Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Tyler Durden
kness and fear." I would bet that statements that sound very, very close to this were uttered prior to Iraq II. "Care to Avoid harming Muslims"? You are either trolling with better skill than even I, the Great Tyler Durden could muster, or else you are completely and totally ignora

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Tyler Durden
r substantial > > majority in many muslim countries, continually seek to > > confront the infidel in a wide variety of ways, and > > interpret our politeness and care to avoid harming muslims > > as weakness and fear." Tyler Durden > I would bet that statements tha

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Tyler Durden
WOW! Let's examine your little clip here. Tyler Durden > "Care to Avoid harming Muslims"? Your statement was that the US took special care in avoiding harm to Muslims. In this case we have Muslims tortured at Guantanamo and now angry as hell. And you expected...what? http://w

RE: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, I'll bite. Or rather... Well, your initial postulate was stated in such a way as to be fairly unrefutable, the key word being "float". Only companies, etc...provide that by requiring that the transacted funds flow through their coffers for a moment, where they extract their discount revenue.

RE: Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success

2004-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, as a research toy QC seems gee-wiz super cool. I'm still not super-impressed by the current set of applications. In particular, consider that random number generator. Although QM does indeed predict that experimental outcomes will be 'random', they are random within the weightings imposed b

RE: Airline ID requirement faces legal challenge

2004-10-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, this story is quite the media bellweather. This one treats the case purely as "Gilmore wants to fly anonymously", while even some other mainline media are reporting it as, "Gilmore is questioning the legality of hidden laws". I guess USA Today still feels it has an audience worth pand

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread Tyler Durden
First of all, the guy is a major dumbass... 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 Caucasian. I am a loyal, taxpaying, patriotic, evil-hating, English-as-first-language, natur

RE: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
What's a "quantum repeater" in this context? As for "Hype Watch", I tend to agree, but I also believe that Gelfond (who I spoke to last year) actually does have a 'viable' system. Commerically viable is another thing entirely, however. -TD From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL P

US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
On 18 Oct 2004 at 15:31, Tyler Durden wrote: > Aside from that, your posts are completely saturated with the > "They're more evil than we are therefore it's OK for us to be > fuckin them over" logic. They are more evil that we are, as demonstrated by their propensit

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Bill Stewart wrote... Unfortunately, the primary algorithm seems to work like this: - Somebody puts a name on some list because it seems like a good idea at the time, and there's no due process required. - Everybody copies lists from everybody else, with minimal attempt to track whe

"Give peace a chance"? NAH...

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
War is dangerous to freedom, but we do not have a choice of peace. The question is where the war is to be fought - in America, or elsewhere. War within America will surely destroy freedom. So. Why don't we see terrorist attacks in Sweden, or Switzerland, or Belgium or any other country that do

Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, when push comes to shove I have to admit Mr Donald doesn't mince words. Guess that's what Cypherpunks is for! However... The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The penta

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
As I said, an Islamic regime is objectionable if it tolerates terror against non islamic minorities, thus creating, perhaps unintentionally, an environment that facilitates terror against external infidels - that is to say, terror against me and people like me. You say a lot of wacky stuff, so it s

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Will Morton wrote... In addition, the whole of Indochina was (and is) a clusterfuck of rivalries and feuds going back centuries. The (relatively) sudden appearance of a bunch of new regimes, all with revolutionary mindsets through which to apply their old vendettas, probably made the bloodsh

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...wha? I said... > The US was in Vietnam trying to fight their way up. So it > would have been pretty evident to anyone watching that the US > was trying to undermine the PRC. And you said... You live in a world of delusion. Your dates are all wrong, your events are all fiction. So there was no

Re: James A. Donald's insanity

2004-10-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Sunder wrote... "Come on, come on, out with it, say it, say it... That's right! *Ding* you're reality challenged." Well, perhaps, but Mr Donaldson's brain has been turned into a host/vector for a very powerful set of memes. In a sense, one can't blame him: He has an answer for everything, and h

