printed on them (most of them don't even bother with mag
stripes) seems very low-tech and physical!
Ken Brown
as money might sell. People seem determined to
use them for everything else. If there was a way of transferring prepay
directly between SIMs it would be used by teenagers (and drug dealers)
to settle small debts. Maybe they already are and I haven't noticed.
Ken Brown
And her smoke goes up
,
though.
- Sten
Mea culpa. It's been a long time since I read 'Dangerous Visions'.
Must be, seeing as Harlequin was published in Galaxy magazine, then
reprinted in Ellison's Paingod and other Delusions, not in DV which
was an original-story-only anthology that came out a year or two later
:-)
Ken
Hereinunder attached is vauely on-topic, though spins some
unneccessarily self-important new jargon. They don't quite seem to get
that TCPIP is fundamentally P2P from the bits up. I like the phrase
disruptive compliance. The Net has a passive-aggressive personality?
Ken
Waging peace on the
Tim May wrote:
Not sure about the rest of europe - but we have a targetted crypto list
in the UK (UKCrypto, sensibly enough) so already have a forum for
uk-specific issues.
Thats not to say some of it wouldn't be better here - but I am sure our
problems with ..
[name elide to
A quick walk round South London would show that a very large number of
men (including myself) shave their heads anyway - probably not as many
as 5 years ago, when it was almost normal, but a significant minority.
Ken
Generic Poster wrote:
..from an ad in circulation on BBC2 (UK) if I recall
Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote:
One of the classic examples of what is now called chaos (a word that I
don't like in this context). The exact trajectory taken by simple models
Uhuh...
of predator-prey systems is often very sensitively dependent on initial
KPJ wrote:
[...]
I have noticed this on-line anomaly which several people:
they require more data on an online communication subject than on an offline
communication subject. Appears irrational to me: online security can never
become higher than physical security of the subject. But I
Jim Choate wrote:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Chaos.html
Er, yes, it is a great site. It even has a definition of mathematical
chaos:
A dynamical system is chaotic if it
1. Has a dense collection of points with periodic orbits,
2. Is sensitive to the initial
jill jill wrote:
[...]
Cut the link Einstein.ssz.com then we can have real
good unmoderated list,right Tim.
The act of moderation to end all acts of moderation?
Sorry Adam, that wasn't me, I just quoted it from the article in the
Register. So I know no more.
Ken
Adam Back wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:09:23PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
anybody that wishes to issue electronic money can do so as long as they
satisfy a number of core criteria
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
The reason we have ready availability of credit in the first place
is because consumer debt is the most profitable business in the
United States.
I really wonder what component of this market is actually payment
driven. After all, to easily buy *anything* over,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How could this possibly be true? :ast I checked, GDP for the US
was about 10 trillion bucks a year, the combined GDP of
every nation on earth per year can't be more than 100 trillion,
most of which doesn't involve anything crosiing a border,
so how can there
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Jeezum, how old *are* you? We haven't called vacuum tubes 'valves' for
some time..
Oh yes we do! I never call them anything but valves.
as a matter of property,
French as a matter of personality, and the US as a sort of government
licenced monopoly or patent. But they are all much closer to each other
these days, with international copyright law being a compromise between
the old systems.
Ken Brown
These laws don't really get into cyberpunks territory, because they are
about rights that are reserved to the original artist, and cannot be
transferred to publishers or distributors or record companies, and can
only be possessed by natural persons, not corporations. So (in France,
not the USA) a
Pete Chown wrote:
[...]
This doesn't help with your other point, though; people wouldn't be able
to modify the code and have a useful end product. I wonder if it could
be argued that your private key is part of the source code?
Am I expected to distribute my password with my code?
Trei, Peter wrote:
[...]
That means tens of thousands of private-sector
employees working in industries such as
banking, chemicals, energy, transportation,
telecommunications, shipping and public health
would be subject to background checks as a
condition of employment.
Cor.
