Re: OT: consequences for bad laws

2000-08-10 Thread Michael Motyka
I'm all for it. And who will administer the program? Anything set up to operate peacefully through informing the voting public would probably be shut down as libellous or for having run afoul of the campaign finance laws. Anything set up to deal directly with offenders would be branded a ter

Re: Fw: Sony vs. Napster

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Motyka
> "Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this," Heckler told the Summer >Forty-Niner. > Oh. I understand, got a business to run. They make some good products. OK. > "We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. > This sounds downright mystical. Use the force, Luke.

Anonymous

2000-08-25 Thread Michael Motyka
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CDR: Re: Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech > From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:48:49 -0400 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Just becau

export reg timewarp? (Re: RC4 source as a literate program)

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Motyka
> The US export regulations no longer prevent export of crypto. PGP > exported binary copies of PGP from US websites, as now do many other > companies. Crypto source is exported also from numerous web sites. > > I don't follow why all the discussion talking as if ITAR and EARs were > still in ef

Re: [OT] California senator tries to mandate remote kill switches

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Motyka
> The political scumdroids will of course write liability exemptions > into the laws. (Don't think they can do that? It's done a lot, > especially when "it's for the children!!" gets invoked.) > Oh, I believe it. It fits right in with the "tort reform" platform. > As for what should be done wi

Re: Abortion Assasination Politics likely going to Supremes

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Motyka
> So when is APster coming out, which lets > you trade lists of deserving people? > It may actually be extremely difficult to create an APster. ... The violent anti-abortion movement's method for coping with coexistent conflicting thoughts and behaviors is a form of dysfunction not unlike that

Re: Abortion Assasination Politics likely going to Supremes

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Motyka
ods for dealing with threats would be left solely to the individuals who perceive them. I suppose there's a downside either way. Can't win. Best you can do is break even. And you can't even do that. >On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Michael Motyka wrote: > >> The violent anti-aborti

Why?

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Motyka
>> ...calling McVeigh a "freedom fighter" is off the mark. 0 points for that one. > >Why? > Only accomplishments : a greal deal of pain for some plain folks a loss of legal ground that may never be recovered Altruism and patriotism were not factors I can't imagine what was Broken eg

SW License

2000-09-18 Thread Michael Motyka
> > Here's another link on licensing of software engineers, this time from the > ACM: > > http://www.acm.org/serving/se_policy/report.html > > it seems that cryptographic/security software, if we ever get the > liability structure whose lack is often pointed out by Schneier ("we don't > have go

Re: Choate physics again

2000-09-28 Thread Michael Motyka
>>By the time the coherent radiation (needed to make an image) passes > >Were not talking holograms, Jimmy-boy > It is fun isn't it? I think what he was trying to convey were the effects of reflection, absortion and diffusion. Without having tried one of these devices or knowing what wavelengths

Re: police IR searches to Supremes

2000-09-28 Thread Michael Motyka
> >On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Richard Fiero wrote: > >>One could argue that all electromagnetic radiation is in the public >>domain and receivable. However it is illegal to have equipment capable >>of receiving cell phone conversations because the rights of the >>telephone company and the rights of the

Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...

2000-09-28 Thread Michael Motyka
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Honig wrote: > > >Modularity *is* useful for keeping things simple enough to analyze, but > >isn't a library with a well-defined API sufficient? > > This sort of highlights how the current models of shared code fail. A good > deal of modularity and independence of cr

Re: Gov. Bush links Columbine massacre to Internet use

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Motyka
G.W.Bush is mentally negligible. He's fully capable of linking Scooby Doo to the Columbine Massacre. And while right-wingers just attack the BOR from a different angle than left-wingers, Bush **may** be the minimal damage choice this time around. It's not a pretty picture.

Re: Reputation of a Reputation

2001-12-03 Thread Michael Motyka
Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Tim wrote: > >>This is "the reputation of a reputation." >Ridiculous how so many employers put such stock in a word on a piece of paper >too--pure credentialism. How ironic when you contrast that with the fact that >the great Herman Kahn didn't have a PhD. I wonder wh

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( was Masks to be illegal in U.K. )

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Motyka
smallpox wrote : > > Removal of disguises data fodder for CCTV > > Clause 93 would insert a new section 60AA into the Criminal Justice and > Public Order Act 1994. It would allow police to remove any facial > coverings or disguises in a specified area for 24 hours following the > order of a seni

Re: cryptographic fantasy (ca. "Stego, my ass" by WF Buckley)

