Jessica Stern's new book, "Terror in the Name of God : Why
Religious Militants Kill," has about 8 pages on Jim Bell, in
a chapter called "Lone Wolf Avengers," which is shared with
the Pakistani Kansai, assassin of CIA employees.
Stern says that while Bell is not a religion-based terrorist
he is in
Harmon Seaver said:
> But how important is that anyway? Most any half competent burglar knows
>enough to cut the phone wire before the B&E, so they don't get called.
A local alarm company here (Alarmforce) advertises an "extra" to their basic
package: a backup cellular phone link to th
Roy M. Silvernail said:
>But it's not trivial to roll your own 24/7 monitoring company with the ability
>to call in the cops.
>From what I hear, indoor marijuana grow-ops that are alarmed with hand-rolled
systems often activate a pager. In that case you DO NOT want the cops to come.
As an asi
At 01:50 PM 8/17/03 -0400, Sunder wrote:
>Techie: "It's outdated, it will collapse."
Sometimes its easier to ask forgiveness after than to ask for permission
before.
Sometimes you have to let the system crash so others see its weakness.
Ca often runs within a few percent of available juice durin
At 04:26 PM 8/17/03 -0400, Tim Meehan wrote:
>Faith-based drug wars
>The new anti-drug project is built around three premises which are
spelled out
>in a fact sheet titled "Marijuana and Kids: Faith":
Hey, wait a minute, the government is not supposed to be supporting any
religion,
and promoting
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32361.html
US forces to target enemy mobiles with P2P WLANs
By Tony Smith
Posted: 15/08/2003 at 11:22 GMT
The US military is developing a weapon based on peer-to-peer technology to
take out mobile phone communications, the US Department of Defence has
reve
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 collapse.
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
http://counterpunch.org/cloughley08162003.html
"Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry
Division,
said tougher methods are being used to gather intelligence. On
Wednesday night,
he said, his troops picked u
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
won't let him out.
I've known for more than 40 years that there's always been language in
t
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq
because
he was in the reserves, now his contract i
At 02:33 PM 8/17/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
>he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
>won't let him out.
Did he reluctantly take the $$$ to be in the reserves, too?
> my
>enlistment contract
On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> I had the pleasure ca 1997 of figuring out how to browser-enable a
> multiton
> industrial machine (the kind with big red "stop" buttons, rotating
> lights on it when it was operating, and stickers showing various forms
> of dismembermen
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 03:24 AM, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
Hope you can help on this.
--- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hope you are not saying that you think there will
always be 16 heads
and 16 tails!
In a perfectly random experiment,how many tails and
how many heads do we get?
Fir
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But, as I said in my last post, before you try to understand
> algorithmic information theory, you need to learn the basics of
> probability. Without understanding things like combinations and
> permutations, binomial and Poisson distributions, the law of lar
Sarad AV wrote:
> Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have
> a zero compression rate?
> If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one
> occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope
> for compression.
In that one case, yes.
The compression will vary based on the deviat
Bill Scannell, who did the Boycott Delta project about CAPPS II,
reports that they're back.
CAPPS II testing has been restarted.
The Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration
continues in its at
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 06:37 AM, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
Thank you-one more question.
Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have
a zero compression rate?
If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one
occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope
for compression.
T
(Will whomever prepending this "Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht ***" header
please STOP.)
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Dave Howe wrote:
randomness is a funny thing. a truely random file can be *anything*
that
is the right length - including a excerpt from william shakespere
(provided you h
Yup. I got the fuck out of NYC as fast as I could. Walked for about 3
hrs incl. over a bridge. :) Made sure I got there before dark. I
outwalked the busses! That's how bad traffic was for cars.
The bars were already happy places at 5pm with lots of crowds in front of
them extending out into
Tim May wrote:
> (Will whomever prepending this "Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht ***" header
> please STOP.)
that would be my email provider - and hence me. sorry. They suck in many
ways, but they give an efficient free service with tls support; one of the
ways they suck is to either
a) hide some of your
Could you turn that into an mp3 and email a url to it?
--Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---
+ ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\
\|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\
<--*-->:weapons.. Reas
> > 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 forb
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:04:53PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> Both of these these stories lack plausibility as far as I'm concerned.
> 2. WTC: If you have the ability to insert tower-busting bombs into
> the WTC towers, why the hell would you go to the trouble of doing the
> plane thing? It tooks
Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
won't let him out.
Dear friends
As many of you know I am in Iraq with the 724t
http://counterpunch.org/cloughley08162003.html
"Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division,
said tougher methods are being used to gather intelligence. On Wednesday night,
he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant
general. They left
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> > Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
> >he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
> >won't let him out.
> >
>
hi,
--- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Okay- I need 5 bits to represent 32 coins.I count
> as
> > coin 0,coin 1,... coin 31.
>
> No, you can't count coin 0. Or how will you
> represent no coins?
I thought i could use the null set to point to the
first coin,simply as a one to one
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:21:43PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> >>On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just heard about this local guy who
hi,
Hope you can help on this.
--- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope you are not saying that you think there will
> always be 16 heads
> and 16 tails!
In a perfectly random experiment,how many tails and
how many heads do we get?
thanks.
Regards Sarath.
__
hi,
Thank you-one more question.
Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have
a zero compression rate?
If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one
occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope
for compression.
If the output is random,then it will have no
mathametical
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:37:15PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 02:33 PM 8/17/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> > Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
>
> >he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
> >won't let him out.
>
> Did
Harmon Seaver wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:37:15PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
>>At 02:33 PM 8/17/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>>
>>> Just heard about this local guy who reluctantly went to Iraq because
>>
>>>he was in the reserves, now his contract is up (as of 7/31) and they
>>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:52:25PM +0200, Thoenen, Peter CIV Sprint wrote:
>
> On a semi related side note, how long has this guy been in (total length of
> service)? All personnel when they join the US Military are quite clearly
> informed they have an 8-year commitment, regardless of how long
> If the output is random,then it will have no
> mathametical structure,so I shouldn't be able to
> compress it at all.
You could very well end up with all tails. That's a sequence
that has the same probability of happening that any other sequence.
A compressor will look for redundancy in the inpu
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:02, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:52:25PM +0200, Thoenen, Peter CIV Sprint wrote:
> >
> > On a semi related side note, how long has this guy been in (total length of
> > service)? All personnel when they join the US Military are quite clearly
> > inf
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