October 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Password Spy
by Roy M. Silvernail 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Boy, the interesting things you turn up when doing a reasonably unrelated search. The first hit for googling "spy serial connection" is: http://www.passwordspy.com/ Think the fibbies used this on that gangsta guy? ;) BTW, I'm looking for a convenient method to intercept data to/from a serial port. Got a piece of hardware I'm trying to reverse- engineer, and I'd rather avoid writing a custom serial driver. Any ideas? -- Roy M. Silvernail Proprietor, scytale.com roy(a)scytale.com

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A modest project for all cypherpunks
by mattd 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

someone here once said...assume you were being monitored to see if you "run" with the seeded assassination memes, if only for analytical purposes. These matters are taken seriously by those charged with the care of protected persons. (Contrary to what some here would have you believe, subtlety can get you a much higher threat-rating than overtly threatening correspondence.) Lets assume that thats true and all those 'charged' are busty elsewhere;I propose a 'guess the death date lottery' for jeff gordon.I pledge to pay 100 US $ to the person or persons unknown who predicts the time the closest.Heres looking at you kid.

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by Ignacio.Lazaro＠quierotv.com 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

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RE: English Service on Al-Jazeera News (When Mullah Nasreddine and Millions Like Him No Longer Trust The Western Media) (fwd)
by !Dr. Joe Baptista 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

If you can please send email to Al-Jazeera at marketing-europe(a)aljazeera.net and show them you are interested in an english service. I've attached the correspondence I've had with them today. regards joe http://www.dot-god.com/ The dot.GOD Registry, Limited ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:02:25 -0500 (EST) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <baptista(a)pccf.net> To: Marketing Europe <marketing-europe(a)aljazeera.net> Subject: RE: English Service on Al-Jazeera News (When Mullah Nasreddine and Millions Like Him No Longer Trust The Western Media) I would suggest that Al Jazeera's Management consider is a live english translation service carried over the internet. You simply broadcast you video through an existing software product like read video while providing simultaneous translation in english. I think that would be more cost effective and will reach more people then an english service on an additional satelite transponder. Many Americans and other westerners are searching for answers and were not getting much attention from our local broadcasters. All we end up getting is propaganda and not much else. In closing thank you for the consideration you have given my request. regards joe baptista On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Marketing Europe wrote: > Dear Mr Baptista, > > Thank you for your kind email and for your interest in Al Jazeera Channel. > > We have forwarded your request for an English service to Al Jazeera's > Management. > > Al Jazeera is aware of the need for an English service. However, as it is a > news Channel with most of its coverage transmitted live, it will take some > time to complete the process. > > This matter is currently under consideration by the Board of Management at > Al Jazeera and a decision will be made in the near future. > > > Many thanks again for your support. > > > Regards, > > Marketing Europe > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: !Dr. Joe Baptista [mailto:baptista@pccf.net] > Sent: 30 October 2001 14:56 > To: marketing-europe(a)aljazeera.net > Subject: Re: English Service on Al-Jazeera News (When Mullah Nasreddine > and Millions Like Him No Longer Trust The Western Media) > > > > Hello: > > I for one would very much appreciate english service for Al-Jazeera. The > pablum we are fed by western media simply does not cut the mustard. > > regards > joe baptista > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, MSANEWS wrote: > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > __ __________ _ _______ ______ > > / |/ / __/ _ | / |/ / __/ | /| / / __/ > > / /|_/ /\ \/ __ |/ / _/ | |/ |/ /\ \ > > /_/ /_/___/_/ |_/_/|_/___/ |__/|__/___/ > > > > Support MSANEWS, a project of learning and enlightenment > > "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste" -- Martin Luther King > > > > "The Universe is undergoing a complete upheaval... Its > > nature is going to change so as to enable its creation > > anew." -- Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Source: Direct Submission > > Email: amana(a)ourplace.com > > To: AMANAvoice(a)theAMANA.org > > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:57:16 -0500 (EST) > > Title: English Service on Al-Jazeera News > > > > TEXT: > > > > Bismillah Alrahman Alraheem > > > > [AL-AWDA-News] and AMANA Request English Service on Al-Jazeera > > News (please read and act on this correspondence) > > > > An article in the LA Times highlights how important it is to > > have a voice in the Arab world that is free from political > > manipulation. > > > > While this is not directly related to the Palestinian cause, a > > forum where views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its > > effects on the Arab and Westerns world must be supported. > > > > So write to Al-Jazeera giving your support and also to any local > > papers saying how important a news channel such as Al-Jazeera > > is. > > > > support(a)aljazeera.net > > http://www.al-jazeera.com > > > > THIS WAS A REPLY POSTED ON AL-AWDA EUROPE: > > > > Subj: Re: [AL-AWDA-Europe] Al-Jazeera News > > > > Dear Neil, > > > > I work for Al Jazeera. We do receive hate mail due to Al > > Jazeera's coverage of the war in Afghanistan. > > > > There has been an enormous increase of the western media's > > interest in Al Jazeera. We also have a lot of viewers asking for > > an English service or subtitles. Al Jazeera's Management is > > considering this matter so it would be very helpful if we get > > more people asking for an English Service. > > > > You can send your support emails and any requests to: > > > > marketing-europe(a)aljazeera.net. > > > > Regards, > > > > Nibal > > > > http://www.myplace.com/ - find what you want @MyPlace.com! > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > <> <> > > <> ... On that account: We ordained for <> > > <> the Children of Israel that if anyone <> > > <> slew a person - unless it be for <> > > <> murder or for spreading mischief <> > > <> in the land - it would be as if <> > > <> he slew the whole people: and if <> > > <> any one saved a life, it would <> > > <> be as if he saved the life of <> > > <> the whole people. <> > > <> Holy Qur'an, Surah al-Maidah 5:32. <> > > <> URL: http://quran.al-islam.com/ <> > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > "And the mind - may God preserve you - is more prone to > > deep sleep than the eye. Neediest of sharpening > > than a sword. Poorest to treatment. Fastest to change. > > Its illness, the deadliest. Its doctors, the rarest. > > And its cure, the hardest. Whoever got a hold of it, before > > the spread of the disease, found his sake. Whoever tried to > > wrestle it after the spread would not find his > > sake. The greatest purpose of knowledge is the abundance > > of inspiring thoughts. Then, the ways to go about one's > > needs are met." -- Al-Jahiz ("Puffy"), 9th Century Baghdad, > > Kitab at-Tarbi` wat-Tadweer ("Squaring the Circle"), p. 101, > > Edited by Prof. Charles Pellat, Institut Francais de > > Damas, 1955. > > > > READ THE TEXT, IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE DESERT, > > AT URL: http://msanews.mynet.net/books/ajaib/ > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __ > > __ __________ _ _______ ______ > > / |/ / __/ _ | / |/ / __/ | /| / / __/ > > / /|_/ /\ \/ __ |/ / _/ | |/ |/ /\ \ > > /_/ /_/___/_/ |_/_/|_/___/ |__/|__/___/ > > > > Views expressed on MSANEWS do not necessarily represent > > those of the MSANEWS editors, the Ohio State University or > > any of our associated staff and "watchers". 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Thank you. > > > > To subscribe, send e-mail to: > > <listserver(a)lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> with the message > > body "subscribe MSANEWS Firstname Lastname". > > > > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to the above address, with > > the message body "unsubscribe MSANEWS". > > > > MSANEWS Home Page: <http://msanews.mynet.net/> > > Comments to the Editors: <msanews-ed(a)msanews.mynet.net> > > Submissions for MSANEWS: <msanews(a)msanews.mynet.net> > > Problems with subscription: <msaosu(a)postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __ > > > > -- > Joe Baptista > > http://www.dot-god.com/ > > The dot.GOD Registry, Limited > The Executive Plaza, Suite 908 > 150 West 51st Street Tel: 1 (208) 330-4173 > Manhattan Island NYC 10019 USA Fax: 1 (208) 293-9773 > > -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot-god.com/ The dot.GOD Registry, Limited The Executive Plaza, Suite 908 150 West 51st Street Tel: 1 (208) 330-4173 Manhattan Island NYC 10019 USA Fax: 1 (208) 293-9773

