Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- For these reasons it seems to us that military planners and decision makers should be interested in considering new approaches toward aiding failing and faltering states. 4 [...]The cure they propose is conservatorship, under which the United Nations would directly supervise or

Re: Feral Cities

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss people off. They need a government that is strong enough to intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them. Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people

RE: [IP] No expectation of privacy in public? In a pig's eye! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2005-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:07 AM 1/14/05 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: It would take some chutzpa, but tacking onto a cops car would send a message Too easy. 5 points for adding to cop's personal car 10 points for adding to cop's spouse's personal car 20 points for adding to cop's mistress' personal car Not sure

Re: Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun

2005-01-16 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-15T09:38:23+, Justin wrote: On 2005-01-14T15:42:18-0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Seems like scare-mongering to me, not a practical concern. Of course it's not a practical concern. Criminals already have access to handguns that will defeat common soft body armor. This media

Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-16 Thread Pete Capelli
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:31:05 -0600 (CST), J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Mein Fuhrer Bush is preparing to escalate to Iran in a few months, you'd better get used to it. It's interesting you called him that, given your next statement. No. The problem is states like the US who

Re: US slaps on the wardriver-busting paint

2005-01-16 Thread John Young
The paint sounds like yet another sting operation to catch the goofuses who think they can hide RF on the cheap. The folks on the TSCM-L list think the paint is pure snake oil, that the electrophysics of it are crap. Still, phony Tempest protection is a pretty good business, no doubt promoted by

Re: Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun

2005-01-16 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-14T16:54:32-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.wnbc.com/print/4075959/detail.html Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun I care? Well, perhaps I do... I should go pick one up before they're banned. The most shocking fact may be that the gun -- known as the five-seven

Re: Feral Cities

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- Feral cities would exert an almost magnetic influence on terrorist organizations. Such megalopolises will provide exceptionally safe havens for armed resistance groups, especially those having cultural affinity with at least one sizable segment of the city's population. Yet

Re: US slaps on the wardriver-busting paint

2005-01-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:35 AM 1/14/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: It only remains for us to say that DefendAir costs a cool $69 per gallon (US gallon, presumably). How much is the TV tax in the UK? How long to pay off the costs of paint to hide one's IF oscillator from the White Vans? Surprising that the

Re: US slaps on the wardriver-busting paint

2005-01-16 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:00 AM 1/16/2005, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 09:35 AM 1/14/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: It only remains for us to say that DefendAir costs a cool $69 per gallon (US gallon, presumably). How much is the TV tax in the UK? How long to pay off the costs of paint to hide one's IF oscillator

Re: Searching with Images instead of Words

2005-01-16 Thread Bill Stewart
Expecting a front view of an image to match with a side view of the same image is impossible. They are both disjoint sets of information. If all the images are frontal images, we can match them with a hight probability, otherwise I doubt this technology has a future. I think it definitely has a

Re: Carnivore No More

2005-01-16 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 12:31 AM +0100 1/16/05, Eugen Leitl wrote: it is believed that unspecified commercial surveillance tools are employed now. It was always AGGroup's Skyline package to begin with. The FBI is like NASA. They never build anything, and take all the credit. Cheers, RAH -- --

Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-16 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, James A. Donald wrote: Oh wow, let us expand our current highly popular and successful Iraqi operation to embrace a quarter of the world. Wouldn't it be nice? No, come to think of it, it would not be nice. Since Mein Fuhrer Bush is preparing to escalate to Iran in a

Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-16 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:08:24 + (GMT) From: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: panix.com hijacked To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Henry Yen [EMAIL

Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-16 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:32:46 -0500 From: Henry Yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Jeftovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: panix.com hijacked

Re: [Antisocial] Remember These?? (fwd)

2005-01-16 Thread Pete Capelli
You forgot a few (found from a quick google search) ... although, naturally the media crawled all over the left for supporting the claims of weapons of mass destruction, while letting Bush off the hook. - There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has invigorated his weapons programs. Reports

Carnivore No More

2005-01-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/15/1424207 Posted by: CowboyNeal, on 2005-01-15 15:03:00 from the calling-it-quits dept. [1]wikinerd writes FBI has [2]retired the controversial Carnivore software, strongly criticized by privacy advocates for its email capturing

[Antisocial] Remember These?? (fwd)

2005-01-16 Thread J.A. Terranson
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:03:24 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Antisocial [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Antisocial] Remember These?? So now that the hunt is officially off. It truly is a shame that the media is not all

Re: Police Worried About New Vest-Penetrating Gun

2005-01-16 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-14T15:42:18-0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:54 PM 1/14/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.wnbc.com/print/4075959/detail.html NEW YORK -- There is a nationwide alert to members of law enforcement regarding a new kind of handgun which can render a bulletproof vest useless, as