Sunder wrote:
I've been ignoring this list for a while, so sorry for the late
posting.
I remember sometime in late 99, I had one of the early blackberry
pagers, the small ones that ate a single AA battery which lasted about
a
week or so, and had email + a small web browser inside of it. It
Eugen Leitl wrote
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/13/1644259
Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-09-13 17:04:00
from the but-i-love-clicky-keyboards dept.
[1]stinerman writes Three students at UC-Berkley used a 10 minute
[2]recording of a keyboard to recover 96% of the
It looks like the minder remailer is under attack - I've
gotten about 20 messages with little or not content,
and a small zip file attached.
PT
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Thoenen
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:31 PM
To: cypherpunks@minder.net
Subject: RE: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone
What he's doing is supplying US soldiers with an independent,
Eric Cordian writes:
RAW forwards...
Wiring the War Zone
It's a typical morning at Camp Anaconda,
the giant US military base 50 miles north
of Baghdad - light breeze, temperatures
heading to 100 degrees, scattered mortar fire.
Ryan Lackey is getting ready for today's assignment:
Tyler Durden writes:
Yes, but the old question needs to be asked: How much of this
crime would go away if crystal meth were legal?
Actually, if we ever managed to kill the culture of prohibition,
I suspect that crystal meth would be about as popular is bathtub
gin is today. It's terrible
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tyler Durden
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Posion Pill for ED?
Hey...can some clever Cypherpunk think of a nice poison pill for ED?
Theoretically, something
Major Variola (ret)
It would be very cool karma if the Pope were to
be vegetative but indefinately prolongable (thanks
of course to the fruits of the scientific method
which is the antiPope). One imagines this will
eventually happen. Or are there rules to replace
a useless Pope?
Damian Gerow wrote:
Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/03/05 16:12]:
: Easy to see where that's headed:
:
: 1. Joe Cypherpunk is doing 54 on Rt 95.
: 2. Cops (or guys in a black car claiming to be local
cops) stop Joe, make
: arrest based on speeding or what have you.
: 3.
From Major Variola (ret)
Tyler, Riad, etc:
FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC
run.
Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC
is more
efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation,
rather than
most
(FPGA)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anonymous
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide
R.A. Hettinga spoke thusly...
Actually, the final challenge was solved in 23 hours, about
1/3 Deep Crack, and 2/3 Distributed.net. They were lucky, finding
the key after only 24% of the keyspace had been searched.
More recently, RC5-64 was solved about a year ago. It took
d.net 4 *years*.
2^69 remains non-trivial.
Peter
Once again, the RSA Conference is upon us, and many of the
corrospondents on these lists will be in San Francisco. I'd like to
see if anyone is interested in getting together. We've done this
before.
At past conferences, we've had various levels of participation,
from 50 down to 3. Since the
Erwann ABALEA
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote:
Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
your computer which you may not have full control over.
Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control
over your
Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
your computer which you may not have full control over.
Peter Trei
Tyler Durden
ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to
answer this
question:
That
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[airport security]
I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing
that impressed me most was that the path need not be a
single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum
state across a switchable fiber junction. This means
you are no longer limited to a single pair of boxes talking to
each other.
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing
that impressed me most was that the path need not be a
single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum
state across a switchable fiber
Bill Stewart wrote:
At 12:30 PM 1/12/2005, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Just out of curiosity, if the man doesn't need a warrent
to place a surveilance device, shouldn't it be within your rights
to tamper with, disable or remove such a device if you discover one?
