Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread baptista
Now - i've replied to you below - but I think were missing the point of the post. So i'll repeat - it's easy to do harm when you have the will to die to rally your cause - as we have seen on sept 11. and i find it regrettable that conditions exist in which people use extreme methods to focus

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 08:20 PM, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: One thing that is bothering me these days are all the reports coming out of Afganistan that nuclear bomb making plans were found. Big deal. Anyone on the planet can make a nuclear device if they have the appropriate

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 12:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now - i've replied to you below - but I think were missing the point of the post. So i'll repeat - it's easy to do harm when you have the will to die to rally your cause - as we have seen on sept 11. and i find it

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread baptista
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Tim May wrote: I'd guess that the tall pipe version is the most buildable of the basement nukes. (In a nutshell: a tall drainpipe, perhaps 40 feet tall. Set up in an apartment building, warehouse, etc. At the base the pipe is reinforced with copious amounts of

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 12:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Tim May wrote: I'd guess that the tall pipe version is the most buildable of the basement nukes. (In a nutshell: a tall drainpipe, perhaps 40 feet tall. Set up in an apartment building, warehouse,

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Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread baptista
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Tim May wrote: The idea _is_ for it to detonate, not just have a severe thermal excursion! No Tim - that is incorrect. The Thermal incursion will do just swell. Remember these people are making a point. So the nuclear device is nothing more then a prop in an endless

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread baptista
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: At 11:56 PM 11/16/2001 -0800, Tim May wrote: Nearly all metals are malleable to some extent (in that they don't shatter when subjected to shear forces), but I was responding to your beat the metal in a stainless steel bowl idea. Good luck on beat U

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Re: CDR: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
A couple of corrections from somebody who began studying this threat fifteen years ago. There is little danger to weapons builders from exposure to fissile materials, because they have very little spontaneous radioactivity. The radioactive emissions come when the device goes supercritical during

Re: CDR: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread baptista
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: detonation. You can actually hold a subcritical mass of plutonium in your hand for awhile - I'm told it feels warm. Can't say I've tried it myself. hold on mr. expert. you hold a sub critical mass in your hand and in a few days you end up

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Re: Rigorous and objective (if at first...)

2001-11-17 Thread John Young
If you're over 30-35 all your best stuff was done in the old days. After that age you may think you're capable of good work but that's just the voice of experience taking the place of genuine challenge when you have to solve problems to survive rather than steal from youngsters and call it your

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: hold on mr. expert. you hold a sub critical mass in your hand and in a few days you end up shitting out your guts, lose your hair and die. so i assume the person who had the opportunity to hold such a critical mass is now dead. where are you getting your info on

The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
Alternative Subject Name: Decline and Fall: Crypto without politics is just applied number theory This will be a long article. Fair warning. Also, I plan to reply only to folks who make a serious effort to debate. Folks who chime in with inanities or with Another C-A-C-L rant! will of course

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Eric Cordian
F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Consider that nuclear weapons could not be built if the fissiles had high rates of spontaneous decay - the stuff would detonate prematurely, resulting in a fizzle. That, incidentally, is why plutonium cannot be used in a gun-type device - two isotopes are

Monkeywrenching airport security

2001-11-17 Thread keyser-soze
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Re: Rigorous and objective (if at first...)

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 12:48 PM, John Young wrote: If you're over 30-35 all your best stuff was done in the old days. After that age you may think you're capable of good work but that's just the voice of experience taking the place This depends on whether one is entering a new

RE: Monkeywrenching airport security

2001-11-17 Thread Sandy Sandfort
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Monkeywrenching airport security Walk into an airport in baggy pants with powdered expolosives in a leg bag which can slowly be dispersed as you walk... Airport chemical sniffers apparently look for the signature of nitrogen compounds, not explosives, per

RE: Monkeywrenching

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2001-11-17 Thread citizenq
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RE: Monkeywrenching airport security

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Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- On 17 Nov 2001, at 10:00, Tim May wrote: 6. The failure to get true digital money. Call it what you like, digital cash or ecash or even one of Hettinga's pet names, but the fact is that for both political and technical reasons we don't have digital cash. This has ripple effects for

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread alphabeta121
what does C-A-C-L stand for? alpha - Original Message - From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:00 AM Subject: CDR: The Crypto Winter Alternative Subject Name: Decline and Fall: Crypto without politics is just applied number theory

RE: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread Sandy Sandfort
alphabeta121 asked, what does C-A-C-L stand for? Nothing really. It's Inchoate's blanket term for the several loosely related free market theories/movements. It's an intellectually bankrupt grouping. It's sort of like saying commie instead of differentiating between communism, Fabian

