Legally thwarting FBI surveillance of libraries and ISPs

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Schear
ing them the last day they may return the book without forfeiting the deposit. They can charge a fee for this service and use it as a new revenue source. Steve

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
ation for legal business purposes, which of course there are. Steve

The price of failure

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Schear
Quick, before they change it: search Google using the term "failure" (without the quotes)

Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

2005-10-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On 10/4/05, gwen hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troll Mode on: > TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) .. > BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as > a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that "feature" is built in. The

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote > > I have valid although perhaps unpopular > > contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself > > limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the > > absence of my perspective.

Re: Wired on "Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case"

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:14 AM 9/20/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Very interesting CPunks reading, for a variety of reasons. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68894,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Of course, the fact that Lucent has been in shit shape financially must have nothing to do with what is effectively a

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy > majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is "new > journalism", since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does th

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: > >What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? > > There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grad

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping ("Psst! The FBI is Having

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/9/05, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a recent working email address? Does > [EMAIL PROTECTED] still work? You might try sending email to that address. If you don't get a response, either it's not a good address or he thinks you're an idiot. (Or he's dead, but he was

Re: GPS Jammer Firm nearly ejected from Russian air show.

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Schear
etail.jsp?id=81907 Steve

Re: New Drugs

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Furlong
On 8/23/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote: > > >"I [want] a new drug..." > > I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen > to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a dr

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-15 Thread Steve Thompson
upply, I must succumb to temptation > and > question whether the Stalinst model of a demand economy (servicing an > endless war on terror) hasn't been looked at by folks such as Wolfowitz, > Cheney and so on. Suckkumb all you want. Regards, Steve __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Steve Thompson
one privy to the GUID->meatspace map. Without > access > to the map, the tag still identifies its carrier as a U.S passport > holder. > Integrating this aspect into munitions is left as an exercise for the > reader. > > > The only way I see it making a difference is

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-08-08 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Steve Thompson wrote: > > > --- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > pretend you hate. But there is an up-side: you're too fucking stupid > to > > be of

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Thompson
d you hate. But there is an up-side: you're too fucking stupid to be of permanent use to the 'Stazi', and so you can anticpate outliving your usefulness eventually. Regards, Steve __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-30 Thread Steve Thompson
urther bad-faith back-and-forth on your part would be superfluous to the task of proving that you won't be serious when you reply to my messages. Regards, Steve __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Thompson
uot; that we're responding correctly. In other > > words, as stupid as Canadians can be, Americans are often far stupider. > And > more belligerent, too, which is why we're in this mess. I think you would better serve yourself if you were employed doing something prod

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Schear
ds, everyone here in NYC knows that we've given up a lot for the sake of the appearence of security, but no one seems to give a damn. The term 'securisimilitude' (from verisimilitude) comes to mind. Steve

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Thompson
--- John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:17 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... > > ... > >Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the > >obvious: Rand

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >From: Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... > >Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:01:30 -0400 (EDT) > > > >--- Tyler Durden <

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-24 Thread Steve Thompson
to be favoured by the Usual Suspects. > OK, OK...so the police are deterrents against a few lone crazy > copycats, who don't have enough sense to enter away from police > line-of-site. But it sure seems damned silly to be giving up > constitutional protection for the

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Schear
ct to be called the "Lost Liberty Hotel." The hotel would include a museum on "the loss of freedom in America." A spokesman insists "this is not a prank." Perhaps not. " Steve

Re: Italy finally holds USA to the world standard!

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 6/24/05, J.A. Terranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2560 > > Italian Judge Orders 13 CIA Agents Arrested Over Kidnapping John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Schear
ce of paper to those in power. Lenny Bruce was certainly right when he said.. "In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls." Steve

Re: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd)

2005-05-12 Thread Steve Thompson
people, and (b) that they have no actual interest in my affairs. Both assertions are quite false, but proving it is another matter -- and difficult too, given the ignorance and stupidity currently in fashion at the moment. But I don't mean to provoke an off-topic discussion in this

Re: Stash Burn?

2005-05-08 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "A.Melon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Steve Thompson scribbled: > > --- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [incinerating the evidence] > > > What's wrong with this idea? > > The Alabama hillbilly remains free to harass you the next

Re: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)

2005-05-08 Thread Steve Thompson
bber hoses, they're probably going to kill you anyways. Hoses leave marks, of course, and if there's one thing a spook hates, it is leaving evidence of his or her passage. Unless his or her mission is about leaving visible traces, of course. Regards, Steve ___

Re: Stash Burn?

