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

2001-10-25 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 09:44 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: Parochial issues like privacy, maybe? Frankly, even before 9/11 I thought privacy was, like, rilly, rilly scary and all! It scares me to think about what people are doing under the cloak of privacy. So, like, I'm happy

Time to Flash Cook the Frog

2001-10-25 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 09:23 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: 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

Re: Cypherpunks idiot list

2001-10-25 Thread Reese
At 10:21 PM 10/23/01 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: Of course I know how to use a killfile! I killfiled all you idiots long ago, but your names and trivial ideas keep getting quoted by all the important people, AND I JUST CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!. Then kill yourself and be done with it. If the

RE: Conman, quantum entaglement and no cat

2001-10-25 Thread Reese
Who knows how many predictions he's made over the years, or the black book he looks them up in after a drawing, so he knows where (whether) to call the press conference. At 04:40 PM 10/24/01 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: It would have been more impressive had Copperfield revealed the numbers he

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-25 Thread Heinz-Juergen 'Tom' Keller
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:35:19AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: At 02:14 AM 10/25/2001 +, Dr. Evil wrote: Right, exactly. When Starium was first announced, people were excited because it sounded like we were going to get industrial-strength stuff at consumer prices. That isn't reality,

Re: First, brand all the children

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Furlong
Jim Choate wrote: ...When the US falls ... The key point to a bloodless fall will be the military saying 'I think we'll sit this one out, thank you very much.' And a major key to that is militarily useful weaponry in the hands of the citizens. It would be nice to think that most US soldiers

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

2001-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:06:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: So, who're the Senate holdouts? 90+ votes means a filibuster's impossible under cloture rules, no? Yes, a filibuster won't stand much chance, but bringing the bill to the floor on unanimous consent won't work either. The Senate

Google bends for feds

2001-10-25 Thread Khoder bin Hakkin
Dozens of government agencies have rushed to pull sensitive information off their websites and Google has backed their efforts by clearing the cache of shuttered websites from its search engines, a Google spokeswoman said. Suppression Stifles Some Sites

Starium patents?

2001-10-25 Thread Khoder bin Hakkin
Declan writes: I happened to hear from Lee Caplin of Starium today. ... Also, Lee says Starium has filed for patents on a desk phone, answering machine and conference phone. One wonders what they have that is patentable. Given that we've been using laptops with PGPfone/Nautilus/SpeakFreely for

Corporate welfare, the end of competitive bidding, or both?

2001-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
10. Pentagon under pressure to delay or divide Joint Strike Fighter contract By Brody Mullins, CongressDaily Supporters of the Boeing Co., bracing for yet another big loss, are pressuring the Pentagon to delay or divvy up a massive new contract for next-generation fighter jets to replace the

Re: The Cost of Oil

2001-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
Though the article was somewhat silly, or partisan, or both, in places. Excerpt: The Republicans oppose it as they oppose all taxes, especially ones that could harm the key industries--and important political contributors. Republicans opposing all taxes? Right. Whatever. -Declan On Thu, Oct

'Privacy Council' in defense of M$

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Capelli
http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO65026,00.html This guy (Ponemon) needs a basic math lesson ... ... Ponemon criticized the federal government for not doing enough to ensure the FTC could enforce privacy infractions. Recent increases in the FTC's budget aren't enough, he

The new Internet archive

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Do you know the URL address of this new Internet archive? Pier Carlo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes (Marcel Proust) - Original Message - From: Subcommander Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: CDR: Re: FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent

2001-10-25 Thread jamesd
-- On 22 Oct 2001, at 23:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding (from questioning on this topic in the distant past with an MD/shrink) is that the sodium thiopental/pentobarbital/etc. truth serum is an urban legend. He was quite specific that the drug was a definite aid to

Re: Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-25 Thread Onin wal-a bin Hakkin
well too f'n bad, huh? first, allegations of torture, then a bindi-brain eats his final fallafel, now on the way to Heaven on his 2 hump magic camel, 2 for redundancy... heaven is far i understand and hard to get to for such a limited clientele of muslims. regardless of human rights, what about

Re: Where the torture never stops..

