Re: Cypherpunk fashions for the New Ashcroft Era (Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary)

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:14 PM 01/08/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:34 PM 1/8/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: I don't know the weaknesses of gait-observing systems, so I can't suggest anything. Kilts for men (over the knee, please, and not for aesthetics). Hoop-skirts for women. A heavy backpack

Re: CDR: Re: Television

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote: Sam Ritchie sneered: Hmmm, is someone a wittle upset over a certain recent textual reprimand? No need for petty schoolyard insults, May. What happened to the new year's resolution you made? ~S Am I just imagining it, or is there a definite

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:10 PM -0800 on 1/8/03, Tim May wrote: As cameras become more ubiquitous, more folks may convert to Islam and take up the wearing of the abaya/abiyeh and the male equivalents. Or Jainism? Well, *one* kind, anyway. :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Wes Hellman
Oh, it seems that I've missed the fact that the situation I was talking about seems to be playing itself out nicely with that dirty bomb guy. Sure, the court didn't say that this applied to his case, but they didn't say it *didn't* apply, either. They've left it wide open. I suspect it won't be

No Ex Post Facto Laws, No Easy Loss of Citizenship

2003-01-09 Thread Tim May
First, even non-citizens have court rights now being denied to the concentration camp detainees. (Many of you reading this list are residents of the U.S. but not U.S. citizens. You must surely know that if you are charged with some crime you will have the same constitutional protections that

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Wes Hellman
Well, I don't know that it's as bad as he was making it out to be, but I wouldn't say that it's as cheery as you seem to think it is, either. While that case in particular seems very obvious, it sets a dangerous precedent. Also note the wording: A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:41 PM 1/8/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, James A. Donald wrote: In today's Vietnam women commonly dress like Ninjas, completely covering every square inch of skin. Even the eyes are covered with dark glasses. The costume however is tight, covering the face but revealing

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Ken Hirsch wrote: In general you have to consider the whole system, including derivation rules, not just the axioms, although you can certain start with a set of axioms like: { x=1, x=2} or, come to think of it, { 1=2 } You'd first have to define what '=' means, that

Re: Television

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Todd Boyle wrote: And anyway, you don't come into a community that is working based on certain shared assumptions, and start questioning the assumptions. Actually that is -exactly- what one should do. No man is the communities nigger. Or as Decarte once said: If you

Re: Television

2003-01-09 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Anonymous wrote: Sam Ritchie sneered: Hmmm, is someone a wittle upset over a certain recent textual reprimand? No need for petty schoolyard insults, May. What happened to the new year's resolution you made? ~S Am I just imagining it, or is

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 23:35, Michael Cardenas wrote: I think you're overreacting a bit. The actual case involves someone who was in a foriegn country for years, and was in the war zone at the time he was fighting the US. The ruling says that he was squarely in teh war zone and

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: Fuck the U.S. Fuck it dead. Do it soon. This is one of the rulings which completes the shredding of the Constitution. Every member of that Court should be killed for their crimes against the Constitution. It's a good thing he was captured by the Feds

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread A.Melon
SIgh. Although I read May's Crypto Anarchy piece and liked it, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that he's just another dimwitted fascist who by accident had a few interesting ideas. You're Guilty for Not Doing Your Homework. Mr. May's views on sick, disabled, niggers and women are

Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Pigs think they are untouchable in the post-9-11 enviromnent. Many pigs need to be killed. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/08/police.kill.dog/index.html - COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- Police video released Wednesday showed a North Carolina family kneeling and handcuffed, who shrieked

RE: Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-09 Thread Trei, Peter
Eric Cordian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Pigs think they are untouchable in the post-9-11 enviromnent. Many pigs need to be killed. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/08/police.kill.dog/index.html - COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- Police video released Wednesday showed a

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Someone, somewhere, has to decide whether this man's service in a foreign army is naughty enough to lose him his constitutional rights. First of all, I don't even think that depriving someone of their constitutional rights is the major issue in this case. On a very simplistic level (apparently

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:35 PM 1/8/2003 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: I think you're overreacting a bit. The actual case involves someone who was in a foriegn country for years, and was in the war zone at the time he was fighting the US. The ruling says that he was squarely in teh war zone and discusses the issue

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2003-01-09 Thread Michael Cardenas
Anyone have any idea what the fuck this is? Is the post office subscribed to cypherpunks? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action t

Re: No Ex Post Facto Laws, No Easy Loss of Citizenship

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Motyka
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : First, even non-citizens have court rights now being denied to the concentration camp detainees. (Many of you reading this list are snip The Supreme Court should overrule the Appeals Court and say very simply: This man was and is a citizen. His presence

