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Re: FR Down in Virginia --- In freerepublic2@yahoogroups.com, "freeper_p8riot" wrote: > > Went down just a few minutes ago > It is down here as well...El Paso area. Seems to be missing from my DNS server? I can get on FR if I use the TOR network. peculiar....it's like someone erased FR from the domain name server list...all I get is Address Not Found Firefox can't find the server at www.freerepublic.com.

Walked over to Juarez Mexico this morning...took some clips of the many soldiers deployed on the streets...they are everywhere. Thought fellow freeper might like to see a compilation of clips so I uploaded to youtube....if you click the [HD] box you can watch it in nearly the original quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNM4VM236E

Rand Memorial Hospital in the Bahamas tells TMZ the son of John Travolta died today. We're told 16-year-old Jett was vacationing with Travolta and wife Kelly Preston. We do not know the circumstances of his death. There have been reports that Jett was autistic, though Travolta has denied it, saying he suffers from Kawasaki Syndrome, a condition which often leads to heart disease. UPDATE: 4:00 PM ET -- Travolta's attorney Michael Ossi says Jett suffered a seizure at his family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he...

Rant: The Lesson We Haven't Learned Prohibition of alcohol as a legal institution ended 75 years ago today. It was the second-worst thing that the United States has ever baked into its legal system. Slavery was far worse, of course, though slavery was not originally an American idea and came to us from far older cultures. Prohibition created the Mafia (see Colin Wilson's The Criminal History of Mankind) and legitimized the sort of neighbor-against-neighbor suspicion and all-your-privacy-are-belong-to-us government overreaching that psychopathic idealism (in the person of Woodrow Wilson, the most evil man ever to hold the Presidency in the US)...

I lived through Goldwater to see Reagan and be part of his kitchen cabinet. I lived through Clinton to see Newt become Speaker. I lived through brain cancer. I'll live through this, provided I can catch up with the work piled up in front of me, and now I have to go out and GET DOG FOOD, which is more important than anything else. We sure don't want Sable to go hungry! And I am getting my platinum subscriber list straightened out and in doing so found A REAL BUG in Outlook 2007 that is not in Outlook 2003. I...

Fantasy? Or Science Fiction? "Hilary? Hey, John McCain here. How's it going? Yes. Understood. I read the news. Look, I'll get to the point: Do you still want to be President? I think I can help get you there. It's unorthodox, but hear me out. "Your party is in trouble. Once the media decided to anoint Obama as our next President, they turned on you, and split the Democrats wide-open. My numbers people tell me that about a quarter of your supporters would rather vote Republican than vote for Obama. They may not actually do that; they may just stay...

ReviveTube allows you to watch and download YouTube videos that have been deleted or removed by user. Note this tool can't revive every video, but it can handle most. http://revivetube.com/

RIAA aims lawyers at usenet newsgroup service 'Worse than P2P' By Cade Metz in San Francisco → Published Wednesday 17th October 2007 22:42 GMT The Recording Industry Ass. of America has now attacked a company that provides access to internet newsgroups. Last Friday, RIAA lawyers chucked a federal lawsuit at Usenet.com, claiming that the Fargo, North Dakota newsgroup service "enables and encourages" people to swap copyrighted music. The organization that represents the country's big-name record labels is convinced that Usenet.com infringes copyrights in ways that extend well beyond peer-to-peer file-sharing services. "[Usenet.com] provides essentially the same functionality that P2P services...

The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free 2007 is turning out to be a terrible year for the music industry. Or rather, a terrible year for the the music labels. The DRM walls are crumbling. Music CD sales continue to plummet rather alarmingly. Artists like Prince and Nine Inch Nails are flouting their labels and either giving music away or telling their fans to steal it. Another blow earlier this week: Radiohead, which is no longer controlled by their label, Capitol Records, put their new digital album on sale on the Internet for whatever price people want to pay...

Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer’s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes. Now scientists at Northwestern University have discovered why brain insulin signaling -- crucial for memory formation -- would stop working in Alzheimer’s disease. They have shown that a toxic protein found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, rendering those neurons insulin resistant. (The protein, known to attack memory-forming synapses, is called an...

EFF: AT&T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA April 07, 2006 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T. After asking EFF to hold back the documents so that it could review them, the Department of Justice consented to EFF's filing them under seal -- a well-established procedure that prohibits public access and permits only the judge and the litigants to see the evidence. While not a party to the case, the government was concerned that even this procedure would not provide...

