December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: in praise of gold
by Faustine 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 07:58 PM, measl(a)mfn.org wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Faustine wrote: >>> Not all women are golddiggers. >> They're called 'old maids'. ALL women who are interested in a >> 'relationship' are 'golddiggers' in the sense they want to 'change' the >> other party. > > Nothing like a good across the board generalization, huh Jim? > Well, I hate to be in the position of defending Jimbo, but he's >right--in a sense, but not just about women. > I'd be willing to bet (should there be a way of proving it to my >satisfaction) that in every relationship, one party would like to change >AT LEAST 2 things about the other party. Bah! Anyone who goes around trying to force the other person into becoming what they're not probably deserves whatever grief they give themselves over it. I don't change for anyone, nor do I expect anyone to change for me. Integrity and self-respect count for a lot in my book. And if we can enjoy each other for what we are, excellent. If not, time to move on to something more rewarding. Not all women go around with silly notions about "perfect soulmates" and all that nauseating weakminded crap. I find nothing in least bit attractive about a spineless simp telling me what he thinks I want to hear. What's so interesting about being around a personality-deficient jellyfish, man or woman. Pride isn't a sin, it's a virtue! Any relationship based on desperation or one partner's dysfunctional clingy need is a complete waste of time. So if you seem to be spending a lot of time around women who want to mash you down into a mold of some cartoonish happy- ever-after "ideal", perhaps it's time to look at why you keep choosing and ending up with them. If you were drawn to strong-willed independent women instead, I can assure you that you'd be facing an entirely different spectrum of dysfunctionality. ;) ~Faustine. I was going to look for an especially relevant sig quote, but on second thought, think the one I have now will do just fine... *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPAfjCfg5Tuca7bfvEQJWjACg0BMIcZxHbll9XZFj2UodGSDcVZEAoNcb oPV1KVxwrmuG6wtNXv9kFrb/ =v+6/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: fuel injected firearm
by jamesd＠echeque.com 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

On 30 Nov 2001, at 11:04, Trei, Peter wrote: > 2. Liquid propellant guns (search on that term) are well > developed for artillary, but I don't know of any light > weapons which use this. LPGs are kind of neat in > howitzer type applications because (1) A tank of > propellant & a rack of projectiles takes less space > than cased solid propellant shells, so you can carry > more ammo, and (2) you can vary the propellant > from shot to shot based on emergent conditions. One > neat hack is 'time on target' in which a series of rounds > are fired in quick succession, at different elevations and > propellant load so they all arrive at the target simultaneously. > (the LPG liquid propellant does not need an added oxidizer). So far, liquid propellant guns have been far more dangerous to those firing them than to those they have been fired at.

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Dead reporter found in motel
by mattd 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

220 pounds of anthrax spores released from a crop-duster over Washington D.C., on a calm clear night - could kill one million to three million people in the metropolitan area, according to the US Office of Technology Assessment. William Patrick, who served as a UN Inspector in Iraq, believes the scenario could take only 100 pounds of the agent.The main detail now is to make just work on the honkies.

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Fwd: Attn: J Orlin Grabbe
by mattd 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

>Subject: Attn: J Orlin Grabbe > >November: Iceland ignores Sea Shepherd's warning to comply with the IWC >ban on commercial whaling. Sea Shepherd agents sink half of Iceland's >whaling fleet in Reykjavik harbor and destroy their whale processing station. > >1988 March: A Sea Shepherd agent documents the killing of dolphins by a >U.S. tuna seiner. The footage scandalizes the nation, embarrasses the tuna >industry, and leads to the creation of the "dolphin-safe" tuna label law. > >1989 June: The Sea Shepherd II intercepts two Venezuelan tuna seiners off >the coast of Costa Rica, documents evidence of kills exceeding a thousand >dolphins, disrupts Mexican tuna seiner operations in the Eastern Pacific. > >1990 August: The Sea Shepherd II encounters two Japanese drift net vessels >in the eastern Pacific, cuts and confiscates thirty miles of drift net. > >1991 July: Sea Shepherd goes to Trinidad to protest Caribbean driftnetting >by the Taiwanese. Sea Shepherd is made an official auxiliary to the >Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard. > >December 20th, 1991: The United Nation General Assembly approves >Resolution 46/215 which bans drift net fishing worldwide as of January 1993. > >1992 March: SSCS establishes the Oceanic Research and Conservation Action >Force, or O.R.C.A.FORCE, to coordinate all data gathering and crew actions >of Sea Shepherd. Lisa Distefano is appointed Director. > >May: O.R.C.A.FORCE agent scuttles the illegal driftnet vessel Jiang Hai in >the harbor at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. >One-click activism: >Send this report & your comments to the Costa Rican Ambassador: >http://eactivist.actionize.org/actnow.php?1338 > >October 31st, 2001 > >Cocos Island Emergency >A report from Nicola Ghersinich and Mario Arroyo > >Every year, 1,250 visitors come to scuba dive Cocos Island, off Costa >Rica, attracted by its extraordinary biodiversity of this World Heritage Site. > >Today, Cocos Island can no longer be considered a marine reserve. It is >now a fishing base. What had been considered a sanctuary for threatened >marine species is now just an extended community for fishermen to exploit. > >We are confronting a crisis. >(cont at http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/cocos/pr110601.html

