Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Elementary - fair is whatever the parties in interest agree to. Period. 'agree' is synonymous with 'free' in this case. All you're doing is playing word games and hand waving. What does it mean to 'agree'? You are

Slashdot | Holographic Sonar Cryptography

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/science/01/10/23/2215256.shtml -- -- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo

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War Criminals

2001-10-24 Thread John Young
Paul Krugman, Economic Columnist, New York Times, 24 October 2001: At worst, war bonds will offer a lower return than ordinary bonds. And if some people buy them nonetheless, what will they finance? Here's where that tax bill enters the picture. The remarkable thing about the 'stimulus'

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-24 Thread Ken Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shit, so much for ordering mushroom spores by mail! Hopefully UPS and fedex won't follow suit. Another option might be for each package to be dropped into a poly bag, heat sealed and rinsed before being handled by staff. Our society has, for all practical

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds)

2001-10-24 Thread Anonymous
The really weird thing about this whole anthrax scene is that all the spores seem to be of the Ames variety, which is a militarized anthrax developed in Ames, Iowa. It really seems suspicious to me that these are of domestic origin -- bin Ladin or whoever would be in all likelihood be using a

Terrorists and Solutions

2001-10-24 Thread Blanc
Cpunks, what are your ideas on this: . What would be an acceptable way for the U.S. government to handle the current problem of terrorists in the U.S. in order to catch the ones already here and to prevent future attacks (acknowledged, they will do what they are prepared to do, given their

Re: FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent

2001-10-24 Thread AARG! Anonymous
Besides, the Taliban don't dance. When the B-52's are performing even the Taliban develop rhythm.

Re: openbsd encrypted fs

2001-10-24 Thread Dr. Evil
vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage I don't have a BSD system around to check - what does this approach do? It creates an loop encrypted loopback FS. Anyway, for an OS which prides itself on built-in crypto, why do we have to mess around with loopback? ... Can you describe a scenario

Re: openbsd encrypted fs

2001-10-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:38 PM 10/23/2001 +1000, zem wrote: On 23 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote: vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage I don't have a BSD system around to check - what does this approach do? Anyway, for an OS which prides itself on built-in crypto, why do we have to mess around with loopback? ... Can

Re: FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent

2001-10-24 Thread Jon Beets
The military's rules of engagement are very explicit... Anyone giving an order to break those rules are themselves committing a crime.. The integrity to stand up and say its wrong is what has been taught in the military over the past few years as Moral Courage... I am not saying the rules don't

Anthrax Letters

2001-10-24 Thread Mark Talbot
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/102301.htm

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:23 AM 10/23/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Irradiation equipment is being considered for mail processing, heard both over NPR's Morning Edition, and referenced in a story posted to Yahoo!: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ksat/20011022/lo/932238_1.html ... Adds new meaning to a glowing

Re: Cypherpunks idiot list

2001-10-24 Thread Jon Beets
Well at least you got the UNDERPAID part right... Jon Beets - Original Message - From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Cypherpunks idiot list Of course I know how to use a killfile! I killfiled all you

DUNNINGER

2001-10-24 Thread Sandy Sandfort
C'punks, Penn suggests reading Joseph Dunniger if you want to know how magic works. One of Dunninger's books listed on Amazon.com is, Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic. S a n d y

Cool article on sound underwater

2001-10-24 Thread Adam Shostack
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns1440 Uses a known carrier through a randomizing media so that only the source and dest will have the same randomization performed on their signal. -- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:31:38AM -0700, David Honig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 04:23 AM 10/23/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Any pointers on packaging for photographic and/or magnetic media through mail to survive irradiation equipment? How about the magstrips on all those credit

Re: Farm Out! (was Re: Retribution not enough)

2001-10-24 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: StarOffice is a lot better. Opensource, for one thing (although I know the Mac version was dropped and the OS X version not quite ready yet, but the linux version rocks), and doesn't get macroviri in any version. Again, why would you use something

Re: Clubbing in Fortress Amerika (fwd)

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:56:02PM -0700, Giovanna Imbesi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Last night my friend and I stopped at a Venice club/bar. At the door they were doing the normal ID check, but then took my driver's license and swiped it into

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds)

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, October 23, 2001, at 04:02 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our society has, for all practical purposes, endless vulnerabilities. If as each vulnerability is exploited we plan on taking drastic steps to secure it from future exploitation, the costs will be

lne down?

