigh:
This is not actually a word, but is still often a verbal statement very misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot at that moment and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing".

Soft Sigh:
Again, not a word, but a verbal statement. "Soft Sighs" are one of the few things that some men actually understand. She is content. Your best bet is to not move or breathe and she will stay content.

Oh:
This word followed by any statement is trouble. Example; "Oh, let me get that". Or, "Oh, I talked to him about what you were doing last night." If she says "Oh" before a statement, RUN, do not walk, to the nearest exit. She will tell you that she is "Fine" when she is done tossing your clothes out the window, but do not expect her to talk to you for at least 2 days. "Oh" as the lead to a sentence usually signifies that you are caught in a lie. Do not try to lie more to get out of it, or you will get raised eyebrows "Go ahead" followed by acts so inspeakable that we can't bring ourselves to write about them.

That's Okay:
This is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can say to a man. "That's Okay," means that she wants to think long and hard before paying you retributions for what ever it is that you have done.
"That's Okay" is often used with the word "Fine" and used in conjunction with a raised eyebrow "Go ahead". At some point in the near future when she has plotted and planned, you are going to be in some mighty big trouble.

Please Do:
This is not a statement, it is an offer. A woman is giving you the chance to come up with whatever excuse or reason you have for doing whatever it is that you have done. You have a fair chance to tell the truth, so be careful and you shouldn't get a "That's Okay".

Thanks:
A woman is thanking you. Do not faint; just say you're welcome.

Thanks a lot:
This is much different from "Thanks". A woman will say, "Thanks a lot" when she is really ticked off at you. It signifies that you have hurt her in some callous way, and will be followed by the "Loud Sigh". Be careful not to ask what is wrong after the "Loud Sigh", as she will only tell you "Nothing".

I hope this clears up any misunderstandings...

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Women in Science

bstring — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:04:46 GMT

Several times we’ve been faced with the legitimate question of why there seem to be so few women choosing to go into evil science. Of course, it is standard procedure to plastify anyone who questions the status quo to our face. However, the frequency of this particular question has led us to think that there may be a legitimate concern here. We decided to look back through a list of the great men of evil science we realized that most were, in fact, men. Describing phenomena is the work of statisticians and systematicists, we are more concerned with the question of why. We’d like to present several possibilities and then consider the current and future situation. From the outset we’d just like to say that we are appalled by the current state of things and really do believe that women are the future of evil science.

If you ask any of the old white men of evil science you will inevitable hear the typical argument that women simply aren’t biologically suited to the rigors of evil science. Since at least two of the most vocal supporters of this camp are preserved brains that communicate via telepathy we must assume that they aren’t talking about physical rigors but are actually referring to intellectual requirements. Furthermore, since well over half our ranks are clinically insane pure mental stability must not be a strict requirement. Admittedly, the case has been made strongly that men and women tend to go insane in very different ways. It has also been argued with supporting data of wildly differing quality that women and men do in fact think differently. We admit that this may indeed be true. However, as evil science is characterized by a huge array of extremely disparate modes of thought, we have a hard time believing that mercurial differences between mundane men and women are really of much concern here.

The next most common argument is that women are modified to such an extent by culture that they never develop the skills necessary for a successful career in evil science. A similar case has been made for all the fields of science and engineering and in many ways we feel there is a great deal of legitimacy here. An Erector Set is far better preparation for a career building death rays than a Barbie doll is. Television doesn’t present enough female role models in the field of evil science. One never reads about the evil science women are doing in the newspaper. Etc. However, just how much encouragement did all the men in this field receive? Sure, there were the odd ones of us who came from a family of evil scientists and who knew our calling very early in life. Most though had to deal with a society that tends to frown on evil science whether practiced by a woman or man. The point is that we all had and have to fight against cultural norms to follow our dreams and it seems unlikely that women are any more unlikely than men to be unable to resist efforts to acculturate them.

