Uh...lemmee guess...Force monopolies? No wait, I think the word micro
occurs on line 36 and then the word payment appears on line 78...
-TD
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: osint@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: George Will: Taking the streets back
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005
Good presentation. I liked the boot diagrams quite a bit.
Prediction (and remember you heard it here first): TCPA will fail. Oh it'll
see some spot uses, don't get me wrong. These spot uses might even remain
for a while. But the good thing is that Microsoft is probably going to have
to carry
No! Undersea?
Do you take a copy of EVERYTHING and send it back? That might have been more
feasible in the old days, but when a single fiber can run 64 wavelength
optically amplified 10 Gig traffic, I really really doubt it. Or at least,
this would require an undertaking large enough that I
DWDM certainly makes it more complicated. Of course, that same
technology allows them to send much more back. (Regarding the single
OC-3 mentioned previously.)
Well, DISTANCE makes it more complicated first of all. You need undersea
repeaters and/or OFAs in order to get traffic from most parts
When I was in Telecom we audited pieces of an undersea NSA network that was
based on OC-3 ATM. It had some odd components, however, including
reflective-mode LiNBO3 modulators and even acousto-optic modulators.
(Actually, one of the components started dying which put them into a
Sheeit...I'm starting to think May was no longer all that interested in the
Crypto stuff...seems he really just wanted to rant and terrify the
clueless...
-TD
From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: palm beach HIV
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:53:29 +0100
On Mon, Feb
. In exchange for your services I am
prepared to pay you 2.5% of the amount reclaimed.
Please contact me at your soonest convenience. I am sure we can make an
equitable arrangement that will benefit us both.
God Bless you and your family.
(forwarded by Tyler Durden)
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED
Wrong. We already solved this problem on Cypherpunks a while back.
A spammer will have to pay to send you spam, trusted emails do not. You'll
have a settable Spam-barrier which determines how much a spammer has to pay
in order to lob spam over your barrier (you can set it to 'infinite' of
, we have a postal system which manages
postage, rather than some scheme whereby every paper mail recipient
charges every paper mail sender etc etc etc.
On February 16, 2005 at 12:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tyler Durden)
wrote:
Wrong. We already solved this problem on Cypherpunks a while back
But I think you'd still need a securely pseudonymous
throwaway email address to set up the gmail account. And the lack of
searches on that cookie would let them know, at least, that they're
dealing with a privacy freak.
Hum...I've been thinking about that...seems to me one could set up anonymity
How 'bout laying siege to May's compound as a Cypherpunk 'team-building'
excersize?
-TD
From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cryptography@metzdowd.com
Subject: Re: RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:19:30 -0600
Well, I agree with the general gist of this post though not it's specific
application.
OK...a Cypherpunk ultimately believes that technology and, in particular,
crypto give us the defacto (though, as you point out, not dejure) right to
certain levels of self-determination and that this 'right'
Some of that is actually pretty funny, like Mixed in with food served to
ex-girlfriend.
It really boils down to drumming up a stable gig for yourself.
-TD
From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Jim Bell WMD Threat
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:43:52 -0800
The FBI continues
2005 01:11:38 +
Tyler Durden wrote:
Huh? There are IBM laptops with dedicated crypto chips? Although I don't
claim to be any kind of an expert, I think this has to be wrong. Anyone
know any different?
well, certainly some thinkpads have encryption of the hard drive; if you
take the hard
ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to answer this
question:
That chip...is it likely to be an ASIC or is there already such a thing as
a security network processor? (ie, a cheaper network processor that only
handles security apps, etc...)
Or could it be an FPGA?
-TD
That's an interesting point. They seem to be attacking at precisely the
correct rate to forcibly evolve P2P systems to be completely invulnerable to
such efforts.
Hum. Perhaps Tim May works for MPAA? Nah... he wasn't THAT bright, was he?
-TD
From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I think Skype is also truly Peer to Peer, no? It doesn't go through
some centralized switch or server. That means it can only be monitored at
the endpoints, even when it's unencrypted.
-Emory
From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Terrorists don't let
Were you pissed when you found out?