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Thompson
ahead of time so they won't inconvenience your criminal activities. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

RE: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Thompson
ou'll need a faraday cage and colliding pulse mode-locked dye laser for > > quantum encryption" bullshit actually detracts from Cypherpunkly > notionsit makes the use of encryption a red flag sticking out of a > sea > of unencrypted grey. And then, of course, in

Re: Bypassing Local Authorities

2005-04-28 Thread Steve Thompson
ld. Personally, I believe that I fail to receive an unknown amount of email and telephone communications because of cut-out mediated privacy invasions of the kind that you suggest here. In the trivial case, some asshole might periodicall

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-29 Thread Steve Schear
x27; is triggered if you fail to contact your agent at regular intervals. Miss two appointments and a 'wet worker' is dispatched Steve

Re: WiFi Launcher?

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Schear
pot is likely to be within 10 degrees of horizontal. They are commonly used in commercial TV and radio broadcast. I think its possible to get 6 or more db gain this way with a small antenna. 6 db effectively doubles your range. Steve

The Register: Anonymity no protection for online libellers

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Schear
The tenuous nature of online anonymity was underlined yesterday, thanks to the final ruling in the Motley Fool libel case. Terry Smith, chief executive of city firm Collins Stewart Tullett, won undisclosed damages from Jeremy Benjamin, a fund manager. Benjamin had posted what he now accepts as

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
into clients or hiding them inside a TOR-like proxy network weren't taken earlier. Steve

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
8:12PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > >Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind. > > And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my work at It was a deliberate decision on Bram Cohen's part. BT is a very useful medium to deliver software updates, movies und

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
ffer the content or obtain it without likely identification? Steve

Re: [>Htech] Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net (fwd from eugen@leitl.org)

2005-03-09 Thread Steve Schear
Perhaps I'm missing something but doesn't the use of a proxy strip off information essential to this exploit? If so, only newbies and lusers will ID'd. Steve

ZipLip ends secure email service

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Schear
"Thank you for using ZipLip's free secure mail service. We appreciate your patronage and wish to inform you that we will be discontinuing our service on June 30th, 2005. For various reasons, including new U.S. legislation which significantly impacts the individual's privacy rights, ZipLip is no

Re: End of a cypherpunk era?

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Still, if we could achieve mutual respect and freedom in the physical > world, we would happily pay the price of increased rudeness online. Speak for yourself. Reg

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-17 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > > --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > As governments were created to smash property rights, they are > > > always

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-17 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-02-16T13:31:14-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > > --- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Property is like rights. We create it inherently, because we're > human,

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-17 Thread Steve Thompson
t is certainly an option, eh? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-17 Thread Steve Thompson
nclusion is not so foreign as to be beyond comprehension, but rather represents a problem that no-one is willing to deal with -- thus compounding the error. Since you still aren't bothering to address messages I write in good faith, I suggest that you should go fuck yourself. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Thompson
ps you are using the term 'government' in a way that is not common to most writers of modern American English? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Thompson
core matter. This list is becoming a chore to read. Would someone find out where Tim May and Detwellier (for a start) are hiding, and please recommend them back to Cypherpunks? When such as they were active, we could be assured of lively and entertaining debate. These days, th

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-10 Thread Steve Thompson
on. Strategic ignorance is therefore extremely valuable -- particularly to corrupt government and corporate officers. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Hack License

2005-02-10 Thread Steve Thompson
lexibility of the existing choices: it's pretty much either all or nothing. Ultimately, I don't think that simple black and white choices will suffice for my purposes. Regards, Steve > Simson Garfinkel is a researcher in the field of computer security. He > is > the autho

Re: Jim Bell WMD Threat

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Thompson
geson of the Industry of perpetrating a massive fraud, then I suppose one requires rock-solid evidence -- which I admit I cannot possibly produce at this time. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Schear
to fly-by-wire steering, especially hybrids that don't have an internal combustion engine running all the time so they can't easily use traditional hydraulic servo steering. Steve

RE: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Thompson
Ralph Merkle hanging on the wall in your bedroom? etc. Face it. You aren't going to get straight answers to questions from highly technical internet sophisticates, even if you ask politely. They have better things to do than to justify and explain their ideologies when in fact such

