Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] more on U.S. passports to receive RFID implants start

At 01:31 AM 10/30/05 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >They've said they'll fall back on the traditional >"If we can't read the passport it's invalid and you'll need to >replace it before we'll let you leave the country" technique, >just as they often do with expired passports and sometimes What is the

blocking fair use? 2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers

Here's a very interesting case where (c)holders are trying to ban "fair use" (educational) of (c) material. I agree with their motivations ---Kansan theo-edu-crats need killing for their continuing child abuse-- but I don't see how they can get around the fair use provisions. (Bypassing whether

Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement

[Using the *financial* angle, having to show state-photo-ID is overturned to vote is overturned. Interesting if this could be used for other cases where the state wants ID.] Today: October 27, 2005 at 12:33:27 PDT Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) - A feder

Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used

At 08:41 PM 10/26/05 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote: >> Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and >> thus are subject to what economists call "network externalities". The >> best example I can think of is Microsoft Office fi

crypto on sonet is free, Tyler

At 03:15 PM 6/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Well, it's interesting to consider how/if that might be possible. SONET >scrambles the payload prior to transmission..adding an additional crypto >layer prior to transmission would mean changing the line rate, so probably a >no-no. Tyler, one can imp

big bro in the car

Nuclear Detection: Fixed detectors, portals, and NEST teams won’t work for shielded HEU on a national scale; a distributed network of in-vehicle detectors is also necessary to deter nuclear terrorism http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/4249/disarm.pdf Maybe the FCC will require rad detectors in cell

Private records scattered in the wind (FLA)

We encourage the publication of the (paper) school records which the FLA hurricane reportedly distributed to locals, as part of an effort to show the sheeple how *well* the state guards their secrets. Particularly interested in offspring of state officials, not that their kids are likely go to pub

On special objects, and Judy Miller's treason

Its unfortunate that some posters had to be reminded that anyone calling for government-licensed "reporters" (and "religions", as one author included) deserves to have their carbon recycled, because of the treason to the BoR. Tim May used to call government licensed citizens "special objects". Se

Re: Color Laser Printer Snitch Codes

At 12:24 PM 10/17/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Soon we'll find out that toothbrushes are able to determine what I ate for >dinner and are regularly sending the info... Soon there will be sensors in urinals that page the DEA..

Judy Miller needing killing

So this dupe/spy/wannabe journalist thinks that journalists should be *special*.. how nice. Where in the 1st amendment is the class journalists mentioned? She needs a WMD enema. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller defended her decision to go to jail to protect a source and

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All your routers are belong to us

Take da subway, its da bomb LAS VEGAS--Cisco Systems has taken legal action to keep a researcher from further discussing a hack into its router software. The networking giant and Internet Security Systems jointly filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against Michael Lynn

go for the head shot -they're wearing puffy jackets

Now that the UK got a little feedback for their empire assist, its amusing (in a black, american kinda way) to see them demonstrate their lack of a first amendment. The papers are filled with brits calling for state coercion against their own citizens for their opinions. Naturally, the sheeple wil

FTC bans P2P, anonymity, encryption

The FTC seems to think they can require (by force) the disconnection of zombie PCs. To cut spam. If they assert the right to control what software runs on net-connected machines, what is to stop them from barring any other software? After all, P2P threatens the economy, anonymity and encryption

Practical AP

>>Declan, tonight I dined with a major spam fighter and he said he had direct confirmation of the fact that the vast bulk of spam is sent by a small number of parties, perhaps 200 at most, and the bulk of that by a core group of about 20.<< This from Politech. The author goes on to suggest legal

[Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions?]

At 03:03 PM 5/17/05 -0700, cypherpunk wrote: >>[1]DocMurphy asks: "I'm working with some dissidents who are looking >>for ways to use the Internet from within repressive regimes. Many have >>in-home Internet access, but think it too risky to participate in >>pro-freedom activities o

Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen

At 11:25 AM 5/23/05 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >While it doubtless would have been better to behead the >Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi dictatorship, >nonetheless American troops seem to be finding an ample >supply of Saudis in Iraq. In what imaginary universe? Perhaps you need to be chi

Re: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A):

At 02:45 PM 5/17/05 -0700, cypherpunk wrote: >Iraq war (a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and many >people took 9/11 personally). Please explain what Bush's invasion of a soverign nation had to do with the Saudi 9/11 Theatre? (Sorry to offend the 'Merkins who can't distinguish one ay

