HAVENCO shut down?
Has anyone noticed all the sites hosted at havenco (www.seagold.net, i www.thegoldcasino.com, lists.havenco.com) seem to be down? Is this suspiciously due to the war in iraq, or just routine outage?
Re: .sig
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:33:59 -0800, you wrote: At 1:08 PM -0800 3/4/03, Tim May quoted: If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around. --attribution uncertain, possibly Gunner, on Usenet Would the converse read? If I'm going to reach out to the Republicans then I need a third hand. There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my freedom while they're around. It seems to me that right now, my wallet is at risk due to the rise in federal debt, whether by depleting my savings through inflation, or by higher future taxes to pay the debt. The attack on freedom, lead by the Republicans, has been commented on so frequently here I don't need to add more. If you think your wallet is less at risk with Democrats making the tax law, or if you really think we are having inflation now (versus the risk of deflation), or that the Democrats will keep your taxes down in the future, then you need to run out and take voting lessons so you can make yours count. In your spare time, find a Democrat, or anyone else, who will stand up and be counted and fight against Patriot II, also known as the Repeal of the Bill of Rights without State Ratification. Good luck, all of them, Democrat, Republican, and Independent, are busy being panicking cowards right now. Maybe, you can figure it out. Here is a hint. Republicans are like The Rock and Democrats are like Stone Cold Steve Austin, and elections are like WWF Slap Down. It's fixed, get it? The contest is not between Dems and Repubs, it's between government and the governed.
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:30:12 -0500, Declan wrote: Note by broad conservative community I do not include politically-active gun owners, who would like an actual principled stand on the 2A. Fat chance. People who look for principled stands by a government, any government, aren't paying attention. Other than surviving and maintaining control over the governed, governments have no principles. That kind of thing just gets in the way of survival and control and potentially limits a government's options. Example: From the Declaration of Independence to the Sedition Act took only 22 years, and that was when the founding fathers still actively dominated political life. Today, a USA Patriot Act takes only minutes to enact, with neither debate nor hearings, and members of Congress don't even complain of not being able to read it before the vote.
Re: Fresh Hell.
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:51:47 +0800, you wrote: Matthew X wrote: http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/12/27/120.html Global Eye -- Death Merchants By Chris Floyd Each day, one turns to the latest news from the bowels of the Bush Regime with Dorothy Parker's immortal words sounding in the mind like a tocsin: What fresh hell is this? Ever since he seized office, Bush has taken every opportunity to derail or destroy UN efforts to provide reproductive health services to the world's poorest women. For reproductive health services read forced abortion. That's what the UN is purveying, and one of the few foreign policy decisions of this administration that I agree with is cutting off the UN popucrats. Related to this line, I'm wondering why there have been no protests of the US FDA's position that it has authority to regulate cloning. This would include the process by which a woman provides her egg and her skin cell for cloning and reimplantation into the uterus. Why aren't the pro-choice groups assailing this infringement on a woman's reproductive rights and this intrusion by the government on women's bodies? Her egg, her skin cell, her uterus... How come there is no groundswell of women's groups about this intrusion? Are those groups really just about abortion, and not about reproductive freedom? What would be the valid reason for the government to claim power to regulate her egg, her skin DNA, and her uterus?
