Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] more on U.S. passports to receive RFID implants start
At 01:31 AM 10/30/05 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: They've said they'll fall back on the traditional If we can't read the passport it's invalid and you'll need to replace it before we'll let you leave the country technique, just as they often do with expired passports and sometimes What is the procedure (or are they secret :-) for passports which become damaged whilst travelling out of country? With a drivers license, if the magstrip doesn't work, they type in the numbers. But the biometrics are not encoded, its just a convenience. With a passport, they're relying on the chip or no? (Mechanical damage to the chip should work as well as RF or antenna damage. You will have to find the chip and crack it, mere flexing of the paper carrier doesn't work by design.)
blocking fair use? 2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers
Here's a very interesting case where (c)holders are trying to ban fair use (educational) of (c) material. I agree with their motivations ---Kansan theo-edu-crats need killing for their continuing child abuse-- but I don't see how they can get around the fair use provisions. (Bypassing whether the state should run schools, or even pay for them, for now.) 2 Science Groups Say Kansas Can't Use Their Evolution Papers Sign In to E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Reprints Save Article By JODI WILGOREN Published: October 27, 2005 CHICAGO, Oct. 27 - Two leading science organizations have denied the Kansas board of education permission to use their copyrighted materials in the state's proposed new science standards because of the standards' critical approach to evolution. The National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association said the much-disputed new standards will put the students of Kansas at a competitive disadvantage as they take their place in the world. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/national/27cnd-kansas.html?hpex=1130472000en=8207d57fc0db8ecaei=5094partner=homepage
Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement
[Using the *financial* angle, having to show state-photo-ID is overturned to vote is overturned. Interesting if this could be used for other cases where the state wants ID.] Today: October 27, 2005 at 12:33:27 PDT Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) - A federal appeals court Thursday refused to let the state enforce a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. Earlier this month, a federal judge barred the state from using the law during local elections next month, saying it amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax that could prevent poor people, blacks and the elderly from the voting. The state asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the stay, but the court declined. Under the law, voters could show a driver's license, or else obtain a state-issued photo ID at a cost of up to $35. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/oct/27/102700584.html
Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used
At 08:41 PM 10/26/05 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote: Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and thus are subject to what economists call network externalities. The best example I can think of is Microsoft Office file formats. I don't buy MS Office because it's the best software at creating documents, but I have to buy it because the person in HR insists on making our timecards in Excel format. 1) You have told your HR person what a bad idea it is to introduce a dependency on a proprietary file format, right? 2) OpenOffice can read Excel spreadsheets, and I would assume it can save the changes back to them as well. Why don't you send her comma-delimited text, Excel can import it?
crypto on sonet is free, Tyler
At 03:15 PM 6/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, it's interesting to consider how/if that might be possible. SONET scrambles the payload prior to transmission..adding an additional crypto layer prior to transmission would mean changing the line rate, so probably a no-no. Tyler, one can implement crypto at *arbitrary* line rates though the use of multiple hardware engines and the right mode of operation. If you don't use crypto you are broadcasting, as well as accepting anything from anyone as authentic. Its that simple. Caveat receiver. --- Impeach or frag.
Private records scattered in the wind (FLA)
We encourage the publication of the (paper) school records which the FLA hurricane reportedly distributed to locals, as part of an effort to show the sheeple how *well* the state guards their secrets. Particularly interested in offspring of state officials, not that their kids are likely go to public schools. [FLA is required to bus lower caste students within counties, to achieve a certain average complexion, so even in Jeb'$ neighborhood the schools suck.] --- Impeach or frag.
big bro in the car
Nuclear Detection: Fixed detectors, portals, and NEST teams wont work for shielded HEU on a national scale; a distributed network of in-vehicle detectors is also necessary to deter nuclear terrorism http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/4249/disarm.pdf Maybe the FCC will require rad detectors in cellphones as part of their 911-location finding / dissident-tracking system? - Go for the head shot, they're wearing puffy vests on the tube, mate.
On special objects, and Judy Miller's treason
Its unfortunate that some posters had to be reminded that anyone calling for government-licensed reporters (and religions, as one author included) deserves to have their carbon recycled, because of the treason to the BoR. Tim May used to call government licensed citizens special objects. Search for it. If state violence is used against unlicensed practitioners, then the state controls the practice. Pharmacy provides another example of this --the state controlling what you ingest. It is also sad that no one pointed out that when compelled to go before the Inquisition (aka grand jury) one is not compelled to say anything. So long as the BoR holds. For instance, Dupe Miller could have kept her crudely painted mouth shut, because she could have worried that she would have incriminated herself, eg in not reporting the felony of broadcasting a spook's identity. Or worried about unknown charges that might be brought against her; you never know what prosecutors will dream up. Do not cooperate with fascists, occupying troops, etc. (Speaking of which, are any anonymous offshore betting establishments making odds on Ryan Lackey's lifespan?) --- Impeach or frag.
Re: Color Laser Printer Snitch Codes
At 12:24 PM 10/17/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Soon we'll find out that toothbrushes are able to determine what I ate for dinner and are regularly sending the info... Soon there will be sensors in urinals that page the DEA..
Judy Miller needing killing
So this dupe/spy/wannabe journalist thinks that journalists should be *special*.. how nice. Where in the 1st amendment is the class journalists mentioned? She needs a WMD enema. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller defended her decision to go to jail to protect a source and told a journalism conference Tuesday that reporters need a federal shield law so that others won't face the same sanctions. http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=BreakingstoryId=1104064
FTC bans P2P, anonymity, encryption
The FTC seems to think they can require (by force) the disconnection of zombie PCs. To cut spam. If they assert the right to control what software runs on net-connected machines, what is to stop them from barring any other software? After all, P2P threatens the economy, anonymity and encryption threatens the State. Will no one think of the chiiildren? --- Render unto Caesar an IED
Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen
At 11:25 AM 5/23/05 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: While it doubtless would have been better to behead the Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi dictatorship, nonetheless American troops seem to be finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq. In what imaginary universe? Perhaps you need to be chipped and your blood pressure/ penile turgidity monitored when watching FOX, like the brits will soon have. (Proposed for sex offenders, actually.) Of course getting a stiffie while watching US videogame death qualifies you for a cabinet post... ... A recent pop-Merkin 'News' rag described US psyops which fund 'moderate' moslems. Refurb a mosque here, beam Sesame Street in arabic there, you get props, or so the future-trinitite in DC seem to think. All the more reason for the Colonized to harvest the Collaborators ---they really are Western puppets, knowingly or not. Maybe every Iraqi collaborator needs a US SpecOp team to wipe their ass, like Karzai has. Remember, George in Georgia just missed a *live* grenade. Next time, no hanky to foul the lever, eh? Render unto Caesar.. Orwell was an optimist
[Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions?]
At 03:03 PM 5/17/05 -0700, cypherpunk wrote: [1]DocMurphy asks: I'm working with some dissidents who are looking for ways to use the Internet from within repressive regimes. Many have in-home Internet access, but think it too risky to participate in pro-freedom activities on home PCs. (Could be a lot of groups in the US.) The best way to interactively surf anonymously is to find an unsecured WiFi net and kick back. Use a forged MAC, and watch your driving habits. The walls have eyes. Stego is ok if the site is word of mouth (no DNS, no port 80) anyway, kind of a secret knock to get in the speakeasy. But humans get compromised and the B34ST logs the site's traffic. Stego is fine for placing an order with a dissident vendor for a few drams, but a dissident wanting mass meme infection needs to anonymously broadcast, and to everyone. That SMS/ Sprint hack recently posted strikes me as appealing... (And we don't need no ex-navy dolphin to jack the bandwidth...) -- Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion? Narrator: ...i... ann... iinn... ff... nnyin... Narrator: [Voice over] With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. [Tyler removes the gun from the Narrator's mouth] Narrator: I can't think of anything. Narrator: [Voice over] For a second I totally forgot about Tyler's whole controlled demolition thing and I wonder how clean that gun is.
