Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-07 Thread Steve Mynott
Jim Dixon wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Steve Mynott wrote: The term 'engineer' is far from precise; in the UK most people who work with tools can be called engineers but people who write software generally are NOT called engineers. There are further complications: for example, in I hav

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-07 Thread Steve Mynott
Associates recognise the importance of the Indian market by suppplying special low priced editions of their books to the Indian market. They are occasionally available as "grey imports" in the UK. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Silly wiccan, tricks are for kids!

2003-04-01 Thread Steve Mynott
Tyler Durden wrote: Well, I think there's an obvious disconnect on this issue. Clearly, pre-Christian religious practices survived Christian persecution throughout the ages. From the little I know, some of the practicing Druids actually have received a nearly unbroken chain of tradition. The mo

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-31 Thread Steve Mynott
Harmon Seaver wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0500, stuart wrote: [..] Apparently you know nothing of the history of Britain and Ireland. No, I do. No you don't. But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to when the christer Romans came and killed off t

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Mynott
On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 15:22 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:32:24PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: (much snipped) It's just the same as some people claiming particular alcoholic drinks are better or worse than others. That's hardly a go

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Mynott
y users of these drugs despite numerous studies supporting this since the late 1960s. Set and setting have more to do with it than anything. People who partake in Sure. Leary was right on that one. -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-02 Thread Steve Mynott
Bill Stewart > Tim commented about railroad stations being in the ugly parts of town. > That's driven by several things - decay of the inner cities, > as cars and commuter trains have let businesses move out to suburbs, > and also the difference between railroad stations that were > built for pass

Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Mynott
news given headlines? Because Samsung are trying to sell phones. ... and they lie about it being 3G (which doesn't exist yet.) It's a CDMA2000 phone which is 3G. 3G networks exist in many parts of the world, although behind schedule in other parts. -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Mynott
periodically reborn." Claims have been made that soma was ephedra (like modern haoma), blue lily, mushrooms, cannabis or even alcohol. An Indian friend says the name "soma" now refers to alcohol in modern India. -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Mynott
following be welcome: Iranians Afghans Most people hailing from Northern India Turks I would imagine so since ironically the Aryans came from what is now Northern India and Iran up to about 1000BC. The word is even derived from Sanskrit. Read the Rig Veda and break out the soma (if you kno

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
er to break fanatical and trained terrorists. It's not some New Age weekend camp when you imprisoned and beaten by your captors. -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mynott
also allowing some degree of denial by a so-called civilized state. "we keep them awake a bit .. big deal its not supposed to be a holiday camp". Yet it's one of the simplest and most effective ways of psychological torture. -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Don't panic the New Yorker sheeple, glowing soon

2002-03-08 Thread Steve Mynott
ers of people in time of nuclear war. When I saw "War Games" I thought it was extremely dated (its black and white and 37 years old) and a pretty poor film. I think that it owns its fame solely to the fact the BBC didn't transmit it in 1965 (it was "banned") and that had i

Re: Cypherpunk agenda succeeding

2002-02-19 Thread Steve Mynott
in trusting closed source crypto from the likes of Microsoft. You are also wrong about linux encryption which has been in SuSE release since 7.2 (they are up to 7.3 now). -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Encrypted file system for FreeBSD?

2002-02-19 Thread Steve Mynott
clean (same commands work on OpenBSD which has better crypto support) -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "Stole their back"?

2002-02-14 Thread Steve Mynott
th. It isn't. Sounds more like a typo. -- Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: FW: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships!

2001-12-12 Thread Steve Mynott
My impression from the show of hand at the HAL2001 FreeS/WAN session was that OpenBSD's IPSEC was being used rather more than FreeS/WAN. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't anthropomorphize computers; they don't like it.

Re: Gnutella scanning instead of service providers.

2001-08-23 Thread Steve Mynott
7;s a one liner with the fairly standard UNIX tools that ship with OpenBSD and at least SuSE Linux. $ for i in `host -a -l -vv htc.net | grep ppp | awk '{print $5}'`; do nc -w 2 -z $i 6346; done (you can of course run gnutella on ports other than 6346) -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [

Re: Gotti, evidence, case law, remailer practices, civil cases, civilit

2001-08-03 Thread Steve Mynott
Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are Cypherpunks without a Westlaw or LEXIS login? The mind boggles... Ones outside the USA who aren't (or rather shouldn't be) subject to American law? -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] only two thing

Re: cell phone anonymity

2001-01-19 Thread Steve Mynott
privacy reasons (!) The Nokia phones with Net Monitor mode will display the current TMSI. See for example, GSM Security and Encryption http://www3.l0pht.com/~oblivion/blkcrwl/cell/gsm/gsm-secur/gsm-secur.html -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] only two things are infinite, t

Re: Anglo-American communications studies

2001-01-09 Thread Steve Mynott
's also a very large > number. Thankfully, so large that that definition rarely comes I have never heard "billiards" used as a number. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] whenever people agree with me i always feel i must be wrong. -- oscar wilde

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Mynott
. Can anyone confirm whether this is true? > electric cookers (in fact, before the invention of the cast-iron > range). But for us a "furnace" is an extremely large thing that you get > steel out of... not something anyone would find in a basement. Over I think "furnace"

Re: Whipped Europeans

2000-09-03 Thread Steve Mynott
hat. I don't kill without good cause, but I'd > > count this as a good cause.) > > > > SRF > > > > -- > > Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel > >518-374-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- mark twain

Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Steve Mynott
l be more effective in the long term than trying to shoot each one. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] "a desire to remain outside of the media gameshow is necessary if one wishes to retain independence of thought and action"

Re: RSA expiry commemorative version of PGP?

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Mynott
nted alogorithms on ideological grounds rather than for any practical reasons. Although the RSA patent will expire there will still be issues with the IDEA necessary for PGP2 support. RSA or IDEA support is on the GPG site anyway. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] when you sit with

Re: 2600 - bell toll signals

2000-07-27 Thread Steve Mynott
. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. --albert einstein

Re: MI5 Asks FBI Help

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Mynott
stem that > >monitors and logs both voice and fax communications of "suspects". Too bad > >that the UK doesn't have an equivalent of FOIA. I believe there is supposed to be an UK FOIA coming out but that it has been so watered down as to be useless. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve m

Re: Census and Perl

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Mynott
fers this > tidbit: maybe cypherpunks should try filling in their census boxes with entries such as `rm -rf /` and unlink $0 its worth a try... -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pineal.com/ "my watch with a black face .. has the date in a little hole in the face"