What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >An anonymous sender writes: >> Rely on math, not humans. >What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? RSA, Inc. stock would go down. We would have to go back to paper and OTP, but we would also get to enjoy the excellent graphics

Re: Idea: Homemade Passive Radar System (GNU/Radar)

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to >locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the adversary >to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be quite >demoralizing. Microwave ovens were us

Re: ATMs moving to triple DES.

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:56 PM 8/13/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf > >Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved >to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM >networks are moving to 3DES. And you can still use 2-key 3

Re: Controlled nymity

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:12 AM 8/12/03 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >-- >What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she >paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can >prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to >make it provable. >One solution is for the bank to

Terminating Arnold's Presidency

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:42 PM 8/8/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >In response to a question about whether she would favor a Constitutional >amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Maybe they'll screw up the specs (by omitting quantity) and make polyamory protected.. >Watch for this President Arnol

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Spooks & Physical IDS: If you are specifying a "roll your own security system", you probably want to make a distinction between building an "alarm company" and a "physical intrusion detection and logging" system. With the former you're hoping to keep your items; with the latter you're trying to ke

Re: The Register - NSA proposes backdoor detection center (fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:36 AM 8/11/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32265.html >>Wolf also said that untrustworthy hardware poses a similar threat. "Most microelectronics fabrication in the USA is rapidly moving offshore," said Wolf. "NSA is working on a Trusted Microelectronics

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:48 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: >Huh? Voters don't control the security of the voting system any more >than we control the security of the credit rating/id theft system. The only way to show vote fraud would be to get enough voters to document that the State lied. That would depen

Ashcroft snuffs free speech, film at 11

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
Film Wholesaler Charged With Obscenity The U.S. Justice Department said that its 10-count indictment against Extreme Associates and its owners is part of a renewed enforcement of federal obscenity laws. Federal prosecutors said today they have charged a North Hollywood wholesaler of adult films wi

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:28 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Billy wrote: >> At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >> >What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? > >You mean polynomials like O(n^10^10^10) ? > > subset{P} !=> easy There could still be some protection with some crypto schemes, in such a

NSA webmaster

2003-04-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Active Top Secret Clearance Software Engineer term: Permanent pay:

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:56 AM 4/4/03 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >If it was economic imperialism, they would have done Saudi >arabia. Lots of stuff connnecting Saudi Arabia to the twin >towers. All your Saudis are belong to us. And we much prefer Saudi puppets to IslamoFundies. Problem is, of course, that it

Nuking kasmir (Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV)

2003-04-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:43 PM 4/1/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >Well-pakistan has been constantly nuclear black >mailing india.They say that their nuclear options are >always open and there is nothing india can do about >it. >Sarath. Hilarious, dude. Who got nukes first? India. See your own propoganda site, http://

Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

2003-04-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:56 AM 4/1/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Here's a story about a kid who basically made a duct-tape and tin foil >reactor. Or almost. If it's a hoax, its a pretty good one. > > >http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html What he did was replicate some experiments from the turn of the

art can make a difference, and traffic routing games

2003-03-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:59 PM 3/30/03 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >Any group of Pranksters willing to buy a bunch of orange traffic cones >and some sawhorses and a few dozen credible-looking street construction signs >could do almost as well without even a large group support group, >if they got out early in the morn

Final solutions (was Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort)

2003-03-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:34 PM 3/30/03 -0500, stuart wrote: >On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this... >HS> Too bad the Romans didn't finish the job of feeding that lot to the lions >HS> a couple of milleniums ago. A similarly open-minded friend once commented (far too loudly in a cafe) that

voting, social net analysis, reputation, authentication in the desert

2003-03-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
One interesting application of voting, social net analysis, and reputations is figuring out who are the bad guys (tm) if they don't wear uniforms. Seems you'd have to isolate each person and ask them about everyone in town they know. In smaller towns the militia [1] would stand out, of course (no

Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
"Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the people whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about," said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030327/1028333.asp Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera j

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:09 PM 3/26/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: >In a news conference on Tuesday, some general claimed they had located and >"taken out" six sites where GPS jammers were being used. > >He claimed one site had been taken out with a GPS guided weapon. > >"Kind of Ironic" I beleive he said. Well, the