Re: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A):
At 02:45 PM 5/17/05 -0700, cypherpunk wrote: Iraq war (a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and many people took 9/11 personally). Please explain what Bush's invasion of a soverign nation had to do with the Saudi 9/11 Theatre? (Sorry to offend the 'Merkins who can't distinguish one ay-rab from another)
Your epapers, please?
At 10:08 PM 3/31/05 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: government plan to insert remotely readable chips in American passports, calling the chips [2]homing devices for high-tech muggers, So the market for faraday-cages for your passport will grow to equilibrium. A cage will cost less than a buck in parts, easily affordable by the clueful. The damage to the clueless will quickly be the best advertising for the product. Since we have been wearing conductive mesh burkhas for some time, the only inconvenience will be for the terahertz voyeurs employed by the TSA.
Re: AP For Starvation Judge
It would be interesting socially if the vegetable in question had fried her brain with her choice of unlicensed pharmaceuticals, instead of her choice of self-starvation (leading to cardiac failure, leading to joining the vegetable kingdom). Would Jeb be trying to adopt a coke-stroke negro? It would also be interesting if those who want to keep her metabolizing had to pay for it, or do it themselves, instead of requiring the taxpayers to absorb the cost. Which is the real libertarian question, once you realize no one is coercing anyone, since the vegetable is less sentient than the cows we eat or chimps we experiment upon. Instead, the xians show their hand, that it is not the soul (consciousness) they care about, and the quality of its experience, just heartbeats. Someone should show them a chick's heart beating in a petri dish. But of course they are not deterred by reality. Perhaps they are afraid that their own emptiness will be exposed if life be judged by more than the ability to metabolize. It would be very cool karma if the Pope were to be vegetative but indefinately prolongable (thanks of course to the fruits of the scientific method which is the antiPope). One imagines this will eventually happen. Or are there rules to replace a useless Pope? Does Alexander Haig get to be interim Pope? In lieu of less messy and hard to arrange (thanks to fascism) processes (eg, an overdose), those piloting their own ships end up sucking the barrel of a .45, or whatever caliber is convenient. Rarely do we try to improve the world in the process, by taking deserving others with us, probably out of overwhelming self-obsession at such times. (Though the fellow who drove a tanker into the Capitol in Sacramento comes to mind.) At least we don't try to stop trains with our bodies (we would sit in our SUVs on the tracks anyway), and rarely jump off overpasses into traffic, which inconveniences many, compared to the ballistic route. - Get your laws off my body
Re: WiFi Launcher?
t 03:06 PM 3/25/05 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: I noticed you did a little editing! Sigh. Few can stand in the light for very long, save the various beautiful women that clamor to spread my DNA... Your barber can spread more of your DNA. Your female can help you *copy* your DNA, but only about half of it, and you don't get to chose which half. Someone once said, Cypherpunks write code. Yes but I'd amend this to say, Cypherpunks in the process of becoming economically successful probably don't have time to write code but others can sure feel free to try... Why not sketch a script that can? That's not hard work, and contributes more than the idea itself (which is a good idea BTW). : Sounds possible to me. the only problem might be the need for : authentication, Can't be any authentication for obvious reasons. These days one has to act very quickly in order to create something original. The question is, will a TLA do it first and post it, along with a TINY little ID tag? If its an open-source tool, who gives a rodent's arse if a TLA wrote it? After all, you can never be sure that a TLA *hasn't* written (or contributed) to anything. Think critical --Agrammatical Marketoids
on FPGAs vs ASICs
Tyler, Riad, etc: FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC run. Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC is more efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation, rather than most (FPGA) gates being used for reconfigurability ---useful if you can't afford an ASIC run (a million bucks a mask...) or if algorithms get tweaked (eg you release before the Spec comes out, or you are shooting for time-to-market). Clockwise an FPGA wastes time in extra wire routing although since an FPGA may be made in state of the art processes, and your ASIC may not, its a complex tradeoff. (Albeit some circuit topologies work very well on FPGAs) So for the Cypherpunk wanting hardware (vs cluster) acceleration, FPGAs are the way to go. For TLAs, you prototype in FPGAs of course, and then make some chips in your private fab. (Same for Broadcom, etc.) For someone making 10,000 routers, you use FPGAs. DESCrack was solving a problem for which the x86 is not very efficient at computing --all the sub-byte bit-diddling-- and hardware is very efficient (by design in DES, after all).
Re: What is a cypherpunk?
A cypherpunk is one who is amused at the phrase illicit Iraqi passports. Given that the government of .iq has been replaced by a conquerer's puppet goverment, who exactly has authority to issue passports there? And why does this belief about the 1-to-1-ness of passports to meat puppets or other identities fnord persist? A CP is not an anarchist; and anarchists are ill defined by current authors, since the word merely means no head, rather than no rules, as Herr May frequently reminded. (In fact, the rules would de facto be set by the local gangster, rather than a DC based gang claiming to be the head. A better form is libertarian archy, but that is perhaps another thread.) A CP, removing arguable claims about political idealogy, is one who understands the potential effects of certain techs on societies, for good or bad. And is not, like a good sci fi writer, afraid to consider the consequences. And, ideally, a CP is one who can write code, and does so, code that might be useful for free sentients, not even necessarily free (in the beer sense) code. (Albeit 'tis hard to write useful code in the uninspectable sense of not-free, and inspectability facilitates beer-free copying ) But this is an ideal, and perhaps three meanings of free in one rant is too many for most readers. At 12:04 PM 2/7/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: While officials in Baghdad and Washington berate Iraq's neighbours for failing to block insurgency movements across their borders, one of the most dangerous security lapses thrives in Baghdad's heart - a trade in illicit Iraqi passports.
Re: What is a cypherpunk?
At 10:38 PM 2/9/05 -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating system, so Linus did. Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which when added to the rest of the existing GNU OS, written by Richard Stallman among others, allowed a completely free operating system. Please don't continue to spread the misconception that Linus Torvalds wrote the entire (GNU) operating system. Who gives a fuck? RMS was fermenting in his own philosophical stew, to put it politely. The shame is that BSD didn't explode like L*nux did, and that all that work had to be re-done, and with a nasty ATT flavor to boot (no pun intended).
Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot
At 06:41 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the suspect in control of the car, he said. He can steer, he can brake, he just can't accelerate. Sorry Charlie, but I think newer vehicles are moving to fly-by-wire steering, especially hybrids that don't have an internal combustion engine running all the time so they can't easily use traditional hydraulic servo steering. Also amusing will be the congealed lenses of bystanders, dead pacemaker wearers, fried business computers, in addition to the accidents caused by other disabled cars. But the cops will get their man, and the rest is collateral damage, put it on the perp's ticket. Besides, the ECU is shielded pretty well by the car metal and the unit itself is shielded from the electrical ignition noise. But someone needs to explain that to this executive who fancies himself an inventor and can't wait to suckle Caesar's teat, selling cyber terrorist gizmos to the man. Personally I only use the magnetron horn (concealed in my rooftop fiberglass luggage holder) on inconsiderate cell-phone-using drivers. Better than jamming, because they get to kiss their RF front end goodbye, permenantly. So it helps everyone for several days, *and* sells new handsets, helping the economy. Works on pig radios too. Also works on the thumpa-thumpa drivers, and when I turn the power up I find that Chihauha's skulls are not meant to take internal pressure; a steam explosion is pretty messy, and fuzzy dice don't really clean the insides of windshields terribly well.
