RE: Oswald

2004-11-29 Thread Tyler Durden
> > Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he > > offed the sex & drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did. I dunno...seems like the man had his priorities straight, at leastimagine bonin Marilyn Monroe high to the gills on painkillers and speed...come ON, go

RE: geographically removed?

2004-11-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. This is why there are carnivore boxen aplenty. The knurls on the police-state knob are getting worn, it is cra

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-25 Thread Tyler Durden
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 tha

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread Tyler Durden
James A Donald wrote... What made it a breeding ground for terrorism was not civil war, but diminuition of civil war. The problem was that the Taliban was damn near victorious. If the US government had maintained the relationship with our former anti communist allies, and kept on sending them arm

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... Well, I'm sure glad we avoided having Iraq become a breeding ground for all sorts of virulent strains of Islam, warlords, etc. Also that we avoided it becoming a place that trains people in how to carry out effective guerrilla warfare against US troops. We sure dodged a bul

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread Tyler Durden
James A Donald wrote... And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? And the answer is: 9/11 sucked. Oh wait, I guess I have to explain that. After the Soviets were pushed out of Afghanistan the place became a veritable breeding ground for all sorts of virulent strains of Islam, warlords, and so

"F*ck the South"

2004-11-22 Thread Tyler Durden
A hilarious rant. You can hear this guy's anger ain't just for show, too--> www.fuckthesouth.com -TD Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to k

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Hell, the entire Cold War, John. Including your beloved Viet Nam, which was a *battle*, not a war in same. When Castro, and North Korea, etc., finally fall, then the cold war will be over. That war was won (or lost, depending on how you look at it) by the inherent failures of communism itself, not

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-14 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... Bullshit. Everyone knew that which the regime decided they must know. And if true, which I very much doubt, you are not only arguing that Qin's legalism was a different thing than communism/nazism, This is where the "Simplistic Grid" comes in. The momentum of Chinese cultu

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
That seems improbable: Qin had a cult of personality, in which every single person subject to his control had to participate. A subject of Qin, like a subject of Mao, was more aware of Qin, than he was of his mother and father. You are apparently simply unaware of the real size and terrain of

RE: Mr. Blue Goes Deaf When He Sees Red

2004-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
That's the thing that sucks. The US's Liberals are almost as fascisistic as the clouds of middle-counrty hillbillies. I figured that out as a Brooklyn HS teacher when I realized the true meaning of an oft-repeated phrase of the time: "STAY IN SCHOOL". -TD From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
My delusion is evidently widely shared: I did a google search for legalism. http://tinyurl.com/56n2m The first link, and many of the subsequent links, equated legalism with totalitarianism, or concluded that legalism resulted in totalitarianism. Wow! A GOOGLE search did you say? Well I'm convin

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
That is the revisionist version - that china was a free and capitalist society, therefore freedom is not enough to ensure modernity and industrialization - a proposition as ludicrous as similar accounts of more recently existent despotic states. I can't tell if you're arguing me with or just yours

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah. This is an interesting point. The Qing were 1) Manchus (ie, not Han Chinese)...they were basically a foreign occupation that stuck around for a while; and 2) (Nominally Tibetan) Buddhists. Although they of course adhered to the larger Confucian notions, they in many ways deviated from mainst

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
zi way of saying that the the Confucians were not a heck of a lot different from the legalists - and the legalists set up an early version of the standard highly centralized totalitarian terror state, which doubtless appears quite enlightened to the likes of Tyler Durden. Again, you seem to visualize

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Mr Donald's comments are almost completely nonsensical. or rather, they vaguely reflect some aspects of reality glimpsed through a really fucked up mirror while on bad crack. Probably Mr Donald is referring to something he saw on TV about China's response (or relative lack of response) to Japan

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
D From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:53:07 +0800 Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks Tyler Durden Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:56:08 -0800 > Oh No > > > Way

Re: Cell Phone Jammer?

2004-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
(CDMA was actually invented by Heddy Lamar to avoid jamming!) -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cell Phone Jammer? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:08:18 +1300 "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Anyone know from first-hand exper

Cell Phone Jammer?

