At 03:05 PM 9/22/03 +0100, ken wrote:
Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
This is *not* a spoof.
Why should we think it a spoof? Maybe the USA is just catchiung
up. In my home town, Brighton in Enlgand, people calling
themselves the ALF used to do this sort of thing pretty regularly
in the late 70s
Mexico Sees Big Brother on the Loose
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bug22sep22,1,5195976.story?coll=la-home-todays-times
At 07:18 PM 9/21/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Give part of germany to the jews, and give palestine back to the
arabs
Give the Jew invaders of Palestine a 10-minute lesson in swimming, hand
them a pair of water wings, and tell them to swim for their lives.
With luck, only one in 100 will make it
At 08:28 PM 9/22/03 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
On Monday 22 September 2003 18:39, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Could be the l33t sp3ak next generation for the cases when the
communication is monitored by automated tools for keywords. Could
foil
both alerting on keywords and keyword searching on
At 07:18 PM 9/21/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Give part of germany to the jews, and give palestine back to the
arabs
Give the Jew invaders of Palestine a 10-minute lesson in swimming, hand
them a pair of water wings, and tell them to swim for their lives.
With luck, only one in 100 will make it
At 03:05 PM 9/22/03 +0100, ken wrote:
Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
This is *not* a spoof.
Why should we think it a spoof? Maybe the USA is just catchiung
up. In my home town, Brighton in Enlgand, people calling
themselves the ALF used to do this sort of thing pretty regularly
in the late 70s
At 06:27 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding
regular
drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare
Bengal tiger.
1. The grunt found out that cats have no alpha cats
2. Nothing like boozing it up in a
The man who e-mailed The Times and claimed credit for the attacks used
the name Tony Marsden, which he said was a pseudonym. The man also said
that one of his hobbies was math and that he and his accomplices had
painted Euler's Theorem on the side of one of the cars.
FBI Searches Computers at
(from /.) http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/
has a good rant by John Walker on how NAT turns
users into consumers.
Also Speak Freely maintenance is ending. Sic transit
unix to PC secure vox. Note that PGPfone devel
ended a while ago, unsupporting PC to Mac secvox.
Nautilus is AFAIK PC to PC
At 06:27 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding
regular
drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare
Bengal tiger.
1. The grunt found out that cats have no alpha cats
2. Nothing like boozing it up in a
At 06:35 PM 9/21/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act.
Fuck. I've been nearing a similar conclusion, though from an entirely
different, uh, line of approach. Though I don't consider having quite
crossed that line yet.
I guess in the end we are responsible for
The man who e-mailed The Times and claimed credit for the attacks used
the name Tony Marsden, which he said was a pseudonym. The man also said
that one of his hobbies was math and that he and his accomplices had
painted Euler's Theorem on the side of one of the cars.
FBI Searches Computers at
At 08:38 AM 9/16/03 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
and probably sell or rent the typo name space - ie. Airborne Express
could
buy *f?*e?*d?*e?*x?*.com address space, so fredex.com would lead to
airborne's
web site.
You need to include adjacent-letter permutations at least, in that there
regexp.
This is *not* a spoof.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-foiegras18sep18,1,7982772.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Activists Take Ducks From Foie Gras Shed
FARMINGTON, Calif. With only the dim light of a half-moon to guide
them, four self-proclaimed duck freedom fighters made their
At 08:38 AM 9/16/03 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
and probably sell or rent the typo name space - ie. Airborne Express
could
buy *f?*e?*d?*e?*x?*.com address space, so fredex.com would lead to
airborne's
web site.
You need to include adjacent-letter permutations at least, in that there
regexp.
Good article at http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60440,00.html
on abuses of anti-terrorism (tm) laws.
-
The unit of coercivity for magstrips is being changed to the Ashcroft
I received a few URLs pointing to cell phone pictures
stored at pictures.sprintpcs.com. The URLs contained
long seemingly-random strings, though with my sample
(of 2) I only saw 5 identical characters in the same locations.
Has anyone done any less casual cryptanalysis on these
kind of URLs?
