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Re: UPSs
by rdew＠el.nec.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Stan, Clearly you only considered a few of the semi-cons. Others just stop working, while still others pass anything above the manufacturer design max. Your lack of desire to learn indicates a possible reason why you don't seem to understand ... At my age, I forget some ... What is that old adage about leading a horse to water, but you can't make him read? or something like that! Bob De Witt, rdew(a)el.nec.com The views expressed herein are my own, and are not attributable to any other source, be it employer, friend or foe. > From StanSquncr(a)aol.com Fri Mar 20 14:43:46 1998 > From: StanSquncr <StanSquncr(a)aol.com> > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:50:55 EST > To: rdew(a)el.nec.com, spectre(a)anthrax.net, cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: Re: UPSs > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > In a message dated 98-03-20 16:04:24 EST, rdew(a)el.nec.com writes: > > << If your surge protector is a semi-conductor, it probably will be > self-limiting. That is, it will reach a maximum block, and pass > whatever is above that. >> > > Yes, but what you fail to point out, is the reason it will pass everything, it > will have been blown (shorted, most likely). > > So, because you failed to point this out, I figure the rest of your response > isn't worth responding to. > > Stan >

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FW: "Scannist" arrested
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If there is any residual doubt as to why I'm proposing an "extreme" solution to government, "Assassination Politics," I think the following is just another good reason to do so. I contend that people like that cop and the judge would be FAR more careful in how they do their job if they were aware they might be angering well over a half a million hams. This kind of abuse will happen as long as there is no mechanism to prevent it. > ---------- >From: owner-scan-l >To: Multiple recipients of list SCAN-L >Subject: "Scannist" arrested >Date: Sunday, May 26, 1996 1:47PM > >Two sad things: > >1) Cops in some parts of Kentucky can't tell a scanner >when they see one (or don't see one, in this case), and > >2) the radio in question IS INCPABLE OF BEING MODIFIED TO >RECEIVE OUT OF BAND!!!! Sheesh. > >Peter > >Excerpted from: > >The ARRL Letter >Electronic Update >May 24, 1996 > ><...> > > >TEEN HAM ARRESTED ON SCANNER CHARGES > >Greg Godsey, KF4BDY, a 16-year-old ham from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was >arrested May 11 by local police who charged him with carrying a scanner that >could receive police radio frequencies. His Radio Shack HTX-202 2-meter >transceiver was confiscated. At a court appearance May 14, he was bound over >for trial on June 4. The judge reportedly didn't hear any arguments >concerning whether the law was broken, possibly because the arresting >officer wasn't present. > >According to reports, Greg, the ARES EC for Christian County, Kentucky, and >a ham since last summer, was detained by Hopkinsville Police. The officer >indicated that when he arrived, Greg "was talking on a radio that is capable >of receiving police frequencies. I verified this by keying my radio, which >broke the squelch on [Greg's] radio." > >Greg denies the charges and says his radio has not been modified and cannot >receive or transmit outside of the 2-meter band. He has sought advice from >the ARRL in resolving the matter. ARRL Regulatory Information Branch >Supervisor Norman Bliss, WA1CCQ, says the Kentucky law exempts equipment >possessed by a licensed Amateur Radio operator that is capable of receiving >police frequencies. > ><...> > >=========================================================== >Material from The ARRL Letter may be reproduced in whole or in part, in any >form, including photoreproduction and electronic databanks, provided that >credit is given to The ARRL Letter and The American Radio Relay League. > > >To subscribe to the email distribution list for the ARRL Letter, send >a message to listserv(a)netcom.com with the body (subject is ignored) > >subscribe letter-list > >To unsubscribe, > >unsubscribe letter-list > > Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: The Anti-Briefing...
by L. Jean Camp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpts from espam: 24-May-96 Re: The Anti-Briefing... by e$pam(a)intertrader.com > We can all think of repressive steps which undeniably will save the lives > of some children, babies, old people, mothers, etc. > > Banning alcohol, banning smoking, banning sex outside of marriage.... > I would like to point out that these things will almost certainly not save the lives of mothers and babies and were sure as fuck not intented to protect women & children. Clue in, in places where all sex outside marraige is illegal being a victim of rape is a crime. It is rapist protection. The banning of alcohol was used to remove children from the homes of 'unfit' immigrant families. It was about 'culture wars' & racial purity. Drug test are proposed to refuse people benefits (sorry your mom's a pothead kid -- so now your going to be HOMELESS!) Then when this kind of propaganda works, women end up fighting idiots who buy _into_ the idea that _we_ caused the problem and thereby preventing more effective action. You do not need to vomit DoD crap about children. You aren't helping anyone but the DoD. Get a half a clue -- if they wanted to protect children they could support funds for housing, food, and health care for families. Five kids a day die from violence from the hands of their parents. The infant mortality rate in DC is twice what it is in Havana. I'm sure those kids are really happy that they do not have to worry about cryptography or seeing naked people on the Internet. Yeah, these are the important issue today for America's children -- NOT. I hope that you do not seriously buy that crap about prohibition of crypto (or porn or pot, etc) being about "protecting children." All that line does is separate otherwise effective advocates of freedom - - if you're bitching about women & children you're not fighting the NSA and it will keep you from working effectively with anyone in the categories >old people, mothers, etc.. and other not entirely trivial political groups. Jean

