Re: Fact checking

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27/04/04 17:18]:
:All of the above, but mostly door-to-door voter registration. When you
: consider that both klinton and dubbya were elected with only 13%-14% of the
: eligible voters, it wouldn't take all that many new voters to really make a
: difference.

"Hi, Sir, my name is Bob and I'm here to educate you about all the
candidates in the upcoming election that your eight second attention span
will allow me.  Oops, I guess I've used it all up.  Bye now!"

These things all work in theory, but never in practice.

Why bother putting something up in a library?  Chances are, if someone's
reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the
candidates.  Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them!

Grocery store posters?  When was the last time you stopped to read one of
those?

Radio ads?  What group of volunteers would have the dough to cough up enough
to get a spot on a semi-popular radio station?  One that's unbiased enough
to /let/ you play a spot like what you'd want to play?

I don't see any way to educate the mass public.  The best option I've seen
was when a couple of Canadians, frustrated at the options, started eating
their ballots.  They got arrested a few times, but I think the charges were
dropped.  At least that caught /some/ attention.

The more shocking it is, the more attention it will grab, the more effect it
will have, however short-term it may be.  And the more I think of swapping
crack for cracked votes, the more I like it.

recent node activity

[Riad S. Wahby]

The al-Qaeda.net node was down for about 30 hours or thereabouts.  It
ought to be back up now.

Messages received during that period have been resent.

Sorry for the unannounced outage.  Things should be better now.

-- 
Riad Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIT VI-2 M.Eng

Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

[Declan McCullagh]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:06:44PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Pulling the power is the exact wrong thing to do if it's a CFS requiring a
> passphrase at startup.
> 
> Does anyone know what the default procedure is when hardware is being seized
> (threat model=knuckle-dragger/gumshoe)?

This might have a clue. Been a while since I read it, though.

http://www.cybercrime.gov/s&smanual2002.htm

-Declan

looping

[Riad S. Wahby]

Looping should be fixed now.

Sorry y'all; I suck.

-- 
Riad Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIT VI-2 M.Eng

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

[Roy M. Silvernail]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 18:39, Steve Furlong wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote:
> > Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC 
> > against lyrics in songs.
> 
> And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank
> Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a "Tipper Sticker", indicating obscene
> lyrics. They didn't notice that _JfH_ was an instrumental album.

Must have been because of 'G-Spot Tornado'.
-- 
Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not
Never Forget:  It's Only 1's and 0's!
SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss
http://www.rant-central.com

Re: Infrared flash?

[Riad S. Wahby]

Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would be the best approach? The energies here are more in the range
> of rotation/vibration changes than electrons jumping up and down between
> the energy states. How to convert a blast of electrical energy into a
> shower of near-IR photons?

If all you're trying to do is screw with surveillance cameras, a Xenon
tube is crushing a fly with a crane.

You can probably get away with an IR laser and a diffuser or something
to that effect.  It would be cheap (diode laser) and easy to build
(for a strobe-like effect it would take, what? a 555, a couple
resistors, a cap, and the diode).

If you want, you can probably extend this idea to much more IR output
just by adding more diodes and more juice.  I don't remember the
numbers off the top of my head, but IIRC the efficiency of a diode is
substantially greater than the efficiency of a Xenon tube.

Just took a quick look around, and it seems like a Xenon would still
work at 900nm:
http://msp.rmit.edu.au/Article_03/02a.html
Apparently, Xenon tubes put out lots of crap around 900nm.  In fact,
it's somewhat more than they do in the visible spectrum.  If you get
yourself a good enough filter, you might be able to pull off a
mega-photon-dump setup.

-- 
Riad Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIT VI-2 M.Eng

Re: Fact checking

[R. A. Hettinga]

[having problems with an MX record somewhere. Let's see if this works...]

At 3:04 PM -0400 4/26/04, Damian Gerow parsed a sentence thusly:

>That's not saying that he invented the internet, it's saying that he took
>initiative in creating it.

Okay. I'll bite. Let's do a Rorschach test.

Please parse *this* sentence:

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

:-)

Too hard? How about this one:


"Counsel is fully aware that Ms. Lewinsky has filed, has an affidavit which
they are in possession of saying that there is absolutely no sex of any
kind in any manner, shape or form, with President Clinton..."


