Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
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... Cheers, RAH John would warn you about the organ cuts Tim would rave

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 5:07 PM -0500 12/4/04, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Be kind to yourself, but never forget you're kind You're a fluke of the universe, and while your standing there looking stupid, the universe is laughing behind your back... Or something. Cheers, R.A. (Bob) Hettinga

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest --bob Tyler Durden wrote: I thought JR Bob Dobbs got beamed up to that comet with those LA Koolaid kooks... -TD From: R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Word Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:42:01 -0500 word

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Neil Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: To be bobbed is never the goal, but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob along conventional paths, to the abattoir Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Probably busy in his hilltop bunker

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Furlong wrote: 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. To be bobbed is never the goal, but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob along conventional

Word play bobs the literal minded

2004-12-06 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
John Kelsey wrote: From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 4, 2004 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Word Of the Subgenius... I thought JR Bob Dobbs got beamed up to that comet with those LA Koolaid kooks... No, but I do believe the comet kooks engaged in bobbitization

Timing Paranoia

2004-12-08 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the measurement of reaction time to stimulus. It turns out that the length of time it takes to given situations is a credible proxy for how difficult the discrimination is to make. Imagine a paranoia involving mysterious e-mail

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:17:30AM -0500, John Kelsey wrote: Maybe, maybe not. The thing I always find interesting and annoying about Tim May's posts is that he's sometimes making really clearly thought out, intelligent points, and other times spewing out nonsense so crazy

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Those cops you taught...do you think they were stupid enough to assume that, because this was their first time hearing about Stego, that Al Qaeda was only starting to use it right then? Thats an interesting question on several

tangled contexts

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Process and perception This capacity for making high order discriminations about relationships between objects in our world, can be taken as the proper function of our cognitive competency. The attribute of intentionality, to this way of thinking, is best understood as work product of a discrete

tangled contexts

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Process and perception This capacity for making high order discriminations about relationships between objects in our world, can be taken as the proper function of our cognitive competency. The attribute of intentionality, to this way of thinking, is best understood as work product of a

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:56 AM -0500 12/10/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: But I'm about 2 posts away from ensconcing RWBE in my procmail file What's taking you so long? :-) Cheers, RAH cf: various imprecations against feeding trolls cet... Aww, come on guys i only eat little sheep and i

Sheep Herding

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
The secular bible: Our project First let me speak to my Christian brothers and sisters. I mean you no disrespect by using the term bible in an unholy attack on your faith. The project of this secular bible honors the sanctity of holy documents. A secular bible could only be true to itself is it

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Tyler Durden wrote: Well, when you put it that way, that changes everything. All is now clear. Please continue downloading the syntactic mappings of random neural firing...I'm using your output to seed a random number generator. Oh, and don't forget to cc Choate. -TD You could do worse, my

Obligatory Comprehension

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Say what you mean, mean what you say Speaking in metaphor is anti-social If I cant understand you, I cannot trust you. Encrypted, encoded, or implied Secrets are a threat to the homeland

Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: [assholes] You tell them, Steve I believe I just did. Insanity is a great cover for an insurectionist! I suppose it could be, although I am give to belive that residents

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lions and Tigers and Steganography, Nell... For those of you without a program, here is the new, official, Horsemen of the Infocalypse Scorecard: At 3:14 PM -0400 10/3/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Horseman Color

re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
(curious thing about this spew, it keeps disappearing into the bit bucket, I know its raw verbiage, but is it so incoherent it self-destructs? -bob) Process and perception This capacity for making high order discriminations about relationships between objects in our world, can be taken as the

Nul Context

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Communication is about context Sometimes the context is so obvious that the frame is nearly invisible, sometimes the context is so subtle that indications of obvious significance can only be detected after much study. Language and meaning involve sharing of contexts. This is obvious, what is

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Tyler Durden wrote: As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at all. If you don't share the context of the communicators, you have no idea what they convey in their conversation about the whether. That's a stretch. Soon you'll say that Post-modernist literary theory

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine a paranoia involving mysterious e-mail delays and the length of time it takes to catagorize Imagine hordes of otherwise unemployable psychologists and cognitive psychologists deployed

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: (curious thing about this spew, it keeps disappearing into the bit bucket, Yawn. Roboposting this babble doesn't really increase its chances of getting read. I work through JY because I know there's uranium in that ore. But I'm about 2

Half baked troll

2004-12-13 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
The need for a coherent framework to hang our speculations on is obvious. The impossibility of any consensus based prototype is pure politics. We need a way out, and that way is to take a lesson from the theory of evolution. The lucky semantic construction is tested in practice by a virtual swarm

Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics

2004-12-14 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Sunder wrote: Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ Gait advances in emerging biometrics Timing is everything. The coherence of timing patterns is a proxy for identity Measure their timing and you can glimpse their mind Mess with their timing and you can disrupt

Re: Steve Thompson

2004-12-14 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Tyler Durden wrote: Something occurred to me...it probably occurred to others already but I am a stoopid Cypherpunk, don't forget. Anyone think it a TINY bit odd that someone with a fairly mundane complaint about bad computer gear would know to come in on an anonymous remailer? My first

RE: Stash Burn?

2005-05-02 Thread R.W. \(Bob\) Erickson
Congratulations, you just turned your vehicle into drug paraphenalia What? You claim it is Not for drugs? Tell this to the judge. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyler Durden Sent: May 2, 2005 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL