Re: Cpunk Havenco's Weapon Choices

2000-06-18 Thread Steve Schear
Might this qualify? http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.scnusa.com/sealand-legal.htm At 01:15 AM 6/18/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: At 20:52 6/17/2000 -0400, petro wrote: From the ruling, no, but from http://www.sealandgov.com/history.html: Right. We've all read this.

SRK

2001-07-19 Thread Steve Schear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- July 19, 2001 e-gold Ltd. (http://www.e-gold.com) has implemented web site upgrades that provide for enhanced customer and site security. e-gold passphrase entry can now be optionally performed by account holders clicking the SRK button next to the passphrase

Re: FW: FW:Read this...

2001-07-20 Thread Steve Schear
- Original Message - From: Teja Yalgi To: VaniJayanthi ; CSN ; Deepta ; BV Ramakrishna ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:16 PM Subject: FW:Read this... Hi This is Jitendra Vaidya today I was visiting the official website

Focus On What's Important in the Sklyarov Case

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Schear
Focus On What's Important in the Sklyarov Case If you want to get Sklyarov out of jail, you need to focus on how the FBI has handled the case and not on the merits of the DMCA or what Sklyarov allegedly did. http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=20010719141720141

Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:43 PM 7/21/2001 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: - Original Message - From: Subcommander Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday What exactly peaceful banner-carrying demonstrators on the

Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonpost.com)

2001-07-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:14 AM 7/22/2001 -0500, you wrote: Point this baby at the ground... http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27248-2001Jul20.html I wonder what the destructive mechanism is for this system? Heat by radiant absorption seems an obvious but impractical method. If it is, then as the

Re: Ohio man convicted for obscene stories in his private journal

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:22 AM 7/5/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: [A followup to a cpunx thread, and a link to the statute.] Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:15:01 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ohio man convicted for obscene stories in his private journal Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonpost.com)

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:28 AM 7/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Steve Schear wrote: I wonder what the destructive mechanism is for this system? There was an article in IEEE Spectrum last year (I think) on one of the systems. The main failure mechanism is weakening of the aeroshell and due

Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonpost.com)

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:05 PM 7/23/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Steve Schear wrote: It's the one they use primarily. Only because the rocket exterior has not been stealthed via high reflectivity and faceting. Maybe. But even mirrors can be burned through by a laser. And then we've

Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:43 PM 7/24/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Jim Choate wrote: Maybe. But even mirrors can be burned through by a laser. And then we've Jim, why are you trying so hard to make a complete fool out of yourself, in a

Re: Choate Prime Physics

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:39 AM 7/25/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote: You're gibbering about things you have no clue about. Babbling about the intermediate vector boson when you clearly don't even understand high school physics is especially bizarre. Photons are _quanta_,

Re: Weird message from someone named NIPC

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:48 AM 7/26/2001 +, Triffid Master wrote: [ My PSINet email is history. ] Tim May wrote: # #I really cannot imagine why I am getting these SirCam messages #from some government agency named NIPC, unless for some reason #my e-mail address is in their address book. How could

Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washing tonpost.com)

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:05 AM 7/25/2001 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: Bill Stewart writes: Meanwhile of course, any foreign terrorist that wants to nuke the US with a physically small weapon only needs to pack it in cocaine and bring it in with the regular shipments, while Rogue Nations that can only

Re: Corporate totalitarianism?

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:24 PM 7/26/2001 +, Steve Thompson wrote: Quoting Aimee Farr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I received the following today, by Robert Weissman, co-author of _Corporate Predators_, (corporatepredators.org) in regard to the Sara Lee Ball Park Frank Hot Dog incident, in which 21 people died. It

Re: Corporate totalitarianism?

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:07 PM 7/26/2001 +, Steve Thompson wrote: Quoting Steve Schear ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Would holding both the corporation and its executives libel for the same crime constitute a form of double jeopardy ;-) I don't see how that could be. Blame and punitive sanctions are, if I am

Fwd: Re: [e-gold-list] Re: The CRISIS!!!

