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July 14 We Are Officially a Police StateWe are officially a police state. Go read your history of the Nazi and Soviet regimes, how they protected their states, and you can see the parallels with present practices of the American state. Yes, the American state, not just the Bush administration. We are all culpable either by our political actions or inaction. We deserve a police state. For those who oppose the actions of this administration on our behalf, you did not oppose it strenuously enough. For those who approved, you are fools, fascists, or practitioners of the most profound self deception. We all deserve what happened and what happens next. The vote to approve retroactive telecom immunity and to make legit warrantless intrusion into our lives limns our national character as something alien and ugly.
June 30 Links in lieu of me telling you what I said or said about mehttp://attrition.org/postal/z/037/1089.html June 25 OBAMA'S VP RUNNING MATENo previous job prepares a person to be president. I believe that all would be good choices for vice president and good presidents. Senator Obama choose one of these people: Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington Governor Joe Manchin of West Virginia Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona Representative Ron Paul of Texas Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri Representative Artur Davis of Alabama Susan Eisenhower, president of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon Representative Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin of Wisconsin Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont June 20 FREEWARE & some paidware programs I've Used and UseThis is an easy way to tell my friends the programs that I use, I consider good programs, and which may make computing simpler and safer. Non-friends can benefit from my amateur expertise. I recommend some sites for information about configuring, maintaining, and securing Windows XP systems (some include info on that dog Vista). You will note that I have bought* only about a dozen programs and the rest are freeware. The essential programs ERUNT, MozyHome, Online Armor, NOD32, Maxtor OneTouch, Sandboxie, Trojan Remover, SpywareBlaster, Password Safe, PGP Desktop, and Mozilla Firefox are important because in some way each add a layer of protection to my system. The router is the second layer; the first layer is whatever filtering the ISP does for malware and hack attacks. Get a router with NAT and SPI firewall. You see below what I have, but D-LInk and NetGear also make some good routers. paidware* freeware Much of this post a repeat of the previous post. I wanted to place the diagnostic, information, and testing site links closer to the top. Although I am a bit geeky on this, I am still very much an average end user. And I am poor, so most of the programs here are freeware. Some of the programs come in paid and free versions. Peace.
If you suspect that a file may be malware even though your present security programs did not detect them as such, you can upload the file to these scanning sites. They use multiple scanning engines. Virus Total http://www.virustotal.com/ Test your firewall and browsers on these sites: http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/index.php Check the evaluation of antivirus programs here: Check firewall evaluations here: Check these pages for information on configuring XP Professional, some settings also apply to Home too, and other sites for security information, and security programs. Optimize XP - good site for the novice Black Viper - good advice about how to configure XP and Vista for security Gizmo's TechSupportAlert (He produces a free internet publication and paid. Subscribe to one.) He lists the best free programs in all categories. You can populate your computer with all freeware if you wish. The Elder Geek on Windows XP Spyware Warrior Eric Howes' Privacy & Security Page on Spyware Warrior
Linksys WRT54G2 v1 Wireless Router * - You can find this at your local computer store, Circuit City, Best Buy (avoid their Geek Squad), or the like. Other programs that I use: BACKUP:: BROWSERS & MAIL: Mozilla Firefox is my default, but I can change defaults with a couple of clicks using BrowserTraySwitch. I use Flock, a social network browser for Facebook,Flickr, YouTube, and other social and photo sites. The other browser have different uses and with homepages that reflect their use. I have nine email addresses that I download into Mozilla Thunderbird and three more are downloaded to Windows Live Mail, but I leave one other as webmail. I use the Lightning addon for Mozilla Thunderbird which adds calendar function to it. DEFENCE: Eset NOD32 Antivirus* http://www.eset.com/ DIAGNOSTIC: ENCRYPTION: INTELLIGENCE: TCPView for Windows v2.53http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspxCurrPorts v1.36 - View Opened TCP/IP ports / connections http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