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Motyka
> The notion that Osama would use a filmed interview to > send out recondite commands is cryptographic fantasy. > > William F. Buckley Jr. > OSAMA THE INVINCIBLE > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucwb/20011211/cm/osama_the_invincible_1.html > OK piece. I usually write off Buckley as a pompous ass. I

phantoms and rhetoric ( was : CDR: Re: Steganography, My Ass: The Dangers of Private and Self-Censorship )

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Motyka
Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Declan McCullagh writes: >> I always enjoy Jonathan's essays, and this one is no exception. He >> properly points out the disturbing analogy that Attorney General >> Ashcroft seems to make (http://www.politechbot.com/p-02900.html) >> between criticism and

Re: Jewish Terror Attack on US Foiled

2001-12-13 Thread Michael Motyka
"Jon Beets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >I still do not understand how we can support Israel as we do..From: > >"Eric Cordian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> 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

Re: FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates (fwd)

2001-12-14 Thread Michael Motyka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > >On 13 Dec 2001, at 22:33, Jei wrote: > >> "We are confident that Microsoft and the government will limit the use of >> this technology only to targets relevant to legitimate investigations," he >> added, further underscoring the cult's faith in federal law enforcement

MS DRM OS

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Motyka
Could someone who knows more than I do explain to me why this MS "IP" is anything other than making the owner of a PC unable to have root access to their own hardware/OS? If so it seems to be an idea unworthy of protection from lawyers and men with guns. Mike

Re: Digital Angel gets under the skin after all

2001-12-19 Thread Michael Motyka
"Roy M. Silvernail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-121901chips.story > >Applied Digital Solutions is pursuing the implantable chip after all. >It's not the GPS-trackable unit yet, but more like the doggie chips. >The L.A. Times story says it holds

Words

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Motyka
mattd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >>...I have no doubt it will be implemented and protected viciously. I use >the word viciously because that is the only way to make DRM work and there >is a great deal of money at stake. Mike > >Steve Ballmer,viscious? Nah,shurley not.The early models were a lit

book

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Motyka
Bought a copy of True Names and read it last night. Great story, especially considering the date. The first net-fi I read was Neuromancer in '84. R. Stallman's Right to Read short story is sickeningly close to reality. I don't care one way or the other if Microsoft patents and creates an OS that

Re: Scarfo Phase 2

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Motyka
John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > John Schwartz writes in the December 31 New York Times: > > "A controversial system installed on a criminal suspect's > computer by the government to capture the encryption > passwords of a criminal suspect is nearing its second > phase." > > Anybod

Decent Orwell Article.

2002-01-03 Thread Michael Motyka
An interesting read in which the author delves into some details of Orwell's life and possible origins and targets of his satire. Includes some neat stuff regarding the dates 1984 and 2000. Time to go read Iron Heel by Jack London. http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/158445.

Re: CP flix

2002-01-03 Thread Michael Motyka
anonymous wrote : > >At 09:35 AM 1/2/02 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >>> Nomen Nescio[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: >>> >>> There was once an effort here to list CP relevent prose. >>> How about a list of CP relevent moving pictures (and why >>> relevent)? >>> >>> Enemy of the State ---for survei

Re: explicit govt monopoly rent-seeking (law abuse)

2002-01-03 Thread Michael Motyka
Anonymous wrote : > >The problem dates from the early 1930s, when utility companies delivered >their bills by mailbox through their own employees out reading meters. The >Postal Service saw a huge drop in revenue and decided to act. Enforcement >became even more important in 1970, Dalton wrote, wh

Re: Cpunks Lauded

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Motyka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > >On 5 Jan 2002, at 7:58, John Young wrote: > >> This crypto demonization may well intensify as investigations >> proceed into the government, military and intelligence failure to >> prevent 911. Whether crypto actually played any role in the >> attack may be seen as

Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Motyka
Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >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

Re: Prisoner on line discussion (fwd)

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Motyka
Never saw it. I'm still waiting for the complete Maxwell Smart on DVD. Mike

Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Motyka
Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >Michael Motyka wrote: >> Here we go : >> >> "As Eric correctly points out, true random input simply cannot be >> compressed, it doesn't matter how clever you are or how much time and >> computing powe

Re: More product announcements at SnakeOilCon, Las Vegas

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Motyka
This OTP thing resurfaces roughly once per year without fail doesn't it?

Re: U.S. Rep. positions against copy controls

2002-01-10 Thread Michael Motyka
1 : 435

AU Anti-biker Laws

2002-01-10 Thread Michael Motyka
The thing that caught my eye in the article submitted by spewing nemesis mattd was that in addition to guilt by association, they are using anti-fortification laws to crack down on bikers. I vaguely remember a door-strengthening prohibition somewhere in Europe being mentioned here in the past.

