See p 19. http://www.privacy.org/patriot2draft.pdf
USG to trap, trace, and tap Americans' communications
on request of a foreign govt.
The draft analysis *actually says* that this is done so that foreign
govts will cooperate with US requests.
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Shuttle tile damage?
Better put some ice on
(This is mostly ruminations on car hacks
and adds little to the original thread about physically
linking responsibility to effects.)
First let me ack my sincere respect for folks like
Eric C who work on (rather than tinker/hack/meddle,
since he's still alive) their car's brakes or other
Back when the term hackers started to be misused by the press,
as in scary teenage vandals breaking into computers,
my usual comment was that teenage computer hackers were really
no different from the teenage car hackers of our parents' generations.
They did a lot of tinkering with machinery and
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:33:20AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Ashcroft is saying the group's creed rejects any peaceful solution
(of the Palestinian situation).
Right...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/national/20CND-INDICT.html
We make no distinction between those who carry out terrorist
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Capitalism would only work if people weren't ready to fuck others
like communism would work too for the same reasons. Like anarchy.
You're assuming a static agent model. Iterative interactions of smart
mutually identifyable agents would trend
Yeah, and too much freedom is as bad as too much slavery.
Right, bub.
Capitalism would only work if people weren't ready to fuck others
like communism would work too for the same reasons. Like anarchy.
Like anything. Depending on the time, I tend to lean either towards
anarchy or towards
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
But other people might be encline to tag along anyway. A reputation
No, because unless someone signs your stuff of their free will they'd have
to extract a secret (ideally) lodged in a tamperproof hardware token, or
break the cryptosystem, or
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
You're assuming a static agent model. Iterative interactions of smart
mutually identifyable agents would trend towards increasingly benign
cooperation.
That in turn assumes that the population is homogeneous. There is
Not at all. Of course
You're assuming a static agent model. Iterative interactions of smart
mutually identifyable agents would trend towards increasingly benign
cooperation.
That in turn assumes that the population is homogeneous. There is
overwhelming probability that a group will form around some people,
who
At 8:32 PM -0800 2/20/03, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
[Aside] I recently learned that back before you needed a license to drive
(ca 1930)
you would manually adjust the spark timing (!!) according to your engine
speed.
After handcranking the engine to start.
Yes, and you got a broken arm if you
Tee-hee.
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Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions.
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At 6:15 PM +0100 on 2/21/03, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Tee-hee.
Tentacle.
;-).
Cheers,
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:32:43PM -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Carburetor? Didn't that connect to the phonograph through a cat's whisker?
Carburetor is French for leave it alone.
While only one of my cars is old enough to have a carb, all but one of
the 10 or so motorcycles in the
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:31:45PM -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 8:32 PM -0800 2/20/03, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
[Aside] I recently learned that back before you needed a license to drive
(ca 1930)
you would manually adjust the spark timing (!!) according to your engine
speed.
After
It's becoming more and more apparant that this is indeed a religious
crusade. Seems to me that anyone in the gov't, whether elected or hireling, who
utters any sort of religious sentiments is guilty of a hate crime. Dubbya needs
to be hauled off to the Hague for his rhetoric alone --
Two Cambridge University researchers, Mike Bond and Piotr Zielinski, have
devised a way to hack the hardware security modules used in ATMs and Point
of Sale terminals, in order to recover a PIN in 15 tries.
These sealed units read the strip on the card, do something with the
account number using
At 11:04 AM -0800 2/21/03, John Kelsey wrote:
Social programs in general work this way. It was a goodie being handed out
once, but now, it looks to the people involved like a necessity, and
they'll fight hard to keep it. This is just as true of social security and
farm subsidies as of welfare.
But other people might be encline to tag along anyway. A reputation
No, because unless someone signs your stuff of their free
[...]
I'm not looking at this on a crypto POV, but from a human nature POV.
my trust level is around zero. If I've been glowingly
endorsed by other
nyms in good
--- Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as evolutionary pressures, aggressive and
fast driving is far
more dangerous, however adrenaline inducingly fun
that may be.