2001-10-24 Thread Harmon Seaver
So what's wrong with lne.com -- majordomo responds to info cypherpunks, but nothing's coming thru since last night, and nothing on inet.com either except from toad and ssz? -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 Home 920-233-5820 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDR: Re: Cypherpunks idiots list

2001-10-24 Thread John W Noerenberg II
It 's always refreshing when someone posts something truly funny. The idiots list ranks right up there with Nixon's enemies list - except it's not as long... -- john noerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- While the belief we

Re: Slashdot | Holographic Sonar Cryptography

2001-10-24 Thread David Honig
At 07:24 AM 10/24/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: Holographic Sonar Cryptography Its no more 'cryptography' than the plans to use small number of quanta to communicate 'securely' between satellites, or using pressurized conduits for your cables. As 'secure' or 'untappable' fnord communications it

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-24 Thread David Honig
At 12:23 PM 10/24/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: Our society has, for all practical purposes, endless vulnerabilities. If as each vulnerability is exploited we plan on taking drastic steps to secure it from future exploitation, the costs will be staggering and the list of unsecured items will

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread David Honig
At 09:31 AM 10/23/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: Unexposed photographic film could have a real problem with this, depending on quite what they're using. Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. Interesting consequences for the evolution of radiation-resistant strains, of course. Except in kansas

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Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 11:05 AM, David Honig wrote: At 10:32 AM 10/24/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:14 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote: Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. What do you suppose happens to

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim May wrote: I don't have time to respond in depth to the points Tim makes here, so I have snipped a lot of them. I intend to come back and comment in more detail later. Largely, I am in agreement. However, in the paragraphs I've quoted below, Tim touches on a

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Eric Murray wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:44:09AM -0700, Tim May wrote: Sure, unions are good is not at all obvious to me. Why do you claim this? Most labor unions are simply rent-seeking clubs designed to cement the status quo. Teacher's unions in the

Sheeple earning sheeps' disease (Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds ))

2001-10-24 Thread David Honig
At 10:11 AM 10/24/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Personally I'd prefer a non-colonial foreign policy that doesn't generate such antipathy. The message of the WTC is this: regular ole' non-mil sheeple *are* held responsible for the actions of their

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 11:33 AM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: Largely, I am in agreement. However, in the paragraphs I've quoted below, Tim touches on a counter-argument and dismisses it. I'll like to expand upon that a bit. I didn't dismiss it. In fact, I wrote more about this issue,

Schelling points and political isolationism

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 12:01 PM, David Honig wrote: Many excellent points... ... If you look up Schelling points you find Tim's http://www.inet- one.com/cypherpunks/dir.1996.07.25-1996.07.31/msg00032.html metaphor about interfering with another family because you disapprove of

[Fwd: [biofuel] VW presents new synthetic fuel strategy]

2001-10-24 Thread Harmon Seaver
Original Message Subject: [biofuel] VW presents new synthetic fuel strategy Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:29:19 +0900 From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Wheels24/News/0,3999,2-15-47_1083848,00.html 21/09/2001 14:38 - (SA)

Democratic critters' biochemwomdterror plans

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
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Re: George Mason U. adopts a free-market philosophy to an unusual degree

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:34:11AM -0700, Gabriel Rocha wrote: http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/10/22/focus1.html George Mason U. adopts a free-market philosophy to an unusual degree I skimmed the article, and it seems decent, but entirely anticlimatic. Any institution

Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-24 Thread Khoder bin Hakkin
. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011024/ts/attack_newjersey_detainee_dc_1.html Flies all green and buzzin', in this dungeon of despair. Prisoners grumble and piss their clothes, and scratch their matted

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim May wrote: I didn't dismiss it. In fact, I wrote more about this issue, which I haven't seen brought up by anyone else here, than 95% of all posts to Cypherpunks have in their entire amount of original material! My apologies. Dismiss was not the correct word. I

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim May wrote: Federalizing or socializing the costs of security is like federalizing or socializing flood insurance: it takes the efficiencies of the market away and creates distortions. A bare one objection to comprehensive market based security: a market needs private

Re: Schelling points and political isolationism

2001-10-24 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: And my meta-Schelling point was actually that the concept of a Schelling point is itself a Schelling point: many people, even animals, come to the independent conclusion that figuring out where the Schelling points are is a good