Re: [i2p] weekly status notes [feb 1] (fwd from jrandom@i2p.net)

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Thompson
erit. Am I making sense here, or is this merely superficially obfuscated surplus verbiage? You decide. In the meantime I will further consider, in my few moments of quiet and solitude, the negative aspects of the current state in which civil and human rights are sel

RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Thompson
fiscated as a part of legitimate intelligence excercises and operations are generally made available on a first-come, first- serve basis to employees in good standing. Other benefits include super-human abilities and powers unavailable to normal human beings. All in all, it sounds like a great place to

RE: Researchers Combat Terrorists by Rooting Out Hidden Messages

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Schear
ese images should have a lot of spectral energy in the same frequency bands where Stego would normally show. Images that ideal for hiding secret messages using stego are those that by default contain stego with no particular hidden content. A sort of Crowds approach to stego. Steve

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Thompson
okWorld, fraud, larceny, perjury, and murder are merely the tools of the trade. And don't get me started on about the cartels. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson > > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > &

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Thompson
d drug usage would drop if many of those drugs > were > legalized and taxed. But God forbid that happen because what would all > those > policemen do for a living? Prison workers? Judges? Well, pot is bad. Duh. Regards, Steve _

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-26 Thread Steve Thompson
ly to you went unanswered just when I was starting to make some difficult points. Surely that was an oversight? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-26 Thread Steve Thompson
warmongers who have been entirely subverting my ambitions and interests for years, simply because they like the challenge.) And in continuing with the outing, I predict that God was named John by his parents, and has official carte blanche to fuck up t

Re: Vive le rubber 'ose: 'The Interrogators' and 'Torture': Hard Questions

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Thompson
tion" simply aren't enough to undo the damage. By the way, I really enjoy the drugs used today in the service of official knowledge acquisition. I sincerely hope that many more people enjoy them too. And I would be remiss if I failed to remind everyone who is a

Re: Cpunk Sighting

2005-01-23 Thread Steve Thompson
classified information. > A > department spokesman > > confirmed that the memos, > > posted at > > http://cryptome.org , were > > legitimate. Were legitimate? What happened, did their content expire or something? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Carnivore No More

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Thompson
at their network eavesdropping capabilities require secrecy and non-disclosure. Sure they can pretend that the userland tools are super high-tech, but the analysis and inteception of arbitrary network traffic is not rocket science. Regards, Steve

Re: Brin needs killing, XIIV

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Thompson
ction that makes it no different to chemical addiction. > alas. But slowly people are awakening to the facts. Mmm-hmmm. > The world will be a sea of cameras and vision. But > that needn't be a nightmare, if we can hold the > watchers accountable by looking BACK. Well, yes

Re: [IP] Cell phones for eavesdropping

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Thompson
n model to their heart's content -- given sufficient motivation, however you might characterise that... What's your threat model? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?

2004-12-22 Thread Steve Thompson
lped to create this beast you are now bitching about, and after it > bit you, you *continued to fly*, and thereby feed it some more. These things happen from time to time. The best advice that you could give to the original author w

Re: Steve Thompson

2004-12-15 Thread Steve Thompson
take this digression, what with the limited information that is available in context, and so we can only speculate as to what relation Mr. Erickson's possible stoopidity has to the topic at hand, which is (if we are to take the message at face value), that he is concerned with a complaint about

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Justin Guyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-12-11T08:10:27-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > > [snip] > > This is what happens when one picks up ideas from people who present > them > > second-hand (or at even greater distances from their origin) and who >

Re: Steve Thompson

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: > > > Out of nowhere cometh Steve Thompson, and sayeth he all manner of > > things. But, while his mouth moveth one way, he seemeth to

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Thompson
e disk and return the computer" that came out of the Steve > Jackson > > case, not that they're always followed; > > Actually (at least here in the Midwest), it's copy ("image") the machine > and provide a copy of that image. The computer and original drive

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
#x27;t find a hidden terrorist message even if someone shoved half of it up the ass of Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli, and the other half up the ass of Deputy Commissioner Paul Gauvin, and then sent them a map with clear directions written on it leading directly to the location of both asshol

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote: > > > > (STANDING OVATION) (SOUNDS OF MANY HANDS CLAPPING) > > Thank you Steve, for that short but entertaining look into the dark > recesses of our