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:36 PM 3/26/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: >there is a lot of self [fnord] imposed sensor ship in US on >the war.The Us pows's shown on al-jazeera were not >broadcasted over Us and those sites which had pictures >of POW's were removed as unethical graphics on web >pages. We should be faxing these

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:46 AM 3/28/03 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: >It's a cool toy, but I can't see someone using a $1M e-bomb when a $1000 Mk.82 >will do the same thing, especially if there's any chance it'll be captured >intact by an enemy who can... hmm, there's a thought: Oh dear! Peter, these are *free* to the

RE: Things are looking better all the time [TERROR ALERT: Cerenkov Blue]

2003-03-26 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:12 PM 3/25/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >At 04:37 AM 3/25/03 +0100, Lucky Green wrote: >... >>If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far? > >Suppose you only have one, it was really hard to get, and you're not sure >how much of your US network has been turned, or at least

Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD

2003-03-26 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:01 AM 3/26/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >I no doubt said this, but so have many others. I remember hearing many >years ago that if hundreds of tons of marijuana cross U.S. borders each >year undetected, how can software and crypto be blocked? Even post 911 you can fly a copter from Quebec and d

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-26 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:41 PM 3/25/03 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >...from the Leg-HERFing department... > >Cheers, >RAH >Who expects it was just a bomb-bomb, Jim. They came back with a bigger one, just now. Yep. The COW needs the TVs to broadcast our message. Also we don't trust the infiltrated spec-ops radios

Re: Boycotting the Unwilling

2003-03-26 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:12 PM 3/25/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >Granted, neither you nor I will be jailed for refusing to buy Matzah >balls made in the Zionist Entity, but the point is that the law says we >_could_ be jailed for boycotting. Naturally, the law is applied to >those most visible. What use is a victimles

RE: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:42 AM 3/25/03 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lucky Green wrote: > >> If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far? > >I don't think they have nukes. Not yet. But now they're seeing plenty of >reasons to get them. We're lucky they're poor, low-tech people in

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:53 PM 3/24/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >I seem to recall that with sufficient knowledge and commonly available >detonators shaped explosive charges can be configured to hurl heavy >explosive payloads, much like a mortar, with fair accuracy, great distance >or very high velocity. I can't se

Re: Most Americans believe Hussein the mastermind behind 9/11

2003-03-24 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:25 PM 3/24/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Pretty amusing. Beyond Doublethink, as not even the US government claims >this... > >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/ucru/20030320/cm_ucru/the_moron_majority > Its the result of a stack overrun. People have limi

Ricin Stout

2003-03-24 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:13 PM 3/23/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Yup, I wouldn't even be a bit surprised to see Europeans, non-muslim, I mean, >starting to off the GI's over there. Drop a little cyanide or ricin in a guy's >beer in the pub... Cyanide would work quickly, and you'ld get caught. Ricin takes a da

Tragedy and Evolution

2003-03-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:24 AM 3/21/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >>May thousands of AmeriKKKan troops die painfully, along with their >>handlers on the East Coast, as a deterrent to future illegal wars of >>aggression. > >This was the part I had to think about the most. Right now, my feeling is >that it would be a t

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:36 PM 3/20/03 +, Ken Brown wrote: >Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely >that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance >is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the >current Ba'athist government. A lot o

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Declan, how do you plan to handle the freaked out violent hoardes who will be streaming out (by car or by foot) through your neighborhood and maybe want to use your toilet and/or share your food car stay the night etc. Perhaps you cannot respond because your answer would involve prohibited items

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:32 AM 3/19/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >I think American resolve will fold if 5000 deaths of Americans occur in Iraq. I'd give serious money to see Geraldo twitching on the ground, moustache preventing a good seal... >nuking Baghdad is silly. If even 10.000 U.S. soldiers are killed in a And

part III: Game theory, psychobio, demographics: Genesis of Suicide Terrorism

2003-03-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Priorities for Homeland Security The last line of defense against suicide terrorism--preventing bombers from reaching targets--may be the most expensive and least likely to succeed. Random bag or body searches cannot be very effective against people willing to die, although this may provide som

part II: Game theory, psychobio, demographics: Genesis of Suicide Terrorism

2003-03-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Dubious Public Perceptions Recent treatments of Homeland Security research concentrate on how to spend billions to protect sensitive installations from attack (14, 15). But this last line of defense is probably easiest to breach because of the multitude of vulnerable and likely targets (includin

