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The Register - Major SMB crack
by Jim Choate 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

Open Source software is more secure?... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18370.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Fwd: "We should be registering sex offenders, not duck hunters,'' he q uips.
by jf_avon＠freedom.net 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" <BreitG0(a)parl.gc.ca> >To: "Firearms Digest (E-mail)" <cdn-firearms-digest(a)sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca> >Subject: "We should be registering sex offenders, not duck hunters,'' he q > uips. >Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:18:44 -0400 PUBLICATION: The Province DATE: 2001.04.17 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: Editorial PAGE: A18 COLUMN: Jon Ferry BYLINE: Jon Ferry SOURCE: The Province ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Game marijuana party candidate gets goods on government ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Don't be surprised during the coming B.C. election campaign if one of the command performances doesn't come from the B.C. Marijuana Party. Now, before you think I've been smoking something, consider this -- there are scores of ordinary British Columbians who are sick of government intervention in every aspect of their lives. They're people like Paul Geddes, an economics instructor at Vancouver's Columbia College, who suggests most of his pals would label him ``a straight-laced, conservative, boring book-reader.'' Married for more than 20 years, Geddes is the son of a Presbyterian minister, with two kids in a private Christian elementary school. His idea of a celebration consists of the odd beer. And, no, he doesn't smoke pot. Geddes is, in fact, president of the B.C. Libertarian Party. He says he's running for the Marijuana Party because the Libertarian Party has been de-registered by the elections gnomes for past failure to file proper election paperwork. Geddes is also running for the Marijuana Party because he believes the war against drugs costs more lives than it saves -- and epitomizes the evils of the police state. ``The war against drugs is really a war against personal choice and responsibility,'' he states. Geddes, 46, even has a sense of humour, a key asset when you're running as a fringe party candidate. He also has a healthy disrespect for such preachy pop icons as eco-propagandist David Suzuki. The freedom to use drugs, Geddes notes, does not mean you have to use them: ``There are many legal activities in Canada that I would strongly urge you to stay away from -- the music of Madonna, David Suzuki sermons or eating cabbage. All are harmful to thinking minds, but I would never advocate making any such distasteful activities illegal.'' Besides, Geddes says, anyone who's lived in B.C. for the last decade knows that voting NDP is much more dangerous to the health than marijuana could ever be. So, are we to lock up all the irresponsible NDP supporters? ``No,'' says Geddes. ``As with other risky behaviour, we must keep appealing to people's better senses and hope that they will eventually learn from their past mistakes.'' Geddes, in fact, sounds more like a Wyoming Republican than a B.C. pot advocate: ``In this election. I want to strike a blow for individual freedom, self-responsibility and for the virtues of private property and entrepreneurship.'' Ending drug prohibition is a free-market issue, he insists. And he asks why British Columbians would want to support one of the mainstream parties which ``differ with each other only in how they want to control your life.'' Good for Geddes. He may be a bit naive about drugs, but he certainly has the right idea about the need to control the control freaks and rein in the tax-gougers. And his message should strike a chord with those of us who are tired of such other excesses of the nanny state as the federal government's <firearms> registration system. It's a seriously misguided system which, as SFU professor and gun advocate Gary Mauser shows in his latest study, is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and draining away valuable police resources. ``Registration is pulling away police officers who would be better used protecting our streets,'' says Mauser, who adds there is no solid evidence that clamping down on gun owners reduces crime. ``We should be registering sex offenders, not duck hunters,'' he quips. A third example of government excess is photo radar and the police's preoccupation with speed enforcement. Indeed, it's interesting that a new study by Britain's free-market Adam Smith Research Institute has found prosecuting drivers for speeding is one of the lowest priorities for most people. Of course, you can see why the cops are addicted to harsh motoring, marijuana and gun-ownership laws. It's far easier to nail docile duck-hunters, drivers and pot-users than it is to catch hard-core criminals. However, as the Marijuana Party hopes to demonstrate in this long-overdue election, there's a limit to the amount of liberty the long-suffering public is willing to forego to achieve the Canadian dream of peace, order and good government. And that's no reefer madness. (Jon Ferry writes here Tuesdays. He can be reached at jferry(a)istar.ca) ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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Slashdot | Whatever Happened to Internet Redundancy?
by Jim Choate 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/04/19/1643252.shtml -- ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Re: Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'
by Brent Mattis 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

