RE: I'm no agent. Sez the cretin agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:33 PM 3/22/02 -0600, Aimee Farr wrote: Tim wrote: Don't hire a single lawyer. As soon as even a single lawyer is hired, you're lost. Because it means you're thinking in terms of using the legal system, of striking business deals with those whose products you napster, and with working

Maryland legislators decide to fuck the constitution

2002-03-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
I realize that this bill basically says you can tap someone's phone for jaywalking, and normally I would say, 'No way,' said Del. Dana Lee Dembrow (D-Montgomery). But after what happened on September 11th, I say screw 'em. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12099-2002Mar24.html

1st amend applies to video games

2003-06-06 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
A federal appeals court panel has struck down a law that restricted children's access to violent video games, giving the software the same free-speech protection as that for works of art. A panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a St. Louis County, Mo.,

Re: 8-bit modular exponentiation code?

2003-05-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:30 AM 5/24/03 +0100, Adam Back wrote: Colin Plumb's crypto library bnlib supports multiple word size I believe. On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:36:58AM -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Anyone know of any open-source modexp code for 8-bit cpus? Thank you for your response, however

Re: 8-bit modular exponentiation code?

2003-05-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:34 AM 5/30/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: I think your best bet for an 8 bit CPU will be an assembly language routine. Likely so. For those interested, I found this article, which does in fact use enhanced (it has a multiplier) Z80 assembly, included in the article:

Re: Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org

2003-06-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:00 PM 5/30/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: You think that's bad? I know someone who was offerred $1,000 a night to play lead trumpet for Streisand. When he heard that a major requirement was that he was not to lock eyes onto Streisand (ie, look at her), he declined the offer. Who cares?

IQ, g, flying

2003-06-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:30 PM 5/30/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: The second irony is that just today I took my first flying lesson, in a Diamond Katana composite/carbon single-prop plane. I took off from the Watsonville Airport, which is, I assume, the home airport of Adelman. Just FYI, if you read up on G (general

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:32 PM 5/31/03 -0400, Scott Guthery wrote: Hello, Rich ... When I drill down on the many pontifications made by computer security and cryptography experts all I find is given wisdom. Maybe the reason that folks roll their own is because as far as they can see that's what everyone does.

Re: PGP Encryption Proves Powerful

2003-06-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:18 AM 6/1/03 -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: There is a reason that the AK47 is the weapon of choice: it is an extraordinarily simple weapon. Training is probably about half the requirements of say the M16. That makes a difference, much more so than, say, the increased accuracy of the M16! Got

Typical PGP user mistakes

2003-06-03 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
I recall reading at least one study of learning PGP and its UI. I have had the chance to observe half a dozen (albeit, smarter than normal) others' (mostly engineers) learning curves. All are using PGP 7.03 and Eudora 3.05. We are not using public key servers. Mistakes include: * neglecting to

Re: SIGINT planes vs. radioisotope mapping

2003-06-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:28 PM 6/3/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: Possibly for construction of baseline maps of existing radioisotopes in university labs, hospitals, and private facilities. Then deviations from baseline maps could be identified and inspected in more detail with ground-based vans and black bag ops. Good

Re: SIGINT planes vs. radioisotope mapping

2003-06-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
t 10:23 AM 6/6/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: I certainly never implied in any way that a simple G-M tube would be useful for this. Implicit in my radioistope mapping comment was that a gamma ray spectrometer would be used. And note that this is just what can be easily bought on the open

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

2003-04-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:56 PM 4/6/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: A lot of these struck me as desparate attempts by the bomb designers to find *something* useful to do with the damned things besides pray that they sit in their silos, rusting, and are never, never used. Yes, that's about right... I think that is

You bought it, Who controls it? [TR Article]

2003-06-08 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
article by Edward Tenner, Technology review, June 2003 p61-64 Also an article on deceipt detector p67-69 about using IR reflectivity of your frontal lobes to detect deceipt. Sort of a polygraph on steroids. (sorry, only cites, not URLs this time)

[Brinworld] Neighbor's surveillance camera?

2003-06-10 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Authorities said they were considering the possibility that a second person might have been involved in the abduction, based on video from a neighbor's surveillance camera. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/06/09/california.abduction/index.html

Re: An attack on paypal

2003-06-12 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:39 PM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: At 5:12 PM -0700 6/8/03, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: somebody (else) commented (in the thread) that anybody that currently (still) writes code resulting in buffer overflow exploit maybe should be thrown in jail. Not a very friendly bug-submission

Re: Steganography and musical scores?

2003-06-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
(resent) At 11:44 AM 6/13/03 -0400, Peter Wayner wrote: At 9:27 AM +0200 6/13/03, Thomas Shaddack wrote: See also something about computer-generated music: http://brainop.media.mit.edu/online/net-music/net-instrument/Thesis.html I'm told someone is trying to encode information by ordering the