Frank Zappa, american composer

2004-12-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:56 PM 12/17/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: the shiny pages of ''Hippie'' is to breathe deeply. My copy fell open at a manifesto by Frank Zappa, in which he admitted that ''A freak is not a freak if ALL are freaks,'' and went on to assert that ''Looking and acting eccentric IS NOT ENOUGH.''

RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist

2004-12-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:33 PM 12/17/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: 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... Indeed. The dude shows that 1. ability to inherit $$$ doesn't imply brains 2. he should take a structural

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

2004-12-18 Thread J.A. Terranson
Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jimmy Walter has spent more than $3 million promoting a conspiracy theory the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were an inside job and he is offering more cash to anyone who proves him

Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

2004-12-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
I've been running a 1970s-era lava lamp for some time, and found that it can enter a stable attractor where you get a non-circulating blob o' wax at the bottom. While Walker et al.'s (?) LL video entropy source is cute/clever, the general lesson we can take from this is to be careful that

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

2004-12-18 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 $100,000 Prize

Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics

2004-12-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:46:51PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Very nice quote. Can I get an insurance policy on you, with me as beneficiary? Heh. Your tinfoil hat factor is way higher than mine. (Also, politics isn't about people on the Net. It's about people marching in the

Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics

2004-12-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:28 PM 12/16/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Anyone who owns that infrastructure is even more dangerous than who 0wns the voting machines. Very nice quote. Can I get an insurance policy on you, with me as beneficiary?

Re: pgp global directory bugged instructions

2004-12-18 Thread Justin
On 2004-12-16T05:50:22-0500, Adam Back wrote: So PGP are now running a pgp key server which attempts to consolidate the inforamtion from the existing key servers, but screen it by ability to receive email at the address. ... So here's the problem: it does not mention anything about checking

Re: pgp global directory bugged instructions

2004-12-18 Thread Jon Callas
Thanks for the bug report. We appreciate your help in fine-tuning the language in the verification emails of the beta test of the PGP Global Directory. We noticed this one, ourselves, and put out an improvement to it on Tuesday. Please check it over and see what you think of the improved