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-22 Thread Tyler Durden
es of oppression. It also had swiped billions upon billions of dollars of gold and other substances that backed the Chinese monetary system prior to 1949, so arguably that money had to go somewhere. -TD From: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Let us not forget the more tangible 'value' in bombing the WTC and messing up things downtown. First of all, the companies in the WTC were, to say the least, impacted (actually, the company I work for lost 11 people and relocated to NJ for about a year)hitting them (and their workers) was p

Donald's Job Description

2004-10-24 Thread Tyler Durden
I have a hunch that Mr. Donald is instead playing the role of an elaborate "devil's advocate", furiously defending his stance against retaliations by our fellow Cypherpunks. Tyler Durden mentioned this hypothesis many emails ago, and I believe him to be accurate, especially since M

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
now: he's completely wrong, and a wan smile would cross my lips if his meeting with Jesus were hastened quite a bit. -TD Old mother Reagan went to heaven at the pearly gates she was stopped. (Violent Femmes) From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EM

Doubt

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Capelli wrote... Yet what of your blindness, which doubts *everything* the current administration does? 1. Abu Ghraib 2. WMD in Iraq 3. Patriot Act 4. Countless ties between this administration and the major contract winners in Iraq Hum. Seems a decent amount of doubt is called for. -TD ___

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
You MUST be new here, Pete ole boy... Do you really think Kerry wouldnt have signed the Patriot Act if he was president? Federalized the drivers license requirements? Pushed for socialized medicine with central controls? Kerry or Bush, Kang or Kodos, in the end it means the same thing. I'm sure

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, perhaps your comment was made entirely toungue-in-cheek, but I still think you're missing the point. The point is this: Almost and "side" in this world that has committed or commits atrocities can find a true-believing apolegist. And in most cases the best of these can concoct an answer t

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Moral equivalence, the rationale of those who defend tyranny and slavery. Exactly. -TD --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9UPtpcIvFgtu2JFnBNLIA/QPpXk7MkK68mtvmQya 45I4CX0wox3d7YrExie7R1Q+2YFGk2ao4amh5DlM6 __

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Mr Donald wrote... A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted, that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist conspiracy, so in place of obvious truths, we can substitute any ridiculous fantasy that we

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... The irony is that the neocons seemed to be trying to build up a kind of mass movement mentality >in the US, which clearly has caught George Bush and his top advisors--this wonderful notion that >we're going to go out and civilize these heathens, bring them democracy and free

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
"The remaining communists have made some psychological recovery - see for example Tyler Durden's peculiar version of recent history, where in his universe the communists actually won and are still winning," Again, you live in a world that's evenly divided between black and white. Since I'm not whi

RE: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Sounds good, but there's a little flaw in the logic: At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way >to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they >kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, >starting with the easiest first, it can't happ

100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
A large percentage of these are women and children, and dying directly due to American bombing. Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=RelatedStories&pitem=AP%2DIraq+Death+Toll&rev=20041029&pub_tag=

bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread Tyler Durden
GodDAMN George W is a dumb fuck. If the guy's IQ had broken the 3-digit barrier he might have figured out that by nearly directly replying to the new bin Laden video he's basically elevating bin Laden to a hostile head-of-state. OK you TLA snoops...surely some of you montioring this list must ha

RE: Osama's makeover

2004-10-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah...wasn't there an X-Files that was similar? I remember someone picking up a photo of Sadam Hussein and the TLA-dude saying, "Him? He was a truck driver in Detroit we found." Perhaps the reason Bush hasn't 'caught' bin Laden yet is because he thinks he (ie, Bush) will win the election. He d

RE: The "plagues" are Mosaic asymmetric attacks, not biological

2004-11-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Again, the Mosaic approach of repeated asymmetric attacks on the Pharoah is what Al Q is up to. Eventually the Pharoah/US gets fed up and says fuck it. Maybe not this election, but eventually, and Al has time. GW has only 4 more years, at best, and Rummy & Cheney are scheduled fo

