Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

2005-10-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On 10/4/05, gwen hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troll Mode on: TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) .. BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that feature is built in. The NSA

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote I have valid although perhaps unpopular contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the absence of my perspective. Wow. Nice

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be asking

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is new journalism, since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does this

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping (Psst! The FBI is Having

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/9/05, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a recent working email address? Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] still work? You might try sending email to that address. If you don't get a response, either it's not a good address or he thinks you're an idiot. (Or he's dead, but he wasn't

Re: New Drugs

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Furlong
On 8/23/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote: I [want] a new drug... I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a drug-hating

Re: Italy finally holds USA to the world standard!

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 6/24/05, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2560 Italian Judge Orders 13 CIA Agents Arrested Over Kidnapping John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:47, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:38 AM -0500 12/8/04, Steve Furlong wrote: anarchist Bzzt wrong answer. Must filter that *in*, thankewverramuch... I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't think a true anarchy would be the proper

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:26, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 9:17 AM -0500 12/8/04, John Kelsey wrote: But once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters and ovens, he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought about some issue in a new and fascinating

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:00, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: I rather suspect that the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are toying with their ability to interpose their data in place of quasi-authoritative texts. Oh, *my*...

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required. There

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-) I tried, years before _UC_

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

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

US-centrism

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. Response 1: When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. Response 2: The cpunks list isn't US-centric,

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, 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: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:38, Will Morton wrote: How long have soldiers deployed in war-zones been able to get life insurance? Would love to see their actuarial process... It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life insurance we had didn't cover

Oswald

2004-11-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:31, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:34 PM 11/21/04 -0800, 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 Theft Auto IV,

Re: Turtles all the way down... (was Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...)

2004-10-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:55, J.A. Terranson wrote: Nothings ever regular around here On the contrary, there's a constant stream of shit on this list. _Someone_ must be pretty regular.

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: As for *kids*, we recently had an 11 year old bride (legal here with parental consent) who was on the news for being the youngest *divorcee* at 12! Why not give her the vote? She can't do any worse than the rest of these rednecks. After the

13yo arrested for kiddie porn

2004-10-20 Thread Steve Furlong
First saw the story linked from Drudge, then googled up a handful of stories: http://www.kptv.com/global/story.asp?s=2435549ClientType=Printable Boy,13. arrested on child porn charges 10-15-04 TACOMA, Wash. -- A 13-year-old Lacey boy is accused of child pornography by taking pictures of himself

Re: Printers betray document secrets

2004-10-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:14, Ian Grigg wrote: R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/3753886.stm US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. I don't think this is new -

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:17, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it by bombing from high altitude, or by using cruise missiles. Everybody uses the technology available to them. What's bad on it? Invariably, the side that uses the defensive measure -

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 00:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: -- My profile is radically different from all those who killed nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My holy book of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

2004-10-10 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens from it. Then it will be safe to carry,

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

2004-10-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. I think I'd get the implant under my scalp somewhere. If the implant gave access to a really critical place, I wouldn't want to risk

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: The regular encryption scheme (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers are second to none. (Microsoft's

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 05:18, Peter Gutmann wrote: The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure, the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones). I wonder whether

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Furlong
Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote: That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it out of one of em.

Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0x)

Re: T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

2004-08-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:54, Sunder wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL Washington -- Sen. Edward Ted Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:43, Sunder wrote: Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. It's ok, you can still say Tim May around here.

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: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-26 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote: Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC against lyrics in songs. And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a Tipper Sticker, indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that

Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Furlong
Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's contact us address. But I don't know if Brands is still at ZKS.)

