At 10:04 PM 03/27/2003 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
Tim, you must be psyhic ...
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In 1977, Congress prohibited U.S. companies from cooperating with the Arab
boycott. When President Carter signed the law, he said the issue goes to
the very heart of free trade among nations and that it was designed to
end the divisive effects on American life of foreign boycotts aimed at
At 04:46 PM 03/27/2003 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
http://nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/europe/25LIEC.html?pagewanted=printposition=top
The New York Times
March 25, 2003
For Rent: One Principality. Prince Not Included.
By SARAH LYALL
VADUZ, Liechtenstein It seems patently absurd to Sigvard
Government already has too many watch lists, eh?
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0324/web-capps-03-25-03.asp
Business case has CAPPS at risk
BY Diane Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 25, 2003
Money is far from certain for the Transportation Security Administration's
proposed system to
At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank
I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym
and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-)
(Besides, I thought assassinations were usually an SAS
(Special Air Service,
At 11:59 AM 03/25/2003 -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
Apparently the CIA and MI6 have been faking WMD evidence for quite a while:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030331fa_fact1
That's why Friends of Bush like Richard Perle refer to Seymour Hersch, the
author, as
Hersch is the closest thing
At 12:34 PM 03/24/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 02:25 PM 3/24/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Pretty amusing. Beyond Doublethink, as not even the US government
claims this...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=127ncid=742e=7u=/ucru
/20030320/cm_ucru/the_moron_majority
Its
At 04:37 AM 03/25/2003 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far?
Because they've been able to achieve Shock and Awe without them
and keep most of the rabble in line by threatening to blow up
other nuclear-armed terrorists in mutually assured
At 07:36 PM 03/23/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
No one (except the US military which hopes to rule an intact Iraq)
least of all the protestors, care how many Iraqis get killed.
Who recollects how many Iraqis were killed the last time around?
James, I agree with you more often than I disagree
-- Forwarded Message
From: Lee Felsenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:39:36 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adam Osborne RIP
I have just been interviewed with a reporter from Reuters for an obituary
of Adam Osborne, who apparently died recently in southern India. Adam had
Not only does the LA Times web site want you to register,
it doesn't like something about my brower's support of cookies or scripts
or whatever
so I can't even register there :-)
Orange County Register (where Garden Grove is...) on the ruling
At 09:51 AM 03/22/2003 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Some clarification by Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] on why
cryptlib doesn't do timing attack resistance default:
Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
cryptlib was never intended to be a high-performance SSL server (the docs are
fairly clear on this),
At 02:34 AM 03/22/2003 -0800, A.Melon wrote:
I find it interesting that live transmission of Enemy Combatant Radio
at 93.7 FM lags about 2 minutes after mp3 broadcast at
http://radio.us2.indymedia.org:8000/playlist.pls?mount=/ecr
I cannot think of rational explanation why would the signal be
This sounds a lot like the Don't test for an error condition
that you can't handle appropriately principle in coding.
It's also part of the usual separation-of-school-and-state discussion :-)
At 10:04 AM 03/22/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
and cost structures.
If they start off knowing this, they can pick somewhat different failures
than the ones the US phone system has, but that's still one of those
Knowing Murphy's Law doesn't help either kinds of consolation. Doomed.
Bill Stewart
At 09:57 AM 03/20/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Good work, Shaddack. Gold star and smiley face.
My father has mentioned the Texas City incident a few times while growing
up (he grew up in Galveston). He remembers that it basically dissappeared
in a giant fireball, and there was never an
At 02:04 PM 03/20/2003 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
This seems reasonable. As a large structure topples,
the sheer stress across the long axis of the building
will inexorably increase as the upper floors retard
the downward progression of the lower floors (caused
of course by gravity). I suspect
At 01:50 PM 03/20/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The other one we hear is You should be ashamed which brings a chorus of
No, we're proud or Have you forgotten about Sept. 11th? We did have some
older fellow stopped at the redlight ranting about us needing to go back to
Russia, which was
At 04:00 PM 03/21/2003 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
Surely you don't think some press announcement by a governor is
sufficient to place millions of people under house arrest
without due process, indictment, arraignment, etc.
My memories of the 1968 riots are pretty fuzzy;
Wilmington
At 03:10 AM 03/21/2003 -0800, alan wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
Come on now! The Iraqis should have proven that they DON'T have any
nukular
weapons. They were unable to prove that they don't have any WMDs, so now
it's their fault they're getting invaded.
