Re: why worry?

2000-02-16 Thread Steve Schear
Has anyone heard Bruce Coburn's song "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" ? I can upload the mp3 file somewhere if anyone wants it. It's rather uplifting. 8-) If you're in a giving mood why not join the community at Napster.com where thousands of music buffs are sharing their MP3

Re: Re: Re: why worry?

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:47 AM 2/17/00 +, you wrote: At 02:19 AM 17/02/00 , Reese wrote: In South Vietnam, our client regime The US of A did _not_ have a "client regime" in S. Vietnam. Vietnam was split into N. and S. and the FRENCH were to look after S. Vietnam at the end of WWII - we had a similar setup

Re: Justice Department criticizes online anonymity

2000-03-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:36 PM 3/1/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Of more relevance to this list, perhaps, is yesterday's testimony of the FBI's Michael Vatis with the bureau's usual crypto-complaints: Michael was the FBI chief I put on the spot at the '98 RSA conference. He proudly pitched how the FBI's

Re: CyberPatrol sues cryptanalysts who revealed flaws in itssoftware

2000-03-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:50 AM 3/20/00 -0800, Ed Gerck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't acknowledge that reverse engineering violates any right to privacy. Send someone a plaintext message in a postcard. If I read it, I can claim that I could not help but read it when I saw it -- so, I had no intent to

A Tale of Two Botanies: Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Schear
A Tale of Two Botanies Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? Hear what Bill Joy, Hans Moravec, and Ray Kurweil have to say at this free symposium on April 1. Check out: www.stanford.edu/dept/symbol/ for more information --Steve

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As CorporateBullyGetsComeuppance

2000-04-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:30 AM 4/7/00 -0700, Lizard wrote: International 'law' is as strong as the strongest nation that supports the law. The US will only obey such laws as it finds convenient. Deal with it, Euroeweenies. Yes, and one has only to look at the hand wringing at the Dept. of State over the Internal

Re: car hacker's lists?

2000-04-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:00 PM 4/21/00 -0500, you wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Eric Murray wrote: Anyone know of mailing lists devoted to hacking/understanding the electrical systems of cars? I know there used to be a list run by John DeArmond which dealt with do-it yourself fuel injection and similar

Re: IOL NEWS: Home-built device can cause air chaos [Found it - GPS jamming]

2000-04-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:22 PM 4/23/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.iol.co.za/news/newsview.php3?click_id=79art_id=qw956180101425B252set_id=1 John Pike, director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists, told the magazine that it was simple to jam the GPS, because the satellite signal is

Re: Who to send back (ecotones)

2000-04-29 Thread Steve Schear
in the middle of a very forbidding environment. Certainly way over on the die-off side of the ecotone for humans. I've spent time in Vegas, and this is not true. (Steve Schear, as I recall, has spent even more time there.) Las Vegas has abundant water and power, courtesy of the Colorado River

Re: Metallica INC.

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:55 PM 5/3/00 -0600, you wrote: -I didn't even mention the fact that metallica got a hold of a weeks worth of napster logs and is attempting to go after the end users who dl their songs during that week period4000 peopleand they are seeking outragious sums.. www.paylars.com if

Re: Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing government.

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:25 AM 5/12/00 -0400, you wrote: Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job - and

Re: Cpunk Havenco

2000-06-04 Thread Steve Schear
[Full story available on-line w/o subscription] Rebel group building `colony' in cyberspace BY JOHN MARKOFF New York Times If the mouse roared in cyberspace, would anyone hear it? In the annals of Internet history, June 5, 2000, may be remembered as the date that a hardy band of true

Re: Whipped Europeans

2000-09-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:15 AM 9/3/00 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote: Not to mention that there exists a certain peptide, the name of which escapes me at the moment, which is naturally occuring in the brain. It is five amino acids long, and exerts an effect about 5000 times stronger

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:41 PM 11/9/00 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 09:02 AM 11/9/00 -0800, Tim May wrote: I agree that that's a strong point - if any of those 19000 voters was confused, the time for them to raise the issue was at the poll. If they _did_ ask "hey, this is confusing, how do I vote for Gore?" at the

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:23 AM 11/13/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] #These spoiled ballots don't imply that the voters who #created them didn't ask for and receive new ballots. Those 30,000 (not 19,000) were from the ballot box, not replaced ballots from on-site. That's

Re: US: Democracy or Republic?

2000-12-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:26 AM 12/10/00 -0800, petro wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: From: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. IT IS A REPUBLIC. THE ELECTORAL A republic is a form of democracy, a representative one. No,

Stego (really Markov chains) goes mainstream

2000-12-14 Thread Steve Schear
A BETTER ENCRYPTOR: Forget high-end alphanumeric characters. The latest in encryption technology is deceptively simple - and familiar. A new technology called Spam Mimic enables users to encode short messages in adjective-riddled promotional language. Spam Mimic uses phrases like "become rich