February 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: One Man Against the World
by Tim May 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 08:46 PM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: > I've been reading DiLorenzo's book, _The Real Lincoln_, and this > description is a pretty close fit to Abraham Lincoln, too. > > Eric Cordian wrote: > >> --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic >> demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the >> majority of votes, but, somehow, his ascent to power was arranged >> nevertheless. >> > Lincoln only got 40% of the popular vote. At the time he was elected, > it was generally assumed, and had been since the founding, that > secession was a fundamental right of the states. The idea that the > Federal Government could go to war to prevent states from leaving the > union was unheard of. JFK's father bought him the election. Look at the voting in Illinois, look at his father, the bootlegger. (I have nothing against bootlegging, but the hypocrisy of the Kennedy Clan railing against perceived moral crimes while making their family fortune off of bootlegging and graft is precious.) > >> --- Soon after assuming power, he manipulated a dramatic incident in >> order to tighten his grip upon the country >> > Fort Sumter. Bay of Pigs backfired, so Cuban Missile Crisis was the reserve plan. > >> and prepare for attack on smaller nations. >> > Such as the Confederacy and various Amerind nations. Escalating a nonexistent alliance with the Republic of South Vietnam, a cabal of dictators, into a war. I'm old enough to remember the Kennedy years and to remember how many people thought a bullet ought to end his power grab. Of course, he was canonized and sainted after his "sacrifice," and so one seldom heard after this death the call I remember from 1961-62: "Someone ought to put a bullet in that bastard's head." How soon we forget, and how much we have forgotten in this modern era that calling for the kiling of the Chief Criminal used to be a lot more common than it is today. It used to be we knew when bozos needed killing, and we weren't afraid of opining thusly. Today, however, The Criminal Whose Name May Not Be Uttered is uniquely protected from "Someone ought to frag his ass" comments. I liked it better when we thought "Good riddance!" when the Kennedy criminals were killed. --Tim May

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I want Paul Walters DEAD! I want his family DEAD!
by Andrzej Obuchowski 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

It is my belief that as we enter into this new century, the time has come to elevate Community Oriented Policing to The Next Level.

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Man decapitated while fleeing police
by R. A. Hettinga 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/atlanta/0203/16suspect.html [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 2/16/03] Man decapitated while fleeing police By LINDSAY JONES Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer *Atlanta/South Metro community page A narcotics traffic stop on the Downtown Connector turned deadly Saturday afternoon when a man climbed over the interstate railing, fell about 35 feet and was decapitated on a wrought-iron fence, Atlanta police said. Officers in a marked car stopped the man about 4:30 p.m., as he drove south on the interstate above Auburn Avenue. The man, who has not been identified, stopped his vehicle and tried to flee by climbing over the railing, Lt. Danny Agan said. Police still are investigating whether the man jumped or fell off the raised interstate. "This is a new one for me in 29 years," Agan said. The decapitation shocked people who work in the neighborhood. Gary White, an income tax preparer, came out of his office when he heard the commotion. "It's surreal," White said. Agan said narcotics officers had been trailing the man for much of the day. Agan did not know if the officers who tried to arrest the man would be placed on administrative leave. "This is not something normally covered under the [standard operating procedure] of the department," he said. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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GNU radio musings
by Thomas Shaddack 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

