(Bald) Weenies at Amnesty International

2003-06-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Turns out the scumbags at Amnesty International have decided to call for the Canadian government to investigate and charge Ernst Zundel for not kowtowing to the official version of "The Holocaust(tm)" as promulgated by the ADL. Zundel has been sitting in jail in Canada after being booted out of th

Re: Senators from Utah being Southern

2003-06-23 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: > Let me remind folks that I am areligious...I no more believe in a god > or goddess or afertlife or supernatural things than I believe in the > Easter Bunny. I view all religions as cults of magical belief. There are two ways of modeling the Universe. One can build it from lots of

Re: Fwd: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore'semail

2003-07-22 Thread Eric Cordian
> I felt sorry for the other 300 people on the plane who had their flight > delayed for some guy with a small badge on his chest, and a big chip on > his shoulder. The other 300 people on the plane had their flight delayed by the actions of the carrier, not by the actions of Gilmore. You are fal

Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-24 Thread Eric Cordian
I just noticed all news channels on the boob tube are showing endless repetitions of what the US alleges are the dead bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons. We all know how easy it is to make realistic fake pictures now that everything is digital, so I was thinking what a cool hack it would be to Photos

Re: CDR: Re: Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Steve Schear writes: > Here, here! This change, if widely adopted, would go a long way toward > reducing war casualties. Perhaps we may even become as smart as some > Pacific Islanders whose wars were fought by surrogates, the logic being > that the death of one man can serve as well as the d

Re: Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Sarad writes: > May be the information provided by the informant was > wrong and it ended up that a 14 year kid along with 3 > iraqi adults got killed and in order to prevent > further outrage among iraqi's,the white house decided > on playing its cards to its advantage.They didn't > confirm the

Re: Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-26 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May wrote: > This is a silly, naive view of things. First, the concept of > "privilege" is one of those lefty, cockeyed notions the liberals use to > vaguely imply that success in life is due to "privilege." Much as conservatives refer to everyone who can see through their propaganda better

Echols Sits on MCI/Worldcom

2001-07-14 Thread Eric Cordian
As hysteria over imagined sexual predation and the criminalization of even thoughts and written words make headlines in the news, there's one individual who's reaping a bountiful harvest from the dancing Sheeple. He is, of course, everyones favorite Network Vigilante, convicted criminal and relig

Re: CDR: burning a flag is a hate crime

2001-07-17 Thread Eric Cordian
> "Vandalizing a no-parking sign is a misdemeanor, but burning a flag is a > hate crime" > Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill Any flag, or just an AmeriKKKan flag? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Geek Profiling Upheld by Appeals Court

2001-07-20 Thread Eric Cordian
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has just upheld the right of schools to suspend or expel any student who speaks or writes about fictional violence, dresses differently, has a "disturbing" background, or "fits the profile" of a "homicidal student." The 9th circuit is supposed to be the liberal

Re: CDR: Vengeance Against Adobe

2001-07-24 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: > Adobe's use of police state measures to have a minor critic (by their > own later admission) yanked out of a conference is not likely to be > forgotten quickly. I expect this will have consequences when they > eventually resume college recruiting. Adobe will likely face sneers >

Re: Subject: CDR: Re: Weird message from someone named "NIPC"

2001-07-27 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan writes: > There seem to be three explanations. > 1. Tim is having some fun with us. Does anyone seriously think this is not the case? The alleged message mentions far too many Cypherpunk-interest topical news items in one place, and I seriously doubt the NIPC has suddenly adopted Tim's

Re: POLL: Ohio "Thought Crime?"

2001-07-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Matt writes: > An Ohio man, a convicted child molester, has been sent to prison for > seven years for writing fantasies of torturing children in his > personal journal. I thought his prior conviction was for the same thing, "pandering child pornography," which given that Ohio also criminalize

Pi

2001-08-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Interesting article recently posted on the Nature Web site about the normality of Pi. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010802/010802-9.html "David Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Richard Crandall of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, present evidence that pi's decimal

Re: Pi

2001-08-03 Thread Eric Cordian
Phillip H. Zakas wrote: > this is truly interesting...do you have a link to the original 1996 > paper? do you know if anyone has incorporated this into a program? David Bailey has a brief explanation of the Pi digit algorithm on his Web page at NERSC... http://hpcf.nersc.gov/~dhbailey/pi-alg

