Monthly Archives: May 2002

every measure leads to a countermeasure

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 17 by Anton

Fun with Fingerprint Readers in Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram (link from Monty Solomon) 2015: Newer link.

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we want our two hours back

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 16 by Anton

Accompanied my One True Ex today to see The Triumph of Love. Normally she loves pretty movies with no plot, e.g. Gosford Park, but Triumph has just enough plot to make the crap script stand out.

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everybody’s doing it

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 16 by Anton

I am somehow disappointed to find that Volokh knew before I did that Duncan Frissell, with whom I exchanged some interesting mail on and around the Extropians list back when, has a you-know-what.

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what family doesn’t have its ups and downs?

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 15 by Anton

If we persons of pallor are all descended from Charlemagne, we could still one-up each other on what fraction of our ancestry is royal, or how few of the links in the chain are female. If a genie offered me … Continue reading →

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everything in its place

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 15 by Anton

This boy will go far.

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I knew him when he posted to alt.peeves

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 15 by Anton

Recent reading: Toast and other rusted futures, short stories by Charlie Stross, most of which can be described as humorous dys-extropian. 2006: This item formerly linked to Charlie’s story “Lobsters”, which is part of Accelerando.

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RKBA in an unusual place

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 14 by Anton

How about that loon Ashcroft, eh, going against a grand old tradition of squeezing the Constitution for every drop of authority it could be construed to grant to Washington. The nerve! You’ll probably hear it repeated, if you haven’t already, … Continue reading →

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