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Broiles
At 01:04 PM 10/25/2001 -0700, Onin wal-a bin Hakkin wrote: if you are incarcerated for a fucked up deed you shouldnt expect to be put in the hilton. is this not a universal idea and accepted? jailprisontheklink is supposed to SUCK. [...] i ask you, am i a bad person for feeling this way? What

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-25 Thread jamesd
-- On 25 Oct 2001, at 0:00, Sampo Syreeni wrote: A bare one objection to comprehensive market based security: a market needs private property, and other civil rights, in order to function efficiently, as predicted. Protection is what guarantees those rights. If you place protection

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if we place food on the market, we no longer have a guarantee that anyone will be able to eat :-) Of course. The point is, the market can work perfectly well in the absence of sufficient nutrition for all of the participants. This does not hold

Re: Where The Torture Never Stops...

2001-10-25 Thread Onin wal-a bin Hakkin
hm yes, you are correct. he wasnt incarcerated. never mind that other part then. but in all candor, dont ya think that if a guy is there who SHOULDNT be there, he wouldnt be there after a decent timeframe of investigation? notwithstanding other manners of recent injustices of justice, i.e.,

Re: Where the torture never stops..{ *** WARNING *** top-posted }

2001-10-25 Thread mmotyka
Greg, Welcome to America's New Era. Goebels, Himmler and the rest of the team are reincarnated. Welcome back to meatspace Gentlemen, it's been far too long! What organizations will be challenging the Constitutionality of at least sections of the soon to be recent Gestapo Act? Who has

Re: First, brand all the children

2001-10-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Steve Furlong wrote: Jim Choate wrote: ...When the US falls ... The key point to a bloodless fall will be the military saying 'I think we'll sit this one out, thank you very much.' And a major key to that is militarily useful weaponry in the hands of the

Need help hacking /root/pwd to constitution

2001-10-25 Thread A. Melon
take me to UR leader, i need his permission 2 ask the list a question need password in order to own/root constitution so i can slip in /bin/laden/findme.pl if U can do this 4 me it would B 3l33t any suggestions?

Re: Why Plan-9?

2001-10-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Sunder wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Jim Choate wrote: Transitive means that A mounts B, C mounts A and gets B free. Plan 9 does this, managed by a set of authorization layers for fine control, native. This could be bad. Say B doesn't want to allow access to C

RE: Where The Torture Never Stops...

2001-10-25 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Onin wal-a bin Hakkin wrote: but in all candor, dont ya think that if a guy is there who SHOULDNT be there, he wouldnt be there after a decent timeframe of investigation? If you were innocent of any crime and were thrown in the slammer with bad people and given no opportunity to contact

RE: Need help hacking /root/pwd to constitution

2001-10-25 Thread Sandy Sandfort
A. Melon wrote: any suggestions? Yes, take a remedial reading course and then read Flesch's WRITING PLAIN ENGLISH. S a n d y -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A. Melon Sent: 25 October, 2001 14:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where The Torture Never Stops...

2001-10-25 Thread John Young
Come on Onin, watch the numbers skyrocket after Bush signs off on Ashcroft's wet dream. The US has the most bloated justice industry in the world, far bigger than any in history, and the spate of bills appearing will fatten these pigs beyond anything seen in the commie and fascist regimes. We are

Re: Torture Never Stops..

2001-10-25 Thread Nomen Nescio
Listen, its not a return to fascism. Not by any stretch, so unbunch your panties. unbunch(panties); Some Americans are tired of being stepped on. Me in particular. Its way different than the inferrence you infer. I am sure that we agree on the same stuff, we just dont agree on how to get

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Re: CDR: 'Privacy Council' in defense of M$

2001-10-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Peter Capelli wrote: If you start at zero, 50% is only 50 cents, Ponemon said. Where did he learn math, I wonder? Marc de Piolenc

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-25 Thread Neil Johnson
What's this then? http://www.tactronix.com/s100.htm -MW- Looks like a nicely rendered computer image of the proposed device (somebody there is good with POV-Ray?). -Neil

Dilbert Random Number Generator

2001-10-25 Thread Bill Stewart
Dilbert's been visiting the Trolls In Accounting, who have been spitting all over his data. Now he's on a tour, and the troll is showing him their random number generator. http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2001182781025.gif