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

At 03:55 PM 5/6/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Yes, but only provided the universe lasts long enough for those digits to be >computed! >-TD Actually, a few years ago someone discovered an algorithm for the Nth (hex) digit of Pi which doesn't require computing all the previous digits. Mind blowing

Twelve Monkeys

So, if you were a Handler, would you try to score some H5N1 asian flu for NYC, or would you convince a pre-symptomatic Angolan to fly into Rome? Just curious.

mu-metal Altoids

At 07:54 PM 4/3/05 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> Putting the tag into an enclosure made of a feromagnetic material helps, >> though. Altoids can proved to be a pretty effective shielding. > >Clearly we need mu-metal Altoids tins. > Mu-metal is expensive and I've heard tha

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

At 11:26 AM 4/1/05 -0800, cypherpunk wrote: >On Apr 1, 2005 10:57 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now here's your one stop shop for evil. A position for Google minister for >> propaganda is about to be posted, so I hear. > >Let's get this straight. It's not evil if people are voluntar

Reading every ones g-mail

At 10:17 AM 4/1/05 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >hi, > >Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the >mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail >doesn't appear to be practical. Whoah, are you clueless. Not only reading, but indexing, and indexing all your correspondants. Can you spel

Your epapers, please?

At 10:08 PM 3/31/05 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > government plan to insert remotely readable chips in American > passports, calling the chips [2]homing devices for high-tech muggers, So the market for faraday-cages for your passport will grow to equilibrium. A cage will cost less than a buck i

Re: WiFi Launcher?

t 03:06 PM 3/25/05 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >I noticed you did a little editing! Sigh. Few can stand in the light for >very long, save the various beautiful women that clamor to spread my DNA... Your barber can spread more of your DNA. Your female can help you *copy* your DNA, but only about ha

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

It would be interesting socially if the vegetable in question had fried her brain with her choice of unlicensed pharmaceuticals, instead of her choice of self-starvation (leading to cardiac failure, leading to joining the vegetable kingdom). Would Jeb be trying to adopt a coke-stroke negro? It wo

Re: FW: on FPGAs vs ASICs

At 05:44 PM 3/20/05 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >What I suspect is that there's already some crypto net processors out there, >though they may be classified, or the commercial equivalent (ie, I assume >there are 'classified' catalogs from companies like General Dynamics that >normal clients never se

on FPGAs vs ASICs

Tyler, Riad, etc: FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC run. Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC is more efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation, rather than most (FPGA) gates being used for reconfigurability ---

Re: SHA1 broken?

At 09:23 PM 2/19/05 +, Dave Howe wrote: > I am unaware of any massive improvement (certainly to the scale of >the comparable improvement in CPUs) in FPGAs, and the ones I looked at a >a few days ago while researching this question seemed to have pretty FPGAs scale with tech the same as CPUs,

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

A cypherpunk is one who is amused at the phrase "illicit Iraqi passports". Given that the government of .iq has been replaced by a conquerer's puppet goverment, who exactly has authority to issue passports there? And why does this belief about the 1-to-1-ness of passports to meat puppets or other

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

At 10:38 PM 2/9/05 -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >> There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating >> system, so Linus did. > >Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which >when added to the rest of

LA Times on brinworld, complete with nothing to hide quote

Article Published: Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 7:14:24 PM PST Who's got an eye on you? Secret cameras are everywhere

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

At 06:41 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > >> "The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the >>suspect in control of the car," he said. "He can steer, he can brake, he >>just can't accelerate." > >Sorry Charlie, but I thin

Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits

At 04:41 PM 1/28/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Not really. The P2P assm^H^H^H^H architects are reissuing new systems with >holes patched reactively. There's no reason for a P2P system designed in 1996 >to be water-tight to any threat model of 2010. (Strangely enough, they had >IP nazis and lawyers

Re: Cpunk Sighting

At 04:12 PM 1/21/05 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: >John Young, Cryptome strikes again. NPR is running a story on all of the >"sensitive information" available. Funny shit! LATimes ran something too! And even included a link to the mental-jihadist, terrorist-du-coeur, amateur pan-geo-opticon-ast

crypto, science, and popular writing

At 03:23 PM 1/20/05 +, Justin wrote: >How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write >pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current >research down to digestible kernels that the masses can understand. >SciAm should close down, requiring those who ca

Re: Feral Cities

At 10:32 AM 1/16/05 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss >people off. They need a government that is strong enough to >intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them. Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people off? Religion-base

Re: US slaps on the wardriver-busting paint

At 09:35 AM 1/14/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >It only remains for us to say that DefendAir costs a cool $69 per gallon >(US gallon, presumably). How much is the TV tax in the UK? How long to pay off the costs of paint to hide one's IF oscillator from the White Vans? Surprising that the Regist

