Re: geographically removed? eHalal

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over. Hawala

China 'blocks Google news site'

2004-12-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Reminds me of Imperial Russia's railroad gauge, which was different from the rest of Europe's, maybe the whole world's, on purpose, to prevent attacks. Common trick, lots of countries did it, though it impedes lots of progress at the border besides military progress toward your capital. You have

Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

2004-12-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/30/mexican_verichip_hype/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 30th November 2004 18:00 GMT Reports that 160 Mexican

Re: geographically removed? eHalal

2004-12-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:33 PM 11/28/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi- ary *, who takes some pains to

Re: geographically removed?

2004-12-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:44 PM 11/28/04 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,

Re: geographically removed? eHalal

2004-12-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola: By Halal (are you getting this term confused with that for Islamic version of Kosher? I think the name is similar but not this) Do you mean that system of monetary transfers whereby local services are exchanged in place of direct cash transfer? (In other words, if I want to sell

Re: geographically removed?

2004-12-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- Major Variola: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. James A. Donald: The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment system gets

RE: Oswald, Atta, Your Name Here

2004-12-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:08 AM 11/29/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Steve Furlong wrote: Major Variola (ret) wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand

Perle: Rumsfeld Opposed, Powell Wanted Occupation

2004-12-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Remember what I said about the original estimate of only 50,000 men to take down Iraq, with the next stop being Damascus? :-) Cheers, RAH --- http://newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/30/80903.shtml Reprinted from NewsMax.com Tuesday, Nov.

Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

2004-12-01 Thread John Young
Lying about having an implant is kidnapping and mutilation protection. Whether any justice official, with or without a denied implant, will be believed by the slicers is no different than the terrorism risk of anyone living within 100 miles of a US defense base and/or industry, or Wall Street

Spooks, Root Beer, and My Keyboard...

2004-12-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
..so, courtesy of BitTorrent and http://www.tvtorrents.net, I started to download and watch Spooks something that looked like a British knock-off of the really-better-off-dead The Agency from a few years back over here. Fine. First episode I see (Year 3 episode 6, episode titles forgotten),

Re: Tin Foil Passports, Al foil diplomas

2004-12-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:02 PM 11/29/04 +, Justin wrote: On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Thompson
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [permanent holy war] Steve Thompson True, but there's a question of the waste of resources and man-years that would come from such a circumstance. All the oil money has been wasted, most of the humans in the middle east have suffered

RE: Oswald, Atta, Your Name Here

2004-12-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:41 PM -0800 11/30/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And I could cycle my 7.52x54R bolt-action in under a second on my first try, but again, grace under pressure is cool. ..and here I bet you thought that Marine marksman rating, bordering on sharpshooter, whatever, would *never* come in handy...

Jewish wholy words..

2004-12-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
Is it true that the jews have these texts in their scriptures? #1. Sanhedrin 59a: Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild animal. #2. Aboda Sarah 37a: A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated. #3. Yebamoth 11b: Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is

RE: Jewish wholy words..

2004-12-01 Thread Tyler Durden
No. Technically speaking, only the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible, written by Moses) are technically scripture...everything else is commentary. -TD From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jewish wholy words.. Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:30:05 +0100 (CET) Is it

Quantum key distribution

2004-12-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-6/p22.html - The Industrial Physicist ?Quantum key distribution Data carrying photons may be transmitted by laser and detected in such a way that any interference will be noted by Jennifer Ouellette pdf version of this article Computing's exponential

Swedish military feared linked to Estonia ferry disaster

2004-12-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those interested in intelligence, munitions smuggling by authorities and so on - a few words concerning military smuggling of munitions on the Estonia, feared to have played a part in the sinking and killings of 852 people on Sept 28, 1994, when

RE: Quantum key distribution

2004-12-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Andrew Hammond, a vice president of MagiQ, estimates that the market for QKD systems will reach $200 million within a few years, and one day could hit $1 billion annually. What an idiot. OK, it's basically a marketing guy's job to make up all kinds of BS, but any reasonably comptetant marketing

Re: Anti-RFID outfit deflates Mexican VeriChip hype

2004-12-01 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
Bring em on, oops, they are here already. Darn, it wasn't the commies and nazis who were the threat, it was your indolent life-style paid for by your swell-paid, smarter wife, up to women-empowered thieving the marketplace and making innumerable enemies for you to blame for your swelling