I really really doubt the enzyme responsible for catalysis would survive ten seconds of high grade peroxide. Peroxide I think is a dead end, its a low energy fuel, w/ two products, water and oxygen. The oxygen is high energy, perfect for oxidizing another fuel, but you would have to worry about the water suppressing that reaction. alpha >From: Ken Brown <k.brown(a)ccs.bbk.ac.uk> >Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)ssz.com >To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com >Subject: CDR: Re: Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites' >Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:51:50 +0000 > >David Honig wrote: > > > > At 07:11 PM 3/11/01 -0500, Jim Windle wrote: > > >According to Friday's Wall Street Journal spot platinum last closed at > > $588 per ounce and is up from $473 per ounce one year ago. > > > > Fer chrissakes you can use a number of cheaper chemicals. For those >annoying > > satellite launches that you have to field-improvise, blood can be used >to > > decompose peroxide :-) > >Oh, all you want is enzymes then? I bet we can rig something up with >bacteria. When it comes to making chemicals - well, chemicals without >annoying heavy metals in them anyway - microbiology is your friend. >Things that want nothing more than to reproduce themselves 3 times an >hour tend to be quite easy to get hold of in bulk :-) Kinder to the >neighbours as well, unless you are in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan in >which case those nice men from the Pentagon will be sending a cruise >missile your way as soon as they hear that you are getting into >production scale. > >On the other hand I had this vague idea that peroxide sort of decomposed >itself. And I bet burnt protoplasm buggers up the exhaust nozzles no >end. > >Ken Brown _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Humorless FBI agents interrogate publisher of Columbine satire
by Declan McCullagh 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> -----

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The Register - Trial by CCTV...
by Jim Choate 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18393.html -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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Algorithm
by HellishNightmare＠aol.com 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

Where can i find a some what basic algorithm for a priv/public key encryption.....just for text....don't really need to do files.. Zenthere Hellishnightmare(a)aol.com

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hello, I would like to learn how to hack a bit
by roland 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

but I'm not verry good jet, can u tell me how???? pls answer me quick

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Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)
by madmullah＠crosswinds.net 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

Ray Dillinger writes: > Give me a few dozen writing samples from each of a > hundred known > people, and another writing sample a hundred words > long from one > of them under a pseudonym, and I can tell you to > a 90% probability > which of the hundred known people wrote it. Ray you bring up a very interesting point. Does anyone know of a source for public domain, or open source, writing analysis software that will do just that ? Perhaps using such wares for testing purposes one can craft software to make subtle grammar or spelling or usage alterations in text based communications in order to defeat this sort of analysis. E.G. you've got a remailer or portal of some kind that accepts plain text input, and according to a set of rules makes shifts, sentence length, punctuation usage, spelling usage, and so on, to alter the distinctive signatures associated with the writing patterns of the person in question. THEN afterwards this is piped into an encryption module or just transmitted piecemeal at random timings in order to defeat traffic analysis.

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Re: Group releases "Friendly AI guidelines"
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 19 Apr '01

19 Apr '01

Wow! >http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,43080,00.html > > Making HAL Your Pal > by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) > > 2:00 a.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT > > Eliezer Yudkowsky has devoted his young life to an undeniably unusual > pursuit: planning for what happens when computers become far smarter > than us. > > [...] > > One solution: Unconditional "friendliness," built into the AI as > surely as our genes are coded into us. > He'll probably claim to have never read I Robot. > "I've devoted my life to this," says Yudkowsky, a self-proclaimed > "genius" who lives in Atlanta and opted out of attending high school > and college. > > Vinge is the closest thing Singularitians have to a thought leader, > spokesman and hero. He offers predictions based on measures of > technological progress such as Moore's Law, and sees the Singularity > as arriving between 2005 and 2030 -- though some Vinge aficionados > hope the possibility of uploading their brains into an immortal > computer is just around the corner. > Would that be L. Ron Vinge? > In an autobiographical essay, he writes: "I think my efforts could > spell the difference between life and death for most of humanity, or > even the difference between a Singularity and a lifeless, sterilized > planet... I think that I can save the world, not just because I'm the > one who happens to be making the effort, but because I'm the only one > who can make the effort." > A God complex. Way Cool. I'll bet his father was Einstein, his mother Marie Curie. Why do I feel the name Walter Mitty should be somewhere in this picture too. Wait, here come the men in the ice cream suits! ROTFLMAO. This sure was a nice little break from CPU guts. Thanks Declan, Mike

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