Re: Pneumonia versus face recognition

2003-03-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:23 PM 3/17/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >As things are never purely good and bad, the outbreak of new killer >pneumonia offers some hope in countering the proliferating camera >surveillance system. > >In Japan, it's common to wear a face-mask similar to the kind surgeons >have during outb

Game theory, psychobio, demographics: Genesis of Suicide Terrorism

2003-03-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Here's a bit of meat for Tim... Genesis of Suicide Terrorism Scott Atran Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates they have no appreciable psychopatholo

vulnerability analysis

2003-03-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)
What happens when you fly a low-fuel high speed 727 into a biosafety level 4 containment facility? Probable answer: not in the threat model considered during design, so it can't happen.

[1st amend] NYT: MTV refuses antiwar commercial

2003-03-15 Thread Major Variola (ret)
What are the issues when media doesn't take ads? Private media (e.g., a newspaper, a web site) can't be compelled to say, or not say, anything by the state, and so can freely exercise arbitrary editorial control over adverts. What about when the medium is a State-granted monopoly of a resource li

RE: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

2003-03-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:12 AM 3/14/03 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >If the US military does Really Bad Things to Iraqi civilians with >any frequency, I have little doubt we'll hear about it in time. >There are journalists 'embedded' in many units. Ah, but they have an alibi! Rummy et al. have already described Iraqi

Re: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

2003-03-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:54 AM 3/13/03 -0500, Sunder wrote: > >Hey, we're fighting for freedom after all, the freedom to suppress the >truth... So how soon before France is on the Axis of Evil? :) Well, if they're giving info to Mr. Hussein their embassy there could be NIMA'd, as in "oops, we hit the Chinese consu

RE: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

2003-03-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:04 PM 3/13/03 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > >Is it: > >1. An journalist doing what he was specifically told not to do? >2. An Iraqi or Al-Queda forward fire director, calling in coordinates >for a VX loaded missile attack on your side. I'd think that the troops would explain this to the report

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
04:24 AM 3/12/03 -0800, alan wrote: >It sounds like there is an opertunity here for the right person. Open up >a place to "clean your clothes" of all those little RFID tags and other >buglets people are so interested in attaching to any object (nailed down >or not). Our Premium service includes

[Brinporn] Student gets caught spying on roommate

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Student gets caught spying on roommate By Carmen Cusido, Staff Writer A Livingston College first-year student was arrested Thursday when his roommate and his roommate's girlfriend discove

Re: Social democrats on our list (Note to anon on states of matter)

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:57 AM 3/11/03 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:52 am, Tim May wrote: > >> Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. > >So rights only apply to land ? >What's the frigg'in difference between dirt and air. It's all atoms. The difference is summarized a

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:04 AM 3/11/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> Comie fantasy. >> That theory is Marx's "monopoly capitalism". Commies have been >> loudly announcing Marx's prophecies to be coming true, even >> though after 1910 they no longer took the prophecies seriously >> themselves. > >Open your eyes an

Re: Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:06 PM 3/10/03 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >> Would there be an easy "blacknet" way to offer those t-shirts that would be >> un-shutdownable? > >As Bill notes, there's no need to do it here. > >Specifically, my Epson Stylus 2200

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:58 AM 3/9/03 -0500, Sunder wrote: >At which point Tim will countersue with an arguement similar to this: > >Mega Corporation: > >Your oxygen is tresspassing on my private property. Any oxygen that does >so becomes mine to do with as I please. Further, since you have been >unable to keep you

Re: The Anarcho/libertarian world and corporations

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:14 AM 3/9/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > I just realized this morning that corporations can't exiest in an anarchy, >they are whole a fiction of the state. In the sense of a govt-recognized, protected entity, granted. But not in terms of voluntary associations. And, since corporations a

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:49 PM 3/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > I'm sure I read about a way to do fiber, or that someone had developed a >device, that only involved removing a bit of the covering, not cutting into the >fiber at all. Evanescent waves. A *lot* easier to 0wn the landing points, and technicians w