Strike Is On TWU Announces System-Wide Transit Strike, Starting Immediately December 20, 2005 # See the contingency plan The fears of countless commuters have been realized this morning, as the Transport Workers Union announced at 3 a.m. that a system-wide public transit strike will begin immediately. The announcement, made after a vote of the TWU's executive board, means that the union's 34,000 MTA employees will leave their posts at the end of their shifts, shutting down the city's subway and bus system and thwarting millions of commuters and countless tourists on the cusp of the holiday season. "Our contract expired...

Rumor is afoot that Hollywood is taking another crack at the Broadcast Flag on Capitol Hill, this time by sneaking a Flag provision into an appropriations bill before the Senate. If what we hear is true, the provision will be introduced before a subcommittee tomorrow and before the full appropriations committee on Thursday. That gives us 48 hours to stop it. EFF's action alert, geared to people with senators on the committee, is here. Public Knowledge also provides a number of excellent talking points in an email urging readers to phone their senators: * There has been No Debate in...

This German article is translated to English. Harald Bögeholz At Your Disservice How ATA security functions jeopardize your data With most notebooks it is possible to secure the hard disk against unauthorized access with the aid of a password. Without the latter the disk, even when inserted into another computer, won't divulge its data. In the meantime this security function has become a feature of all 3.5" ATA hard disks and can hence be used - and abused - on desktop PCs! One morning the screen stays blank - disk boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter. Could it...

Scientists map high-tech war on Utah crickets Tiny radios track the critters, give clues on how to stop them from marauding By Valerie Bauman The Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Armed with a glue gun and radio transmitters the size of a penny, a University of North Carolina scientist is trying to stop mass insect migrations that devastate ranches in the Mountain West. Mormon crickets, also known as flightless katydids, travel in massive packs, devouring all surrounding terrain as they move. Packs of the bugs can cover more than a mile a day and devastate crops. Scientists are trying...

March 11, 2005 VoIP to Fuel Plague of 'Dialing for Dollars' By Michael Singer Voice over IP (VoIP) promises to radically change the way companies do business, but one side effect of less expensive communications threatens to give the whole ecosystem a black eye. Overseas telemarketers are quickly learning that they can use IP voice calls to "dial for dollars," getting around both traditional long-distance cost constraints and U.S. Do-Not-Call regulations to flood Internet traffic with phone calls that would make even the most egregious spammer blush. "If you thought spam was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet," Burton Group...

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just announced that it has become a financial sponsor of Tor, an open-source project to help people 'engage in anonymous communication online.' It sounds like a simpler version of Freenet, e.g. 'a network-within-a-network that protects communication from ... traffic analysis.' Like Freenet, the source-code is freely available and binaries exist for Windows, Linux, etc." Read on for more details.The submitter continues "It also allows you to install Tor-aware apps, such as an HTTP proxy (for private browsing), or maybe private P2P? Unlike Freenet, it doesn't use massive encryption (as far as I can tell) and...

Head turning Headlines! Grandmother of eight makes hole in one Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing House passes gas tax onto senate Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan Two convicts evade noose, jury hung William Kelly was fed secretary Milk drinkers are turning to powder Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted Quarter of a million Chinese live on water Farmer bill dies in house Iraqi head seeks arms Queen Mary having bottom scraped Is there a ring of debris around Uranus? Prostitutes appeal to Pope Panda mating fails - veterinarian takes over NJ judge to...

French Sources: Arafat is Brain Dead 20:03 Nov 04, '04 / 20 Cheshvan 5765 French news services continue to report that Arafat is "brain dead," that he will not wake up from his present coma, and that the only thing separating him from death is the machine to which he is attached. All earlier reports of Arafat's death pulled to a full stop when doctors at the French hospital in which he is hospitalized said clearly this evening, "Arafat has not died." The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, who had stated that Arafat was dead, was forced to issue an embarrassing...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Integer Overflow in Processing Bitmap Files Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1009067 CVE Reference: GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH (Links to External Site) Date: Feb 15 2004 Impact: Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network Exploit Included: Yes Version(s): 5 (6 is reportedly not vulnerable) Description: A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) version 5. A remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system. It is reported that a remote user can create a specially crafted bitmap file that, when loaded by IE, will trigger an integer overflow and execute...