Re: Olympic Jewells: Utah = UK

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Motyka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > >On 11 Jan 2002, at 12:19, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> "The Secret Service is one agency that hangs its hat on security that >> is discreet," Camillo said. >> "There will be a visual presence because of magnetometers and fencing. >> What you won't see is what I'll d

Re: Drugs Squad Fumes As Bookshop Shields Reader

2002-01-14 Thread Michael Motyka
Won't it be wonderful if the Court rules in favor of the 1st? OTOH, why trust in a corruptible legal system? Use cash and don't leave the ID information at the goddam bookstore in the first place. If you're going to keep the book and you can't deduct it, peel stickers, destroy receipts. Duh! I

Re: The vital private archive

2002-01-15 Thread Michael Motyka
"F. Marc de Piolenc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Dear Michael, > >Michael Motyka wrote: >> >> Won't it be wonderful if the Court rules in favor of the 1st? >> >> OTOH, why trust in a corruptible legal system? >> >> Use cash an

CD Burner Link

2002-01-15 Thread Michael Motyka
Steve, Take a look at : http://www.cdrecordingsoftware.com/acer4406eu.html Seems like there are quite a few products that are built this way. Maybe people have come to expect expect bugs in released SW and are willing to take the price hit for FLASH. In any event I think it's something that can

Re: Responsibility.

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Motyka
"Aimee Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >When you paint targets on people, other individuals may cause them harm, >seeking some measure of your acceptance. Some here might have actual >"followers," not fans or confederates-in-cause. Some individuals here, and >you even as a group don't have to

Re: An Important Article by Historian Jeremy Brecher: Open Letter...

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Motyka
"!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded : > > Today's commentary: > http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/27brecher.cfm > > ... > > Internal constraints? > > There is something that peoples and governments around the world need to > understand: There are currently no effe

Re: Thinking outside the box, deviously

2002-01-24 Thread Michael Motyka
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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, centered on the center (that is, the drilled-out > core is not off-center in any way. What is left

Re: CDR: Re: Thinking outside the box, deviously

2002-01-24 Thread Michael Motyka
Typo : r : 5^3 not 10^3 Michael Motyka wrote: > > Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 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,

Re: Thinking outside the box, deviously

2002-01-24 Thread Michael Motyka
Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Michael Motyka wrote: > > > Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Appendix: A math puzzle. Imagine a solid sphere. Maybe the sphere is > > > made of plutonium. A drill bit is

Former Enron exec found dead: Body found at 2:23 AM (fwd)

2002-01-25 Thread Michael Motyka
Jei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >One less witness.. > SOP. Remember Casey during the Iran-Contra thingy? Brain surgery. Righteeo! Direct physical removal of the dangerous testimony. Pesky neurons. Mike >http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sns%2Denron > >Chicago Trib

Beads

2002-01-25 Thread Michael Motyka
Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >At 08:22 AM 01/25/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: >>On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 09:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>I've concluded that you can't answer Tim's riddle >>>without knowing the radius of the drill --but I may >>>put myself open to ridicule

Re: aibo and the dmca (fwd)

2002-01-25 Thread Michael Motyka
The whole fucking thing is absurd. The idea that I can't hack around with a piece of HW that I paid for is OBSCENE. Not that I am in the least interested in aibo but the priciple is a real problem. So while companies are thinking that they control the terms of the licensing agreement couldn't a c

Faustine's Spherical Poultry

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Motyka
Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >I agree; fascinating stuff. Here's a paragraph on deviousness and psychopathy >as an adaptive trait you might find interesting: > >...we speculate that evolution designed a subspecies of humans who use >deception and cheating to get resources from others but

...

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Motyka
Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >>I've seen plucking machines that worked very efficiently and the >>chickens were conventional, not spherical. I bet the guys who made them >>work were better at solving problems than those who tried and failed to >>bring a machine to market. > >True, one wo

Re: USS Greeneville: deadliest thing in the sea

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Motyka
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAC0FFG0XC.html > >WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. Navy submarine and an amphibious > transport ship collided off the coast of Oman as they were getting ready to > transfer two sailors, but no one was injured. The sub was the same on

Justice Department covers nude statues

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Motyka
Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >[If there was any doubt about the repressed sexuality of the chief of law >enforcement officer of the land this should remove it. Shades of Dr. >Strangelove. steve] > >Justice Department covers nude statues >

Quiz

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Motyka
http://www.funnystrange.com/quiz/

SFO Follies

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Motyka
Wouldn't simple nitrates serve the same purpose and be easier to get? Mike