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Anyone know from first-hand experience about cellphone jammers? I need... 1) A nice little portable, and 2) A higher-powered one that can black out cell phone calls within, say, 50 to 100 feet of a moving vehicle. -TD

RE: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Now I certainly don't agree with a lot of Chomsky, bvut this dude clearly has an axe to grind. For instance, "After 9/11, he was more concerned about a fictitious famine in Afghanistan than about the nearly 3,000 incinerated in The World Trade Center attacks." What a fucking idiot. The 3000 were

Arafat's last thoughts...

2004-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
"Damn! Just when this scrabbly beard was finally starting to grow in!"

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Oh No Way overly simplistic. Also, you are comparing apples to bushels of wheat. However Confucianism vs Daoism/Taoism is rather different from what you would get in the west. Confucianism is somewhat similar to what you would get if western cultural conservatives allied themselves with nazi/c

RE: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Fascinating. And typical of the unusual Chinese seesaw that has occurred throuout the aeons between hyper-strict centralized control and something approaching a lite version of anarchy. There's no good mapping of this into Western ideas of fascism, marxism, and economics. Interesting too that t

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I guess once you need a 3rd party for the e$, it's only going to make sense that the issuer offer a "value added" service like you're talking about. A 3rd party verifier is probably going to be too costly. But I'm not 100% convinced that you HAVE TO have a 3rd party verifier, but it's loo

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-08 Thread Tyler Durden
, but of course one could argue "what's the point if you already need a 3rd party for the e$". But I think that's a disjoint set of issues. -TD From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Tyler Durden
JAT wrote... This election *proves* that at least half the electorate, about 60 million people, are just Useless Eaters, who should be eagerly awaiting their Trip Up The Chimneys. A...I need a cigarette. But I suspect it's far more likely that some large batch of USA-ians will end up having a

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Crap! Am I on crack? I think I agree with everything here! However... (James Donald wrote...) I cannot understand why you Bush haters are so excited about this election when on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Kerry promised to continue all Bush's policies only more effectually. That's basica

RE: No, Canada!

2004-11-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Wow. What kind of fucking idiot wrote this thing? A piece like this can actually get published? This is the biggest set of arguments I've seen yet for moving TO Canada! BTW: I always thought that "Economic Immigration" was an excellent ideait siphoned off tons of Hong Kong millionares befor

RE: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-06 Thread Tyler Durden
"He won because 53 percent of voters approved of his performance as president. Fifty-eight percent of them trust Bush to fight terrorism. They had roughly equal confidence in Bush and Kerry to handle the economy. Most approved of the decision to go to war in Iraq. Most see it as part of the war on

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-05 Thread Tyler Durden
What if I block the outbound "release the money" message after I unbundle the images. Sure, I've already committed my money, but you can't get to it. In effect I've just ripped you off, because I have usable product and you don't have usable money. Well, yes, but this would be a very significant s

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-05 Thread Tyler Durden
I dunno...a lot of it made sense to me. You don't have to be a Commie in order to believe that someone ELSE believes there's a "class war", and that they gotta keep us black folks po', or else we'll soon be having sex with their wives and daughters and competing with their sons for decent jobs.

Re: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Ben Laurie made a lot of useful points. However,... Simultaneous release is (provably?) impossible without a trusted third party. I don't think I believe this. Or at least, I don't think it's true to the extent necessary to make the original application impossible. Consider: I send you money for

RE: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Hum. So my newbie-style question is, is there an eGold that can be verified, but not accessed, until a 'release' code is sent? In other words, say I'm buying some hacker-ed code and pay in egold. I don't want them to be able to 'cash' the gold until I have the code. Meanwhile, they will want to

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, this may actually be less hard than we thought. Indeed, it's the one vaguely silver lining in this toxic cloud. Outsourcing to India will actually add a lot to world stability. Of course, we'll loose a lot of jobs in the process, but in the long run we'll eventually have another strong tr

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread Tyler Durden
"2. Vietnam we lost by kicking their asses so badly that our campuses "revolted", at the behest of a bunch of marxists. Whereupon we packed up, partied for about 15 years, and killed their communist sugar daddies in Moscow with just the *possibility* we could invent something strategic missile defe