Nevertheless, there are certain resources and a certain amount of training that one needs to be able to conduct evil science at a competitive level. This is where we believe we have failed potential female evil scientists the most. Even if they demonstrate the skills and ambition necessary to excel in their field the current power structure doesn’t offer them the necessary training and opportunities to make the big breaks necessary to become independent researchers. Much like doctors and nurses in the old days, evil women are channeled into schools where they can learn to become lovely assistants, torture queens and the like. While the Barbies are probably good training for this, it seems like a tragic waste.

We believe that things are changing, but not nearly fast enough. There are many more women pursuing careers in science and medicine and we can be certain that some of them will eventually turn evil. However, this is really not the flood of new evil scientists we need to keep the field alive. We still see girls upstaged by their male counterparts as the latter receive support from the patriarchy while the girls are put into vinyl and told to try out the new cephalodrainer on the prisoners. We propose a whole series of government grants to encourage women researchers to enter the field. Write your congressmen and make sure that you encourage your own daughters. Remember, you can’t start nurturing evil too early!

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FlameBot

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:03:32 GMT

THE 'BASTARD' PERL SCRIPT ---- Dr. FLonkenstein, Alcatroll Labs Inc.
===========================================================================

I. Purpose
The purpose of this quick and dirty written script is to generate
automatic postings on usenet. You can specify one or more usernames,
and newsgroup(s) where your preferred bastards post in, and the script
will "hook" a message to each and every post the bastards make.
The reply itself is made up of a text, randomly chosen omong others
in a given directory. This textfile is a template text with here and there
nouns replaced by the tag <n>, and adjectives replaced by the tab <a>.
The script will then replace these tags with randomly chosen nouns and
adjectives that are picked up from standard nous and adjective files.
This ensures that your BI stays low. The goal of using this script is
essentially for flaming. Your bot can insult your preferred bastards
whole night long, while you're doing entirely different things (like
having a drink with your friends). It is gauaranteed fun seeing your
opponents reply to a bot, and others that draw their attention upon
this fact.
But maybe there are other applications, let me know, and have fun.

II. Modalities
a) Copyright.
-------------
This is copyleft software, so you may freely modify it, distribute it,
and all that stuff, only if you leave a reference to the
(totally fake) Alcatroll Labs Incorporation (:-)

b) State of the software
-------------------------
The code is very clumsy, I admit, but what do you want,
it's free isn't it?
I tried to comment here and there. Have a look about the tricky way (=easy)
to keep an object oriented structure in a text file, this is in fact
(ohhh great tabou !!!!!!) self modifying code, hehehehe, why not !

c) Installation
---------------
In a directory of your choice you will have following files :

bastards.pl
bastards.pm
news.pm
post.pm
trbot.pm
bastarfl.htm (this file)

For each bastard you target, you have to have a separate directory.
In these directories you place the template files you invent for
your bastard (the extension of the file does not matter).
Here's an example :

-------<template example>---------
proving to be a paranoid <a> <n> again. Get a life, lame luser !
------</template example>---------

You have to have a (series of) noun file(s) somewhere, and a
(series of) adjective file(s) too. The extension and name does
not matter.
Once everything is in place, you must edit the bastard.pm file. This
is the database that you keep of the bastards that you are targetting.
this file looks like this :

-------<database example>---------
$bastards = [
"test",
{Nouns=> ".\\enouns.txt",
Group=> "alt.test",
From=> "Heartbeat",
Prefs=> ".\\pref.txt",
Last=> "",
Templ=> "JSF",
Botname=> " \"Ben Bareta\" <ben\@yahooo.com>",
Adj=> ".\\eadj.txt",
}
,
]
-------</database example>--------

