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Have you tried System Restore?
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Have you tried, this, from Kelly's Korner?
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In an E-mail I got from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
* EFF Joins Forces with Tor Software ProjectCivil Liberties Group to Support Development of Anonymous
Internet Communications System
San Francisco - Today EFF announced that it is becoming
a sponsor of Tor, a technology project that helps
organizations and individuals engage in anonymous
communication online. Tor is a network-within-a-network
that protects communication from a form of surveillance
known as "traffic analysis."
Traffic analysis tracks where data goes and when, as well
as how much is sent, rather than the content of
communications. Knowing the source and destination of
Internet traffic allows others to track a person's behavior
and interests. This can impact privacy in obvious and
secondary ways. For example, an e-commerce site could
choose to charge you more for particular items based on
your country or institution of origin. It could also
threaten your job or physical safety by revealing who and
where you are.
"EFF is a great organization to work with," said Roger
Dingledine, Tor's project leader, who, along with Nick
Mathewson, is also a core developer. "EFF understands the
importance of anonymity technology for everyone - from the
average web surfer, to journalists for community sites like
Indymedia, to people living under oppressive regimes. With
their support and experience, we can focus on making Tor
useful and usable by everyone."
"The Tor project is a perfect fit for EFF, because one of
our primary goals is to protect the privacy and anonymity
of Internet users," said EFF Technology Manager Chris
Palmer. "Tor can help people exercise their First
Amendment right to free, anonymous speech online. And
unlike many other security systems, Tor recognizes that
there is no security without user-friendliness - if the
mechanism is not accessible, nobody will use it. Tor
strikes a balance between performance, usability, and
security."
For the full press release:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_12.php#002174
Tor Project:
Non-technical introduction to Tor:
http://tor.eff.org/overview.html
Technical research paper on how Tor works:
Some EFF victories, this year:
* We helped eVisa.com win its fight against the Visa
credit card dynasty over fair use of the word "visa"
in domain names.
* We (with your support) helped derail the government's
CAPPS II passenger-profiling system (although we need
your help to continue to fight its evil reincarnation,
Secure Flight).
* We won the Grokster case in the 9th Circuit. The
Supreme Court has decided to hear this case in March
2005.
* We helped individuals assert their due process rights
in cases brought against them by the recording
industry.
* We put forth our voluntary collective licensing proposal,
explaining how artists could get paid without suing
music lovers.
* We won the case that got Diebold punished for misusing
copyright law.
* We won the Bunner case, which held that republishing
information about reverse engineering was not
prohibited by trade secret law.
* We started a patent busting campaign and identified
the ten most egregious patent threats to technology
and freedom.
* We were a leader in the fight for a verifiable paper
trail on electronic voting machines.
* We expanded our international work, participating in
the Digital Video Broadcasting group and in WIPO.
* We defended Jibjab's fair use of "This Land Is Your
Land" in its presidential parody "This Land" and in
the process learned that the Woody Guthrie song had
fallen into the public domain.
* We defended technologists using smart card readers
from an overzealous DirecTV.
* We (with your support) helped make sure terrible
legislation like the PIRATE Act and the Induce Act
did not pass.
* We drafted a mock legal complaint to show how the
Induce Act would kill off technologies like the
iPod.
* We successfully challenged the Child Online Protection
Act at the Supreme Court.
* We wrote and circulated a paper on best practices for
Online Service Providers.
* We fought the expansion of the DMCA, writing amicus
briefs supporting Skylink's right to make interoperable
garage door openers and Static Control's right to make
aftermarket printer cartridges. (We helped win both
cases.)
* We represented (and continue to represent) Indymedia
in an effort to uncover why their servers were seized
and to assert their First Amendment rights.
* We formed an Advisory Board of some of the smartest
people working on these issues.
9/11 Legislation Launches Misguided Data-Mining and
Domestic Surveillance Schemes
On Friday, President Bush signed into law the Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA),
launching several flawed "security" schemes that EFF has
long opposed. The media has focused on turf wars between
the intelligence and defense communities, but the real
story is how IRTPA trades basic rights for the illusion of
security. For instance:
~ Section 1016 - a.k.a. "TIA II" ~
A clause authorizing the creation of a massive "Information
Sharing Environment" (ISE) to link "all appropriate
Federal, State, local, and tribal entities, and the
private sector."