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by Pathstaken 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

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Democrats Want Nuke Plant Guards to Be Federal Workers
by Jim Choate 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Congress should create a real federal 'militia' as directed by the Constitution, then problems like this would be moot. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011129/pl/attack_nuclear_dc_1.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | .museum TLDs are Live
by Jim Choate 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

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Jim Bell update: "AP" author moved to Lompoc federal prison
by declan＠well.com 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Jim Bell photos: http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/photosearch.cgi?name=jim+bell Day-by-day articles on Jim Bell's trial: http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=ap-politics --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48779,00.html One of the Internet's most famous essayists is now in the same prison that once housed the most famous hacker. Jim Bell, the author of Assassination Politics, has been moved to the Lompoc ("lahm-poke"), California federal prison. It's the same place that convicted cracker Kevin Mitnick once called home. "I'm assigned out in the rec yard, the recreation yard, but there's really not much work to be done, occasionally picking up a cigarette butt or two," says Bell, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison this year for allegedly stalking federal agents. Bell says he was trying to investigate government wrongdoing. Bell describes Lompoc, located between Los Angeles and San Francisco, as "old and decrepit, and the place is corrupt and the guards are lazy." Previously, Bell was being held at the SeaTac prison near Tacoma, Washington, where his trial took place. Since he's got some time to kill, Bell has busied himself by filing civil lawsuits against people he alleges were involved in an orchestrated plot to deny him a fair trial and an unbiased, court-appointed defense counsel. So far he's targeted two judges, at least two prosecutors, and his former probation officers and defense attorneys. Bell says he hasn't had any response yet -- and is going to try to obtain a default judgment against the defendants. "I continue to remain astonished that I haven't received any answer out of my lawsuit yet. It doesn't bother me as long as I collect the money. I think I've hit a nerve." He's looking forward to "garnishment and putting liens on various people's property. If they wanted to write me a check, I'd take a check, I guess. But if they want me to go through the usual methods to collect it, I'll do that too."

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The P2P surveillance society approaches... (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:43:32 -0800 From: Jim Whitehead <ejw(a)cse.ucsc.edu> To: FoRK <FoRK(a)xent.com> Subject: The P2P surveillance society approaches... http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostas/omni.html "The Page of Omnidirectional Vision" Bunch o'links to commercial and research work on omnidirectional vision systems, including novel cameras and software to stitch the images together. The FlyCam work at FujiXerox Palo Alto Labs (FXPal) is particularly interesting, since it is comparatively low cost, done mostly with off-the-shelf hardware. http://www.fxpal.com/smartspaces/flycam/flycam_home.htm Those of you who know about the Aspen Movie Map, a virtual reality tour of Aspen, Colorado performed in 1979 <http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Naimark.html> will find the FlyAbout work to be familiar: http://www.fxpal.com/smartspaces/FlyAbout/index.htm The big difference is that now this capability is possible using standard, stock equipment. Oh, and having GPS around is a big help too. How do we make the surveillance society <http://ptclub.com/Endofprivacy.html> from these pieces? Miniaturize the cameras and associated electronics, and have a large number of people wear one. So far, just like in David Brin's novel "Earth" <http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.06.97/cover/brin1-9706.html>. Everyone records omnidirectional images of their surroundings, and records the positions they were in. Now, combine this with Peer-to-Peer technology. Allow everyone to search everyone else's image banks, based on geographic information. This require shifting existing P2P technology from a music-based metadata schema to one that is geospatially based. The schemas already exist: <http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/wlib/sco/metatool/mtools.htm>. Key factors keeping us from the surveillance society: * the cameras are too heavy, and too expensive * disk space is still too expensive (for compact, portable memory) * wireless transmission rates are still too slow * wireless access is not yet ubiquitous But, I think you'll agree that none of these are fundamental limitations (i.e., fixing these does not require breaking physical laws). When will we start seeing the start of the peer-to-peer surveillance society? I give it 10 years, maybe less. - Jim http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork

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01 Dec '01

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