This
Eric Cordian wrote:
Pierce made a lot of sense, if one ignored the politically incorrect
hyperbole in his writings. It is ironic that Pierce died on the day
Zionist War Criminal Ariel Sharon described destroying an apartment
building full of civilians with a missile as ...in my view one of
5 minutes of it on the breakfast-time Today show on BBC radio 4 a couple
of days ago. Positive almost to the point of ingenuousness - they
suggested that LSE was offering wireless as a public good which wasn't
quite how LSE described it at a ukerna seminar 6 months ago.
online version at
Michael Motyka wrote:
Quite clearly cash has got to go! I'm not sure how tough this would be
to sneak past the slumbering electorate. Pretty tough I expect. But the
usage level is certainly going down while the percentage of electronic
transactions is skyrocketing. We've even had
James A. Donald wrote:
--
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matt Crawford wrote:
Unless the application author can predict the exact output of
the compilers, he can't issue a signature on the object code.
The
On 9 Aug 2002 at 10:48, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Same version of compiler on same
The biggest police station in western Europe is being built less than
half a mile from where I live. Your phone will keep on ringing and
ringing...
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
In some parts of rural america, folks signal the presence of cops by
flashing their headlights
when driving.
Tyler Durden wrote:
[...]
Granted, Chonskty can be a little tiring on the ears
His voice seems to have mellowed over the years. I heard him on the
radio last week and he sounded just like Garrison Keillor :-)
Ken Brown
are now so ubiquitous
that taking them away has come to seem as odd as asking visitors to
remove their shoes or to wear face masks.
Ken Brown
Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, the rason d'etre of 'eJazeera' as I see it is primarily for
publically-taken photos and videos to be quickly gypsied away from
Marcel Popescu wrote:
It does appear that the law in England is not as demanding as I believed:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/legaltender.htm
The concept of legal tender is often misunderstood. Contrary to popular
opinion, legal tender is not a means of payment that must be
Trei, Peter wrote:
If you put one of these stickers on your car, you are giving the
police permission to pull the car over without probable cause if
they find it on the road late at night (1am-5am, or something like
that), just to check that all is in order.
I think it's being promoted
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:25 PM -0500 on 1/9/03, Trei, Peter wrote:
Basque is unique, as you say
I remember someone saying somewhere, probably on PBS, that Basque is *very*
old, paleolithic, and lots of popular mythology has cropped up that it's
the closest living relative to some
James A. Donald wrote:
Harmon Seaver:
Why not the army?
If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified
specialists, you would not need the army.
Strikers are mostly oil industry. And better-paid workers, technicians,
engineers so on. They might include safety
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up on
NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed DNA
from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin, thus still
leaving fragments like hair or skin cells, but
Bill Stewart wrote:
Tim commented about railroad stations being in the ugly parts of town.
That's driven by several things - decay of the inner cities,
as cars and commuter trains have let businesses move out to suburbs,
and also the difference between railroad stations that were
built for
Gold star. Velvet Underground is definitely ground zero for Punk to my ears,
but with this recent set of pre-Velvets minimalist releases (eg, Dream
Theater, with LaMount Young, John Cale--who helped start the band I was in,
and others), the stage was somewhat set.
Yeah, yeah, yeah; I loved
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
I just hope they won't mothball the ISS...
Not if the scheduled Chinese manned launch goes ahead.
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 that here cities are
Tyler Durden wrote:
And then there's the PERSISTENT rumors of him actually taking an accidental
DEA bust in a Florida airport after landing a fresh new cargo. Supposedly
this was a bit of a snafu and they had to let him go on the hush-hush...(And
I keep hearing there's video of that bust.)
, apart from the publican, I helped to appoint, and none of whom I
feel in the slightest way deferential to or look up to for leadership
whatever that is.
Who are my community leaders? It's just a silly question. No-one would
ask it.
Ken Brown
I'm trying to think of something I'd personally be less interested in
investing my own money in than an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Lots
of money invested up front, literally hundreds of small groups who could
threaten to damage it as a way of demanding a share of the loot, very hard
So which American on the list is going to write to Congress to demand
that the Statue of Liberty be sent back to France?
Ken
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'd think that the troops would explain this to the reporters tagging
along as they confiscate all their transmitters before an op. I simply
wouldn't trust the reporters, even though they're toast too if someone mis-IFFs.
Its a lot more serious than not
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Ah yes, forgot about that -- the fancy condo right smack in the downtown
historic district used to be a while city block of historic buildings people
wanted to save, and, in fact, there were developers with money who wanted to
restore them, but the city, for some
Harmon Seaver wrote:
What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons
freely? Shades of Switzerland!
Soviet Armenia?