RE: Musings on "getting out the vote"

2004-11-02 Thread Tyler Durden
And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang and Kodos. So far, the only things Kerry seems to have promised is that he'd be better at doing all the crazy shit Bush has dove into. So when they ask me (at the corner of Wall and Broadway), "Are you a John Kerry Suppo

RE: Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy

2004-11-02 Thread Tyler Durden
"That said, I hereby confess to feeling disappointed over Senator John Kerry's failure to home in hard on one of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years - namely the Bush administration's drastic expansion of needless government secrecy." Come on! The bar slut has pas

RE: The "plagues" are Mosaic asymmetric attacks, not biological

2004-11-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Again, the Mosaic approach of repeated asymmetric attacks on the Pharoah is what Al Q is up to. Eventually the Pharoah/US gets fed up and says fuck it. Maybe not this election, but eventually, and Al has time. GW has only 4 more years, at best, and Rummy & Cheney are scheduled fo

RE: Osama's makeover

2004-10-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah...wasn't there an X-Files that was similar? I remember someone picking up a photo of Sadam Hussein and the TLA-dude saying, "Him? He was a truck driver in Detroit we found." Perhaps the reason Bush hasn't 'caught' bin Laden yet is because he thinks he (ie, Bush) will win the election. He d

bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread Tyler Durden
GodDAMN George W is a dumb fuck. If the guy's IQ had broken the 3-digit barrier he might have figured out that by nearly directly replying to the new bin Laden video he's basically elevating bin Laden to a hostile head-of-state. OK you TLA snoops...surely some of you montioring this list must ha

100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
A large percentage of these are women and children, and dying directly due to American bombing. Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=RelatedStories&pitem=AP%2DIraq+Death+Toll&rev=20041029&pub_tag=

RE: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Sounds good, but there's a little flaw in the logic: 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 happ

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
"The remaining communists have made some psychological recovery - see for example Tyler Durden's peculiar version of recent history, where in his universe the communists actually won and are still winning," Again, you live in a world that's evenly divided between black and white. Since I'm not whi

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... The irony is that the neocons seemed to be trying to build up a kind of mass movement mentality >in the US, which clearly has caught George Bush and his top advisors--this wonderful notion that >we're going to go out and civilize these heathens, bring them democracy and free

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Mr Donald wrote... A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted, that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist conspiracy, so in place of obvious truths, we can substitute any ridiculous fantasy that we

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Moral equivalence, the rationale of those who defend tyranny and slavery. Exactly. -TD --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9UPtpcIvFgtu2JFnBNLIA/QPpXk7MkK68mtvmQya 45I4CX0wox3d7YrExie7R1Q+2YFGk2ao4amh5DlM6 __

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, perhaps your comment was made entirely toungue-in-cheek, but I still think you're missing the point. The point is this: Almost and "side" in this world that has committed or commits atrocities can find a true-believing apolegist. And in most cases the best of these can concoct an answer t

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
You MUST be new here, Pete ole boy... Do you really think Kerry wouldnt have signed the Patriot Act if he was president? Federalized the drivers license requirements? Pushed for socialized medicine with central controls? Kerry or Bush, Kang or Kodos, in the end it means the same thing. I'm sure

Doubt

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Capelli wrote... Yet what of your blindness, which doubts *everything* the current administration does? 1. Abu Ghraib 2. WMD in Iraq 3. Patriot Act 4. Countless ties between this administration and the major contract winners in Iraq Hum. Seems a decent amount of doubt is called for. -TD ___

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
now: he's completely wrong, and a wan smile would cross my lips if his meeting with Jesus were hastened quite a bit. -TD Old mother Reagan went to heaven at the pearly gates she was stopped. (Violent Femmes) From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EM

Donald's Job Description

2004-10-24 Thread Tyler Durden
I have a hunch that Mr. Donald is instead playing the role of an elaborate "devil's advocate", furiously defending his stance against retaliations by our fellow Cypherpunks. Tyler Durden mentioned this hypothesis many emails ago, and I believe him to be accurate, especially since M