Re: CDR: a question

2001-10-24 Thread measl
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, (na) mshoe wrote: I first want you to know I understand what you do but Great! Could you please explain it to *US* then? I [seriously] doubt that most of us know what it is we do here! I need to ask you to please remove the post from

Re: CDR: Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread measl
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jim Choate wrote: What does it mean to 'agree'? or, more to the point, what does is mean? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better

Re: Re: MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001®

2001-10-24 Thread Frog2
[What's with the Subject line? =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_MATT_DRUDGE_//_DRUDGE_REPORT_2001=AE?=] Two hovering police choppers waited for people to come to the roof, rescue hoists ready, but none made it past the locked doors -- a couple of the doorbangers cellphoned home to scream bloody murder.

WTC Choppers

2001-10-24 Thread John Young
Frog wrote: Not a plausible claim, to anyone who recalls the situation at the top of the WTC on those days. The incredible heat and smoke from an entire jetliner full of fuel a hundred feet below would make helicopter operations impossible. Trying to land on the roof under those circumstances

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RE: Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-24 Thread Lucky Green
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Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-24 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
David Honig wrote: Personally I'd prefer a non-colonial foreign policy that doesn't generate such antipathy. And if you believe that WTC had anything to do with US foreign policy, or that we would cease being targets if we e.g. dropped suppport for Israel, you are living in a dream world and

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Elementary - fair is whatever the parties in interest agree to. Period. 'agree' is synonymous with 'free' in this case. All you're doing is playing word games and

Re: Neverending Cycle

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: Read your Aesop: the thief needs no excuse. Read Green River Anthology, we are what our environment makes of us. That's the 'nature' aspect just in case you're confused. You can't have one without the other (contrary to your claim). No mand is an

RE: Conman, quantum entaglement and no cat

2001-10-24 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Lucky wrote: It would have been more impressive had Copperfield revealed the numbers he predicted an hour /before/ the drawing... Yes, but that would have required REAL magic (or time travel). Incidentally, Penn sent a further reading suggestion on the subject of mentalism. The book is

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Dr. Evil
I don't understand why one would pay $1000 for a Starium device when comparable devices are available in the market place for less than half Do you have any references for those? I'm in the market for a voice encryptor system. Are these devices really comparable in terms of ease of use? of

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Furlong
Dr. Evil wrote: I don't understand why one would pay $1000 for a Starium device when comparable devices are available in the market place for less than half Do you have any references for those? ... of that. The design goal for the new Starium boxes was sub-$100 retail. I doubt

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Anthrax Letters

2001-10-24 Thread FogStorm
Pictures of the Daschle, Brokaw, and NY Post anthrax letters + their envelopes. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/102301.htm

Re: openbsd encrypted fs

2001-10-24 Thread zem
On 24 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote: No, it has nothing to do with speed. Machines are plenty fast. This is just a kludgy way to do this, and the last time I tried it, I got kernel panics within a day or so of uptime. Not acceptable, obviously. 2.7 had problems. It's worked reliably for me

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Dr. Evil
http://www.tccsecure.com/csd4100.htm - no price Great, no price and uses the world-famous DACE algorithm from Bell Labs. Next! http://www.thespystore.com/telefax.htm - $249 One unit is a scrambler which boasts 52,488 code combinations! The other uses rolling code scrambling, which I assume

Re: CDR: [psychohistory] A Terrorist's Nursery (fwd)

2001-10-24 Thread measl
Excellent. Thank you for delivering the entire article, rather than a link (I usually get to your likns BTW, but they do sit _way_ down on the list). On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jim Choate wrote: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:37:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: openbsd encrypted fs

2001-10-24 Thread zem
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:38 PM 10/23/2001 +1000, zem wrote: On 23 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote: vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage I don't have a BSD system around to check - what does this approach do? Create a loopback device. -k means encrypt - cipher is blowfish,

Re: Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:12:13PM -0700, John Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These procedures were described in exquisite detail during the USA v. bin Laden et al trial earlier this year: http://cryptome.org/usa-v-ubl-dt.htm Use the search on Cryptome to find the transcripts

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds)

2001-10-24 Thread Neil Johnson
The Ames Strain of Anthrax wasn't developed in Ames, It was discovered. It was naturally occurring strain that was resistant to the anti-biotics that were used to treat Anthrax at the time. It is very commonly used in the study and research of bacteria, and up to a few years ago could be easily

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Furlong
Dr. Evil wrote: So, I checked all the URLs you gave me, and none of them, except the STU, use real encryption, and the STUs are either not available, or they are backdoored. Starium is competing with STUs. ... And others in the over-US$1000 range. Right, so Starium is

Re: Is there a subway in DC?