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:56 PM 3/7/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm not crazy about everything that the government does, but there are trade- >offs in a non-perfect society. One of them is monitoring the innocent to, in >turn, attempt to prevent the guilty from trampling over everything, Allah willing. Wrong

Re: Trivial OTP generation method? (makernd.c) On 1e-16 BER and cosmic rays

2003-03-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:50 PM 3/6/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >On a slow day, Tim May wrote... > >"Next you'll be claiming that chips can be influenced by cosmic and >background radiation!" > >When I used to characterize DWDM systems, we'd sometimes need to test down >to a BER of 10(-14), with some vendors wanting

Fragmented nets, national borders, ebay, surrealism

2003-03-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Over on cryptography @ wasabisystems.com there's a thread about Ebay not showing items to folks whose languages were set to German (ergo they must fnord be ruled by the German State which prohibits showing the citizens in its fnord care various things). The item in question is a 3-rotor Enigma. .

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:52 AM 3/7/03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and calls >the police has been developed by a team of engineers at Texas Christian >University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum catalyst >converts any a

Fatherland Security Paranoids intercept rocks

2003-03-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
ATTENTION TO ALL COLLECTORS OF RADIOACTIVE MINERALS...we recently learned that our huge shipment of minerals coming from the Congo to the US was stopped enroute, and ALL radioactive minerals were removed from the shipment and were returned to the Congo. This is set forth in demands from the new off

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:56 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:33:11AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> >> However malls generally don't take state money, the flow is in the >> other direction. My house's yard, the whole neighborhood was >&g

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:58 PM 3/5/03 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:58:31 -0800, you wrote: >> Steve is right. Free speech is tested by wearing "Fuck the Army" >> t-shirts [1] >> in public places, not "Peace" while in some private store. > >Not too fast. What about "nonobvious involvement of the st

Re: CAPSII protest... or, speakers must not be actors

2003-03-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:56 PM 3/4/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >OOOH! >One wonders if a bad enough "air sickness" on a crowded flight could turn a >plane back...(And if I say "airline sickness" I don't need the quotes.) >Hummif it happened a dozen times within the span of a month do you think >they'd notice a

Re: Anarchy, and confusion

2003-03-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:08 PM 3/4/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >The confusion about anarchy and what it means is common. We see it here. Not sure if this is intended towards us or not. In any case, our comments about dropping 'anarchy' for a BerkFlyer was simply to avoid attracting raisethefist type black shirts. (Unl

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:03 PM 3/4/03 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: >From the article, New York Civil Liberties Union President Stephen >Gottlieb says, "We believe, most of us, in the Bill of Rights, and we >believe that protects the freedom to speak." How is Constitutionally- >protected freedom of speech imperiled whe

Re: Rogue Vally Cypherpunks Physical Meeting Mar 13

2003-03-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:55 AM 3/4/03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What are Cypherpunks? A group of thinkers, programmers and >researchers dedicated to preserve everyone's freedom of speech >through action. >* believers in crypto-anarchy, > * leaning towards libertarianism, > * most i

Re: Trivial OTP generation method? (makernd.c)

2003-02-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:17 AM 2/27/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> Here's what I do for random bits: >> http://www.etoan.com/random-number-generation/index.html > >Nice!!! :) I wasn't aware such electronics is so cheap! Note on RNG/hacking the PC-Geiger counter: If you want to change the RM-60's Time Base Unit,

spook infiltration, deception, diplo meltdown, Germans, Yemenis, US

2003-02-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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 health

psycho-social sim: bombing Al Jazeera 'accidentally'

2003-02-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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 o

US Intel is shit, shit, shit

2003-02-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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.

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless

2003-02-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
> From: "Vincent Penquerc'h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. Rational beings are self-interested. Its Na

Re: To Steve Schear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
ey're useful, like the car-hack who fixes a stranded grandmother's car; at other times, they jam your radio or TV, like a car-hack running top speed, mufflerless, at 3 AM. > At 08:27 PM 02/19/2003 -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >Hackers don't work on their own brak

Proposed PATRIOT2 lets foreign govts wiretap americans

2003-02-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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. --- Shuttle tile damage? "Better put some ice on t

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless

2003-02-20 Thread Major Variola (ret)
> Too much capitalism is as bad as too much communism. > Vincent Penquerc'h Yeah, and too much freedom is as bad as too much slavery. Right, bub.