Re: Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:25, David Crookes wrote: He started a new company called Credentica. http://archives.abditum.com/cypherpunks/C-punks20020603/0053.html Pretty amusing -- that link points to the achive I maintain. There's probably a parable in there about having knowledge at your

Re: Real-world quantum cryptography

2004-04-22 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 21:49, Steve Furlong wrote: http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Gah. That's what I get for trying to do a Hettinga -- he beats me to it. OK, Bob, you got me this time. grin

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:55, Harmon Seaver wrote: Chickens ain't herbivores, they are omnivores, and, in fact, prefer meat, bugs, etc. to all else. Yah, ducks and geese, too. But factory chickens, which is almost all of the chicken most Americans eat, are fed mostly grain. A lot of

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and kittens

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Tastes just like chicken? Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten things that I wouldn't have considered to be food, she doesn't like my cat, and I don't want her getting any ideas. However, to answer Robert's

Career advise on entering the tech field

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: How are you going to land a sweet outsourced job if you ask others to do your homework? If Sarath is, in fact, a student who will soon be looking for work, he may do just fine. Getting a tech job has little to do with how much you know or

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 2:21 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: Facultative strong authentication doesn't nuke anonynimity. Perfect pseudonymity is functional anonymity, in my book... No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as coming

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-14 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:02, Justin wrote: Case law on point? I don't think that is true at all. Trade secrets that are leaked are no longer trade secrets. Incorrect. Trade secrets that are deliberately released by the owner are no longer secret. Secrets that are carelessly released by the

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:48, Tim May wrote: (Though of course this is only the _theory_. The fact that all of the Bill of Rights, except perhaps the Third, have been violated by the Evildoers in government is well-known.) A few years ago I wrote a short paper looking at government-installed

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:07, Tim May wrote: Read up on the Lawson case in San Diego. Tim is referring to Edward Lawson, arrested repeatedly and convicted once in the late 1970s for walking around without ID. The appeal made it to the Supreme Court, as Kolender v Lawson, 461 US 352 (1983).

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:18, Steve Schear wrote: Did you carry and present ID? No. Once it was requested (strongly requested, just short of a demand with threats), but when I demanded his justification he backed down. In NY, at least at the time, citizens were not required to carry or present

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:02, J.A. Terranson wrote: What good is a Jury when the judge can pick and choose which arguments and evidence you can provide in support of your case? I've occasionally handed out pamphlets on jury nullification outside the local county courthouse. Never been arrested

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Steve Mynott wrote: Jim Dixon wrote: The term 'software engineer' is becoming less common in the States these days. I have watched the job title wax and wane for more than twenty five years. I think that it was most fashionable in the early 1980s. Any

Re: Alt.cypherpunks will be where I do most of my posting

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 02:19, James A. Donald wrote: And to get back to the topic of this thread. I cannot see anything but random deranged crap in alt.cypherpunks -- maybe I need to adjust my filters, but there does not seem to be any signal in the noise. I don't see anything on

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:18, Jim Dixon wrote: I spent several years travelling in that part of the world. Well, that just blew your credibility with this crowd. You're supposed to spout off on topics about which you know nothing. Bonus points for reflexive anti-state-ism [1] [2], and in

Re: Ashcroft's bake sale, no questions allowed, gvt-issued photo ID required

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:49, Bill Stewart wrote: Too bad it's past tomato season on the East Coast Shit, we've (upstate NY, along the Mohawk River) already had our first snow. Didn't stick, but the chill in the air is literal, not figurative.

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:55, Tim May wrote: Increasing voter turnout is, of course, a Bad Thing. For the reasons we discuss so often. Agreed. To the extent that I want a government at all, I support a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Legions of bleary-eyed, TV-addled, bigoted

Re: [mnet-devel] DOS in DHTs (fwd from amichrisde@yahoo.de)

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 00:43, Morlock Elloi wrote: There are precedents. In Franko's Spain, all typewriters had to be registered with the state, and all had serial numbers. It was illegal and punishable to possess one without license. What does that have to do with anything? We're talking about

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:46, Steve Schear wrote: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants Which means that even armless retarded monkeys can post to c-punks. Profr, call your office!

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales (fwd)

2003-10-12 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 15:55, Tim May wrote: As the saying goes, the lessons of the past are learned anew by each generation... And each generation invents sex, too.