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<nettime> New Scientist: Microwave Crowd Dispersal Tested (ADT)
by Soenke Zehle 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/heatison.jsp New Scientist.com The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds 19:00 24 October 01 Jeff Hecht, Boston Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people's skin with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. But critics are not convinced the system is safe. Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now wants to use this Active Denial Technology (ADT), which it says is non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at "relatively long range" - possibly from low-flying aircraft. ADT uses a 2-metre dish to create a narrow beam of microwaves that can be scanned across a crowd or even aimed at individuals. AFRL is using infrared photography to analyse the heating effect on the volunteers' bodies. AFRL says that the 3-millimetre wavelength radiation penetrates only 0.3 millimetres into the skin, rapidly heating the surface above the 45 °C pain threshold. At 50 °C, they say the pain reflex makes people pull away automatically in less than a second - it's said to feel like fleetingly touching a hot light bulb. Someone would have to stay in the beam for 250 seconds before it burnt the skin, the lab says, giving "ample margin between intolerable pain and causing a burn". Little data But critics question the AFRL's claims that the weapon's undisclosed exposure levels are safe. John Pike of think tank Globalsecurity.org fears that the beam power needed to scare people may be too close to the level that would injure them. Air Force scientists helped set the present skin safety threshold of 10 milliwatts per square centimetre in the early 1990s, when little data was available, says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News. That limit covers exposure to steady fields for several minutes to an hour - but heating a layer of skin 0.3 mm thick to 50 °C in just one second requires much higher power and may pose risks to the cornea, which is more sensitive than skin. A study published last year in the journal Health Physics showed that exposure to 2 watts per square centimetre for three seconds could damage the corneas of rhesus monkeys. 19:00 24 October 01 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net

