This font pkg makes ansi fonts work in the terminal.app of osx. Hello my name is timball and I'm addicted to irc.

Put the ASCII.ttf into /Library/Fonts/ then in the terminal.app:

Terminal - Window Settings...
[Display]
Set Font...
All Fonts - New - Regular - 11pt

Set as default if you want it that way... I know I do.

--timball

Decius: Thank You! If someone had done this, say, 20 years ago macs might have actually been useful for BBSing and apple might have been in a better place in the market.

ASCII Font

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aftermath of incest
how to tell your family you're a victim of incest
pottery barn
can you adopt after a suicide attempt
i hate men
free remote keyloggers
baked macaroni and cheese with sour cream
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Cnet offers a few selected AOL users and their search terms. This is a very interesting window into imperfect human lives.

The secrets people whisper to Google

"This was a screw up, and we're angry and upset about it," AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein said. "It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant."

AOL: Searches by 650K People Got Out

Unbelievable. AOL released a file containing the search engine queries of over 500,000 users during a three month period. It's being mirrored all over.

Here is a screenshot of the download page before it was taken down, complete with a spelling error.. "ananomized"

This will probably be a watershed moment for Internet privacy.

Link to AOL data release

Gilmore is filing for the Supreme Court. Interestingly, they've dropped the arguement that the ID requirement is a violation of the 4th amendment and are simply focusing on the fact that TSA's signs are misleading as to the ID requirement.

Gilmore goes to the Supreme Court [PDF]

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) and Apple® today announced that hit programming from CNN, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Music Store (www.itunes.com). The new content features such favorites as Cartoon Network’s “Johnny Bravo,” Adult Swim’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and original episodes of the award-winning documentary series “CNN Presents,” all available for viewing on a computer or iPod®.

At $2 a show is this reasonable? Yes, actually, I think it is. If I add up the cost of my Tivo subscription and full cable, and divide by two, I think the resulting number is higher then the amount of television I watch a month. As more programs get added to this thing, I can just pay per view whenever I'm bored and I want to watch something. Television, for me, is now dead. I might miss it on days when, like, airplanes have hit the world trade center, but I'll bet I'll find other ways to get the information I want.

Only real thing that I'm waiting on is MTV. I want my MTV. Not bullshit MTV with the Real World and all that crap. The old MTV. With music videos all the time, and the occaisonal extremely strange animated feature. Maybe what I really want is MuchMusic. Whatever. I want it to just stream to me all the time. I don't want to pay per click or choose things from a menu, and I don't want to have to install a satellite system in order to watch it. Where is my MTV? Why is there no market for this? Kids these days. God!

New TBS, Inc. Network Programming from CNN, Adult Swim & Cartoon Network Now Available on the iTunes Music Store

How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day.

9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes

After two stalled attempts, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis rolled out to its Florida launch pad Wednesday as workers ready the space plane for a planned liftoff later this month.

SPACE.com -- After Weather Delays, Space Shuttle Atlantis Reaches Launch Pad

A suspicionless physical or x-ray search at the border of an inanimate object such as a person’s luggage or vehicle is generally viewed as reasonable because it does not pose the same degree of intrusiveness as searches of the human body. Furthermore, more intrusive or destructive border searches of such inanimate objects also may not require “reasonable suspicion.” In United States v. Flores-Montano, the Supreme Court held that the dismantling, removal, and reassembly of a vehicle’s fuel tank at the border was justified by the United States’ paramount interest in protecting itself and that it did not require reasonable suspicion. The Court found that the dignity and privacy interests that require reasonable suspicion for highly intrusive searches of the person did not apply to vehicles being examined at the border.

So, this article has lots of information about border searches. There is an argument that if you can completely dismantle a fuel tank at a border and put it back together, you ought to be able to dismantle a computer. However, I think there is also a counter argument, as the contents of a laptop are broad and extremely personal in nature and far more intrusive then searches of other inanimate objects. I think there is room for an amicus brief or even a court case arguing that you cannot search a laptop at a border unless you have reasonable suspicion.

Unfortunately, the bar for reasonable suspicion (which is all the suspicion needed for the "chemical enema" Acidus referenced in his post) seems to be so low that its basically a meaningless standard.

In United States v. Forbicetta, the court found reasonable suspicion to exist where Customs officials acted on the following objective facts: (1) the suspect arrived from Bogota, Colombia, (2) was traveling alone, (3) had only one suitcase and no items requiring Customs inspection, (4) was young, clean-looking, and attractive, and (5) was wearing a loose-fitting dress.

What a bunch of bullshit. Sounds like everyman (or everywoman as the case may be).

So, if there is anything that can be done here, its thin, thin, thin...

Protecting our Perimeter: Border Searches under the 4th Amendment

The routine border search of Romm’s laptop was reasonable, regardless whether Romm obtained foreign contraband in Canada or was under “official restraint.”

Finally, and for the first time in his reply brief, Romm argues the search of his laptop was too intrusive on his First Amendment interests to qualify as a “routine” border search. See generally Okafor, 285 F.3d at 846 (noting the difference between routine and non-routine searches). We decline to consider this issue here because “arguments not raised by a party in its opening brief are deemed waived.” See Smith v. Marsh, 194 F.3d 1045, 1052 (9th Cir. 1999). Therefore, evaluating the border search of Romm’s laptop solely as a routine search, we hold the district court correctly denied Romm’s motion to suppress.

Here the 9th blows right past the question of whether laptop searches are "routine." They assume it is. Romm's lawyers raise some questions about that, and the 9th refuses to consider them for a technical reason. They are underestimating the implications of their decision.

US v. Romm