-TD
From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Ronald McDonald's SS
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:51:07 -0800
--
On 24 Jan 2005 at 10:34, Tyler Durden wrote:
Military and civilian participants said
: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:01:26 -0500
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED
More indications of an emerging 'Brazil' scenario, as opposed to a
hyper-intelligent super-fascist state.
-TD
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
osint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005
Military and civilian participants said in interviews that the new unit has
been operating in secret for two years -- in Iraq (news - web sites),
Well hell, it's doing such a good job already it should definitely be
expanded!
-TD
From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Should be of interest to someone on this list.
-TD
Dear Colleague,
As an industry professional, you may be interested to know about an
upcoming online event being presented by Unstrung (www.unstrung.com), the
worldwide source for analysis of the wireless economy. This free Web
seminar -
Well, I think you've been a little too harsh on Scientific American. In the
past a lot of the best articles were written by the pioneers in their
fields. In fact, it's where I believe Wittfield and Diffie wrote a great
piece on their work.
And don't expect anyone (not even a math major) to go
What do you mean? By a physical fiber switch? That's certainly possible,
though you'd need a very good condition switch to be able to do it. I'd bet
if that switch switched a lot, the QCrypto channel would eventually be
unusable.
If you're talking about a WDM element or passive splitter or
Sometimes these webinars can be informative, sometimes they're thinly
disguised marketing efforts (that can still have some small value, though).
Dear Colleague,
As an industry professional, you may be interested to know about an
upcoming online event being presented by Unstrung
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.
You are applying pure logic to
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! THIS IS MY REAL NAME GODDAMMIT!!!
Wait, I'm getting sleepy...gotta take a nap...
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: To Tyler Durden
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:02:14 -0800
TD,
I just watched _Fight
And we'll probably have many years of non-Smart-Gun type accidents...eg,
Drunk guy at party put gun to his head and blew his own brains out, assuming
it was a smart gun, or, trailer park momma gives gun to toddler assuming its
a safe smart gun.
-TD
From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: John
OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from
RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia?
-TD
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Police seek missing trucker, nickels
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:44:25 -0500
Well, I used to be pro gun-control prior to the Patriot Act. Guess the
Patriot Act made me something of a Patriot.
And come to think of it, Bowling for Columbine has the accidental affect
of making it clear that Guns themselves are not the problem in the US.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret)
I see RAHWEH is back from visiting the relatives...
-TD
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2004: The Year That Promised Email Authentication
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:49:01 -0500
http://www.circleid.com/print/855_0_1_0/
CircleID
2004:
PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:36:36 -0800
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:48:01PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Oh no, it gets really interesting. He claims to be an ex-German TLA-type
(how many Ls do German TLAs normally have?), and had
...Hacking Bluetooth
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:36:58 +0100
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:13:52PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Here4s another myth: you cannot hack bluetooth from a distance of more
than 40 metres. Not true. My technical partner Felix can crack it at
over
half a kilometre. Which is why
There's some guy (German Guy) spouting some coherent-sounding conspiracy
theories over here:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?page=23topic=10message=54181mpage=1showdate=12/18/04
I wouldn't normally post something like this, but the guy's done a little
bit of homework on a huge
JAT wrote...
You keep asserting this, but at the same time fail to provide an example.
Please show how flying can easily be a requirement, not an option. One
legitimate example will suffice.
Later. (Actually, I didn't 'keep asserting this', but that's a separate
matter)
So, your position is
Well, there's a TINY little hole in your logic here...
Scale of distance is the only difference. Either you support the system
or you don't. I don't: I either drive to jobs (charging for mileage) or I
pass on them, rather than take part in the police state that is todays air
system. You have
I actually found the mechanics' article quite interesting. I think it's what
anarchy starts to look like in the real world...ie, there are still laws
'somewhere', but they end up functioning like a 'value add' or quality
control. I've argued on numerous occasions that NYC already has some very
(4) Lastly, as to your cesarian, fuck you and your wife, and her
cesearean. We don't give a shit about your personal problems, just like
you don't care about ours. Sure, it makes for a pulpy little story, but
when you get right down to it, do we really care? No. Because, again,
you helped to
..They have computers, they're tappin' phone lines, you know that ain't
allowed..
Zappa...Heads...Crimson? A profile is emerging here! Either that or you
recently broke into your dad's vinyl collection...
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our
democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional, he said.