To Steve Shear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Steve, you proposed that the deskhoes (congresshits, NASA managers) take the risks that they put others into. I mentioned this to my Dad and he reminded me that parachute packers in the military were required to jump with the chutes they packed at any time. ... Hackers don't work on their own br

Fuck and Cover Psyops AF WACS; DEARBORN, Mich school officials need hanging; etc

2003-02-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
`We can be afraid, or we can be ready.'' ---Tom "Caesar" Ridge, Fatherland Security Buffoon --- Reminiscent of the duck-and-cover campaigns of the Cold War, the Homeland Security effort will include television announcements and fliers that will be distributed with phone directories. The televisi

Police state, plainclothes pigs need to die

2003-02-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Girl driving in car is attacked by men in car and tries to escape the attack. The men are pigs (DEA, of course) out of uniform in unmarked car. She is shot in head. Pigs will get away with this, of course. She was Mexican, lower class, in Texas, so expendable. - Teen shot by DEA a

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless

2003-02-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >MEChA is not a gang, they're an important part of helping >lots of young people to be concious of their own >heritage. MEChA is mostly about keeping college admission standards lower for South American-derived wannabe students[1]. This has recently gotten

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:22 AM 2/8/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> But recite they must. Under a state law that takes effect today, almost >> every student in Pennsylvania - from preschool through high school, in >> schools public and private - must face the Stars and Stripes each school >> day and say the pledge

Congressmen in need of composting: Manzanar fine with him

2003-02-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
HIGH POINT, N.C. - A congressman who heads a homeland security subcommittee said on a radio call-in program that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030206/ap_on_re_us/congressman_prison_camps_7 Why don

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:03 AM 2/6/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:23 PM, W H Robinson wrote: >> The view I get fed all the time is that crypto is, on the whole, in >> the hands of >> the terrorists, the anti-patriots, the paedophiles, et al. > >Correct. > >> That it is a bad >> thing

RE: The Statism Meme (Roarke, not)

2003-02-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:29 PM 2/4/03 -0800, Blanc wrote: >Duncan Frissell said: > >>You mean no one said, "I'd grab the .30-06 and head for the hills"? > >I must correct myself. It was not a Libertarian group, they were >Objectivists. Not to put the "O"s down or start an argument about the >difference, but I know

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:21 PM 2/3/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: > >Had the landing gone OK, we would have been hearing about how NASA had >verified that little damage had occurred. > >Now, it's "we didn't have a chance to look, but even if we had, there >was nothing anyone could do, so we didn't look." One wonders wheth

Re: Self-destruct in SZ-4?

2003-02-03 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:09 AM 2/3/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >Second, I would do the self-destruct with accelerometers: if several >accelerations are felt, detonate. 1. Modern munitions arm this way. If you are an artillery shell and you've been told to arm, and then felt 10s of Gs along one axis and a lot of rotati

James Watson: Everyone should be DNA-fingerprinted

2003-02-03 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Everybody in Europe and the US should have their genetic fingerprints entered into an international database to enable law enforcement agencies to fight crime and terrorism in an unstable world, according to James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix. In an exclusive interview w

Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits

2003-02-03 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:18 PM 2/3/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> ...and some very, very tiny fraction may have actually touched >> some component which made them slightly ill. > >Tf they ingested a part made of beryllium alloy, it could make them pretty >sick... Yeah, first thing some people will do with space

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-03 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:48 AM 2/3/03 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: >This isn't to say that force majeure isn't the most likely culprit here. >Space travel is inherently dangerous, and I'm honestly surprised that less >than 2% of our shuttle flights have resulted in catastrophe. I heard that at the beginning of the

NASA doesn't check astronauts' ID

2003-02-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:50 AM 2/1/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Interesting event, eh? Pretty well timed. They're already saying it wasn't a >missle, which may be. Could have been a bomb tho -- pretty weird that it's the Its possible that NASA doesn't check astronauts' ID. So maybe one was a terrorist. [Heh:

cities are only a few kilotons apart

2003-01-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:21 PM 1/31/03 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >A bit too expensive, especially in Germany. I also like being able to work >on the train -- given that here cities are only a few kilotons apart and >ICEs are pretty speedy flying can take longer. Is "kilotons" a typo or do Europeans enjoy a dark sens

