Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, Tyler Durden (ie, me) wrote what is attributed to the generic anonymous name of Norman Nescio. Anyway,... Part of the problem is that the detection equipment is many fermions looking at single particles. I think QM is easier to understand when looking at an ion trap. There are lots

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I think you're drifting here from my original point, which that it is in no way illegal, or even immoral, to run free software on hardware that you own, and to pick any locks on the hardware you own, which would preclude you from doing so. Amen, brudda. So will the cops eventually bust down my

Re: Television

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
WOW! While I may agree that Tim May seems to like anarchy as long as he's in charge of it, he does come up with some truly destabilising and dangerous ideas every now and then. Like his alter ego Jim Choate, there's some real signal burried under that noise so at least token measures of

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Do you forget the episode of the Simpsons where Homer has a camera installed in his 10-gallon hat? (He was catching Apu recycling expired hotdogs or something.) -TD (Who is not RA Hettinga, at least when RAH is awake.) From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James A. Donald [EMAIL

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
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 people hailing from Northern India Turks And for that matter, what about

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... I've been seeing your nitwitticisms and shallow observations for several weeks now. Time to plonk you. Bye. And I can honestly say that based on Tim May's responses, he simply doesn't get what I am saying most of the time. In this case I wasn't actually being too clever. In

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
the only level that Tim May seems to think Tyler Durden operates on), the US trial by a jury of your peers and innocent until proven guilty are not supposed to be Rome-like luxuries of being a citizen. They in theory represent a system that protects the accused from basically being the target

Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
that is concomittant, including hoped-for genocides), in which case bludgeoning him with a heavy, blunt object in the base of the skull would be a break for all humanity. -TD From: Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Security

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Some guy wrote You are moron. Care to be a little more specific? (I'm not afraid of a little criticism, particularly if its constructive.) Even if true, I don't see how that comment pertains to my reply. For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white

US Government didn't even claim Hamdi was Taliban

2003-01-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Ran across this in the Villiage Voice today. Basically, the Adminstration got some token pushback from Judge Doumar, pointing out that the 2 PAGE document issued by Bush Co doesn't even specify what is meant by enemy combatant, and doesn't ever actually claim Hamdi was even in the Taliban. In

Protect Your Country From Terrorists: Use Crypto Wherever possible

2003-01-11 Thread Tyler Durden
God be with us as we struggle against evil. Tyler Durden. _ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-14 Thread Tyler Durden
: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:13:32 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the case, then I want to know

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-14 Thread Tyler Durden
: 12 Jan 2003 20:55:51 - At 09:33 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the case, then I want to know. Figured I'd ask for clarification on this issue

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2003-01-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Some dudes wrote... Japanese, for example, did not even exist in any recognizable form until long after Confucian-era texts which are still readable today. How then can a claim be made that Japanese and Chinese are the same age? The grammar is Japanese is almost unrelated to Chinese

Re: The Plague

2003-01-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, this may turn out to be more an academic issue than anything. If someone wanted bubonic or pnuemonic samples, all he'd have to do is just grab someone from the western hospitals that contract it each year. Contrary to popular belief, it still exists, but we have effective treatments

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-18 Thread Tyler Durden
John Keley wrote... There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for simply allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to countries with bad human rights records. Hummm...kind of an odd argument, don't

Re: Small taste of things to come if the war on Iraq happens.

2003-01-19 Thread Tyler Durden
, we have no particular qualm. -Tyler Durden From: Jay h [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Small taste of things to come if the war on Iraq happens. Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:45:56 -0500 -- Original Message -- From: Matthew X [EMAIL

RE: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Stanford University: face down the DMCA enfo (fwd)

2003-01-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Nobody said... Cops probably deserve *your* thanks, since they maintain *your* cash flow. Are you sayin' this guy's growing some grade-A hydroponic sensimilla? -TD _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months

Dissent Takedown...a little sloppy

2003-01-21 Thread Tyler Durden
But that girl was really an undercover cop- surfing the web as part of a police sting operation. OK, so does this mean that the girl wasn't actually 16, just posing as a 16 year-old? (ie, when did the cops start hiring 16 year olds?) So, this guy was busted for BELIEVING that the girl was 16,