Administration Calls for Unprecedented Subpoena Powers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-subpoena14sep14,1,689004.story?coll=la-home-todays-times
Unlike in ordinary criminal investigations, Ashcroft would not need the
approval of a grand jury or a judge to order witnesses to
Obscenities have always been a priority of the attorney general, said
Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania. [A]nd he
has asked each U.S. attorney to make that our priority as well.
Buchanan is the lead prosecutor on the case against Zacari
It should be massive fun when the RIAA sues someone
who has an open WiFi network inhabited by unknown
users. We await this defense. Doubleplus fun if the
RIAA victim doesn't know he's sharing his bandwidth.
We also anticipate someone being sued for downloading a rip
of a song they have a vinyl.
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=56662section=BUSINESSsubsection=BUSINESSyear=2003month=9day=12
So why not institute mandatory education before people can go online?
After all, motorists must obtain licenses before they can legally hit
the road, and computers are much more
It should be massive fun when the RIAA sues someone
who has an open WiFi network inhabited by unknown
users. We await this defense. Doubleplus fun if the
RIAA victim doesn't know he's sharing his bandwidth.
We also anticipate someone being sued for downloading a rip
of a song they have a vinyl.
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=56662section=BUSINESSsubsection=BUSINESSyear=2003month=9day=12
So why not institute mandatory education before people can go online?
After all, motorists must obtain licenses before they can legally hit
the road, and computers are much more
U.S. agents also sought, without warrant or subpoena, to obtain ABCNEWS
field tapes. Two agents showed up at night at the San Diego home of a
freelance cameraman, Jeff Freeman, who worked on the project.
They first identified themselves as FBI agents, which it turns out they
weren't, said
Safe Haven works by transmitting a signal in a localised environment
such as a school, swimming pool, office facility or factory, which
disables the camera functionality of devices in the nearby
environment, the companies claim.
The snag is that Safe Haven technology needs to be integrated at the
At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to
promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as
its
purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to
the goals of WIPO.
Not surprising.
Saw this in an editorial: Sure, technically, it's stealing. But so is
dubbing a tape, which we all did back when cassette tapes were all the
rage.
http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20030911/localnews/239711.html
It is unfortunate that the RIAA's terrorism has caused people to forget
At 03:38 PM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
(And it's probably a bit too much cognitive dissidence for them
if you simultaneously want a parking pass for your car
and don't have your DL because you took the bus :-)
The DL stays in the car, the only place it is needed.
I've heard that during
At 10:41 AM 9/11/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
* depleted uranium (DU) is essentially pure U-238, with very low
specific activity (decay rate); removal of the 2-3% of the higher
specific activity U-235 lessens the overall decay rate of the original
metal substantially.
Commericial airliners often
At 05:44 PM 9/10/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
The problem with running Napster over Freedom was bandwidth costs.
Users may be more willing to pay today, given the clear risk of paying
$10,000 or more in fines. I'm sure that ZKS would be happy to sell
someone a commercial use license.
Depends
U.S. agents also sought, without warrant or subpoena, to obtain ABCNEWS
field tapes. Two agents showed up at night at the San Diego home of a
freelance cameraman, Jeff Freeman, who worked on the project.
They first identified themselves as FBI agents, which it turns out they
weren't, said
At 03:38 PM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
(And it's probably a bit too much cognitive dissidence for them
if you simultaneously want a parking pass for your car
and don't have your DL because you took the bus :-)
The DL stays in the car, the only place it is needed.
I've heard that during
Safe Haven works by transmitting a signal in a localised environment
such as a school, swimming pool, office facility or factory, which
disables the camera functionality of devices in the nearby
environment, the companies claim.
The snag is that Safe Haven technology needs to be integrated at the
At 10:41 AM 9/11/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
* depleted uranium (DU) is essentially pure U-238, with very low
specific activity (decay rate); removal of the 2-3% of the higher
specific activity U-235 lessens the overall decay rate of the original
metal substantially.
Commericial airliners often
Saw this in an editorial: Sure, technically, it's stealing. But so is
dubbing a tape, which we all did back when cassette tapes were all the
rage.
http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20030911/localnews/239711.html
It is unfortunate that the RIAA's terrorism has caused people to forget
At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to
promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as
its
purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to
the goals of WIPO.
Not surprising.
At 11:53 AM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
California's law against Driving While Speaking Spanish is only
about 10 years old, and was a Pete Wilson thing.
