Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort
On 2 Apr 2003 at 22:02, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Christer establishment? Are you out of your mind? We're talking about a country where a big stink was raised just because someone found the word god on a spelling list. This is irrelevant.You are looking at specifcs of court ordered behavior to fit the requirements of the 1A, which has very little to do with the behavior of the government in non-1A situations. Consider virtually the entire House (when was the last time you saw the entire House do anything) reciting the under God part of the pledge or singing God Bless America which was done specifically in response to people asking for a more secular display of patriotism, the countless 'in God we trust' LAWS being passed throughout the country, the very direct involvement of religious leaders (Graham, Robertson etc) in the White House, and the fact that EVERY move to suppress 'drugs' or 'pornography' or 'gambling' is associated with a flood of religious terminology. This country, despite the lines in the sand drawn by some of the courts, is obsessed with religion, and very superstitious, small minded religion at that. Jay
Re: Things are looking better all the time
What decline? The tower attacks were separated by about 8 years, There is no adequate sampling to justify that statement. On 24 Mar 2003 at 23:31, James A. Donald wrote: Observe the marked decline in terrorist acts. Recollect that 9/11 was the second attempt to bring down the two towers and one of many large scale terrorist acts directed at Americans.
re: give cheese to France
Actually shooting 150 visitors would be hell on business. Damn, your pesky tenants will probably object strenuously if you simply shooed 150 potential (opinionated) customers. Stalin the Chinese tried the shooting route, the fallout wasn't cool. Fortunately the market apparently has responses to censorship (homocidal or otherwise). jay
Give peace a chance?
Apparently Give peace a chance is dangerous, subversive speech, not to be tolerated in polite company http://www.msnbc.com/local/wnyt/m276307.asp?0ct=-302cp1=1
Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless
Some years ago my brother-in-law tried to take advantage of benefits because of his surname 'Diaz' (he was half Mexican). That didn't fly because he apparently was just too 'American' (native English speaker, etc). jay On 21 Feb 2003 at 16:55, Bill Stewart wrote: A number of years ago, a friend of my boss had been passed over for admission to some affirmative action program for Hispanics. He was a Puerto Rican whose native language was Spanish (he was bilingual), but his name was something like Fred Mueller, so he failed the Spanish-Surnamed definition used by the bureaucrats. Exactly how Spanish Surname was officially defined is obscure; Aztec-surnamed or Inca-surnamed or Maya-surnamed people generally seem to pass. Mexico and South Texas also had a lot of German immigrants in the 1800s, so there are German-Mexicans with names like Jose Mueller, and I don't know if they pass, or if they're insufficiently part of La Raza.
CJ lives
a welcome voice from the past. Raising a glass to CJ wherever he may be.
RE:Trap guns, black baggers, and Arlington Road
The best approach is stealth. On the machine, for example, a device driver that quietly sets a flag if an unprompted passphrase is not entered in a specific time. This would help tell if any black bag software has been hurriedly placed on the machine. In the physical world, comparable bugs that leave quiet telltale signs (perhaps relayed offsite) that show the area has been compromised. Black baggers generally have to get in and out quickly with incomplete knowledge of your situation. Doing a thorough reverse-engineer of you location is usually not an option for them. While the watermelon patch gun has a visceral appeal, in the end it's counterproductive. The state is much less dangerous when they don't know you're onto their games. j
Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto
I would however, reverse your two definitions, I think the word belief suggests the more rational, evidence based mental model, faith is a subset belief that requires no evidence. All of us have beliefs (under my schema above) that are evidence based (we believe in the atomic model). Often our beliefs are all tagged with a mental estimate of their surety, based on perception of the evidence and the criticality of the belief, the side effects of it being wrong. Items whose falsehood is not critical can be believed with much less evidence than items whose falsehood is critical. I may believe that Walmart has the best price on a coffeepot, and that is enough to commit a few dollars to the purchase, knowing I could be wrong but that it is not consequential. That same level of belief may not be adequate to purchase a Walmart parachute. It's one thing to believe a newspaper story that a man has the legal name of 'Santa Claus', and a very different to believe he drives flying sleigh reindeer, or that some 100 people wandered in a desert for 40 years WITHOUT A TRACE of evidence, while Egyptian military encampments (only a few dozen men) in that same area and historic timeframe) have been well documented. The key distinction between rationality and religious faith is that scientific, historical and other rational theories (beliefs) are known to be subject to revision, and are constantly evaluated in that framework. Religious faith, however, is not tied to evidence (sometimes searching for evidence is actively discouraged) and is considered true, not really subject to revision. This is, I guess not surprising. A system that in principle takes over one's entire life would have problems if the subjects realized that what is 'right' today might not be right tomorrow. So skepticism is portrayed as evil, critical thinking discouraged and the truthset declared absolute to protect its stability and belief without evidence (faith) is represented as the highest pinnacle of thought. Protecting tat faith becomes more important than reaching quantifiable truths. jay
Re: [perry@piermont.com: The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries]
While this clarification may be true, the government should realize that the unconstitutional 'deep secret' library searches of the PATRIOT act render such rumors as credible, causing their actions to be treated with deep suspicion even when the actions may be legitimate. [We saw this in the UFO madness of the 50s due to the government's absurd refusal to admit to its cold war nuclear monitoring balloons.] j
RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video
The problem might be the resultant emf signature, much more of a giveaway than the brief activity of a digital camera. What really might be useful is steganographically placing it on the back of some bulshit cellphone call (not likely to arouse much suspicion these days) j - Original Text - In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. We videoed and photoed the demo, but tape and chip were confiscated Sunday by the guards at Warrenton Training Center, Site D, near Brandy Station, VA, Site D is the global comm center for State and DoD, and reportedly the CIA: http://cryptome.org/wtcd-eyeball.htm I asked if the shoulder of the road was federal property. Their answer: yes. Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp
Re: CNN.com - Hackers help counter Net censorship - July 15, 2002 (fwd)
Previous message got lost in the ether (I think). Does anyone know what happened to this site? After all the buildup it seem unaccessiblej j On 15 Jul 2002 at 16:36, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/15/censorship.reut/index.html -- When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.open-forge.org
Re: CNN.com - Hackers help counter Net censorship - July 15, 2002 (fwd)
Does any one know what happened the the hactivisimo website? It was cited even on CNN, now it seems unavailable. j On 15 Jul 2002 at 16:36, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/15/censorship.reut/index.html -- When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.open-forge.org
(Fwd) Re: Palm security
I've been using Cryptopad 3 (Memo pad replacement) and like it (uses Eric Young's Blowfish). v4 is available (freeware) http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/cryptopad.shtml http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/CryptoPad-2000-10-12-palm-pc.html jay On 4 Jun 2002 at 16:58, Adam Shostack wrote: I find myself storing a pile of vaugely sensitive information on my palm. Where do I find the competent analysis of this? Ideally, I'd like to be able to protect things that I move into a sensitive area (passwords), and maybe select items in other places that I want to encrypt. I don't really want to have to enter a password each time I look at my schedule and todo lists. Someone suggested YAPS (http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Yaps-2000-11-7-palm-pc.html) are there others I should look at? Adam -- -- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. -Hume --- End of forwarded message ---