RE: [IP] No expectation of privacy in public? In a pig's eye! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

At 10:07 AM 1/14/05 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >It would take some chutzpa, but tacking onto a cops >car would send a message Too easy. 5 points for adding to cop's personal car 10 points for adding to cop's spouse's personal car 20 points for adding to cop's mistress' personal car Not sure ab

expectation of privacy

At 09:01 PM 1/12/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >It's time to blow the lid off this "no expectation of privacy in >public places" argument that judges and law enforcement now spout out >like demented parrots in so many situations. A court refused to hear the case of a man accused of owning unlicen

Re: [IP] The DNA round-up on Cape Cod (fwd from dave@farber.net

The Beast doesn't know who licked the stamp. A fiducial sample is what they want. In Calif, they could merely arrest you for a bogus charge to have the "right" to sample your families DNA as carried by you. Schwarzenegger is not Austrian accidentally. GATTACA was optimistic. At 06:02 PM 1/1

Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

At 02:20 PM 1/9/05 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as >if it's hard to discover what they are at this point. I'm similarly annoyed that articles omit the URLs of "terrorist web sites", being forced to check ogrish.com, even if I c

Re: Tasers for Cops Not You

At 01:20 PM 1/8/05 -0800, John Young wrote: >However, Taser claims the civilian version is effective >only to 15 feet while the LE version will explose a heart >at 20 feet. And, Taser says "accidental deaths caused >by the shock would have happened to those sick persons >anyway." > >Well, yes, homi

To Tyler Durden

TD, I just watched _Fight Club_ so I finally get your nym. (Here in low-earth geosynchronous orbit, content is delayed). Cool. I had thought it was your real name. Maj. Variola (ret)

sitting ducks

At 12:16 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes? > >My understanding is that a single bullethole in a plane is not likely to do anything ser

Technology vs social solutions

At 12:06 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>3. Homebrew warning systems will face the same problems as eg pro >>volcano warning systems: too many false alarms and no one cares. > >The best defense would s

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

At 09:53 AM 1/4/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >Terri Carbaugh, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Mr. Schwarzenegger, a >Republican, had made his position clear during his campaign. > > "It's a military-type weapon," Ms. Carbaugh said of the .50 BMG, "and he >believes the gun presents a clear an

Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month

At 10:01 AM 1/3/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > >PBS: I, Cringely -- The Pulpit > >How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month 1. 150 K asians is nothing. 2. You will see > 10,000 K dead worldwide from the next H5N1 fl

Re: [IP] Cell phones for eavesdropping

>From: Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Cell phones for eavesdropping - finally some public "chatter" Of course, the low-budget govt snoops go for the basestations and landline links. The pending cell phone virus which calls 911 should be a real hoot. I wonder if cell virii can carry a v

All your wavelengths belong to us (or Powell, or the SS)

The FCC is trying to shut down a guerilla radio station in DC calling for protests during Bush's January re-anoint^H^H^H^H^H Google for it.

Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?

At 04:23 PM 12/19/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Funny how most Americans only wake up after it happens to them. As EC said, the only we understand is dead Merkins. >Case in point? How 'bout that proud-n-patriotic lady in "Farenheit 911"? As >far as I could tell, prior to her son's death she was

Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

At 01:23 PM 12/19/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"..They have computers, they're tappin' phone lines, you know that ain't >allowed.." > >Zappa...Heads...Crimson? A profile is emerging here! Either that or you >recently broke into your dad's vinyl collection... Very funny. My walls o' vinyl are,

Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

At 02:16 PM 12/20/04 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >No doubt a real intelligence agent would be good at getting through this kind of screening, but that doesn't mean most of the people who want to blow up planes would be any good at it! You really continue to understimate the freedom fighters, don't y

Militia or other Terrorists?

>> PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other >> day, what would Gen George W think? > >which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, &c.? It was ATF, about some gun-robbers; it seems to be a reply to trollbait by the Faux news channel or spontaneous dreck. http

Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

At 06:12 AM 12/19/04 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >Major Variola typed: > >> PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other >> day, what would Gen George W think? > >which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, &c.? I haven't found the source, I recall that I heard it. Mig

Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

I've been running a 1970s-era lava lamp for some time, and found that it can enter a stable attractor where you get a non-circulating blob o' wax at the bottom. While Walker et al.'s (?) LL video entropy source is cute/clever, the general lesson we can take from this is to be careful that physica

Frank Zappa, american composer

At 08:56 PM 12/17/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >the shiny pages of ''Hippie'' is to breathe deeply. My copy fell open at a >manifesto by Frank Zappa, in which he admitted that ''A freak is not a >freak if ALL are freaks,'' and went on to assert that ''Looking and acting >eccentric IS NOT ENOUGH.'

RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

At 05:33 PM 12/17/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our >democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional," he said. > >Tee hee hee... Indeed. The dude shows that 1. ability to inherit $$$ doesn't imply brains 2. he should take a struc

Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics

At 12:48 PM 12/17/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >(Also, politics isn't about people on the Net. It's about people marching in >the >streets). And RPGs. Lots and lots of RPGs. And MANPADS.

Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics

At 12:28 PM 12/16/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Anyone who owns that infrastructure is even more dangerous than who 0wns the >voting machines. Very nice quote. Can I get an insurance policy on you, with me as beneficiary?

Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics

At 12:31 PM 12/14/04 -0500, Sunder wrote: >Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ >Gait advances in emerging biometrics > >By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) >Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT > >"Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait."

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

At 12:01 AM 12/13/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: Interestingly, I don't >know of anyone who still actively wardrives at random (as opposed to >against specific targets) for this same reason. I've met some people this year who war-fly SoCal: a cessna, laptop, and regular dipole suffices, and a GP

Gentlemen don't read each others' mail.. bush no gman

Anyone surprised that the US spooks are admitting to wiretapping UN people? If they really had info they'd state it but refuse to answer how they got it. Somehow I doubt that UN officials and the people they might chat with will get the secure phones they need. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

At 02:47 PM 12/9/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Oh, general cluelessness doesn't suprise me. What suprises me is that the >writer of the original article seemed to believe that Stego was a new >development. The high-level pigs try to introduce this hysteria-generator periodically. The dumb typists

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

At 06:01 PM 12/11/04 +, Justin wrote: >On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less >> administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex. It needs a simple >> luser interface and something to

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: >Wardriving is also basically dead. On the contrary. A recent article (zdnet IIRC) described a non-hacker visiting his father, and using a neighbor's connection accidentally. This is very common. My own non-tech father regularly finds other nets

TSA groping

At 04:50 PM 12/10/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >The change is minor and TSA officials say they have no plans to rescind >pat-down procedures that require screeners to touch passengers' chest and >groin areas while checking for weapons or explosives. Nevertheless, it >represents an attempt by the

Re: punkly current events

At 01:19 PM 12/10/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: >I disagree. Except for the early days, spammers have been little more >than a low volume nuisance on Mix. What killed mix was it's complexity - >Joe Blow can't figure out how to use it, and new reops have a hell of a >time getting a node running

Re: punkly current events

At 11:13 AM 12/10/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Because nodes are not geographically constrained to US jurisdiction? Name a place which is not subject to US juridiction? Ok, Iran, N Kr, until we pull a regime change (tm) on them. Yeah, they have a lot of 'net bandwidth, right. Some of the ex

Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: >> If the Klan doesn't have >> a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will >> survive? > >Well besides the misinterprettaion of the ruling, which I will ignore, what >makes you think MixMaster isn't already dead? OK, substitute

Re: tempest back doors

At 07:46 PM 12/9/04 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > --- "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying >> >application software to include a 'back door' that would presuma

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

At 11:21 AM 12/9/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > >Well, May seemed to try to make the case that all of those "useles eaters" >were in large part responsible for the very existence of the state, and that >collapse of the state meant the inevitable downfall of huge numbers of >minorities (why he focu

Re: SEC Probes Firms That Gather Data on Who Owns What Shares

At 10:51 AM 12/9/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >cash payments of $50 to $100 per tip. The people add that a separate >internal probe found that four employees of Mellon Financial Corp. had >received Pittsburgh Pirates tickets, $50 American Express gift certificates >and boxes of steaks for such da

punkly current events

Someone should have commented here, so I will, that some judges (earning hanging) basically said that anonymity is not a right. This in the context of mask-wearing in public. If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive?

Re: primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua

copied under fair use only because Roy put in the research... NUMBER THEORY: Proof Promises Progress in Prime Progressions Barry Cipra The theorem that Ben Green and Terence Tao set out to prove would have been impressive enough. Instead, the two mathematicians wound up with a stunning bre

cog sci as a tool of the beast?

At 07:21 PM 12/7/04 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: >One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the >measurement of reaction time to stimulus. >It turns out that the length of time it takes to given situations is a >credible proxy for how difficult the discrimination is to

Supremes need hanging

At 07:37 PM 12/7/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > >Klan's unmasked for city protests > The hoods hiding under the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan will have to >show their faces if they want to protest in New York City, t

Where is TM when you need him?

