Re: geographically removed? eHalal
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over. Hawala
China 'blocks Google news site'
Reminds me of Imperial Russia's railroad gauge, which was different from the rest of Europe's, maybe the whole world's, on purpose, to prevent attacks. Common trick, lots of countries did it, though it impedes lots of progress at the border besides military progress toward your capital. You have to offload *all* the freight, both ways, and put it onto new trains, for instance. Way worse than going from diesel to electric, like they did at New Haven, for instance, where you used to just change engines. More of a symptom than a cause, of course. Anyone want to take bets on China, though? I think the Great Firewall will choke, or more be likely ignored, long before China will block all truth at its border, instead of mere efficient transit prices for foreign trade. But then I was a Polly during the Y2K thing, too. Oh. Wait... (Yeah, I know, I was *dead* wrong about Jim Bell getting a guilty verdict. Surest way to be wrong is to make a prediction, and all that...) Cheers, RAH Oddly enough, the Aussies had exactly this railroad gauge problem about half way across their southern coast. I think they've fixed it since, though I'm not sure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/4056255.stm The BBC Tuesday, 30 November, 2004, 16:39 GMT China 'blocks Google news site' China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days. It said the aim was to force people to use a Chinese edition of the site which, according to the watchdog, does not include critical reports. Google told the BBC News website it was aware of the problems and was investigating the causes. Chinese firewall China is believed to extend greater censorship over the net than any other country in the world. China is censuring Google News to force internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports Reporters Without Borders A net police force monitors websites and e-mails, and controls on gateways connecting the country to the global internet are designed to prevent access to critical information. Popular Chinese portals such as Sina.com and Sohu.com maintain a close eye on content and delete politically sensitive comments. And all 110,000 net cafes in the country have to use software to control access to websites considered harmful or subversive. Local versions China is censuring Google News to force internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports, said the group in a statement. By agreeing to launch a news service that excludes publications disliked by the government, Google has let itself be used by Beijing, it said. For its part, the search giant said it was looking into the issue. It appears that many users in China are having difficulty accessing Google News sites in China and we are working to understand and resolve the issue, said a Google spokesperson. Google News gathers information from some 4,500 news sources. Headlines are selected for display entirely by a computer algorithm, with no human editorial intervention. It offers 15 editions of the service, including one tailored for China and one for Hong Kong. Google launched a version in simplified Chinese in September. The site does not filter news results to remove politically sensitive information. But Google does not link to news sources which are inaccessible from within China as this would result in broken links. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 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'
Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/30/mexican_verichip_hype/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 30th November 2004 18:00 GMT Reports that 160 Mexican officials have had RFID chips implanted within their flesh in some bizarre security scheme have been exaggerated, Anti-RFID outfit CASPIAN (http://www.nocards.org/) (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) says. Our concern is that dozens of news outlets have repeated the inflated number, which has reached the level of an urban legend, CASPIAN Director Katherine Albrecht said in a recent press release. I myself have repeated the erroneous figure in several media interviews, and I want to set the record straight, she added. The true number of Mexico's new robo-crats, based on a transcript (http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/mexican-translation.html) from a Televisa Mexican interview, is only 18, CASPIAN says. In a 19 July, 2004 press release, Albrecht made a clear mention of the imaginary 160: Promoting implanted RFID devices as a security measure is downright 'loco,' says Katherine Albrecht. Advertising you've got a chip in your arm that opens important doors is an invitation to kidnapping and mutilation. That's Albrecht's response to the announcement by Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha that he and 160 other Mexican officials were implanted with Verichip RFID devices. We wondered how the inflated figure got circulating in the first place. The earliest mention in English that we could find on the Web, following a not-terribly-aggressive search, comes from a blog called igargoyle (http://igargoyle.com/archives/000448.html) on 13 July 2004. This is followed, with more details, by the Associated Press (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5439055/), The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1260858,00.html), and The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/14/mexicans_get_chipped/), each on 14 July. CASPIAN, weighing in several days later, is clearly not to blame for the hype. And now the outfit has learned that classic lesson about believing what one reads in the papers. But who is to blame? Well, there is a 13 July item in Spanish (http://www.el-universal.com.mx/pls/impreso/noticia_busqueda.html?id_nota=113215tabla=nacion_h) that seems to have words in it that relate to the RFID story, along with the number 160; but this is unlikely to be the original source. There is also (we believe) a brief mention (http://presidencia.gob.mx/buenasnoticias/index.php?contenido=8614pagina=28) in a 13 July press release on what we think is the Mexican President's official Web site. The thirteenth seems to be when the story broke in Mexico, and the source seems to be Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha himself, although we could not find a place where he is directly quoted as saying that 160 employees would be chipped. Reporters have offered the number in the context of interviewing him, which suggests that he's the source, but there are no specific, direct quotes that we could find. Perhaps, like many senior bureaucrats, he had no idea what he was talking about. Perhaps a companion press release contained the bogus number, or perhaps the Spanish words for 18 and 160 sound alike, as fifteen and fifty do in English. In any case, we're pleased to have cleared this up. ® -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 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: geographically removed? eHalal
At 10:33 PM 11/28/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi- ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity, trustworthiness, and so on, and to keep the vendors' identities a secret, if appropriate. Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over.
