OT, but fun: Re: Homing In on Laser Weapons (was Re: US developing untraceable weapons)

2002-11-01 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve Schear wrote: Information about the damage such lasers could inflict is classified. But in general, experts say, a 25-kilowatt laser could blind an enemy sensor several hundred miles away. It also could put a hole through a sheet of metal from a distance of several

Re: CDR: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

2002-11-01 Thread Jim Choate
Nin hao, On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, David E. Weekly wrote: Cypherpunks, I run a 501(c)(3) non-profit focuses on providing free, donation-based colocation to individuals and other non-profits (i.e., no companies are hosted. Additionally, we try to do things that are useful to the not-for-profit

Re: CDR: Re: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

2002-11-01 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Fri, 01 Nov 2002, Jim Choate wrote: Nei sche szche. The question is, how does one construct a censorship-free search engine. Plan 9 http://plan9.bell-labs.com An OS is not a search engine. Hangar 18 http://open-forge.org A service might be a search engine. Give plan9 a

Re: Katy, bar the door

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:32 PM 10/31/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 05:09 PM, Steve Schear wrote: Unfortunately, there are many gasses which kill or disable with only a small dosage (e.g., VX). Unless the cabins are equipped with toxic air sensors (possible in a few years with

RE: OT, but fun: Re: Homing In on Laser Weapons (was Re: US deve loping untraceable weapons)

2002-11-01 Thread Trei, Peter
Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve Schear wrote: Information about the damage such lasers could inflict is classified. But in general, experts say, a 25-kilowatt laser could blind an enemy sensor several hundred miles away. It also could put a hole

P2P ordered to monitor users, files

2002-11-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Can't wait until some lawyer in a black robe tries to understand Freenet... which works with Java 1.4.0 on Win95, BTW File-swapping 'Madster' must track songs Friday, November 1, 2002 Posted: 10:03 AM EST (1503 GMT) ALBANY, New York (AP) -- The

Re: CDR: Re: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

2002-11-01 Thread Jim Choate
Your ignornace of technology is showing. You should do more research into 9P. -- We don't see things as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we see them as we are.

Re: Flight security analysis (was Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video)

2002-11-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:35:06PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 02:45 PM 11/1/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 30K feet, you have about half a minute before you pass out Which isn't the problem it's the -40F that kills you. You freeze

LIDAR/Lasers

2002-11-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Some of these problems can be avoided by using very short pulses. Again you get into dwell, the short pulses -must- be made up for by increasing the PRR and this defeats the who purpose of the short pulses since you need more of them (we're talking an integration effect here so it doesn't take