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Let us not forget the more tangible 'value' in bombing the WTC and messing up things downtown. First of all, the companies in the WTC were, to say the least, impacted (actually, the company I work for lost 11 people and relocated to NJ for about a year)hitting them (and their workers) was p

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-22 Thread Tyler Durden
es of oppression. It also had swiped billions upon billions of dollars of gold and other substances that backed the Chinese monetary system prior to 1949, so arguably that money had to go somewhere. -TD From: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: James A. Donald's insanity

2004-10-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Sunder wrote... "Come on, come on, out with it, say it, say it... That's right! *Ding* you're reality challenged." Well, perhaps, but Mr Donaldson's brain has been turned into a host/vector for a very powerful set of memes. In a sense, one can't blame him: He has an answer for everything, and h

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...wha? I said... > The US was in Vietnam trying to fight their way up. So it > would have been pretty evident to anyone watching that the US > was trying to undermine the PRC. And you said... You live in a world of delusion. Your dates are all wrong, your events are all fiction. So there was no

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Will Morton wrote... In addition, the whole of Indochina was (and is) a clusterfuck of rivalries and feuds going back centuries. The (relatively) sudden appearance of a bunch of new regimes, all with revolutionary mindsets through which to apply their old vendettas, probably made the bloodsh

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
As I said, an Islamic regime is objectionable if it tolerates terror against non islamic minorities, thus creating, perhaps unintentionally, an environment that facilitates terror against external infidels - that is to say, terror against me and people like me. You say a lot of wacky stuff, so it s

Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, when push comes to shove I have to admit Mr Donald doesn't mince words. Guess that's what Cypherpunks is for! However... The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The penta

"Give peace a chance"? NAH...

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
War is dangerous to freedom, but we do not have a choice of peace. The question is where the war is to be fought - in America, or elsewhere. War within America will surely destroy freedom. So. Why don't we see terrorist attacks in Sweden, or Switzerland, or Belgium or any other country that do

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Bill Stewart wrote... Unfortunately, the primary algorithm seems to work like this: - Somebody puts a name on some list because it seems like a good idea at the time, and there's no due process required. - Everybody copies lists from everybody else, with minimal attempt to track whe

US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
On 18 Oct 2004 at 15:31, Tyler Durden wrote: > Aside from that, your posts are completely saturated with the > "They're more evil than we are therefore it's OK for us to be > fuckin them over" logic. They are more evil that we are, as demonstrated by their propensit

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Tyler Durden
WOW! Let's examine your little clip here. Tyler Durden > "Care to Avoid harming Muslims"? Your statement was that the US took special care in avoiding harm to Muslims. In this case we have Muslims tortured at Guantanamo and now angry as hell. And you expected...what? http://w

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Tyler Durden
r substantial > > majority in many muslim countries, continually seek to > > confront the infidel in a wide variety of ways, and > > interpret our politeness and care to avoid harming muslims > > as weakness and fear." Tyler Durden > I would bet that statements tha

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Tyler Durden
kness and fear." I would bet that statements that sound very, very close to this were uttered prior to Iraq II. "Care to Avoid harming Muslims"? You are either trolling with better skill than even I, the Great Tyler Durden could muster, or else you are completely and totally ignora

Re: Airport insanity.."Ethnicity" is Bullshit

2004-10-17 Thread Tyler Durden
> > You also seem to forget there is another potential factor - > > not only the visible one (ethnicity), but also one that isn't > > obvious to visual evaluation - religion. There is a > > significant black minority that inclines to Islam, some of > > them potentially radical. Do you want to sugg

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, Mr Donald...you're shittin' me, right? Has anyone who does not look a terrorist done a suicide mission outside Israel or Russia? If you define a suicide mission a priori as the act of a terrorist (I guess I do), then by definition anyone who performs such an act is a terrorist. Therefore, any

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread Tyler Durden
First of all, the guy is a major dumbass... My profile is radically different from all those who killed nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My "holy book" of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I am a loyal, taxpaying, patriotic, evil-hating, English-as-first-language, natur

Re: Poor privacy protection in the states

2004-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
JAT wrote... Basically, we're a bunch of closet fascists. and Um, I'm sorry - maybe you hadn't heard yet: that old piece of paper was superceded on 11 Sep 01, when "everything changed". I think that's the day we came out of the closet. Read, "Radio Free Albemuth" by P.K. Dick and you'll get the pic