How do you prove
While I wish Mike were correct that the party would get some spine
just because we tell them to, I'm not holding my breath.
I was expecting better from Geoff.
The LP's traditional heritage was pretty radical about issues
like the draft (we opposed it) and drugs (got any good pot?)
and about free
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/19/bill.of.rights/
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5432311.htm
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5431087.htm
In 1789, after the Bill of Rights was ratified,
George Washington commissioned 13 handwritten parchment copies
to be
At 07:45 AM 03/20/2003 +, an anonymous write wrote to cypherpunks:
Has anyone noticed all the sites hosted at havenco (www.seagold.net, i
www.thegoldcasino.com, lists.havenco.com) seem to be down? Is this
suspiciously due to the war in iraq, or just routine outage?
www.seagold.net aka
At 07:36 PM 03/17/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
What the world needs now is not another mass killing of Iraqis by the
United States government. What the world really needs now is a fifty
dollar weapon that sinks aircraft carriers.
It's called a radio Needs some auxiliary equipment :-)
but
Bush said this was going to be the Moment of Truth.
Well, we haven't had a moment of truth from his administration yet,
so I guess that's a welcome change...
At 09:55 AM 03/18/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
A Stinger missile launched from a hotel room window overlooking an airport
(think of San Diego, for example, as the fllight path comes in over the
downtown skyscrapers) would halt air traffic--again. Especially if several
attacks happen at about the
At 06:17 PM 03/15/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
What happens when you fly a low-fuel high speed 727 into a biosafety
level 4 containment facility?
Probable answer: not in the threat model considered during design, so it
can't happen.
I thought Air Force 1 was a 747 these days?
At 11:22 AM 03/13/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
This is nothing new. Radio and TV stations and other unauthorized
sources of information are always first on the target list whenever the US
starts a war.
At the beginning of Part I of this war they showed the smart bomb or cruise
missile
or
At 08:03 PM 03/14/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
They could be round, for easy handling. And milled for evidence of having
been shaved. They could even be made of precious metals for high-value
coins, and of base and inexpensive metals for low-value coins.
This would solve the telephone privacy
At 09:44 AM 03/14/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Marx was primarily an economist, and a lot of what he had to say bore
listening to.
I had to read that twice, because my reaction to reading Das Kapital
was that it was not only spectacularly boring, but spectacularly clueless
as well.
The Labor
At 01:43 AM 03/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh forward to his Politech list:
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:28:57 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Buy a contract on Saddam's life
At TradeSports you can buy futures contracts for all sorts of sports, plus
Breaking news - The three airports in Delta's pilot project include San Jose.
---
Last week Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] announced the
BoycottDelta.org protest against Delta's collaboration with the CAPPS II
pass-law pilot project. Among other publicity activities,
BoycottDelta.org had
At 09:41 AM 03/09/2003 -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Doing the technical part of detecting alcohol vapor is cool,
[...]
Actually, that's not even really a solved problem yet, but
that's not well-known outside of people who litigate
drunk
At 08:52 AM 03/10/2003 -0500, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:16, you [whoever that was?] wrote:
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote:
Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any
other individual to subsidize your welfare.
This device,
At 09:52 AM 03/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Just wondering...
Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would
be un-shutdownable?
If you wanted to do all the work of printing and mailing t-shirts yourself,
and had a blacknet that was sufficiently strong for this kind
At 12:56 PM 03/06/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Are you sure there weren't TIFs involved in building the mall? The
mall here
in Oshkosh (now defunct, turned into offices) was build with city money, the
newest upscale condo being built downtown is mostly TIF money, likewise the
newest big
At 09:28 AM 03/07/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 12:52 AM 3/7/03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver
and calls the police has been developed by a team of engineers
Would you buy one if you're drunk? Would you put one in
At 05:43 PM 03/04/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote:
Yeah, I agree. It's time I retired that .sig. PLONK.
Move .sig. For great justice.
It's a Slashdot .signature line parody of a line from ZeroWing, aka
At 03:24 PM 03/04/2003 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote:
For those doing the classifying, i.e., those inside government, since
when did they start charging each other real folding money for
attending meetings?
Capitalism maybe ? :-)
You mean selling the capitalists
At 1:08 PM -0800 3/4/03, Tim May quoted:
If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third
hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're
around. --attribution uncertain, possibly Gunner, on Usenet
But WAIT! *Which* gun should I hold on to? The Glock
At 08:49 PM 03/03/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Just some out of the box thinking here about Delta...