Re: geographically removed?
At 06:44 PM 11/28/04 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled, determined, disciplined, and united. Observed police states are incompetent, indecisive, and quarrelsome. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment system gets swarmed by conmen and fraudsters. We have a long way to go before police states are the problem. Call me pessimistic, but you seem optimistic to me. At least we're moderately back on topic :-)
Re: geographically removed? eHalal
Variola: By Halal (are you getting this term confused with that for Islamic version of Kosher? I think the name is similar but not this) Do you mean that system of monetary transfers whereby local services are exchanged in place of direct cash transfer? (In other words, if I want to sell something abroad the money is actually wired to a 3rd party who appears to the authorities not to have anything to do with any purchasing...this person then obtains services or perhaps local cash in lieu of the money he transferred. The system seems to operate largely on trusted intermediaries, along with a series of barters...) Well, this system may technically be illegal, but it's done all the time in the wilds of Queens, both by middle easterners as well as South Americans, and I see little that could be done to stop it. Even the feds can't keep up with bugging all the Dominican brothels on Roosevelt Avenue. It is, in effect, an analog Blacknet, though transactions are of course probably limited to the low 5-figure range without some kind of big tipoff, but I'm sure the locals are fully aware of the threshold values. The only way are true police state could crack down would be to nuke Queens, which they might actually allow Al Qaeda to do if they chose to (seems like Al Qaeda could come in handy for a lot of things...Oh, where did that baddie bin Laden go...guess we'll never find him...) -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: geographically removed? eHalal Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:36:39 -0800 At 10:33 PM 11/28/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi- ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity, trustworthiness, and so on, and to keep the vendors' identities a secret, if appropriate. Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over.
Re: geographically removed?