Re: Forget VOA -- new exec order creating Global Communications Office

2003-01-22 Thread Tyler Durden
WH Robinson wrote... convey the truth about America and the goals we share with people everywhere. I agree with your ultimate conclusions, but I'm not sure you need so much irony in interpreting these words. My favorite example is Nancy Reagan's Just say NO to drugs...she was a big-time

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities is about tobegin

2003-01-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Ain't gonna be a lot of negroes and Mexicans after this war is over. (I'm not a racist. It's their leaders and their ideology that is to blame. These leaders have led their followers to acts which cannot be forgiven, and which must be punished by death. Nearly all of them need

Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden
I got a hold of a little gadget recently that is very nearly perfect for certain forms of data storage. It's called a Thumbdrive and I bought it online somewhere (64Meg for about $179 or so). The cool thing about this drive (small enough that it has holes for use as a keychain) is that it's

Semi-Deniable Thumbdrive...

2003-01-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Robert Fripp has said: Incremental changes are transformative.) -TD Cheap, fast, easy, and MASSIVELY scalability: that's the real end-run. From: John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tyler Durden

Re: [IP] OASIS takes up lawful intercept standardization (fwd)

2003-01-28 Thread Tyler Durden
XML-specification? Sounds like one of Variola's posts: bulletableNoam Chomskybulletable commie-fagsDC Anti-war Protestcommie-fags nonAmericanelectrifiedPlungerHandleMohammedAkbarelectrifiedPlungerHandlenonAmerican -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Palm Pilot Handshake

2003-01-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible? I'd like to be able digitally shake hands using a Palm Pilot. Is this possible? What I mean is, Let's say some disgruntled and generic crypto-kook (let's call him, say,...'Tyler Durden') has been signing his (tiring) cyber

RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-29 Thread Tyler Durden
And don't forget his promise that we'll all be able to buy Hydrogen-powered cars by 2020 or so. Guess that's how long he thinks this war on terrorism will last (and its probability for ending!). -TD _ Tired of spam? Get advanced

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Mike Rossing wrote... Just gotta kill off a few more arabs to extend the time when that happens is all. That gives me a damned good idea. Perhaps we can use Camp XRay to do some research on how to melt down Muslims and convert then directly into fossil fuels, bypassing all the

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Ask why the U.S.S.R., which depended essentially solely on federal funding, failed so completely. Hint: it wasn't just because of repression. It was largely because picking winners doesn't work, and command economies only know how to pick winners (they think). Well, there's

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Then there's safety, and personal injury insurance rates. If my 3500-pound S-Class hits a Prius, the laws of physics dictate what happens. And if I hit a golf cart, er, a Honda Lupo, I'd better yell Fore! That's what it came down to for me. In the 80s I swore I'd never buy

Roger Rabbit says: Bullshit

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Durden
I don't really understand why examining the current state of affairs in US transportation is productive. Who built the highway system? Private companies? Hell no. Basically, the US government did, and that acted as the initial investment to make the value of an automobile (via the Network

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities is aQ

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... According to the most recent Census data, blacks currently account for around 12.6 percent, or 35.5 million, Even if 20 million are liquidated, there will still be plenty of vermin around to replenish their numbers. -- Tom Veil So what's the deal with hating black

The news from May's peech...Narc-power

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Durden
You folks here pay lip service to aspect of free markets and anarcho-capitalism,but many of you consistently fail to see the follow-through, the applicability to the world around you. You need to have faith that greed is good, that free markets optimize a lot better than planners in

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-01-31 Thread Tyler Durden
One more reasons passenger rail lines are failing and are demanding massive subsidies. Real people won't wait for hours for late trains, or miss a day completely when the track is being repaired, or park their Lexuses and BMWs where bums and winos will key their paint jobs. Railroads are for