I wonder. Is there some form of petty vandalism that can be performed by a
Delta passenger that would make his flight MUCH less than profitable for
Delta? (I mean, one that probably won't get
At 08:38 PM 03/03/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
But basically I was thinking about Packet-over-SONET (POS), which is PPP
encapsulated HDLC framed IP. So after the POS link was terminated, I
imagined that this little device would basically now look at the raw IP
and do some pre-processing
That's outrageous - if the explanation is correct,
then either the judge didn't have a clue about modern communication technology,
or the judge did have a clue and was deciding that it's ok for the Feds to
wiretap all IP traffic, including email and Voice Over IP,
all compressed voice, including
At 11:21 AM 03/02/2003 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Dave Howe wrote:
you find the author of one of those 10,000 verified email addresses! cds
you blow up his car, burn down his house, paint little targets on his kids,
and cut his telephone connection.
Given that a hit job by
One of the recent reactions to the air traveller privacy invasions
by various Federal agencies is a boycott of airlines that collaborate
with trial projects. Delta Airlines are the test player for CAPPS II,
so the Boycott Delta project has launched an informational web site.
Here's the press
No, that's not exactly what they said, but you should never miss an
opportunity to bash them when they're being stupid anyway :-)
The obvious question, besides how long before it's off the website, is
So can *you* find the secret steganographic message in the logo?...
-Original Message-
At 11:23 AM 03/03/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Maybe they actually plan on making their money from selling those SDKs!
(Perhaps they hope for some trickle down from the all the $ startups get
for making Powerpoint slides.)
And I see they don't really have an architecture suitable for
At 07:41 PM 03/01/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
MSNBC just fired Phil Donahue after a marketing report
outlined a nightmare scenario in which MSNBC was perceived
as giving a forum to anti-war sentiment while all other
networks were engaged in patriotic flag-waving.
You are making all this
At 09:15 PM 03/01/2003 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
The congressional elections of 1994 flushed Republicans out into the open.
Once the elections were over, the fatal flaw the life of the lie was
exposed for all to see. Not only was nothing of substance abolished or
dismantled,
there was not even
At 04:40 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Putting up fake newsrooms is quite another matter, though. I don't recall
seeing this static shot of the New York Times-Washington Bureau
newsroom. It seems like a silly thing to do, to have a photo of a newsroom
with nobody in it.
On the backdrops
At 05:41 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Seriously, this flap is old news. I remember about a dozen years ago
when some feminista professor was teaching female-oriented physics.
Actually, she was _advocating_ the teaching of female-oriented physics.
Was she an actual physics professor, talking
Back when the term hackers started to be misused by the press,
as in scary teenage vandals breaking into computers,
my usual comment was that teenage computer hackers were really
no different from the teenage car hackers of our parents' generations.
They did a lot of tinkering with machinery and
At 09:48 PM 02/18/2003 -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
MEChA is mostly about keeping college admission
standards lower for South American-derived wannabe students[1]. [...]
[1] Not hispanics; they don't care about Iberians
A number of years ago, a friend of my boss had been passed over
for
At 08:39 PM 02/17/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Thought Tim and others here might like this:
http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-32/k-street-building-destroyed.html
Took it today after the snowstorm...
One of many things I don't
At 03:24 PM 02/18/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
But I think I have a history of making good predictions, for
example I predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, so I will
foolishly stick my neck out and make some predictions:
Making predictions is difficult, especially about the future.
At 07:55 AM 02/14/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
As one approaches the plank length,
I'm getting kind of board with this.
(Alternatively, Bob Hettinga can make some kind of pirate comment here...)
TD Hell, Witten himself said something like The development of General
TD Relativity probably
such as SSNs attached.)
Bill Stewart
By PAUL KRUGMAN
George W. Bush's admirers often describe his stand against Saddam Hussein
as Churchillian.
Short, rude, drunk? As far as that goes, sure, he's Churchillian.
But he's not even up to the standards of meet the new Bush,
same as the old Bush, fool me...ummm...can't get fooled again;
At 02:13 PM 02/09/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Greg Newby wrote:
Under the new law, running shoes will be classified
as burgler's tools if their use is not authorized or
exceeds reasonable levels for leisure activity.
I always thought that
An interesting story on future citizen-units being brainscrubbed in the
lovely state of Pennsylvania.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/5124933.htm
...
But recite they must. Under a state law that takes effect today, almost
every student in Pennsylvania - from preschool through high
At 03:33 PM 02/06/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Holy sh*t is this guy stupid. Racist too.