Dead Fetuses Cause Traffic Accidents

2001-08-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Some prosecutor in Montana has banned pictures of dead fetuses claiming they will cause traffic accidents. Uh, right. - GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A city prosecutor said an anti-abortion group's graphic pictures of mutilated fetuses were a traffic hazard and could not be shown at demonstration

Terrorist and Pedophiles

2001-08-13 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: >> Regarding terrorists. Our government conveniently defines a "terrorist" >> as any sub-national group that breaks the law in order to influence >> opinion. >> Note under such a definition, no recognized government can commit a >> terrorist act, even if it firebombs nuns

FBI Tries to Set Up Brian K. West

2001-08-18 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134.html -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

FBI Tries to Set Up Brian K. West

2001-08-18 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134.html -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-28 Thread Eric Cordian
John Young writes: > Motherfucking sonsofbitching shiteaters. Of course, this is just part of the continuing trend in defining "crimes" by the subjective fantasies of a party claiming to be aggrieved. *I'M* afraid, therefore *YOU'RE* stalking. *I'M* ashamed, therefore *YOU'RE* indecent. *I'M* p

Re: Jim Bell sentenced to 10 years in prison

2001-08-28 Thread Eric Cordian
John Young writes: > Motherfucking sonsofbitching shiteaters. Of course, this is just part of the continuing trend in defining "crimes" by the subjective fantasies of a party claiming to be aggrieved. *I'M* afraid, therefore *YOU'RE* stalking. *I'M* ashamed, therefore *YOU'RE* indecent. *I'M* p

Re: Moral Crypto isn't wuss-ninnie.

2001-09-05 Thread Eric Cordian
Aimee writes: > I realize Tim's position, and I respect his right to express his political > opinions and ideas, even though I don't agree with them, and think he is a > self-identifying flamboyant jackass. I understand that many of you have the > same opinions, and likewise Guess not all Ly

Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

2001-09-05 Thread Eric Cordian
Not unsurprisingly, the judge has refused to permit a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for textual depictions of child sex in a private journal to withdraw his guilty plea and get a trial. As F. Lee Bailey once said, the major flaw in the American justice system is that appeals focus only on p

Re: Moral Crypto isn't wuss-ninnie.

2001-09-05 Thread Eric Cordian
Aimee writes: >> Guess not all Lying Feminist Cunts troll Sex Abuse exclusively. > I am not a Feminist. So I scored two out of three? :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Re: CDR: Re: Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

2001-09-05 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan writes: > What's new here? *Possession* of child porn has been illegal for at > least a decade. Obscenity prosecutions for writing what people find > objectionable have a long history: Joyce, Miller, etc. The legal basis for criminalizing non-obscene erotic depictions of minors is Ferber,

What Do Naked Children and Breast Cancer Have in Common?

2001-09-09 Thread Eric Cordian
No sooner has Peacefire put the final nails in the coffin of BAIR, an alleged AI application that purports to recognize porn, http://peacefire.org/censorware/BAIR/first-report.6-6-2000.html than we get this entry from the land of Ireland, which claims to do something similar. http://www.sunday-

"Ending States That Support Terrorism"

2001-09-13 Thread Eric Cordian
Anyone have the list of countries that Bush is planning on scheduling for termination? I would imagine Afganistan and Iraq are the first two. Will he toss in Syria, Sudan, and Libya as well? It looks like the game that is being played here, is that all countries are being given an opportunity t

Noam on WTC Collapse

2001-09-15 Thread Eric Cordian
On the Bombings Noam Chomsky The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton's bombing of the Su

Re: CDR: Re: SYMBOL

2001-09-15 Thread Eric Cordian
> I agree with this. The Twin Towers should be built bigger than before > (twice as big if it's feasible). I know some people would be scared > to have office space in there, but that's fine, because people who are > not scared will take space there, and everyone will know it. I would > take a

Re: 3 questions...

2001-09-15 Thread Eric Cordian
Dave writes: > 3. Who stood the most to gain? The Zionist entity, which can now launch any military operation they wish against the Palestinians, without being criticized. Sharon has committed mass murder before, right? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do

Re: SYMBOL

2001-09-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: > I'm not saying parachutes will ever be banned. For one thing, no way to. Recall that gas mask possession, sale, and transportation was criminalized in the city of Seattle during the "state of emergency" declared for the WTO festivities. This was during the time you couldn't open th

Mandatory ID Cards

2001-09-19 Thread Eric Cordian
MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens and non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards. It looks like the anti-privacy folks are going to do an end-run around the encryption issue, and first attack anonymity. An interesting strategy, and one which we shoul