Re: Cpunk Sighting
At 04:12 PM 1/21/05 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: John Young, Cryptome strikes again. NPR is running a story on all of the sensitive information available. Funny shit! LATimes ran something too! And even included a link to the mental-jihadist, terrorist-du-coeur, amateur pan-geo-opticon-astronomer who freely admits having studied what hold buildings (and the thugs that tax them) up, as well as once being an operative of the largest, most WMD'd military ever. Zeus bless his Promethian soul. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs21jan21,1,5352367.story January 21, 2005 IN BRIEF / CANADA Many Barred From U.S. Because of Security Lists From Times Wire Reports Dozens of people from Canada have been turned back at the U.S. border or prevented from boarding U.S.-bound planes because their names are on the American no-fly list or a State Department list of possible terrorists, documents show. The incidents are detailed in daily briefs from the Homeland Security Department. They contain no classified information. A department spokesman confirmed that the memos, posted at http://cryptome.org , were legitimate.
crypto, science, and popular writing
At 03:23 PM 1/20/05 +, Justin wrote: How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current research down to digestible kernels that the masses can understand. SciAm should close down, requiring those who care about science to learn enough about it to read science journals. That is untrue. In fact, RSA was introduced to the wider audience via Sci Am IIRC. Professors who can teach a QM course well in a semester are rare enough. I doubt any one of them could write a 5000 word article on quantum entanglement that would be intelligible to the average cretinous American who wants to seem smart by reading Sci-Am. If they want to be smart, they can start by picking up an undergrad-level book on QM. But that requires much effort to read, unlike a glossy 5000 word article. I disagree. I think some here --even you-- could write such an article. Simply state entanglement as a given, much like gravity or maxwell's electromagnetics, and then explain how its useful. *Why* and *how* the givens are correct is not necessary, perhaps not even known. (After all, all physics does bottom out with phenomenology). The same is true for explaining symmetric crypto, hasing, or PK ---just assume a hard function, or a one way trap door function, ignoring avalanche or the number theory behind it, and go to applications immediately. That Sci Am has gotten lefty and soft is regrettable, but don't think this means that crypto and QM apps can't be explained to your grandmother.
RE: [IP] No expectation of privacy in public? In a pig's eye! (fwd from dave@farber.net)
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 about point assignments for adding to cop's offspring's car adding to cop's offspring's teacher's car
Re: US slaps on the wardriver-busting paint
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 Register didn't pick up on this. The Al foil over the windows and screen over the appliance-vents might be telling. Otherwise its a waste of paint. And haven't these paint-scammers heard of foil-backed insulation?
Re: Tasers for Cops Not You
At 01:20 PM 1/8/05 -0800, John Young wrote: However, Taser claims the civilian version is effective only to 15 feet while the LE version will explose a heart at 20 feet. And, Taser says accidental deaths caused by the shock would have happened to those sick persons anyway. Well, yes, homicidal cops say the perps were begging for it, learning such talk from the president and up to the one who has fun with joy toy tsunamis. John: A taser is 50 KV and microamps. Not fun but it doesn't cause fibrillation. (Incoherent cardiac muscle contraction - no pulse.) I now work for a company that makes defibrillators. It takes a few 10s of Joules through the heart to fibrillate, typically 100-200 J for an adult, during a certain critical window during the sinus rhythm. Our gizmos discharge ~200 uF at up to 2 KV to defibrillate a fibrillating heart, which will also fibrillate if administered to a healthy heart at the wrong time, as I said. That's up to 40 amps. (Through the pads a chest is 20-200 ohms, typically 50.) Without a defibrillator the person is dead, CPR or not. That's the science. As far as pigs wanting slaves/peasants/citizens to be unarmed, well, agree. As far as choke holds on negroes, excessive force on cocaine-stimulated citizens, etc goes, I have nothing to bear on this. As far as banning lethal and nonlethal weapons for use by all but state minions, we agree. When tasers, mace, body armor, .50 cal or lesser rifles are outlawed, well, you know the rest. (Of course mace is best applied with q-tips to the eyes of sitting protesters. And the mercenaries in Iraq do fine with pillowcases and 12V batteries.) Though heavens fall, let justice be done.
Re: [IP] The DNA round-up on Cape Cod (fwd from dave@farber.net
The Beast doesn't know who licked the stamp. A fiducial sample is what they want. In Calif, they could merely arrest you for a bogus charge to have the right to sample your families DNA as carried by you. Schwarzenegger is not Austrian accidentally. GATTACA was optimistic. At 06:02 PM 1/10/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: I live in the town of Truro on Cape Cod about 4 or 5 months out of the year. This past week, the Truro has been on the national news because the local police are attempting to obtain DNA samples of all men of the town in order to solve a three-year old murder case. Here are a couple of the articles that give the details of what is going on in this DNA round-up: To Try to Net Killer, Police Ask a Small Town's Men for DNA http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/national/10cape.html Truro abuzz over 'swab' DNA testing http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/truroabuzz7.htm I am headed back to my Truro house later this week. If I am approached by the police to provide a DNA sample for their round-up of Truro males, I am planning to refuse. However, I just realized that I already gave a DNA sample to the Town of Truro recently. I paid my property tax bill to the Truro tax collectors office two weeks ago. My DNA is on the tax payment envelope that I licked. Envelopes are apparently a good source of DNA material according to this article: DNA on Envelope Reopens Decades-old Murder Case http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_052103_dnaarrest.html Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com -- End of Forwarded Message - You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
expectation of privacy
At 09:01 PM 1/12/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: It's time to blow the lid off this no expectation of privacy in public places argument that judges and law enforcement now spout out like demented parrots in so many situations. A court refused to hear the case of a man accused of owning unlicensed pharmaceuticals when a pig entered a locked loo. The loo was part of a gas station; the attendant called the pigs. A prostitute was in there too, with him, and the area rife with folks of that profession, FWIW, which is nothing. But the court held reduced expectation of privacy in a public loo. One imagines much fun with anonymous calls when state employees are in such places, but this does not temper our disgust, or desire for karma with extreme prejudice.
Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams
At 02:20 PM 1/9/05 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote: I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as if it's hard to discover what they are at this point. I'm similarly annoyed that articles omit the URLs of terrorist web sites, being forced to check ogrish.com, even if I couldn't read the language. But government and its presses know best.
To Tyler Durden
TD, I just watched _Fight Club_ so I finally get your nym. (Here in low-earth geosynchronous orbit, content is delayed). Cool. I had thought it was your real name. Maj. Variola (ret)
Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On
At 09:53 AM 1/4/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: Terri Carbaugh, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, had made his position clear during his campaign. It's a military-type weapon, Ms. Carbaugh said of the .50 BMG, and he believes the gun presents a clear and present danger to the general public. Ms C has earned herself a few hundred footpounds, or a few meters of rope and tree-rental. The Constitution explicitly protects our right to bear military (not animal-hunting) arms. -- An RPG a day keeps the occupiers away.
sitting ducks
At 12:16 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes? My understanding is that a single bullethole in a plane is not likely to do anything serious to its operation--the hole isn't big enough to depressurize the cabin of a big plane, and unless it hits some critical bits of the plane, it's not going to cause mechanical problems. FWIW Recall that a few 'copters have been taken down with AK fire, though the birds/round is likely low. And copters are more delicate than a multi-engined fixed wing. Hitting the cabin would be pretty effective though. And certain parts of big planes are vital, perhaps moreso on fly by wire Airbus planes. A homemade mortar through the roof of your van (IRA style) onto a stationary, taxiing plane would be pretty spectacular, sitting ducks... lots of cameras... easy getaway or repeat fire.. Of course the BMG crap is all about eroding rights, not reality.