When they fell out with the Azeris they got their scratch army together
in /days/
According to the Russian news they used hunting rifles.
I'd been
John Kelsey wrote:
At 07:42 AM 3/20/03 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
...
The story you are telling is part of a big commie lie -- that
the US aided the bigoted Taliban against the elightened
communists who created a constitutional democracy where every
man and every women have a vote, and
Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Tim - I don't think the cowboy (aka Shrubya) knows enough economics to
realize that, in the long term, income and expenditure must
be in some kind
of rough balance. He's always been able to lean on daddy's money.
I'm wondering whether the successive US
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Ken Brown wrote:
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'd think that the troops would explain this to the reporters tagging
along as they confiscate all their transmitters before an op. I simply
wouldn't trust the reporters, even though they're toast too if someone mis-IFFs.
Its a lot
of dispensationalism in the 19th
century (Google for Scofield Reference Bible) and, even in the United
States, has probably never been the majority view amongst Christians
though it might have got pretty near it in the 60s/70s/80s (Eve of
Destruction (Barry McGuire became a Christian evangelist IIRC)
Ken
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system
for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at
hundreds of small to medium sized airports around the
Eugen Leitl reposted an article by someone:
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Risks of Iraqi war emerging
Some officials warn of a mismatch between strategy and force size.
By Joseph L. Galloway
Inquirer Washington Bureau
Knowledgeable defense and administration officials say Rumsfeld
Tim May wrote:
[...]
The American CIA, DIA, FBI, ONI, and other groups are
quite capable of producing fake cargo manifest, fake credentials, fakes
of all other kinds, and of planting faked evidence.
The kind of people who sell foreign foods to corner shops and ethnic
restaurants are capable
Bill Stewart wrote:
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
John Kelsey wrote:
I wasn't thinking of Al Qaida. There are a *lot* of people who might like
to have a last-ditch deterrent against a US invasion or other action.
I can think of a few workable deterrents against US invasion:
- ICBMS
- an army with a reputation of fighting nastily when
AJ are being hammered at the moment - I'm getting timeouts to them the
picture I'm trying to look at is loading at 91 bits a second
Either they are very popular or else the DoSsers are onto them big-time.
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Hmm, weird -- I just got 64.106.174.80 on a lookup for aljazeera.net, and the
same for english.aljazeera.net, but now I'm getting nothing for both. So trying
from another server in AL, I get the same IP and can also actually lynx to the
site (which I couldn't do from
'Gabriel Rocha' wrote:
it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and
http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a
fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know)
It looks like over here in Europe we're getting DNS to aljazeera.net
pointing to a
Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219
Looks like they got them again
Mike Rosing wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote:
It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly
badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service
Tyler Durden wrote:
[...]
PS: Anyone notice the conceptual similarity between shock and awe and
blitzkrieg?
Yes, similar in some respects, though not the same. Shock and awe
(terrible name for a quite sensible idea) was about a military force
which is overwhelmingly stronger than its opponent
Steve Mynott wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, I think there's an obvious disconnect on this issue. Clearly,
pre-Christian religious practices survived Christian persecution
throughout the ages. From the little I know, some of the practicing
Druids actually have received a nearly
Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
the side contributing the most corpses won.
True of Vietnam of course.
And of WW2, the dead being mainly in Eastern Europe and China.
Arguably of WW1 as well, the Germans lost fewer men on the Western Front
than the Belgians, French and British, but they had more
is the same Hebrew name that also
comes to us as Joshua and Hosea. That sort of thing happens when you
move between alphabets.
Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:43:34PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
Steve Schear wrote:
At 06:34 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, stuart wrote:
On Sunday
Harmon Seaver wrote:
You
don't translate names. Especially you don't change the name of the god. Read the
Old Testament, see how incredibly many times you find phrases like the holy
name of the lord, blessed be the name, the wonderful name, etc.
You don't even know the difference between
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Translate/transliterate is irrelevant -- you don't change people's names, you
especially don't change the name of the god. This was a Jewish religion, after
all, and as I mentioned before, the Old Testament is simply awash with praises
for the *name*. The whole name thing
Bill Stewart wrote:
When I saw the title of this thread,
I was assuming it would be about getting Mozambique
or Sealand or other passports of convenience or coolness-factor
like the Old-School Cypherpunks used to do :-)
Actually the only passports that are significantly more
convenient than
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