It happened about when I moved here - did other states start
doing similar things in the mean time?
The Feds started bullying states into
Licenses as IDs at airports questioned
WASHINGTON Federal officials and lawmakers raised serious concerns
Tuesday about the continued use of driver's licenses at airports and
U.S. borders in light of California's new law allowing illegal
immigrants to obtain the widely accepted means of
At 05:44 PM 9/10/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
The problem with running Napster over Freedom was bandwidth costs.
Users may be more willing to pay today, given the clear risk of paying
$10,000 or more in fines. I'm sure that ZKS would be happy to sell
someone a commercial use license.
Depends
At 11:53 AM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
California's law against Driving While Speaking Spanish is only
about 10 years old, and was a Pete Wilson thing.
It happened about when I moved here - did other states start
doing similar things in the mean time?
The Feds started bullying states into
At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat.
--David
Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
Cats always have an alpha cat. And they often have pissing contests
to
Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8
percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will
be coded yellow and will undergo additional screening at the
checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated
1 to 2 percent will be
The obvious example is Unix, in its variants
including Linux, despite the attempt by SCO to collect $1000 per CPU or
whatever silly number they have floated in their lawsuits.
Anyone discussing this particular bit of corporate hallucination is
encouraged
to put Frank Zappa's Penguin in Bondage
Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8
percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will
be coded yellow and will undergo additional screening at the
checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated
1 to 2 percent will be
At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat.
--David
Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
Cats always have an alpha cat. And they often have pissing contests
to
Enter george w bush and look at the categories to the right.
Enter george w bush and look at the categories to the right.
At 09:09 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
(it's one of
about 200 checks my program makes).
Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs?
If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples,
and using this to infer spamfiltering rules?
Good project for a
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html
On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer
technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and
intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport.
The men, described as being of
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html
On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer
technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and
intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport.
The men, described as being of
At 09:09 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
(it's one of
about 200 checks my program makes).
Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs?
If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples,
and using this to infer spamfiltering rules?
Good project for a
At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
He said: An ISP is free to say anyone requesting a tap is required to
pay a fee, just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle
installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee.
A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one requesting
At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote:
b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already
exists - it is called procmail(*).
Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small
amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise
for any type of systems
At 01:54 AM 9/1/03 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Here's a clue. If and when crypto anarchy ever becomes a reality,
Tim May is going to be one of the first ones killed. He's pissed off
too many people. Once they can get retribution anonymously, his days
are numbered.
What, exactly, has Tim done that
At 08:06 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
The Mob doesn't actually have to kill too many stoolies for it to be
widely known that ratting can be a very dangerous business.
Ask David Kelly. Or his associates. Reputation is a tool.
At 01:54 AM 9/1/03 -0400, An Metet wrote:
Here's a clue. If and when crypto anarchy ever becomes a reality,
Tim May is going to be one of the first ones killed. He's pissed off
too many people. Once they can get retribution anonymously, his days
are numbered.
What, exactly, has Tim done that
At 08:06 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
The Mob doesn't actually have to kill too many stoolies for it to be
widely known that ratting can be a very dangerous business.
Ask David Kelly. Or his associates. Reputation is a tool.
At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
He said: An ISP is free to say anyone requesting a tap is required to
pay a fee, just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle
installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee.
A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one requesting
At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote:
b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already
exists - it is called procmail(*).
Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small
amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise
for any type of systems
At 06:54 PM 8/29/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Steve Schear wrote:
All covered in my previous postings. This approach should be
particularly applicable to ISPs as they generally have billing
arrangement and can add this on as an extra service fee for each
At 06:11 PM 8/28/03 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
A 18-24 2.4Ghz grid dish (available for less than $70-90) with 18-21
dB gain
will associate at 11 Mb/s with consumer-grade APs with diversity
antennas at
2-3 miles.
Yes; for naif readers note that the grid means that you don't worry
about wind as
Ras says that once the privacy features are fully utilized by the
end-use then no one in the world can figure out who you are.
Right. And I bet you can get a good deal on a Hamas leader's used
cell-phone...
