Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

On 10/4/05, gwen hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troll Mode on: > TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) ... > BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as > a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that "feature" is built in. Th

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote > > I have valid although perhaps unpopular > > contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself > > limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the > > absence of my perspective.

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: > >What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? > > There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grad

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy > majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is "new > journalism", since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does th

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

On 9/19/05, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like Ben and Jerry's rainforest crunch, where by buying > overpriced and extra fattening icecream, you were > supposedly saving the rainforest and preserving > indigenous cultures . --shrug-- It's better than directly contributing to most "c

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping ("Psst! The FBI is Having

On 9/9/05, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a recent working email address? Does > [EMAIL PROTECTED] still work? You might try sending email to that address. If you don't get a response, either it's not a good address or he thinks you're an idiot. (Or he's dead, but he was

Re: New Drugs

On 8/23/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote: > > >"I [want] a new drug..." > > I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen > to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a dr

Re: Italy finally holds USA to the world standard!

On 6/24/05, J.A. Terranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2560 > > Italian Judge Orders 13 CIA Agents Arrested Over Kidnapping John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:47, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 10:38 AM -0500 12/8/04, Steve Furlong wrote: > >anarchist > > Bzzt wrong answer. > > Must filter that *in*, thankewverramuch... I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't th

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:26, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 9:17 AM -0500 12/8/04, John Kelsey wrote: > > But once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters > >and ovens, he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought > >about some issue in a new and fascinating dir

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:00, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: > >I rather suspect that > >the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are toying > >with their ability to interpose their data in place of quasi-authoritative > >texts. > > Oh, *

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: > >Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) > > Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. > > You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required.

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: > Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Immediate Exception

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: > I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express > purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

Re: Unintended Consequences

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > 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 :-) I tried, years befo

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

Re: geographically removed?

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, 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 skil

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 09:36, 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

US-centrism

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't > about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. Response 1: When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. Response 2: The cpunks list isn't US-centric

Re: Patriot Insurance

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:38, Will Morton wrote: > How long have soldiers deployed in war-zones been able to get life > insurance? Would love to see their actuarial process... It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life insurance we had didn't cover parachute-rela

Oswald

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:31, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > 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

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: > As for *kids*, we recently had an 11 year old bride (legal here with > parental consent) who was on the news for being the youngest *divorcee* at > 12! Why not give her the vote? She can't do any worse than the rest of > these rednecks. After

Re: Turtles all the way down... (was Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...)

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:55, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Nothings ever "regular" > around here On the contrary, there's a constant stream of shit on this list. _Someone_ must be pretty regular.

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:23, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > Just for fun, I bet the reason is economics. No need to have yew furriners > hammerin' our http ports, 'cuz ya cain't vote, here, anyway. Not that the French or other dickless wonders would attempt to conduct a DDoS on GWB's site, or anything.

13yo arrested for kiddie porn

First saw the story linked from Drudge, then googled up a handful of stories: http://www.kptv.com/global/story.asp?s=2435549&ClientType=Printable Boy,13. arrested on child porn charges 10-15-04 TACOMA, Wash. -- A 13-year-old Lacey boy is accused of child pornography by taking pictures of himself

Re: Printers betray document secrets

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:14, Ian Grigg wrote: > R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > > > > US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature > > style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. > > I don't think this

Re: Airport insanity

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:17, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it by bombing from high > altitude, or by using cruise missiles. > > Everybody uses the technology available to them. What's bad on it? > > Invariably, the side that uses the defensive measur

RE: Airport insanity

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 00:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > >-- > >> >My profile is radically different from all those who killed > >> >nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My > >> >"holy book" of choice is the Bible. My race is

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over > it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently > you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens > from it. Then it will be safe to car

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants > > Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. I think I'd get the implant under my scalp somewhere. If the implant gave access to a really critical place, I wouldn't want to risk l

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:27, Dave Howe wrote: > I have yet to see an advantage to QKE that even mildly justifies the > limitations and cost over anything more than a trivial link (two > buildings within easy walking distance, sending high volumes of > extremely sensitive material between them) But

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: > The "regular encryption scheme" (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers are second to none. (Microsoft

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 05:18, Peter Gutmann wrote: > The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through > the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure, > the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones). I > wonder whet

Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote: > That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the > crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so > if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it > out of one of em. (IN

Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > "The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to > prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times." > That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously > enough) 4294967295 (0x) mi

Re: T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:54, Sunder wrote: > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL > > Washington -- Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped > and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because > his name appeared

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:43, Sunder wrote: > Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we > discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, > etc... well, not quite that long ago. It's ok, you can still say "Tim May" around here.

