Brin's ISP

2002-12-23 Thread A.Melon
How long do you think it would be before the ISP described below would receive a cease and desist letter, ordering it to remove the cameras, in order to protect customer privacy? My mind is churning...one would think there'd be a cute techno-fix to this...oh wait, what about some form of brute

Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas

2002-12-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:59 AM 12/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:10:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas From: Charles Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] How long do you think it would be before the ISP described below would receive a cease and

Re: War for drugs...

2002-12-23 Thread Sandy Harris
Anonymous wrote: Yeah--you got it--Poppies...and now that the Warlords are back in charge the cash crop is back. Remember that it was the US which encouraged the Taliban to crack down on the cultivation of Afghanistan poppies. A gift of several million US dollars convinced the

Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas

2002-12-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:16 PM 12/22/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 21:28 US/Eastern, Steve Schear wrote: At 09:59 AM 12/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:10:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas From: Charles Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R. A. Hettinga

Re: Policing Bioterror Research

2002-12-23 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
The main question is - is 1984-type society stable ? All this lamenting about hamstringed sheeple and fascist state does no good if it cannot motivate some effective resistance. My take is that via decimation of the middle class, successful subverting of the education system and development of

Re: War for drugs...

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Sandy Harris wrote: Methinks its more complex than that. I'm surprised to see reports of opium coming out of Afghanistan at all. It's been almost 30 years since you were there, so things have definitly changed! I was there in 1974, before the 1979 Russian invasion.

Re: Bruce Schneier Hullabaloo

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Neil Johnson wrote: U, how about. 1. Big multi-national corporation buys off politicians to pass laws to protect their business model (DMCA anyone ?) 2. Gets meter maid to enforce said law. 3. See above. Ahhh, I see. Let's just get rid of the middle-man

Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote: It isn't that wildly inaccurate - losing both control rooms would be (and has been on at least one occasion) an absolute nightmare. on that occasion, technicians had to get a five-year batch of radiation in ten minutes by going in, operating *one* valve

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-23 Thread Trei, Peter
James A. Donald[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On 20 Dec 2002 at 19:26, William Warren wrote: voting keeps you free..voting is our way of controlling and shaping the government. No matter who you vote for, a politician always gets elected. Those who do not exercise this duty do not deserve

Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.

2002-12-23 Thread Matthew X
A small three-paragraph story recently raised extreme concerns. This AP newswire from Washington told how engineering models appeared to confirm the nuclear industry's claim that a reactor containment vessel could withstand a direct hit from a jet airplane. This may be a convenient supposition

Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: The containment vessel may survive a jet impact but the control room and/or temporary pools of spent fuel lying outside the containment vessel might not survive. A nuclear core without monitored control because everything outside the containment vessel is

Re: Policing Bioterror Research

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: The main question is - is 1984-type society stable ? It's locally stable, but not globally stable. It eventually has to collapse. All this lamenting about hamstringed sheeple and fascist state does no good if it cannot

Re: CDR: Correction of Mike Rosing Disinfo.

2002-12-23 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Matthew X wrote: If you lose control, the reactor scrams. I don't recall a lot of scientific scoffing of the China Syndrome movie when it came out. When it first came out, it was considered a plausible scenario. Later, DOE ran some accident simulations at an instrumented test reactor in

Re: CDR: Correction of Mike Rosing Disinfo.

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Marc de Piolenc wrote: Matthew X wrote: I don't recall a lot of scientific scoffing of the China Syndrome movie when it came out. You obviously didn't read Nuclear News. It was taken as a major joke because it didn't have one thing right in it. When it first came

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: Non-voters are NOT viewed by those in power as protesting against the system. They are viewed as: a: People who are happy as fat with the way things are going. and b: People whose viewpoints can be totally ignored. So Jim, I think you have it

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-23 Thread Tim May
On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 08:06 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes. I strongly suspect that minds are quantum mechanical. My arguement is at this point very hand waving, but it seems to me that if minds are purely classical when it would not be difficult for us to imagine, i.e.

Re: Joe Strummer RIP.

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Strange but Rock The Casbah was a premonition of things to come at a future date in time and space? And it was filmed right here in Austin. The F4's are landing at Bergstom back when it was a AFB. I'll leave the other locations as a test for the class ;)

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-23 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 02:27 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 07:07 PM 12/21/02 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/1217/1 Moreover, prior approval from the Department of Health and Human Services will be needed for experiments that might