Re: [more car-trivia] Re: To Steve Schear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +, Adam Back wrote: As far as evolutionary pressures, aggressive and fast driving is far more dangerous, however adrenaline inducingly fun that may be. (ke =1/2.m.v^2). Also exposed or unduly light vehicles -- motorbikes, light built cars like

Homeland Security Act Affects Amateur High Power Rocketry

2003-02-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.space-rockets.com/art1.html The Extreme Rocketry Article NAR Did Not Want You To Read Censored !! Submitted for publication on Dec. 8, 2002 to Extreme Rocketry magazine at their request. Censored from publication on Dec. 12, 2002 by Mark B. Bundick, President of NAR. Homeland

Re: Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-23 Thread John Young
There's much more to the case than has been published, some 28MB of it. Ready to go depending on how the secret hearing turns out. Citibank is being lured into a trap of its own making, along with Cambridge daredevils. Reminds of MPAA, RIAA and TIA, and the mongerers have more dirty tricks up

Software-Defined Publishing Considered a Threat to Homeland Security

2003-02-23 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 08:11 AM, Steve Schear wrote: Kudos to the GNURadio team! Over a year of diligent effort has been rewarded with an open source and open hardware implementation of a PC-based HDTV ATSC receiver. Hopefully, this represents the anarchic nose under the FCC

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless

2003-02-23 Thread jayh
Some years ago my brother-in-law tried to take advantage of benefits because of his surname 'Diaz' (he was half Mexican). That didn't fly because he apparently was just too 'American' (native English speaker, etc). jay On 21 Feb 2003 at 16:55, Bill Stewart wrote: A number of years ago, a

Re: GNURadio enable HDTV

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:57 AM 2/23/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: So how soon do we get the hardware? 8-) The HDTV receiver was constructed using a commercial (albeit expensive, ~~$1200) board. A low-cost ($250) A/D-D/A peripheral, I believe using USB 2.0, is in the design/fabrication. I haven't seen

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minoritie s

2003-02-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. On 21 Feb 2003 at 17:09, David Howe wrote: but their highly capitalist companies sometimes do. Don't be silly. You have been reading too much Lenin. --digsig James A. Donald

GNURadio enable HDTV

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
Kudos to the GNURadio team! Over a year of diligent effort has been rewarded with an open source and open hardware implementation of a PC-based HDTV ATSC receiver. Hopefully, this represents the anarchic nose under the FCC regulatory tent. A recent /.

mail?

2003-02-23 Thread A.Melon
So is the list up or what? Havn't gotten any mail from it for awhile, although zoneedit's dns servers were hosed yesterday, but I'm getting mail now. Also see the cpunks archives are not there for the last week. And trying to send a test post to cpunks gives me this: - The following

Re: Homeland Security Act Affects Amateur High Power Rocketry

2003-02-23 Thread A.Melon
Sheesh -- somehow I though Sensenbrenner, at least, was smarter than this (although I knew Kohl wasn't) don't any of these people have a clue as to how ridiculously easy it is to make blackpowder from scratch in 100lb plus quantities? Including making the charcoal and the potassium

Re: Homeland Security Act Affects Amateur High Power Rocketry

2003-02-23 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Including making the charcoal and the potassium nitrate? Black powder is rather poor fuel for homemade rocket engines. According to what I know, much better fuel is made from about 60/40 mixture of potassium nitrate and sorbitol. Reportedly it should be possible to manufacture engines of several

Re: Homeland Security Act Affects Amateur High Power Rocketry

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:15 AM 2/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: Including making the charcoal and the potassium nitrate? Black powder is rather poor fuel for homemade rocket engines. According to what I know, much better fuel is made from about 60/40 mixture of potassium nitrate and sorbitol. Reportedly it should be

Re: One Man Against the World

2003-02-23 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
I've been reading DiLorenzo's book, _The Real Lincoln_, and this description is a pretty close fit to Abraham Lincoln, too. Eric Cordian wrote: --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes,

GNU radio musings

2003-02-23 Thread Thomas Shaddack
GNU radio has a very very generic approach to signal handling. However, this brings some somehow troubling (and exciting) expectations for the future. It's only matter of time until the software for TEMPEST receivers will be written. Then the cost of lower-end TEMPEST units will drop down to next

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... Did you read my full paragraph? Quoting zmag was not the only criteria I mentioned. Sorry, sir. Next time I'll try harder to decypher your dogmatic rantings. Noam Chomsky is no true anarchist. Chomsky is a commie pinko totalitarian. Well, since you put it that way, it's GOT to

One Man Against the World

2003-02-23 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/main.html - One Man Against the World --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes, but, somehow, his ascent to power was arranged nevertheless. ---

Re: Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:50 PM 2/22/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Declan McCullagh wrote: The other interesting thing to note is why Citigroup permitted one card to make $80K of withdrawals from one account (which was allegedly closed at the time anyway) in a weekend. The answer seems to be almost certainly a