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Thompson wrote: > >[assholes] > > You tell them, Steve I believe I just did. > Insanity is a great cover for an insurectionist! I suppose it could be, although I am give to belive that resident

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
y of their intrusive meddling in the commons. All in the name of science, of course. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: tangled contexts

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
h of chronus. If you go about tapping the peristaltic functions of the general public, you will definately get in shit. Why, you might even get your hands dirty. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "Roy M. Silvernail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Thompson wrote: > > [imagine] > > Imagine using observed timing to conclude that your agent provocateur > operates from geostationary orbit. That would be a neat trick considering the variety of like

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
think one would be able to buy half-decent weed from time to time. But no... It's all crap. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-12-10T15:50:22-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: [snip] > > state's personality, the state has the right, nay, obligation to > preserve > > its identity unchanged. (Isn't this pretty much polysci 101 > material?) &

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Thompson wrote: > > > --- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Colouring outside the lines] > > > Yes, you have a point there.I guess a better cover would b

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
the investigative tools and authority to make definitive findings of fact, and to take corrective action should they find incidents of criminal liability, but as yet have refused to do so. And *that* is another matter entirely. Regards, Steve

Re: tempest back doors

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
gging technique. What makes this odd is that the Wired article makes no mention of Tempest, only of the possibility of there being a back door, which in the usual vernacular of computer security, usually implies a method for unauthorised access or use of the software system in question. Regards

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "R.W. (Bob) Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Thompson wrote: > > [take back the night] > > Yep, the state fights to preserve its "life" > while the people suffer their own. > The mistake of top down thinking > lies in the inab

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:26, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 9:17 AM -0500 12/8/04, John Kelsey wrote: > > But once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters > >and ovens, he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought > >about some issue in a new and fascinating dir

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:47, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 10:38 AM -0500 12/8/04, Steve Furlong wrote: > >anarchist > > Bzzt wrong answer. > > Must filter that *in*, thankewverramuch... I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't th

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Furlong: > > > Random racist ranting is also required. There are some racist > > assholes currently posting on cpunks, but none have quite the May > > flavor. > > LOL > > You can say that again.

Re: Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "privacy.at Anonymous Remailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Thompson: > > > If that's true, then the government couldn't have stolen it. > > However, I suspect that mainfraim code of any sophistication is > > rarely released into the

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:00, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: > >I rather suspect that > >the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are toying > >with their ability to interpose their data in place of quasi-authoritat

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:12 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: > >But I cannot prove > >it. > > Tee hee... > > This from the guy who took over where Choate left off. Although at least you include the article tex

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Thompson
--- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: > >I rather suspect that > >the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are > toying > >with their ability to interpose their data in

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Thompson
ment as much as anyone, mere talk about sex never really did it for me. But I confess that I like to watch sometimes. At any rate, Detweiller is another person entirely. But I cannot prove it. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Thompson
x27; May is gettin' a little lonely out there! I doubt it. May has his gun collection for company. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Bonus question: > > > > > >Who is the author of the origin question that inspired the copycats? > > > Well, I remember May posting it but I don

Re: Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Neil Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:58 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > >[PROMIS] > Yes, I have found that puzzling too. > > Articles I have read refer to the original version being "in the public > domain". You'd

Re: Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Thompson
al option in that regard) so any information that does leak is bound to be sketchy, but surely there must be _some_ accurate data available concerning its nature, especially considering the fact that it has been under development for two or thre

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Thompson
on: Who is the author of the origin question that inspired the copycats? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

RE: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Thompson
tch of the imagination, so I may be entirely full of crap without knowing it. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: > I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express > purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: > Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > >John Ross' "Unintended Consequences" is a classic of the, um, gun > culture, > >:-) and a great read. > > Made me want to name my first mulatto "Gonorreah" fer sure :-) I tried, years befo

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: > >Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) > > Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. > > You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required.

Re: Lockheed and the Future of Warfare

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Thompson
ge in humankind'. Similar sentiments can be attached to the public education sector, the automotive industry, the steel industry, etc. Oh, I suppose we should not also forget the Internet and its boundless potential for connecting people to each other for arbitrary business and leisure activities. But the really sad thing about the quoted article is that someone (or more people) actually got paid to write it. Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Thompson
's all chip in and buy him a bottle of good scotch and a shiny-new tinfoil hat for Christmas. Think he'd accept graciously, or would that offend him too? Regards, Steve __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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