This is an example where there is only one target, the poster
with the nick 'Heartbeat'. This is (at this very moment since
a few months) a real usenet 'from header' in the alt.test group
that posts every 9 mins (or so I think). This is this an ideal
way to test your bot !
The first line inside the structure is "test", this denotes a
name that you give to your bastard. It is a name of your choice
and does not influence the application. Then, on the second line you
specify the name and path of your nouns file (watch out for the
quoted backspaces !!). On the third line you mention the group
where the bastard posts. You can add more groups to this line
(separated by commas) to indicate that the message will also
be crossposted to these groups too. The fourth line indicates
where your 'prefixes' file is. This is only for the french language
where you can have an additionnal list of 'prefixes'. Create an
empty file if you're not intending working in french.
The fifth line keeps track of the last time the messages from
your bastard were read. You do not have to change this, the
scripts rewrites the database to the file on a regular base,
so your script is always synchronized with the postings of your
bastards. The sixth line tells the script in which direcory
the template files belonging to this bastards are residing.
The seventh line explaines how the "from" header will look like,
and finally the eighth line shows the name and path of the
adjective file.
After having edited the database file, you have to edit the packages
post.pm and news.pm so that they reflect a newsserver that posts
the messages and a newsserver that reads messages. They can be the
same, but in my case I had to use two for personal reasons. I have
put the templates "your_news_server", "your_username", "your_password",
in order to be replaced by yourself.
You are also strongly advised to change the headers so that your
posts seem to come from any location you want.

Launch the perl script bastards.pl to activate the robot.

III. How it works

First, the script reads your database in order to find out
which bastards there are, their newsgroups, the corresponding
template directories, the used noun, prefix and adjective files.
Then, bastard per bastard, the script looks up the message id's
of your target in his own ng. This is done by the 'news.pm' package
that receives a database structure object as a parameter, and
returns the list of message ids of this poster. At the same time it
updates the database in central memory.
Then the package 'post.pm' takes care of each of these messages,
calls the 'trbot.pm' package to construct a reply and posts it.
The trbot.pm package does the substitution of the nouns and
adjectives in the random chosen template file.

IV. Modifications that can be done

a) Avoid your target morphs
--------------------------------

If you study the news.pm package, you will see that this package scans
the headers of each message of the newsgroup. This includes occasional
NNTP-header IP addresses, and email addresses. It is possible to modify
the code so that it also keeps these data in the database. This way you
can avoid that your target changes his nickname resulting in your bot
loosing its prey. The target must, to avoid your bot, change email, nick
and IP address at the same time.

b) Let the bot morph itself, in order to avoid killfiles
--------------------------------------------------------

Indeed, you can use a random algorithm like the one used
in the trbot.pm package to compose a different nickname for
each post.

c) Change the reply policy
--------------------------

You can change the way your bot replies in different ways. It must be
possible to analize the text of the original message, get a clue about
the content and respond corrspondingly. Another funny effect is to
make your reply by modifying the original text with a command like:

s/([bdfkmnpqrstvw])([aeiou])/$1j$2/gi

d) Change the default wait time
-------------------------------

After an outburst of replies, a sleep command is issued that puts
the script asleep for a while. If you keep this time short the script
will answer almost instantly when the target posts, but is will consume
system resources on the other hand.

e) Change the default 'Last' value
----------------------------------

The first time when using the script, you installed the value of the field
'Last' to NULL. When the script sees this value it automagically assumes
that it has to look for messages younger than an hour ago. You can also
change this value to a bigger value, resulting in a huge spew of replies
to your bastard (if he posts a lot).

(c) Dr. Flonkenstein 2002

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Is you child a HACKER?!

bstring — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:36:33 GMT

Is your son a computer hacker? by T Reginald Gibbons

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
By T Reginald Gibbons
Posted on Sun Dec 2nd, 2001 at 11:00:21 AM PST

As an enlightened, modern parent, I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children. I encourage them to join team sports. I attend their teen parties with them to ensure no drinking or alcohol is on the premises. I keep a fatherly eye on the CDs they listen to and the shows they watch, the company they keep and the books they read. You could say I'm a model parent. My children have never failed to make me proud, and I can say without the slightest embellishment that I have the finest family in the USA. Two years ago, my wife Carol and I decided that our children's education would not be complete without some grounding in modern computers. To this end, we bought our children a brand new Compaq to learn with. The kids had a lot of fun using the handful of application programs we'd bought, such as Adobe's Photoshop and Microsoft's Word, and my wife and I were pleased that our gift was received so well. Our son Peter was most entranced by the device, and became quite a pro at surfing the net. When Peter began to spend whole days on the machine, I became concerned, but Carol advised me to calm down, and that it was only a passing phase. I was content to bow to her experience as a mother, until our youngest daughter, Cindy, charged into the living room one night to blurt out: "Peter is a computer hacker!"