SSL to replace IPSec in VPNs

2003-01-31 Thread Tyler Durden
From the Lightreading newswire feed... Any comments? Impact statement anyone? -TD SOMERSET, N.J. -- More than 75 percent of survey respondents believe that browser-based SSL (secure sockets layer) VPN (virtual private network) technology is “somewhat” to “highly” likely to replace

Re: punk and free markets

2003-01-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Michael Motyka wrote... Now to return your serve : back to NYC, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground 1966. White Light White Heat 1967. As close to the egg as I can place any band in style and in spirit. If it were necessary to name one band as the progenitors of punk the Velvet Underground

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Great how bush's daughter, the cocaine addict, isn't in jail, but this man, who was deputized by the city of oakland to grow this marijuana, is going to be in jail for 20 years. Bush himself was arrested for DUI, I wish he was rotting in jail instead of ed. Hold it...Bush's relationship with

Re: punk and free markets

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Silliness. The name cypherpunks was a pun on cyberpunks, a pun suggested by Jude Milhon, a woman writer for Mondo 2000 at the time. Being that there is no body which decides what our group is called, or even that it _is_ a group, saying that someone's pun on top of someone

Re: Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, one little trick I learned from the natives from living in China is to see what's being denied the most vehemently. If, over the next few days, they keep saying It's not a missle, it's not a missle, then you KNOW it's a fuckin missle. (It worked a little differently in China...if they

Re: Flaming the Clueless

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Jesus H(I assume the 'H' was instered to avert the condemnation of blasphemy)...quite a good post. Heard and duly noted. -TD From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Flaming the Clueless Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 09:32:47 -0800 (PST) It's common for those

Re: punk and free markets

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Declan: Yes perhaps. I try not to think too much (I don't trust 'thinking' unless its mathematics or a good experimental setup), but I'll ponder for a while, to the extent that I am able -TD From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an information slug at the bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: Columbia was traveling 18 times faster than the speed of light. Yes, speed of light. Yo Choate! Want to take a crack at this? Please explain using your theories how

Gullible Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source. Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana? Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:07:52 + Tyler Durden wrote: And then there's the PERSISTENT rumors of him actually taking an accidental DEA bust in a Florida airport after landing a fresh new cargo. Supposedly this was a bit

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
That's redundant in the modern US. Too bad; there needs to be a counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just isn't up to it. Good comment. Indeed, the only thing the Democrats seem to stand for is that they aren't republicans. Meanwhile, the economics of the 'real' left

Re: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Even t.v. commercials are spreading the meme that Big Brother is our friend. Funny he should mention this. This very morning was watching the news and a commerical came on for a local monitored Burglar alarm system. It featured a Customed Superhero Alarmo (I think), going

RE: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay. What about Italy? The Italians seem to be remarkably good at ignoring both the vatican as well as their government (which changes every few years and no wonder...do ANY Italians actually pay taxes?). And yet, Northern Italy

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-06 Thread Tyler Durden
I've got a question... If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives, you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions. OK...so I don't know a LOT about how PCs work, so here's a dumb question. Will this work

Re: Congressmen in need of composting: Manzanar fine with him

2003-02-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy sh*t is this guy stupid. Racist too. I guess anyone who doesn't look/sound/think like this MF is they. Better round up those blacks while we're at it. -TD And if I were to have him shot I'D be the one to go to jail! (Paraphrase of Mr Burns...) From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL

Re: Dr. Evil and Mr. Idiot

2003-02-07 Thread Tyler Durden
The implications of this thing are possibly more disturbing than anything I've been exposed to in the last few months. At least a simplistic analysis would suggest that Downing street whipped up something really fast in order to support the US War Machine. Did they not have any publically

Re: DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II w/crypto-in-a-crime penalty

2003-02-09 Thread Tyler Durden
I always thought that breathing during the commission of a crime should result in an extra five to ten years in prison. Or, failure to inform authorities of your specific plans to commit a crime should result in an additional 5 to 10. -TD From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Bill Frantz wrote... Except for the fact that one should not trust pledges that are made under coercion, I am reasonably comfortable with this edited version. It expresses the ideal nation that I wish the United States would become. Well, this is probably a lot better than nothing,