Re: MORE MENTALISM

2001-10-25 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 10:54 AM 10/25/01 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote: C'punks, Penn asked Teller for a good book on mentalism. Teller suggested a great classic mentalism book is THIRTEEN STEPS TO MENTALISM by Corinda. I didn't find it on Amazon, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere. Soon, you too will be

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Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-25 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:14 AM 10/25/2001 +, Dr. Evil wrote: Right, exactly. When Starium was first announced, people were excited because it sounded like we were going to get industrial-strength stuff at consumer prices. That isn't reality, and now they are going to sell industrial-strength stuff at

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

2001-10-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: We need to send a message that armed propaganda is not an acceptable form of self-expression, no matter what the alleged cause. Review the American revolution and the current news before you follow this little meme very far. ..and your point is...? Marc de Piolenc

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

2001-10-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: But Nato's escape clause won't work this time round. For as the Afghan refugees turn up in their thousands at the border, it is palpably evident that they are fleeing not the Taliban but our bombs and missiles. The Taliban is not ethnically cleansing its own Pashtun

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

2001-10-25 Thread Ken Brown
Harmon Seaver posted: [...] VW presents new synthetic fuel strategy [...] To a large extent, this biomass consists of carbon and hydrogen. In the first step of the SunFuel process, these major constituents of biomass are converted into synthesis gas (H2, CO, CO2). This is then

Re: CDR: Re: Torture Never Stops..

2001-10-25 Thread measl
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I'm not sure I agree that WE are providing the rope to the ropers. It seems rather that the ropers are taking the rope while everyone else stands by without objection, blinded by tears, anger and fear. I find the difference here to be

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Re: Senate approves USA Act, sends to Bush, Ashcroft vows new era

2001-10-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:31:42PM -0400, Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Attorney General John Ashcroft Prepared Remarks for the US Mayors Conference October 25, 2001 ... Within days of the September 11 attacks, we launched this anti_terrorism offensive to prevent

King George II

2001-10-25 Thread keyser-soze
In dishonor of his namesake father and the possible historical irony I suggest that from now on we call our current commander in chief King George II and refer to his politcal and law enforcement henchmen as Pop Tories.

America is beyond salvation

2001-10-25 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 08:42 PM, Mark Talbot wrote: Dangerous? Yes, there are dangers to a mandatory national I.D. card, but there may be greater dangers without one. The fact is, to live in a society as vulnerable as ours, we may have to give up something - but I disagree

Re: The Cost of Oil

2001-10-25 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 03:22 PM 10/25/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: Though the article was somewhat silly, or partisan, or both, in places. Excerpt: The Republicans oppose it as they oppose all taxes, especially ones that could harm the key industries--and important political contributors. Republicans

America is beyond salvation

2001-10-25 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 08:42 PM, Mark Talbot wrote: Dangerous? Yes, there are dangers to a mandatory national I.D. card, but there may be greater dangers without one. The fact is, to live in a society as vulnerable as ours, we may have to give up something - but I disagree

Re: FINALLY! we can buy Staria

2001-10-25 Thread mmotyka
Neil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : What's this then? http://www.tactronix.com/s100.htm -MW- Looks like a nicely rendered computer image of the proposed device (somebody there is good with POV-Ray?). -Neil Too expensive.

Re: [EMED-L] Airborne anthrax protection... (fwd)

2001-10-25 Thread measl
interesting trivia for the biowar inclined :-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:37:28 -0700 From: Tim Sturgill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: EMED-L -- a list for emergency medicine practitioners. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMED-L]

Re: CDR: Senate approves USA Act, sends to Bush, Ashcroft vows newera

2001-10-25 Thread measl
This has got to be the single scariest thing I have *ever* read from any government official. After reading this, I doubt that the nuclear winter comments that have been bandied about are going to be very far off their mark... It especially terrifying to note that this speech specifically

James Glassman wants national IDs: We have to give up privacy

2001-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: James Glassman wants national IDs: We have to give up privacy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:17:23 -0400 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2

Re: CDR: Senate approves USA Act, sends to Bush, Ashcroft vows newera

2001-10-25 Thread mmotyka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : This has got to be the single scariest thing I have *ever* read from any government official. After reading this, I doubt that the nuclear winter comments that have been bandied about are going to be very far off their mark... It especially terrifying to note that