Do you mean that if you
Justin wrote:
I don't believe the article when it says that smart guns are
useless if
stolen. What do they have, a tamper-proof memory chip
storing a 128-bit
reprogramming authorization key that must be input via computer before
allowing a new person to be authorized? And what's to
Justin wrote:
On 2005-01-11T10:07:22-0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
Justin wrote:
I don't believe the article when it says that smart guns
are useless if stolen. What do they have, a tamper-proof
memory chip storing a 128-bit reprogramming authorization
key that must be input via computer
Justin wrote:
On 2005-01-10T15:04:21-0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
John Kelsey
Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire
By ANNE EISENBERG
I just wonder what the false negative rates are. Seem like a
A remarkable number of police deaths are 'own gun
John Kelsey
Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire
By ANNE EISENBERG
I just wonder what the false negative rates are. Seem like a
gun that has a 1% chance of refusing to fire when you *really
need it* might not be worth all that much. Similarly, one
that you can't get
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 12:16 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually
hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane
maintenance people notice bulletholes?
My understanding is that a single bullethole in a
John Kelsey wrote
Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to
actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do
airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes?
Damn hard. There's a reason winghunters use shotguns,
and anti-aircraft guns are full auto.
The only way an
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Okay. So AOL and Banks are *selling* RSA keys???
Could someone explain this to me?
No. Really. I'm serious...
Cheers,
RAH
The slashdot article title is really, really misleading.
In both cases, this is SecurID.
Peter
I wasn't actually expecting anonymity. I wrote directly to
RAH, asking him politely to edit down his posts, and simply
post a few lines and a pointer. Not pointing out his
faults in public was simply good manners. His response boils
down to 'fuck you'.
Cypherpunks has a very loose charter, but
Eugen Leitl
You could claim your machine was infected with
mixmaster malware, or something.
Now that would be an interesting worm - one
which, instead of installing a spamalator,
installed a remailer and posted public keys
and contact info to usenet.
(Disclaimer: No, I don't do things like
J.A. Terranson wrote:
(4) I have yet to meet a full dozen people who share my
belief that while stego *may* be in use, if it is, that
use is for one way messages of semaphore-class messages
only. I really do not understand why this view
is poopoo'd by all sides, so I must be pretty dense?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Johnson
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 9:06 AM
To: R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Cc: Steve Furlong; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Word Of the Subgenius...
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500, R.W. (Bob)
Steve Furlong wrote:
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Bill Stewart wrote:
Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/
that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded
http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/
I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the Bridge With the
Tyler Durden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So...does Mr Young want to describe the FBI non/encounter?
(Perhaps he has
but I've been out of town and the hotmail account barfed up
most recent
posts.)
What I don't yet fully grasp is why they bother. I suppose
there are the
following, but
After some hiccups, I got a copy to Riad S. Wahby,
and he has posted it at
http://web.mit.edu/rsw/Public/JohnYoung040820.mpg
Thanks, Riad!
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trei, Peter
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:11 PM
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Shaddack
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:48 PM
To: Justin
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Justin wrote:
HOUSTON
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of An Metet
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vacuum-safe laptops ?
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate
myself) which laptops, if any, can
R. A. Hettinga
At 12:35 PM -0400 5/27/04, John Kelsey wrote:
Does anyone know whether the low-power nature of wireless
LANs protects
them from eavesdropping by satellite?
It seems to me that you'd need a pretty big dish in orbit to
get that kind
of resolution.
The Keyholes(?) are
Tom Shaddack wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
Monyk believes there will be a global market of several
million users once
a workable solution has been developed. A political
decision will have to
be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent
terrorists
You might want to look at the work RSA Labs is doing on 'blocker tags'.
These are special tags which leverage the mechanism used to disambiguate
the presence of multiple tags to make it look as if you are carrying
2^n (n usually 128) different tags at once.
They propose a protocol to make them
Tyler Durden wrote:
I wonder how quickly one could incinerate a memory card in the field
with high success rate? Destroy the data and the passphrases don't
help.
Well, what if there were 3 passwords:
1) One for Fake data, for amatuers (very few of the MwG will
actually be
smart
Ed Gerck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Kelsey wrote:
At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to
'verify'
that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for
voter
coercion.