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might break the robotic connections Arguably, 9/11 was a bad trip, and now we're completely freaking out. -TD _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
latest draft bill Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:11:43 -0600 On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:31:56PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might break the robotic connections Arguably, 9/11 was a bad trip, and now we're completely freaking out. Except

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Harmon Seaver wrote... As far as actual LSD goes -- none. And I did a couple hundred, anyway. Towards the end (and after it was suggested on the Senate floor that bad drugs be created and distributed on the streets to freak out LSD users), many things were sold as LSD which were not. I

RE: The Wimps of War

2003-02-12 Thread Tyler Durden
why should the U.S. concern itself with making investments in Iraq not directly related to creating and maintaining oil extraction and transport facilities? This is a continuation of the mythology that extrapolates post-WWII US presence in Germany and Japan (you know, those Americans really help

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-12 Thread Tyler Durden
By the time that people were mixing speed with it, actual dosages were much less (adding amphetamines to 250mic LSD is fairly pointless) and today most, from what I hear, are around 75-100 mic. In the early 80s I remembering getting some of the famous Goofy blotter, rated around 125

M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...

2003-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Eric Cordian wrote... Continuous math is a dead end. So are strings. Yo! Superstring theory is only continuous math because the proper mathematical theory describing strings didn't exist. In the past, physics has sometimes lagged (ca 1900) sometimes led (Newton) the development of the

Re: M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...

2003-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Eric Cordian wrote... Perhaps it is so friggin' hard because you are trying to do the equivalent of modular exponentiation with Roman numerals. Well, you're kind of missing my point. You said that 'M' was for Moron, and I was pointing out that the Morons working on this theory are in

Re: Hacking the Bush War Machine

2003-02-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Sure, the North Koreans are practicing extortion: send us more money and Hennesy cognac or we will rattle our sabers. Both Kim Il Sun (or was that his dad's name) and Saddam Hussein want one thing with weapons of mass destruction: power. They know that by having some big,

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities

2003-02-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... It was clear to me at the time that the focus on black pride was destructive of _real_ pride. Against my better judgement, I find myself agreeing with this statement on one level. However, it should be noted that the Black Pride movement of the late 60s and early 70s was a

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-20 Thread Tyler Durden
zmag.org and commiedreams.org gets you blacklisted, as it indicates that one is of the so-called progressive, leftist commie totalitarian persuasion. Blacklisted! Sniff sniff...I'm hurt! Does this mean I'm kicked out from the yearbook committee too? And do I have to tear up my Cypherpunks

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... Did you read my full paragraph? Quoting zmag was not the only criteria I mentioned. Sorry, sir. Next time I'll try harder to decypher your dogmatic rantings. Noam Chomsky is no true anarchist. Chomsky is a commie pinko totalitarian. Well, since you put it that way, it's GOT to

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn. Some odd details there. Crap I'm getting paranoid. Wait, I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. So the guy was known to belong to an Anti-Pallestinian group, and this was known to the SS folks prior to him being arrested. So apparently, they were watching this guy. Gulp. But

Durdenian Analysis of Bush's radio address

2003-03-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Let me attempt some deconstruction here: It will be difficult to help freedom read: the US take hold read take over in a country that has known three decades of dictatorship, secret police, internal divisions, and war. read: in a country where cities are filled with snipers and boobytraps.

Re: Man decapitated while fleeing police

2003-03-01 Thread Tyler Durden
This sure sounds like bullshit. How could a body be decapitated falling on a fence like that? The human body just ain't all that fragile. We're probably going to find out the guy's got a few dozen entries wounds in his back, in attempt to alter the man's course as he fell towards the fence.