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<nettime> New Scientist: Microwave Crowd Dispersal Tested (ADT)
by Soenke Zehle 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/heatison.jsp New Scientist.com The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds 19:00 24 October 01 Jeff Hecht, Boston Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people's skin with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. But critics are not convinced the system is safe. Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now wants to use this Active Denial Technology (ADT), which it says is non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at "relatively long range" - possibly from low-flying aircraft. ADT uses a 2-metre dish to create a narrow beam of microwaves that can be scanned across a crowd or even aimed at individuals. AFRL is using infrared photography to analyse the heating effect on the volunteers' bodies. AFRL says that the 3-millimetre wavelength radiation penetrates only 0.3 millimetres into the skin, rapidly heating the surface above the 45 °C pain threshold. At 50 °C, they say the pain reflex makes people pull away automatically in less than a second - it's said to feel like fleetingly touching a hot light bulb. Someone would have to stay in the beam for 250 seconds before it burnt the skin, the lab says, giving "ample margin between intolerable pain and causing a burn". Little data But critics question the AFRL's claims that the weapon's undisclosed exposure levels are safe. John Pike of think tank Globalsecurity.org fears that the beam power needed to scare people may be too close to the level that would injure them. Air Force scientists helped set the present skin safety threshold of 10 milliwatts per square centimetre in the early 1990s, when little data was available, says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News. That limit covers exposure to steady fields for several minutes to an hour - but heating a layer of skin 0.3 mm thick to 50 °C in just one second requires much higher power and may pose risks to the cornea, which is more sensitive than skin. A study published last year in the journal Health Physics showed that exposure to 2 watts per square centimetre for three seconds could damage the corneas of rhesus monkeys. 19:00 24 October 01 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo(a)bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)bbs.thing.net

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Re: Transparency Spray
by Incognito Innominatus 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

...is nothing more than liquid freon. Save yourself the 10x markup and buy your own from an Optics type store. Daub it on an envelope and trip out. gatton

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Re: Singing The War Prayer
by Incognito Innominatus 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

measley, -I- am an idiot? Wow, that sorta hurts. I am an idiot because I believe to a great degree that the USA in danger.... thats nice. Thanks for making me feel at home. Cant effectively rebut my statement, so you insult me, and not even creatively! which causes more hurt feelings. I really do feel hurt, its weird. Maybe its because I am normally sleeping right now and I feel out of it, or perhaps I am excited that my beloved Knicks are going to break Jordans ass open tonight... right there at MSG. Perhaps I am extra touchy because I havent been laid since saturday, and thats what I consider a dry spell. Well, you are an insensitive, uncreative jerk. fascism- A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. Oppressive, dictatorial control. Where do you see my advocation of any of these? You simply dont and wont ever. Does a fascist state encompass all of those listed traits? Or just one, or shades of one and none of the other, or perhaps bits of all? Define your terms before you use them, not knowing what they are. I am all for guns, but shit, dont wave one around if you dont know how to use it, it may go off in your face. If you wave around your proud lexicon like that, I am amazed that you still have a face and that someone hasnt shot it off for you. gatton

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30 Oct '01

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Verba Volant del 30-10-01
by verba＠rol.it 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Verba Volant del 30-10-01, Every day a new quotation translated into many languages. Logos Translations - www.logostranslations.com _________________ Quotation of the day: Author - H.B. Monnier http://www.logos.it/bio/h_b_monnier.html English - it is my opinion, and I share it Italian - è la mia opinione, e la condivido Spanish - es mi opinión, y la comparto French - c'est mon opinion, et je la partage Portuguese - é a minha opinião, e partilho-a German - es ist meine Meinung und ich teile sie Hungarian - ez a véleményem, és ezt osztom is Finnish - se on minun mielipiteeni, ja kannatan sitä Catalan - és la meva opinió i jo la comparteixo Croatian - to je moje miljenje i sa njim se slaem Czech - je to muj názor a já se o nej podelím Dutch - het is mijn mening, en il deel haar Emiliano-Romagnolo - l'è e' mi giodizi, e a so d'incord Furlan - 'e jè la mê impinion, e la cundivît Latin - mea sententia est, et eam communico Latvian; Lettish - tas ir manas domas, un es tam piekritu Occitan - es mon opinion, e siu d'acòrd Polish - to moja opinia i podzielam ja Romanian - este opinia mea, si eu o împartasesc Slovak - je to môj názor a zdielam ho s inými Venetian - la xe la me opinion, e so d'acordo Sicilian - iè 'a me' 'pinioni, e sugnu d' accordu Flemish - het is mijn mening, en il deel haar Calabrese - e' u pareri miu e lu cundividu Reggiano - mè la pèins acsè. E e sun d'acordi meg Ferrarese - l'è la mié upinion, e a la cundivid Bolognese - lé la mî upignån, e a sån d acôrd _________________ All languages, please click on this link http://www.rol.it/owa-k/press.frasiproc.carica?code=432 _________________ To unsubscribe from Verba Volant, please follow this link: http://www.rol.it/owa-k/press.rol_ml.verbavolant and write in the empty field next to unsubscribe the email address that you find after "TO:" in the Verba Volant emails alternatively write to the following address: unsubscribe_volant(a)rol.it always copying the EMAIL address written after "TO:"

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