[wraithdev] DL.Net E·Zine Issue #1
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- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 20:27:48 -0400
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A Dissertation About Nothing
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Well, here's the first issue of DL.NetZine, the DigitaLucifer
Digest. Alot, if not all, of the information on the site will be
distributed in here on a fairly regular basis. The zine's only coming
out when there's enough content to put it out but hopefully that should
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"You need only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move
and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape."
- C. Leigh Nic Fhionghaile
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"I would, that I could, make myself devour raw your flesh for the
evil you have brought upon me."
-Achilles (to Hector)
"The Germans do not think it in keeping with the divine majesty to
confine gods within walls or to portray them in the likeness of any
human countenance. Their holy places are woods and groves, and they
apply the names of deities to that hidden presence which is seen
only by the eye of reverence."
-Tacitus
"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he
will be making gods by the dozens."
-Montaigne
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the
absence in Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
-Havelock Ellis
"To create robots that devour flesh is to step over a line that we
would be insane to cross."
-Anonymous
<bahaha> is deep red any good?
<HorrorgasM> whats that
<bahaha> a band
<HorrorgasM> well they suck then
<bahaha> how is that?
<HorrorgasM> i heard theyre all gay
<bahaha> oh
vvraith9: ever get yr birthchart done?
scabulous666: birthchart?
vvraith9: yeah sort of like a skymap of where everything was when
you were spawned from thy mother's snatch
scabulous666: nah
vvraith9: everything's connected by lines and mine has a big ole
pentagram in it. i bet yours has a big ole star of david
scabulous666: yours has the wiccan pentagram
vvraith9: nope my single point is facing down. is yoru single point
face your mother's anus?
scabulous666: yup
scabulous666: nice
vvraith9: you're gonna be a star, my boy... a star of david
scabulous666: ima send a hose straight up your ass, shoot gasoline
inside and light it on fire
vvraith9: you'd like to stick your hose in my ass wouldnt you. you
put the ho in homo, you didnt even buy me dinner, biatch
scabulous666: i wouldnt have charged you if you wanted to jug down
loads of cum. but, you wanted the tossed salad so i made you
pay
scabulous666: sick bastard
vvraith9: suck my peppercorn dressing, you ceasar salad eating jew
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The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes
Translated by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D. -=- Edited by Michael Moynihan
Dominion Press | Rûna-Raven Press
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1885972210/qid=1017450906/sr=2-1/
ref=sr_2_1/103-1048933-7471067
The Lord of the Rings trilogy -=- J.R.R. Tolkien
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
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I took a gander over at the lovely |Slashdot.Org| this afternoon
and here's what I found...
Phil Zimmerman and PGP at CNN.com
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 22, @01:19PM
from the stuff-to-encrypt dept.
rick_campbell writes "CNN is carrying an article about Phil Zimmerman
and the fact that Network Associates is dropping support for the
commercial version of Pretty Good Privacy. The article includes a
little bit of Phil's take on the situation, a little history and some
discussion of why this happened and what alternatives exist."
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/22/1549249.shtml?tid=9
GPL's Strength
Posted by Hemos on Monday April 22, @07:52AM
from the the-strength-of-the-gpl dept.
Morty writes "So, why hasn't the GPL been successfully challenged
yet? In this article, Eben Moglen, General Counsel to the FSF,
explains that the GPL is in a stronger legal position than most
licenses. Most licenses restrict the user from doing what would
otherwise be legal. Because the GPL (and presumably, other free/open
software licenses) let the user do things that are otherwise illegal
(copy and redistribute software), the GPL is in a stronger position
to dictate terms. If the user doesn't accept the terms of the GPL,
the default is for copying and redistribution to be forbidden under
copyright law. I had never looked at it that way before. . ."
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/21/0152239.shtml?tid=117
Linked: {http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.html}
"The license does not require anyone to accept it in order to
acquire, install, use, inspect, or even experimentally modify GPL'd
software. All of those activities are either forbidden or controlled
by proprietary software firms, so they require you to accept a
license, including contractual provisions outside the reach of
copyright, before you can use their works. The free software
movement thinks all those activities are rights, which all users
ought to have; we don't even want to cover those activities by
license. Almost everyone who uses GPL'd software from day to day
needs no license, and accepts none. The GPL only obliges you if you
distribute software made from GPL'd code, and only needs to be
accepted when redistribution occurs. And because no one can ever
redistribute without a license, we can safely presume that anyone
redistributing GPL'd software intended to accept the GPL. After all,
the GPL requires each copy of covered software to include the
license text, so everyone is fully informed."
Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes
Posted by chrisd on Monday April 22, @05:55AM
from the the-computer-is-your-protector dept.
hairybacchus writes: "The Independent News is reporting that
scientists at Kingston University in London have developed video
processing software that is able to predict behavior patterns of the
people on-screen. They say it will be used to alleviate congestion in
the London Underground or alert police to potential muggings. I
wonder how long it will be before this is combined with face-
recognition technology? It's spooky." I can't wait. "We searched you
because the computer told us to." Trust the Computer
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/21/2224252.shtml?tid=158
Spyware Makers Resent Cleaned-Up Versions
Posted by timothy on Thursday April 25, @07:13PM
from the have-some-injury-with-your-insult dept.
Tri0de points to a ZDnet artcle on a programmer who's taken it upon
himself to release spyware- and adware-free versions of popular file-
sharing programs. "'He's done Grokster and iMesh. And he's not alone.
His work, now available through the Grokster and iMesh networks
themselves, joins that of other programmers who have previously
"cleaned" programs such as Kazaa and Audiogalaxy in a campaign
against "adware" and "spyware." Is the shoe on the other foot?'"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/25/2224230&mode=thread&tid=158
included link: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-891761.html
RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday April 26, @09:36AM
from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.
Sydney Weidman writes "RIAA has given testimony before the House
Appropriations Committee asking for more federal money for Computer
Hacking and Intellectual Property investigation teams. You can find
RIAA's side of the story here and a Cnet story is available as well.
Apparently, RIAA is not satisfied with the current deployment of CHIP
teams since they have been more involved in anti-hacking activities
than in anti-piracy. My favourite Hilary Rosen quote: "Piracy is not
a private offense, it hurts everyone by diminishing the incentive to
invest in the creation of music." I guess Rosen won't be happy until
each and every pirate is charged with crimes against humanity and
convicted by the International Court of Justice"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/26/1236245&mode=thread&tid=99
testimony link: http://www.riaa.org/pdf/WolfhearingTestimony4-23-02.pdf
riaa's side: http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=511
cnet story: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-891521.html
and in related news... ;) -= MUAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! =-
The Culture of CD Burning
Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 23, @02:05PM
from the yeast-yogurt-and-mp3s dept.
An anonymous reader points to this "good article from the Boston Globe
about the culture of CD burning, and how hard it will be for the RIAA
to stop it. Some interesting quotes: 'There's a "sex appeal" to
burning CDs, says [Sheryl] Crow, adding that it is a social event for
young people, just as listening to 45s was once a social event for
their parents. ' An interesting one from Hilary Rosen: "I ask them,
'What have you done last week?' They may say they wrote a paper on
this or that. So I tell them, 'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an
A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get
an A too? Would that bug you?' So this sense of personal investment
does ring true with people." Seems like at least one musician thinks
his A paper is being peddled all over town.
I grabbed these from links in Slashdot articles...
"The Tokyo District Court last week ruled that Tokyo-based MMO Japan
is prohibited from offering users its online file-swapping service,
dubbed File Rogue. That decision, which marks the first court ruling
in Japan on the issue, comes just weeks after a Dutch appeals court
essentially rejected liability against file-swapping software maker
Kazaa for distributing its code."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=70&70&e=15&u=
/cn/20020417/tc_cn/international_rulings_cloud_file_swapping
"3Com puts firewall on an NIC
17:01 Thursday 25th April 2002
Peter Judge
Firewalls built into network interface cards help offload work from
the processors of desktop PCs, and aid centralised security
3Com has launched a network interface card (NIC) with a firewall
in firmware, to minimise risks and enforce security policies inside
the enterprise. The NIC is intended for desktops and servers.
Embedded Firewall is a firmware version of Secure Computing's
firewall, and loads onto the 3CR990 -- a 3Com NIC that includes a
processor and memory intended to support extra applications. So far
the 3CR990 has been sold with an encryption application, which
offloads encryption tasks from the host CPU, but the firewall is the
next security application in a list which 3Com intends to add."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109150,00.html
http://slashdot.org
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March 29, 2002 - Issue 16 of the TinyApps.Org Newsletter...
