Tyler Durden wrote:
For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem
to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right
kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source.
Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Ken Brown wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
And then there's the PERSISTENT rumors of him actually taking an accidental
DEA bust in a Florida airport after landing a fresh new cargo. Supposedly
this was a bit of a snafu and they had to let him go on the hush-hush...(And
I
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Thanks, I found the full text at
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0203/01carter.html
I must have been trying too early before, all I could find was partial quotes.
The world will be awaiting Wednesday's presentation of
On Friday 31 January 2003 12:40, Tim May wrote:
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 07:58 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
(snipped)
I understand your politics is lefty...this has been shining through
for years.
But your analytical skills are lacking.
That's redundant in the modern US. Too bad; there
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At 9:42 PM + on 1/19/03, Malcolm Carlock wrote:
I must admit it also seems very strange that the shuttle couldn't
have been examined while docked to the ISS.
It wasn't docked there.
It was in a completely different orbit, and higher up to
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems
very
bizarre, since that's what they did in the past.
That's what they _reported_ later that they did in the past...there
certainly was no public announcement
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:28:10PM -0800, Eric Murray wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:01:41PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems very
bizarre, since that's what they did in the past.
All the KH-71s were busy mapping Iraq's
That's redundant in the modern US. Too bad; there needs to be a
counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just
isn't up to it.
Good comment. Indeed, the only thing the Democrats seem to stand for is that
they aren't republicans. Meanwhile, the economics of the 'real' left
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:01:41PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems very
bizarre, since that's what they did in the past.
All the KH-71s were busy mapping Iraq's oil fields
and photographing Saddam's nose hairs.
Eric
Our messages crossed in the mail, but there's this bit here...
At 7:18 PM -0800 on 2/3/03, Tim May wrote:
Two crewmen
were prepared to to an EVA to fix dislodged cargo/hatch doors, as on
every flight to date. The other crew could have transferred in their
pressure suits.
Ah. Forgot about
Eric Cordian writes:
In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling
at Mock 18.
There was an interesting article in the New York Times (http://tinyurl.com/5b4x)
back in Nov 2001 about stenographers working on 9/11--that was an angle I didn't see
anywhere else. When
Are there any reasons why current systems (whether OpenSource or not)
don't ship with opportunistic IPsec out of the box? FreeS/WAN is really
easy to set up, and such, but why having to do BIND juggling and extra
installation steps.
What are the reasons, crypto restrictions?
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 06:17 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Flying another shuttle to them while people were still alive would
have been impossible, of course, so much for a reusable space-truck
on a rapid turnaround, and, even if it wasn't, I don't think they
even have an airlock aboard
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Yeah, but most pilots, if they suspected an even semi-serious breach of their
craft's integrity, *AND* had the ability to fairly safely send someone outside
to have a looksee, wouldn't hesitate a moment before doing so. They've been
delayed by
From: Malcolm Carlock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 16:42
I was shocked to learn Saturday that NASA had not a mechanism to
adequately
inspect the exterior of the shuttles for damage before the return to
earth. The reasons given seem to imply that NASA's ability for
http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20030131-020248-9059r
Tiny whiskers make huge memory storage
UPI Science News
From the Science Technology Desk
Published 1/31/2003 4:07 PM
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- New, tiny magnetic sensors could help
break a technical barrier to ushering in the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, 712 Mbit/sec is about 90 MByte/sec, which means if it
were doing 3DES, it'd probably be about 30 MByte/sec,
which is no longer fast enough to be entertaining.
Yes, it is. Despite the disk manufacturers' intentionally
At 01:41 PM 02/03/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:23:58AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Do you mean that Steve's posts always do this to you?
I've only seen one like that, and I assumed that Steve had simply
Bcc:d the Cypherpunks list and some other lists on that
Smell that, son? Nothing else in the world smells like that
I love the smell of hydrazine in the morning It smells like
It's MMH that cooks your goose. Regular hydrazine (smells like fish)
ain't that hypergolic with N2O5.
incompetence.
The press was reporting that some dozens of
I sent this to my IP list. One of the major points I made here is that
secure systems (and I am not calling Palladium a secure system) can host DRM
software. So one can have secure systems in which case it will tape either
law or strong market pressure to not have DRM else we can not have secure
Tim May wrote...
Even t.v. commercials are spreading the meme that Big Brother is our
friend.
Funny he should mention this. This very morning was watching the news and a
commerical came on for a local monitored Burglar alarm system. It featured a
Customed Superhero Alarmo (I think), going
From:
http://ltp.arc.nasa.gov/space/ask/landing/Black_tiles_falling_off.txt
If more than a few were lost from the same area, though, the heat could
get bad enough to cause damage to the aluminum skin. Nobody wants to see
what would happen if the wings started to deform like taffy, so the tiles
Sunder[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes
[..]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, lots of hype about storing terabytes and so on, not
worried about that at all. The real question now is this: how effective
are these nickel whiskers are recovering erased data off existing
platters, or more precisely how
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :
John Kelsey wrote...
For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be
remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of
source, especially a government agency or other official source.
The net effect
Tim May said:
Yes, I understand this is all fiction. Well, some of the scripts are
based on actual events, including coerced confessions, warrantless
searches, sneak and peek wiretaps, concentration camps in Cuba, etc.