;-)

YMO"I"MV?

Cheers,
RAH



-- 
-
R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"...if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to
shut up."
-- Tom Lehrer

Re: Multiple copies of messages

[Jim Dixon]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:

> Just today, I started getting multiple copies of each message. Am I the
> only person this is happening to?

Three copies of your message received so far.

--
Jim Dixon  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   tel +44 117 982 0786  mobile +44 797 373 7881
http://jxcl.sourceforge.net   Java unit test coverage
http://xlattice.sourceforge.net p2p communications infrastructure

Multiple copies of messages

[Shawn K. Quinn]

Just today, I started getting multiple copies of each message. Am I the 
only person this is happening to?

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn

Fact checking

[Tim Benham]

> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:06:50 -0400
> From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Fact checking
>
> >How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about
> >their
> >candidates, and vote?  Door-to-door campaigns?  Talks at the local
> > library? Grocery store posters?
>
> Well, imagine if we could buy votes...I'd bet we could scrounge up a few
> hundred thousand votes for the price of a few vials of crack. Then imagine
> we 'elect' bin Laden as a Senator or something with these votes.
>
> I bet people would start voting after that.

If they don't, offer them two vials of crack!

More benefits of the vote buying scheme are being discovered daily. Maybe it 
could be trialled at a local level in the US. You could get it started with 
one of those proposition thingies you have over there. It shouldn't be 
difficult - how much would it cost to get someone to sign a petition?

cheers,
Tim

Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'

[R. A. Hettinga]

Horseman #1, Terrorists: Check.
Horseman #2, Pedophiles: Check.

Next?

Cheers,
RAH
-


print  
close
Tue 27 Apr 2004

2:47am (UK)
Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'

By James Lyons, Political Correspondent, PA News


 Identity cards will help keep youngsters safe from perverts, Education
Secretary Charles Clarke claimed today.

 Cards containing personal information like fingerprints would make it more
difficult to side-step checks, said Mr Clarke.

 That was just one of the benefits of the controversial scheme, outlined
yesterday, he was telling a Commons select committee.

 The controversial move could also save money and stamp out fraud, his
evidence to the Home Affairs committee shows.

 In a written submission released ahead of this afternoon's hearing, Mr
Clarke wholeheartedly backs the scheme.

 "I am very much in favour of identity cards not only because of the broad
benefits to the UK such as tackling illegal working, preventing identity
fraud and theft but because of the significant benefits that I believe that
ID cards would bring the work of my department and its agencies," he said.

 Mr Clarke's appearance before the committee comes after Cabinet colleague
David Blunkett produced draft proposals yesterday.

 People who refuse to register will not be jailed but face a fine of up to
£2,500 under the Home Secretary's plans.

 Mr Blunkett said did not want to give opponents the opportunity to become
"martyrs".

 The draft Identity Cards Bill allows the creation of a National Identity
Register of up to 60 million UK residents.

 This will be linked to "biometric" cards carrying features including
facial recognition, iris images and fingerprints.

 This biometric technology will be incorporated into existing
identification documents, such as passports and driving licences.

 The first documents with facial recognition are due in 2005, and
fingerprint details are expected to be added from 2007.

 People who do not need passports or driving licences will be able to apply
for a "plain" ID card.

 Funding the introduction of the scheme will come from hikes in the cost of
passports and driving licences.

 A combined passport/ID card will cost an estimated £77, a combined driving
licence/ID card £73 and a "plain" card around £35. There will be
concessions for the elderly and poor, with all 16-year-olds issued with
their first card free of charge.

 Initially, the cards will be voluntary but they are expected to be made
compulsory around 2013, by which time 80% of adults should already be
carrying biometric ID.

 Any switch to a universal card would by made by an Order, subject to the
approval of both Houses of Parliament, but new primary legislation would
not be required.

 New criminal offences for the possession of false identity documents will
be created, with a maximum sentence of 10 years jail.

 If they are made compulsory, cards will have to be produced to access a
range of public services, including non-emergency treatment on the NHS and
benefits.