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Re: Remailers & liability
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"gbroiles(a)netbox.com" "Greg Broiles" 26-MAY-1996 19:38:38.36 >For what it's worth, I'm still planning to run a remailer again when I get >settled down somewhere. (I don't think remailers do much good where the >operator isn't root, so I'm not bothering with trying to run one on someone >else's system.) My debt/asset ratio is bad enough from all of this school >that I don't have much for anyone to levy against. Ha, ha. Anyone want some >rapidly obsolescing computer and law books? :( Why, precisely, do you think that remailers don't do much good where the operator isn't root? The possibility of the sysop looking at the mail & getting the private key, the increased susceptibility to cracking of non-root accounts, possible sysop non-cooperation in an honest manner (as opposed to the first one), or what? Thanks, -Allen

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Czarevna Tatjana Mixmaster Remailer
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"nobody(a)replay.com" 26-MAY-1996 20:19:44.63 >Questions or comments should be directed to tatjana(a)mindport.net. Might I ask why you didn't mail from this address? -Allen

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Re: CyberCash just did it!
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"pclow(a)pc.jaring.my" "peng-chiew low" 27-MAY-1996 13:41:16.44 >Out of curiousity I visited their site and I read the part of the security >section which I've pasted below. Is it true? After all that I've read about >the export issue and here Cybercash tells me they have got permission to >export strong crypto? Please note that I am not someone who is familiar with >the strength of crypto algo and any response to this post would be most >helpful to a newbie in this business. Thanks. While I am also uncertain as to how strong the crypto they're using is, I would guess that this passes under the banking exemption... I would suspect that there is some lack of full anonymnity in the method, because otherwise the US government wouldn't have given export permission even with that exemption. -Allen

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Noise, was The Anti-Briefing...
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:08 PM 5/27/96 -0400, L. Jean Camp wrote: > Five kids a day die from violence from the hands of their parents. Not so: I believe this figure is "parent or guardian". Nearly all kids are killed by stepfathers, and some by step mothers. Murders of children by their natural parents are extraordinarily rare. A stepfather or stepmother has even more incentive, and considerably more opportunity, to murder her spouses children than she has to murder her spouses lover. > The > infant mortality rate in DC is twice what it is in Havana. Nobody, least of all Castro, knows what the infant mortality rate in Cuba is, since in Cuba, truth is a crime. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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none Attn Sameer: Are alias@alpha.c2.org and/or remail@c2.org down?
by nobody＠flame.alias.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My 'nym which has worked just fine has suddenly stopped working this weekend. My reply block has not changed, and the only remailer in it is remail(a)c2.org. I have the reply block set up to send the encrypted reply to remail(a)c2.org where Newsgroups: and Subject: headers are pasted on with the "##" operator. The message is then sent on to the replay mail2news gateway for posting to alt.anonymous.messages. What's happened? Anyone know?

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MIN_ers
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New Sci 25 May 1996: "Panning for data gold." Nowadays nearly every organization from supermarkets to the police can boast a vast mine of electronic data. Separating the gold from the dross is the real challenge. A growing band of computer scientists say they can dig out nuggets of 24-carat knowledge from huge mountains of database dross. They call themselves "data miners", and they are wielding some pretty impressive tools -- information theory, laws of probability, neural networks, tree induction, genetic algoritms, disjunctive normal form logic. But the impact of their efforts is anything but esoteric. By identifying potential new customers -- or ways of hanging on to existing ones -- this information is worth millions in extra revenue. And this is just the start, according to Usama Fayyad of Microsoft Research and co-editor of a new book on data mining. MIN_ers

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Re: Philosophy of information ownership [ Re: Children's Privacy Act ]
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:24 AM 5/27/96 -0500, Mike McNally wrote: >What if I just *see* your couch, and then back in my garage I use my >couch replicator to make a couch just like yours, complete with fuzzballs >and loose change between the cushions? Now I have your couch, in a sense. >Are you still upset? If the couch design is copyrighted, you have just violated the copyright :-). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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