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freeware May 19 CBP, NKVD, or Gestapo?CBP, NKVD, or Gestapo? Logged in as: ________@_____.com (If you are not ________@_____.com click here.) Update My Question https://cbpcomplaints.cbp.gov/cgi-bin/cbpcomplaints.cfg/php/enduser/... Problem solved was the response of the Customs and Border Protection Agency. Here was my complaint, or harangue: Why are you searching laptops and other data storage devices and media at the borders? It has no efficacy, balanced against violating the rights of citizens, for discovering miscreants, either terrorists or other criminals. It is a behavior, I believe, more suited and practiced by the like of Nazi Germany, the old Soviet state, and other police states. Your behavior and the courts decision, the reversal of a lower court's decision, have finally convinced me to buy strong encryption to This was the response of the Customs and Border Protection Agency: Discussion Thread Auto-Response 05/17/2008 10:44 AM And this is my response to it. I could understand, somewhat, doing the searches of media devices and media storage of non-citizens, perhaps of people suspected, probable cause, of smuggling narcotics or possessing child pornography, but you do random searches or searches of all without probable cause. What is your reaction if I have the data on my computer encrypted and refuse to decrypted it for you? I will do this unless the congress and/or the courts do not stop this practice. I will, if this occurs to me, fight this in the courts and congress for the remainder of my life if necessary. I am a Republican, patriotic, but a libertarian in political ideology, so you know where I am coming from. Stop giving me the programmed spiel "There are many reasons for deciding to examine someone. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a program of random checks that helps us calibrate our information regarding smuggling trends. In addition, CBP officers will occasionally observe something that fits a smuggling characteristic. They will then want to conduct a search to see if anything else in the passenger's goods or answers would provide information that would indicate whether or not there is additional need for concern. Many people think that Officers only target people who look disreputable or suspicious, and are therefore offended when they themselves are singled out. Please be aware, some of CBP's biggest seizures have come from inspections of "respectable looking" people, such as grandmothers, corporate executives, college professors, etc. Everyone is subject to a CBP inspection when they arrive in the U.S." You are infringing on the privacy and abrogating the rights of the many to catch a few. To extend your logic, the police departments should search every apartment and house in the cities; I am sure that they would catch some criminals by doing this. But this is the United States of America and we have a Constitution that constrains the use of government power. These constraints keep us free. If this practice of yours continues you may lose the respect, trust, and cooperation of the American people. When that happens your job will be impossible. Random searches is the problem. Do you have any people in your department who understand the internet? All a terrorist needs to do is upload plans outside the country to online storage encrypted and simply download when in the country. Or they can simply use a lowtech approach and send someone with a photograpic memory with the plans memorized, or someone with the plans written in code in an innocent looking notepad whereas it appears to be a diary, travelogue, or other notes. You plan to confiscate all these? I fear for this country when the people who are supposed to protect us are bumblers, who don't know the Constitutional protections or even care, and cannot or will not do the real, hard work of valid, none intrusive intelligence to protect us. Americans have to protect themselves from enemies foreign and domestic. You are increasingly becoming the domestic enemy. Take a civics course! April 27 Simple honest speech
Simple honest speech a rarity in public discourse a rarity in private. Say the facts, some say you opine. Some opinions you hear spoken as if fact.
In politics, the occupation of governance, simple honest speech the necessary requirement to produce a free, peaceful society; language without guile, pretension, or calumny in which you try to clarify public policy, not obscure. Language that you do not need to parse to understand.
President Bush, vice president Chaney, secretary Rice, secretary Rumsfeld please simple honest speech profane liars ever choose.
for,and under the influence of, Ronnog Seaberg (1932 – 2007). Photo by Mark Wolfe
April 14 WhosOnSecondYeah, it's a play on a play on baseball play by that classic comic duo; the first was used so it had to take seconds, but it ain't second-rate. Naw, it ain't second to any other. If you are interested in baseball cards, basketball cards, et cetera cards play your cards right and check on by this site. I am tired of my own tired word games, so some plain old lingo: Whos On Second Sports Website For Card Sharks is run by a fanatical Yankee fan and card collector. It is a work of love by a nice guy, Steve Salinas. You damn right I'm biased, he has been a friend for over a decade. Check out the site even if you are not a card collector or sports fan because he has a resident curmudgeon who is a Brooklyn Dodgers, Greenbay Packers, and Chicago Bulls fan. He does not collect cards; he just contributes to Salinas' site Side Arm Pitch, a column of what moves from his brain to the keyboard. Guess who's on second with his friend Steve. Go by, leave a comment, say I sent you along.
rare july © 2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly
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