Re: A nice little dose of pop conspiracy theory...

2004-09-13 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pixla.px.cz/pentagon.swf Perhaps some of those arguments can be put to bed: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2004/110804factsstraight.htm ..not that I find either one completely convincing... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-09-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.muenster.org/uiw/fach/chemie/material/gif/oppau.jpg Wow! I had no idea ammonium nitrate (ANFO for all intents and purposes, yes?) could produce that kind of result! How much was there? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-09-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:01 AM 9/12/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: No big deal? Who are they kidding? JAT, any large explosion will create a mushroom cloud. Its the blast wave reflecting off the ground that lifts the thing, plus the buoyancy of the hot gasses. If it *were* a nuke, it would be easy to detect

Forest Fire responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

2004-09-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
No big deal? Who are they kidding? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF ...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them. Osama Bin Laden - - -

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

2004-09-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:07:55PM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.muenster.org/uiw/fach/chemie/material/gif/oppau.jpg Wow! I had no idea ammonium nitrate (ANFO for all intents and purposes, yes?) could produce that kind of result! How

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

2004-09-13 Thread Bill Stewart
That of course brings us full circle: how many fuels can produce a blast which results in a 2+ mile mushroom? That's a *lot* of explosive force. Blast sets off the forest fire, fire makes the smoke. Not a problem. Go visit Northern California in late summer firestorm season (though we don't

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

2004-09-13 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

Recruiting Only Smart People

2004-09-13 Thread Eric Cordian
Google has an austere black on white billboard ad which simply reads. www.{first 10-digit prime found in the consecutive digits of e}.com People arriving solve another puzzle, and then can use the answer as a password for a website that greets them with the message... One thing we

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

2004-09-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: No big deal? Who are they kidding? A 2-mile wide cloud is WAY too big to be caused by a single explosion, unless REALLY big. Exactly. And there aren't many things *that* big. The forest fire claim

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

2004-09-13 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:45 AM 9/12/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Time will tell, and it certainly could have been a nuke (they have the SNMs), but if you do it, you talk about it, much like the Indi/Pakis did. And you can't hide a surface burst, or even a large belowground test --and an underground test that

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

2004-09-13 Thread Bill Stewart
-BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- So, since this is titled BrinCity, it surely means that the image streams will be available from a web site and that we the people get cameras in the emergency response center and the mayor's office? -END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- No, this is

RE: [irtheory] An Interview with Jacques Derrida

2004-09-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Yo RAH... I don't see a big problem here. Derrida seems right on the money for the most part. Even this Tribunal has some Cypherpunk-friendly ideas behind it: namely, it's not particularly state-oriented and its reputation-based. Sure, he may be a little soft on a bunch of stuff, but he's

[irtheory] An Interview with Jacques Derrida

2004-09-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
For your Sunday morning's entertainment, boys and girls, I present the latest post-modernist circle-jerk. Put down your coffee, or you'll mess up your keyboard. Cheers, RAH Who remembers the citizen's courts that Mr. Bell was so fond of... --- --- begin forwarded text Thread-Topic:

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

2004-09-13 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: No big deal? Who are they kidding? A 2-mile wide cloud is WAY too big to be caused by a single explosion, unless REALLY big. The forest fire claim sounds more plausible in this regard. An existing cloud could be used for masking, though. But a

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

2004-09-13 Thread ken
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: The forest fire claim sounds more plausible in this regard. An existing cloud could be used for masking, though. Wait a minute: since when does a forest fire create explosions? Or have enough ground force to push up a mushroom

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

2004-09-13 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:01 AM 9/12/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: No big deal? Who are they kidding? JAT, any large explosion will create a mushroom cloud. Its the blast wave reflecting off the ground that lifts the thing, plus the buoyancy of the hot

Re: anonymous IP terminology (Re: [anonsec] Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec (fwd from hal@finney.org))

2004-09-13 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: From: Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anonymous IP terminology (Re: [anonsec] Re: potential new IETF At ZKS we had software to remail MIME mail to provide a pseudonymous email. But one gotcha is that mail clients include MIME boundary

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

2004-09-13 Thread Dave Emery
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:01:29AM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: No big deal? Who are they kidding? Has it occured to anyone this might be a covert US (or Chinese or ) operation to destroy the PRK nuke test setup, say with cruise missiles, stealth B2 bombers, or a infiltrated

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

[ISN] Mitnick movie comes to the US

2004-09-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
I wonder if they include Shinomura boffing Gilmore's girlfriend in the Toad Hall hot tub? Got Skills indeed... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 05:41:59 -0500 (CDT) From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Mitnick movie comes to the

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

2004-09-13 Thread Peter Gutmann
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About 4.5 kT of 50:50 ammonium nitrate/ammonium sulfate mix. One of the largest, if not *the* largest nonnuclear explosions ever. The largest man-made explosion is usually claimed to be Halifax (about 3000 tons of assorted HE's), but there are a pile of

Re: Spam Spotlight on Reputation

2004-09-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:33 PM +0100 9/13/04, Ben Laurie wrote: Surely you should check that: a) The signature works b) Is someone in your list of good keys before whitelisting? Amen. A (cryptographic) whitelist for my friends, all others pay cash. :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto:

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

2004-09-13 Thread Peter Gutmann
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow! I had no idea ammonium nitrate (ANFO for all intents and purposes, yes?) could produce that kind of result! How much was there? 4,500 tons, of which only 10% detonated. (The nitrate was desensitised with ammonium sulfate and stored outside,

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

2004-09-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Currently BGP is secured by 1. accepting BGP info only from known router IPs 2. ISPs not propogating BGP from the edge inwards Its a serious vulnerability (as in, take down the net), equivalent to the ability to confuse the post office machinery that sorts postcards. All you need to do is

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

2004-09-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:23 PM 9/12/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: I had thought that one of the main tests was seismic...from what I understood, Seismic monitors in the US can detect nu-cu-lar tests (above or below ground) and even guess where and the size of the blast. Yes. Seismic sensors see some foreshock

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

2004-09-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:59 AM 9/14/04 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: (The nitrate was desensitised with ammonium sulfate and stored outside, whenever anyone needed any they'd drill holes and blast off chunks with dynamite. AN is extremely deliquescent; perhaps the sulphate was for that? Removing chunks with

Re: Flying with Libertarian Hawks

2004-09-13 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: 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