At 11:10 AM 12/7/04 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: >Peter Trei: > >> > Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) >> > >> Try scruz.general. > >or misc.survivalism For some time after he left, he cruised a feline group, perhaps because one of his cats died. Perhaps this was the inspiration for Pus

tempest back doors

>Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying >application software to include a 'back door' that would presumably >enhance its suceptibility to TEMPEST attacks. Isn't tempest all about EM >spectrum signal detection and capture? You have your code drive a bus with signal.

metaforce

At 09:41 AM 12/5/04 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: >John would warn you about the organ cuts >Tim would rave about the sizzle stake >I'm just scoping out the meat-eye view through the grinder. > >--bob >of mad cow metephors Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream.. -Cows with g

malevolent randomness

At 07:46 PM 12/4/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: >Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due >to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant >coincidences or else the machinations of a malevolent universe set up >specifically to piss me off. Please

primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua

Saw in a recent _Science_ that Ben Green of Cambridge proved that for any N, there are an infinite number of evenly spaced progressions of primes that are N numbers long. He got a prize for that. Damn straight. Now back to the decline of the neo-roman empire...

RE: Jewish wholy words..

Just remember this [C]Hanu[k]ka[h] that the Macabbees were terrorists from the POV of the dominant hegemony... Oh, but the [solstice-coopted 'holiday'] is about someone topping off oil, not about rebellion against domination. Ooops. Nope, no parallels here.

Unintended Consequences

At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >John Ross' "Unintended Consequences" is a classic of the, um, gun culture, >:-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto "Gonorreah" fer sure :-)

Got Chips?

At 10:59 AM 12/1/04 -0800, John Young wrote: >Lying about having an implant is kidnapping and mutilation >protection. If they even think you have a tracking chip, you'll be boxed up in a Faraday cage faster than you can say Jimmy Walker-Lindh. Clothing optional, baby. Got 121.5 Mhz?

O'Reilly is a terrorist

At 09:17 AM 12/1/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > Appearing on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" Monday night My favorite irony-pegging experience of the week was Bill O accusing an Al-Jazeera spokesman of not being fair and balanced. Lets bomb those mofos and blame it on an out-of-date Yugo map.

Hawala != Halal

At 09:07 AM 12/1/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: >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 Yep, sorry, I've got templegrandin.com on the b

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 &g

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

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 compet

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

Re: Computerized war serves citizens virtual baloney

At 12:52 PM 11/28/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the >easiest way possible -- simply because we can. Neo-cons? > Instead, we have people who think it would be "sporting" to hunt and kill >animals by remote-control with their co

geographically removed?

At 09:42 PM 11/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Well, I guess I agree. However, there is some issues of Cypherpunkly >importance here, particularly concerning nation-states fighting other >nation-states. Though I can't consider myself a true-believing anarchist, my >own personal reason for continu

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

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

"And I hope that you die; And your death'll come soon"

>Seen the Norwegian site that calls for Bush's head shot? >Two URLs, the last vivid: > > http://www.killhim.nu/ > > http://killhimwith.bazooka.at/once/ Quite refreshing (although a simple macromedia browser game would have been a nice touch) when a US teenager armed with a Dylan song warrants a

Gilmore's regional arrest & interstate travel

> John (under regional arrest) Gilmore The feds can't prohibit interstate travel, no? To visit 2 of the states, you must use a boat. Do boats require ID? I understand that trains now do. [Note that driving through a foreign country should not be required. To boat you pass out of US waters, int

Re: Latest Tasteful Video Game: Chappaquiduck

At 11:34 PM 11/21/04 -0800, 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

1st amendment

At 10:56 PM 11/16/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > >DALLAS SERVER COMPANY CARRIES ZARQAWI DEATH VIDEOS, TERRORIST WEBSITES Any State employee who attempts to oppress free speech, including video, deserves killin

condosleeza rice

Dangle da carrot and dem negroes go fer da bait. Dang they'll lie for you like nothin' and dey're disposable as well! Gawd I love da south! Its a shame, Powell won't run. Instead, Fascism needs you, or your children. And hey, if Arnie gets his amendment (snort), the Carcano needs dusting off, s

Re: Cell Phone Jammer?

At 02:12 PM 11/13/04 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >"Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To jam the entire cell freq *bands* would take more power and >> more complex circuits. A jacob's ladder and/or tesla coil might >> work but would b

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