Jessica Stern on Jim Bell

2003-08-18 Thread John Young
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

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

2003-08-18 Thread Tim Meehan
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

Re: How can you tell if your alarm company's...

2003-08-18 Thread Tim Meehan
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

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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Techie: "It's outdated, it will collapse."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

Re: Faith-based Drug Wars

2003-08-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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

Slective DoS on enemy communication by a P2P WLAN

2003-08-18 Thread Thomas Shaddack
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

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

2003-08-18 Thread Tim Meehan
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.

Re: war Crimes

2003-08-18 Thread Tim May
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Tim May
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Tim May
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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

Re: reliance that's scary

2003-08-18 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
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

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Tim May
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

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Riad S. Wahby
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

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Howe
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

CAPPS II is back - DontSpyOn.US

2003-08-18 Thread Bill Stewart
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

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Tim May
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

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Tim May
(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

Re: Blackout in NYC

2003-08-18 Thread Sunder
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

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Howe
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

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

2003-08-18 Thread Sunder
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

RE: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

2003-08-18 Thread Trei, Peter
> > 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

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

2003-08-18 Thread BillyGOTO
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

US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Harmon Seaver
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

war Crimes

2003-08-18 Thread Harmon Seaver
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Harmon Seaver
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. > > >

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Harmon Seaver
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

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
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. __

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Harmon Seaver
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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Thoenen, Peter CIV Sprint
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 >>

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Harmon Seaver
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

RE: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
> 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

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-18 Thread Michael Shinn
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