Despite what Ras might say about ES5, there is a large element in the
P2P community
At 08:14 PM 8/27/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
Using random throwaway WiFi neighborhood hotspots can blunt this type
of
attack. Even if they trace the link back to the consumer who lent his
bandwidth it may provide scant information.
Yes, but remember to wear a disguise/cloak and be careful how
At 01:11 PM 8/26/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
PS: Anyone else getting tired of the term terror? Back when we all
hated
You're out of the loop. Here's how you play the propoganda drinking
game:
You and a friend get a bottle of whatever and watch a Bush speech.
*You* drink whenever he says
At 02:44 PM 8/25/03 -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'm told by an organizer that
Bruce Schneier will be speaking at toorcon in San Diego this year.
See www.toorcon.org for info.
This is of interest why?
Because it was previously untrue, and now
As expected, animal and environmental activists are now being called
terrorists.
Foie Gras Flap Leads to Vandalism
Sonoma Police Chief John Gurney, who described the attacks as a
sophisticated campaign of domestic terrorism, said: They're trying to
impose their beliefs on others through the use
I'm told by an organizer that
Bruce Schneier will be speaking at toorcon in San Diego this year.
See www.toorcon.org for info.
At 11:40 AM 8/25/03 -0600, Patrick wrote:
But don't confuse activists with terrorists. Handing out
leaflets is activism. Planting firebombs in restaurants is terrorism.
Sabotage needn't induce terror, and leaflets can induce terror.
Hell, art projects can induce terror, and sabotage can be
This from cryptography mailing list
(URL corrected from orig):
Some people on this list may be interested in
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/d.f.j.wood/thesis_index.htm
(Note: I haven't read more than Chapter 1.)
At 07:33 AM 8/21/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:17:35AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's
declaration of a
national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain
that. I
mean, I realize the the
At 06:44 PM 8/21/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Popular Net anonymity service back-doored
Fed-up Feds get court order
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html
The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise one's comings
and
goings across the Internet, has been back-doored by
At 10:11 AM 8/17/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Many evolved diseases _DO_ kill their hosts. Look around.
It is true that there are tradeoffs in lethality, time to death, and
virulence, and that a disease which kills too quickly and too many
won't spread adequately, but quite clearly all of the
At 08:45 AM 8/19/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Only worry about the deep philosophical implications of randomness
after you have grasped, or grokked, the essence.
Then do this: get a block cipher or crypto-hash algorithm,
and pick a key. Now encrypt 0, then 1, then 2, etc. Examine the 17th
bit
of
At 01:50 PM 8/17/03 -0400, Sunder wrote:
Techie: It's outdated, it will collapse.
Sometimes its easier to ask forgiveness after than to ask for permission
before.
Sometimes you have to let the system crash so others see its weakness.
Ca often runs within a few percent of available juice during
At 04:26 PM 8/17/03 -0400, Tim Meehan wrote:
Faith-based drug wars
The new anti-drug project is built around three premises which are
spelled out
in a fact sheet titled Marijuana and Kids: Faith:
Hey, wait a minute, the government is not supposed to be supporting any
religion,
and promoting the
At 02:33 PM 8/17/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
won't let him out.
Did he reluctantly take the $$$ to be in the reserves, too?
my
enlistment contract
At 05:46 PM 8/15/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 01:19 PM 08/15/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Suppose malware appends a bogus entry to an infected machine's
/etc/hosts (or more likely, MSwindows' \windows\blahblah\hosts file).
(This constitutes a DNS attack on the appended domain name
At 10:13 AM 8/16/03 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Security, as Schneier says, is a process. It's also a mindset, and I
think
one either has the mindset or he doesn't. And for those that don't
have it,
it is *very* difficult to impart.
And you don't get any droid-demonstrable features for all
Suppose malware appends a bogus entry to an infected machine's
/etc/hosts (or more likely, MSwindows' \windows\blahblah\hosts file).
(This constitutes a DNS attack on the appended domain name, exploiting
the local hosts' name-resolution prioritization.)
If the appended IP address points to the
At 06:36 AM 8/11/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32265.html
Wolf also said that untrustworthy hardware poses a
similar threat. Most microelectronics fabrication in the USA is
rapidly moving offshore, said Wolf. NSA is working on a Trusted
Microelectronics
At 01:28 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Billy wrote:
At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?