Depends on one's strategy. When riding a motorcycle,
there are two aggressive driving principles I observe
at all
At 09:48 PM 02/18/2003 -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
MEChA is mostly about keeping college admission
standards lower for South American-derived wannabe students[1]. [...]
[1] Not hispanics; they don't care about Iberians
A number of years ago, a friend of my boss had been passed over
for
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/18/iraq/main537096.shtml
So frustrated have the inspectors become that
one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence
they've been getting as garbage after garbage
after garbage. In fact, Phillips says the source
used another cruder word.
General Anthony Zinni, a former head of the
US Central Command, says: I wouldn't get sucked into the
cities. There would be a lot of casualties on our side, we'd kill a
lot of civilians and destroy a lot of infrastructure, and the images
on Al Jazeera [television] wouldn't help us at all.
One of
One wonders how much of the US spook-infiltrator's skills/cover were
provided by Lindh to save his butt:
WASHINGTON The sheikh was a devout Muslim whose lifelong
ambition was caring for the poor in Yemen, one of the world's most
underdeveloped nations. Yet now he needed help himself. His
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On 20 Feb 2003 at 16:09, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Ah yeah, the good old front against communists. Some people
haven't learned that political views aren't what makes one a
bastard. Commies *must* be bad, you see ? Too much capitalism
is as bad as too much communism.
Highly capitalist
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:10:11PM -, Tom Veil wrote:
If you would trade Castro for Bush, you're either a totalitarian monster, or
simply insane.
Bush is obviously both.
In any case, I've added you to my blacklist.
Interesting that you have to speak from behind a remailer.
Bill Stewart wrote:
He was a Puerto Rican whose native language was Spanish (he was bilingual),
but his name was something like Fred Mueller, so he failed the
Spanish-Surnamed definition used by the bureaucrats.
This reminds me of a black acquaintance of mine whose last name was
Garcia. This
Tyler Durden wrote on February 20, 2003 at 12:24:40 -0500:
As for quoting zmag (which I do), it's silly that this indicates a
necessarily leftie/pinko/commie slant.
Did you read my full paragraph? Quoting zmag was not the only criteria I
mentioned.
Chomsky, a frequent contributor, has
The reality is even more weird, I think. Suppose there's some
struggling-to-make-it new family down the street, and I start helping out by
bringing them dinner every night. If I do it for a few days, e.g., while
the mom is in the hospital or something, it's a genuine act of kindness. If
I
At 11:13 AM 2/21/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
...
However, one way to see the situation is more of a buy-off. Arguably, the
government plunders in order to pay off welfare society, because if they
didn't the masses would rise up and kill off the system that does not
really do much to equip
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, James A. Donald wrote:
Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions.
That's because they make better slaves than fertilizer. The real trick is
to make the slaves think they have a great deal, then the controllers get
more power and less trouble. Unfortunately, this
Tyler Durden wrote on February 17, 2003 at 20:53:14 -0500:
Tim Veil wrote...
Because the money that is given to them through these unconstitutional
federal gravy-train programs was stolen from me, and millions of other
taxpayers at gunpoint.
Again, I'm not sure why this results in rancor
At 4:09 PM + on 2/20/03, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Too much capitalism is as bad as too much communism.
That's semantically equivalent to saying that too much economics is as bad as too much
totalitarianism...
Cheers,
RAH
Capitalism, being, of course, Marxist argot for economics...
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What part of my above paragraph did you not understand?
The rancor part. Let's take your line of reasoning another step.
Peter Capelli wrote...
Thats a pretty poor analogy. Perhaps a better one is where the robber
was first *asked* to steal my watch, (as I could obviously afford another
one) and then gave it to someone else. And in fact, if this recipient kept
the watch, knowing full well that it had been taken
Maybe they were working together.
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What part of my above paragraph did you not understand?
The rancor part. Let's take your
Harmon Seaver wrote on February 20, 2003 at 12:55:08 -0600:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:13:45PM -, Tom Veil wrote:
Harmon Seaver wrote on February 19, 2003 at 19:20:19 -0600:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:19:11PM +0100, Anonymous wrote:
After scanning hyperpoem.net, we've decided
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