Re: WalMart's War on NyQuil

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Motyka
>And this has been going on for a while. I used to be able to buy 50- and >100-count bottles of generic pseudoephedrine (IIRC this was it...don't >quote me on it), the same ingredient in Actifed, a cold/sinus pill. >These generic bottles have vanished, to be replaced by blister packs of >vastl

Heavenly Weenies

2002-02-11 Thread Michael Motyka
Jim Choate wrote : > >On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> The Arab American Institute raised the issue in a statement Friday >> that cited a Nov. 9 radio commentary in which conservative >> columnist Cal Thomas quoted Ashcroft as saying: "Islam is a >> religion in which God requir

Re: DC to get spycams --"no choice but to accept it"

2002-02-20 Thread Michael Motyka
Meyer Wolfsheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tim May wrote: > > > The notion that a Panopticon (everything being watched) is desirable is > > one of the weirdest mutations of political theory in the past century. > > Whether or not a panopticon exists isn't relevant to it

Re: BushMob - Israel's Obedient PUPPETS

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Motyka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Harmon Seaver wrote: > >> It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain by this time that >> there are only three alternatives for peace in the that area: >> >> 1) The Palistinians can all leave and move to Jordan, which is >> ethnically a

Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Motyka
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:54 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: >> Putting RF Tags in cash is one of those ideas with Unintended >> Consequences. >> Muggers would love having a way of determining which victims are >> carrying a >> wad, as would many salesmen (and JBTs

Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Motyka
"Trei, Peter" wrote: > > > Michael Motyka[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:54 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: > > >> Putting RF Tags in cash is one of t

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Michael Motyka
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 10:05 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >(And bear in mind that a one dollar coin is worth about what a quarter >($0.25) was worth in 1970, and about what a dime ($0.10) was worth when >silver dollars were still common. Maybe we need a $1

Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action t aken.]

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Motyka
Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Anyone have any idea what the fuck this is? Is the post office >subscribed to cypherpunks? > >- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > >X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ScanMail Mes

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Motyka
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >English, by contrast, is substantially different >from just the Middle English of Chaucer, let alone the Old English of >Beowulf. I took a class in "The Canterbury Tales," in the original >with a side-by-side translation, from a Chaucer scholar. A few >r

Re: Indo European Origins (language mutability, efficiency)

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Motyka
that an American Bison and a Scot's Highland are two different species but they can hybridize. Maybe we non-Biologists measure the distance between "species" inaccurately. >At 10:36 AM 1/14/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: >>An interesting question that arises out of the observa

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Motyka
Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >You don't even have to read 14th Cent. lit to experience that. Read >"A > Clockwork Orange" -- most folks find they read about 1/3 to 1/2 before > they go back and start over. Gibson, at least the earlier stuff, like > "Neuromancer", is a bit like

Re: Secure voice app: FEATURE REQUEST: RECORD IPs

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Motyka
Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:06:24PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > > DSL lease timeout. A feature of DHCP-based dynamic IP addresses over > > permanent connections. Similar for cable, though the differences yo > > observed seem to be rather implementation-depende

punk and free markets

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Motyka
Jim Choate wrote : > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > Me? I grew up here in NYC in the 70s, where/when Punk began (please, no one > > out in the sticks there try to tell me about the Brits inventing Punk, and > > Yeah, right...not. > > MC5 (1969, Detroit), Iggy Pop (1973, Detroit

Re: punk and free markets

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Motyka
> > Gold star. Velvet Underground is definitely ground zero for Punk to > > my ears, but with this recent set of pre-Velvets minimalist releases > > (eg, Dream Theater, with LaMount Young, John Cale--who helped start > > the band I was in, and others), the stage was somewhat set. > > > Yeah, yeah

CDR: Re: Gullible Journalists

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Motyka
"Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > 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." > The

Re: Comments from 1998 on shuttle

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Motyka
Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >From: >http://ltp.arc.nasa.gov/space/ask/landing/Black_tiles_falling_off.txt > >"If more than a few were lost from the same area, though, the heat could >get bad enough to cause damage to the aluminum skin. Nobody wants to see >what would happen if the wing

Re: Hacking the Bush War Machine

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Motyka
>Harmon Seaver wrote : >On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:12:46AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >> >> 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, scary weapon somewhere there'll be a litt

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-04-30 Thread Michael Motyka
As a simple illustration of the inability to separate the "Good Guys" from the "Bad Guys" I use my experiences with my Visa card company. I use the damn thing to buy gas a few times a week and every so often I'll use it for a big ticket item like a PC or a Spa for example. At which time I generall

Feinstein Follies

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Motyka
What an dumbass Feinstein is, the House and the Senate vote in a draconian bill with zero forethought and she has the goddamned gall to say we should not rush to judgement. http://www.thehill.com/050102/patriot.shtm I think were in a very difficult time where our national security is threaten

Artist's rights?