Tee hee hee...
From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize
. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Something occurred to me...it probably occurred to others already but
I am a stoopid Cypherpunk, don't forget.
I like the nomenclature of AI: it makes for an interesting tool in the
analysis of day-to-day interpersonal relations
Something occurred to me...it probably occurred to others already but I am a
stoopid Cypherpunk, don't forget.
Anyone think it a TINY bit odd that someone with a fairly mundane complaint
about bad computer gear would know to come in on an anonymous remailer?
My first thought was that they had
to such scenarios. As for trailer trash,
however...
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Word Of the Subgenius...
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 19:01:04 -0800
At 11:21 AM 12/9/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, May seemed to try to make the case
And don't forget...Spam is a good thing as long as it doesn't clog the
Mixmaster bandwidth.
-TD
From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: punkly current events
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:19:26 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004,
If you also consider the fact that I have been variously poisoned in
recent years with everything from sedatives to stimulants to hormones to
psychoactive compounds to low-level hallucinogens, and as well have been
subjected to uncounted appeals to my subconscious in the main through the
use of
In my family there's a famous story told of a particular musician who was
busted on marijuana possession. His defense: But your honor...it was only
lemonade.
-TD
From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Word Of the Subgenius
Maybe, but I think it would be very hard to write a general-purpose stego
detector, without knowing the techniques used for encoding the message.
And if you know the distribution of your cover channel as well as your
attacker, or can generate lots of values from that distribution even if
you
]
To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tangled context probe
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:27:08 -0500
Tyler Durden wrote:
As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at
all. If you don't share the context of the communicators
As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at
all. If you don't share the context of the communicators, you have no idea
what they convey in their conversation about the whether.
That's a stretch. Soon you'll say that Post-modernist literary theory is
Cypherpunkish
So the obvious question is, does this speed up the cracking capabilities of
computers? On the surface, I'd say no, but then again I'm no computational
science expert. (I say no because any of the primes used in X-bitlength
encryption are already known, and these strings of primes aren't going
If you think those are anarchist ideas, you've missed the
main ideas about anarchy and anarcho-capitalism and such.
Anarchism isn't about getting rid of the _current_ people in charge,
it's about getting rid of _having_ people be in charge.
Well, May seemed to try to make the case that all of
, however, and that language has
many built-in ways of deflecting the uninitiated. I'd bet even NSA has a
hard time understanding an Arabic language message, even after they de-stego
and translate it.
-TD
From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED
What about where N=1?
I don't understand. You can only have an infinite number (or number of
progressions) where the number of numbers in a number is inifinite.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: primes as far as the eye can see,
Yes, this batch seems to sway in the collective wind.
Which actually suprised me...despite the source of appointment of Suter, I
remember reading at the time about his track record somewhere and was
actually under the impression that he was a very 'conservative' interpreter
of Constitutional
But
once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters and
ovens,
he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought about some
issue
in a new and fascinating direction.
Agreed. Though even his racisism seemed to have some kind of half-baked
thought behind it. Or
Bonus question:
Who is the author of the origin question that inspired the copycats?
Well, I remember May posting it but I don't think he was the ultimate
author. I suspect whoever posted it recently in fact dug it out of the
archives and re-posted it, a particularly lame maneuver if so.
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
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
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
: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Optical Tempest FAQ
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:39:33 -0700
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:01:57 -0500, Dave Emery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
...
In fact the greater hazard may sometimes be from red, yellow or
green LEDs
Interesting.
Contrary to what I thought (or what has been discussed here), only a
'scalar' of detected light is needed, not a vector. In other words, merely
measuring overall radiated intensity over time seems to be sufficient to
recover the message. This means that certain types of diffusive
Variola:
By Halal (are you getting this term confused with that for Islamic version
of Kosher? I think the name is similar but not this) Do you mean that system
of monetary transfers whereby local services are exchanged in place of
direct cash transfer? (In other words, if I want to sell
No.
Technically speaking, only the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible,
written by Moses) are technically scripture...everything else is
commentary.
-TD
From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Jewish wholy words..
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:30:05 +0100 (CET)
Is it
Andrew Hammond, a vice president of
MagiQ, estimates that the market for QKD systems will reach $200 million
within a few years, and one day could hit $1 billion annually.