2001-07-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:02 AM 7/31/2001 +1000, Ben Legume wrote: These are strange days. Has anyone else noticed how the far left (bomb-throwing anarchists, social activists etc) are now getting very upset and demonstrating about the things the extreme right (the John Birchers etc.) have been complaining about

Re: Findlaw: The New York Times and Napster

2001-07-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:29 PM 7/30/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010730_chander.html It will be very interesting if Napster decides to take Mr. Chander's suggestion and ask the court to force copyright holder's back to the table and compel them to negotiate or face an

Re: Stegotext in usenet as offsite backup

2001-08-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:31 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: At 11:52 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: It would be handy, from my point of view, to use usenet as an offsite backup solution -- posting encrypted source for work-in-progress on binary newsgroups so I could just go back and nab it out of

Re: Pi

2001-08-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:34 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: Interesting article recently posted on the Nature Web site about the normality of Pi. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010802/010802-9.html David Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Richard Crandall of Reed College in

RE: Congress hard at work: Cereal box regulation

2001-08-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:40 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: It would be worth it to go just for the purpose of asking what they were going to do about cereal killers. You mean those who put ketchup on their corn flakes ;-) steve

Re: Governors Seeking Internet Tax

2001-08-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:50 PM 8/4/2001 -0500, you wrote: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010804/pl/tech_governors_tax_dc_1.html Governors Seeking Internet Tax By Leslie Gevirtz PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer on Saturday urged Congress to allow states to tax e-commerce to replenish state

Re: Governors Seeking Internet Tax

2001-08-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:13 AM 8/5/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: I'm no expert on this -- in fact, I've studiously avoided becoming one on this -- but my understanding is that under the Quill decision, California can't force PennsylvaniaBooks.com to collect sales taxes on shipments to SF and remit it to the

Risks of Microsoft Passport

2001-08-06 Thread Steve Schear
Risks of Microsoft Passport We all know the risks of trusting DNS and the fact that users click OK when presented with certificate warnings in their browser. So what happens when you build a single sign-on model for e-commerce that leverages these technologies? You end up with some risks that

Laptop theft causing global havoc

2001-08-06 Thread Steve Schear
Laptop theft causing global havoc What do the U.S. State Department, the British military and the FBI have in common? Each of these security-centric organizations has recently lost laptops with sensitive information. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2801184,00.html

Operating the Gold Economy

2001-08-06 Thread Steve Schear
Fot those who haven't read it. A good rebuttal to Back Robert Cringely's article touting PayPal and condemning the gold economy. http://www.standardtransactions.com/paypal_is_not_gold.html

Russian programmer out on bail

2001-08-06 Thread Steve Schear
Russian programmer out on bail Three weeks after his arrest, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is out on bail. Sklyarov was ordered to post $50,000 bail Monday in San Jose Federal Court. He is not allowed to travel outside of Northern California. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug.

California victims can't sue gunmakers

2001-08-06 Thread Steve Schear
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Victims cannot sue weapons manufacturers for damages when criminals use their products illegally, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a closely watched case testing gunmaker liability. http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/08/06/california.guns.ap/index.html

Re: The Feds Want To Write Your Software

2001-08-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:19 PM 8/6/2001 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: To: Matthew Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Wayne Crews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cato TechKnowledge: The Feds Want To Write Your Software Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:21:11 -0400 The Feds Want To Write Your Software Issue #15 August 6, 2001 by

RE: Indict Saddam?