GNU radio has a very very generic approach to signal handling. However, this brings some somehow troubling (and exciting) expectations for the future. It's only matter of time until the software for TEMPEST receivers will be written. Then the cost of lower-end TEMPEST units will drop down to next to zero, allowign even the smallest police unit to be equipped by one. The good side of it is that the system is likely to be so available that we as the defenders will have the possibility to check if our newly installed shielding doesn't leak. Another interesting application could be a passive radar. Three receiver units with precise timebase, located in a rough triangle, correlating the exact times they heard edges on the signal they receive. The same principle used by Czech passive radar systems Kopac, Ramona, and the most advanced, Tamara. Lockheed is now developing their own ones, rumours say their design is based on stolen and reverse-engineered Tamara. GNU radio units with proper software, timebase receiver using a central timebase transmitter or (if the operation scenario presumes satellite operations will be unaffected) GPS signal, a central computer (or cluster of computers) correlating the data from the receivers in the field, sent eg. over the Net. Any aircraft that's using its onboard radio systems will be visible for such network, which doesn't need any active transmitting components. Using a separate fixed omnidirectional pulse transmitter, it should be possible to broaden the system's function as a "standard" radar, possibly showing even the objects that don't broadcast on their own. Which could allow civilian population to build their own radar system for every city and village. Another possibility (would it work?) is using "natural" signal from some transmitter instead, making even active system seeming like passive one (after all, why we should broadcast our own pulsed signal from a fixed location when we have cellular towers doing it for us for free and without giving us FCC hassles.) An extension of this idea will allow tracking of any broadcasting devices; location of cellphones or personal walkie talkie transceivers or wireless bugs will become very simple. An object guarded with such system will be harder to attack clandestinely; at the moment the adversary uses radio to synchronize their people, their location gets instantly betrayed in machine-readable form. If tuned to the frequency of police transceivers (European systems Tetra and Matra are similar to GSM system, using digital pulse modulation which gives sharp, well-defined pulses easy to spot), could be used to log their position over time, giving the taxpayers instant informations that instead of protecting them in the streets the plods spend 70% of their time in their offices. As any technology, it's a double-edged sword. But seems to give much much more power to Us than to Them. So it seems to be good. And as an added benefit, it's a cool geek toy.

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Re: Disco Inferno
by R. A. Hettinga 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/dec… Groups Advanced Groups Search Preferences Groups Help "com" is a very common word and was not included in your search. [ details ] Groups search result 7 for http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap3.jpg Patriot Act Compliance * FastWatch provides compliance for Sec. 326 of the Patriot Act * Penley Sponsored Links Attn: Corporate Counsel * USA Patriot Act analysis available online from major US law firms * www.lawperiscope.com Search Result 7 From: leon skunkers Subject: Re: Disco Inferno View: Complete Thread (30 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: misc.survivalism Date: 2003-02-22 15:02:38 PST On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:34:34 -0800, Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: >In article <NtD5a.46383$na.1148309(a)news2.calgary.shaw.ca>, Patt ><pattj(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Aren`t you being just a little INSENSITIVE?? >> Ptt > >Speaking of disasters, I lived for a while in an apartment complex >immediately across the street from the "Toys-R-Us" in Maryland where >the roof collapsed this morning under the weight of a heavy load of >snow. I guess it gives new meaning to "a crush of shoppers." > >--Tim May if that's your kind of humor, and you want a REALLY good laugh, check THIS stuff out. story here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/atlanta/0203/16suspect.html pics of the body: http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap1.jpg http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap2.jpg http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap3.jpg I damn near laughed MY head off. Post a follow-up to this message Google Home -Advertise with Us -Search Solutions -Services & Tools -Jobs, Press, & Help )2003 Google -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: Ethnomathematics
by Bill Stewart 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

At 05:41 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: >Seriously, this flap is old news. I remember about a dozen years ago >when some feminista professor was teaching "female-oriented physics." >Actually, she was _advocating_ the teaching of female-oriented physics. Was she an actual physics professor, talking about her own field, or some sort of literature/philosophy/sociology/politics professor? The latter type are definitely old news, but as long as they spend their time trying to convince female physics and mathematics professors to think about new ways to structure or teach their curriculum, that's fine. It's when they start dissing physics and math as "hostile to women" and thereby discouraging young women from going into the field that they really cause problems (as opposed to old boring sexist white male professors discouraging women from going into the field, which was the old problem.) Actually doing a female-oriented physics or teaching curriculum is fine, if somebody can do a good job of it. After all, most of these fields consist of real mathematics, exposure to real materials and their behaviour, sets of metaphors for understanding how the math and behaviour are related, and various levels of abstraction and concrete examples to interest students. The math is the math, and the materials either will or won't cooperate, but if feminist approaches can provide a set of metaphors or abstractions that help students (or at least female-culture-oriented students) understand how the math relates to the real world, then great! And if they can find a set of examples or problems that are less male-oriented than guns, rocketships, pushing pool cues into objects of various hardness and softness, or football and if this helps female students be more interested in the problems, or gives them examples that are more familiar to them, then great! There's certainly no shortage of boring textbooks out there, and if women who understand math and physics and communications can overcome Sturgeon's Law and the textbook publishers' mafia or teacher selection committees, then more power to them, and otherwise, well, the other 90% will be more gender-balanced.