-- Major Variola: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. James A. Donald: The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment system gets swarmed by conmen and fraudsters. We have a long way to go before police states are the problem. Steve Furlong Heh. When the stasi come a-callin' tell them they'll have to wait because you've got bigger problems. Wonder how well that would work? The stasi are not a callin yet on ecash, and have not been particularly effective against people publishing bittorrents. I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make use of trusted intermediaries? People issuing e-cash systems want to be irrevocable and anonymous, in part because the market niche for revocable payments is occupied by paypal and credit card companies, but they are running into trouble from fraudsters. They also have trouble from states, but as yet the trouble from states is merely the usual mindless bureaucratic regulatory harassment that disrupts all businesses, not any specific hostility to difficult-to-trace extranational payments. The vendors register with the intermedi- ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity, trustworthiness, and so on, and to keep the vendors' identities a secret, if appropriate. The sellers pay the intermediary, who takes a piece of the action to act basically as an insurer of the vendor's good faith. If there's a problem with the service or merchandise and the vendor won't make good, the intermediary is responsible for making the buyer whole. Is there some reason this wouldn't work? If not, why hasn't anyone tried it yet? Not enough cash flow to make it worth their while? Lots of people have tried it, with varying degrees of success. Not much demand for it yet. A big problem is that whenever any such a website achieves some degree of acceptance, a storm of fake websites appear imitating its name, its look and feel, with urls that looks very similar. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Y34+Yhj/+imvS+mJMNI1gisrEu1m1KVnVZ1XWcQC 4IiGQ9ui1sYZ89OBlTxmM6HA8I+qJa2Q8CwcRJu3c
RE: Oswald, Atta, Your Name Here
At 10:08 AM 11/29/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Steve Furlong wrote: Major Variola (ret) wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the Bridge With the Secretary variant. Wonder what Teddie will say about that one. Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he offed the sex drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did. And a hell of a shot as well. Gotta respect that, with a bolt-action, no less. A piece-of-shit boltie. I don't believe the official story, myself. Hitting at a upper-body sized target at less than 90 yards, using a scoped rifle, is about as difficult shooting fish in a barrel. The slow steady movement of the car makes it slightly more interesting, but hardly challenging to a decent marksman. True nuff. I recently fired up M$ FS '98, and on my first attempt was able to Atta the WTC in a 747-300, whereas a more nimble plane was too responsive to my commands and stalled, spiralled, etc. And I could cycle my 7.52x54R bolt-action in under a second on my first try, but again, grace under pressure is cool.
Perle: Rumsfeld Opposed, Powell Wanted Occupation
Remember what I said about the original estimate of only 50,000 men to take down Iraq, with the next stop being Damascus? :-) Cheers, RAH --- http://newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/30/80903.shtml Reprinted from NewsMax.com Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004 8:03 a.m. EST Perle: Rumsfeld Opposed, Powell Wanted Occupation Secretary Colin Powell, the State Department and the CIA - not Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - are responsible for the chaos that has grown out of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, says Richard Perle, the former chairman of Pentagon's Defense Policy Review Board. Appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor Monday night, Perle said the U.S. made a most serious mistake after Iraq was liberated and the keys were not handed over immediately to Iraqis to run their own country. Thus, the U.S. military became an occupying force - and an increasingly unpopular one. We didn't hand the keys over to the Iraqis. Instead we embarked on what became an extended occupation. That was fundamentally mistaken - it was politically driven, Perle said. Perle's remarks places significant distance between postwar policies and neo-conservatives like himself who have backed the war and have been championed in the Bush administration by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, and Vice President Cheney. Perle told O'Reilly the idea of a military occupation was not the Pentagon's original plan. It was not Don Rumsfeld's decision, he said. Asked by O'Reilly if handing the keys over to the Iraqis after deposing Saddam would have sparked a civil war between the Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites, Perle said he didn't think so. He noted that there were already groups of anti-Saddam Iraqis in place when the dictator fell. There was an umbrella group of opposition figures. It included Shia, Sunnis, Kurds and in the end, of course, we did turn to the Iraqis. We asked them to form a governing council, then an interim government, but we