2001-08-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:00 PM 8/12/2001 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: Keyser: their interests is needed. Fortunately, a number of effective and popular electronic currencies (e.g., e-gold) with adequate privacy features exist. Would somebody explain e-gold's privacy features to me? Pretty please? Perhaps,

Re: Physicspunks

2001-08-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:38 PM 8/16/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: These are not mystical objects. I used them in my lab a few decades ago. Integrating spheres is the lab supply store name. Looked at from another point of view, a hollowed-out sphere with a small hole. Light entering the sphere bounces around and is

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:34 PM 9/2/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Sunday, September 2, 2001, at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand by my earlier statement. The fact that you may be identifiable at the point of entry to an anonymity system is a weakness, not a desired feature, and if it can be avoided,

Re: Gnutella remailers (was Re: Moral Crypto)

2001-09-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:55 PM 9/3/2001 -0400, V. Alex Brennen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Steve Schear wrote: At 12:34 PM 9/2/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: Anyone a remailer, anyone a mint is one strong approach. I know this suggestion has been made before

Re: Gnutella remailers

2001-09-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:57 PM 9/3/2001 -0700, A. Melon wrote: I know this suggestion has been made before, probably by myself, but it seems the remailer programmers may be missing a good opportunity in not pursuing the inclusion of remailer code in the popular Gnutella cleints (e.g., LimeWire). They

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:42 PM 9/4/2001 -0700, John Young wrote: On ZKS selling anonymizing products that are publicly available to governmental officials does raise an issue of whether officials should, or should be able to, conceal their official identities when working cyberspace in an official capacity. I think

Re: cryptorepression

2001-09-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:01 AM 9/12/2001 +1000, mattd wrote: Brace,brace,brace...rogue nations are dangerous while merely wounded.Operation soft drills needed to deliver coup de gras.Not easy I know,and even more difficult now,but the last empires past its use by date.War of the flea now must become war of the

Economic effects

2001-09-12 Thread Steve Schear
Just thinking about what the US Postal Service, Fed Ex, and UPS are doing to keep themselves going. steve

Re: J. Neil Schulman On I can't take it anymore ....

2001-09-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:15 AM 9/13/2001 -0700, Derek Balling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:28 PM -0700 9/12/01, Steve Schear wrote: If local police officers who fly were allowed to carry their guns with them, warned only to switch to frangible ammunition, this couldn't have happened. But they are. On U.S

Re: J. Neil Schulman On I can't take it anymore ....

2001-09-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:01 AM 9/13/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:28:24PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: But they are. On U.S. domestic flights they have merely to present themselves and acceptable credentials (which BTW the airline personnel are poorly trained to authenticate

Re: Readers Digest poll - vote now

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:25 AM 9/15/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Saturday, September 15, 2001, at 07:01 AM, Derek Balling wrote: Readers Digest and Yahoo are sponsoring a poll that asks various questions about what freedoms people are willing to sacrifice... http://ypolls.yahoo.com/rd1/ Hitting up public

Frank Sudia's proposal: Let's revive encryption key escrow

2001-09-16 Thread Steve Schear
In Encryption and the Restoration of National Sovereignty, you said: No one disputes that unbreakable encryption impairs government ability to intercept suspect communications and issue warrants for stored data. The citizens have gained unreviewable discretion to communicate without oversight.

Re: US Weapons of war...

2001-09-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:32 AM 9/16/2001 -0500, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4321512?view=Standard As Spain was for new German weapons prior to WW II, looks like the Afgans will be the unwilling beta testers for these new U.S. techno devices. If recent history is any

The Root Cause

2001-09-16 Thread Steve Schear
THE ROOT CAUSE Cassius said, The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars but in ourselves that we are underlings. John E. Schwarz, a political scientist at the University of Arizona, is far less certain of that: The notion that people have a capacity to control their own destinies is an

CNN: Congressman pushes for more encryption

2001-09-21 Thread Steve Schear
WASHINGTON--A U.S. lawmaker well versed in technology issues said Friday that government bodies and citizens should use more encryption, not less, to increase security on the Internet. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7249721.html?tag=lh

Sun Setting On Uncle Sam's IT Empire

2001-09-21 Thread Steve Schear
[Note: this is a posting from Dave Farber's IP list. Dave has some interesting points to make about the decline and fall of IT in the US.] The following is an article published in the Australian Financial Review reporting on a talk I gave at the First Tuesday meeting in the new IT/residential

