Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-24 Thread Sunder
Yes, brain fart. :)  s/b Emmanuel Goldstein.  Doh!  Need more coffee...


Yup, but you don't have to splice a tape, you can do it all digitally
these days, then create a signle low quality audiotape recorded so poorly
that your analyst won't be able to acurately say yes or not.

The real question is whether or not you can have a speech synth that can
put out convincing inflections, pauses, um's ah's, coughs, etc. to the
point that it sounds like a human with emotions, not a machine.  You can
get the samples from existing speeches/addresses and extract just the
phonemes.  Your speech synth's output shouldn't sound like a bunch of
clips of words of course. :)

I don't know how many phonemes would be required for a convinging Iraqi
leader...  For English there's like 30 something...  If you get them all
at the same tone from the same speech, you're set.

If you've ever played with MacOS's speech synth, they have some that are
somewhat realistic human voices, but they still speak with out human
sounding rythms - rather they sound like a human trying to imitate a
computer a la old Star Trek episodes. Add the inflections to get emotion
like sounds, and increase the quality of the synth so you don't hear
machine artifacts, and you're set.  It's not an easy problem, but neither
is it impossible.


As to DNA: Uh, I was talking about Sadam's palaces - lots of skin flakes,
clothes, hairs in combs, etc to be had there.  Ok, well that presumes that
sufficient samples were collected before the nice palace parties. :)


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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:

> At 12:42 PM 07/23/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote:
> >Bah! Saddam has become the new Eric Goldstien since Osama Bin Ladin is 
> >quieter.
> 
> I'm guessing you're mixing up Emmanuel Goldstein, from 1984
> and Eric Corley aka Emmanuel Goldstein, from 2600 ?

> It might be hard to splice together a tape that would
> fool a forensic expert into thinking the tape was really
> an authentic recording by the same person who was speaking on
> several other known-to-be-authentic recordings.
> It's not at all hard to put together a press release from
> an ostensible forensic expert claiming that a tape
> is or isn't authentic, or even to find an expert who'll say it.
> It's probably not too hard to put together a tape with
> the speech you want and a set of claimed-to-be-known-authentic samples
> that the expert can compare with the voice on the tape,
> if the expert doesn't have good independent samples of his own.
> 
> After all, your objective isn't to fool the experts -
> it's to fool the public, or rather to make sure that the public
> that you've already fooled continues to stay fooled.
> As Bush said, "fool me once, shame on... shame on.. "
> 
> 
> Besides, to get the DNA samples, they just checked with
> Illuminati Headquarters - you thought that when world leaders
> sign their employment contracts in blood, it's only for decoration?



Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
> Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the

What is most troubling is that USG assumes (correctly ?) that
assassinating relatives of enemies of the state will be welcomed
by the public.



Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Sunder
Right, just because Shrubb-ya and Blair lied to get congress to approve a
war on Iraq so he could steal the oil, it doesn't mean that Saddam was a
saint and that his human rights violations (read: torture, murder, rape,
pillage) could be dismissed, and he didn't deserve to be forced off the
throne.

The Hussein bunch got what they deserved.  Fuck'em.

What's disturbing is that "we" put that motherfucker in power, and
supplied him with the means to carry out his attrocies against his own
people, we fueld the fires of the Iran/Iraq war by feeding both sides with
weapons and intel, and so on.


--Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---
 + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of   /|\
  \|/  :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\
<--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech.  \/|\/
  /|\  :Found to date: 0.  Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/
 + v + :   The look on Sadam's face - priceless!   
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Frantz wrote:

> I think the evidence is strong that they were as bad as Sadam.  If Sadam
> was an "enemy of the state", then they were too.
> 
> I also think that assassinate is the wrong word to use to describe what
> happens to someone when an army says, "Come out with your hands up", and
> instead they come out shooting.



Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Bill Frantz
At 1:40 PM -0700 7/23/03, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>> Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the
>
>What is most troubling is that USG assumes (correctly ?) that
>assassinating relatives of enemies of the state will be welcomed
>by the public.

I think the evidence is strong that they were as bad as Sadam.  If Sadam
was an "enemy of the state", then they were too.