This vast network would link the information in public and
private databases, posing the same kind of threat to
our privacy and freedom that the notorious Terrorism
Information Awareness (TIA) program did. Yet the IRTPA
contains no meaningful safeguards against unchecked data
mining other than directing the President to issue
guidelines. It also includes a definition of "terrorist
information" that is frighteningly broad.
~ Section 4012 and Sections 7201-7220 - a.k.a. "CAPPS III" ~
A number of provisions that provide the statutory basis
for "Secure Flight," the government's third try at a
controversial passenger-screening system that has
consistently failed to pass muster for protecting
passenger privacy.
The basic concept: the government will force commercial
air carriers to hand over your private travel
information and compare it with a "consolidated and
integrated terrorist watchlist." It will also establish
a massive "counterterrorist travel intelligence"
infrastructure that calls for travel data mining
("recognition of travel patterns, tactics, and behavior
exhibited by terrorists").
It's not clear how the government would use the travel
patterns of millions of Americans to catch the
small number of individuals worldwide who are planning
terrorist attacks. In fact, this approach has
been thoroughly debunked by security experts. (See
http://www.schneier.com/essay-052.html.) What is
clear is that the system will create fertile ground
for constitutional violations and the abuse of private
information. The latest Privacy Act notice on
Secure Flight shows that the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) still doesn't have a plan for
how long the government will keep your private
information, nor has it mapped out adequate
procedures for correcting your "file" if you are
wrongly flagged as a terrorist.
~ Section 6001 - a.k.a. "PATRIOT III" ~
Straight from the infamous "PATRIOT II" draft legislation
leaked to the public last year comes a provision that
allows the government to use secret foreign
intelligence warrants and wiretap orders against
people unconnected to any international terrorist
group or foreign nation. This represents yet another
step in the ongoing destruction of even the most basic
legal protections for those whom the government
suspects are terrorists.
~ Sections 7208-7220 - a.k.a. "Papers, Please" ~
Just as EFF, the ACLU, and a number of other civil
liberties groups feared, IRTPA creates the basis for
a de facto national ID system using biometrics. Driven
by misguided political consensus, the law
calls for a "global standard of identification" and
minimum national standards for birth certificates,
driver's licenses and state ID cards, and Social
Security cards and numbers. It also directs the
Secretary of Homeland Security to establish new
standards for ID for domestic air travelers.
Identification is not security. Indeed, the 9/11
Commission report revealed that a critical stumbling
block in identifying foreign terrorists is the
inability to evaluate *foreign* information and records.
Yet we are placing disproportionate emphasis on
domestic surveillance, opening the door to a
standardized "internal passport" - the hallmark
of a totalitarian regime.
For this piece online:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/002172.php
For the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
of 2004 (IRTPA):
http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/terr...m/irtpa2004.pdf
If you care about preserving your privacy and basic
constitutional freedoms, help us fight the good fight
by joining EFF today:
It's a Small World After All
Ed Felten and Alex Halderman have written a P2P application
in only 15 lines of code to illustrate the futility of
regulating the software. It's called TinyP2P, and it
allows users to create "small world" networks for
sharing files:
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/tinyp2p.html
Putting the World's Greatest Libraries Online
Google is working with four university libraries - Stanford,
Michigan, Harvard, and Oxford - and the New York Public
Library in an ambitious plan to scan their holdings
and put them on the Internet:
http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=363
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Apple Makes iPods Incompatible with Harmony
RealNetworks' Harmony music service doesn't work with the
newest iPod software, leaving customers who upgrade with
unplayable files. Aren't the DRM wars great?
http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=357
(CNET)
Sony Picks on Blogger Over Jeopardy Spoiler
When blogger Jason Kottke posted an audio clip of Ken
Jennings' final appearance on Jeopardy, he wasn't
expecting the show's parent company to call in the
lawyers. Sony didn't send nastygrams to the
Washington Post or an ABC affiliate that
disseminated the same info:
http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=350
(Red Herring)
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Thanks for the "gift", thesidekickcat.
Fun site.
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Thanks, marty.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Bozodog
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I used to scan every night, and never had any problems.
When I installed Spywareblaster, it cut down on the amount of scanning I had to do. Now I do all of my scans once a week (Friday nights), and very seldom find any problems (can't remember last time).