The 5k contest is going on now {http://the5k.org}. For those not in the
know, this is a contest wherein the contestants create a website with
HTML and CSS allowed of a size of 5 kilobytes or less. The best ones
win, yadda yadda. I've been so busy this year, maybe I'll give it a go
next year... These were last year's winners:
IDEO ASCII TYPESETTER
http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=cache:582I6vsUtYsC:entries.the5k.
org/364/font.html+IDEO+ASCII+TYPESETTER&hl=ja
Timepiece
http://www.jenweb.net/norm/5k/t.htm
"fully functional 5k calendar"
http://www.admataz.com/webobjects/5kcalendar/
I was very happy to see a non-installing version of BK ReplaceEm added
to the TinyApps list. Its a very powerful text search and replace
program that runs in under 413kb zipped. Very sweet, I use it all the
time. link: http://www.flex.com/~mdw/bkrepl.zip
http://tinyapps.org
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I am a fairly hateful person. I have great disdain for those who
would seek to cause harm in my life to myself or those I care for. For
the masses I feel merely indifferent until they become, to my perception,
individual and give me reason to either like or dislike them. The
majority acheive the latter. Now, I embrace this part of my personality
wholly and with great pride. I dedicate as much time to hating those
whom I hate as I do loving those whom I love. Selective misanthropy is
what I've oft referred to it as - I can think of no better term. I find,
with this, a kinship in others who feel the same or similar. I befriend
and associate with those who have made a name in hatred and those
capable of great & mighty hatred. I also tend to be disruptive towards
chatrooms, making it a pasttime to fuck with people, per sé. I enjoy
taunting them, finding weaknesses and exploiting them, deceiving them...
what can I say, its fun! I definitely am selfish, but not so much as to
cause harm to those I care for. I love those whom I love wholly, and
hate those whom I hate just as wholly. In balance, there is peace with
self.
There are more aspects to myself than will be outlined on a
profile page. There are more aspects to any one mind than can be
outlined in some hypertext markup. I will, though, touch on a subject a
bit dear to me: music. I like many things. What I am listening to at the
moment is most prevalent in this moment so I will mention that first.
Emperor's 'Beyond The Great Vast Forest' is coming through my stereo
speakers and Emperor's 'Towards The Pantheon' will follow it. In this
particular genre, I enjoy the following fairly frequently: Dark Funeral,
Dimmu Borgir, Venom, Acheron, Emperor (obviously), Marduk, and some
others not present in my mind this moment. Other genres I frequently
indulge my ears in are: Industrial, Electronic, Death Metal, Thrash,
Grindcore, Hardcore (80's and current), Punk (all sorts, not including
the Blink182/Green Day [ugh] flavor), Classical / Symphonic (Mozart's
'O Fortuna' lives on forever!), "Goth", Grunge, and various noise .
ambient . chaotic . experimental projektz that can be found home and
abroad.
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The Mythological Implications of Superstitious Twits:
A Dissertation About Absolutely Nothing Targetting
The Efficient Waste Of Your Time, or "Hello, World!"
Life
Really now, who knows what lies beneath the folds of time
and further more, who gives a shit? As it was stated many times
previous to this work of text: you are born, you grow live feed
develop devour, and you amount to what in the end? What is the
sum of your life? Does anyone care? Did anyone notice? Did you
even give a shit if anyone noticed? Likely negative in all of the
aforementioned respects -- and justly so! What it all comes down
to is this: you are living /your/ life and /your/ life only, so
in /your/ life, please yourself. Who cares about the mysteries
of the universe? If they don't just fall into your hands, they're
a waste to even know because you will never use them - having
wasted your life looking for them. If they do indeed fall into
your hands, seek global domination! Set yourself forth and do
what your little heart contents! You are not obligated for any
reason under any universal ethical moral tenet to improve the
world. Live life and live it enjoyably. It is good to remember
though, that if you are an asshole to people, they will make your
life fucking miserable and if you are an asshole to your own
planet then it will make your life really fucking miserable... so
don't be a dickhead about enjoying life.
Death
In this little tidbit, I will go over why some of the
things I just stated are complete and utter bullshit. First of
all, it should be noted that there are absolutely no absolutes
(and anyone familiar with the critique of writing knows I will be
highly criticized for stating a paradoxal truth such as that --
but fuck all, I'm making a point!) - this includes completely the
existence of the exceptions to each and every rule. There are in
this world laws and rules and patterns in which everything flows.
Each and every one of these laws, rules, patterns (and everything
else in known existence for that matter) has atleast one
exception, in alot of cases multiple. People grow too comfortable
with their laws and flows of the universe, failing to comprehend
the exception -- even when its right smack in their fucking face
taking a putrid dehydratedly-dark piss in their mothers' mouths.