2002-06-13 Thread Michael Motyka
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: > > > The other half of the shears cutting away at the public's right to > > entertain themselves with the artwork they purchased in any way they > > please is represented by parts of the art culture of significant > > political clout, in particular in Eu

Theft Attempt or LEO Sting?

2002-06-14 Thread Michael Motyka
Look at the two sites : http://www.e-gold.com http://www.e-golb.com - BTW the registrant's info is phony, Docent doesn't know her, carder.com user search fails, may she get boiled alive someday I never opened an e-gold account. I wonder where the fuckers got my e-mail address - here or becaus

Re: Theft Attempt or LEO Sting?

2002-06-14 Thread Michael Motyka
Sunder wrote: > > The https cert for e-golb shows up as "snake oil" in all the fields. > > www.snakeoil.dom > Snake Oil, Ltd > Webserver Team > Snake Town > Snake Desert, XY > emailAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Snake Oil CA > Snake Oil, Ltd > Certificate Authority > Snake Town > > Nice scam..

Re: "Terror Reading"

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Motyka
Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > It was my understanding that libraries destroy records of patrons' > activity as soon as the books are returned. Nonetheless, this is an > interesting Federal fishing expedition, with warrants issued by secret > courts, and criminal penalties for libr

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Motyka
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Just curious, but what was the rationale under which private posession >> of gold was made illegal in the US? It boggles the mind... > > > >However doing a straight devaluation was politically unacceptable >at the time. Because the dollar was pegged to gold, de

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Motyka
"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >From: "Sampo Syreeni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> But when the yield does not go to the one who created >> the master copy, why should anyone create anything, anymore? (Or, more >> realistically, why should people create at an efficient level?) > >There

Re: Tax

2002-07-11 Thread Michael Motyka
>Nomen Nescio wrote: >> > Are you saying that if someone is legally resident in the US >> > for a while, the US IRS will attempt to get his assets all >> > over the world forever? I find this hard to believe. > >On 10 Jul 2002 at 15:40, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: >> Not necessarily "get" them, but

Re: 385-3 vote: House OKs life sentences for hackers

2002-07-16 Thread Michael Motyka
"Elyn Wollensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > seems the cyber-terrorist FUD is starting to hit the fan ... > ;~( > e > > House OKs life sentences for hackers > But time may run out for computer crime bill in Senate > http://www.msnbc.com/news/780923.asp > > WASHINGTON, July 15 - The House o

Re: Pizza with a credit card

2002-07-31 Thread Michael Motyka
> > One useful piece of advice: > > > > Don't but pizza with a credit card: > > SNIP > > > > Course all those terrorists buying their pizzas with cash get away clean. > > > I've wondered for years how much longer this > will be allowed. Cash is still viable. Not > as viable as it was 10, or ev

Re: Mandatory hardware

2002-08-01 Thread Michael Motyka
"Major Variola \(ret\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > TV makers may face mandate on digital receivers > Wed Jul 31, 9:17 AM ET > > In an effort to jump-start the languid rollout of digital TV, federal > regulators > next week are expected to require all new TV sets to include digital > receivers b

CDR: Re: CAPSII protest...

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Motyka
Yes Tyler, there is something nasty you can do that will not get you nabbed. It requires the following equipment : airline ticket ( aisle seat ) large pizza with the works quart of yogurt one dozen raw oysters one package of M&Ms ipecac syrup ( or a wafer-thin mint ) Just imagine the effect

Re: The Liberty Dollar

2002-08-29 Thread Michael Motyka
Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >At 03:52 PM 8/29/2002 -0500, Gary Jeffers wrote: >>The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely >>in America. > >True but only fractionally (i.e., the precious metal content is only a >fraction of the face value). > >steve > Hi St

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Motyka
>My intuition is that the government is going to be slightly fairer than, >for example, Disney. That's just a guess, though. > >Bruce > With an emphasis on "slightly" I might tend to agree but it looks more like the difference between liver cancer and kidney failure than it does the difference

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2002-12-20 Thread Michael Motyka
>>> My intuition is that the government is going to be slightly fairer >>> than, >>> for example, Disney. That's just a guess, though. >>> >>> Bruce >>> >> With an emphasis on "slightly" I might tend to agree but it looks more >> like the difference >> between liver cancer and kidney failure tha

Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Motyka
An Metet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >> >> On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> >> http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/1217/1 >> >> Policing Bioterror Research >> >> One of science's hottest fields is now becoming one of its most heavily >> regulate