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 07:06 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Michael Cardenas wrote: I think you're overreacting a bit. The actual case involves someone who was in a foriegn country for years, and was in the war zone at the time he was fighting the US. Hey, I'm not a USAan and I don't even

Re: No Ex Post Facto Laws, No Easy Loss of Citizenship

2003-01-09 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: While I agree with most of Tim's post, it's not as hard to lose your US citizenship as he makes out. I grew up as a US expatriate in various European countries, including the age period when compulsory military service ... Of

RE: No Ex Post Facto Laws, No Easy Loss of Citizenship

2003-01-09 Thread Trei, Peter
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [...] Second, losing citizenship is not easy. Check Google on loss of citizenship to find precedents, laws, etc. Basically, even serving in a foreign army does not cause loss of citizenship. (Which is symmetric with how we want other

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:10 PM 01/08/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings And for that matter, what about cypherpunks of non-aryan descent? We've had some Branch Dravidian folks around as well I've usually been the one wearing

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:35:36 -0800, you wrote: I think you're overreacting a bit. The actual case involves someone who was in a foriegn country for years, and was in the war zone at the time he was fighting the US. The ruling says that he was squarely in teh war zone and discusses the issue

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2003-01-09 Thread Sunder
It's trend antiv-virus/spam mail scanner. Some idiot at the patent office (what, you thought they'd hire anything other than idiots over there?) configured it to bounce certain words at a certain previous jobs it was decided that words such as shit fuck piss cunt twat dick cock motherfucker

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:11 AM 01/09/2003 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: It's a good thing he was captured by the Feds instead of a militia or a Private Defense Force of some sort. Note that such forces are not required to accept surrenders and can simply kill enemy forces (and vice-versa of course). Private

Re: No Ex Post Facto Laws, No Easy Loss of Citizenship

2003-01-09 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:07:50 -0800, you wrote: This man was and is a citizen. His presence overseas did not cause him to lose his citizenship. If he faces charges, he faces them in a U.S. court with full access to lawyers, full habeas corpus rights, full rights to face his accusers, and

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Soma? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of the Rig Vedas, I don't remember anything called Soma (unless this is a Brave New World Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the Mahabaratabut I don't imagine this is what

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:32 PM 1/9/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Soma? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of the Rig Vedas, I don't remember anything called Soma (unless this is a Brave New World Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the Mahabaratabut I don't imagine this is what

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2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
The most likely explanation is that some subscriber to one of the cypherpunks lists is using an account on some machine at USPTO.GOV (which is the Patent and Trademark Office, not the Post Office), and their mail server not only has an antivirus filter but also a bad language filter. While I don't

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
If Bush can decide alone whether or not we are at war, and if Bush can decide alone with whom we are at war, and if Bush can decide alone what the boundaries of the war zone are, and if Bush can decide alone what behavior makes one an enemy combatant, then we have one person, a totalitarian

It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Seems the folks at www.theneoproject.com have decided to continue work on factoring Microsoft's Xbox public RSA key. It's unlikely their random prime attack will amount to anything. Nonetheless, it's good to have examples of perfectly legal reverse engineering to counter all the DMCA hype. We

Re: Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-09 Thread Pete Capelli
No they don't; or they wouldn't have had the balls to stop the car in the first place. -p - Original Message - From: Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Pigs Kill Family Pet -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+

Re: Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- Police video released Wednesday showed a North Carolina family kneeling and handcuffed, who shrieked as officers killed their dog -- which appeared to be playfully wagging its tail -- with a shotgun during a

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Steve Mynott wrote: Read the Rig Veda and break out the soma (if you know what it was). Or better, what it is :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Mynott
On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 22:10 Europe/London, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings Uh...do you actually hold Aryan meetings? Is this a white supremist thing, or will the following be welcome: Iranians Afghans Most

Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve wrote... I would imagine so since ironically the Aryans came from what is now Northern India and Iran up to about 1000BC. The word is even derived from Sanskrit. Read the Rig Veda and break out the soma (if you know what it was). Soma? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of

Re: Quantum suicide without suicide

2003-01-09 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 12:32 PM, George Levy wrote: As you can see, suicide is not necessary. One could be on death row - in other words have a high probability of dying - and make decisions based on the probability of remaining alive. Being on death row, dying of cancer, travelling

RE: Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Trei, Peter
Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Most of the people from the British Isles over to Northern India speak a variant of the original Indo-European language, with Sanskrit and Lithuanian likely being the closest languages surviving. Some interesting exceptions (I believe) are