It's pathetic and I really fucking hate those people. They will
never amount to shit nor will they /ever/ have even a shimmer of
hope of evolving.
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Purpose:
It is the purpose of this essay to outline the
connections between Sumerian culture and the Third Reich that I
have discovered in my research into the world of the Sumerians.
Some readers of this essay may mistakenly surmise that I am a
Nazi. This is not so. I do not hate any one race. My hatred,
though owned by the masses, is directed at specific people and
attitudes. I have derived some connections in my research that
have led me to conclude the overtaking of Sumer by the early
Semitic nomads was an influencing factor in Hitler's quest
against the Jews. I have presented this theory to many people
whom are knowledgeable in this area of study and the general
response is, "coincidence". If it is merely coincidence, then boy
what a coincidence!
Reasonings:
1. Ninhursag birthed the god Nazi to heal Enki.
2. One of the cultures to produce the Swastika was Sumer (it
symbolized power).
3. The early Semites destroyed/took-over Mesopotamia. Hitler
killed many Jews during WW2.
4. Hitler studied Sumerian culture. Germany was one of the
nations excavating Sumer around that time.
List Expanded:
I. The Sumerian tablet titled, 'Enki And Ninhursag: The Affairs
Of The Water-God', reads:
Ninhursag: "My brother, what hurts thee?"
Enki: "my [unknown word] hurts me."
Ninhursag: "To the god Nazi I gave birth for thee."
And later in this tablet:
Enki: "Let Nazi marry Nindar"
The name Nazi translates to, "to destroy the past", or "destroyed",
in the Sumerian language. "Na", is a Sumerian word that when used
as a prefix denotes past-tense. "Zi", can mean either "life",
"breath", "soul", or "to destroy". In a past-tense, Na-Zi can be
translated as one of the following: lived, soulless, or destroyed.
Either way, Na-Zi would regard an end to life in some form or
another. The traditional origin of the term Nazi is "National
Socialism". Every single person I have presented the theory of
the term actually being derived from the deity claim it is merely
coincidence. They say there is no way National Socialism is just
a mask, a smoke screen, for the true purpose of the Third Reich.
Maybe National Socialism was a convenient cover. If so, it was
obviously very effective. These consulted people also deny that
the Nazi movement had any connections with the occult. This is
definitely for lack of facts. There has been much uncovered to a
side of the Nazi movement which studied and practiced the occult.
Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, appointed Karl Maria Wiligut
as head of Prehistory in the SS. Wiligut discovered and put into
practice ancient Germanic rituals, some of which Himmler himself
partook. For those wishing to reference this or review documents
pertaining directly to this, I highly reccomend the Rûna-Raven
Press book, The Secret King. It is translated into English by
Stephen Flowers, PhD. A great deal of the symbolism directly
involved with the Nazi movement had Runic roots. Wherever the
source may be debated, the Nazi movement had strong occult
influence.
II. Many regions produced the swastika, the most well-known
being the Nordic. The one I am focussing on here is Sumer. The
swastika was a symbol of power to the Sumerians. It symbolised
the eternal cycle of power. To the Sumerian, it was life, just as
it symbolised Odin's Wheel in Nordic cultures, the eternal cycles
of time. This is not to say the true source for the swastika was
Sumer, but perhaps it helped in their decision to utilize it.
III. Around 2000 BC, Semitic nomads invaded Mesopotamia and over
time the region became dominantly Semitic, and eventually
completely Semitic. Signs are pointing to the war waged on Jews
by Hitler to have motivations in this act. That the destruction
of Sumer by the Semites could be an influencing factor in
Hitler's war is not an impossibility.
IV. It is well-known that Germany studied Sumerian culture.
Around the time of the Third Reich, Germany was one of the many
cultures excavating Mesopotamia. It wouldn't be too far off to
surmise he discovered a few things about their culture that
fueled this quest.
Conclusion:
It is my personal conclusion that, though it was not the
main reason, the destruction of Sumer by the Semitic peoples was
an influencing factor in Hitler's quest against the Jews. The
Jewish people were not the only ones slaughtered and may not even
make a majority of them, but they were a very prominent piece of
the Concentration Camps. The focussing on the Jewish population
of these camps is reminiscent of the Roman Empire's execution of
Christians. The Christians did not make up even close to a
majority of the criminals put to death in the Roman Empire, yet
they focus on that particular people more than any other, just as
the Jews have this focus on them in the death camps more than the
Gypsies, homosexuals, or any other peoples put to death there.
