Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:50 AM 7/2/2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Call me cynical (no... go ahead), but if VOIP is found to have no 4th Amendment protection, Congress would first have to agree that this *is* a problem before thay could fix it. While Peter Swire is a much better judge of court behavior than I am

Re: more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:23:08PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Amongst the earliers RAMs were tubes of mercury with a pulse-generator at one end and a microphone at the other. The speed of sound provided the delay, the system required regeneration, like modern DRAMs. At GBit WAN stores

Re: more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-05 Thread Dave Emery
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 10:06:01PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:23:08PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Amongst the earliers RAMs were tubes of mercury with a pulse-generator at one end and a microphone at the other. The speed of sound provided the delay, the

911 == Viagra for FBI?

2004-07-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:57 PM 7/3/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: requires blackbagging - something that was a lot more limited prior to 9/11). Was the FBI/SS (ie, US internal security service) so impotent after the McVeigh Oklahoma ANFO feedback that they couldn't pull off a black bag job on organized militias,

Re: UBL is George Washington

2004-07-05 Thread Anonymous
Major Variola (ret) writes: The yanks did not wear regular uniforms and did not march in rows in open fields like Gentlemen. Asymmetric warfare means not playing by *their* rules. But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It's not being very successful. The only people who are siding

Re: GPS, phones, toothing

2004-07-05 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:28, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing unintended consequence. Not so unintended if you ask me. The chief drawback of semi-anon methods of

Re: UBL is George Washington

2004-07-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:00 AM 7/4/04 -0400, Howie Goodell wrote: For starters, I think the use of terrorism is a moral a distinction worth making. Murdering thousands of civilians is not the same thing as attacking enemy troops. (To be consistent, the plane that hit the Pentagon was not terrorism, but a military

Re: UBL is George Washington

2004-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:32:16PM +0200, Anonymous wrote: But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It's not being very successful. The only people who are siding with al-qaeda are those whose Au contraire. People in the US (stupid gits) are genuinely afraid. They're voting law and

Re: New Radar Sees Through Walls (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2004-07-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:42 AM 7/4/2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2 Jul 2004 19:26:10 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Radar Sees Through Walls User-Agent: SlashdotNewsScooper/0.0.3 Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/02/158257 Posted by: CowboyNeal, on 2004-07-02 16:46:00