Re: ANWR

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:43 PM 9/24/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Bush and cronies want to do in ANWR is entirely unrelated to strategy - they want the right to go make money by drilling on public lands. If it goes through in the near future watch how much the government spends on roads and other

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Schear
This is an excerpt from The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens , Chap. 2, Indochina, pages 25-26. [Pub: Verso/2001 http:/ EUDORA=AUTOURLwww.versobooks.com, ISBN 1-85984-631-9] On 12 May 1975, Cambodian

Re: [FREE] stratfor (fwd)

2001-09-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:25 PM 9/30/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: One of the most asinine arguments I've heard to date was a commentator on the BBC/PRI The World radio program a couple of weeks back. Her statement was that by calling this a war, the US was validating the deaths at the WTC/P5 attacks as

America needs therapy

2001-09-30 Thread Steve Schear
Its angering how much lip service though little progress has been made since 1973 on freeing America from her chemical dependence on petroleum in general and mid-east oil specifically. If the U.S. had no direct economic interests in the mid-east would it be propping up the governments of

Re: America needs therapy

2001-10-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:13 AM 10/1/2001 -0400, you wrote: Until Sep. 11, at least, we may have adopted a cost-benefit approach. Non-oil fuels are far more expensive, and more radical approaches like wiring homes for solar would be quite intrusive and also expensive. While I agree that all non-oil energy has,

Re: America needs therapy

2001-10-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:30 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James B. DiGriz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : snip Declan's note about ADM hogs at the trough with lots of other hogs... A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that money were spent on

Re: STILL OFF TOPIC: Re: America needs therapy

2001-10-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:14 PM 10/2/2001 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Steve Schear wrote: At 01:25 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote: Declan McCullagh wrote: A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that money were spent on engineering research

Re: USG pulls 'sensitive' info off net

2001-10-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:29 PM 10/3/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:00:04AM -0400, Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:38:05AM -0700, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: Must've never heard of caching..

Re: Nifty secret bank system

2001-10-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:30 PM 10/3/2001 +0100, CDR Anonymizer wrote: http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/international/03LAUN.html lo-tech, trust-based, stable and fully functional since antiquity. I like it :-) You'll notice the cost of money transfers using this private system are well below international

Very nice article on Antennas and 802.11

2001-10-05 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1422/byt20010926s0002/1001_marshall.html Antennas Enhance WLAN Security By Trevor Marshall October 1, 2001 Antennas are most often used to increase the range of WLAN (wireless LAN) systems, but proper antenna selection can also enhance the security of your WLAN.

Re: Who represents the detained? Nobody..

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:09 AM 10/18/2001 -0700, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your incoherent ranting fails to account for there being good and bad on both sides of the blue line, and frankly I'll take a confrontation with a pig over a confrontation with a maniac like you any day. At least they sort of

Your papers please

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Schear
Everyone knows it is a bad idea to try and board a plane carrying a box cutter, a flight manual written in Arabic, or a sack full of mysterious white powder. But with ultra-tightened airport security, a book could also prevent you from boarding that plane. No kidding. It happened just last

Re: Airlines - the newest members of the international community of nations.

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:06 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: From: http://cgi.newcity.com/exitlog/frameset.php?close=http://www.citypaper.net/a rticles/101801/news.godfrey.shtmlback=http://www.newcity.com 'When a passenger passes through security, it is under the jurisdiction of the airline. We dont get

Vibes of retribution

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Schear
A very funny, well produced, musical piece. www.gotlaughs.com/funpages/bin2.cfm steve

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:24 PM 10/19/2001 -0400, someone wrote: Retribution will satisfy our need for justice, but it won't make us safer from terrorism. The terrorists have told us why they attacked America. There are three reasons. Hint: it's not because we're wealthy and good. If you read the CP archives a