made the big mistake of not trusting the Iraqis. I'm not saying that everything would have worked out, but everything certainly didn't work out the way we did it. My own view is we should have supported a government in exile even before going into Iraq. O'Reilly asked how much responsibility Rumsfeld bears for the current situation in Iraq. I think the conduct of the war was brilliant, Perle observed. The campaign will go down in history as one of the greatest military campaigns ever. Saddam was removed and his regime fell within three weeks. The problems didn't start immediately after Saddam's removal. The problems started when the occupation began to wear on the people, and that was predictable. When O'Reilly cited Colin Powell as a dissenting voice who warned the president that if you break it [Iraq], you'll own it, Perle said, the irony is that it was Secretary Powell and some others who wanted the extended occupation. They are the ones who did not want to turn things over to the Iraqis, who feared and distrusted the Iraqis and blocked all efforts to do precisely that. Perle then revealed that even before the war Rumsfeld's Department of Defense had argued that we should train thousands of Iraqis to go in with us so that we wouldn't be the aggressor, we wouldn't be the occupying power, and those proposals were blocked largely by the State Department and the CIA. Rumsfeld was never able to get approval for the political strategy that might well have saved us from much of the subsequent trouble. Responding to O'Reilly's remark that the we are now seen as the bad guys, Perle said that the situation in Iraq can be cleaned up. Remember, we were portrayed as the bad guys when the only policy for dealing with Saddam were sanctions and the argument was that Iraqi babies were dying as result of the sanctions. We're making real progress and the political evolution is critical. There is a desperate effort now to cope with the fact that after these elections the Iraqis will be fully invested in their own future, and I think we've already begun to turn the corner. -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 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: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype
Lying about having an implant is kidnapping and mutilation protection. Whether any justice official, with or without a denied implant, will be believed by the slicers is no different than the terrorism risk of anyone living within 100 miles of a US defense base and/or industry, or Wall Street suckblood HQ. No matter that the implantee likes to hide among the innocent, the families of the protective servicers are easy ransom, easy lessons taught for no safe sanctuary. Bring em on, oops, they are here already. Darn, it wasn't the commies and nazis who were the threat, it was your indolent life-style paid for by your swell-paid, smarter wife, up to women-empowered thieving the marketplace and making innumerable enemies for you to blame for your swelling brain fat-globules. Pray the draft is women-empowered so there's no need to shanghai the overaged, over-decrepit, over-funny-loving, inbred-feeders, pray for the Condies and the Maggies to fight the gameboy-dreamy battles, really face-to-face, not just stomp-hoof the youngsters into hell for a face-save the empire. And that's not all. James Donald, you're losing your vile truth-twisting tongue, what with your conciliatory mein recently. Get your shaggy blue-balled mouth-organ off the commie-nazi symp gravy train.
Spooks, Root Beer, and My Keyboard...
..so, courtesy of BitTorrent and http://www.tvtorrents.net, I started to download and watch Spooks something that looked like a British knock-off of the really-better-off-dead The Agency from a few years back over here. Fine. First episode I see (Year 3 episode 6, episode titles forgotten), seemed okay, mostly, though she was *awfully* scrawny the old honey trap, um trick. Second one (episode 7), though, starts off with an almost plausible hacking-for-jihad storyline with only the odd bit of Star-Trek science, admittedly I'm a sucker for hand-waving, but then, but then... ..but then they got to the crypto. Hence the subject line of this message. Sigh. I'll never learn. Root beer, keyboards, and Spooks don't mix. But we knew that already, right? :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 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: Tin Foil Passports, Al foil diplomas
At 08:02 PM 11/29/04 +, Justin wrote: On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke? What is most poignant about this post is the lack of education of /. authors. Don't they teach Maxwell any more? Is Faraday just the guy who said ... Standardized education. We can't have anyone teaching to the 50th percentile, even assuming the median teen-citizen can handle basic calculus and EM. Teachers must teach one or two sigmas below that level, and anyone who gets hyperactive in such an inane educational environment is malfunctioning and requires medication. Today I heard a guy at work describe the Turkish empire to another. Their plan was to eliminate foreign schools for ca. 300 years so the conquered would be lame. No Canticle For Liebowitz for the conquered. I refrained from expressing the parallels I perceived, camoflage is best some times. Got IED?
Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [permanent holy war] Steve Thompson True, but there's a question of the waste of resources and man-years that would come from such a circumstance. All the oil money has been wasted, most of the humans in the middle east have suffered poverty, ignorance, lack of freedom and the unproductive absence of useful labor. Just like the good ol' USA, AFAIK. It's just that the inequities at home aren't limited to those that are a product of the petrochemical industry. All of which is not too different from what I see in the poorer parts of the city I live in: Toronto. All my life, people have been proposing to solve this problem. Nearly every American president since 1950 announced some big and expensive initiative that would supposedly solve this problem, or make some substantial progress towards a solution. Lately people were talking about PSE/COA topics which make moot much of the bickering and squabbling that is a constant feature of capitalism. We don't hear much about PSE these days for some reason. I suspect that the path from here to there is still too far beyond the planning horizon of too many people. So, if PSE in a recognizeable form represents a rational outcome of current economic progress, then I guess we must wait until it looms nearer before selling it to the world. What is your solution? PSE. And the death of all superstitious nonsense. Of course, there are probably enough people around who like domination games that the elimination of bogus memes such as those attached to theology may prove difficult. Do you have a better idea? And then there's the ethical[1] side of the coin: do the (largely financial benefits) that might come from a civil war in Iraq really justify the consequent standard-of-living for the residents of Iraq? And your remedy for improving the standard of living in the arab world is? Give them more money. Aridrop directv dishes, televisions, and old computers. Hell, I don't know. Winning arab hearts and minds is a topic that is entirely beyond my area of expertise. Steve Thompson Aren't we all about to run out of oil soon anyways? Forty years or so, according to estimates by the more sane and conventional authorities. And then what? What are we and they going to do the following year? And the year after that? I'm sure your military think-tanks have walked through the scenarios and have a good handle on the likely outcomes, but they aren't really talking at this time. (And of course, I wouldn't trust public military think-tank product to correctly predict the sunrise.) James A. Donald: the people who organize large scale terror can be identified, particularly by locals and coreligionists, which is why they have been dying in large numbers in Afghanistan. Steve Thompson Um, what planet are you on? The planet where the Afghans held an election, in which nearly everybody voted, some of them several times, and the Taliban were unable to carry out any of the threats they made against the voters, which indicates that the Afghans have been pretty efficient in killing Taliban. Ok. That may well be true. And it is a step in the right direction. However I would guess that the long-term stable state of Afghanistan is entirely up in the air. Barring coups and such I guess we'll have to revisit the Afghanistan question in a few decades. At that time, and after they've had a little practice with the democratic process, we'll probably have a much better idea of how well their liberation from the taliban went. The people who, as you say, organize large scale terror tend to be protected by virtue of large bureaucratic firewalls, legislated secrecy, misdirection (smoke and mirrors), and even taboos. The average Afghan warlord is untroubled by any of this crap. I suspect that not many of them get to the civilised portions of the Internet all that often. He sees someone who looks suspicious, says Hey, you don't look like you are from around here. What are you doing? If he does not like the answers, he brings out his skinning knife, and asks a few more questions. If the answers make him even more unhappy, he hands his skinning knife to the womenfolk, and tells them to take their time. You gotta admire the hands-on leadership style, at the very least. But perhaps you are not referring to Western terrorists, but are expecting your reader to assume that terrorists always wear turbans, and who generally will live and operate in the Middle-Eastern theatre. Perhaps you have forgotten about the people who planned and executed the operations that helped South-American tyrants form up and train their death- and terror-squads? The parties that sponsored death squads of Latin America, when victorious, held free and fair elections, which they won, and those they had been fighting lost. The death squads were an response to
RE: Oswald, Atta, Your Name Here
At 6:41 PM -0800 11/30/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And I could cycle my 7.52x54R bolt-action in under a second on my first try, but again, grace under pressure is cool. ..and here I bet you thought that Marine marksman rating, bordering on sharpshooter, whatever, would *never* come in handy... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 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'
Jewish wholy words..
Is it true that the jews have these texts in their scriptures? #1. Sanhedrin 59a: Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild animal. #2. Aboda Sarah 37a: A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated. #3. Yebamoth 11b: Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age. #4. Abodah Zara 26b: Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed. #5. Yebamoth 98a: All gentile children are animals. #6. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean. #7. Baba Necia 114, 6: The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.
RE: Jewish wholy words..
No. Technically speaking, only the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible, written by Moses) are technically scripture...everything else is commentary. -TD From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jewish wholy words.. Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:30:05 +0100 (CET) Is it true that the jews have these texts in their scriptures? #1. Sanhedrin 59a: Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild animal. #2. Aboda Sarah 37a: A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated. #3. Yebamoth 11b: Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age. #4. Abodah Zara 26b: Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed. #5. Yebamoth 98a: All gentile children are animals. #6. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean. #7. Baba Necia 114, 6: The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.