You mean polynomials like O(n^10^10^10) ?
subset{P} != easy
There could still be some protection with some crypto schemes, in such
a world,
At 06:36 AM 8/11/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32265.html
Wolf also said that untrustworthy hardware poses a
similar threat. Most microelectronics fabrication in the USA is
rapidly moving offshore, said Wolf. NSA is working on a Trusted
Microelectronics
Film Wholesaler Charged With Obscenity
The U.S. Justice Department said that its 10-count indictment against
Extreme Associates and its owners
is part of a renewed enforcement of federal obscenity laws.
Federal prosecutors said today they have charged a North Hollywood
wholesaler
of adult films
At 07:42 PM 8/8/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
In response to a question about whether she would favor a
Constitutional
amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman,
Maybe they'll screw up the specs (by omitting quantity) and make
polyamory protected..
Watch for this President Arnold
Spooks Physical IDS:
If you are specifying a roll your own security system,
you probably want to make a distinction between
building an alarm company and a physical intrusion
detection and logging system. With the former you're
hoping to keep your items; with the latter you're
trying to keep
At 05:48 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
Huh? Voters don't control the security of the voting system any more
than we control the security of the credit rating/id theft system.
The only way to show vote fraud would be to get enough voters to
document
that the State lied. That would depend
At 12:56 PM 8/13/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf
Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved
to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM
networks are moving to 3DES.
And you can still use 2-key
At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to
locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the
adversary
to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be
quite
demoralizing.
Microwave ovens were used
At 01:18 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
An anonymous sender writes:
Rely on math, not humans.
What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?
RSA, Inc. stock would go down.
We would have to go back to paper and OTP, but we would also get to
enjoy the
excellent graphics,
At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to
locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the
adversary
to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be
quite
demoralizing.
Microwave ovens were used
Film Wholesaler Charged With Obscenity
The U.S. Justice Department said that its 10-count indictment against
Extreme Associates and its owners
is part of a renewed enforcement of federal obscenity laws.
Federal prosecutors said today they have charged a North Hollywood
wholesaler
of adult films
At 11:49 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Adam Back wrote:
Couldn't he just let people post in his absence? It kind of detracts
from a list if it disappears for weeks at a time on a regular basis.
He moderates it. His choice. Single point of
At 11:34 AM 7/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Some people expected a land rush when the main RSA patents expired
several years ago. Parties were even thrown. The land rush never
happened.
Wrong. RSA algorithm is used freely now in US designs, knowing it is no
longer
patented. I didn't go to any
At 10:56 PM 7/29/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Assuming it can be legally structured as a Futures Market,
rather than as Illegal Gambling, it could make money.
(There are obviously some bets it's unlikely to handle,
such as the bet that Idea Futures markets would be successfully
prosecuted
as
Re: Pentagon pulls their AP plans..
It was simply too obviously free feedback (marketing data) for their
domestic PSYOPs people. Now they'll have to go back to interpreting
CNN (etc) polls to find out which way the sheeple are stampeding.
At 06:00 PM 7/24/03 +0100, Dave Howe wrote:
the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of
the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be ok
provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes?
Dude, if Julius Caesar had magnetometers we might all be speaking
Italian now.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/afp/20030722/ts_afp/britain_air_strike_company_ba_030722122901
LONDON (AFP) - British Airways was battling to clear a backlog of
frustrated
passengers stranded at London's Heathrow Airport, some of whom had been
stuck there for four days after a
At 07:49 PM 7/21/03 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
a_b_sorbed. Absorb is a widely used word meaning 3to drink in, to soak
up,2
both literally and figuratively. Adsorb is a specialized technical
term,
meaning only 3to collect a condensed gas or liquid on a surface.2
Thank you. Have a hard time
At 09:16 AM 7/20/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
Guess he's never heard of US court's limitations against using 'free
speech' as a defense against the consequences of falsely yelling
'Fire'
in a crowded theater.
Except when there really is a fire, which is certainly the case here.
steve
:-)
It
I read somewhere that the Russkies lose about 8 invaders
a day in Chechnya. The Iraqis need to increase their
productivity. Maybe take over a theatre or something.
Have a nice day.
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