Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required. There

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Chuck Wolber wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: I also tried to get my wife to agree to a heroic name for our son. In the tradition of Pericles and Sophocles, I present ... Testicles. Similarly I preferred Falopia, and alas my wife was equally reticent.

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...RAHWEH

2004-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Random racist ranting is also required. There are some racist assholes currently posting on cpunks, but none have quite the May flavor. Yes, in comparison with May they are basically poseurs. Oh, and in light of the Bob conversation, shouldn't we be describing 'RAH' (a Bob) as 'RAHWEH'? -TD

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 5:07 PM -0500 12/4/04, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Be kind to yourself, but never forget you're kind You're a fluke of the universe, and while your standing there looking stupid, the universe is laughing behind your back... Or something. Cheers, R.A. (Bob) Hettinga Slack --

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Cheers, RAH John would warn you about the organ cuts Tim would rave

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-) I tried, years before _UC_

RE: Liquidnet: Anonymous institutional transactions

2004-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Shit! I point I made back in the May days was that a Blacknet able to accept anonymous trades would really have a major impact on the business world. Imagine getting early wind of some acquisition and then you could start trading on that? That would eliminate a lot of the bullshit

RE: Tenet calls for Internet security

2004-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said. I guess that summarizes his 'vision' better than anything he actually said. -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Neil Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: To be bobbed is never the goal, but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob along conventional paths, to the abattoir Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-)

Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-)

O'Reilly is a terrorist

2004-12-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:17 AM 12/1/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: Appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor Monday night My favorite irony-pegging experience of the week was Bill O accusing an Al-Jazeera spokesman of not being fair and balanced. Lets bomb those mofos and blame it on an out-of-date Yugo map.

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 5:07 PM -0500 12/4/04, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Be kind to yourself, but never forget you're kind You're a fluke of the universe, and while your standing there looking stupid, the universe is laughing behind your back... Or something. Cheers, R.A. (Bob) Hettinga

Got Chips?

2004-12-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:59 AM 12/1/04 -0800, John Young wrote: Lying about having an implant is kidnapping and mutilation protection. If they even think you have a tracking chip, you'll be boxed up in a Faraday cage faster than you can say Jimmy Walker-Lindh. Clothing optional, baby. Got 121.5 Mhz?

Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

2004-12-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
I read a few old email messages I had and stumbled over some interesting material relating to NSA, CIA and one Michael Riconosciuto among other things. I followed up on the info and did some surfing on the subject and got quite interested. I also did some searches in my cypherpunk mail folder and

Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded: Promoting implanted RFID devices as a security measure is downright 'loco,' says Katherine Albrecht. Advertising you've got a chip in your arm that opens important doors is an invitation to kidnapping and mutilation. Since kidnapping is sort of an

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried, years before _UC_ came out, to get some friends to name their daughter Chlamydia. They didn't know what the word meant, but for some reason didn't trust my advice. Nor did they like Pudenda. One of the characters in Hercules Returns is called

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest --bob Tyler Durden wrote: I thought JR Bob Dobbs got beamed up to that comet with those LA Koolaid kooks... -TD From: R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Word Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:42:01 -0500 word

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Neil Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: To be bobbed is never the goal, but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob along conventional paths, to the abattoir Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Probably busy in his hilltop bunker

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

RE: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-05 Thread Sunder
IMHO, if you light up two or more other identical CRT's and have them display random junk it should throw enough noise to make it worthless - (and would put out enough similar RF to mess with RF tempest) there might be ways to filter the photons from the other monitors out, but, it would be

RE: Jewish wholy words..

2004-12-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Just remember this [C]Hanu[k]ka[h] that the Macabbees were terrorists from the POV of the dominant hegemony... Oh, but the [solstice-coopted 'holiday'] is about someone topping off oil, not about rebellion against domination. Ooops. Nope, no parallels here.

Re: Tenet calls for Internet security

2004-12-05 Thread Neil Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 20:57 -0500, R.A. Hettinga quoted: The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said. Yessiree, he sure knows how he wants it done, too!

Tenet calls for Internet security

2004-12-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Now... Try not to laugh, here... MMMGGGPPPFBWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Heh... Yes, well... Sorry about that. Carry on. Cheers, RAH --- http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20041201-114750-6381r The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Tenet calls for Internet

[Interest] FWD: The last crusade of the Templars

2004-12-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
I've liked to joke that, because of their encrypted passbook accounting and payment system, a way for holy-land pilgrims to deposit money in Europe, deduct amounts from an encrypted document for Templar-sponsored passage, hostelry, etc., en route, and collect the remainder on arrival in Jerusalem,

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Furlong wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter. To be bobbed is never the goal, but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob along conventional

Re: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, the first one's a little Hey this is scary give us some grant money-ish. This has zero impact on real-world telecom systems in terms of detecting actual payloads BUT detecting some of the management channel info (via the external DS1 management channel) could actually matter in some

Re: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-05 Thread Dave Emery
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:32:09PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: However, his discussion would indicate that the various practical concerns and limitations probably limit this to very niche-type applications...I'd bet that it's very rare when such a trechnique is both needed as well as useful,

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer

Hawala != Halal

2004-12-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:07 AM 12/1/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over. Hawala Yep, sorry, I've got templegrandin.com on the brain. Only PETA thinks Halal is a terrorist,