I also think that assassinate is the wrong word to use to describe what
happens to someone when an army says, "Come out with your hands up", and
instead they come out shooting.

Cheers - Bill


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Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:56 PM 7/22/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
>Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the
>bodies were said to be send for positive
>identification through dna tests.How are these samples
>obtained anyway?Royal Saloons,Royal Doctors,Visits to
>the US during peace times?What more effecient methods
>are used?
>
>Sarath.

A guy was busted by using DNA from an envelope he licked
in response to a "sting" letter from the police (but not appearing so).

A guy was caught because his *son's* DNA was on file.

Go dump-diving in places where his trash is dumped.  And at
his relatives houses.  Befriend/employ someone where he/they get
their bloodwork done.  Cleaning people who dust where he sits.
His barber.  His launderer.

Wonder how they got their dentalcharts.

They'll have to show us the beef if they want to be believed.
Of course, Bush and Rummy holding their heads on sticks
will have to be edited from US markets...

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rifle loses.



Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Sunder
Bah! Saddam has become the new Eric Goldstien since Osama Bin Ladin is
quieter.  Perhaps the CIA's voice lab is better at cloning his
voice?  hence the poor quality audio tapes? 

I wonder how hard it is to capture a person's phoenems and feed it to
a good quality speech synth?  I wonder if recording it on a cheap tape
with a microphone will remove all traces of it being fake.  The hard part
will of course be getting the inflections right.

Perhaps if you tie a speech recognition system with a speech synth, the
recognition system might be able to detect inflection, tone, and rate, and
provide hints to the synth?  Wouldn't even have to work in real time.


Hey, if they were willing to push Hans Blix around until he called the
bastards and reported all the pressure to "find something" and offed David
Kelley, why not something like a Saddam Vactor? 

I'm sure they could even sprinkle the old DNA samples around some shack in
the woods of Iran or Saudi Arabia or something, along with some uranium or
anthrax samples and aluminu cylinders, as proof that they were harboring
him as a prelude to another invasion.  Why the fuck not?  50 states isn't
enough, and North America's getting too crowded, let's take over the
entire Middle East...

After that, let's take over France too and make them say "EMAIL" and eat
only McDonalds' cheeseburgers and drink only Budwiser.  But that can wait
until after we mine all of Liberia's diamonds... hey we can't afford
another war just yet, need to make money first...

The sky's the limit, just vote for Bush again, and after him Condoleeza
Rice can be our first female president with Ashcroft as VP.  We can be
very politically correct that way.


--Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---
 + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of   /|\
  \|/  :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\
<--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech.  \/|\/
  /|\  :Found to date: 0.  Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD.\|/
 + v + :   The look on Sadam's face - priceless!   
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Tim May wrote:

> Hair samples, dandruff, etc. A bunch of reports over the past several 
> months that the houses and villas of Hussein and his family had been 
> gone over carefully for traces of hair, old shaving razors, skin 
> particles, etc.
> 
> Even if doctors and such have not been bribed or coerced into providing 
> blood samples, lots of ways to track DNA. All a matter of economics, as 
> usual.
> 
> --Tim May



Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:56 PM, Sarad AV wrote:

hi,

Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the
bodies were said to be send for positive
identification through dna tests.How are these samples
obtained anyway?Royal Saloons,Royal Doctors,Visits to
the US during peace times?What more effecient methods
are used?
Hair samples, dandruff, etc. A bunch of reports over the past several 
months that the houses and villas of Hussein and his family had been 
gone over carefully for traces of hair, old shaving razors, skin 
particles, etc.

Even if doctors and such have not been bribed or coerced into providing 
blood samples, lots of ways to track DNA. All a matter of economics, as 
usual.

--Tim May



Re: Dna samples of world leaders

2003-07-23 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:56, Sarad AV wrote:

> Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the
> bodies were said to be send for positive
> identification through dna tests.How are these samples
> obtained anyway?Royal Saloons,Royal Doctors,Visits to
> the US during peace times?What more effecient methods
> are used?

Samples from known relatives, I'd guess, along with any other means that 
comes to hand.

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