Study lauds open-source code quality

2003-02-20 Thread gann
al-purpose networking products and found it superior to one of them. more:http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1001-985221.html   <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>&l

Re: pledge of allegiance in schools

2003-03-03 Thread gann
Did they actually say, "This is the exact legal issue at stake", or are they not allowed to poll against any questions they want, even if dreamed up? Can they poll for instance on, "Is Adam allowed to criticize our polls" even though he is not in threat of inferred squelching? Maybe those of us wh

Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-06 Thread gann
ss of the unit. Unless it cryptographically allows the car to operate only when functional, someone will figure out how to defeat it.   <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><&g

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-07 Thread gann
Good job. You just caused law enforcement to ignore emitters from all cabs, government, and police vehicles. My guess is that the unit will perform a self-check and emit a "broken" signal instead of "drunk". Maybe the police will only pull over "broken" vehicles not listed above, knowing that b

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-07 Thread gann
I don't guess you read the article. It answers at least your first question. Another option to breathing through a tube might be to not drink alcohol before driving. Wow, you know... deterring people from drinking and driving might be a favorable side effect of this public-monitoring, informatio

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-07 Thread gann
Actually, read the article. It covers sober driver and drunk passengers. Quoting Bill Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 10:52 PM -0800 3/6/03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and > calls > >the police has been developed by a team o

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-07 Thread gann
Wow, easy there, chief. I think you have some aggression you may want to let a professional address. Besides that... I'm not crazy about everything that the government does, but there are trade- offs in a non-perfect society. One of them is monitoring the innocent to, in turn, attempt to prevent

The darkest side of ID theft

2003-03-12 Thread gann
(apologies if this has been discussed already) The darkest side of ID theft - When impostors are arrested, victims get criminal records... Malcolm Byrd was home with his two children on a Saturday night when a knock came at the door. Three Rock County, Wis., sheriff’s officers were there with a

Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-20 Thread gann
r noise to signal ratio would be phenomenal. The main problem to solve as I see it would be for legitimate recipients to be able to determine when a message is real and not trash, without letting an adversary know. Erle <><><><><><><><><><&g