RE: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy

2004-11-02 Thread Tyler Durden
"That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy." Come on! The bar slut has pas

RE: Musings on "getting out the vote"

2004-11-02 Thread Tyler Durden
And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang and Kodos. So far, the only things Kerry seems to have promised is that he'd be better at doing all the crazy shit Bush has dove into. So when they ask me (at the corner of Wall and Broadway), "Are you a John Kerry Suppo

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread Tyler Durden
"2. Vietnam we lost by kicking their asses so badly that our campuses "revolted", at the behest of a bunch of marxists. Whereupon we packed up, partied for about 15 years, and killed their communist sugar daddies in Moscow with just the *possibility* we could invent something strategic missile defe

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, this may actually be less hard than we thought. Indeed, it's the one vaguely silver lining in this toxic cloud. Outsourcing to India will actually add a lot to world stability. Of course, we'll loose a lot of jobs in the process, but in the long run we'll eventually have another strong tr

RE: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Hum. So my newbie-style question is, is there an eGold that can be verified, but not accessed, until a 'release' code is sent? In other words, say I'm buying some hacker-ed code and pay in egold. I don't want them to be able to 'cash' the gold until I have the code. Meanwhile, they will want to

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Ben Laurie made a lot of useful points. However,... Simultaneous release is (provably?) impossible without a trusted third party. I don't think I believe this. Or at least, I don't think it's true to the extent necessary to make the original application impossible. Consider: I send you money for

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-05 Thread Tyler Durden
I dunno...a lot of it made sense to me. You don't have to be a Commie in order to believe that someone ELSE believes there's a "class war", and that they gotta keep us black folks po', or else we'll soon be having sex with their wives and daughters and competing with their sons for decent jobs.

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-05 Thread Tyler Durden
What if I block the outbound "release the money" message after I unbundle the images. Sure, I've already committed my money, but you can't get to it. In effect I've just ripped you off, because I have usable product and you don't have usable money. Well, yes, but this would be a very significant s

RE: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-06 Thread Tyler Durden
"He won because 53 percent of voters approved of his performance as president. Fifty-eight percent of them trust Bush to fight terrorism. They had roughly equal confidence in Bush and Kerry to handle the economy. Most approved of the decision to go to war in Iraq. Most see it as part of the war on

RE: No, Canada!

2004-11-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Wow. What kind of fucking idiot wrote this thing? A piece like this can actually get published? This is the biggest set of arguments I've seen yet for moving TO Canada! BTW: I always thought that "Economic Immigration" was an excellent ideait siphoned off tons of Hong Kong millionares befor

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Crap! Am I on crack? I think I agree with everything here! However... (James Donald wrote...) I cannot understand why you Bush haters are so excited about this election when on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Kerry promised to continue all Bush's policies only more effectually. That's basica

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Tyler Durden
JAT wrote... This election *proves* that at least half the electorate, about 60 million people, are just Useless Eaters, who should be eagerly awaiting their Trip Up The Chimneys. A...I need a cigarette. But I suspect it's far more likely that some large batch of USA-ians will end up having a

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-08 Thread Tyler Durden
, but of course one could argue "what's the point if you already need a 3rd party for the e$". But I think that's a disjoint set of issues. -TD From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I guess once you need a 3rd party for the e$, it's only going to make sense that the issuer offer a "value added" service like you're talking about. A 3rd party verifier is probably going to be too costly. But I'm not 100% convinced that you HAVE TO have a 3rd party verifier, but it's loo

RE: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Fascinating. And typical of the unusual Chinese seesaw that has occurred throuout the aeons between hyper-strict centralized control and something approaching a lite version of anarchy. There's no good mapping of this into Western ideas of fascism, marxism, and economics. Interesting too that t

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Oh No Way overly simplistic. Also, you are comparing apples to bushels of wheat. However Confucianism vs Daoism/Taoism is rather different from what you would get in the west. Confucianism is somewhat similar to what you would get if western cultural conservatives allied themselves with nazi/c

Arafat's last thoughts...

