Re: US Seeks Bobby Fischer Extradition

At 10:30 AM 7/16/04 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >So it should be interesting to see how this case unfolds, in a country where Martha >Stewart can go to prison for lying, but Colin Powell can't. Colin was/is played the fool. He was a killer, wanted to be a diplomat. They had to let him; but he's s

Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt

At 03:34 PM 7/16/04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > I posted a few months back offering an alternative to religion in >> > recruitment: the terminally ill. >> >> That's not good for this purpose; their lifetime is too short. > >Do you have evidence to support this (e.g., average survivial time

Re: "Terror in the Skies, Again?"

Sounds to me like Al-Qaeda is just getting the most mileage they can out of their little PR Event a couple of years ago. They don't even need to blow up anything to get the most bang for their buck. Hell, in this story the biggest threat was the incompetence of the airline. -TD From: "Major Va

FIPS chassis/linux security engineer?

Does anyone know of a manufacturer of FIPS 140 certified or certifiable 1u/2u rack mount chassis? For a seperate project, does anyone know of a small linux-ready/able box with ethernet? Gumstix looks cool but I need hardwire networking. Last, I'm looking for a Linux expert security engineer in

Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?

Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >There are many various embedded computers available on the market, eg. the >one from . (Question for the crowd: anybody knows >other comparable or better Linux-ready affordable embedded computer >solutions?) When I investigated

Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?

Sorry to need educating once again, but I had assumed can-shaped capacitors were gone from laptops in lieu of surface mount. Anyone know? (I don't own a laptop.) -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: vacuum-safe laptops ? Da

Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?

At 06:35 AM 7/16/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: >Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.) Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the rapid depressur

Re: FIPS chassis/linux security engineer?

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Eric Murray wrote: > For a seperate project, does anyone know of a small linux-ready/able > box with ethernet? > Gumstix looks cool but I need hardwire networking. Soekris, . PXA255, Are there more

Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which > laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm > to 0 in, say, 1 minute.) > > Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the

Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?

At 04:03 AM 7/17/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> Sorry so late ---but your can-shaped capacitors might not handle the >> rapid depressurization so well. > >Perhaps it's time to challenge the introductory assumption. Why a laptop? >There are many

Secure telephones

Pondering construction of a secure telephone. (Or at least a cellphone in general. The user interfaces and features available on virtually all the mass-market phones suck, to put it very very mildly, not even mentioning that there's no access to their firmware (so no chance of audit), poor or

Re: vacuum-safe laptops ?

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 06:35 AM 7/16/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: > >Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which > laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm > to 0 in, say, 1 minute.) I got it! I got it!!!

Re: "Terror in the Skies, Again?"

At 02:19 PM 7/16/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >I don't quite know what to make of this. Is it just paranoid rambling? > >http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid=711 > What I experienced during that >flight has caused me to question whether the United State