Re: constant encryped stream
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:24:12 +0100 (CET), you wrote: We have a resourceful adversary, who will quickly learn the tricks. We need a low-tech technology that will be highly resistant against undetected tampering by the adversary. Hindering the adversary is the fact that he must face thousands of homebrew approaches, rather than simply discover once a means of defeating the Mark 423 Mod 8 Closet Opening Detector. Low tech is quite best. Using cameras and receivers that rely on RF simply broadcasts the nature of the device. They are useful primarily to distract from the real device. Likewise magnets scattered about, and a few small lengths of wire connected to light bulb filaments, or whatever. Using devices based on storing evidence of incursion on the diskdrive is overly complicated and easy to defeat. (A crash, followed by auto-discovering of a bad sector, reboot, you are in doubt, etc.) You need to deal with radiographic analysis, expert manipulation, micro-camera inspection, etc. You need to use what you can find in a prison kitchen, for example. You need to be able to make it with only implements and materials that a prisoner might have access to. Hey, if you are going to be paranoid Assuming you want only to detect a door opening (not removal and reinstallation of the wall opposite the door, etc.) here is a nice low tech way. Get a tablespoon of flour and dye it red with food coloring. Dry it completely. Separately, dye another tablespoon of flour orange and dry it. Get a small clear plastic needle box or fishing lure box, and sprinkle some of the orange flour onto the bottom of the box, in the form of a set of digits, say 8 3 7. Now cover that up completely with the red flour. Now the digits can only be seen from the bottom of the box, and when the box is placed bottom down on a piece of balsa, it is immune to radiographic viewing, or micro camera viewing (more on this). Superglue (or make glue from flour and water, if the warden doesn't permit superglue) a thin paper hinge strip to the edge of the piece of balsa (or several sheets of flat paper glued together with flour-water glue) and superglue the other edge of the strip to the inside opening edge of the closet door, using a thin strip of paper as a hinge between the inside of the door and the balsa shelf. Now you have a very small hinged shelf that is hanging down, on which to place the needle box containing your hidden flour digits, when the hinge is propped up in the shelf position. To prop the hinged shelf up so you can place the needle box on it, go inside the closet and close the door. Now glue a toothpick in the door facing on the inside of the closed door that holds the shelf up. When the door is closed from the inside and that toothpick is in place, the toothpic just barely supports the rear edge of the hinged shelf. If the door were to be opened a quarter inch, the shelf drops off the toothpick supporting it, and the shelf drops, erasing the flour letters. Now exit the closet, and use a dremel to drill a very small hole in the closet door. If your warden doesn't allow dremels, use a paperclip, or use a screw and screwdriver, or whatever. You have time on your hands anyway, if you can't come up with a way to drill a micro hole in a closet door, you have larger problems. The position is just under the shelf. Now to arm it. From the outside of the opened door, stick a tooth pick into the hole in the door under the hinge, supporting the shelf. Place the flour holding needle box on the shelf. Close the door. Remove the toothpick from the outside of the closed door. The hinged shelf drops slightly onto the facing- mounted toothpick. It is armed. To open, insert the toothpick into the hole from the outside of the door and open slowly. Glue a medium size paper board box to the door facing, uncovered on the side toward the closed door, so that the entire works has freedom to operate, but is enclosed when the door is closed and the shelf is armed. This protects from micro cameras. Now drill several more holes in line with the real one. At the inside of each of the dummy holes, link them using a popsicle stick and toothpick linkage to a stick that pushes the toothpick in the inside door facing slightly back, dropping the flour needle box. Tamper detection, even if they don't open the door. Write on a sheet of paper and super glue it over the outide of the armed door over all the holes. That should show some crude tampering and cover the holes from pre-cracking surveillance expeditions. Alternatively, use thumbtacks or push pins in the holes to display some ubiquitous prison regulations. If they remove the regs, they expect to see the little holes in the surface of the closet door. Make lots of such tack holes. Now, they can't use radiography, there are no magnetic or metal parts, they can't do micro camera analysis without robotic disassembly, and even then
cypherpunks@lne.com
On reflection, I did not make my situation clear. I made a fair bit of money in my home country, despite a corrupt kleptocratic government that that does its best to prevent people from earning an honest living. I came to the US, became a green card holder and made a fair bit more money, and now would like to return to my home, where the cost of living is way lower, the food is much better, the skies are bluer, the ocean is warmer, the girls are prettier, and there is now no way whatever to earn an honest living. Fortunately I can afford to retire young. I am considering becoming a US citizen immediately before I leave. My concern is that if I become a US citizen, the IRS might want to tax me wherever I go.