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
"Damn! Just when this scrabbly beard was finally starting to grow in!"

RE: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Now I certainly don't agree with a lot of Chomsky, bvut this dude clearly has an axe to grind. For instance, "After 9/11, he was more concerned about a fictitious famine in Afghanistan than about the nearly 3,000 incinerated in The World Trade Center attacks." What a fucking idiot. The 3000 were

Cell Phone Jammer?

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Anyone know from first-hand experience about cellphone jammers? I need... 1) A nice little portable, and 2) A higher-powered one that can black out cell phone calls within, say, 50 to 100 feet of a moving vehicle. -TD

Re: Cell Phone Jammer?

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
(CDMA was actually invented by Heddy Lamar to avoid jamming!) -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cell Phone Jammer? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:08:18 +1300 "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Anyone know from first-hand exper

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
D From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:53:07 +0800 Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks Tyler Durden Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:56:08 -0800 > Oh No > > > Way

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Mr Donald's comments are almost completely nonsensical. or rather, they vaguely reflect some aspects of reality glimpsed through a really fucked up mirror while on bad crack. Probably Mr Donald is referring to something he saw on TV about China's response (or relative lack of response) to Japan

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
zi way of saying that the the Confucians were not a heck of a lot different from the legalists - and the legalists set up an early version of the standard highly centralized totalitarian terror state, which doubtless appears quite enlightened to the likes of Tyler Durden. Again, you seem to visualize

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah. This is an interesting point. The Qing were 1) Manchus (ie, not Han Chinese)...they were basically a foreign occupation that stuck around for a while; and 2) (Nominally Tibetan) Buddhists. Although they of course adhered to the larger Confucian notions, they in many ways deviated from mainst

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
That is the revisionist version - that china was a free and capitalist society, therefore freedom is not enough to ensure modernity and industrialization - a proposition as ludicrous as similar accounts of more recently existent despotic states. I can't tell if you're arguing me with or just yours

Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
My delusion is evidently widely shared: I did a google search for legalism. http://tinyurl.com/56n2m The first link, and many of the subsequent links, equated legalism with totalitarianism, or concluded that legalism resulted in totalitarianism. Wow! A GOOGLE search did you say? Well I'm convin

RE: Mr. Blue Goes Deaf When He Sees Red

2004-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
That's the thing that sucks. The US's Liberals are almost as fascisistic as the clouds of middle-counrty hillbillies. I figured that out as a Brooklyn HS teacher when I realized the true meaning of an oft-repeated phrase of the time: "STAY IN SCHOOL". -TD From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
That seems improbable: Qin had a cult of personality, in which every single person subject to his control had to participate. A subject of Qin, like a subject of Mao, was more aware of Qin, than he was of his mother and father. You are apparently simply unaware of the real size and terrain of

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-14 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... Bullshit. Everyone knew that which the regime decided they must know. And if true, which I very much doubt, you are not only arguing that Qin's legalism was a different thing than communism/nazism, This is where the "Simplistic Grid" comes in. The momentum of Chinese cultu

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Hell, the entire Cold War, John. Including your beloved Viet Nam, which was a *battle*, not a war in same. When Castro, and North Korea, etc., finally fall, then the cold war will be over. That war was won (or lost, depending on how you look at it) by the inherent failures of communism itself, not

"F*ck the South"

2004-11-22 Thread Tyler Durden
A hilarious rant. You can hear this guy's anger ain't just for show, too--> www.fuckthesouth.com -TD Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to k

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread Tyler Durden
James A Donald wrote... And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? And the answer is: 9/11 sucked. Oh wait, I guess I have to explain that. After the Soviets were pushed out of Afghanistan the place became a veritable breeding ground for all sorts of virulent strains of Islam, warlords, and so

