creationists vs. reality

At 08:10 AM 6/9/01 -0700, A. Melon wrote: Check out F*ck the Creationists by MC Hawking: http://www.mchawking.com/music.html. You can lay the funky shit on them creationists. Why, when it only takes 4 muscles to pull a trigger, and 42 to frown?

CAL ISO *internal ops* machines cracked

SACRAMENTO For at least 17 days at the height of the energy crisis, hackers mounted an attack on a computer system that is integral to the movement of electricity throughout California, a confidential report obtained by The Times shows. BR The hackers' success, though apparently limited,

got front plates? (Big Bro needs them..)

In the UK, do they enforced front-plate requirements a lot? How do they track them Irish otherwise? http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/20010606/t47110.html Police Catch Drivers Without Front Plate Traffic police caught 202 drivers without front license plates on their cars Tuesday

civil unrest simulation game

At least they weren't deterred by the abuse of Steve Jackson by Feds who thought he was writing a criminal training tool... Seattle WTO Riots -- Are You Game? SEATTLE (Reuters) - If you missed out on the tear gas, rubber-pellet fire and window-smashing

satellite beacons for time releases, non-parallizable algorithms

A satellite beacon would not be tamperproof. And space tends to be controlled by The Man. A simpler version is to establish a retroreflector N light years away, and send some secret on its way.After 2N years you get your bits back, and no one could have outraced them (cf Michaelson-Morley).

seizing power

The governor warned electricity suppliers: If they don't want to see their plants seized, they should make sure their plants are up and running this summer. Sounds like a threat to initiate the use of force... Atlas shrugged. http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010517/t41412.html

the futility of copy protection

But, you'll be recording (unless you break the protection) an analog signal. That's the simplest attack. And you'll have generational loss each copy. Not once you digitize your analog.

blueprints for phonographs: questions in http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-caq.htm

Universal City v. Reimerdes 2. Does DeCSS have both speech and non-speech elements? Speech only: Since a *recipe* is not the same as *baking* the cake, DeCSS.c is speech. 3. Does the dissemination of DeCSS have both speech and non-speech elements? Only speech ---'dissemination' is

sniper detection, by the RAND Corp.

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1187/MR1187.appc.pdf

op piece on assassination

Saturday April 28 08:07 PM EDT Time To Get Back Into The Assassination Business? By Richard Reeves WASHINGTON -- In case there was any doubt that the tough guys are back in charge in Washington, some of the new unilateralists making