That so many of these popular programs have themes as I've described
tells us
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:57:09 -0600
Subject: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death...
From: Jonathan G. Lampe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I'm sure this one will start a flame war, but...I work for a vendor
whose products
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Blanc wrote:
A sad, disturbing prospect to contemplate. Someone on another list
remarked that it might become necessary for those in Europe to do some
internet-type rescuing of the American people. H.
If things get utterly intolerable, and fighting makes no sense
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Blanc wrote:
A sad, disturbing prospect to contemplate. Someone on another list
remarked that it might become necessary for those in Europe to do some
internet-type rescuing of the American people. H.
snip
Don't count
On Tuesday, 4 de February de 2003 21:47, you wrote:
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay.
What about Italy? The Italians seem to be remarkably good at ignoring both
the vatican as well as their government (which changes every few years and
no wonder...do ANY
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 04 Feb 2003 at 08:34:50 AM GMT is:
$ 6 , 4 1 2 , 1 7 4 , 6 9 0 , 4 3 5 . 4 1
The estimated population of the United States is 289,066,595
so each citizen's share of this debt is $22,182.34.
The
Eugen Leitl replies:
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay.
..
Thanks, Eugen. This makes me feel better. On emigration choices, I guess
one could just take a pick of whether they wish to be more, or less, fd.
..
Blanc
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
I'm struck by how many of them this year treat civil liberties as gone,
either as old-fashioned or as just plain ignorable.
I love the frequent use of facial recognition systems on TV as well.
With, of course, no mention of the fact that they don't work.
DCF
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:25:22PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Blanc wrote:
A sad, disturbing prospect to contemplate. Someone on another list
remarked that it might become necessary for those in Europe to do some
internet-type rescuing of the American people. H.
At 8:53 AM -0800 on 2/4/03, Bill Stewart wrote:
as opposed to Bob Hettinga's practice of copying everything to
his usual sets of lists, most of which don't allow replies from
non-subscribers.
Most of which I forward your answers on to, if that's any consolation.
Yes, Tim, I know, I'm an
Yeah right -- the eyeties just joined the new european order supporting an
immediate invasion of Iraq. At least, according to Powell they did.
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:47:02PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay.
What about
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay.
What about Italy? The Italians seem to be remarkably good at ignoring both
the vatican as well as their government (which changes every few years and
no wonder...do ANY Italians actually pay taxes?). And yet, Northern Italy
Been away from email for a while:
Shuttle:
Dangerous. I'd like to be in space, but... not 25-year-old tech, and not
that way.
If there was a Chinese spy satellite captured, might it not have had a
nuclear power source, and wouldn't the debris be hot?
Railways:
Euro railways are better than US -
Andre Esteves wrote...
in Northern Italy they live close to Switzerland... What more can be
said... A car, a suitcase and a weekend in Geneva with a numbered
account.
Well, I could be romantisizing the Italians a bit much, but I have always
found the photo of Mussolini and his mistress
Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :
From:
http://ltp.arc.nasa.gov/space/ask/landing/Black_tiles_falling_off.txt
If more than a few were lost from the same area, though, the heat could
get bad enough to cause damage to the aluminum skin. Nobody wants to see
what would happen if the wings
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:53:58AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Declan's postings are usually either normal postings to cypherpunks
or else posted to his politech list (most of which have Subject: FC
something.) I'm subscribed to politech, so I haven't had any
weirdness when replying.
Yep. I
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Michael Motyka wrote:
Seems kindof like leaving the spare tire, jack, poncho and duck boots out of your
car to
save weight and space. It's fine except for that one day you get a flat while it's
pouring
freezing rain and there's 3 or 4 inches of slush on the ground.
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:59:58AM -0800, Michael Motyka wrote:
The net effect is that by and large journalists have become a
cheerleading squad when what is needed is a vigorous and independent
critical facility. That is if we are to retain some degree of the
of, by and for philosophy. Maybe
At 02:29 PM 2/4/03 -0800, Blanc wrote:
Duncan Frissell said:
You mean no one said, I'd grab the .30-06 and head for the hills?
I must correct myself. It was not a Libertarian group, they were
Objectivists. Not to put the Os down or start an argument about the
difference, but I know that
Yaaas, yaass, yyaaasss -- and what about us half-assed libertarians, us
leftysized anarchistic earthfirsters, us gunslinging 2nd boys (and WTF is this
.30-06 bullshit anyway, we ain't all that ancient?), and other
fringe/extremeist ufo/wacko pppeeeples? I mean -- I mean -- WTF do you mean,
What about Italy?
Articles 270 and 270 bis, written by the fascists, have been ressurected
to charge legitimate protesters and anyone promoting change (subversive
association or subverting the social-economic order that exists in the
State) as terrorists if even the slightest association with
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:55:26PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Yaaas, yaass, yyaaasss -- and what about us half-assed libertarians, us
leftysized anarchistic earthfirsters, us gunslinging 2nd boys (and WTF is this
.30-06 bullshit anyway, we ain't all that ancient?), and other
Harmon Seaver said:
Yaaas, yaass, yyaaasss -- and what about us half-assed libertarians, us
leftysized anarchistic earthfirsters, us gunslinging 2nd boys (and
WTF is this .30-06 bullshit anyway, we ain't all that ancient?),
and other fringe/extremeist ufo/wacko pppeeeples? I mean -- I mean --
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