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote: > Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC > against lyrics in songs. And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a "Tipper Sticker", indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that

Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's "contact us" address. But I don't know if Brands is still at ZKS.)

Re: Real-world quantum cryptography

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 21:49, Steve Furlong wrote: > http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Gah. That's what I get for trying to do a Hettinga -- he beats me to it. OK, Bob, you got me this time.

Real-world quantum cryptography

http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Click on the News: April 21 link, which goes to http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/rathaus_press.html World Premiere: Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography Based on Entangled Photons Press conference and demonstration of the ground-breaking experiment: 21 Apr

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:55, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Chickens ain't herbivores, they are omnivores, and, in fact, prefer meat, > bugs, etc. to all else. Yah, ducks and geese, too. But factory chickens, which is almost all of the chicken most Americans eat, are fed mostly grain. >A lot of

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 2:21 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Facultative strong authentication doesn't nuke anonynimity. > > Perfect pseudonymity is functional anonymity, in my book... No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as comin

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:42, sunder wrote: > For example, one way to piss them off is to attempt to sing when you have > zero singing skills, and do it for hours on end, purposely off key, abusing > whatever instrument is available... Ugh. I did _not_ want to think about Kofi Annan yodeling for

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:19, Major Variola (ret.) forwarded: > Blix says US spied on him over Iraq > ... > It feels like an intrusion into > your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side. Begging the question of whether Blix was actually on the same side as the Brits or th

Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:00, Jim Choate wrote: > > TO SUBSCRIBE to Cypherpunks, one should send a message to ONE of the following > > addresses: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There is no SSZ node anymore. LNE, neither. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Windows source leaked?

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:02, Justin wrote: > Case law on point? I don't think that is true at all. Trade secrets > that are leaked are no longer trade secrets. Incorrect. Trade secrets that are deliberately released by the owner are no longer secret. Secrets that are carelessly released by the o

Re: Windows source leaked?

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:45, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > [sent to al-q; does [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward there?] > > At 06:25 PM 2/12/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > >Among others, /. is reporting that Win2k and WinNT source code may > >have leaked. ... > If you didn't steal it, its not your probl

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:48, Tim May wrote: > (Though of course this is only the _theory_. The fact that all of the > Bill of Rights, except perhaps the Third, have been violated by the > Evildoers in government is well-known.) A few years ago I wrote a short paper looking at government-install

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:07, Tim May wrote: > Read up on the Lawson case in San Diego. Tim is referring to Edward Lawson, arrested repeatedly and convicted once in the late 1970s for walking around without ID. The appeal made it to the Supreme Court, as Kolender v Lawson, 461 US 352 (1983). Lawso

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:18, Steve Schear wrote: > Did you carry and present ID? No. Once it was requested (strongly requested, just short of a demand with threats), but when I demanded his justification he backed down. In NY, at least at the time, citizens were not required to carry or present I

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Steve Mynott wrote: > Jim Dixon wrote: > > The term 'software engineer' is becoming less common in the States these > > days. I have watched the job title wax and wane for more than twenty > > five years. I think that it was most fashionable in the early 1980s. > >

Re: Alt.cypherpunks will be where I do most of my posting

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 02:19, James A. Donald wrote: > And to get back to the topic of this thread. I cannot see > anything but random deranged crap in alt.cypherpunks -- maybe I > need to adjust my filters, but there does not seem to be any > signal in the noise. I don't see anything on alt.c

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:18, Jim Dixon wrote: > I spent several years travelling in that part of the world. Well, that just blew your credibility with this crowd. You're supposed to spout off on topics about which you know nothing. Bonus points for reflexive anti-state-ism [1] [2], and in particu

Re: [mnet-devel] DOS in DHTs (fwd from amichrisde@yahoo.de)

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 00:43, Morlock Elloi wrote: > There are precedents. In Franko's Spain, all typewriters had to be registered > with the state, and all had serial numbers. It was illegal and punishable to > possess one without license. What does that have to do with anything? We're talking abo

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:46, Steve Schear wrote: > Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants Which means that even armless retarded monkeys can post to c-punks. Profr, call your office!

