Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here
Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3415525.stm 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration screener: Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here 'Sergeant Joe Wyche from Miami Airport Police told BBC Midlands Today .. Before 9/11 we took it seriously - after 9/11 there's no room for kidding or joking, if that's the person's intention, so it's taken in a serious manner.' [Also compare the report of her allegedly repeating the joke twice more when confronted by officials with another report claiming that authorities asked her what she had said. Twice.] -- Know thy shelves.
Re: Hey be careful, I have three balms in here
At 02:27 AM 1/21/2004, Graham Lally wrote: Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3415525.stm 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration screener: Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here Nahh! She should have used English homonyms to make fools of them, like a Monty Python skit. Instead of she had three bombs, she should have said she had three balms (lip balms) in there. Hehe. steve
CodeCon program announced, early registration deadline nearing
The program for CodeCon 2004 has been announced. http://www.codecon.org/2004/program.html CodeCon is the premier showcase of active hacker projects. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects. All presentations will given by one of the active developers, and accompanied by a functional demo. Highlights of CodeCon 2004 include: PGP Universal - Automatic, transparent email encryption with zero clicks Osiris -A free Host Integrity Monitor designed for large scale server deployments that require auditable security Tor - Second-generation Onion Routing: a TCP-based anonymizing overlay network Vesta - An advanced software configuration management system that handles both versioning source files and building PETmail - Permission-based anti-spam replacement for SMTP FunFS - Fast User Network File System - An advanced network file system designed as a successor for NFS Codeville - Distributed version control system Audacity - A cross-platform multi-track audio editor The third annual CodeCon takes place February 20 - 22, noon - 6pm, at Club NV (525 Howard Street) in San Francisco. CodeCon registration is $95; a $20 discount is available for attendees who register online prior to February 1, 2004. http://www.codecon.org/2004/registration.html
Re: Lunar Colony
John Washburn wrote: I would think the problem with the camp X-Ray approach is the same as happened historically in Botany Bay or fictionally in the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. When (not if) the ongoing support of the penal colony collapses what happens? The children are in legal limbo; neither convict nor citizen. (No one is going to pay the expense to ship them home). The colonists are cut off from the home world/empire. They had little love for the home world/empire in the first place. Cut adrift and left to their own devices why wouldn't the colonists/prisoners declare independence and have an interplanetary war of secession? Nothing like that happened in Botany Bay. Not even in Mel Gibson movies. The transported prisoners were (almost all) transported for a term of years, often 7, and when it was over they were given return passage, or allowed to stay on in Australia. Most stayed - the worst thing about transportation was the passage, which killed more than the sentence did. Any children they had were as much citizens (or rather free subjects of the crown) as anybody else. While in Australia prisoners were mostly hired out to colonists (AKA squatters). There were strict rules about their treatment that were sometimes even enforced. The minimum standard for food and clothing in the rules were not only (much) better than prisoners would have had in England or Ireland, but in fact better than many poor labourers could have found for themselves back home. They often prospered and their children and grandchildren prospered mightily. Between about 1870 and the Great War Australia was probably the most prosperous country in the world, and working men's wages higher than anywhere else, including the USA. Historically the transported prisoners and their immediate descendants were mostly supporters of Britain the Empire. And of course there never was a war of secession. In fact the Australians recently voted to keep the monarchy - though mainly due to lack of a convincing plan for what to replace it with.