As you can imagine, I was amazed. A computer hacker in my own house! I began to monitor my son's habits, to make certain that Cindy wasn't just telling stories, as she is prone to doing at times.

After a few days of investigation, and some research into computer hacking, I confronted Peter with the evidence. I'm afraid to say, this was the only time I have ever been truly disappointed in one of my children. We raised them to be honest and to have integrity, and Peter betrayed the principles we tried to encourage in him, when he refused point blank to admit to his activities. His denials continued for hours, and in the end, I was left with no choice but to ban him from using the computer until he is old enough to be responsible for his actions.

After going through this ordeal with my own family, I was left pondering how I could best help others in similar situations. I'd gained a lot of knowledge over those few days regarding hackers. It's only right that I provide that information to other parents, in the hope that they will be able to tell if their children are being drawn into the world of hacking. Perhaps other parents will be able to steer their sons back onto the straight and narrow before extreme measures need to be employed.

To this end, I have decided to publish the top ten signs that your son is a hacker. I advise any parents to read this list carefully and if their son matches the profile, they should take action. A smart parent will first try to reason with their son, before resorting to groundings, or even spanking. I pride myself that I have never had to spank a child, and I hope this guide will help other parents to put a halt to their son's misbehaviour before a spanking becomes necessary.

1. Has your son asked you to change ISPs?

Most American families use trusted and responsible Internet Service Providers, such as AOL. These providers have a strict "No Hacking" policy, and take careful measures to ensure that your internet experience is enjoyable, educational and above all legal. If your child is becoming a hacker, one of his first steps will be to request a change to a more hacker friendly provider.

I would advise all parents to refuse this request. One of the reasons your son is interested in switching providers is to get away from AOL's child safety filter. This filter is vital to any parent who wants his son to enjoy the internet without the endangering him through exposure to "adult" content. It is best to stick with the protection AOL provides, rather than using a home-based solution. If your son is becoming a hacker, he will be able to circumvent any home-based measures with surprising ease, using information gleaned from various hacker sites.

2. Are you finding programs on your computer that you don't remember installing?

Your son will probably try to install some hacker software. He may attempt to conceal the presence of the software in some way, but you can usually find any new programs by reading through the programs listed under "Install/Remove Programs" in your control panel. Popular hacker software includes "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash".

The best option is to confront your son with the evidence, and force him to remove the offending programs. He will probably try to install the software again, but you will be able to tell that this is happening, if your machine offers to "download" one of the hacker applications. If this happens, it is time to give your son a stern talking to, and possibly consider punishing him with a grounding.

3. Has your child asked for new hardware?

Computer hackers are often limited by conventional computer hardware. They may request "faster" video cards, and larger hard drives, or even more memory. If your son starts requesting these devices, it is possible that he has a legitimate need. You can best ensure that you are buying legal, trustworthy hardware by only buying replacement parts from your computer's manufacturer.

If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never sold in stores, and you will most likely be told that you have to order them from internet sites. Do not buy this chip! This is one request that you must refuse your son, if you are to have any hope of raising him well.

4. Does your child read hacking manuals?

If you pay close attention to your son's reading habits, as I do, you will be able to determine a great deal about his opinions and hobbies. Children are at their most impressionable in the teenage years. Any father who has had a seventeen year old daughter attempt to sneak out on a date wearing make up and perfume is well aware of the effect that improper influences can have on inexperienced minds.

There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today. A few titles to be on the lookout for are: "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson; "Neuromancer" by William Gibson; "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly; "Geeks" by Jon Katz; "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling; "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland; "Hackers" by Steven Levy; and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond.