Technology vs social solutions
At 12:06 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Homebrew warning systems will face the same problems as eg pro volcano warning systems: too many false alarms and no one cares. The best defense would seem to be a population with a lot of TVs and radios. At least after the first tsunami hit, the news would quickly spread, and there were several hours between when the waves arrived at different shores. (And a 9.0 earthquake on the seafloor, or even a 7.0 earthquake on the seafloor, is a rare enough event that it's not crazy to at least issue a stay off the beach kind of warning.) Actually, people should know this as *background* in the same way that you know not to stand in open fields during lightening, play with downed powerlines, or walk into tail rotors. I think some places have signs pointing to higher elevations, with wave-glyphs. I know that FLA has signs like that for hurricane storm-surges, and there are tornado signs in the midwest. The rational explanation, I suppose, is that tsunami are so rare that the knowledge is not maintained. (How many 'Merkins would know how to construct a nukebomb shelter these days? How many SoCal'ians know how to drive on icy roads?) Of course, broadcast media are used to tell people the obvious, eg don't play in channellized rivers during storms, and the evolution of the species suffers slightly but not entirely from the caveats.
Re: [IP] Cell phones for eavesdropping
From: Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cell phones for eavesdropping - finally some public chatter Of course, the low-budget govt snoops go for the basestations and landline links. The pending cell phone virus which calls 911 should be a real hoot. I wonder if cell virii can carry a voice payload which they can inject as well. Or do we have to wait a few (viral) generations for that?
Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month
At 10:01 AM 1/3/05 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041230.html PBS: I, Cringely -- The Pulpit How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month 1. 150 K asians is nothing. 2. You will see 10,000 K dead worldwide from the next H5N1 flu coming from your friendly local chinese duck/pig farmer. In under 6 months, which BTW is the time it takes to make a vaccine. 3. Homebrew warning systems will face the same problems as eg pro volcano warning systems: too many false alarms and no one cares. You might do better educating the beachfolk that when the water recedes and they can see the coral, they ought to stop gawking and run. But, hey, its a cool project, have fun.
All your wavelengths belong to us (or Powell, or the SS)
The FCC is trying to shut down a guerilla radio station in DC calling for protests during Bush's January re-anoint^H^H^H^H^H Google for it.
Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004
At 02:16 PM 12/20/04 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: No doubt a real intelligence agent would be good at getting through this kind of screening, but that doesn't mean most of the people who want to blow up planes would be any good at it! You really continue to understimate the freedom fighters, don't you? (The first) King George did the same.
Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist
At 01:23 PM 12/19/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: ..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... Very funny. My walls o' vinyl are, BTW, licenses to KaZaa the content in more convenient forms. Here, this will amuse you. Only last week did I burn my first audio CD. The week before, my first data CD. Before that, it was hot backups and ZIP disks. Yes, we're 4 years into the 21st century. Dig. As far as Dad's, well, how many five year olds know Waits, Krimso, and Einsturzende, but know nothing of Brittny? I recently recycled a computer fan guard into the AA site of a mock toy RPG, using styro cups as the grenade and a broken plastic gun as the handle. Compleat with balaclava on the young-un. Stick that in your chillum and process it. And have a nice solstice.
Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
At 04:23 PM 12/19/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Funny how most Americans only wake up after it happens to them. As EC said, the only we understand is dead Merkins. Case in point? How 'bout that proud-n-patriotic lady in Farenheit 911? As far as I could tell, prior to her son's death she was all in favor of the Attack on Iraq and even encouraged her son to serve (I hate that fucking Karma rules, mofo.
Militia or other Terrorists?
PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other day, what would Gen George W think? which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, c.? It was ATF, about some gun-robbers; it seems to be a reply to trollbait by the Faux news channel or spontaneous dreck. http://www.gunmuse.com/News/Are%20they%20Terrorist%20or%20Militia Are they Terrorist or MilitiaBY GunMuse That was the question asked and answered to by Fox News to the ATF in Michigan Gun store robberies. This is a prime example of where we see our gun organizations failing to take action. Those words are not interchangeable. The Clinton administration tried to make it that way while they rewrote the constitution via executive orders, and gave away federal lands and national treasures (Like the liberty bell) to the United Nations. This is a defamation of character to interchange these words. Militias are required to by the constitution to be a citizen protection from government corruption and abuse of power on its own people. Its the very reason that the military can not be used to police US citizens for any reason. More than 300 firearms have been stolen from local dealers in a short period of time. The thieves were caught on film using a shotgun to blast open the front door running to the back display cases and grabbing as many pistols as they could carry and were gone in less than 1 minute and 15 seconds. The ATF said they already had suspects and had issued a federal search warrant in the case and then was asked the question. Are the robbers terrorist or Militia? Lumping American patriots and believers in a strong constitutional government in the same boat as those who attacked New York.
Re: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist
At 06:12 AM 12/19/04 +0100, Anonymous wrote: Major Variola typed: PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other day, what would Gen George W think? which fedscum, do you have a mentionable source, c.? I haven't found the source, I recall that I heard it. Might have been a quickie comment on eg the Crystal Cathedral shooter. (Their depressed music conductor who alas didn't take Schuller out.) reminds of the Reno quote, They have computers and... other weapons of mass destruction. .They have computers, they're tappin' phone lines, you know that ain't allowed..
Frank Zappa, american composer
At 08:56 PM 12/17/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: the shiny pages of ''Hippie'' is to breathe deeply. My copy fell open at a manifesto by Frank Zappa, in which he admitted that ''A freak is not a freak if ALL are freaks,'' and went on to assert that ''Looking and acting eccentric IS NOT ENOUGH.'' How true. I didn't bother wasting my attention enough to see if FZ was deemed a freak or not in this article. I will tell you that he was not into pharmaceuticals but was one of the finest american composers of the last century ---and Tipper Gore[1] will burn in hell for wasting his time. If you want to appreciate his brilliance, the _yellow shark_ album (which puts to music the US form required of immigrants) will inform you. [1] A publicly known mentally ill person who spawned drug-abusing future citizens and slept with liars.
RE: [Antisocial] Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist
At 05:33 PM 12/17/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: 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... Indeed. The dude shows that 1. ability to inherit $$$ doesn't imply brains 2. he should take a structural engineering class 3. he might appreciate the hubris of Architects (tm) but that requires #2 If he really gave a shat he'd investigate the RDX stored in the Murrah building, next to daycare, but that was just a (.mil trained) 'Merican, not a bunch of specops Ay-rabs. JYA may be Architects (snicker) but methinks he groks structures, and even if not, his cryptome penance absolves him from the sins of the artsy. PS: heard some fedscum mention 'militia and other terrorists' the other day, what would Gen George W think? (Ans: The general would ask, why do we not guillotine the bastards?)
Flaw with lava lamp entropy source
I've been running a 1970s-era lava lamp for some time, and found that it can enter a stable attractor where you get a non-circulating blob o' wax at the bottom. While Walker et al.'s (?) LL video entropy source is cute/clever, the general lesson we can take from this is to be careful that physical sources do not fail. Cooling the lamp and restarting it seems to have put it back into a quasi-random physical trajectory. I suppose my visual observation counts as an online entropic monitor that any physical source apparently should have. This was driven by a 40 watt bulb and the ambient temperature dropped when it stabilized. Shaking did not restart it; only cooling and then reheating did. Now back to your regularly scheduled war crimes.
Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics
At 12:28 PM 12/16/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Anyone who owns that infrastructure is even more dangerous than who 0wns the voting machines. Very nice quote. Can I get an insurance policy on you, with me as beneficiary?
Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics
At 12:31 PM 12/14/04 -0500, Sunder wrote: Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ Gait advances in emerging biometrics By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition get most of the publicity but researchers across the world are quietly labouring away at alternative types of biometrics. Recognition by the way someone walk (their gait), the shape of their ears, the rhythm they make when they tap and the involuntary response of ears to sounds all have the potential to raise the stock of biometric techniques. According to Professor Mark Nixon, of the Image Speech and Recognition Research Group at the University of Southampton, each has unique advantages which makes them worth exploring. Look up Johansson, et al. Point light displays. Yes you can tell sex, age, etc., from the ratios of rotational axes, etc, but a stone in the shoe is a bitch. All faith is in drivers' licenses, a total joke, I got gummies on your 'prints, all your time-derivatives are mine. But grant$ are good, and flavor$ of DARPA be bitchin.
Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
At 12:01 AM 12/13/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: Interestingly, I don't know of anyone who still actively wardrives at random (as opposed to against specific targets) for this same reason. I've met some people this year who war-fly SoCal: a cessna, laptop, and regular dipole suffices, and a GPS helps with the mapping, but it was only for curiosity's sake, esp given the short time you're in a given net.
Gentlemen don't read each others' mail.. bush no gman
Anyone surprised that the US spooks are admitting to wiretapping UN people? If they really had info they'd state it but refuse to answer how they got it. Somehow I doubt that UN officials and the people they might chat with will get the secure phones they need. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57928-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_nation
Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
At 06:01 PM 12/11/04 +, Justin wrote: On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex. It needs a simple luser interface and something to piggyback servers on. Not necessarily. Mixmaster is trivial to use with Mutt. 1. Compile Mixmaster You've already lost 90% of your possible hosts 2. Put the binary in some directory somewhere. 3. Configure Mutt with --with-mixmaster (sadly not enabled by default) 4. add the line 'set mixmaster=/location/to/bin/mixmaster' to .muttrc 5. mkdir ~user/Mix/ 6. Add a script to crontab that does: You're obviously talking about some fringe unix-like OS... 7. When sending email, at the summary page just before sending, hit 'M'. And if you forget then your message is sent to the To: recipient. Nice easy-to-screw-up UI there :-(
Re: tempest back doors
At 07:46 PM 12/9/04 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying application software to include a 'back door' that would presumably enhance its suceptibility to TEMPEST attacks. Isn't tempest all about EM spectrum signal detection and capture? You have your code drive a bus with signal. The bus radiates, you 'TEMPEST' the signal, game over. Back in the 60s folks programmed PDPs to play music on AM radios. Same thing. Dig? Fine. That's great as an example of transmitting data over a covert channel, but so what? As you suggest, people have been doing that with AM radios since the 60's, although the folklore mentions the phenomenon in the context of monitoring the computer's heartbeat, purely as a debugging technique. The poster didn't understand how to backdoor a program using unintentional RF as the channel. I told them. That's so what
TSA groping
At 04:50 PM 12/10/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The change is minor and TSA officials say they have no plans to rescind pat-down procedures that require screeners to touch passengers' chest and groin areas while checking for weapons or explosives. Nevertheless, it represents an attempt by the TSA to improve its image among travelers. I flew monthly for several years after 2001. I was never touched. Should I be surprised to find a goon touching me that way, I would not be able to stop certain reflexes involving ballistic application of elbows and knees. I am surprised this has not happened or perhaps it is not reported.
Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: Wardriving is also basically dead. On the contrary. A recent article (zdnet IIRC) described a non-hacker visiting his father, and using a neighbor's connection accidentally. This is very common. My own non-tech father regularly finds other nets in his neighborhood, using default apps (not 'Stumbler, etc). Sure there are a handful of people that do it, but the number is so small as to be irrelevant. That 'wardrive' knowing its called that, yes. That do so accidentally, no. Or consider a Napster-level popular app which includes mixing or onion routing. Now we're back to the MixMaster argument. Mixmaster was meant to be a Napster-level popular app for emailing, but people just don't care about anonymity. Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex. It needs a simple luser interface and something to piggyback servers on.
Re: punkly current events
At 01:19 PM 12/10/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: I disagree. Except for the early days, spammers have been little more than a low volume nuisance on Mix. What killed mix was it's complexity - Joe Blow can't figure out how to use it, and new reops have a hell of a time getting a node running (with pingers and other required tools). Take away complexity, and Mix *could* flourish - in spite of the fedz. I agree, with the additional constraint that mix functionality piggyback with a more popular feature. Most folks won't install even the most benign, easy to use mixer; but include a mix server in a jazzy IM or next-gen napster program, and you get deployed.
punkly current events
Someone should have commented here, so I will, that some judges (earning hanging) basically said that anonymity is not a right. This in the context of mask-wearing in public. If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive?
Re: punkly current events
At 11:13 AM 12/10/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Because nodes are not geographically constrained to US jurisdiction? Name a place which is not subject to US juridiction? Ok, Iran, N Kr, until we pull a regime change (tm) on them. Yeah, they have a lot of 'net bandwidth, right. Some of the ex-soviets perhaps, only because the rubles / threats from the mafia exceed the rubles from the USG. Otherwise our advisors will help you Round Up your local cash crops, you how to shoot down missionaries, teach you how to gore an election. Even the chinese want trade enough to pander and are not unwilling to enforce a police state. Meanwhile all your Pakis are belong to u$ (except for those that don't, but hide the fact and um Sheik Yerbouti). And if extradition isn't happening fast enough, we'll send a DEA agent or snatch-und-grab specops to kidnap them. Hegemony isn't just for breakfast anymore. If you think you're not under Bush's boot, you just haven't pissed him off enough, yet.
Re: Word Of the Subgenius...
At 11:21 AM 12/9/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, May seemed to try to make the case that all of those useles eaters were in large part responsible for the very existence of the state, and that collapse of the state meant the inevitable downfall of huge numbers of minorities (why he focused on them as opposed to white trailer trash I don't know). But he was definitely advocating that racist viewpoints fall naturally out of a crypto-anarchic approach. Tyler: A rational person has to admit that many parasitic folks of all albedos are able to exist because they occupy a govt-funded niche. Without a welfare govt, those people would either 1. subsist on private (ie voluntary) charity, 2. become useful by necessity 3. die of starvation 4. die during attempts to coerce others with violence. Depending on your beliefs about human demographics/nature, you will assign variable percentages to these outcomes. It *is* racist to think that genotypes in each bin will differ *IFF* you *don't* ascribe this outcome to culture associated with genotypes. But culturism is not racism, its recognition of how behavior and evolution work. I subscribe to and will defend culturism. (I speak for myself, not TM (tm), though I may or may not be a duly appointed pope of the church of strong cryptography; though recently I've been trending towards being an Earthquaker, who believes in tectonics, esp. during seismic events. Our vatican is in Parkfield BTW :-)
Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Well besides the misinterprettaion of the ruling, which I will ignore, what makes you think MixMaster isn't already dead? OK, substitute wardriving email injection when wardriving is otherwise legal for Mixmastering, albeit the former is less secure since the injection lat/long is known. And you need to use a disposable Wifi card or at least one with a mutable MAC. Or consider a Napster-level popular app which includes mixing or onion routing.
tempest back doors
Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying application software to include a 'back door' that would presumably enhance its suceptibility to TEMPEST attacks. Isn't tempest all about EM spectrum signal detection and capture? You have your code drive a bus with signal. The bus radiates, you 'TEMPEST' the signal, game over. Back in the 60s folks programmed PDPs to play music on AM radios. Same thing. Dig?
cog sci as a tool of the beast?
