Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:26:22AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Unfortunately, if you want to read Tim, you have to read his evil twin Skippy, too. Living in *his* killfile, on the other hand, and if he actually uses it, can be useful. Try it, you'll like it. So what you're saying is that

Type III Anonymous message

2003-12-10 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
-BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE- Message-type: plaintext Tim, I AM GETTING TIRED OF SEEING CYPHERPUNKS RESTRICTING WHAT INFORMATION FLOWS AND TO WHERE IT FLOWS... -END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

2003-12-10 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up on the web? http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents elsewhere in the directory tree; X/text/ and

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread Tim May
On Dec 9, 2003, at 8:46 PM, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:57, Eric Murray wrote: Ok, bye! plonk Eric (just to make it crystal clear, Tim's going in my _personal_ killfile) Shit, mine too. I really don't get what's happened to Tim. He used to be a great resource.

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

2003-12-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House, just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a different HTML template. The WH

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:57, Eric Murray wrote: Ok, bye! plonk Eric (just to make it crystal clear, Tim's going in my _personal_ killfile) Shit, mine too. I really don't get what's happened to Tim. He used to be a great resource. Now he's even forgotten how to troll well. shrug

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 3:58 PM +0200 12/10/03, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: So what you're saying is that we need a remote-plonk mechanism to insert oneself into another person's killfile (merely entertaining this thought makes me a loathsome Bolshie, I'm sure). Yup. On both counts. :-). Seriously, in IM, like AIM, for

Re: Got.net and its narcing out of its customers

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:07 PM 12/9/2003 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: He was just trolling, being intentionally vague so that they'd assume he was copying from one DVD to another. Which they did, and which they raved about. Tim? Trolling? No, they'd yank his Ontology license if he did that (and yes, someone

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 12/9/2003 11:58:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Green = Red. Bruce Sterling is, for all intents and purposes, a commie. Veridian, my ass. My thoughts exactly. Regards, Matt-

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 3:59 PM -0500 12/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cybergreen: Bruce Sterling Green = Red. Bruce Sterling is, for all intents and purposes, a commie. Veridian, my ass. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

members

2003-12-10 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Hello I'm curious. You say the list got some 400+ members right now and that's only the lne node too. Can you provide some statistics on the users? How many addresses are .gov? Any valid TLA addresses in there?!

whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

2003-12-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up on the web? http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 4:57 PM -0800 12/9/03, Eric Murray wrote: I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim near the

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-10 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to the extent they're still around). We have

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

2003-12-10 Thread FB`
I really would expect that preventing *spiders* (some spiders, even) using the *publicly accessible* robots.txt would be a pretty horribly ineffective form of skullduggery... can think of 10 things to do that are easier, more effective and less of a potential pr fiasco... see

Tim May is Free!

2003-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim near the keyboard very often. I dunno...sometimes his

Codecon 2004 CFP - Just a few days left

2003-12-10 Thread Bram Cohen
CodeCon 3.0 February 20-22, 2004 San Francisco CA, USA www.codecon.org Call For Papers CodeCon is the premier showcase of active hacker projects. It is an excellent opportunity for developers to demonstrate their work and keep abreast of what's going on in their community. All presentations

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-10 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, James A. Donald wrote: SNIP In austin powers, they make the spy sound sixties by depicting him as expecting the victory of the Soviet Union, and perhaps rather favoring that outcome. If they had him quote Ayn Rand, he would not have sounded sixties. When the mass

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 9 Dec 2003 at 0:47, edo wrote: What I'm curious about is digital currencies. Can anyone speak about the Digital Monetary Trust or DMT? I'm sorry I have not read the last upteen years of mail archives, but I'm interested in what people think NOW about Orlin Grabbe, DMT, e-gold etc.

ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread Nostradumbass
At 10:37 AM 12/10/2003, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 9 Dec 2003 at 0:47, edo wrote: What I'm curious about is digital currencies. Can anyone speak about the Digital Monetary Trust or DMT? I'm sorry I have not read the last upteen years of mail archives, but I'm interested in what people

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 9 Dec 2003 at 23:44, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 3:59 PM -0500 12/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cybergreen: Bruce Sterling Green = Red. Bruce Sterling is, for all intents and purposes, a commie. Veridian, my ass. Veridian green is entryist, not commie. The watermelons would

alt.anonymous.messages

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 10 Dec 2003 at 18:22, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly all of it is from remailers posting to Usenet (or remailers sending mail

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 10 Dec 2003 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E-gold and other DGCs do not do much if any due diligence in checking account holder identification, so if you use an effective proxying means (e.g., an open Wi-Fi hotspot) to create and access your accounts you are pretty safe. If you

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-10 Thread A.Melon
Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08: Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was sent to me) contained stegoed information, but that it was intercepted in transit and the real message overwritten with noise or whatever? Hardly, given the simple