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:24:31AM -0800, Tim May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 08:20 PM, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: Anyone on this planet can build a nuclear device. So the only issue in building the device is the will to die for a cause. And the only thing

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Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: I think this is the central key problem. To establish any medium of exchange, one faces an enormous critical mass problem, as the stupendous expenditures by paypal and its competitors demonstrate. Maybe once average people become fully

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2001-11-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
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Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread Dr. Evil
6. The failure to get true digital money. Call it what you like, digital cash or ecash or even one of Hettinga's pet names, but the fact is that for both political and technical reasons we don't have digital cash. This has ripple effects for nearly all of the constructs which depend on

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread Morlock Elloi
Maybe it's not too late. But if this group is ever to resume its role as an exciting place where the future of computing is visible, it must refocus its efforts. Cypherpunks should think positively, look past current troubles, and start talking again about crypto technology and how it can

RE: Monkeywrenching airport security

2001-11-17 Thread David Honig
At 10:57 AM 11/17/01 -0800, Sandy Sandfort wrote: Airport chemical sniffers apparently look for the signature of nitrogen compounds, not explosives, per se. I've often wondered how many weekend gardeners have gotten hassled and delayed because of trace amounts of ammonia-based fertilizers on

Re: Rigorous and objective (if at first...)

2001-11-17 Thread David Honig
At 10:51 AM 11/17/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: One of my long-term programming heroes is Dan Ingalls, the guy who invented BitBlt (for windowing systems) and did most of the actual development of Smalltalk. He's still in the thick of things and is contributing mightily. Walker of Autodesk/CERN

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread keyser-soze
At 02:00 AM 11/18/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: The larger question is, what is it about the cypherpunk worldview which is so wrong? Why do cypherpunks constantly predict events which don't come true? And is this faulty vision responsible for the failure of the cypherpunks to maintain their

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread David Honig
At 03:15 PM 11/17/01 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:36:32PM -0800, alphabeta121 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: what does C-A-C-L stand for? Crypto-Anarcho Capitalist Libertarian, per archives. Shorthand for a common, if not prevailing, political viewpoint among active

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Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:52:17PM -0500, Faustine wrote: So maybe it's worth putting a little effort into thinking of ways to AOLize (for lack of a better term) digital cash: a mass market reqires mass appeal. What a good idea! Bet nobody thought of that before! More seriously, as has been

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:00:15AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Speaking of laws by Christmas, anyone want to give odds on the accuracy of Tim May's prediction on September 13: Dark times are coming. I'll bet a complete ban on strong, unescrowed crypto is passed in all European

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- Someone wrote: Speaking of laws by Christmas, anyone want to give odds on the accuracy of Tim May's prediction on September 13: Dark times are coming. I'll bet a complete ban on strong, unescrowed crypto is passed in all European countries, Russia, China, Japan, and the U.S.

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- On 18 Nov 2001, at 2:00, Nomen Nescio wrote: The larger question is, what is it about the cypherpunk worldview which is so wrong? Why do cypherpunks constantly predict events which don't come true? Those who plan revolution always overestimate the pace of change, just as those who

RE: Monkeywrenching

2001-11-17 Thread Aimee Farr
I am no longer on the list. My Policeman Inside broke out. He won't let me be associated with silly salad talk, mission orientation, and Levi-Smithing. ~Aimee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 1:02 PM To: Declan

Re: Monkeywrenching

2001-11-17 Thread Dr. Evil
I am no longer on the list. My Policeman Inside broke out. He won't let me be associated with silly salad talk, mission orientation, and Levi-Smithing. You need to build an inner jail for your inner policeman! But to make sure that he has due process, you need an inner internal affairs

Re: Monkeywrenching airport security

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 05:41 PM, David Honig wrote: At 10:57 AM 11/17/01 -0800, Sandy Sandfort wrote: Airport chemical sniffers apparently look for the signature of nitrogen compounds, not explosives, per se. I've often wondered how many weekend gardeners have gotten hassled

Re: Monkeywrenching

2001-11-17 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aimee wrote: I am no longer on the list. My Policeman Inside broke out. He won't let me be associated with silly salad talk, mission orientation, and Levi-Smithing. You need to build an inner jail for your inner policeman! But to make sure that

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 08:25 PM, Faustine wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:52:17PM -0500, Faustine wrote: So maybe it's worth putting a little effort into thinking of ways to AOLize (for lack of a better term) digital cash: a mass market reqires mass appeal. What a good idea!

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