RE: Airline ID requirement faces legal challenge

2004-10-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, this story is quite the media bellweather. This one treats the case purely as "Gilmore wants to fly anonymously", while even some other mainline media are reporting it as, "Gilmore is questioning the legality of hidden laws". I guess USA Today still feels it has an audience worth pand

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Very interesting question. I'd bet almost any amount of money that it's fairly trivial to simply alligator-clip-out the fingerprint's file from almost any of the cheaper devices. Hell, I'd bet that's true even of more expensive "secure" devices as well. -TD From: Frank Siebenlist <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

2004-10-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Can't specifically confirm that, but this last summer I traveled to several countries (and back into the US) using an expired passport as ID (and no, they didn't just forget to read the date, the expired passport was officially acceptable). -TD From: "Riad S. Wahby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cyph

RE: Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success

2004-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, as a research toy QC seems gee-wiz super cool. I'm still not super-impressed by the current set of applications. In particular, consider that random number generator. Although QM does indeed predict that experimental outcomes will be 'random', they are random within the weightings imposed b

RE: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, I'll bite. Or rather... Well, your initial postulate was stated in such a way as to be fairly unrefutable, the key word being "float". Only companies, etc...provide that by requiring that the transacted funds flow through their coffers for a moment, where they extract their discount revenue.

Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

2004-10-07 Thread Tyler Durden
e of any mergers/acquisition deals. -TD From: Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical" Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:26:32 +0100 Tyler Durden wrote: An interesting thing to think about is the fact that

Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

2004-10-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, that's an interesting point. In places like downtown NYC, if the fiber doesn't actually go to the basement of a building, it will certainly go within a few 100 feet, so that last hop is trivial. (But the kind of companies this would be targeted for this would already have fiber to the

RE: Spotting the Airline Terror Threat

2004-10-03 Thread Tyler Durden
"DiDomenica has first-hand experience of the effectiveness of the system. He was using his own observation techniques - called BASS (Behavior Assessment Screening System) - last year when he saw man acting oddly near the checkpoint and stopped him. The suspect passenger turned out to be an agent fr

RE: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-02 Thread Tyler Durden
: This isn't quite as farfetched as it seems: Even 5 to 10 years ago it was shown that there can be quantum Forward Error Correction, and simple devices were demonstrated in the laboratory. -TD From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

2004-10-01 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... Maybe. I guess the thing that's confusing about any of these answers is that the rules as they're >applied must be propogated to thousands of people. It's not like they could easily hide guidance >like "no more than 10 Arabs per flight" or "double-screen anyone with brown

RE: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
What's a "quantum repeater" in this context? As for "Hype Watch", I tend to agree, but I also believe that Gelfond (who I spoke to last year) actually does have a 'viable' system. Commerically viable is another thing entirely, however. -TD From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL P

"ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

2004-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65154,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4 I post this not as a refernce per se, but to ask the question: Exactly Why Does the Government Not Want to Reveal Their ID Rules? This would seem obvious at first, but upon thinking about it I have to admit to being a little co

RE: John Abizaid needs termination

2004-09-28 Thread Tyler Durden
"Methinks he's a robot," Isn't that from Philip K Dick's "The Penultimate Truth"? Hum. Any chance there really is no war in Iraq and we're just being cowered into producing items for the ultra-rich living outside of "Bunker USA"? -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PR

RE: Individual Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Half-dozen? And virgins are WAY overrated. -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Individual Geopolitical Darwin Awards Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:33:56 -0700 At 10:00 AM 9/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim wrote... You demonstrate that point well. Hum. Spend a lot of time with binoculars, do we? How much does the FBI pay field ops these days? -TD _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-ur

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-20 Thread Tyler Durden
John Young wrote... from school and fucked up parents who use you like a beast of burden -- in every age and country. The military has found that teenagers are better fighters than those over 21, more malleable, patriotic, healthy, ready to kill when told it's okay. . Grunts younger than 20 ar

