Homing In on Laser Weapons (was Re: US developing untraceable weapons)

> > >Los Angeles Times October 20, 2002 >Homing In on Laser Weapons >By Peter Pae > >Turning a Buck Rogers fantasy into reality, Southern California defense >companies are on the verge of building a laser weapon small enough to fit on >

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

At 04:28 PM 10/31/2002 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: At 1:52 PM -0800 10/31/02, Steve Schear wrote: >At 11:37 AM 10/31/2002 -0800, you wrote: >>Another "fix" that is being used is passengers who will act to keep the >>plane from being used as a weapon. If the hijackers have to kill people >>with smal

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

At 1:52 PM -0800 10/31/02, Steve Schear wrote: >At 11:37 AM 10/31/2002 -0800, you wrote: >>Another "fix" that is being used is passengers who will act to keep the >>plane from being used as a weapon. If the hijackers have to kill people >>with small sharp objects that they can smuggle on board, in

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

At 11:37 AM 10/31/2002 -0800, you wrote: At 4:13 PM -0800 10/29/02, John Kelsey wrote: >At 12:01 PM 10/28/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: >>By the way, there are perfectly good fixes to the current hysteria >>about things carried on board planes... > >I think the best fix is to accept that a determined s

patents

--- begin forwarded text Status: RO Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:02:42 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Subject: patents Bob, What's all the confusion about the Digicash-Chaum patents? They are now all owned by Infospace. The important one expires mid-2005, which is pretty soon. The ec-logix st

Re: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

At 10:17 AM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote: I'd like to understand how we could be useful to the cypherpunk community. I've got some wild guesses (run a public keyserver, run a mixmaster node, etc), but I don't really know what is most badly needed, or how we could provide the most bang for the bandw

Re: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

I see an open search engine as the most important server project. Limit the engine to cpunkish issues and similar to control the popularity (bandwidth). Run your own harvesters/spiders. This would help limit the google monopoly and power and provide a search engine of choice for the (gasp) "communi

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

At 4:13 PM -0800 10/29/02, John Kelsey wrote: >At 12:01 PM 10/28/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: > >... >>By the way, there are perfectly good fixes to the current hysteria >>about things carried on board planes... > >I think the best fix is to accept that a determined suicidal attacker will >probably man

Re: ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 13:17, David E. Weekly wrote: > Cypherpunks, > > I run a 501(c)(3) non-profit ... > > I'd like to understand how we could be useful to the cypherpunk > community. I went through this myself a few years ago, when my nice new DSL line with static IP was burning a hole i

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:13:52PM -0500, John Kelsey wrote: | Your list left out the obvious technique, which I think is more-or-less | used by El Al: Screen your passengers really well, probably using secret | databases, various kinds of racial profiling, etc. Routinely turn | passengers away,

ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

Cypherpunks, I run a 501(c)(3) non-profit focuses on providing free, donation-based colocation to individuals and other non-profits (i.e., no companies are hosted. Additionally, we try to do things that are useful to the not-for-profit Internet community as a whole; for instance, we run a freenode

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

At 12:01 PM 10/28/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: ... >By the way, there are perfectly good fixes to the current hysteria >about things carried on board planes. Besides the obvious absurdity of >issuing alarms when fingernail clippers are found (but ignoring razor >sharp edges in things like laptops w