Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

On 10/4/05, gwen hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troll Mode on: > TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) .. > BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as > a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that "feature" is built in. The

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote > > I have valid although perhaps unpopular > > contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself > > limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the > > absence of my perspective.

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy > majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is "new > journalism", since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does th

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: > >What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? > > There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grad

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping ("Psst! The FBI is Having

On 9/9/05, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a recent working email address? Does > [EMAIL PROTECTED] still work? You might try sending email to that address. If you don't get a response, either it's not a good address or he thinks you're an idiot. (Or he's dead, but he was

Re: New Drugs

On 8/23/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote: > > >"I [want] a new drug..." > > I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen > to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a dr

Re: Italy finally holds USA to the world standard!

On 6/24/05, J.A. Terranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2560 > > Italian Judge Orders 13 CIA Agents Arrested Over Kidnapping John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:26, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 9:17 AM -0500 12/8/04, John Kelsey wrote: > > But once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters > >and ovens, he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought > >about some issue in a new and fascinating dir

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:47, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 10:38 AM -0500 12/8/04, Steve Furlong wrote: > >anarchist > > Bzzt wrong answer. > > Must filter that *in*, thankewverramuch... I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't th

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:00, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: > >I rather suspect that > >the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are toying > >with their ability to interpose their data in place of quasi-authoritative > >texts. > > Oh, *

Re: Immediate Exception

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: > I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express > purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: > Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Unintended Consequences

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > >John Ross' "Unintended Consequences" is a classic of the, um, gun > culture, > >:-) and a great read. > > Made me want to name my first mulatto "Gonorreah" fer sure :-) I tried, years befo

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: > >Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) > > Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. > > You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required.

Re: geographically removed? eHalal

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's > policies, game over. Hawala

Re: geographically removed?

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always > > be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. > > You assume the police state is competent, technically skil

US-centrism

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't > about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. Response 1: When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. Response 2: The cpunks list isn't US-centric

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 09:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 > >Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 > > low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the > > cover of

Oswald

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:31, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 11:34 PM 11/21/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > >Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ > >that there's a new video game "JFK Reloaded" > http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ > > I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto

Re: Patriot Insurance

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:38, Will Morton wrote: > How long have soldiers deployed in war-zones been able to get life > insurance? Would love to see their actuarial process... It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life insurance we had didn't cover parachute-rela

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: > As for *kids*, we recently had an 11 year old bride (legal here with > parental consent) who was on the news for being the youngest *divorcee* at > 12! Why not give her the vote? She can't do any worse than the rest of > these rednecks. After

Re: Turtles all the way down... (was Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...)

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:55, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Nothings ever "regular" > around here On the contrary, there's a constant stream of shit on this list. _Someone_ must be pretty regular.

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:23, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > Just for fun, I bet the reason is economics. No need to have yew furriners > hammerin' our http ports, 'cuz ya cain't vote, here, anyway. Not that the French or other dickless wonders would attempt to conduct a DDoS on GWB's site, or anything.

13yo arrested for kiddie porn

First saw the story linked from Drudge, then googled up a handful of stories: http://www.kptv.com/global/story.asp?s=2435549&ClientType=Printable Boy,13. arrested on child porn charges 10-15-04 TACOMA, Wash. -- A 13-year-old Lacey boy is accused of child pornography by taking pictures of himself

Re: Printers betray document secrets

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:14, Ian Grigg wrote: > R.A. Hettinga wrote: > > > > > US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature > > style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. > > I don't think this

Re: Airport insanity

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:17, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it by bombing from high > altitude, or by using cruise missiles. > > Everybody uses the technology available to them. What's bad on it? > > Invariably, the side that uses the defensive measur

RE: Airport insanity

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 00:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > >-- > >> >My profile is radically different from all those who killed > >> >nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My > >> >"holy book" of choice is the Bible. My race is

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over > it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently > you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens > from it. Then it will be safe to car

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants > > Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. I think I'd get the implant under my scalp somewhere. If the implant gave access to a really critical place, I wouldn't want to risk l

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: > The "regular encryption scheme" (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers are second to none. (Microsoft

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:27, Dave Howe wrote: > I have yet to see an advantage to QKE that even mildly justifies the > limitations and cost over anything more than a trivial link (two > buildings within easy walking distance, sending high volumes of > extremely sensitive material between them) But

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 05:18, Peter Gutmann wrote: > The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through > the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure, > the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones). I > wonder whet

Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote: > That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the > crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so > if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it > out of one of em. (IN

Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > "The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to > prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times." > That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously > enough) 4294967295 (0x) mi

Re: T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:54, Sunder wrote: > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL > > Washington -- Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped > and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because > his name appeared

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:43, Sunder wrote: > Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we > discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, > etc... well, not quite that long ago. It's ok, you can still say "Tim May" around here.