I guess anyone who doesn't look/sound/think like this MF is they.
Better round up those blacks while we're at it.
-TD
Yahoo seems to have good resources liked to their political articles.
Here's Coble's
At 09:34 AM 02/06/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
I've got a question...
If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level
magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives,
you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions.
OK...so I don't know a LOT about how
If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level
magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives,
you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions.
There are occasional articles that pop up on the net talking
about somebody's improved capability for data recovery.
At 01:41 PM 02/03/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:23:58AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Do you mean that Steve's posts always do this to you?
I've only seen one like that, and I assumed that Steve had simply
Bcc:d the Cypherpunks list and some other lists
Smell that, son? Nothing else in the world smells like that
I love the smell of hydrazine in the morning It smells like
It's MMH that cooks your goose. Regular hydrazine (smells like fish)
ain't that hypergolic with N2O5.
incompetence.
The press was reporting that some dozens of
At 10:19 AM 02/02/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Journalists may as well be saying the above, saying that shuttle debris
has evil spirits which can come out if the debris is touched.
They're also saying that Feds will come and arrest you if you touch them.
You'll have to draw your own conclusions
At 10:19 AM 02/03/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Looking at this more, I think it's two separate problems. I don't get the
recipient list suppressed or whatever it is from Declan's posts, it just
appears that something is wrong with the header, and it's probably something
minder.net is doing
At 12:16 PM 01/30/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:05:46AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
That's a pretty easy decision to make, eh? Ethanol is renewable,
oil isn't.
Ethanol doesn't pollute, oil does. Ethanol doesn't require troops in
the Middle
East, wars, and
At 02:21 PM 01/31/2003 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
I don't know how it works in the US, but railroads are both comfortable
and pretty reliable in Europe.
A bit too expensive, especially in Germany. I also like being able to work
on the train -- given
At 06:14 PM 02/01/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331
http://www.deltrontech.com/Enclosure/E3S/E3S.htm
Interesting, but I'm confused about the
Real-time 64-bit/ 40-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard)
Encryption/ Decryption with
At 07:52 PM 01/29/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:53:21PM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
One of the problems I think is rampant with, for instance, getting
alternate fuel sources off the ground is that
When Bush is talking about a hydrogen economy,
remember that he's really referring to Orion-engine cars...
At 06:38 PM 01/29/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
It's why I'll be safer when I run into Harmon on the freeways.
His heirs will appreciate his savings in gasoline for the time he owned
his
At 11:30 AM 01/30/2003 -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
I lived in San Francisco for 10 years. One job I had required me to have
a car so I could get to a data center in San Jose in cases of
emergency (never happened), so I bought a cheap beater. Spent $1000 on
the car, $400 a year on insurance, and
Washington: In a daring attempt to avoid identification by the
Ministry of Total Information Awareness, the Senate resorted to a
voice vote when blocking TIA's funding, hoping that without
a written record, individual Senators might not be caught.
TIA cameras ###.###. and ###.###.
At 05:39 PM 01/27/2003 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
That's because non-US licenses constitute automatic permission for minor
traffic law violations. The scenario is something like the following:
[Driver gets pulled over].
Driver: Gidday mate, hows it going?
[Cop asks for license, looks at it]
At 09:12 AM 01/26/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
There's a report on indymedia that the lastes worm is part of an anti-war
tactic which will escalate if Iraq is attacked.
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=231141group=webcast
Yup. It's either wanabees talking big about what
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:23:15AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this feature:
a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of
While it's nice to have it built into the phone's user interface,
you can always
At 07:56 AM 01/24/2003 -0500, Bob Hettinga wrote:
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/01-2/grijpink.html
There's some interesting discussion about the ability of the
Dutch legal culture to provide useful tools for regulating transactions
in anonymous or semi-anonymous environments - if you can't find
At 12:45 AM 12/18/2002 +, Adam Back wrote:
If I recall some time ago (years ago) there was some discussion on
list of using non-US drivers licenses or out-of-state drivers licenses
I think to get around this problem. I thought it was Duncan Frissell
or Black Unicorn who offered some opinions
At 10:45 PM 01/22/2003 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
W H Robinson wrote:
[...]
with greater clarity
[...]
disseminate truthful, accurate, and effective messages about the
American people and their government.
[...]
convey a few simple but powerful messages.
Shouldn't Saatchi Saatchi
At 11:40 AM 01/24/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Peter Trei wrote...
What's you're threat model? If it's your wife or kid sister, this
might work. If it's a major corporation or a government, forget
it - they'll bitcopy the whole flash rom, and look at it with ease.