Quantum key distribution
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-6/p22.html - The Industrial Physicist ?Quantum key distribution Data carrying photons may be transmitted by laser and detected in such a way that any interference will be noted by Jennifer Ouellette pdf version of this article Computing's exponential increase in power requires setting the bar always higher to secure electronicdata transmissions from would-be hackers. The ideal solution would transmit data in quantum bits, but truly quantum information processing may lie decades away. Therefore, several companies have focused on bringing one aspect of quantum communications to market- quantum key distribution (QKD), used to exchange secret keys that protect data during transmission. Two companies, MagiQ Technologies (New York, NY) and ID Quantique (Geneva, Switzerland), have released commercial QKD systems, and several others plan to enter the marketplace within two years. Figure 1. When blue light is pumped into a nonlinear crystal, entangled photon pairs (imaged here as a red beam with the aid of a diode laser) emerge at an angle of 3° to the blue beam, and the beams are sent into single-mode fibers to be detected. Because the entangled photons know each other, any interference will result in a mismatch when the two beams are compared. (University of Vienna/Volker Steger) There is a continuous war between code makers and code breakers, says Alexei Trifonov, chief scientist with MagiQ. Cryptologists devise more difficult coding schemes, only to have them broken. Quantum cryptography has the potential to end that cycle. This is important to national security and modern electronic business transactions, which transmit credit card numbers and other sensitive information in encrypted form. The Department of Defense (DoD) currently funds several quantum-cryptography projects as part of a $20.6 million initiative in quantum information. Globally, public and private sources will fund about $50 million in quantum-cryptography work over the next several years. Andrew Hammond, a vice president of MagiQ, estimates that the market for QKD systems will reach $200 million within a few years, and one day could hit $1 billion annually. Key types QKD was proposed roughly 20 years ago, but its premise rests on the formulation of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in 1927. The very act of observing or measuring a particle-such as a photon in a data stream-changes its behavior (Figure 1). Any moving photon can have one of four orientations: vertical, horizontal, or diagonal in either direction. A standard laser can be modified to emit single photons, each with a particular orientation. Would-be hackers (eavesdroppers in cryptography parlance) can record the orientations with photon detectors, but doing so changes the orientation of some photons-and, thus, alerts the sender and receiver of a compromised transmission. An encryption key-the code needed to encrypt or decipher a message-consists of a string of random bits. Such a key is useless unless it is completely random, known only to the communicating parties, and changed regularly. In the one-time-pad approach, the key length must equal the message length, and it should be used only once. In theory, this makes the encrypted message secure, but problems arise in practice. In the real world, keys must be exchanged by a CD-ROM or some other physical means, which makes keys susceptible to interception. Reusing a key gives code breakers the opportunity to find patterns in the encrypted data that might reveal the key. Historically, the Soviet Union's accidental duplication of one-time-pad pages allowed U.S. cryptanalysts to unmask the spy Klaus Fuchs in 1949. Rather than one-time-pad keys, many data-transmission security systems today use public-key cryptography, which relies on very long prime numbers to transmit keys. A typical public-key encryption scheme uses two keys. The first is a public key, available to anyone with access to the global registry of public keys, and the message is encrypted with it. The second is private, accessible only to the receiver. Both keys are needed to unscramble a message. The system's primary weakness is that a powerful computer could use the public key to learn the private key (see The Industrial Physicist, August 2000, pp. 29-33). Quantum key distribution A key distributed using quantum cryptography would be almost impossible to steal because QKD systems continually and randomly generate new private keys that both parties share automatically. A compromised key in a QKD system can only decrypt a small amount of encoded information because the private key may be changed every second or even continuously. To build up a secret key from a stream of single photons, each photon is encoded with a bit value of 0 or 1, typically by a photon in some superposition state, such as polarization. These photons are emitted by a conventional laser as pulses of light so dim that most pulses do not emit a