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-17 Thread Tyler Durden
"Ken Brown" wrote... Prostitution industry? Well, Industry from what I understand is probably too strong a term. These seem to be individual females. And no, they ain't wearin' high heels and hot pants, so what we're talking about is very, very discrete, and sometimes for goods and services as o

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-17 Thread Tyler Durden
rom: ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:45:18 +0100 Tyler Durden wrote: Who, the Iranians? Which ones are fanatics? I'

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey Hey Hey! I'm not the original quoter there...watch it! -TD From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:48:01 -0500 (CDT)

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Who, the Iranians? Which ones are fanatics? I'll grant there are some fanatics left in Iran, but Iran seems increasingly dominated by fairly sleezy clergy/judges. Like any government, theirs is deteriorating into a mere racket. And if you ask me, fanaticism never lasts very long anywhere, only f

RE: Symantec labels China censor-busting software as Trojan

2004-09-15 Thread Tyler Durden
"We hope that the mislabelling of Freegate is a simple mistake, soon rectified, rather than yet another example of an IT firm helping Beijing implement restrictions." I'd say this was naive, but they give an example after this that shows they know the score. Symantec wants in to China and their

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

2004-09-14 Thread Tyler Durden
I still think we're seeing the early stages of a Jonestown-like scenario. If we see Kim Jong Il summoning the entire NK population to PyongYang, then we can be pretty sure they're going to nuke themselves! -TD From: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

2004-09-13 Thread Tyler Durden
"Ken Brown" wrote... And if there was such a test, how long before China stomped all over them. Last thing they want is a looney dictator with nukes on their borders (If only to pre-empt Russia, US, or Japan intervening). Even if both the Chinese state capitalists and the North Korean absolute

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

2004-09-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... If it *were* a nuke, it would be easy to detect --from Vera gamma-ray satellites staring at the earth to optical sensors (there's a characteristic nonlinear time-course of optical emissions) to fallout monitors, ground and plane based. --and an underground test that vents to the at

A nice little dose of pop conspiracy theory...

2004-09-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, despite some of the fairly dubious "what about this!" points, there are some things that are a little unsettling. No way that's a Boeing 757, and it's not like they can just lose one (ie, there should have been one unaccounted for). And I was unaware of the possibility that the FBI had

Re: Flying with Libertarian Hawks

2004-09-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn right. 'Conservative' means agreeing with the most vocal proponents of the current right wing apparatchiks. It seems to have little or no relationship to fiscally conservative ideas. "Left wing" now refers to anyone who disagrees with the 'Conservatives', even if said left wing policies ar

RE: BrinCity 2.0: Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city

2004-09-10 Thread Tyler Durden
cameras will be linked -- and authorities will be alerted to crimes and terrorist acts. Whew. I feel better already. If only we had had cameras rolling on 9/11/2001, none of that would have ever happened. -TD _ FREE pop-up blocking

Re: Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)

2004-09-08 Thread Tyler Durden
I see Savvis has a sales office in a Building I used to work in here in NYC. They also seem to be be somewhat deadbeat-ish with respect to paying some of their bills, so I bet they need that Spam revenue. That exec probably needed that revenue in order to qualify for some absurd bonus. -TD Fr

Re: Gilmore case...Who can make laws?

2004-09-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, still ruminating... The kind of regulations that regulatory bodies have made in the past are in their nature different from these secret rules I still believe. This is of course aside from their secret nature. Previously, if a regulatory body such as the FCC enacted some kind of policy, t

RE: stegedetect & Variola's Suitcase

2004-09-07 Thread Tyler Durden
So here's the 'obvious' question: How fast can dedicated hardware run if it were a dedicated Stegedetect processor? In other words, how easy would it be for NSA, et al to scan 'every' photo on the internet for Stego traces? (And then, every photo being emailed?) And then, how fast can someone w

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

2004-09-01 Thread Tyler Durden
. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > Not totally. That cop on a scooter rightfully got the crap kicked out

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

2004-09-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Wheee! NYC==Police State for the last week for those of you living under rocks... Not totally. That cop on a scooter rightfully got the crap kicked out of him for mowing down demonstrators. They can gain local, temporary control but if we take to the streets en masse then there's not much the

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