At 07:21 PM 12/7/04 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the measurement of reaction time to stimulus. It turns out that the length of time it takes to given situations is a credible proxy for how difficult the discrimination is to make. Imagine a paranoia involving mysterious e-mail delays and the length of time it takes to catagorize The viewscreens of the future will simply monitor the blood flow to various areas of the cortex to see if we are lying when we express our minute of hate, or love for the rulers. RT is so passe.
primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua
Saw in a recent _Science_ that Ben Green of Cambridge proved that for any N, there are an infinite number of evenly spaced progressions of primes that are N numbers long. He got a prize for that. Damn straight. Now back to the decline of the neo-roman empire...
metaforce
At 09:41 AM 12/5/04 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: John would warn you about the organ cuts Tim would rave about the sizzle stake I'm just scoping out the meat-eye view through the grinder. --bob of mad cow metephors Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream.. -Cows with guns == unintentional consequences
Supremes need hanging
At 07:37 PM 12/7/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/v-pfriendly/story/259512p-222307c.html Klan's unmasked for city protests The hoods hiding under the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan will have to show their faces if they want to protest in New York City, the Supreme Court decided yesterday. Anonymity is as american as the BoR. The supremes need thermal chimney ascension for their deriliction of sworn duty.
Where is TM when you need him?
At 11:10 AM 12/7/04 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Peter Trei: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Try scruz.general. or misc.survivalism For some time after he left, he cruised a feline group, perhaps because one of his cats died. Perhaps this was the inspiration for Puss, an anonymous freelance purveyor of force, in _Shrek II_. Or not.
malevolent randomness
At 07:46 PM 12/4/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant coincidences or else the machinations of a malevolent universe set up specifically to piss me off. Please remember to watch a random stream. Random negatives will occur in surprisingly long to your finite-state simian mind sequences. Myself, I run a geiger counter, and it makes me happy. Some bins, no counts, others, a few times higher than average. Dig? - The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. -Robert R. Coveyou ORNL mathematician
Unintended Consequences
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
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.
Got Chips?
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?
RE: Jewish wholy words..
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.
Hawala != Halal
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, or at least carnivorous, weapon.
Re: geographically removed? eHalal
At 10:33 PM 11/28/04 -0500, 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, trustworthiness, and so on, and to keep the vendors' identities a secret, if appropriate. Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over.
Re: geographically removed?
At 06:44 PM 11/28/04 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled, determined, disciplined, and united. Observed police states are incompetent, indecisive, and quarrelsome. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment system gets swarmed by conmen and fraudsters. We have a long way to go before police states are the problem. Call me pessimistic, but you seem optimistic to me. At least we're moderately back on topic :-)
RE: Oswald, Atta, Your Name Here
At 10:08 AM 11/29/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Steve Furlong wrote: Major Variola (ret) wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the Bridge With the Secretary variant. Wonder what Teddie will say about that one. 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. And a hell of a shot as well. Gotta respect that, with a bolt-action, no less. A piece-of-shit boltie. I don't believe the official story, myself. Hitting at a upper-body sized target at less than 90 yards, using a scoped rifle, is about as difficult shooting fish in a barrel. The slow steady movement of the car makes it slightly more interesting, but hardly challenging to a decent marksman. True nuff. I recently fired up M$ FS '98, and on my first attempt was able to Atta the WTC in a 747-300, whereas a more nimble plane was too responsive to my commands and stalled, spiralled, etc. And I could cycle my 7.52x54R bolt-action in under a second on my first try, but again, grace under pressure is cool.
Re: Tin Foil Passports, Al foil diplomas
At 08:02 PM 11/29/04 +, Justin wrote: On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke? What is most poignant about this post is the lack of education of /. authors. Don't they teach Maxwell any more? Is Faraday just the guy who said ... Standardized education. We can't have anyone teaching to the 50th percentile, even assuming the median teen-citizen can handle basic calculus and EM. Teachers must teach one or two sigmas below that level, and anyone who gets hyperactive in such an inane educational environment is malfunctioning and requires medication. Today I heard a guy at work describe the Turkish empire to another. Their plan was to eliminate foreign schools for ca. 300 years so the conquered would be lame. No Canticle For Liebowitz for the conquered. I refrained from expressing the parallels I perceived, camoflage is best some times. Got IED?
And I hope that you die; And your death'll come soon
Seen the Norwegian site that calls for Bush's head shot? Two URLs, the last vivid: http://www.killhim.nu/ http://killhimwith.bazooka.at/once/ Quite refreshing (although a simple macromedia browser game would have been a nice touch) when a US teenager armed with a Dylan song warrants a visit from the men in black: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3323602,00.html --- People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. -some idiot republican
geographically removed?
At 09:42 PM 11/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, I guess I agree. However, there is some issues of Cypherpunkly importance here, particularly concerning nation-states fighting other nation-states. Though I can't consider myself a true-believing anarchist, my own personal reason for continuing to post on the subject was to illustrate that, as long as Group-of-Bandits X continues to utilize our tax dollars to fuck over geographically removed Group of Bandits Y (and their citizenry), 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 cranked up so frequently now. Useful resistance comes from asymmetric physical feedback such as experienced in Lebanon, S. Arabia, off the coast of Yemen, in a few embassies somewhere in africa, in the trains of Madrid, Okla city, and some degenerate US east coast cities a few years back, the latter indicating that geographically removed is less important, and the only incident that Joe Voter is likely to remember. Until the next one, of course; Joe's buffer is not terribly capacious. A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. --George Washington
Re: Tin Foil Passports?
At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke? What is most poignant about this post is the lack of education of /. authors. Don't they teach Maxwell any more? Is Faraday just the guy who said Sir, I do not know what it is good for. But of one thing I am quite certain--someday you will tax it. Put your cell phone in a metal tin, and call it. Wrap your access point or receiver or other radio in Al foil. Do you think Brin in _Enemy of the State_ was just a potato-chip fetishist?
Re: Computerized war serves citizens virtual baloney
At 12:52 PM 11/28/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the easiest way possible -- simply because we can. Neo-cons? Instead, we have people who think it would be sporting to hunt and kill animals by remote-control with their computer. That sort of thinking is just plain sick. Except when its the US military doing it... Where exactly is the sport''? More importantly, where is the hunt? Webster's New World Dictionary defines hunt'' this way: 1.) to go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport; 2. to search eagerly or carefully for; try to find 3. a.) to pursue; chase; drive b) to hound; harry, persecute 4. a) to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game'' and on and on in that vein. How do they define war? Nowhere is there any mention of sitting in a home or office, watching a computer-display screen and punching buttons. If that qualifies as hunting, no one really need ever hunt again because we've then reduced the killing of animals to the shooting of pictures. How does the author feel about rifled barrels? Chemical propellants in general? Is an atlatl moral? How about a 'net-connected atlatl? Just curious.
Re: Latest Tasteful Video Game: Chappaquiduck
At 11:34 PM 11/21/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the Bridge With the Secretary variant. Wonder what Teddie will say about that one. 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. And a hell of a shot as well. Gotta respect that, with a bolt-action, no less.