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25 Feb '03

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Re: Ethnomathematics
by R. A. Hettinga 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

At 5:41 PM -0800 on 2/24/03, Tim May wrote: > Here's an image the censors are already trying to get removed: > > <http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap3.jpg> Yuck. I can't wait to see where Tim got this one from. I expect he's trolling the universe with it, though... Cheers, RAH Who remembers a biker-dismemberment series here, from some court case or another. It's where they usually come from... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Weizmann Institute Sets "Guinness Record"
by Eric Cordian 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

The Weizmann Institute has done it again. Written yet another press release, that is. I wasn't even aware Guinness had a record for the smallest biological computing device. Have the Guinness people even heard of the Weizmann people? One wonders. In any case, they claim that two spoonfuls of their latest goo is a 600 TeraOP DNA computer. I'll be more impressed when they port Linux. Har. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030224-045551-7398r ----- REHOVAT, Israel, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The latest entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for smallest biological computing device is a microscopic gadget composed of DNA and enzymes that not only reads DNA for data but uses it as fuel. Israeli scientists reported Monday that just two spoonfuls could hold up to 30 million billion of such molecular computers, which could perform about 660 trillion operations per second -- nearly 20 times as many as Japan's Earth Simulator, the most powerful supercomputer now active. "The long-term goal is to eventually create autonomous, programmable molecular computing devices that can operate in vivo, eventually inside the human body, and function as 'doctors in a cell,'" researcher Ehud Shapiro, a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, told United Press International. By detecting biochemical anomalies, the micro-computers could consult "their programmed medical knowledge to direct the synthesis and delivery of biomolecules that serve as drugs," Shapiro explained. DNA stores both information -- in the form of the genetic code in humans -- and energy. "Nature uses DNA for information storage, but does not exploit it as an energy supply," Shapiro said. The new device is an advance on a computer made of DNA previously announced by Shapiro and colleagues about a year ago. The device's input, output and "software" are composed of DNA molecules, while the hardware is made of naturally occurring enzymes that can manipulate DNA. When mixed together in a solution, the hardware and software work together, with the enzyme regulating the input according to rules encoded on the software molecule. All computers need energy, and the research team's previous DNA computer used a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, the biochemical whose high-energy phosphate bonds are used by all cells as their standard fuel. In findings appearing online Feb. 24 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists said the enzymes regulating the input molecules can use the energy released to drive calculations. "Our experiments demonstrate for the first time that we may use a DNA molecule as an input for computation, and at the same time fuel this computation by the energy stored in the very same molecule," Shapiro said. "Such combination, although theoretically conceivable, is practically impossible with conventional electronic computers." The computer requires very little energy, the scientists said. For example, even the hypothetical spoonful releases less than 25 millionths of a watt as heat. Moreover, the new computer is 50 times faster than before. "I would say this is a proof of concept," said IBM researcher Charles Bennett in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. "I think there's a long way to go from doing a particular computation like they propose here to making a general purpose molecular computer that's fast enough and reliable enough and energetically cheap enough to be useful." Shapiro admitted that the work remains at a very basic stage, but added the researchers hope to create even more powerful devices and perhaps create DNA computers that can work in living cells. "The main hurdle, which will take a decade or so to overcome, is science's inability to synthesize 'designer enzymes,'" Shapiro said. "Science does not know how to create enzymes that meet our needs." -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message you sent. The inf ected attachment was deleted.
by NAV for Microsoft Exchange-MAIL 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Recipient of the infected attachment: MotorSPO\Inbox Subject of the message: Coremetrics One or more attachments were deleted Attachment src.pif was Deleted for the following reasons: Virus W32.Klez.H@mm was found.

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