Frank Zappa, american composer
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.'' How true. I didn't bother wasting my attention enough to see if FZ was deemed a freak or not in this article. I will tell you that he was not into pharmaceuticals but was one of the finest american composers of the last century ---and Tipper Gore[1] will burn in hell for wasting his time. If you want to appreciate his brilliance, the _yellow shark_ album (which puts to music the US form required of immigrants) will inform you. [1] A publicly known mentally ill person who spawned drug-abusing future citizens and slept with liars.
RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist
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 engineering class 3. he might appreciate the hubris of Architects (tm) but that requires #2 If he really gave a shat he'd investigate the RDX stored in the Murrah building, next to daycare, but that was just a (.mil trained) 'Merican, not a bunch of specops Ay-rabs. JYA may be Architects (snicker) but methinks he groks structures, and even if not, his cryptome penance absolves him from the sins of the artsy. PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other day, what would Gen George W think? (Ans: The general would ask, why do we not guillotine the bastards?)
[Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize (fwd)
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 wrong. The millionaire activist is so convinced of a government cover-up he is offering a $100,000 reward to any engineering student who can prove the World Trade Center buildings crashed the way the government says. Of course, we expect no winners, Walter, 57, heir to an $11 million fortune from his father's home building business, said in a telephone interview from California on Wednesday. He said a panel of expert engineers would judge submissions from the students. Next month, he also launches a nationwide contest seeking alternative theories from college and high school students about why New York's World Trade Center collapsed. The contest offers $10,000 to the best alternative theory, with 100 runner-up awards of $1,000. Winners will be chosen next June. The World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed after hijackers slammed two commercial airliners into them. The attack in New York killed 2,749 people. Various official investigations give no credence to Walter's theory. A Sept. 11 commission spokesman did not return calls seeking comment. Walter insists there had to be explosives planted in the twin towers to cause them to fall as they did, and also rejects the official explanation for the damage done at the Pentagon. We have all the proof, said Walter, citing videotapes and testimony from witnesses. It wasn't 19 screw-ups from Saudi Arabia who couldn't pass flight school who defeated the United States with a set of box cutters, he said. He dismissed the official Sept. 11 commission report, saying, I don't trust any of these 'facts.' Walter has spent millions of dollars to bolster support for his case, running full-page ads in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Newsweek, as well as alternative newspapers and 30-second TV spots. He points to a Zogby poll he commissioned last summer that showed 66 percent of New Yorkers wanted the 9/11 investigation reopened. Walter has spent about 30 percent of his net worth on his efforts. I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional, he said.
Flaw with lava lamp entropy source
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 physical sources do not fail. Cooling the lamp and restarting it seems to have put it back into a quasi-random physical trajectory. I suppose my visual observation counts as an online entropic monitor that any physical source apparently should have. This was driven by a 40 watt bulb and the ambient temperature dropped when it stabilized. Shaking did not restart it; only cooling and then reheating did. Now back to your regularly scheduled war crimes.
RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize (fwd)
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 (fwd) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:16:08 -0600 (CST) 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 wrong. The millionaire activist is so convinced of a government cover-up he is offering a $100,000 reward to any engineering student who can prove the World Trade Center buildings crashed the way the government says. Of course, we expect no winners, Walter, 57, heir to an $11 million fortune from his father's home building business, said in a telephone interview from California on Wednesday. He said a panel of expert engineers would judge submissions from the students. Next month, he also launches a nationwide contest seeking alternative theories from college and high school students about why New York's World Trade Center collapsed. The contest offers $10,000 to the best alternative theory, with 100 runner-up awards of $1,000. Winners will be chosen next June. The World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed after hijackers slammed two commercial airliners into them. The attack in New York killed 2,749 people. Various official investigations give no credence to Walter's theory. A Sept. 11 commission spokesman did not return calls seeking comment. Walter insists there had to be explosives planted in the twin towers to cause them to fall as they did, and also rejects the official explanation for the damage done at the Pentagon. We have all the proof, said Walter, citing videotapes and testimony from witnesses. It wasn't 19 screw-ups from Saudi Arabia who couldn't pass flight school who defeated the United States with a set of box cutters, he said. He dismissed the official Sept. 11 commission report, saying, I don't trust any of these 'facts.' Walter has spent millions of dollars to bolster support for his case, running full-page ads in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Newsweek, as well as alternative newspapers and 30-second TV spots. He points to a Zogby poll he commissioned last summer that showed 66 percent of New Yorkers wanted the 9/11 investigation reopened. Walter has spent about 30 percent of his net worth on his efforts. I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional, he said.
Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics
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 streets). -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgpcMwitXycxD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics
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
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 that this is your fingerprint. What about the fact that they're tying key validity to valid email addresses, when the two have nothing to do with each other? A key does not need to have an associated email address, or the latter could be purposely incorrect. If this is their idea of key verification, they're going to exclude perfectly legitimate keys from this new database.
Re: pgp global directory bugged instructions
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 version. If you would like to send bug reports to us directly, please feel free to send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cypherpunks and Cryptography are both inefficient ways to get them to us, as Cryptography waits for Perry to approve the post, and Cypherpunks waits for Bob Hettinga to forward it. However, the Global Directory does not consolidate information from any other keyservers. It is a replacement for the old keyserver, keyserver.pgp.com, and will take over that venerable old server's job once beta test is concluded. We are, however, migrating a number of keys from the old keyserver to that one. Think of the new keyserver as a mix between traditional keyservers, mailing list servers like mailman, and a robot CA. Its intent is to improve upon the older keyservers by giving some modicum of assurance that keys in it belong to someone, as well as allowing someones to recover from forgetting their passphrase. Jon On 16 Dec 2004, at 7:13 AM, R.A. Hettinga wrote: --- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:50:22 -0500 From: Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cypherpunks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Cryptography [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pgp global directory bugged instructions User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So PGP are now running a pgp key server which attempts to consilidate the inforamtion from the existing key servers, but screen it by ability to receive email at the address. So they send you an email with a link in it and you go there and it displays your key userid, keyid, fingerprint and email address. Then it says: | Please verify that the email address on this key, [EMAIL PROTECTED], | is your email address, and is properly configured to send and | receive PGP secured email. | | If the information is correct, click 'Accept'. By clicking 'Accept', | your key will be published to the directory, where other PGP users | will be able to retrieve it in order to encrypt messages to you and | verify signed messages from you. | | If this information is incorrect, click 'Cancel'. By clicking | 'Cancel', this key will not be published. You may then submit | another key with the correct information. So here's the problem: it does not mention anything about checking that this is your fingerprint. If it's not your fingerprint but it is your email address you could end up DoSing yourself, or at least perpetuating a imposter key into the new supposedly email validated keyserver db. (For example on some key servers there are keys with my name and email that are nothing to do with me -- they are pure forgeries). Suggest they add something to say in red letters check the fingerprint AND keyid matches your key. Adam --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -- Jon Callas CTO, CSO PGP Corporation Tel: +1 (650) 319-9016 3460 West Bayshore Fax: +1 (650) 319-9001 Palo Alto, CA 94303 PGP: ed15 5bdf cd41 adfc 00f3 USA 28b6 52bf 5a46 bc98 e63d -- Jon Callas CTO, CSO PGP Corporation Tel: +1 (650) 319-9016 3460 West Bayshore Fax: +1 (650) 319-9001 Palo Alto, CA 94303 PGP: ed15 5bdf cd41 adfc 00f3 USA 28b6 52bf 5a46 bc98 e63d This message could have been secured by PGP Universal. To secure future messages from this sender, please click this link: https://keys.pgp.com/b/b.e?r=cypherpunks%40minder.netn=NsqztWUvWFO%2Be83dnF4HAw%3D%3D