Agreed. Furthermore, the
At 03:36 PM 01/21/2003 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
But after making this dead actor sing a different song,
it would a new work, and the copyright clock would be reset.
Now if someone wants to do the work on an open-source-like basis...
It's obviously a job for an Alan Smithee film...
you can
At 12:11 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Jay h wrote:
The obsession with Starbucks really puzzles me. Starbucks is one of
the few mass retailers that actually offers medical coverage to even
part timers, it allows people to move from
At 09:54 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is increasing
averages more than 1 year/year. Quite a number of works which had
been in the public domain fell out of it when the 20 year extension went
into effect.
The public domain
[Stanford's ee380 class often has interesting talks.
This one sounds like it's by the Bad Guys :-)
There's a parking building nearby where the public can park after 4:00,
but construction has eaten most of the other parking lots.]
Subject: [CSL Colloq] Solving High Technology Crime * 4:15PM,
Wed
At 10:44 AM 1/13/03 -0800, [Bill Stewart] wrote:
If you've got your brother counting the votes,
and you can prevent anybody else from counting them,
then you don't need to cancel elections.
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote:
Personally, I was shocked, *shocked
At 12:31 PM 01/14/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
I saw mention on the Yahoo news site that some health clubs and
gyms are already taking steps to limit the types of cellphones
allowed in the changing areas (and maybe elsewhere).
Hey, some people get their privacy by going to places that
have Rules
At 11:39 PM 01/13/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Hardly Brinworld. And T-Mobile has had it for awhile.
Why is warmed-over technology news given headlines?
Because all of us phone company stockholders hope maybe
warmed-over headlines will get them to buy the stuff this time?
Less cynically,
At 04:25 PM 01/14/2003 +, Ken Brown wrote:
All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are
the same age.
This statement is so silly it leaves me speechless... []
Nonsense. Icelandic is little changed from the Old Norse of 1000 A.D.
Icelanders can easily read the
At 09:40 PM 01/09/2003 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
If Bush can decide alone whether or not we are at war, and if
Bush can decide alone with whom we are at war, and if Bush can
decide alone what the boundaries of the war zone are, and if
Bush can decide alone what behavior makes one an
An interesting article, with some information on the people
who'll probably be appointed to run the Department of Homelands Security's
division of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.
But somebody has to make the bad pun, because otherwise it's just sitting
there -
we fought
At 09:33 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of
crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the
case, then I want to know. Figured I'd ask for clarification on this
issue. (And from some of May's
At 04:23 PM 01/11/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
- A distributed computing like this needs several parts:
- A problem to solve - they seem to keep waffling on this;
their FAQ really needs to be upfront
At 12:14 PM 01/10/2003 +0100, Bo Elkjaer wrote:
This is worth a laugh. I have never before heard of or seen a hacker as
bad as this one. Oh my.
http://www.andrews.af.mil/89cg/89cs/scbsi/images/poster8.jpg
Obviously the artist had been playing Quake or Ultima Online or whatever
and just gotten
At 03:14 PM 01/08/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 11:34 PM 1/8/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
I don't know the weaknesses of gait-observing systems, so I can't
suggest
anything.
Kilts for men (over the knee, please, and not for aesthetics).
Hoop-skirts for women. A heavy backpack
At 05:10 PM 01/08/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Tim May wrote...
Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings
And for that matter, what about cypherpunks of non-aryan descent?
We've had some Branch Dravidian folks around as well
I've usually been the one wearing
At 10:11 AM 01/09/2003 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
It's a good thing he was captured by the Feds instead of a militia or a
Private Defense Force of some sort. Note that such forces are not
required to accept surrenders and can simply kill enemy forces (and
vice-versa of course). Private
The most likely explanation is that some subscriber to
one of the cypherpunks lists is using an account on
some machine at USPTO.GOV (which is the Patent and Trademark Office,
not the Post Office), and their mail server not only has an
antivirus filter but also a bad language filter.
While I don't
At 01:14 PM 01/07/2003 -0600, Some troublemaker Anonymously wrote:
So if someone generated a nice-looking fake log this
would be legally binding in court?
Please don't. John has to put up with enough hassles
as a result of running a valuable and controversial web site.
He doesn't need your,
At 12:42 AM 01/07/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 05:14 PM 1/6/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote:
BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog
just leaves.
It was in print, it must be true.
Perhaps it is. But if you put a TV in the pot with the frog, he gets
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