What an idiot. OK, it's basically a marketing guy's job to make up all kinds
of BS, but any reasonably comptetant marketing
Variola wrote...
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be
defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. This is eg why
e-cash systems have anonymity problems. This is why there are
carnivore boxen aplenty. The knurls on the police-state knob
are getting worn, it is
Steve Furlong wrote...
I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for
fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make
use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi-
ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity,
Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he
offed the sex drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did.
I dunno...seems like the man had his priorities straight, at
leastimagine bonin Marilyn Monroe high to the gills on painkillers and
speed...come ON, gotta
James A Donald wrote...
What made it a breeding ground for terrorism was not civil war,
but diminuition of civil war. The problem was that the Taliban
was damn near victorious. If the US government had maintained
the relationship with our former anti communist allies, and
kept on sending them
James A Donald wrote...
And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is?
And the answer is: 9/11 sucked.
Oh wait, I guess I have to explain that. After the Soviets were pushed out
of Afghanistan the place became a veritable breeding ground for all sorts of
virulent strains of Islam, warlords, and
Hell, the entire Cold War, John. Including your beloved Viet Nam, which was
a *battle*, not a war in same. When Castro, and North Korea, etc., finally
fall, then the cold war will be over.
That war was won (or lost, depending on how you look at it) by the inherent
failures of communism itself,
James Donald wrote...
Bullshit. Everyone knew that which the regime decided they
must know. And if true, which I very much doubt, you are not
only arguing that Qin's legalism was a different thing than
communism/nazism,
This is where the Simplistic Grid comes in. The momentum of Chinese
That's the thing that sucks. The US's Liberals are almost as fascisistic as
the clouds of middle-counrty hillbillies. I figured that out as a Brooklyn
HS teacher when I realized the true meaning of an oft-repeated phrase of the
time: STAY IN SCHOOL.
-TD
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My delusion is evidently widely shared: I did a google search
for legalism. http://tinyurl.com/56n2m The first link, and
many of the subsequent links, equated legalism with
totalitarianism, or concluded that legalism resulted in
totalitarianism.
Wow! A GOOGLE search did you say? Well I'm
: Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:53:07 +0800
Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks
Tyler Durden
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:56:08 -0800
Oh No
Way overly simplistic. Also, you are comparing apples to bushels of
wheat.
[James Donald:]
However Confucianism vs Daoism
was
actually invented by Heddy Lamar to avoid jamming!)
-TD
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Jammer?
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:08:18 +1300
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know from first-hand experience about cellphone jammers?
I need
Mr Donald's comments are almost completely nonsensical. or rather, they
vaguely reflect some aspects of reality glimpsed through a really fucked up
mirror while on bad crack.
Probably Mr Donald is referring to something he saw on TV about China's
response (or relative lack of response) to
That is the revisionist version - that china was a free and
capitalist society, therefore freedom is not enough to ensure
modernity and industrialization - a proposition as ludicrous as
similar accounts of more recently existent despotic states.
I can't tell if you're arguing me with or just
Ah. This is an interesting point.
The Qing were 1) Manchus (ie, not Han Chinese)...they were basically a
foreign occupation that stuck around for a while; and 2) (Nominally Tibetan)
Buddhists. Although they of course adhered to the larger Confucian notions,
they in many ways deviated from
not a heck of a lot different from the legalists - and the
legalists set up an early version of the standard highly
centralized totalitarian terror state, which doubtless appears
quite enlightened to the likes of Tyler Durden.
Again, you seem to visualize me as (-1) times yourself, or basically your
Damn!
Just when this scrabbly beard was finally starting to grow in!
Now I certainly don't agree with a lot of Chomsky, bvut this dude clearly
has an axe to grind. For instance,
After 9/11, he was more concerned about a fictitious famine in Afghanistan
than about the nearly 3,000 incinerated in The World Trade Center attacks.
What a fucking idiot. The 3000 were
Anyone know from first-hand experience about cellphone jammers?
I need...
1) A nice little portable, and
2) A higher-powered one that can black out cell phone calls within, say, 50
to 100 feet of a moving vehicle.