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... Well, I'm sure glad we avoided having Iraq become a breeding ground for all sorts of virulent strains of Islam, warlords, etc. Also that we avoided it becoming a place that trains people in how to carry out effective guerrilla warfare against US troops. We sure dodged a bul

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread Tyler Durden
James A Donald wrote... What made it a breeding ground for terrorism was not civil war, but diminuition of civil war. The problem was that the Taliban was damn near victorious. If the US government had maintained the relationship with our former anti communist allies, and kept on sending them arm

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-25 Thread Tyler Durden
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 continuing to post on the subject was to illustrate tha

RE: geographically removed?

2004-11-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. This is why there are carnivore boxen aplenty. The knurls on the police-state knob are getting worn, it is cra

RE: Oswald

2004-11-29 Thread Tyler Durden
> > Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he > > offed the sex & drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did. I dunno...seems like the man had his priorities straight, at leastimagine bonin Marilyn Monroe high to the gills on painkillers and speed...come ON, go

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Tyler Durden
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 verify their identity, trustwor

Re: geographically removed? eHalal

2004-11-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola: By Halal (are you getting this term confused with that for Islamic version of Kosher? I think the name is similar but not this) Do you mean that system of monetary transfers whereby local services are exchanged in place of direct cash transfer? (In other words, if I want to sell somethi

RE: Quantum key distribution

2004-12-01 Thread Tyler Durden
"Andrew Hammond, a vice president of MagiQ, estimates that the market for QKD systems will reach $200 million within a few years, and one day could hit $1 billion annually." What an idiot. OK, it's basically a marketing guy's job to make up all kinds of BS, but any reasonably comptetant marketing

RE: Jewish wholy words..

2004-12-01 Thread Tyler Durden
No. Technically speaking, only the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible, written by Moses) are technically "scripture"...everything else is commentary. -TD From: Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jewish wholy words.. Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:30:05 +0100 (CET) Is i

RE: Jewish wholy words..

2004-12-02 Thread Tyler Durden
m to the poor and uneducated. In short, it's silly to somehow get on the Jews for something that shows up in some commentary written 20 centuries ago (eg, Baylonian Talmud). -TD From: Tim Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Jewish wholy words.. Date: Thu, 2 D

RE: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Interesting. Contrary to what I thought (or what has been discussed here), only a 'scalar' of detected light is needed, not a vector. In other words, merely measuring overall radiated intensity over time seems to be sufficient to recover the message. This means that certain types of diffusive ma

Re: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-03 Thread Tyler Durden
TECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Optical Tempest FAQ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:39:33 -0700 On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:01:57 -0500, Dave Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > In fact the g

RE: Liquidnet: "Anonymous" institutional transactions

2004-12-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Shit! I point I made back in the May days was that a Blacknet able to accept anonymous trades would really have a major impact on the business world. Imagine getting early wind of some acquisition and then you could start trading on that? That would eliminate a lot of the bullshit 'arbitrag

"Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-04 Thread Tyler Durden
I thought JR "Bob" Dobbs got beamed up to that comet with those LA Koolaid kooks... -TD From: "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Word Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:42:01 -0500 word You want me to say what I mean. You expect me to not waste your time, but you don

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...RAHWEH

2004-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Random racist ranting is also required. There are some racist assholes currently posting on cpunks, but none have quite the May flavor. Yes, in comparison with May they are basically poseurs. Oh, and in light of the Bob conversation, shouldn't we be describing 'RAH' (a Bob) as 'RAHWEH'? -TD

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Bonus question: Who is the author of the origin question that inspired the copycats? Well, I remember May posting it but I don't think he was the ultimate author. I suspect whoever posted it recently in fact dug it out of the archives and re-posted it, a particularly lame maneuver if so. OR...pe