Re: What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Furlong
box soon, maybe this weekend. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all! -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Furlong
-- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all! -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Furlong
.) -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all! -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Furlong
stoolies. As you say, talk is cheap. Actions, reported widely in the mass media, will grab people's attention. On a related note, does anyone have a recommendation for a nice chianti? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel If someone is so fearful that, that they're going

Re: Terror Reading

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Furlong
in his hands? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all! -- Rep. Henry Waxman

Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 05:23, Bill Stewart wrote: Nah - who's afraid of Democrats? Branch Davidians, perhaps. Elian Gonzales's Florida relatives. Dems themselves tend to be pathetic wankers, but you gotta admit they're adept at using the state's monopoly power on force. -- Steve Furlong

Re: The real ordeals of U.S. soldiers in Iraq

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Furlong
been plenty of bitching by both soldiers and civilians but the overall effect would have been less than what's happening now. Army manning a year or two hence ought to be interesting. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel If someone is so fearful that, that they're

Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

2003-04-01 Thread Steve Furlong
needs to get up to speed. Maybe he can't. Again, fully consonent with my high school science teachers. cf A Nation at Risk. If it weren't for momentum and brain drain from countries with decent schools for children, we'd be getting eaten alive by oriental nations. -- Steve FurlongComputer

Re: Quote of the Day

2003-03-30 Thread Steve Furlong
voting for the doofus in his very conservative county and he'd be able to point at that 1 entry and say That's mine!. To his dismay, three or four others apparently though the same way. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct

Re: Skeletons at the gates

2003-03-30 Thread Steve Furlong
of a 4WD SUV would have no trouble. I'm pretty sure the self-indulgent imbeciles who engage in this sort of infantile behavior would find another venue once the great mass of people stopped indulging their temper tantrums. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns

Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-28 Thread Steve Furlong
-deceased Pat Old Drunk Moynihan, George Pataki, Al Sharpton, and now Joe Bruno. Tell ya, I'm damn proud to be a New Yorker. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better than duct tape will get you through times of no guns

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:52, Tim May wrote: Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. MegaCorp doesn't have property rights to the air, but Amazon was recently granted a patent on A Process for Bringing Oxygen into the Body. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-07 Thread Steve Furlong
remailers when you post your anti-property or anti-American screeds. You'd better --- after all, hundreds, even thousands, of protesters have been shot dead right in the street for protesting. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times

Re: Give peace a chance?

2003-03-05 Thread Steve Furlong
, since they tend to infest *CLUs. Either he missed Constitutional Law class the day they talked about scope of applicability of the Bill of Rights or else he's just a dumbass. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:15, Tyler Durden wrote: Gulp. But then again, are they going to arrest all 250 million of us? cf The Asylum from Douglas Adams' _So Long and Thanks for All the Fish_. Just turn the entire US into a jail with a few, small not jail locations. -- Steve Furlong

Re: Deutsch Jackboots

2003-02-24 Thread Steve Furlong
On Monday 24 February 2003 14:20, Greg Newby wrote: If he had weapons that non-soldiers can't get licenses for, I'd be more suspicious. Weapons that non-soldiers can't get licenses for includes pepper spray in NYC. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Furlong
; there needs to be a counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just isn't up to it. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Furlong
think Henry used a 20mm. The heli was pickled, not mounted. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Furlong
the administration have its way, it's during war time. (I paraphrased that.) My view is, if there's any time the courts need to keep a closer eye on the administration, it's during a popular war. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-02 Thread Steve Furlong
--- now I need to check my meds. SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 13 December 2002 11:44, Trei, Peter wrote: ... this sort of thing could give the Libertarian Party legs, if they handled it right. Hahahahahahaha -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Furlong
is it they are connecting to?, misses the distinction between the two. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-15 Thread Steve Furlong
. (*) I'm the one who came up with that nickname, so you can assume that my opinion of him is not favorable. SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: eJazeera?

2002-11-11 Thread Steve Furlong
a db or two. Hey, that's a _good_ idea! And we can get side shielding by sticking the antenna between a fat guy's ass cheeks. The Fedz might notice that he's always keeping his butt pointed in one direction, but maybe that's normal at these events. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Furlong
and too much work even if it's not confusing. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-02 Thread Steve Furlong
to be worth decrypting. I have signed a few messages in the recent past, but that was probably even less worthwhile than encrypting them. For all I know, not a single one has been verified. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than

Re: A non-political issue

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Furlong
a single, eternal signing box he wouldn't be able to get away with that. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: For everything else, there's MasterCard.