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 11:34, Jack Lloyd wrote: > Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: "You're *all* > going up the chimneys." I voted for Cthulhu -- why vote for the lesser of two evils? http://www.cthulhu.org/

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote: > Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC > against lyrics in songs. And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a "Tipper Sticker", indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that

Re: Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:25, David Crookes wrote: > He started a new company called Credentica. > > http://archives.abditum.com/cypherpunks/C-punks20020603/0053.html Pretty amusing -- that link points to the achive I maintain. There's probably a parable in there about having knowledge at your fin

Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's "contact us" address. But I don't know if Brands is still at ZKS.)

Re: Real-world quantum cryptography

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 21:49, Steve Furlong wrote: > http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Gah. That's what I get for trying to do a Hettinga -- he beats me to it. OK, Bob, you got me this time.

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:55, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Chickens ain't herbivores, they are omnivores, and, in fact, prefer meat, > bugs, etc. to all else. Yah, ducks and geese, too. But factory chickens, which is almost all of the chicken most Americans eat, are fed mostly grain. >A lot of

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and kittens

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > Tastes just like chicken? Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten things that I wouldn't have considered to be food, she doesn't like my cat, and I don't want her getting any ideas. However, to answer Robert's q

Career advise on entering the tech field

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > How are you going to land a sweet outsourced job > if you ask others to do your homework? If Sarath is, in fact, a student who will soon be looking for work, he may do just fine. Getting a tech job has little to do with how much you know o

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 2:21 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >Facultative strong authentication doesn't nuke anonynimity. > > Perfect pseudonymity is functional anonymity, in my book... No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as comin

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:42, sunder wrote: > For example, one way to piss them off is to attempt to sing when you have > zero singing skills, and do it for hours on end, purposely off key, abusing > whatever instrument is available... Ugh. I did _not_ want to think about Kofi Annan yodeling for

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:19, Major Variola (ret.) forwarded: > Blix says US spied on him over Iraq > ... > It feels like an intrusion into > your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side. Begging the question of whether Blix was actually on the same side as the Brits or th

Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:00, Jim Choate wrote: > > TO SUBSCRIBE to Cypherpunks, one should send a message to ONE of the following > > addresses: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There is no SSZ node anymore. LNE, neither. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Windows source leaked?

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:02, Justin wrote: > Case law on point? I don't think that is true at all. Trade secrets > that are leaked are no longer trade secrets. Incorrect. Trade secrets that are deliberately released by the owner are no longer secret. Secrets that are carelessly released by the o

Re: Windows source leaked?

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:45, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > [sent to al-q; does [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward there?] > > At 06:25 PM 2/12/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > >Among others, /. is reporting that Win2k and WinNT source code may > >have leaked. .. > If you didn't steal it, its not your proble

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:48, Tim May wrote: > (Though of course this is only the _theory_. The fact that all of the > Bill of Rights, except perhaps the Third, have been violated by the > Evildoers in government is well-known.) A few years ago I wrote a short paper looking at government-install

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:07, Tim May wrote: > Read up on the Lawson case in San Diego. Tim is referring to Edward Lawson, arrested repeatedly and convicted once in the late 1970s for walking around without ID. The appeal made it to the Supreme Court, as Kolender v Lawson, 461 US 352 (1983). Lawso

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:18, Steve Schear wrote: > Did you carry and present ID? No. Once it was requested (strongly requested, just short of a demand with threats), but when I demanded his justification he backed down. In NY, at least at the time, citizens were not required to carry or present I

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:02, J.A. Terranson wrote: > What good is a Jury when the "judge" can pick and choose which arguments and > evidence you can provide in support of your case? I've occasionally handed out pamphlets on jury nullification outside the local county courthouse. Never been arreste

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Steve Mynott wrote: > Jim Dixon wrote: > > The term 'software engineer' is becoming less common in the States these > > days. I have watched the job title wax and wane for more than twenty > > five years. I think that it was most fashionable in the early 1980s. > >