Latest News:

  http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm



-- 
-
R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

Infrared flash?

[Thomas Shaddack]

For bright flashes of visible light, xenon flash tubes are the choice.

But when I want a really bright flash on about 800-900 nm, what approach
is the best?

One application is a security camera taking a snapshot without alerting
the adversary with a flash. (Could be a good system against black-bag
jobs.) Another application, with higher flash frequency, could be a
stroboscope throwing the AGC circuits in cameras off-track,
Macrovision-style.

What would be the best approach? The energies here are more in the range
of rotation/vibration changes than electrons jumping up and down between
the energy states. How to convert a blast of electrical energy into a
shower of near-IR photons?

Re: Fact checking

[Tyler Durden]

How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about 
their
candidates, and vote?  Door-to-door campaigns?  Talks at the local library?
Grocery store posters?

Well, imagine if we could buy votes...I'd bet we could scrounge up a few 
hundred thousand votes for the price of a few vials of crack. Then imagine 
we 'elect' bin Laden as a Senator or something with these votes.

I bet people would start voting after that.
-TD

From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fact checking
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:15:04 -0500
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:20:06PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
>
> Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 19:25]:
> :And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks 
to the left
> : of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. 
Extremely
> : few real choices. The real problem is -- most people don't vote. What 
needs to
> : be done is a real grass roots effort to educate people and get them to 
vote.
>
> So, how does one start a grass roots effort?  I'm Canuck, and I'm not
> exactly impressed with this year's pickings up North.  My last vote was 
a
> vote /against/ the in-office party, not for the party I'd like to see in
> office.
>
> How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about 
their
> candidates, and vote?  Door-to-door campaigns?  Talks at the local 
library?
> Grocery store posters?

   All of the above, but mostly door-to-door voter registration. When you
consider that both klinton and dubbya were elected with only 13%-14% of the
eligible voters, it wouldn't take all that many new voters to really make a
difference.

--
Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com
Hoka hey!
_
Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! 
http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/

Re: Fact checking

[Tyler Durden]

"How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about 
their
candidates, and vote?  Door-to-door campaigns?  Talks at the local library?
Grocery store posters?"

Well, we could just tell them their lives would be much better under Kodos, 
rather than Kang.

-TD

From: Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fact checking
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:20:06 -0400
Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 19:25]:
:And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks to 
the left
: of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. 
Extremely
: few real choices. The real problem is -- most people don't vote. What 
needs to
: be done is a real grass roots effort to educate people and get them to 
vote.

So, how does one start a grass roots effort?  I'm Canuck, and I'm not
exactly impressed with this year's pickings up North.  My last vote was a
vote /against/ the in-office party, not for the party I'd like to see in
office.
How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about 
their
candidates, and vote?  Door-to-door campaigns?  Talks at the local library?
Grocery store posters?

_
Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® 
Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Re: Fact checking

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 5:36 PM -0400 4/26/04, Damian Gerow wrote:
>: YMO"I"MV?
>
>Hum.  I've never seen this before -- what's it stand for?

Your Meaning Of "Is" May Vary...

;-)

Cheers,
RAH

-- 
-
R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

[Steve Furlong]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 11:34, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: "You're *all*
> going up the chimneys."

I voted for Cthulhu -- why vote for the lesser of two evils?
http://www.cthulhu.org/

Re: Fact checking

[Harmon Seaver]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:20:06PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
> 
> Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 19:25]:
> :And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks to the left
> : of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. Extremely
> : few real choices. The real problem is -- most people don't vote. What needs to
> : be done is a real grass roots effort to educate people and get them to vote. 
> 
> So, how does one start a grass roots effort?  I'm Canuck, and I'm not
> exactly impressed with this year's pickings up North.  My last vote was a
> vote /against/ the in-office party, not for the party I'd like to see in
> office.
> 
> How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their
> candidates, and vote?  Door-to-door campaigns?  Talks at the local library?
> Grocery store posters?

   All of the above, but mostly door-to-door voter registration. When you
consider that both klinton and dubbya were elected with only 13%-14% of the
eligible voters, it wouldn't take all that many new voters to really make a
difference.



-- 
Harmon Seaver   
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com
Hoka hey!