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales (fwd)

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 15:55, Tim May wrote: > As the saying goes, the lessons of the past are learned anew by each > generation... And each generation invents sex, too.

Re: What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?

chives to a different box soon, maybe this weekend. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

jump in there and run the mix. Or, the mint. Yah, that's a bigger problem. I guess the first step is, establish a digital bank with at least the credibility and trustworthiness of an ordinary, audited and regulated bank. But without the auditing and regulation because, well, this is the i

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

de the potential stoolies. As you say, talk is cheap. Actions, reported widely in the mass media, will grab people's attention. On a related note, does anyone have a recommendation for a nice chianti? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so

Re: Colored people and cripples

so many >> apparently-fully-mobile persons getting out of their cars and vans with >> the "Handicapped" placards. Nah, kneecap the fake crips instead. Let them deserve their special license plates. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "

Re: Hackers Bypass 4th Amendment

, and it can be used as evidence against > you. Sounds like an opportunity, not a problem. Anybody know John Asscruft's home IP address? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their w

Re: R.I.P. (was: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online)

e of years ago. In the wake of the dot-bomb, I'm working a lot more hours just to keep my bills paid. I no longer have much time or creativity left for non-paying tasks. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they&

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

anonymous or not, with the unwashed masses. It conveys the meaning well enough to serve as an opening wedge to a better description, and it's general enough that it shouldn't offend the sensibilities of those few people who do understand the subject in depth. And it hasn't been

Re: Congresscritters want to be more... permanent

On Thursday 24 July 2003 12:09, Sunder wrote: > Isn't that akin to when they vote themselves raises? :) What raises? That would be unconstitutional, and they'd never do that. What they get are cost of living adjustments. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Wil

Re: kinko spying: criminal caught Scarfing keydata

New York, Juju Jiang was recording How many clues do you need? Obviously the J-U-E-S are behind it all. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using th

Re: Dna samples of world leaders

times?What more effecient methods > are used? Samples from known relatives, I'd guess, along with any other means that comes to hand. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapo

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

ent slacker (boss's view) or because the boss was a jack-booted jackass (my view).) -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Cypherpunks archive

ypherpunks page. I'll post to the list if I do it. List members: any preferences? SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Cypherpunks archive

e. I don't know of any archives of the unfiltered feed; the two I'd had bookmarked are dead. Jim Choate, do you archive SSZ? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to

Re: Denver Post article on mattd/proffr/AP/Jim Bell/cypherpunks

eeing any of Prof Rat's posts, and > I've never even killfiled him. Many of the nodes filter out mattd/proffr's posts. I think Jim Choate's node (see http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr) delivers his posts, along with viagra ads and other garbage. -- Steve FurlongComputer Co

Re: DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored

spend it on the 80-year-old. He's more likely to vote than the unwed, and likely underage, mother. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me

Re: All quiet on the western front

On the other hand, it doesn't take very many. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

ng someone to do it for him. That's a bummer because no one is going to trust an electronic wallet on a machine which has a 50% chance of being 0wn3d any given month. I'd been thinking that programs might soon get smart enough to handle Joe's security work, but as a result of you

Re: Quoting Anne Coulter is like...

ions were hoping to ride Gulf War II, but it ended before they could turn a profit. No wonder they're pissed. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, ma

Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

or others I have known. > He desperately needs to get up to speed. Maybe he can't. Again, fully consonent with my high school science teachers. cf "A Nation at Risk". If it weren't for momentum and brain drain from countries with decent schools for children, we'd be

Re: Skeletons at the gates

On Sunday 30 March 2003 17:06, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:56:00PM -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: > > Hey, finally a legitimate use of SUVs for people who never go > > off-road! My commuter bug would get hung up when I drove over the > > protoplasmic spe