If you find any of these hacking manuals in your child's possession, confiscate them immediately. You should also petition local booksellers to remove these titles from their shelves. You may meet with some resistance at first, but even booksellers have to bow to community pressure.

5. How much time does your child spend using the computer each day?

If your son spends more than thirty minutes each day on the computer, he may be using it to DOS other peoples sites. DOSing involves gaining access to the "command prompt" on other people's machines, and using it to tie up vital internet services. This can take up to eight hours. If your son is doing this, he is breaking the law, and you should stop him immediately. The safest policy is to limit your children's access to the computer to a maximum of forty-five minutes each day.

6. Does your son use Quake?

Quake is an online virtual reality used by hackers. It is a popular meeting place and training ground, where they discuss hacking and train in the use of various firearms. Many hackers develop anti-social tendencies due to the use of this virtual world, and it may cause erratic behaviour at home and at school.

If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully locked away, and have trigger locks installed. You should also bring your concerns to the attention of his school.

7. Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour?

As a child enters the electronic world of hacking, he may become disaffected with the real world. He may lose the ability to control his actions, or judge the rightness or wrongness of a course of behaviour. This will manifest itself soonest in the way he treats others. Those whom he disagrees with will be met with scorn, bitterness, and even foul language. He may utter threats of violence of a real or electronic nature.

Even when confronted, your son will probably find it difficult to talk about this problem to you. He will probably claim that there is no problem, and that you are imagining things. He may tell you that it is you who has the problem, and you should "back off" and "stop smothering him." Do not allow yourself to be deceived. You are the only chance your son has, even if he doesn't understand the situation he is in. Keep trying to get through to him, no matter how much he retreats into himself.

8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

Your son may try to install "lunix" on your hard drive. If he is careful, you may not notice its presence, however, lunix is a capricious beast, and if handled incorrectly, your son may damage your computer, and even break it completely by deleting Windows, at which point you will have to have your computer repaired by a professional.

If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix. In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.

9. Has your son radically changed his appearance?

If your son has undergone a sudden change in his style of dress, you may have a hacker on your hands. Hackers tend to dress in bright, day-glo colors. They may wear baggy pants, bright colored shirts and spiky hair dyed in bright colors to match their clothes. They may take to carrying "glow-sticks" and some wear pacifiers around their necks. (I have no idea why they do this) There are many such hackers in schools today, and your son may have started to associate with them. If you notice that your son's group of friends includes people dressed like this, it is time to think about a severe curfew, to protect him from dangerous influences.

10. Is your son struggling academically?

If your son is failing courses in school, or performing poorly on sports teams, he may be involved in a hacking group, such as the infamous "Otaku" hacker association. Excessive time spent on the computer, communicating with his fellow hackers may cause temporary damage to the eyes and brain, from the electromagnetic radiation. This will cause his marks to slip dramatically, particularly in difficult subjects such as Math, and Chemistry. In extreme cases, over-exposure to computer radiation can cause schizophrenia, meningitis and other psychological diseases. Also, the reduction in exercise may cause him to lose muscle mass, and even to start gaining weight. For the sake of your child's mental and physical health, you must put a stop to his hacking, and limit his computer time drastically.

I encourage all parents to read through this guide carefully. Your child's future may depend upon it. Hacking is an illegal and dangerous activity, that may land your child in prison, and tear your family apart. It cannot be taken too seriously.

Sourced: http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147

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Recruiting Fresh Minions

Barak — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 04:22:44 GMT

Just on a whim I recently moved my laboratory from an isolated high desert hideaway to a remote nearly unpopulated island in the north Atlantic. Unfortunately most of my minions didn't make the crossing, so now I'm stuck remotely supervising their evil undertakings in their various hidden cells in the US, while I'm woefully short of minions at my main lair. Does anyone have any advice on recruiting new minions? It looks like the Republican party has become even more evil lately; are young republican clubs now a good source? I suppose the weak economy should help, and I now pay in euros rather than dollars so the shift in exchange rates should be to my advantage. Should I try to recruit unemployed engineers from the US, or are remote regions of China and India, and central American drug cartels, still my best bet?

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