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Funny. Some time ago I saw some Israelis murder a Palestinian kid on numerous stations, Fox among them. Well, the cynical part of me chalks this up to the fact that there's some vague pro-Palestinean sentiment brewing, and they don't want to get caught with their pants down. -TD From:

Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Anyone have any comments? This seems to be of only occasional usefulness. You'd need a chip for every POS/PPP/HDLC connection in the SONET signal. This could be a single connection (unlikely, OC-192c is rare), or hundreds (DS-1s? If not, 16 STS-3cs). -TD SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Cavium

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Tyler Durden
OC-48 or a single 10GbE (802.11 WAN). -TD From: Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cavium Security Processor Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:53:13 -0800 (PST) On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Anyone have any comments

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Shiny Building) or campus...yet (and to date there's no strong indication they will). From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cavium Security Processor Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:14:15 -0800 At 11:23 AM 03

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Goody goody! Telecom geek talk! (Any chance you're female, curvy, and about 5'8? What are wearing right now.) Anyway, Bill Stewart wrote... You'd be surprised - we're seeing tons of interest in it at ATT, partly because of MAN vendors like Yipes and OnFiber (who bought Telseon) and partly

Re: CAPPS II protest - Vandalizing collaborating airlines

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Vandalism is wrong. Yeah, ain't that a shame? Sure is fun though! Education isn't. Well, some of the proposed ideas may be more efficient, but they don't exactly express my rage accurately... -TD Next time you fly, you could leave some flyers in the terminal. They'll get cleaned up, and

Re: Anarchy, and confusion

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Anarchy doesn't mean chaos, with people killing each other at will. No? But what about... I read what some of you folks here write and all I can say is that I hope you are inside the fireballs when the freedom fighters take out the Great Satan. Ah. It's all so clear when you put it like that.

Re: .sig

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Republicans are like The Rock and Democrats are like Stone Cold Steve Austin, and elections are like WWF Slap Down. It's fixed, get it? The contest is not between Dems and Repubs, it's between government and the governed. Nice! GOTTA steal that quote (if only there were another board that gave a

Re: CAPSII protest...

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
OOOH! One wonders if a bad enough air sickness on a crowded flight could turn a plane back...(And if I say airline sickness I don't need the quotes.) Hummif it happened a dozen times within the span of a month do you think they'd notice a pattern? -(the REAL) Tyler Durden From

Re: Give peace a chance?

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Someone should go into that same mall with Support the War in Iraq T-shirts to see if they also get thrown out. What pisses me off is that its probably just some powerless little pion enforcing what they feel is the current accepted, noncontroversial stance. It could be that 90% of the people

Re: CAPSII protest... or, speakers must not be actors

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
and continue to provoke conspiracy to fuck with interstate trade/travel Yeah...was a little drunk when I wrote that. That should clear up right after I convert to Islam! -TD _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2

NYT on CAPPS II protest

2003-03-06 Thread Tyler Durden
This is from today's New York Times. Apparently, either 9/11 is starting to recede in people's memories, or there's a collective sense of distrust growing wrt what this adminstration's been trying to do. -TD The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply objecting to government

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm ashamed to be on the same list with you statists and fascists. Lot's I don't get here. First of all, stating one perhaps should have the right to wear whatever T-shirt you want in a mall isn't necessarily statist. There are, possibly, non-state-originating arguments in favor of such a

Someone explain...Give cheese to france?

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... These fuckards really need to learn what private property is. ('Fuckards'. I like that. GIMMEE.) Alright. There's something I'm not getting here, so the Libertarians on the board are free to enlighten me. Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm sure I read about a way to do fiber, or that someone had developed a device, that only involved removing a bit of the covering, not cutting into the fiber at all. Yes, there is such a device, and I've used one. The only problem with them is that the amount of attenuation that results

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I know that NSA has its own undersea network, but I can only take a fairly crude guess as to what it might look like. SInce it was several years ago, I guess I won't be getting into too much trouble mentioning some NSA work I participated in. It was not classified (though they probably

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Read some of the sources. Few of you social democrats here have done so. Poo-poo on such sources. I can't believe that someone supposedly trined in physics really believes such sources to be of a huge amount of value. I know I'll take heat for the following statement (deservedly--I admit it's

Sell inverse floaters to france

2003-03-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Kevin Horne wrote... By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by engineers; in particular, it has been applied to investment analysis and portfolio theory, resulting in significant improvements in investment performance.

Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Just wondering... Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? Also, as an added (perhaps necessary) benefit, the ability to protect (through anonymity) those that ran the site? Plus, another thought occurs to me. Is it possible, perhaps, via

Re: Someone explain...Give cheese to france?

2003-03-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... Otherwise, if the company really wanted such a dickheaded policy, then yes, it would be their right. Of course, it would also be your right to organize a boycott, take an alternate route, or build your own spur route. This is the general gist of the arguments and so far I'm

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Your oxygen is tresspassing on my private property. Any oxygen that does so becomes mine to do with as I please. Actually, I'm imagining Tim sitting at his window with a shotgun and some high-tech oxygen detector... _ The new MSN

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Nice post. I guess it's just a matter of time before someone is charged with disabling the RF signature of one of these tags. I'd guess that here in the US, the rule will be if you bought it you can disable it, but prior to that you're not allowed to jam it. Humm...one wonders if there's

Re: Switzerland: Another hit for phone privacy

2003-03-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Anybody with a brain, being a de-facto criminal or only a de-jure one, will find some of the ridiculously easy ways to acquire one without giving out a name, ... Well, what they should do is obvious. Post a big sign at the point of sale saying Use of phone cards for terrorist activities is

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-13 Thread Tyler Durden
If I build the mugger's little helper, a PDA attachement that scans for real prada bags, then perhaps the RFID tag will be removed at the counter after the first lawsuit. Nice! Possibly, it might not even be necessary for the Little Helper to read the tag, only detect its presence. Counterfeit

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... On 11 Mar 2003 at 9:35, Tyler Durden wrote: Does it mean that such observations are invalid just because Marx predicted them? Actually, I didn't write that, though I quoted it. Marx was both untruthful, and spectacularly in error. Marx was primarily an economist

Bennetton Blacknet Credit Cards?

2003-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Trei wrote... The tag cost is already down to under a dime. When it's under a nickle, these things will be in everything. Think about them in books. Yikes. Makes me wish I had some kind of untraceable credit card. What the heck does that 'RA Hettinga' character do, anyway? Can we get a

Re: [1st amend] NYT: MTV refuses antiwar commercial

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, despite the probable issues, I want to see big-breasted, bikini-clad springbreak chics on MTV while smokin' a doobie, not be all harshed-out by reality. I WANT MY MT-V! -TD From: Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [1st amend] NYT: MTV

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Schear wrote... A detector that is only sensitive to this spectral region has the capability to operate in the daylight, even while pointing at the sun, and pick up little background radiation How much are UV receivers (note, not the same thing as a mere UV detector)? Gotta be kinda

Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags!

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
This ain't Singapore, now...it's NYC. You can (and always will) be able to buy a Metrocard with cash at the remaining token booths. And while I'd bet many have cameras (for anti-token booth-type crime, including setting the booth on fire), I really doubt they'd be able to accurately track an

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Schear wrote... I haven't checked but assume they should be relatively cheap. For example, I'm assuming this device isn't too expensive and the sensor itself should be available for a few $10s. http://www.ame-corp.com/UVB.htm Perhaps I misunderstand what you would want to use this

Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags!

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
of someone who really doesn't want to be tracked taking the subways. -TD From: Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags! Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:27:43 -0500

I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
for you: you are basically helping the enemy. Let us as responsible citizens of this free and peaceful nation pledge ourselves in the fight against evil. May God help us in our fight. -Tyler Durden _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
be possible for that to look just like good old Ethernet shared-bandwidth-based conjestion (but I'm no IP guy so I could be talkin' out my arse here). -TD From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Patriot Keith Ray wrote... The US is also the world's foremost provider of economic aid. Whether the US is a bully or a peacekeeper really depends on your perspective. Yes, and the fact that the majority of this aid is in the form of munitions credits is proof of the fact that we Americans are

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... (And this kind of chaos need not be a decapitation attack on the Seat of Government. A disabling attack on agriculture--such as contaminating the meat supply with hoof and mouth or mad cow--or a psychological attack on consumerism--such as 5 suicide bombers hitting crowded

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