Back to your original question; no, I don't believe scanning every other night, will cause any problems.
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Thanks, JSKY.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCREI!!!!
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not sure i understand your question but i downloaded the extensionHERE
wayne
I couldn't find Spellbound, on the regular extension sites. I wanted the link, to research it. I was going to install it, to see how it worked. I see you've got the problem solved, so ..... Never Mind.
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Do you have a link, for that extension?
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Thanks for the heads-up, marty.
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Happy Birthday, to the both of you.
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Welcome from Louisiana, Kip_666.
Hope you enjoy your stay.
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I always wondered, how that tradition came about. LOL
That's a good one, bozodog.
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Thanks, marty.
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Thanks for the heads-up, thesidekickcat.
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That sounds familiar. I think I've been there on more than 1 occasion (way, more than 1). LOL
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"Maybe one day I will be able to
play baseball. Right now I can only be third base."
i am a sick and twisted person... i was lmao...Cute tg...
Really tugs at your heart strings, don't it? LOL
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GIMPI!!!!
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I found this on another board.
Since Christmas is right around the corner ..........
Take the time to READ ALL OF THIS....you won't
be sorry.......
My name is Billy Evans. I am a very sick little boy.
My mother is typing this for me,
because I can't. She is crying. The reason she is so
sad is because I'm so sick.
I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except
when I try to breathe. The doctors
gave me an artificial body. It is a burlap bag filled
with leaves. The doctors said that
was the best they could do on account of us having no
money or insurance. I would like
to have a body transplant, but we need more money.
Mommy doesn't work because
she said nobody hires crying people. I said, "Don't
cry, Mommy," and she hugged my
burlap bag.
Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic
to burlap and it
makes her sneeze and chafes her real bad. I hope you
will help me. You can help me if
you forward this email to everyone you know. Forward
it to people you don't know, too.
Dr. Johansen said that for every person you forward
this email to, Bill Gates will team
up with AOL and send a nickel to NASA. With that
funding, NASA will collect prayers
from school children all over America and have the
astronauts take them up into space
so that the angels can hear them better. Then they
will come back to earth and go to
the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church
and send all the money to the
doctors. The doctors could help me get better then.
Maybe one day I will be able to
play baseball. Right now I can only be third base.
Every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can
take more prayers to the angels
and my dream will be closer to coming true. Please
help me.
Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my
leaves to rot before I turn 10. If
you don't forward this email, that's okay. Mommy says
you're a mean and heartless
bastard who doesn't care about a poor little boy with
only a head. She says that if you
don't stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden
stomach, she hopes you die a long
slow, horrible death and then burn forever in hell.
What kind of cruel person are you
that you can't take five freakin' minutes to forward
this to all your friends so that they
can feel guilt and shame about ignoring a poor,
bodiless nine-year-old boy?
Please help me. I try to be happy, but it's hard. I
wish I had a kitty. I wish I could hold a
kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty that wouldn't chew
on me and try to bury its turds in the
leaves of my burlap body. I wish that very much.
Thank You, Billy "Smiles" Evans :^)
P.S. You can send money to the person who sent you
this because that person is very
trustworthy. :^)
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tictoc5150, and tenmm, great posts.
It's amazing how a couple of words or punctuation, in the wrong place, can change the whole meaning of a sentence.
Here's one I got in an E-mail:
Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually
appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:
Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary
Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals."
The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon
tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in t
he recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.
Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of
those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget
your husbands.
The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled
due to a conflict.
Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile
at someone who is hard to love. Say "Hell" to someone who doesn't
care much about you.
Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving
obvious pleasure to the congregation.
For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a
nursery downstairs.
Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the
help they can get.
Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more
transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests
tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.
The Rector will preach his farewell message after which the choir
will sing: "Break Forth Into Joy."
Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in
the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.
Music will follow.
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is
Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of
several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be
recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
Please place your donation in the envelope a long with the
deceased person you want remembered.
Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a
healthy lunch.
The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment
and gracious hostility.
Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They
may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across
from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All
ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done.
The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would
lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please
use the back door.
The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the
Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to
attend this tragedy.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.
Please use large double door at the side entrance.
Birthdays
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Marsh-ox & mawood1231!!!!