-TD
Fascinating. And typical of the unusual Chinese seesaw that has occurred
throuout the aeons between hyper-strict centralized control and something
approaching a lite version of anarchy. There's no good mapping of this into
Western ideas of fascism, marxism, and economics.
Interesting too that
Oh No
Way overly simplistic. Also, you are comparing apples to bushels of wheat.
However Confucianism vs Daoism/Taoism is rather different from what
you would get in the west. Confucianism is somewhat similar to what
you would get if western cultural conservatives allied themselves with
JAT wrote...
This election *proves* that at least half the electorate, about 60 million
people, are just Useless Eaters, who should be eagerly awaiting their Trip
Up The Chimneys.
A...I need a cigarette.
But I suspect it's far more likely that some large batch of USA-ians will
end up having a
Holy Crap! Am I on crack? I think I agree with everything here!
However...
(James Donald wrote...)
I cannot understand why you Bush haters are so excited about this
election when on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Kerry promised to
continue all Bush's policies only more effectually.
That's
argue what's the point
if you already need a 3rd party for the e$. But I think that's a disjoint
set of issues.
-TD
From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Your source code, for sale
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:50:28
Well, I guess once you need a 3rd party for the e$, it's only going to make
sense that the issuer offer a value added service like you're talking
about. A 3rd party verifier is probably going to be too costly.
But I'm not 100% convinced that you HAVE TO have a 3rd party verifier, but
it's
He won because 53 percent of voters approved of his performance as
president. Fifty-eight percent of them trust Bush to fight terrorism. They
had roughly equal confidence in Bush and Kerry to handle the economy. Most
approved of the decision to go to war in Iraq. Most see it as part of the
war on
Ben Laurie made a lot of useful points. However,...
Simultaneous release is (provably?) impossible without a trusted third
party.
I don't think I believe this. Or at least, I don't think it's true to the
extent necessary to make the original application impossible.
Consider:
I send you money
What if I block the outbound release the money message after I
unbundle the images. Sure, I've already committed my money, but you
can't get to it. In effect I've just ripped you off, because I have
usable product and you don't have usable money.
Well, yes, but this would be a very significant
I dunno...a lot of it made sense to me.
You don't have to be a Commie in order to believe that someone ELSE believes
there's a class war, and that they gotta keep us black folks po', or else
we'll soon be having sex with their wives and daughters and competing with
their sons for decent jobs.
Hum.
So my newbie-style question is, is there an eGold that can be verified, but
not accessed, until a 'release' code is sent?
In other words, say I'm buying some hacker-ed code and pay in egold. I don't
want them to be able to 'cash' the gold until I have the code. Meanwhile,
they will want
2. Vietnam we lost by kicking their asses so badly that our campuses
revolted, at the behest of a bunch of marxists. Whereupon we packed
up, partied for about 15 years, and killed their communist sugar
daddies in Moscow with just the *possibility* we could invent
something strategic missile
Well, this may actually be less hard than we thought. Indeed, it's the one
vaguely silver lining in this toxic cloud. Outsourcing to India will
actually add a lot to world stability. Of course, we'll loose a lot of jobs
in the process, but in the long run we'll eventually have another strong
That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John
Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic
policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush
administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy.
Come on! The bar slut has
And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang
and Kodos. So far, the only things Kerry seems to have promised is that he'd
be better at doing all the crazy shit Bush has dove into. So when they ask
me (at the corner of Wall and Broadway), Are you a John Kerry
Variola wrote...
Again, the Mosaic approach of repeated asymmetric attacks on the Pharoah
is what Al Q
is up to. Eventually the Pharoah/US gets fed up and says fuck it.
Maybe not this election, but eventually, and Al has time. GW has only
4 more years, at best, and Rummy Cheney are scheduled
Yeah...wasn't there an X-Files that was similar? I remember someone picking
up a photo of Sadam Hussein and the TLA-dude saying, Him? He was a truck
driver in Detroit we found.
Perhaps the reason Bush hasn't 'caught' bin Laden yet is because he thinks
he (ie, Bush) will win the election. He
GodDAMN George W is a dumb fuck.
If the guy's IQ had broken the 3-digit barrier he might have figured out
that by nearly directly replying to the new bin Laden video he's basically
elevating bin Laden to a hostile head-of-state.
OK you TLA snoops...surely some of you montioring this list must
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