U.S. Government Shouldn't Insure Airlines

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Schear
U.S. Government Shouldn't Insure Airlines Penelope Patsuris, Forbes.com, 10.19.01, 9:00 AM ET NEW YORK - When government interferes with private markets, unintended and undesirable consequences always result. http://www.forbes.com/2001/10/19/1019airinsurance.html

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:02 PM 10/21/2001 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote: I'm actually surprised to see Steve launch into a critique of laissez-faire capitalism here on cypherpunks, of all places. One can admit that globalization has ill effects (mostly, bricks through windows of Starbucks thrown by bored,

Re: Beefing up security at America's dams and reservoirs

2001-10-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:20 AM 10/22/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: National Public Radio (NPR) Morning Edition (11:00 AM AM ET) Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001 Beefing up security at America's dams and reservoirs BOB EDWARDS, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. Should have used the title

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:49 PM 10/22/2001 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote: Of course you're ignoring the fact that sometimes the reason that they are starving on their own retched little plots of land. is because of NAFTA and huge multinational corporations importing so much US

Re: MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001®

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:59 PM 10/23/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.drudgereport.com/matth2.htm Hillary smarm with out the charm Clinton is finally being treated to the welcome she deserves. If Ruddi hadn't dropped out or the Repos hadn't run such a weak candidate the voters would surely had sent her

Fwd: Returned mail: Too many hops 26 (25 max): from schear@lvcm.com via 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net, to User@mt1.lvcm.net

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Schear
-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:53:23 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

Re: FC: Maine National Guard bars Green Party leader from flying

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:20 PM 11/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/03/1813233 Military Bars Green Party Leader from Flying posted by declan on Saturday November 03, @12:36PM from the airports-are-now-a-no-speech-zone dept. If the information provided in the

Who Authorized This?

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Schear
Who Authorized This? Andrew Sullivan, Forbes ASAP, 12.03.01 Why does the United States elicit such extreme hatred in some parts of the world? What America is based on is not the achievement of some goal, the capture of some trophy, or the triumph of success. It's about the process of seeking

Life, Liberty, and Whoop-de-do!

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Schear
Life, Liberty, and Whoop-de-do! P.J. O'Rourke, Forbes ASAP, 12.03.01 In which our man in mirth declares a new kind of independence Much of the world is confused and infuriated by America. And I contend that happiness is the source of the confusion and fury. Other countries are established upon

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:20 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: \Divide the U-235 into two five pound masses. Beat it evenly into the inside of one of your salad bowls. U-235 is malleable like gold so you should have no problem shaping it. Do the same with the other U-235 mass and shape it into the other salad bowl.

Re: FC: Maine National Guard bars Green Party leader from flying

2001-11-10 Thread Steve Schear
[Sorry for the long delay in posting this. It was accidentally left queued in my Out box.] At 07:42 PM 11/3/2001 -0800, Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, November 3, 2001, at 07:02 PM, Steve Schear wrote: At 01:20 PM 11/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: http://www.wartimeliberty.com

IP conference: copyright law has gone too far

2001-11-17 Thread Steve Schear
IP conference: copyright law has gone too far The recording industry and the Business Software Alliance squared off against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and US Rep. Rick Boucher Wednesday in a debate over laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act aimed at protecting large

Re: Pricing Mojo, Integrating PGP, TAZ, and D.C. Cypherpunks

2001-11-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:04 PM 11/20/2001 -0700, Anonymous wrote: Some thoughts on digital cash. First, using anonymous cash to purchase physical goods online means giving up much of the benefit from the anonymity. If you have to give a delivery address, they obviously know who you are. It's still slightly

Re: Pricing Mojo, Integrating PGP, TAZ, and D.C. Cypherpunks

2001-11-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:00 AM 11/21/2001 -0500, dmolnar wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, dmolnar wrote: Isn't this a description of Hawala? Maybe. I regret I'm not familiar with Hawala. I'll go google it. Gee, it's even in the cypherpunks archives. Sorry, everyone. Yes, as described sure sounds similar. The

