Saturday, November 29, 2003

Rick-O-La





My Buddy Rick. Krystin took this picture -- actually got his face on this one! Ha ha!

Thursday, November 27, 2003

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

FlyDLUX Update

I got this email today >>

From: Yutkanany@aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:52:28 EST
Subject: flydlux
To: mailto:markhopkins@broadcast.net

DEAR MARK,
I HOPE YOU NOW KNOW WHO YOU'RE GOOD FRIEND "THE RABBI" IS
HE WOULD EVEN BURY YOU, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO WISEN UP AND SPILL THE BEANS. HE DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR DEVOTION, OR PROTECTION......DO EVERYONE A BIG SERVICE AND HELP PUT HIM AND HIS FRIENDS BEHIND BARS, AND HELP EVERYONE RECOUP THEIR MONIES






I'm a bit tired of you people not understanding the concept of what is being put in front of you. There are reasons for the things that are going on. I'm going to start putting up some audio blogs if I can set this up properly tonight with full details ... but let me send you here (go to the downloads section) -- what you see here is all the documents relating to FlyDLUX's finances that I've pulled together -- it indicates that the burden of proving innocence lies not with me, or Rabbi, but with Tony. Tony is the person all this money went to. Tony is the one holding hostage all the tickets. Tony is the one who should provide an accounting. If anyone of you has ANY viable arguments to that, speak up now on this public or private forum with cogent, well designed arguments, or stop lobbing baseless accussations at me or anyone else.

As always, be well, and stay tuned here for details.

/rizzn

PS: Apparently, Paypal has once again decided to steal money from me. Again. This time fifty bucks. For no reason. I hate my life.

link for james

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Thursday, November 20, 2003

What to do if your mom finds your blog!

I should have had this back in the day.



Quote of the Entry: "Bigamy: One too many wives. Monogamy: See Bigamy"

Update ...

I'm at a Kinko's. I still don't have access to any mail but my broadcast.net account, so send your mail there for the time being.



My place is actually starting to look like a place to live. On the other hand, I'm very very much missing my slimee. She is in Canada for her MA graduation. I wanted to join her up there, but I think I have too much work to do.



I wound up giving Rabbi most of his stuff back. I wanted to hold on to it for back-pay, but he was about to march into a police station and file a police report on me for holding on to the office equipment. I just don't need that right now -- so I caved and gave him most of the stuff back. I kept a desk and a few old misc. items that I could sell.



I'm very very tired. I'm going to finish the work I came up here to do and go back to sleep.



/rizzn

Finally, Some Sort of Victory for Privacy

Court limits in-car FBI spying

Thu Nov 20 @ 22:06 (Reads: 16) Source: Security Focus

An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system's emergency and roadside assistance features. The case arose from a 2001 FBI surveillance operation in Las Vegas, in which agents obtained a court order compelling a telematics company to secretly activate the stolen vehicle recovery feature in a customer's car. The feature, designed to listen-in on car thieves as they cruise around in a stolen auto, turns on a dashboard microphone and pipes conversations out over a cell phone connection -- normally to the company's response center, but in this case to an FBI listening post. After initially complying for 30 days, the company asked a federal judge to block the order. It lost, and filed the appeal with 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while complying with the order. The proceeding were handled in strict secrecy, and the text of the final ruling omits the name of the company. Geri Lama, a spokesperson for General Motors subsidiary OnStar, says it wasn't them.