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Clinton Creates Post to Protect Nation's Secrets

2001-01-04 Thread An Metet
By JAMES RISEN ASHINGTON, Jan. 4 Ñ President Clinton has issued an order reorganizing the government's counterintelligence efforts, creating a new czar with a broad mandate to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities, administration officials said today. The directive, signe

Re: OceanStore - anonymous and distributed data storage?

2001-01-04 Thread dmolnar
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > More of the real documentation is hidden in the > parent project's pages - > http://endeavour.cs.berkeley.edu/presentations.html > has Microsoft Powerpoint presentations with the good stuff. The list of Project People only has one person on "cr

Re: NSA runs best fab in world

2001-01-04 Thread David Honig
At 12:50 PM 1/4/01 -0500, sunder wrote: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/15779.html > > >NSA runs best fab in world Commercial fabs are enormously constrained by profitability: you could build huge chips except the yield drops, because a single error usually trashes the chip. The NSA doe

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Re: OceanStore - anonymous and distributed data storage?

2001-01-04 Thread Bill Stewart
>Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>http://slashdot.org (it's a vector to Forbes). At 09:14 AM 1/3/01 -0500, Roy Silvernail wrote: > > No, that's Slashdot. Yup. It's the URL for the front page, and articles roll off the bottom as new ones are posted, as Jim knows. However, the project ha

RE: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-04 Thread David Honig
At 01:08 PM 1/4/01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >2. The 'storage heater'. The CEGB (central electricity >generating board) rates were far lower at night >than during the day or evening. Interestingly, this time-dependency has also forced other technology. Some years ago, the fuzzy logic people we

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2001-01-04 Thread David Honig
At 05:29 AM 1/4/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >I *guess* "kitchen" sharp lad >because in the UK "stove" is an old-fashioned name >for a cooking device, stuff we used before the invention of gas and >electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron >range). Yes, artifact to cook

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2001-01-04 Thread David Honig
At 06:46 AM 1/4/01 -0500, Steve Mynott wrote: > >I think "furnace" is "boiler" in English. > A modern furnace might burn oil or natural gas and pump hot air into rooms. An electric -> thermal device might be called a heater. A boiler implies a working liquid, doesn't it? Anyway these were Americ

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2001-01-04 Thread David Honig
At 11:48 PM 1/3/01 -0500, graham compton,Jr. wrote: > my dog was poisoned by ricin. do you know the antidote? Thanks, GSC Jr There isn't one. His ribosomes have ceased functioning. No more protein synthesis. Bummer.

[Fwd: End-2000 Alert: John Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp Regs]

2001-01-04 Thread Harmon Seaver
Original Message Subject: End-2000 Alert: John Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp Regs Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:43:09 -0500 X-Loop: openpgp.net From: DRCNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-04 Thread Harmon Seaver
Craig McKie wrote: > > Americans do not have electric kettles within the intended British > meaning. They tend not to know what you are talking about. The product > is absent from the shelves at Target and Walmart. > Really? I bought my electric kettle at Target, although I bought my son'

Re: Electric Kettles

2001-01-04 Thread Greg Newby
Obligatory cypher tie-in: Remember the Lava Lamp used to create random numbers? Bubbles in a boiling liquid might also be suitable. Electric kettles are common in the UK and Canada. Black and Decker makes a model (in 1/2 quart and 1-1/2 quart sizes) available in some department stores, kitchen

Re: Electric Kettles

2001-01-04 Thread Alan Olsen
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Great Topic! > > Steve Mynott wrote: > > > Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles > > for boiling water. > > > > Can anyone confirm whether this is true? > > > I have never

Electric Kettles

2001-01-04 Thread mmotyka
Great Topic! Steve Mynott wrote: > Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles > for boiling water. > > Can anyone confirm whether this is true? > I have never seen an electric kettle for boiling water for tea. Why boil water f

RE: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-04 Thread Trei, Peter
Central heating did not develop until well after the US and Britain split. There was little technology transfer, so it's not too suprising that the terminology is different. When I moved to Britain in the late 60's, central heating was still rare enough that it was noted in real estate listin

Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: >Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles >for boiling water. > >Can anyone confirm whether this is true? sigh. Americans tend not to call something a "kettle" unless it's large, at

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2001-01-04 Thread Harmon Seaver
Steve Mynott wrote: > Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On a tangent a friend claimed Americans didn't have electric kettles > for boiling water. > > Can anyone confirm whether this is true? > We have. I do. > > > electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron > >

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Mynott
Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > were American. But, not being American I still have no real idea what > the expected answer to > > > furnace:basement::stove:__ I had no idea either. > I *guess* "kitchen" because in the UK "stove" is an old-fashioned name > for a cooking devi

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2001-01-04 Thread Ken Brown
I read. I even read American stuff sometimes. In the last week I've read all or some of 5 books about architecture & housing. Two of them were American. But, not being American I still have no real idea what the expected answer to > furnace:basement::stove:__ is. I *guess* "kitchen

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