Why is it that the Judaic variants of people have more importance
in history than everyone else? Maybe it is because the people
writing the history books are of the Judaic pantheon of variants.
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____________________
transcription of letter from VeriSign
Domain Name Expiration Notice
Reply by: April 19, 2002
Renewal Rate: $29 annually per domain name
Instructions:
1) Complete the attached form.
2) Provide credit card information for payment.
3) Sign the form to authorize your renewal, transfer and payment.
4) Fax form to 1-866-234-4134 or mail it in the enclosed envelope.
it then proceeded to list domain(s) for renewal and give space
for cc info & such.
____________________
email from service@xxxxxxxxxxx
Please be aware that Verisign, Inc. (formerly Network Solutions)
is sending via the US Mail, what we believe to be deceptive and
predatory domain expiration notices.
The purpose behind these notices is to get the unsuspecting
customer to transfer to and renew their domain name(s) with
Verisign Inc. at significantly higher prices.
The domain expiration notices are designed so that it is not
obvious that the notices are from Verisign, Inc. as opposed to
Go Daddy Software. To see a copy of one of these deceptive
expiration notices, please go to the following URL:
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/private_vsrn.asp?display=letter.
Those customers who fall prey to the Verisign, Inc. scheme will
have their domain name(s) renewed at a price more than 3 times
higher than would be the case if they renewed with Go Daddy
Software.
For a .com, .net or .org domain name renewal, the victimized
customer would pay $29.00 to Verisign, Inc. instead of the $8.95
charged by Go Daddy Software.
Those customers who fall prey to this scheme, will not receive
any better service or value. They will however be tricked out of
$20.05 per domain name.
Renewal notices from Go Daddy Software are sent via email, and
always mention the Go Daddy name. You can be sure that any
communications you receive concerning your domain name that do
not explicitly and obviously display the Go Daddy name are not
from Go Daddy Software.
If you believe, as we do, that this practice of Verisign Inc. is
misleading, predatory and improper, we invite you to make your
feelings known by writing to ICANN (who is the governing body for
all Registrar's and Registries) and to Verisign Registry. Email
links for both are provided below.
Sincerely,
Bob Parsons, President
Go Daddy Software, Inc.
ICANN Registrar Complaint Form (hosted at InterNIC)
http://www.internic.net/cgi/registrars/problem-report.cgi
VeriSign Registry Customer Service
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 703-948-3200
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Letter submitted to ICANN via complaint form
Yesterday, March 22 2002, I received in the mail a letter from
Verisign stating that it was time to renew my domain. Keep in
mind now, they are not nor have they ever been my registrar.
Though price is not the issue, their service is roughly twenty
dollars more than GoDaddy's (my registrar) therefore if I had not
noticed the small Verisign logo at the top corner and realized
what this was, I would have lost that bit of money. According to
an email I received from my registrar this morning, Verisign is
doing this to all or most GoDaddy customers. To me, this is bad
business practice and just plain predatory advertising. The
letter was laid out and written as if they were my registrar when
indeed they never were. Please do look into this. Thank you for
your time.
_________________________
Email received from another host and registrar i use
Dear *****,
ICANN has sent the following notice regarding 'fraudulent'
solicitation coming from a 'dispute resolution; provider:
Many domain-name registrants are receiving "Domain Dispute
Notification" mailings from an entity identifying itself as
"XChange Dispute Resolution." The mailings falsely state that
XChange is an "ICANN authorized arbitrator" and that the
registrant must mail in a "security deposit fee" to defend
"ownership of the domain name."
A scanned copy of the deceptive mailings is available at:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-exh-08apr02.htm
The mailing instructs registrants to send a check for the
security deposit, made payable to "XChange Reciprocal Services"
at 490 Fallon Road, Petaluma, CA 94952-9655.
The sender of these notices has not been approved by ICANN as a
provider of dispute-resolution services under ICANN's Uniform
Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). The authoritative
list of all approved providers is posted on the ICANN website at:
http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/approved-providers.htm
Registrants should not send money as requested by this notice.
Registrants who receive the notice should contact an appropriate
governmental law enforcement/consumer protection agency to report
the incident. Recipients can also fax the notice to ICANN at
+1 310 823-8649.
The complete text of the advisory is available on the ICANN
website at:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-08apr02.htm>.
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