At 10:18 PM 8/3/04 +0100, Ian Grigg wrote:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihad13chap3.html
[Moderator's Note: One wonders if the document on the Smoking Gun
website is even remotely real. It is amazingly amateurish -- the sort
of code practices that were obsolete before the Second World
Some interesting URL's on how this can be technologically achieved. These
are just from various news sources, nothing indicating one way or another
that the boys in Ft. Meade are using any of this stuff - though DARPA is
mentioned in the first link. :)
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Yes, this bugs me. But the person they outsourced it *to* scares me even
more!
They claim they have over 1 million users. Is a class action suit in
order? Their privacy policy clearly states
We consider your email address to be confidential
http://www.denverpost.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,36%257E33%257E2312378,00.html
The Denver Post
IRS may use First Data info for help in finding tax evaders
By Andy Vuong
Denver Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 04, 2004 -
A federal judge has granted the Internal Revenue Service the
This speaks volumes as to where intentions lie.
http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2004/8/3/84635/46365
Justice Department attempting to remove public documents from libraries
American Library Association
July 30, 2004
CHICAGO -- The following statement has been issued by President-Elect
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1793
As more traffic across the Internet is coming under scrutiny and network
administrators are making efforts to limit the traffic in and out of their networks,
the one port that no one is willing to block en-masse is port 80. Users (and
administrators)
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:04:15AM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
[...]
The system will consume 10^25 * 60 nanowatts or about 6 * 10^17 watts.
Now, that's a lot. It's four times what the earth receives from the sun.
So we have to build a disk four times the area (not volume) of the earth,
collect
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:44:58PM -0400, Jack Lloyd wrote:
If I did my unit conversions right, such a disk would be over 30,000 miles in
Drexler's estimate for computers are coservative (purely mechanical rod
logic).
SWNT-based reversible logic (in spintronics? even utilizing nontrivial