Re: PGP author under fire for terrorist use of crypto

2001-09-21 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Lampoons: > "I support the government's demands that curtains be banned so that the > legitimate needs of law enforcement may be met. Everyday I cry for > several hours over the horrors that are being committed out of the view > of our noble policemen," he sobbed. Is Sears crying because

Ashcroft's Plans to Shred the Constitution

2001-09-19 Thread Eric Cordian
While Bill Maher loses his advertisers for suggesting that lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away is more cowardly than personally flying an aircraft into a building, we now have a first look at the "features" present in the anti-Terrorism bill, to be submitted to Congress on Friday. Accor

Internment Camps for Political Dissidents

2001-09-24 Thread Eric Cordian
I wonder how many people on this list would qualify as "sympathetic to terrorist causes," a very vague phrase which could mean almost anything. >From www.newsday.com - By MARC HUMBERT Associated Press Writer September 24, 2001 ALBANY, N.Y. -- One third of New Yorkers favor establishing int

Chatelle Resigns From ACLU

2000-05-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Bob Chatelle, a reasonably well-known advocate for First Amendment rights, and opponent of censorship, has just resigned his ACLU membership over their moral cowardice in not supporting NAMBLA's right to advocate for reform of consent laws, and for their pandering to the anti-NAMBLA witch hunt pre

Re: INSTRUCTIONS FOR STINK BOMB

2000-06-23 Thread Eric Cordian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > send me the instruction's of how to make a stink bomb > please!!! Looks like Inspector Gordon is trolling again. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
So much for non-proliferation of "weapons of mass destruction", right? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 - Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Peter Beaumont in London and Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem Sunday October 12, 2003 The Observer Israeli and Americ

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
Yes, I truncated the URL http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1061381,00.html > So much for non-proliferation of "weapons of mass destruction", right? > > http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 > > - > > Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarine

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola wrote: > You put nukes in subs to avoid getting them blown up > esp. by a first strike. You mean like the Jews blew up the Iranian nuclear reactor? > So whoever nukes Israel had best do so without a > piece of real estate associated with it, because the sub > nukes will persist. E

Airplane Comedy

2003-11-29 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku=a102 I'd love to see John Gilmore wear this on his next airline flight. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently no one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3 gig of the address space. This is almost as funny as early linux kernels in which

Re: Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Eric Tully writes: > I've heard that argument before (last time I heard it was a problem with > a PGP implementation) and I never understand what people are trying to > prove when they say it. Let me simplify. I found it startling that a Redmond-level bug was in a mature open-source project, t

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

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: > Well if there is no legitimate authority, then state of nature applies. > Give him the justice that Mussolini and Ceasescu got. Hang him by his > feet from a lamp post in central Baghdad for his victims to use as > pinata Bear in mind that we could probably find plenty

Humiliating the Conquered, Part II

2003-12-22 Thread Eric Cordian
If you think it was embarrassing for the former regime in Iraq to see their fearless leader getting a public louse inspection, just wait until Christmas, when America again demonstrates it can walk the streets of Baghdad with impunity. Yesterday, the crew of WWE Smackdown arrived in Baghdad to set

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Eric Cordian
> A Berlin criminal court sentenced 38-year-old Michael Regener to 40 > months in prison after a six-month trial that tested the boundaries of > free expression in a nation with strict laws against hate speech. Of course, that should be "a nation with strict laws against free speech." Crying "Hat

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-27 Thread Eric Cordian
Michael writes: > Being from Germany I would like to detest that statement. > The German law clearly defines what is hate speech. It is not an easy > task as you can see in a six month trial. It is the outcome of the trial which condemns Germany. THe length of the trial is an unimportant data

Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May observes: > Meanwhile, the "black folk" kept listening to Rev. Jess Jackson and > Rev. Al Sharpton tell them that they were owed reparations, that they > were owed a series of "entitlements." No suprise that a large fraction > of negro teens subscribe to the view that "reading be for wh

Re: base conversion

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Sarad AV writes: > If we are to convert a k-bit integer n to a base b > number,it takes us O(log n) if the base b is a power > of 2. > eg. converting (1)base to base 16 > 0001 > ^^ > 1F in hex. > using a look up table. > Is there an algorithm with time complexity O(log n)

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2003-10-26 Thread Eric Cordian
David Howe writes: > I doubt the NSA need, trust or want anyone else's actual software for EC Nonetheless, it's an indication that they don't think RSA has much of a future. So now they have a public key cryptosystem with smaller key lengths, and a more obtuse one-way function that can't be un

Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Federal Prosecutors say the conviction of Matthew Hale on charges including trying to have a federal judge killed sends an important message. But don't they always? The "plot" to kill the federal judge in this case consisted of a recorded conversation with an FBI Informant which went something li

Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there. It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an advance fee. But Nigeria is a ve

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
David Howe writes: > Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that > month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes > each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone > calls. Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > Think of it as evolution in action. I think we've identified another applicant on the short list for Tim May's old job. :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Cordian
You may remember back in 2000, former literary icon turned copyright pest Harlan Ellison sued AOL because people were able to access a couple of his short stories in the Usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book, prompting AOL to block the newsgroup on its servers. This earned Ellison a Big Brother awa

Citizen Units Must Give Names

2004-06-21 Thread Eric Cordian
One used to have the right to be known by any name one wished, as long as one did not do so for the purpose of committing fraud, or impersonating someone else. One certainly has an absolute right to refuse to speak to a government employee when accosted. So it is difficult to understand the Co

Respect for the Judiciary

2004-06-24 Thread Eric Cordian
I wonder if any such noises were heard during the Jim Bell trial. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0624041pump1.html - JUNE 24--While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged

Criticize Israel - Get Fired

2001-10-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Gore Vidal once observed that thanks to the pressure applied by the Israel Lobby in the US, there is less freedom to criticize Israel in the US than there is to criticize Israel in Israel. There is no greater crime in the US right now than to hint that Israel's 52 years of state terror against th

Re: Criticize Israel - Get Fired

2001-10-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Nomen the Nitwit wrote: > Hey fag boy, we know why you love them ragheads -- a-rabs being known > for a preference for buttfucking each other and especially them sweet > young boys. This isn't about fondness for Arabs, nor about discriminating against people because of their choice of religion.

Additional Anthrax Deaths Suspected

2001-10-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: > Looks like the "toast" and "goner" comments are right on...as expected. > I've been watching a press conference of D.C. politicos, mayor and > company, on CNN. Looks like several inhalational anthrax cases > confirmed, and *two deaths* of postal workers over the weekend with > "s

Re: Additional Anthrax Deaths Suspected

2001-10-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Karsten writes: > There is a vaccine for anthrax. It's not generally distributed, though > military and vetinary personnel may receive it. The vaccine has not been proven safe and effective, nor released for use in the general population. The military has to take it because they are ordered t

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Gloat on the Phone - Go to Jail

2001-10-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Here's an intersting Reuters blurb on arrests made because people failed to grieve properly on their phone lines. It doesn't say how many of these intercepts were with warrants, how many were secret court/national security intercepts, how many were illegal, and how many were routed offshore to be

American Schools Need Flattening Too

2001-11-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Students in AmeriKKKan government-run schools have never had much freedom of speech, since the courts have ruled that all administrators have to do is mumble something about the "disruption" of the (laugh) "educational process" and civil rights conveniently evaporate. Still, there's something ann

Re: Alan Dershowitz Suggests Torture Warrants

2001-11-06 Thread Eric Cordian
Matthew Gaylor alerts: > The ACLU needs to strongly condemn Professor Dershowitz's statements and > the best way to do so is by removing him from the Union. ] Professor Dershowitz has always walked a thin line between being a civil libertarian and being a apologist for Israel and Zionism. In al

The Recognized Name in Data Security

2001-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
Here's an exerpt from a little story in Wired News this morning about secure data centers. I don't know about you, but having my data guarded by "Osama Arafat" would make me feel all safe, warm, and cozy. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48104,00.html ... Q9, a data center in Toron

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Devicet

2001-11-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Dr. Joe Baptista writes: > Anyone on the planet can make a nuclear device if they have the > appropriate materials. The hard part is staying alive due to exposure > while manufacturing the device. Why? Neither U-235 nor Pu-239 is particularly radioactive. Vitrified plutonium disks have been u

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Faustine writes: > Right. I suppose there's not much that can be done for people who expect > "security" to be handed down to them from the sky on a silver > platter. I'm sure it couldn't be more obvious to most here that if you > don't put out the effort to take responsibility for your own secur

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Dr. Joe Baptista wrote: > hold on mr. expert. > you hold a sub critical mass in your hand and in a few days you end up > shitting out your guts, lose your hair and die. > so i assume the person who had the opportunity to hold such a critical > mass is now dead. where are you getting your info

Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread Eric Cordian
F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: > Consider that nuclear weapons could not be built if the fissiles had > high rates of spontaneous decay - the stuff would detonate prematurely, > resulting in a fizzle. That, incidentally, is why plutonium cannot be > used in a gun-type device - two isotopes are inevit

Weizmann Institute Amazes World Again

2001-11-21 Thread Eric Cordian
You know, when I saw the headline for this story, the words "Weizmann Institute" immediately leaped into my head. It's just that certain something about Weizmann Institute press releases that reminds me of University of Utah press conferences back in the days of Cold Fusion. In any case, the fol

Re: HDCP break and DMCA

2001-11-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan opines: > (Note Dmitry has been indicted because he and his company were selling > software to circumvent copy protection.) Had they given the software away for free, or published code for the crack, they might have actually done some damage to copyright holders. Instead, they charged e

Re: Tempest for Eliza

2001-11-27 Thread Eric Cordian
Choate Links: > http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/ An amusing link, which tells how to display stuff on your monitor, which can be received as music on a shortwave radio at numerous channel locations, using the radiated EM. Reminds me of my salad days when we used to set a Transistor Radio on top o

Re: R.I.P. Cypherpunks

2001-11-29 Thread Eric Cordian
>> "Once the online haunt of top cryptographers, the Cypherpunks list was >> characterized by its mix of revolutionary politics and advanced >> mathematics. This week, a founder pronounced it dead and buried" Years ago, John Gilmore pre-emptively tried to kill the Cypherunks list by first attemp

Professor Punished for Witty Remark

2001-12-10 Thread Eric Cordian
There's also a blacklist on the Web of people in academia who have publicly stated less than glowing support for Bush's war against "evil." McCarthyism meets Wounded Knee meets Mike Echols. :) - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A University of New Mexico history professor who joked in class about the S

Re: Professor Punished for Witty Remark

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Peter Trei writes: >> There's also a blacklist on the Web of people in academia who have >> publicly stated less than glowing support for Bush's war against >> "evil." > Where is it? It was released by ACTA, formerly the NAF, run by Lynne Cheney, formerly arch-conservative Bill Bennett's heir a

Re: Professor Punished for Witty Remark

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan opines: >> Imagine the joy of being a university professor, and waking up one morning >> to find that a big powerful organization run by the Vice President's wife >> has issued a report practically calling you a traitor. > I'm hardly defending the group's "blacklist," but "big and powerfu

Re: Professor Punished for Witty Remark

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Peter Trei wrote: > Well, http://www.goacta.org/Reports/defciv.pdf doesn't > actually name names, but the quotes are given enough > attribution that, at least on a given campus, the speaker > is probably identifiable. For example... Are you sure that's the report all the fuss is about? All the

Jewish Terror Attack on US Foiled

2001-12-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Gosh - doesn't anyone like the United States anymore? Give the fuckers $3 billion a year in aid, and they elect a war criminal as their Prime Minister and pull shit like this. - LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chairman of the militant Jewish Defense League and a follower have been arrested on suspi

Re: CDR: Re: Professor Punished for Witty Remark

2001-12-13 Thread Eric Cordian
Faustine wrote: > Last year, Brookings had revenues of 29 million. > The RAND Corporation had revenues of 157 million. > One year, one hundred fifty seven million. > Their grants and contracts for last year alone totaled 142.7 > million. Sort of adds a new dimension to the idea of being "giant"

Re: Poor little child pornographer

2001-12-14 Thread Eric Cordian
Some Twit writes: > Declan McCullagh has been producing a one-sided series about a child > pornographer's supposedly unjust indictment, Even your first sentence reeks of the Sex Abuse Agenda. You cannot distinguish between readers and authors of sexually oriented material, and you think people

Re: Cypherpunk Ban

2001-12-16 Thread Eric Cordian
John Young posts: > Of particular concern was the content of Mr. Johnson's e-mails, > which contained derogatory comments about federal officials. Of course, this is the way the US government loves to operate. Convict people on bullshit, get them "in the system," and then impose conditions of

Re: Simplest possible ecash mint

2001-12-24 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: > This is a terribly important point. Implementing this "atomic > transaction" would be a major step. Having a Web site that does this > EVEN WITH PLAY TOKENS would be a useful step. There used to be a little toy server run by Software Agents at www.netbank.com. It exchanged some

Re: Future Gnu's

2002-01-03 Thread Eric Cordian
> Procmail is your friend :-) > -- > Yours, > J.A. Terranson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a critical mass of drek above which no one will bother searching for stuff worth reading in the list. Without mentioning any names, might I suggest that certain prolific posters need to stop posting 15 b

Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)

2002-01-08 Thread Eric Cordian
Someone else needs to read the comp.compression FAQ. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida research start-up working with a team of renowned mathematicians said on Monday it had achieved a breakthrough that overcomes th

Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)

2002-01-08 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan opines: > I'm naturally skeptical of this claim (until I can verify it for > myself), but I do not believe the claim is "we can encode random data > at 100:1." >From the article: "ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in compressing random information sequence

Re: [Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Cordian
>> Terrorism also struck the Olympics in Munich in 1972 when 11 Israeli >> athletes were killed by Palestinian gunmen. Not quite. 11 Israeli athletes were captured by some Palestinians. They were killed when the Israeli military attacked the site where they were being held, and slaughtered ever

Re: [Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: > I guess all the television footage showing the helicopter and the > grenade dropped by one of the Fatah members was Zionist propaganda. > Those Jews are really sneaky! Apparently, I confused the events in Munich in '72 with another "rescue" operation in which civilians were oblit

Re: [Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Greg Broiles writes: > It's my understanding that one hostage was killed early in the standoff, > and that another team member (a coach?) was shot but escaped as the > hostages were being captured initially. > Some time later, the German authorities provided the terrorists with a bus > - the

Ariel Sharon's Alleged Faux Pas

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH writes: >> I see not a single denial. > Ah. Prove to you that he didn't say it? At least I'm not trying to refute it by claiming it was debunked in the media two days before it was said. :) This is not simply a case of reporting something, and then tossing the burden of proof on the opposi

Re: Israel's control of the U.S. -- and debunking rumors

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH writes: >> Also, he doesn't debunk the quote. > Woops. There you go again, another "prove a negative". > Ignorantum is bliss, yes, Britney? In this case, a "letter to the editor" which suggested that the quote wasn't true because A. Sharon couldn't have been that stupid. B. One of the p

Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)

2002-01-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Seems our intrepid reporter has given Mr. Saint George, the ZeoSync CEO, his own writeup in Wired News. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49599,00.html Particularly interesting is the following claim... "What hasn't been previously proven, we're proving. We can compress every sin

Re: judge Magic Lanterned by amateur, and busted

2002-01-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Spook Remailer writes: > As they corresponded, the hacker infected [accused pedo, OC CA Judge] > Kline's computer with a virus that allowed him to copy > the entire contents of the judge's hard drive. The hacker, > whom prosecutors have not named, then > messaged Posey about what he had found.

Re: Thinking outside the box, deviously

2002-01-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: > I said the height of the _remaining_ portion of the sphere, with the > core drilled out as described, is 10 cm: > "Appendix: A math puzzle. Imagine a solid sphere. Maybe the sphere is > made of plutonium. A drill bit is lowered onto the sphere, going right > through the center,

Teletext Terrorism

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Cordian
Mr. Niger Innis, son of Black activist Roy Innis, during a recent interview on MSNBC, which again demonstrates itself to be the catbox liner of cable journalism. http://www.tvbarn.com/2002/Innis.jpg -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be

Re: Shmoo Group - Software security geek site (fwd)

2002-02-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: > Apostrophe's in plural's remain a no-no, though this has become common. I find this use has grown with the Internet, particularly in the plurals of acronyms, where one needs to delimit, and not have the "s" thought of as part of the abbreviation. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:

Libraries Cull Collections to Make Feds Happy

2002-02-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Here's an interesting little story. The Feds are rethinking the idea of continuing to make documents which detail information about vulnerable infrastructure available to the public. Indeed, many such documents are no longer on government Web pages. But what to do about the documents already ou

Re: "Stole their back"?

2002-02-13 Thread Eric Cordian
> "Stole their back"? I'll guess "hack", aka cab here. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Re: On NOT publishing the public half of a key-pair

2002-02-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Writes: > I agree with the earlier poster (forgotten who) who said that publishing > public keys is not at all necessary, or even recommended. I can think of > so many reasons why this is so that I didn't even think it was important > to voice my support for his or her point. Although we

Another Victory for Jewstice in Amerikkka

2002-02-21 Thread Eric Cordian
Remember John Demjanjuk, the retired auto worker injected with drugs by our government, flown to Israel on a military jet, and forced to sit through a lengthy televised show trial while witnesses who claimed he was "the gas chamber operator at Treblinka" fainted on cue and gave performances worthy

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