Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-27 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 11:34, Jack Lloyd wrote: Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: You're *all* going up the chimneys. I voted for Cthulhu -- why vote for the lesser of two evils? http://www.cthulhu.org/

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-27 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:36 PM -0400 4/26/04, Damian Gerow wrote: : YMOIMV? Hum. I've never seen this before -- what's it stand for? Your Meaning Of Is May Vary... ;-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-27 Thread Tyler Durden
How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library? Grocery store posters? Well, we could just tell them their lives would be much better under Kodos, rather than Kang. -TD From: Damian Gerow

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-27 Thread Tyler Durden
How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library? Grocery store posters? Well, imagine if we could buy votes...I'd bet we could scrounge up a few hundred thousand votes for the price of a few

Re: Multiple copies of messages

2004-04-27 Thread Jim Dixon
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: Just today, I started getting multiple copies of each message. Am I the only person this is happening to? Three copies of your message received so far. -- Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +44 117 982 0786 mobile +44 797 373 7881

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-27 Thread R. A. Hettinga
[having problems with an MX record somewhere. Let's see if this works...] At 3:04 PM -0400 4/26/04, Damian Gerow parsed a sentence thusly: That's not saying that he invented the internet, it's saying that he took initiative in creating it. Okay. I'll bite. Let's do a Rorschach test. Please

Re: Infrared flash?

2004-04-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the best approach? The energies here are more in the range of rotation/vibration changes than electrons jumping up and down between the energy states. How to convert a blast of electrical energy into a shower of near-IR photons? If all

Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

2004-04-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:06:44PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: Pulling the power is the exact wrong thing to do if it's a CFS requiring a passphrase at startup. Does anyone know what the default procedure is when hardware is being seized (threat model=knuckle-dragger/gumshoe)? This might have

looping

2004-04-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Looping should be fixed now. Sorry y'all; I suck. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng

recent node activity

2004-04-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
The al-Qaeda.net node was down for about 30 hours or thereabouts. It ought to be back up now. Messages received during that period have been resent. Sorry for the unannounced outage. Things should be better now. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng

Infrared flash?

2004-04-27 Thread Thomas Shaddack
For bright flashes of visible light, xenon flash tubes are the choice. But when I want a really bright flash on about 800-900 nm, what approach is the best? One application is a security camera taking a snapshot without alerting the adversary with a flash. (Could be a good system against

Fact checking

2004-04-27 Thread Tim Benham
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:06:50 -0400 From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fact checking How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library? Grocery store posters? Well,

Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'

2004-04-27 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Horseman #1, Terrorists: Check. Horseman #2, Pedophiles: Check. Next? Cheers, RAH - http://news.scotsman.com/print.cfm?id=2844122referringtemplate=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Escotsman%2Ecom%2Flatest%2Ecfmreferringquerystring=id%3D2844122 print close Tue 27 Apr 2004 2:47am (UK) Id Cards 'Will

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-27 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:20:06PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 19:25]: :And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks to the left : of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. Extremely :