2001-10-24 Thread Bill Stewart
The DC Metro is one of the nicer subways systems in the country. And for both NYC and DC, the subway definitely beats most other transportation methods - neither city could support even the parking needs for their residents or workers if everyone drove, and busses aren't managed in a way that

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Dr. Evil
We probably need to define the product category we're discussing. I was listing devices which prevent casual interception, and which Joe Average might conceivably buy. The Starium is obviously more robust than that, and consequently more expensive. Right, exactly. When Starium was first

Doh!

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
Make Green River Anthology into Spoon River Anthology, it'll make more sense. -- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784)

The coming open monopoly in software - Tech News - CNET.com

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1275-210-7632187-1.html?tag=bt_bh -- -- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The

Re: Why Plan-9?

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
This entire view misses the(!) one most important component of Unix's (and Linux's) success, they were first. There was NO credible competition. The same thing can be said for Apache and BIND and many other apps. It isn't that they were the best, they were simply the first - and get to reap

stamps.com: buh-bye anonymous post-mail, hello smart crypto postage.

2001-10-24 Thread Xeni Jardin
Noted without comment: this stamps.com press release hit the wires earlier today... --XJ Stamps.com Technology Helps Improve Mail Security Internal Task Force to Focus on Further Utilization of Internet Postage Security SANTA MONICA, Calif. - October 24, 2001 -

Re: A champion of liberty speaks about privacy, cash smuggling

2001-10-24 Thread John Kozubik
The bill is not perfect. I am sorry that, for example, we excluded making it a crime to smuggle over $10,000 interstate. We included it for overseas, but it was not included for interstate. Nevertheless, this is an excellent bill. Can someone clarify the definition, in this context, of

Key Hypotheses (incl. Schelling Points)

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.tfriend.com/hypothesis.html -- -- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group

Spreading the dossier on Mitch Shoemaker, 16-year-old felon

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 02:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, (na) mshoe wrote: I first want you to know I understand what you do but Great! Could you please explain it to *US* then? I [seriously] doubt that most of us know what it is we do here! I need to ask

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread jamesd
-- David Honig wrote: No one forces a farmer to the city to look for an industrial job. On 22 Oct 2001, at 12:21, Ken Brown wrote: In general, no. But it happens now and again. Governments certainly did in (say) the old Soviet Union I do not think so. Lenin surrounded the cities to

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
I happened to hear from Lee Caplin of Starium today. They've apparently (I'm looking at Lee's email message while typing this, but I don't wish to speak for them) abandoned plans to sell the bump-in-a-wire device. Now they're thinking of marketing a small RJ11'd cryptophone an executive would

Re: First, brand all the children

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Furlong
Declan McCullagh wrote: When you have 99-1 votes in the Senate (http://www.politechbot.com/p-02651.html), can anyone seriously say that either the Democrats or Republicans can be trusted to preserve our privacy and follow the demands of the Constitution? No. Nor have the mass of national

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
Did you read the page carefully? See: NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS FOR DELIVERY IN DECEMBER 2001/JANUARY 2002 Very Limited Quantity Available That said, I'm surprised to see the units advertised. As I said in another message, Starium's chairman (I think that's his current title) indicated to me today

House chairman doesn't want parochial issues to stop wiretap bill

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
Parochial issues like privacy, maybe? -Declan --- News Advisory For immediate release Contact: Jeff Lungren October 24, 2001 202-225-2492 House Passes Anti-terrorism Legislation Sensenbenner Urges Senate Action Today WASHINGTON,

Clarence Parker enjoyed the perks of his prison guard job

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
FORMER INS GUARD AT FEDERAL DETENTION FACILITY PLEADS GUILTY TO SEXUAL ACT WITH FEMALE DETAINEE MIAMI, FL. -- The Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department announced today that Clarence Parker, a former guard at the Krome Service Processing Center (Krome) in Miami, Florida, pled guilty

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-24 Thread Dr. Evil
I happened to hear from Lee Caplin of Starium today. They've apparently (I'm looking at Lee's email message while typing this, but I don't wish to speak for them) abandoned plans to sell the bump-in-a-wire device. Now they're thinking of marketing a small RJ11'd cryptophone an executive

First, brand all the children

2001-10-24 Thread Anonymous User
An armed uprising won't transpire, but a time will come when people will run away from cities. Even if you disagree with prophecy, I very much doubt that you truly believe that there is men and women in great numbers that will fight. After spending 26 years on this planet, it will not be a

Re: Why Plan-9?