1st amendment
At 10:56 PM 11/16/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://cbs11tv.com/localnews/local_story_317193815.html/resources_storyPrintableView DALLAS SERVER COMPANY CARRIES ZARQAWI DEATH VIDEOS, TERRORIST WEBSITES Any State employee who attempts to oppress free speech, including video, deserves killing. Read the Bill of Rights. Any limitation on financial speech is dubious at best; however, one imagines that bandwidth is readily donated, for free, as in liberty, and beer, and code, and other forms of expression. Any private ISP is free to do as they please; however, when the State is involved, its minions must respect the BoR or expect a well-deserved visit from Mr. Soze, et al. Render unto Caesar, etc.
condosleeza rice
Dangle da carrot and dem negroes go fer da bait. Dang they'll lie for you like nothin' and dey're disposable as well! Gawd I love da south! Its a shame, Powell won't run. Instead, Fascism needs you, or your children. And hey, if Arnie gets his amendment (snort), the Carcano needs dusting off, say what you will about Oswald's politics, or the quality of spanish bolt-actions, or Maria's grim-reaper physiognomy, where is Oswald's ghost when you need it?
Stewart, Esq
Moses Washington Sitting Bull Bin Laden Let my people go, Any Questions? I believe that entrenched institutions will not be changed except by violence, Stewart said. I believe in the politics that lead to violence being exerted by people on their own behalf to effectuate change. Stewart cited the American Revolution and the struggle to end slavery as such examples but emphasized that she did not support terrorism, saying, I do not believe in civilian deaths or wanton massacres.
Re: Cell Phone Jammer?
At 04:19 PM 11/11/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: 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. Cell Jammers do a DoS on the frequency used by the base station to contact the handset, preventing a ring-in. Or a ring-out; the handset reports no service. After a ring-in the base tells the handset to jump to another freq, so you can't drop an ongoing conversation with a typical jammer. The $200 jammers will stop folks in the next car, or in your office, but not too much farther; depends on the strength of the local base station. To jam the entire cell freq *bands* would take more power and more complex circuits. A jacob's ladder and/or tesla coil might work but would be indiscrete at least.
Re: Cell Phone Jammer?
At 02:12 PM 11/13/04 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To jam the entire cell freq *bands* would take more power and more complex circuits. A jacob's ladder and/or tesla coil might work but would be indiscrete at least. A plasma speaker http://images.jfet.org/20031027/imgp1255.jpg would also work, assuming that you've got the tube to drive those frequencies and an appropriately-constructed coil. Mine runs at ~25 MHz and broadcasts like a bitch (prolly 100+ Watts). Discrete? What does that mean? You know, bug-soldered components :-) Is that a jacobs ladder in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? You disturb my aether, I decode your signal, fuck the 900 MHz (or whatever, analog cell) prohibition, eh? Have we state-licenced SPICE, or compilers yet?
Freedom of Expression
At 09:41 AM 11/10/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: Those who love operas get what they want, and those who love rock and roll get what they want, and both can live in peace with one another. Not if that manic-depressive, mother of controlled-substance-abusing spawn named Tipper Gore had maintained the power that she rode when her Internet-Inventing husband was fighting for his moronic political life. She would have banned RR, see the Mothers of Prevention album, by the premiere American composer of the 20th century, among others. Not that I wouldn't pay good money to see her, William Cohen's bipolar negress, and Condosleeza Rice duke it out, in a tub of Jello (tm), on pay-per-view, officiated by the elder lackey Powell's FCC son officiating, of course. My money's on Rice, she knows how to fight, damn the collateral damage, full speed ahead.
Collateral damage?
How does this change if I'm a child whose trust fund contains the stock? Or if I hold a mutual fund I inherited with a little Exxon stock What part of collateral damage don't you understand?
CIA Comic
At 06:59 PM 11/7/04 -0800, John Young wrote: Remember the CIA Comic from the late 90s? Told hilarious inside the agency jokes that made everyone outside the cocoon blanche and puke, sorry, Bob blew coke through his nose. Cointelpro If you don't know what it was Then it's still happening Cointelpro http://www.covertcomic.com/CCSchool.htm
RE: Musings on getting out the vote
At 12:11 PM 11/2/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang and Kodos. If you vote for Kang, the terrorists have won! Besides, without paper (ie physical) evidence, how're you gonna prove that Kang won? At least I live in a blue state. The reds, you've earned what you've earned. Those FONY baseball caps were getting passe, anyway.
The plagues are Mosaic asymmetric attacks, not biological
At 05:21 PM 10/31/04 -0800, John Young wrote: To state the obvious to Major Variola, CDC will have first indication of a devastating US attack, reported fragmentarily under its links to hospitals, clinics and physicians, against which the might military and law enforcement have no defenses. You thought I meant bio plagues?! Jeezus John, is your metaphorizer broken? Any bio hazard is accidental, or Detrick, not Osama. A *succession of attacks against the Empire* is what I mean, alluding to the Jews attacking the Pharaoh, until he let them alone.Pharoah=US, Moses=UBL, Jews=Moslems. Get your head around that one. News: The infectious biological attack will be an accident of the modularity and recombination of influenza on some chinese duck/pig/human farm. It will not be intentional but it will kill a lot before the vaccine can be produced, which takes ca. 6 mos.. See 1918 pandemic, and add jet airplanes. A recent _Science_ article described a model of this. You are one or two days away from that duck/pig/human incubator nowadays, no matter where you live. That will happen, but it won't be intentional. The geopoli implications will be fun, but UBL is not involved there. Observation: A non-infectious biological attack (eg anthrax which isn't infectious) is cheap, but not Al Q's preferred MO. They go for the special effects type attacks, simultaneous so you know its them. (Otherwise it could be a suicical egyptian, a rudder jerked too hard, a screw-jack improperly lubricated, the NTSC is very creative.) Of course the Ft Detrick folks enjoy sending the occasional sporulated letter to senators, but hey, their funding was running out, you do what you gotta do. Implementation: A chem attack is pretty nifty, and in many ways easier than fission or RDDs. Since there are so many chems moving around, and rad sources are so easy to detect, by virtue of the energy of the emissions, and controlled/surveilled materials. A tanker into a school is double the fun, its been years since Columbine, and the underbelly is itching for a scratch. (Again, you need to pull off 2 the same day.) I wonder if there is a school that enrolls only first born sons, that would be interesting to read about in your mosaic er netscape er IE browser, eh? Since your allusion-detector is broken, mosaic, get it? History: Let my people go and taking a beating only works if you have wannabe-moral brits who want to divest anyway and your name is Ghandi. Otherwise the biblical plagues, aka asymmetric attack, approach is guaranteed to work in the limit. All you need is enough popular support. Its there. It only took 200 dead marines and one bomb to evict us from Lebanon, maybe 50K corpses for S. Nam, don't know about N Korea, but do the math. .mil are disposable, but they have families that whine and vote. And the press is not *entirely* 0wn3d by the .gov, yet. Conclusion: 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 for a box in the ground pretty soon. Wolfy has more time, but after a few more kilocorpses will lose power with Joe Sixpack and Joe's post-Bush leader. Operation Just Cause Just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean I have to ignore Egyptian/Hebrew history. Just because I live here doesn't mean I don't think the US deserves the treatment that any Empire deserves. Just because I'm an American doesn't mean I can't use sophisticated allusions. Just because I say Mosaic Plagues doesn't mean I'm talking about frogs locusts. Dig?
Re: Osama's makeover
At 12:03 PM 10/31/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 08:23 PM 10/30/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And did you see the wire up his back and the earpiece? Or maybe its hard to get good tailors in Pakistan. Nah - he's allowed to use a Teleprompter, unlike Bush and Kerry at the debate-o-mercials. And unlike Bush, he can actually read. C'mon Bill, that's not fair. Even Osama commented on how Bush was making good progress on that book about the goats in the school on 9/11. How W didn't even want to put it down, he enjoyed it so much. His fine reading skills even got shown in Fahrenheight 911, along with some amusing footage of his handlers, and that's a documentary, so it must be true.