Re: The United States of America vs. The Left Coast

2001-11-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:33 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: Oregon refuses to ignore basic constitutional rights for the sake of the war on terrorism: Portland police have refused a U.S. Justice Department request for help in interviewing Middle Eastern immigrants as part of its sweeping terrorism investigation,

Re: Denning's Geo-crypto

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:06 AM 11/22/2001 -0800, you wrote: Time Magazine, November 26, 2001: Denning's pioneering a new field she calls geo-encryption. Working with industry, Denning has developed a way to keep information undecipherable until it reaches its location, as determined by GPS satellites. Move

No Thumbprint, No Rental Car

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Schear
No Thumbprint, No Rental Car Dollar Rent A Car is currently making customers give a thumbprint before they give them the keys, another example of biometrics being used for ID purposes. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48552,00.html

Fwd: Reminder: Special Event: Why Freedom Matters More than Ever

2001-11-30 Thread Steve Schear
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:24:55 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Steve Schear) From: David J. Theroux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reminder: Special Event: Why Freedom Matters More than Ever Dear Steve, To follow up on my recent note, I am happy to report

Disposable cell phone launches

2001-12-03 Thread Steve Schear
Summary: Universal Studios Home Video and Hop-On partnered to launch what they say is the first-of-its-kind, disposable cellphone in connection with the DVD/home video release of Jurassic Park III December 11. The limited-edition phone, called the Jurassic Park Survival Cell Phone, includes

Debate on Privacy Goes Private

2001-12-03 Thread Steve Schear
Debate on Privacy Goes Private In the debate about new surveillance powers for law enforcement officials, Americans, in various ways, are asking a basic question: Are we willing to curtail personal freedom in exchange for greater national security? Now, a debate heating up in Washington puts a

Thuraya Profits From Satphone Stampede

2001-12-10 Thread Steve Schear
Thuraya Profits From Satphone Stampede This year's war on terrorism has proved to be a good thing for the Thuraya satphone, with everyone from journalists to warlords buying the phones in Afghanistan. Savanna International Telecommunication, which is selling the phones and service, says it

RE: eCash reported mortally wounded...

2001-12-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:52 AM 12/11/2001 +0100, Anonymous wrote: Lucky Green wrote: Eugene wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Lucky Green wrote: --Lucky, waiting patiently for 2005. Patent expiration date? Which one? US Patent 4759063 Blind Signature Systems will expire on July 19, 2005. Given that

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:22 PM 12/16/2001 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Steve Schear wrote: During your rant on re-mailers I mentioned the desirability of using popular P2P services in conjunction with remailers, possibly as middleman nodes. Len pointed out the problems with re-mailer

Re: Wired on e-gold

2001-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:30 AM 12/19/2001 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: snip Criminals love privacy, they love anonymity. Remailer operators soon find that a substantial majority of the messages they send contain nothing but harrassment and threats. Few customers use anonymity services for positive purposes, to

Steal This Essay 1: Content Is a Pure Public Good

2001-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
Originally published in TidBITS#602/22-Oct-01; see http://www.tidbits.com/ for more information. Steal This Essay 1: Content Is a Pure Public Good by Dan Kohn Steal this essay, or, why these sorts of essays represent the future of all publishing. Hint: I'm not getting paid for them. Freedom

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:51 PM 12/19/2001 -0800, Len Sassaman wrote: snip Digital cash in the traditional sense isn't necessary for a pay-per-use remailer system. Like MojoNation, I am going to refer to the digital cash coins as something that has no monetary value in the traditional sense. Tim pointed out at the

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:54 PM 12/20/2001 -0800, you wrote: At 09:30 PM 12/20/01 -, Dr. Evil wrote: A token-based remailer system, while an obvious system, would be a major accomplishment. Any kind of privacy-enhanced token/payment/value system would be a major accomplishment at this point. The c'punks

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:52 PM 12/20/2001 +, Ryan Lackey wrote: As much as I love the idea of using electronic cash for remailers, given the current state of things, I think it's not the first thing which should be done for remailers. 1) We don't yet *have* an electronic cash system with sufficient volume to

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:54 AM 12/21/2001 +, you wrote: Quoting Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't run a mixmaster because: - its not been easy to get running - it uses SMTP ports which are filtered on my ATT cable system. The remailer reference lists need to include port number references so

Re: More on remailers.