Re: Content Altering DVD Players

2003-01-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:25 PM 1/30/03 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >http://msn.zdnet.com/zdfeeds/msncobrand/reviews/0,13828,2909517,00.html >Dear Hollywood: Keep your hands off my DVDs >By David Coursey, AnchorDesk Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. Of course, the DVD CCA owns the DVD trademark just like P

[DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:53 PM 1/29/03 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Don't get it: onboard fuel reforming with methanol is almost done, fuel >cells with polymer proton membranes are already good enough (though still >being optimized rapidly, particularly in terms of energy density and >platinum group metal content) and

Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

2003-01-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:50 PM 1/28/03 +, Ken Brown wrote: >Thomas Shaddack wrote: > >> But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up on >> NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed DNA >> from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin, Get some scur

Re: Secure voice app: FEATURE REQUEST: RECORD IPs

2003-01-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:25 AM 1/27/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:23:15AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this >> feature: >> a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of

Secure voice app: FEATURE REQUEST: RECORD IPs

2003-01-27 Thread Major Variola (ret)
>I am elated that the development of Speak Freely is continuing. I think it The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this feature: a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of hosts that tried to call. (A local table can map these to your friends or thei

RE: Deniable Thumbdrive? (and taking signal detection seriously)

2003-01-24 Thread Major Variola (ret)
> From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The cool thing about this drive (small enough that it has holes for use as a > keychain) is that it's got a "Public" area and a private area, and the > private area is accessible (if one desires) only via the little fingerprint > reader on the top of th

Deniable racial (etc) profiling coming to TSA, thanks to neural nets

2003-01-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
>From http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,57354,00.html, TSA will be using neural nets to harass travellers. Neural nets, besides having "due process problems", let you infer properties --like race--- from things that you can't or won't directly ask --eg on loan applications. Its even better tha

Homemade GPS jammers raise concerns

2003-01-22 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Haven't been able to download the phrack yet but see: http://gbppr.dyndns.org/PROJ/mil/ http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/appendixF.html#15

And another one bites the dust: Dissent Takedown

2003-01-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
[x] move supplies & troops [x] add Turkey, Saudis to shopping cart [x] work domestic propoganda machine [x] quiet Wellstone [x] shut Ritter up Channel Six News has learned former UN Weapons Inspector and Delmar resident Scott Ritter was arrested during an Interne

cloning as heresy (Re: Fresh Hell)

2003-01-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:44 PM 1/17/03 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: >>>1) Fucks up the prevailing religion doctrine. >>> >>Funny, but I can't seem to find the passage in the Bible where it talks >>about cloning. In fact, I can't find any passage that even remotely >>impinges on the subject. > >Provided that I had the

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:18 AM 1/16/03 +, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: >And all westerns have some level of aquired imunity, for we are the Surely you mean inherited, not acquired. >descendents of the plague survivors. See _Guns Germs and Steel_ Note however, without occasional plagues, a population

Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:20 PM 1/15/03 -0800, Petro wrote: >On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:15:57AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >> On the other hand, if the US were following the traditional model >> for defense rather than having a standing army stomping around the world, >> it's highly unlikely that somebody like Al Qaed

Fear and Loathing in Afghanistan

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
We were somewhere around Kandahar, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit light headed, maybe you should fly" And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like antiaircraft fire, al

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:44 PM 1/16/03 +0100, Anonymous wrote: > Does anyone know a source for a spam list for US military? Use google. Search for @*.mil Also large bureaucracies use standard forms like First.Surname@blah or FSurname@blah Be subtle. Ask them to disable their weapons and defect. Tell them you do

Re: Indo European Origins (language mutability, efficiency)

2003-01-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:48 PM 1/14/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: >I guess bifurcation points and speciation seem very clear because of the aliasing >problems in our sampling methods. The speciation exists but is prolly ( probably ) often >fuzzier than we think. Almost everyone would say that an American Bison and

Re: Indo European Origins (language mutability, efficiency)

2003-01-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
On Ken's > > All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are > > the same age. At first this parsed because I was thinking in the sense of "all organisms have ancestries going back the same amount of time". (And humans aren't the 'goal' of evolution.) Not sure if non-biohea

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