Re: Alt.cypherpunks will be where I do most of my posting

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 02:19, James A. Donald wrote: > And to get back to the topic of this thread. I cannot see > anything but random deranged crap in alt.cypherpunks -- maybe I > need to adjust my filters, but there does not seem to be any > signal in the noise. I don't see anything on alt.c

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:18, Jim Dixon wrote: > I spent several years travelling in that part of the world. Well, that just blew your credibility with this crowd. You're supposed to spout off on topics about which you know nothing. Bonus points for reflexive anti-state-ism [1] [2], and in particu

Re: Ashcroft's bake sale, no questions allowed, gvt-issued photo ID required

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:49, Bill Stewart wrote: > Too bad it's past tomato season on the East Coast Shit, we've (upstate NY, along the Mohawk River) already had our first snow. Didn't stick, but the chill in the air is literal, not figurative.

Re: Chaumian blinding & public voting?

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:01, Tim May wrote: > When California was considering a lottery to 'help the schools," .. > Oh, and the "our children benefit, too!" never materialized. The > politicos took in the rakeoff from the deceptive odds, plus the more > normal rakeoff, and spent it on their usua

Re: Chaumian blinding & public voting?

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:55, Tim May wrote: > Increasing voter turnout is, of course, a Bad Thing. For the reasons we > discuss so often. Agreed. To the extent that I want a government at all, I support a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Legions of bleary-eyed, TV-addled, bigoted jackass

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 14:29, Ben Laurie wrote: > Sunder wrote: > > the elderly, lend it - or rent it to friends, use it as a paperweight, > ^^^ this, I believe, there are laws > about. At least here. Aside from tax laws, I don't know of any US Federal or New York S

Re: [mnet-devel] DOS in DHTs (fwd from amichrisde@yahoo.de)

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 00:43, Morlock Elloi wrote: > There are precedents. In Franko's Spain, all typewriters had to be registered > with the state, and all had serial numbers. It was illegal and punishable to > possess one without license. What does that have to do with anything? We're talking abo

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:46, Steve Schear wrote: > Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants Which means that even armless retarded monkeys can post to c-punks. Profr, call your office!

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales (fwd)

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 15:55, Tim May wrote: > As the saying goes, the lessons of the past are learned anew by each > generation... And each generation invents sex, too.

Re: What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?

chives to a different box soon, maybe this weekend. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

jump in there and run the mix. Or, the mint. Yah, that's a bigger problem. I guess the first step is, establish a digital bank with at least the credibility and trustworthiness of an ordinary, audited and regulated bank. But without the auditing and regulation because, well, this is the i

Re: Random musing about words and spam

ional spam factories. My life sucks.) -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

de the potential stoolies. As you say, talk is cheap. Actions, reported widely in the mass media, will grab people's attention. On a related note, does anyone have a recommendation for a nice chianti? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so

Re: "Terror Reading"

at he held your access in his hands? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: "Terror Reading"

m siding with the patrons against intrusive and unwarranted snooping, to thinking that Asscruft may actually have a point if there are all these dangerous wackos running around. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they

Re: "domestic terrorism", fat lazy amerikans & ducks

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 05:23, Bill Stewart wrote: > Nah - who's afraid of Democrats? Branch Davidians, perhaps. Elian Gonzales's Florida relatives. Dems themselves tend to be pathetic wankers, but you gotta admit they're adept at using the state's monopoly power on fo

Archive mboxes

ed as appropriate to the bottom of the page. So far, there's only a 2002 set. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that the

Re: The real ordeals of U.S. soldiers in Iraq

the brass had said up front that the troops would be there a year, there'd have been plenty of bitching by both soldiers and civilians but the overall effect would have been less than what's happening now. Army manning a year or two hence ought to be interesting. -- Steve FurlongCompu

Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

or others I have known. > He desperately needs to get up to speed. Maybe he can't. Again, fully consonent with my high school science teachers. cf "A Nation at Risk". If it weren't for momentum and brain drain from countries with decent schools for children, we'd be

Re: Skeletons at the gates

On Sunday 30 March 2003 17:06, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:56:00PM -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: > > Hey, finally a legitimate use of SUVs for people who never go > > off-road! My commuter bug would get hung up when I drove over the > > protoplasmic spe