Re: Skeletons at the gates

mic speed bumps, but the big tires of a 4WD SUV would have no trouble. I'm pretty sure the self-indulgent imbeciles who engage in this sort of infantile behavior would find another venue once the great mass of people stopped indulging their temper tantrums. -- Steve FurlongComputer C

Re: Quote of the Day

cause he figured he'd be the only one voting for the doofus in his very conservative county and he'd be able to point at that "1" entry and say "That's mine!". To his dismay, three or four others apparently though the same way. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condott

Re: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

oes Really Bad Things to Iraqi civilians, I have little doubt we'll hear stories of atrocities. There are US-bashers (Noam Chomsky) and US-military-bashers (Marc Herold) embedded throughout the world. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through

Re: Social democrats on our list

On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:52, Tim May wrote: > Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. MegaCorp doesn't have property rights to the air, but Amazon was recently granted a patent on "A Process for Bringing Oxygen into the Body". -- Steve F

Re: Give cheese to france?

remailers when you post your anti-property or anti-American screeds. You'd better --- after all, hundreds, even thousands, of protesters have been shot dead right in the street for protesting. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:15, Tyler Durden wrote: > Gulp. But then again, are they going to arrest all 250 million of us? cf The Asylum from Douglas Adams' _So Long and Thanks for All the Fish_. Just turn the entire US into a jail with a few, small "not jail" loc

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

mphasis on her not taking any action to delete files or erase a key after being served or arrested. I'm mainly interested in US law, but would be interested in other jurisdictions, too. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments t

Re: [dgc.chat] When you try to pronounce "NGSCB"...

- not -- play! -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged. --Michael Shirley

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

d Consequences_ handy, but I think Henry used a 20mm. The heli was pickled, not mounted. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they kno

Re: Indo European Origins

ban text needs a more powerful language. Given that, Bill's point is correct: Lojban's gammar has practically nothing in common with any natural language. co'o rodo stivn. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey t

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

e that the courts need to let the administration have its way, it's during war time. (I paraphrased that.) My view is, if there's any time the courts need to keep a closer eye on the administration, it's during a popular war. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, W

Re: Suspending the Constitution

suspended when a President declares it > > to be suspended. > > Power is what power does. He got away with it, that's all that > counts. Well, until April 14, 1865, anyway. Sic semper tyrannis. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

isn't content why do they want connectivity? What is it they are connecting to?", misses the distinction between the two. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expec

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

connectivity? What > is it they are connecting to? You don't have daughters, do you? If you did, the bill for the second phone line would answer your question. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some high

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

On Friday 13 December 2002 11:44, Trei, Peter wrote: > ... this sort > of thing could give the Libertarian Party legs, > if they handled it right. Hahahahahahaha -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law b

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

need only point to the idiots to discredit all of the opposition. (*) I'm the one who came up with that nickname, so you can assume that my opinion of him is not favorable. SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: eJazeera?

wear provides > a nice ground plane reflector, adding a db or two. Hey, that's a _good_ idea! And we can get side shielding by sticking the antenna between a fat guy's ass cheeks. The Fedz might notice that he's always keeping his butt pointed in one direction, but maybe that'

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

having to drill down through several levels and then choosing from several possible keys is too confusing and too much work even if it's not confusing. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

, half the time the encrypted message wasn't sensitive enough to be worth encrypting nor important enough to be worth decrypting. I have signed a few messages in the recent past, but that was probably even less worthwhile than encrypting them. For all I know, not a single one has been verified

Re: Flight security analysis (was Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video)

was a little painful toward the end, but I didn't grey out or anything. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

n, his parents can pay the license fees for his eyes and ears to the RIAA and MPAA, along with the license fees for his DNA to whatever pharmo company got the patent. The only wiggle room is for children born blind or deaf. Because of constant medical advances, I'm in favor of charging fu

Re: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

ll take more human time on your end because you'll need to set up the pages, projects, links, and what-not. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 18:15, Tim May wrote: > On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Mark Szewczul wrote: ... > > In your next life, don't be such a twit. Oh, don't be so hard on the man. You know as well as I do that he just made a typo when typing "

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