Re: Winning still matters, etc...
12:22 AM 10/31/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: Major Variola The large pit of smoldering radioactive glass is probably not an option.. Why not? They're called downwinders. Which way do the winds blow in the middle east? You keep assuming that Muslims unite, escalate, etc, but if they do, US will escalate also. No, I assume you can nuke whereever you want, just because we can. This is my take on your thesis that we are discussing. Kicking hegemony up a notch, finishing the job, let's roll... It will get easier when a US city gets nuked. The folks on the West coast might not like a few trillion curies in their soup even if we did get rid of the Indonesian Problem in the process. Maybe they just need to suck it up, ask not what their country can do for them, but how they can bend over for it. Childhood leukemia is getting easier to cure anyway.
Re: 2000 curies of Ci
At 10:54 AM 10/29/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: At 09:19 PM 10/28/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly. MilliCuries? That's a bit surprising, though losing microCuries of it would be more likely. An average home smoke detector has 1-5 microcuries, and industrial detectors go up to 15, according to one or two articles on the web which may be outdated. So you're saying they lose hundreds to thousands of smoke detectors a month? They lose the neutron sources used for well logging. They contain mCi amounts of Am241 and other hot 'topes. They use a reaction with Be to produce neutrons from alphas, like the early nukebomb initiators. More often, soil-density gauges are lost/stolen from road crews. They also have fractional Ci amounts of RDD-able topes. But they're very useful; fairly sturdy; acceptable risk. See http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2004/ and read a few days' reports.
Ruling the planet
At 09:24 PM 10/29/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: Agreed. Our interest in not in Afghanistan/Iraq per se. Our interest is in ruling the *planet*, rather than any individual pissant player. Silly JA, we want to rule the frickin' solar system. Give GWB a line of Peruvian and he'll go off on Mars. The more cluefull know about certain more proximate artificial and aggressive satellites, but we can't discuss them. Got Shutter Authority?The Zionists do... I'll see your Iranian UF6 and raise you a Dimona...
Re: Winning still matters, etc...
At 05:09 PM 10/30/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The terrorists cannot win either a conventional or an asymmetrical war against the United States, should it bring its full array of assets to the struggle. The large pit of smoldering radioactive glass is probably not an option.. The improvised explosive device is a metaphor for our time. The killers cannot even make the artillery shells or the timers that detonate the bombs, but like parasites they use Western or Western-designed weaponry to harvest Westerners. The cannot even make is patently offensive; why do nitration when what you need is around? And how many Americans could wire a Casio or Nokia to a det cap on their own? They cannot blow up enough Abrams tanks or even Humvees to alter the battlefield landscape. Obviously the US mil industrial machine is not the weak link. But what they can accomplish is to maim or kill a few hundred Westerners in hopes that our own media will magnify the trauma and savagery of their attack - and do so often enough to make 300 million of us become exhausted with the entire mess. Say 10 years from now, the dead marine count is in the high 5 figures, (perhaps they are drafted), there's more snuff-videos than porn on the web, the US *will* give up and leave, and the Jihad LLC will have won. 10 years, 20 years, whatever. Persistance works. And the martyrs enjoy the virgins, at best the infidels play harps and fly around the clouds, yawn. I'll see your IED and raise you Brittney's belly-button.
Osama's makeover
At 05:23 PM 10/30/04 -0700, John Young wrote: Which returns to the Osama make-over. His nose looks much bigger, longer and wider, eyes closer together. The sage-of-the-desert color combination of his face and hands, beard, robe, hat and backdrop look as if it was shot in New Mexico, or maybe Israel pretending Lawrence of Arabia remake. And did you see the wire up his back and the earpiece? Or maybe its hard to get good tailors in Pakistan.
Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion, UBL=Moses
At 10:16 PM 10/30/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:42:25PM -0400, Sunder wrote: As usual, South Park is a great source of wisdom. So, are you voting for the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich? My candidate is Mr Hanky, Poo party. I'm voting for Kodos. [Simpsons ref] UBL was pleasantly rational in this one. Even explained the origin of the tower-dropping plans, which was a nice bit for the historians. I'm surprised the Ask yourselves why we didn't attack Sweden comment isn't discussed more; then again I find even intelligent people refractory to that obvious question. UBL still thinks lay Americans elect their leaders, or have a clue what they're doing, but he is a man of strong faith. He even gave a succint reminder of the way out, Leave my people alone, Moses like. Time for more locusts, frogs, red tides, or modern equivalents, I'm afraid. Extra points for the commentary on Bush Sr learning about dynasty from the Saudis, etc, and installing his sons as governors. -- M. Atta -an Army of One
Geodesic neoconservative empire
At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, starting with the easiest first, it can't happen fast enough, as far as I'm concerned, and I'll gladly vote my expropriated tax-dollars for the purpose of draining the swamp that is the Middle East. Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping? Whatever happened to leaving the barbarians to kill themselves, and getting the fuck out of family spats?
2000 curies of Ci
t 10:21 PM 10/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: This is idiotic. You're claiming that the definition of terrorist is dependent not on the act, but on why the act was committed. So if I was to go out tomorrow and spread 2000 curies of Ci into the local subway system As payback for Ruby Ridge, this would not be an act of terrorism? Just for correctness' sake, there is no element named Ci, its an abbrev for Curies, ie the activity of a gram of Ra. Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly.
Re: Airport insanity
At 01:03 PM 10/23/04 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: Blowing up a building full of random people because a few of them are associated with some action you really disagree with is just outside the realm of the sort of moral decision I can figure out. Just like flying planes into buildings full of people with almost nothing to do with what you're really getting at. --John Kelsey Osama et al suffer from the belief that Americans chose their leaders and thus are responsible for their actions. They also observe that the only language americans understand is dead civilians inside the CONUS. Ergo WTC feedback. Tim McV may have somewhat analogously assumed that all Feds would take notice of his feedback. (In addition, the WTC demolishion got a disproportionate number of jews, just as Okla did get a few BATF goons. But the message was more generally intended.) Consider: If a crip whacks your homey, you needn't pop *that* crip to make your point. Any crip will do. Snipe a few tax collectors and all Caesar's centurions take note. Capiche?
Re: US enacts tough new security measures on visitors, foreign student pilots
At 10:42 PM 10/22/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: : US enacts tough new security measures on visitors, foreign student pilots Also unmentioned: all foreign flight schools are now heavily bugged/surveilled and swarthy and/or moslem students have that fact added to their Permenant Record.
immune system diseases, TSA, false positives
An immune system is a great thing until it attacks the self. In part this can be due to the limited size of recognized motifs. For instance, the string David Nelson triggers the TSA goons. If you add the phonetic-similarity recognition (required when you transcode arabic names), the matching string-set grows even larger. Any reports from Dave Nelsohns out there? At work the IT-dept-installed AV software on my PC found a virus. Only it was an object file I had just cross-compiled, for an obscure Freescale (nee Motorola) CPU. It promptly notified me and moved my binary. Breaking my build. Costing the company my time, and another engineer's to resolve it. By suppressing the immune system, at least in one region; the cornea is readily transplanted because the immune system can't touch it. I suppose anyone who's pregnancy has been endangered by Rh incompatability knows the dangers of friend or foe vigilance. Interesting security parable, I thought, anyway. ... Another case: Bush campaigning in FLA. His security parade prevents my folks, living there, from voting, that day. (One of many states with early voting, now.) The irony overwhelms. Terrorists are the only true avant-garde artists because they're the only ones who are still capable of really surprising people. ---Laurie Anderson (official artist of NASA..)