Re: Skeletons at the gates

mic speed bumps, but the big tires of a 4WD SUV would have no trouble. I'm pretty sure the self-indulgent imbeciles who engage in this sort of infantile behavior would find another venue once the great mass of people stopped indulging their temper tantrums. -- Steve FurlongComputer C

Re: Quote of the Day

cause he figured he'd be the only one voting for the doofus in his very conservative county and he'd be able to point at that "1" entry and say "That's mine!". To his dismay, three or four others apparently though the same way. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condott

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

itlary, Chucklehead Schumer, the now-deceased Pat "Old Drunk" Moynihan, George Pataki, Al Sharpton, and now Joe Bruno. Tell ya, I'm damn proud to be a New Yorker. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape bett

Re: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

oes Really Bad Things to Iraqi civilians, I have little doubt we'll hear stories of atrocities. There are US-bashers (Noam Chomsky) and US-military-bashers (Marc Herold) embedded throughout the world. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through

Re: Social democrats on our list

On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:52, Tim May wrote: > Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. MegaCorp doesn't have property rights to the air, but Amazon was recently granted a patent on "A Process for Bringing Oxygen into the Body". -- Steve F

Re: Give cheese to france?

remailers when you post your anti-property or anti-American screeds. You'd better --- after all, hundreds, even thousands, of protesters have been shot dead right in the street for protesting. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times

Re: Give peace a chance?

is offensive? Gottlieb is presumably a lawyer, since they tend to infest *CLUs. Either he missed Constitutional Law class the day they talked about scope of applicability of the Bill of Rights or else he's just a dumbass. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:15, Tyler Durden wrote: > Gulp. But then again, are they going to arrest all 250 million of us? cf The Asylum from Douglas Adams' _So Long and Thanks for All the Fish_. Just turn the entire US into a jail with a few, small "not jail" loc

Re: Deutsch Jackboots

On Monday 24 February 2003 14:20, Greg Newby wrote: > If he had weapons > that non-soldiers can't get licenses for, I'd be more suspicious. "Weapons that non-soldiers can't get licenses for" includes pepper spray in NYC. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottier

Re: mail?

appeared without my noticing. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better than duct tape will get you through times of no guns. -- Ron Kuby

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

mphasis on her not taking any action to delete files or erase a key after being served or arrested. I'm mainly interested in US law, but would be interested in other jurisdictions, too. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments t

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

e modern US. Too bad; there needs to be a counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just isn't up to it. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expec

Re: [dgc.chat] When you try to pronounce "NGSCB"...

- not -- play! -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged. --Michael Shirley

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

d Consequences_ handy, but I think Henry used a 20mm. The heli was pickled, not mounted. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they kno

Re: Indo European Origins

ban text needs a more powerful language. Given that, Bill's point is correct: Lojban's gammar has practically nothing in common with any natural language. co'o rodo stivn. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey t

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

e that the courts need to let the administration have its way, it's during war time. (I paraphrased that.) My view is, if there's any time the courts need to keep a closer eye on the administration, it's during a popular war. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, W

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

gt; society. I am in complete agreement with Jim on this. Crap --- now I need to check my meds. SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law becau

Re: Suspending the Constitution

suspended when a President declares it > > to be suspended. > > Power is what power does. He got away with it, that's all that > counts. Well, until April 14, 1865, anyway. Sic semper tyrannis. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

connectivity? What > is it they are connecting to? You don't have daughters, do you? If you did, the bill for the second phone line would answer your question. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some high

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

isn't content why do they want connectivity? What is it they are connecting to?", misses the distinction between the two. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expec

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

On Friday 13 December 2002 11:44, Trei, Peter wrote: > ... this sort > of thing could give the Libertarian Party legs, > if they handled it right. Hahahahahahaha -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law b

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

need only point to the idiots to discredit all of the opposition. (*) I'm the one who came up with that nickname, so you can assume that my opinion of him is not favorable. SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: eJazeera?

wear provides > a nice ground plane reflector, adding a db or two. Hey, that's a _good_ idea! And we can get side shielding by sticking the antenna between a fat guy's ass cheeks. The Fedz might notice that he's always keeping his butt pointed in one direction, but maybe that'

Re: Sending bricks through the mail

iola major" (not "major variola"), note Maj Variola's alleged host, and consider the possibility it's a nym. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

having to drill down through several levels and then choosing from several possible keys is too confusing and too much work even if it's not confusing. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

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