I think
privacy wrote:
[good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted]
It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded
and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud,
error and incompetence is overwhelming. Cryptographic
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Trei wrote:
Frankly, the whole online-verification step seems like an
unnecessary complication.
Except to those of us who don't trust the system.
Implemented correctly it could be cheap and complications could be
hidden
Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the
well-...um...-dressed
terrorist...
Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel
Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software
The company's software is designed to let voters verify that their ballots
were properly handled. It assigns random identification numbers to ballots
and candidates. After people vote, they get a receipt that shows which
candidates they
Ian Grigg[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trei, Peter wrote:
Frankly, the whole online-verification step seems like an
unneccesary complication.
It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote
verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes
rather directly
Steve Furlong wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Tastes just like chicken?
Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten
things that I wouldn't have considered to be food, she doesn't like my
cat, and I don't want her getting any ideas.
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly,
it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything
else. Tasted good.
Just out of curiosity, how did you verify that it was in fact that
species
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
A *cryogenic* liquid, mind you, meaning that you'd have to heat the
stuff up a lot, and very quickly, in order to set it ablaze, much
less blow it up. A liquid which is busily sublimating directly into
the gas that it is at room temperature, and diluting, accordingly,
No, seriously.
..the 'Yo Ho Ho' kind, that is.
Peter Trei
---
http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=219545
quote
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment Public Works
Hearing Statements
Date: 03/24/2004
Statement of Peter Leitner
Author
Reforming the Law
Bob wrote:
Justing wrote:
Haven't you ever seen a phase diagram?
Sigh. Yes. Here's one, for water:
http://wine1.sb.fsu.edu/chm1045/notes/Forces/Phase/Forces06.htm
And your point is? Let's see, if we rapidly cool boiling water by
dispersing it in supercold air... somewhere past the triple-point,
The RSA Security Conference in San Francisco is coming up:
Feb 23-27.
As in the past, free Expo passes are available if you register online at
the conference site: http://2004.rsaconference.com/ (The expo is not
open all days - check the schedule).
Last year, getting a badge required an ID and
I'll be in the SF/SJ area the week of the RSA conference.
Anyone interested in getting together for dinner one night?
We used to try to schedule a BA Cypherpunks Physical
Meeting to match up with the event, but the PMs seem to
have died out.
Peter Trei
I realize that there isn't a major party presidential
candidate alive who gets approval from most of the people
on this list, but it's worthwhile to note which ones are
proposing explicitly poor internet and privacy policy.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL
Justin wrote:
Does anyone think it will take less than trillions
of dollars to establish a moon base?
The more realistic numbers I've heard are $400 billion
for a moon base, double that for a Mars mission. I don't
know the incremental cost to sustain the moonbase.
Interesting OpEd piece in the
My first thought on reading this was that it was from
The Onion, but its real.
I guess being well-informed is now a cause for suspicion,
as it was in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
Peter Trei
-Original Message-
From: Dave Farber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 29,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to throw in with the OTO gunners here. [...]
OTO
Ordo Templi Orientalis?
You don't mean *that*, do you?
I suspect I'm suffering from acronym overloading.
Peter
I'm trying to think of a reason why a recipient of
a image containing stego'd information would want
to keep it around after reading the contained info,
with the stego bits overwritten.
Why not just (securely) get rid of it?
There are tons of sources of unique ephemeral
images, such as webcams.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing less than a guerilla war seems necessary to restore
something akin to the original constitutional balance in the
U.S. But where to recruit these people? My suggestion: the
terminally ill.
Many TI come to the table with a 'gift', the certainty of
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Peter Trei wrote:
All I want is a system which is not more easily screwed around with then
paper ballots.
I think it's called OCR
Actually, I think its called 'Optical Mark Sense'.
Paper ballots, marked by the voter, not by software, then counted by
software:
- the
Tim May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 25, 2003, at 9:56 AM, Sunder wrote:
Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution,
usually
less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say
3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a picture.
cubic-dog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as
of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to
produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure
J.A. Terranson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, when I brought back the returns, they wanted a drivers license.
