Re: Most of a nation on probation (GPS convicts)

2001-07-12 Thread Alfred Qeada
At 11:30 AM 7/12/01 -0700, A. Melon wrote: >Bear saith: >> >>It's the twenty-first century. Nobody cares if you go straight >>anymore > > Which brings this to mind again. This and the Where to go >thread. So where and what are the disenfranchised to go and do? >I'm a middle aged IT profes

WEP is dead, how's the reception?

2001-08-21 Thread Alfred Qeada
So WEP is dead, and the following are known: 1. you can drive around a city and sniff data (one ref) 2. folks can point a pair of dishes at each other and do 10 miles w/out extra ampl. (many refs) I'm curious: what range can you intercept 802.11 data with reasonable S:N assuming that the source i

Re: The 4th Airliner Shot Down?

2001-09-12 Thread Alfred Qeada
At 11:29 PM 9/11/01 -0700, John Young wrote: > >We know from the Egypt air crash that some pilots are >cooperatively suicidal when their families are at risk. Lucky John, who has never known the depths which might lead men to suicide, expecting no martyrdom or message, just relief. May your strut

RE: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

2001-09-12 Thread Alfred Qeada
At 12:33 AM 9/12/01 -0400, Sunder wrote: >I'd still fucking rush them if I had been there. If anything it would >wake everyone else up to do the same. No, you *wouldn't* have *before* ---you'd expect to land and hang out for a while. Rather exotic for an American, but it happens. But now, of c

Re: A Brevital Moment (was..Ignore Aimee Farr)

2001-09-14 Thread Alfred Qeada
At 08:26 PM 9/13/01 -0500, Agent Farr wrote: >Bell's "Assassination Politics" put cypherpunks on some protective >intelligence agendas. Longtime fans would recognize that this was rent-seeking, one gang vs. another: the federal gang's ability to put 1e7 on O.B-L's noggin. vs. distributed anonymou