2001-10-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:53:35PM -0500, Jim Choate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This entire view misses the(!) one most important component of Unix's (and Linux's) success, they were first. Not hardly. I wasn't keeping notes when KR were designing their gaming platform, but history seems to

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Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-24 Thread mmotyka
David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Personally I'd prefer a non-colonial foreign policy that doesn't generate such antipathy. The message of the WTC is this: regular ole' non-mil sheeple *are* held responsible for the actions of their government. *Even* in the US. What a concept. I

Re: lne down?

2001-10-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
Lne.com, at least based on what I saw, sent no outgoing messages from about 7 pm ET yesterday until 12 noon today. -Declan On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:38:29AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: So what's wrong with lne.com -- majordomo responds to info cypherpunks, but nothing's coming thru

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote: Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels? Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university,

Re: lne down?

2001-10-24 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:17:54PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: Lne.com, at least based on what I saw, sent no outgoing messages from about 7 pm ET yesterday until 12 noon today. We had a sendmail config error, and our network feed had a problem with some hardware. Eric

George Mason U. adopts a free-market philosophy to an unusual degree

2001-10-24 Thread Gabriel Rocha
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/10/22/focus1.html George Mason U. adopts a free-market philosophy to an unusual degree Eric Winig Staff Reporter While the U.S. economy continues to sink, the majority of economists are scratching their heads, unable to

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:14 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote: Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels? Nothing. Magnetic oxides and metallic thin films are not

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread mmotyka
You seem to have left out the fact that the single largest player in the market today is the government. The security measures that are now in place for air travel are IMHO an abuse by regulators that amounts to using a private actor as a proxy for an illegal search : to whit names, flight

Never Before Seen #49A2

2001-10-24 Thread Christine Baker
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Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread David Honig
At 10:32 AM 10/24/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:14 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote: Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels? Nothing.

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to have left out the fact that the single largest player in the market today is the government. That's the sea the fish swim in...so pervasive that no one needs reminding of it. I am arguing for increased

Why use Wurd?

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Furlong
Riad S. Wahby wrote: Strange that you would go to all the trouble. I'll take emacs and LaTeX2e any day of the week. Who needs WYSIWYG when you can make nicer-looking documents in less time using a Turing-complete document formatting / programming language? Compatability with Wurd users. A

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread David Honig
At 09:31 AM 10/23/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: At 04:23 AM 10/23/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Irradiation equipment is being considered for mail processing, heard Yep, nothing like placing canisters of radiological materials everywhere. Mmmm, smell that? Cobalt 60. Smells like...

Re: MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001®

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:59 PM 10/23/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.drudgereport.com/matth2.htm Hillary smarm with out the charm Clinton is finally being treated to the welcome she deserves. If Ruddi hadn't dropped out or the Repos hadn't run such a weak candidate the voters would surely had sent her

Re: MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001®

2001-10-24 Thread John Young
Hillary was in good company: Richard Gere got booed for suggesting tolerance not vengeance, and the NYC Fire Commissioner got booed the loudest by firemen for being a publicity whore and Guiliani flunkey who has been trying for years to cut back on firefighting services under Rudy's orders. The

Re: CDR: Cypherpunks idiots list

2001-10-24 Thread measl
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: [much whineyou suck/whine elided] Note: if you are an idiot, you may not like being informed of this fact. Glass houses... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] no doubt the source of the low paying system

Re: CDR: Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread measl
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote: Shit, so much for ordering mushroom spores by mail! Hopefully UPS and fedex won't follow suit. you should be aware that FedX now carries a large (majority?) portion of the US mails, under contract. This is the reason that FedX drop boxes were

Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leapsand bounds)

2001-10-24 Thread measl
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote: The really weird thing about this whole anthrax scene is that all the spores seem to be of the Ames variety, which is a militarized anthrax Shouldn't this read non-militarized? The Ames strain is a standardized research strain, used