Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"
Title: CDR: Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!" I'd check anything with a Geiger counter before touching it. The shuttle may have been using radioactive decay for power (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/future.html) or may have been doing experiments for the Nuclear Systems Initiative (http://www.space.com/news/nasa_nuclear_020205.html). Neither of these is mentioned in the official list of experiments (http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/sts-107/107_payload.pdf).
Re: eating dirt, and loving it, in MD
The next time your on the streets with a lot of people, look around. You'll probably see a number of white vans. The idea that the sniper is using one is probably bogus.
CDR: Re: Finding encrytion algorithm
Given cipher output with bytes that look uniformly distributed, it is easy to write a program that will transform the output to a file having any desired distribution of bytes. I've written a program that makes the output look like transposition of English text.
public key cryptography to be cracked in 2006
http://www.btexact.com/white_papers/downloads/WP106.pdf predicts public key cryptography will be cracked in 2006.
FW: CDR: Re: bin Laden tape reliability
> Perhaps it wasn't found in an abandoned house at all, but was born > somewhere in the DC suburbs. Do videotapes preserve the frequency of the fluctuations of incandescent lamps caused by the frequency of the electric current? Washington DC is at 60 Hz but according to http://kropla.com/electric2.htm, Afghanistan is at 50.