Swedish military feared linked to Estonia ferry disaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those interested in intelligence, munitions smuggling by authorities and so on - a few words concerning military smuggling of munitions on the Estonia, feared to have played a part in the sinking and killings of 852 people on Sept 28, 1994, when the ferry M/S Estonia sinked during a journey from Estonia to Sweden. It has been rumoured for a long time that there were some kind of smuggling of sensitive material taking place on Estonia and that Russian authorities did not like this, needless to say. The very stressed and hasty investigation performed by the involved nations also raised suspicions amongst a lot of people. On top of all this the Swedish social democratic government did all they could to hinder future investigations of the wreckage by trying to cover it with stones and concrete. First some other related info. The reader should know that the Swedish social democratic party is notorious for acting in undemocratic and deceitful manners against the Swedish people. Two of the most infamous affairs being the IB affair and the Catalina affair. In the IB affair it was shown that the social democratic party had founded a secret and unlawful military intelligence bureau as the party's own private spy organization to spy on other politcal adversaries, a Swedish version of Watergate if you will, but it went far beyond that. Hundreds of thousands of people were targeted during a number of years. Even Olof Palme himself knew about break-ins that the intelligence officers performed in other countries embassies in Stockholm, one of them was Egypt's embassy. One major characteristic is that the Swedish way of doing things means sweeping things under the carpet and not letting the public know the truths, this is shown in every affair known in resent years, including the Estonia disaster. In all of these affairs it's the social democrats that has been the most responsible party and the party almost in constant power in Sweden historically speaking. The magazine breaking the news in 1973 today has a web site about the affair, http://www.fib.se/IB/ In the Catalina affair it was very recently shown actually, after the planes was discovered east of the island Gotland in the Baltic Sea, that they were both indeed gunned down, as had been suspected for decades. On June 13 1952 the DC3 plane Hugin disappeared and the only thing found was a trashed rescue raft. Three days later the rescure plane of type Catalina was also gunned down and forced to emergency landing. It's today also known however that the Swedish (social democratic) governments have all been maliciously and intentionally lying all along about the Hugin's purpose to both the Swedish people as well as the families. Hugin was in fact gathering intelligence very close (some say on the wrong side even) of the Russian border and was relaying all this signal intelligence directly to the Americans. USA was amongst other things interested in Russias capacity to fight the B-47. This was well known for the Russians and this was the direct cause of the attacks in 1952. It is believed that the Swedish FRA, standing for Försvarets RadioAnstalt, translating to The Defence's Radio Institution, which is Swedens NSA, signed secret treaties with the US some three years prior to the assult on these planes. The FRA had 5 employees on the Hugin when it was gunned down. It wasn't until 1991 that the families knew what happened, that was when the Russians admitted a Mig-15 gunned them down. When the recon plane was found in June 2004 it was situated far east of the earlier officially declared crash site which further fules the speculation that Hugin was indeed flying where it shouldn't have been, conducting its sigint operations and that the Swedish governments knew this all along. The Hugin was found June 10, 2003. I'm not sure how much of these affairs is known outside Sweden, but it's interesting read that's for sure and I just may get back to these things and others like them later on. Back to other things now. This was published today in Sweden, along with a tv show of one hour: INRIKES Publicerad 30 november Krigsmateriel fraktades på Estonia Estonia hade veckorna före förlisning- en vid två tillfällen krigsmateriel från Baltikum i lasten. Enligt kväll- ens Uppdrag granskning i SVT rörde det sig om rysk elektronik som svenska försvaret tog in för att studera. Lars Borgnäs som gjort programmet säger att avslöjandet belyser hur svenska myndigheter hanterat kata- strofen. -Man har t.ex. inte undersökt bildäck, säger han till SVT Text. Den pensionerade tullintendenten Lennart Henriksson uppger att han fått order om att släppa igenom bilarna på begäran av försvarsmakten. Läs mer på svt.se/nyheter Which translates into something like this: DOMESTIC Published
RE: Quantum key distribution