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:01 PM 12/21/2001 -0500, dmolnar wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Len Sassaman wrote: Publishing failure notifications with sender-provided keys, as Steve Schear suggests, seems likely to have large implementation and usage hurdles. (A separate user's public key for each remailer

Fwd: FCC Bites Kevin

2001-12-22 Thread Steve Schear
From: someone To: another list Subject: FCC Bites Kevin Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:10:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick is also General Class radio amateur N6NHG. In December 1999 he applied to renew his ham license, but today the FCC designated the application for hearing,

Because it's a Lie

2001-12-29 Thread Steve Schear
Because it's a Lie http://annoy.com/covers/doc.html?DocumentID=100027 Sung to the tune of 'Because I Got High' by Afroman Osama bin Laden's friends dropped by to say hi By taking a few little airplanes outa the sky (La da da da da da) They totaled the twin towers and I don't know why - Saw

Re: [fsml] Euro Banknotes embed RFID chips (fwd)

2001-12-29 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:52 AM 12/29/2001 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:36:31 - From: Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fsml] Euro Banknotes embed RFID chips http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016 Euro

Re: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2001-12-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:19 PM 12/30/2001 +0100, you wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Ryan Lackey wrote: I'm unclear why Lucky dislikes the Sectra Tiger (www.sectra.se); the key management is not what I'd like, but seems designed specifically for hierarchical military or corporate organizations, which is the only

RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2001-12-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:59 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Ryan suggested earlier that the Ipaq with Fireball isn't up to the task. I don't think this is correct. I point you to http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs344/staff/group10/final_report.pdf in which some Stanford students produce a wireless ipaq2ipaq

RE: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

2001-12-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:26 PM 12/31/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Lucky Green[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] for the Ipaq, however, I suspect that this is a temporary phenomenon. MS is giving away it's development environment for free, and as pointed out, there is are several Linux ports. The higher cost of PocketPC

Re: Applied Digital pushes microchip to plant in foreigners for tracking

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:14 PM 1/2/2002 -0800, Petro wrote: On Saturday, December 22, 2001, at 04:18 PM, Jei wrote: Man today is more than ever converging with technology, said Sullivan, who is CEO of the Palm Beach-based tech company Applied Digital Solutions (Nasdaq: ADSX, 45 cents). I think the positives

Re: explicit govt monopoly rent-seeking (law abuse)

2002-01-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:16 PM 1/5/2002 -0800, Petro wrote: On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Michael Motyka wrote: My favorite is the lottery : can't gamble in your own home but they can run a statewide casino - how are they different from the mafia? The mafia at least pays lip service to the

Japanese banking system 'about to collapse'

2002-01-07 Thread Steve Schear
[Now this could be very interesting...] http://www.iol.co.za/general/news/newsprint.php?art_id=ct20020105195512751J1526233 Japanese banking system 'about to collapse' TOKYO: Japan's financial system is headed toward collapse and will require a government bailout of one trillion dollars, a US

Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers (fwd)

2002-01-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:41 PM 1/7/2002 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote: -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 -- Forwarded

Red Flag Linux beats out Windows in Beijing

2002-01-07 Thread Steve Schear
Red Flag Linux beats out Windows in Beijing Research outfit Gartner has noted an ominous development for Microsoft and other non-indigenous firms operating in China. On 28th December 2001 the Beijing municipal government awarded contracts to six local software vendors, and rejected the

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