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

2004-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
What about where N=1? I don't understand. You can only have an infinite number (or number of progressions) where the number of numbers in a number is inifinite. -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: primes as far as the eye can se

RE: Supremes need hanging

2004-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Yes, this batch seems to sway in the collective wind. Which actually suprised me...despite the source of appointment of Suter, I remember reading at the time about his track record somewhere and was actually under the impression that he was a very 'conservative' interpreter of Constitutional law

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
"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 direction." Agreed. Though even his racisism seemed to have some kind of half-baked thought behind it. Or

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

2004-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
So the obvious question is, does this speed up the cracking capabilities of computers? On the surface, I'd say no, but then again I'm no computational science expert. (I say no because any of the primes used in X-bitlength encryption are already known, and these strings of primes aren't going to

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
If you think those are anarchist ideas, you've missed the main ideas about anarchy and anarcho-capitalism and such. Anarchism isn't about getting rid of the _current_ people in charge, it's about getting rid of _having_ people be in charge. Well, May seemed to try to make the case that all of those

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

2004-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
What a fuckin' joke. You mean they're only now realizing that Al-Qaeda could use stego? Do they think they're stupid? Nah...certainly the NSA are fully prepared to handle this. I doubt it's much of a development at all to those in the know. -TD From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMA

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

2004-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
probably comes down to Arabic, however, and that language has many built-in ways of deflecting the uninitiated. I'd bet even NSA has a hard time understanding an Arabic language message, even after they de-stego and translate it. -TD From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
"If you also consider the fact that I have been variously poisoned in recent years with everything from sedatives to stimulants to hormones to psychoactive compounds to low-level hallucinogens, and as well have been subjected to uncounted appeals to my subconscious in the main through the use of di

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at all. If you don't share the context of the communicators, you have no idea what they convey in their conversation about the "whether". That's a stretch. Soon you'll say that Post-modernist literary theory is Cypherpunkish c

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
quickly to such scenarios. As for trailer trash, however... -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius... Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 19:01:04 -0800 At 11:21 AM 12/9/04 -0500, T

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
In my family there's a famous story told of a particular musician who was busted on marijuana possession. His defense: "But your honor...it was only lemonade." -TD From: Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Steve Thompson

2004-12-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Something occurred to me...it probably occurred to others already but I am a stoopid Cypherpunk, don't forget. Anyone think it a TINY bit odd that someone with a fairly mundane complaint about bad computer gear would know to come in on an anonymous remailer? My first thought was that they had

Re: Steve Thompson

2004-12-14 Thread Tyler Durden
t. Time for a little 'fun'. --- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Durden wrote: > > > > > Something occurred to me...it probably occurred to others already but > > I am a stoopid Cypherpunk, don't forget. I like the n

RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize (fwd)

2004-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
"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... From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,00

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tangled context probe Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:27:08 -0500 Tyler Durden wrote: As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at all. If yo

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
And don't forget...Spam is a good thing as long as it doesn't clog the Mixmaster bandwidth. -TD From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: punkly current events Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:19:26 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 10 Dec 2004,

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

2004-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Maybe, but I think it would be very hard to write a general-purpose stego detector, without >knowing the techniques used for encoding the message. And if you know the distribution of your >cover channel as well as your attacker, or can generate lots of values from that distribution even if >y

Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

2004-12-19 Thread Tyler Durden
"..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... -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTE

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?

2004-12-19 Thread Tyler Durden
"(4) Lastly, as to your cesarian, fuck you and your wife, and her cesearean. We don't give a shit about your personal problems, just like you don't care about ours. Sure, it makes for a pulpy little story, but when you get right down to it, do we really care? No. Because, again, you helped to c

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?

2004-12-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, there's a TINY little hole in your logic here... Scale of distance is the only difference. Either you support the system or you don't. I don't: I either drive to jobs (charging for mileage) or I pass on them, rather than take part in the police state that is todays air system. You have the

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