Andrew Hammond, a vice president of MagiQ, estimates that the market for QKD systems will reach $200 million within a few years, and one day could hit $1 billion annually. What an idiot. OK, it's basically a marketing guy's job to make up all kinds of BS, but any reasonably comptetant marketing guy knows to make up BS that someone will actually BELIEVE. -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Quantum key distribution Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:29:31 -0500 http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-6/p22.html - The Industrial Physicist ?Quantum key distribution Data carrying photons may be transmitted by laser and detected in such a way that any interference will be noted by Jennifer Ouellette pdf version of this article Computing's exponential increase in power requires setting the bar always higher to secure electronicdata transmissions from would-be hackers. The ideal solution would transmit data in quantum bits, but truly quantum information processing may lie decades away. Therefore, several companies have focused on bringing one aspect of quantum communications to market- quantum key distribution (QKD), used to exchange secret keys that protect data during transmission. Two companies, MagiQ Technologies (New York, NY) and ID Quantique (Geneva, Switzerland), have released commercial QKD systems, and several others plan to enter the marketplace within two years. Figure 1. When blue light is pumped into a nonlinear crystal, entangled photon pairs (imaged here as a red beam with the aid of a diode laser) emerge at an angle of 30 to the blue beam, and the beams are sent into single-mode fibers to be detected. Because the entangled photons know each other, any interference will result in a mismatch when the two beams are compared. (University of Vienna/Volker Steger) There is a continuous war between code makers and code breakers, says Alexei Trifonov, chief scientist with MagiQ. Cryptologists devise more difficult coding schemes, only to have them broken. Quantum cryptography has the potential to end that cycle. This is important to national security and modern electronic business transactions, which transmit credit card numbers and other sensitive information in encrypted form. The Department of Defense (DoD) currently funds several quantum-cryptography projects as part of a $20.6 million initiative in quantum information. Globally, public and private sources will fund about $50 million in quantum-cryptography work over the next several years. Andrew Hammond, a vice president of MagiQ, estimates that the market for QKD systems will reach $200 million within a few years, and one day could hit $1 billion annually. Key types QKD was proposed roughly 20 years ago, but its premise rests on the formulation of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in 1927. The very act of observing or measuring a particle-such as a photon in a data stream-changes its behavior (Figure 1). Any moving photon can have one of four orientations: vertical, horizontal, or diagonal in either direction. A standard laser can be modified to emit single photons, each with a particular orientation. Would-be hackers (eavesdroppers in cryptography parlance) can record the orientations with photon detectors, but doing so changes the orientation of some photons-and, thus, alerts the sender and receiver of a compromised transmission. An encryption key-the code needed to encrypt or decipher a message-consists of a string of random bits. Such a key is useless unless it is completely random, known only to the communicating parties, and changed regularly. In the one-time-pad approach, the key length must equal the message length, and it should be used only once. In theory, this makes the encrypted message secure, but problems arise in practice. In the real world, keys must be exchanged by a CD-ROM or some other physical means, which makes keys susceptible to interception. Reusing a key gives code breakers the opportunity to find patterns in the encrypted data that might reveal the key. Historically, the Soviet Union's accidental duplication of one-time-pad pages allowed U.S. cryptanalysts to unmask the spy Klaus Fuchs in 1949. Rather than one-time-pad keys, many data-transmission security systems today use public-key cryptography, which relies on very long prime numbers to transmit keys. A typical public-key encryption scheme uses two keys. The first is a public key, available to anyone with access to the global registry of public keys, and the message is encrypted with it. The second is private, accessible only to the receiver. Both keys are needed to unscramble a message. The system's primary weakness is that a powerful computer could use the public key to learn the private key (see The Industrial Physicist, August 2000, pp. 29-33). Quantum key distribution A key distributed using quantum cryptography would be almost impossible to steal because QKD systems continually and randomly generate new
Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype
Bring em on, oops, they are here already. Darn, it wasn't the commies and nazis who were the threat, it was your indolent life-style paid for by your swell-paid, smarter wife, up to women-empowered thieving the marketplace and making innumerable enemies for you to blame for your swelling brain fat-globules. Pray the draft is women-empowered so there's no need to shanghai the overaged, over-decrepit, over-funny-loving, inbred-feeders, pray for the Condies and the Maggies to fight the gameboy-dreamy battles, really face-to-face, not just stomp-hoof the youngsters into hell for a face-save the empire. Won't someone please slip a healthy dose of haloperidol into JYA's food?