2002-10-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 15:41, Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS wrote: (re hunting people) If anything, this is more wasteful and degrading as you are not eating the meat... Speak for yourself. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Steve Furlong
. Anonymous persons (or dumbassbots; it's hard to tell sometimes) who snipe from behind the veil may be assumed to be cowardly jackasses. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: why bother signing?

2002-10-05 Thread Steve Furlong
know that that wasn't the spoofer confirming his own spoof? (That's not an entirely joking question. Not enough headers make it through the mailing list and my ISP for me to tell the difference b between the two Ben Laurie messages cited above.) -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
providers. We need to ban electricity, then the problem goes away... -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

LNE Cypherpunks archive

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Furlong
businessman you'll ever meet. Hey, anyone want to hire a consulting programmer you can easily rip off? grimace) SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: Cypherpunks inet-one archieve not updating.

2002-09-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 15:44, Gary Jeffers wrote: My fellow Cypherpunks, I said down . More precisely not updating since Sunday. The LNE cpunks archive which I host is still up and still updated. http://208.171.236.113/cypherpunks/ -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have

Re: U.S. Military Uses the Force

2002-08-25 Thread Steve Furlong
on the technical subjects he covers, he's been known to make omissions and errors. As with everything on the net, read with a grain of salt. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: Freedom of association denied in Ventura Cty

2002-08-02 Thread Steve Furlong
see you in court lack the impact of I'll make your bitch squeal? -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: sources on steganography

2002-05-30 Thread Steve Furlong
be a ^ ^ ^ hindrance. Besides, don't claim to speak for others. If envy is what ^^ ^ drives you, then I suggest that you work on that. ^ ^ ^^ -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-30 Thread Steve Furlong
contract would be easily voided. OK, that's the way I think it is, currently in the US. The way I think it _should_ be is much more caveat emptor, as Dr Mike and others have said, but the legislators and judges have neglected to ask for my input. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have

Re: Missing pieces?

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Furlong
Mister Heex wrote: What are the fundamental building blocks that we're missing for a bright 'n' shiny crypto-future? Cluefull users. Politicians who aren't trying to grab power. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: Missing pieces?

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Furlong
can get my hands on some anthrax. (Note to hypothetical snoop: that was a joke. Get a life, idiot girl.) -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: Testing..

2002-05-23 Thread Steve Furlong
Bill O'Hanlon wrote: Sorry for the intrusion. No problem --- I was just waxing my bikini line. (This disgusting mental image courtesy of the Janet Reno Full Frontal Nudity Collection.) (That disgusting mental image courtesy of me.) -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-14 Thread Steve Furlong
. A redneck would buy a pickup truck, a gun rack, and about six extra rims, for lawn decoration. Half of my relatives are rednecks, so I know these things. An Explorer is more a soccer mom purchase. If you want to bust on Tim, try to aim a little more accurately. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere

Re: college roomates a national in/security threat

2002-05-02 Thread Steve Furlong
of mass destruction is in the school of education. I'd think the US government would encourage students from hostile nations to study it here, then export our system of public schooling back home. In a generation the hostile nations would be no threat to us. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-01 Thread Steve Furlong
kiddies fat. I suppose the backers of the current fatty food tax would like to let him rot, but the FBI didn't see a case. I never did hear if they let him out or if he is still rotting in preventive detention Cavity preventive dentition, perhaps. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-01 Thread Steve Furlong
be safe than free. For every complaint I've heard about having to reassure the bank that the card wasn't stolen, I've heard a couple dozen praises for the wonderful safe system that takes care of its members. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts

Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Steve Furlong
Jan Dobrucki wrote: World, this is the USA, USA, this is The World. Now that you know each other, start thinking in a more broad perspective, please. Blow me. /s/ An Ugly American -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself

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