Odd,
considering it was a cash sale and I was holding the receipt.
It's required by the Homeland Security Department says the kid behind
the
register. Sorry. I need ID, and I
From: Sunder[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Support the Bush-Orwell '04 campaign!
http://www.cafeshops.com/grandoldparty/76732
Cute, but actually putting George Orwell on the ticket
would actually be a very nice counterbalance to Ashcroft,
etal (or course, he's dead, and
Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly |
CNET News.com (fwd)
This is great news for crypto...
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5092154.html?tag=nefd_top
[Judge Patel throws out Bernstein case after USG 'promises' not
Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:45 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated
A representative on the US appointed Governing Council in Iraq has died of
wounds from an assassination attempt
Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
As far as I can tell, the EuroXian guilt after WWII
was shed by sending the Jews to a slice of desert that the Brits
had conquered previously. Two wrongs not making a right doesn't
seem to have occurred to them.
[...]
Its a bummer that this
Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Gaylor wrote...
That's what free people have and that's one of the reason's I'd never
move to Canada. Naturally my car got searched with a fine toothed comb,
but
I
added I wouldn't be stupid enough to bring my pistol. I spent considerable
Tyler Durden said:
Most people in this neck of the woods continue to believe that that
flight
that went down over Long Island a few years ago was actually shot
down...many witnesses saw a rocket go up and hit the plane.
The government, of course, denies it. God forbid the airlines
http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf
Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved
to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM
networks are moving to 3DES.
Peter Trei
http://rss.com.com/2100-1028_35059676.html?type=ptpart=rsstag=feedsubj=ne
ws
Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk?
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 4, 2003, 1:38 PM PT
LAS VEGAS--A widely publicized
project to transform a platform in
the English Channel into a safe
Harmon Seaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:12:53AM -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Translate/transliterate is irrelevant -- you don't change people's
names,
Ever hear of King Ferdinand of Spain? His real name was, of course,
Fernando
Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
helo,
Hilarious, dude. Who got nukes first? India.
Nope US did.
India got after US and before pakistan.Pak claims to
have nukes since 1983,though they were tested only in
1999-his report comes frm pakistan.
For those to young to remember,
Kelsey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How ever I wonder if the report of an Apache
helicopter being shot down by a farmer with his
rifle-the chopper was certainly downed but I find it
hard to beleive that a bullet brought it down.
I heard (I think on BBC) that a whole bunch of the choppers we
Derek, etal
If you (or anyone) goes, I'm sure we'd all appreciate some
notes on what transpired. I understand 17 different bills are
being considered at this hearing, so don't blink or
you may miss it.
Peter Trei
--
From: Derek Atkins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Emery
Gabriel Rocha[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Mar 27, at 06:33AM, Mike Rosing wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.aljazeera.net
www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186
This is from the US, fyi. It also works (and even resolves to the same
thing :) from other
Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi,
it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and
kicking and the camera's are rolling.
The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of
microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind
radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power
Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:29:36AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
If the mail server introduces an increasing delay (similar
to the backoff mechanism in Ethernet) to it's response after the
first 2 RCPTs, the server becomes useless for sending spam
Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
This is a little like suggesting to the military that filling small
bronze tubes with gunpowder and plugging the ends up with lead might
drive the lead slugs, aimed with pipes, fast enough to penetrate Iraqi
soldiers' flesh.
That is, the blind leading
Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has now happened - Terry Lloyd one, of Britain's better-known
reporters, seems to have been killed by US marines. According to the
cameraman he was picked up by Iraqi ambulance, so its a fair bet they
weren't embedded in the COW (thanks for the
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but many offices don't allow handguns inside, even if locked in a
case or backpack.
If people feel the risk is high enough, they could carry concealed.
The number of non-governmental places which require staff to go
a metal detector is miniscule.
Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Shields wrote:
It adds up, especially in low-margin businesses. Groceries are a good
example; unpacking every cart, scanning, and bagging is an expensive
bottleneck. The process could be streamlined a lot if an entire
Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
They don't want to deactivate them. Go back and read the SFGate
article I linked in my initial post. They want to recognize when a
loyal customer returns, so they can pull up his/her profile and give
then personalized treatment.
And what happens
Sunder[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29750.html
Airstrike! The Pentagon simplifies media relations
By John Lettice
Posted: 13/03/2003 at 17:10 GMT
Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take
radical new steps in media relations -
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/12/0156247.shtml?tid=158
An anonymous reader writes Clothing manufacturer Benetton has announced
that
they will begin embedding RFID tags in clothing[1] for inventory control
purposes. You
can read more about this at SF Gate[2]. morcheeba adds more
I'm sure the folks on this list can come up with some
interesting nominations :-)
Peter Trei
Deadline March 3rd
Nominations opened today for the sixth annual RSA. Conference Awards. The
Awards recognize individuals and organizations that make significant and
Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Waitisn't this a Philip K Dick book? The president's actually a
simulacra made to convince workers to stay below ground because of the
terrible war. But the truth is there is no war, and the underground folks
are really just slave labor cranking
--
From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ethnomathematics
At 05:41 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Seriously, this flap is old news. I remember about a dozen years ago
when
Eric Cordian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Weizmann Institute has done it again. Written yet another press
release, that is.
I wasn't even aware Guinness had a record for the smallest biological
computing device. Have the Guinness people even heard of the Weizmann
people? One wonders.
This comes from another mailing list.
I've confirmed that it's not been reported on by
the NYT, the Washington Post, or the Boston Globe.
Peter Trei
--
From: Dave Farber[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:52 PM
Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
BANKS AGREE TO BLOCK NET GAMBLING CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS
Ten banks have reached agreement with N.Y. Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer to begin blocking credit card transactions
involving online gambling. The banks agreed to pay the
Attorney
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
That Item Whose Name May Not Be Spoken on Television: a gun.
If there's disruption, looting, a breakdown in what now passes for
civil order, a gun is just about the most important thing to have.
Probably not necessary to use it, for 99.5% of
Bill Frantz[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
Unfortunately having started to question the relation between the pledge
and the ideals of the country, I started to wonder why I was pledging to
the flag, instead of the country. So over the years, I have a somewhat
edited version (removed
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
Harmon Seaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:32:10AM -0800, Marshall Clow wrote:
[snip]
Exactly. Trains are great. I currently live 80 miles from both
Milwaukee and
Madison.
I recently had to travel from San Diego to San Francisco.
I investigated
Thomas Shaddack[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Watching local TV, a police brass with three stars is talking about DNA
evidence.
Losing samples of DNA is quite inavoidable; hair falls out, skin peels,
all you need to get for positive identification is one single cell.
[...]
Go and watch
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From: Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Deniable Thumbdrive?
I got a hold of a little gadget recently that is very nearly perfect for
certain forms of data storage. It's called a
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
But we're NOT apathetic about this. Many of us have acquired the usual
assault rifles,
May I suggest calling them Homeland Defense Rifles?
You're in CA. What's your take on the registration
requirements that came into force this year?
[...]
--Tim
Peter Fairbrother[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Bill Stewart wrote:
At 09:54 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is
increasing
averages more than 1 year/year. Quite a number of works which had
been in the public domain fell
Jack Lloyd[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Trei, Peter wrote:
However, in 1993, Republic Pictures started to assert control on
the basis that the song Buffalo Girls (which occurs many times
throughout the film) was still in copyright.
So, the film has effectively been
Marc de Piolenc[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Matthew X wrote:
We learned as much on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
Congress can repeatedly extend copyright terms, as it did most recently
in
1998 when it added 20 years to the terms for new and existing works.
He wanted
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