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Why'd you choose one of the hardest out there? Converting AK to full auto without semi-auto option takes like 5 minutes with no tools, just a piece of wire to tie two parts together. There's a book on Amazon, "Full-Auto Conversion Of The SKS Rifle." To convert FN FNC you need to make this kind of part. This all within 10 minutes of googling.

BTW, converting AR to full-auto with no semi-auto option is supposedly not all that hard either.

https://www.hackcanada.com/can...

Note: to see the comic referenced in the parent post, be sure to go to http://www.hackcanada.com before going to the referenced
http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/zines/spacemoose/polisci.gif
because HackCanada.com has anti-hotlinking measures in place; probably check the referrer's URL.

"Space Muslim" sounds like an ill-conceived spinoff of "Space Moose."

Either way, you've found me out. It's my covert goal to bring Sharia Law(tm) to the Moon.

It does NOT broadcast your location to everyone within 45 miles. GSM, for example, encrypts the signal. Details about whom the signal belongs to and what it contains are between the subscriber and the service.

What this ruling is about isn't "other people", it is the State conducting a surreptitious search without a warrant. The nature of the radio transmission and the encryption give me a reasonable expectation of privacy.

It really isn't like that with national ID cards: you're not going to use an ID card with a picture that doesn't at least resemble you vaguely. Replacing a picture on a stolen card seems nigh to impossible to me.

Not so impossible my friend.

This has been going on in western Canada for years now - not in restaurants, but for admission to some clubs. The group/company, Barwatch, nominally suggest that it is "for your protection" to keep troublemakers out of clubs. Of course, the bouncers usually swipe your ID through the machine before you are even aware what they are doing. Yet another reason to boycott half the clubs in Vancouver. Fortunately it is mostly the ones with crappy music and aggressive jerks who use the Barwatch system.

I've waited just over ten years to say this:

"You bet your fragrant ass. Pull up a chair, asshopper."
- Billy the Bionic Badger, Space Moose, Cyberspace Moose, early 1997.

(comic strip, safe for work, and dedicated to everyone who remembered the commercial for which this was a parody.)

I don't know if you would call 40 bit encryption a lockdown, especially since it doesn't protect your conversation from the phone company, even if you are calling the other person with a GSM phone. Furthermore, they weaken or turn off encryption in most countries. Sounds like a typical effect of a DRM scheme on users all right.

3. Block Hacking sites (possibly a subclass of dangerous information)

HackCanada, Nettwerked and RantRadio would be some of the first to go. Way too much politically incorrect information :(

(libertarian?)

Just dont go to these bar:
(read more at http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/freedom/barwatc h/barlink.html )

Canada

* Alberta
o Calgary
+ Cowboys, 826 5th Street, (403) 265-0699
+ Coyotes, 1088 Olympic Way, (403) 263-5343
+ Outlaws, #24 7400 Mcleod Trail, (403) 255-4646
+ Tantra Nightclub & Lounge, 355-10th Ave SW, (403) 264-0202
+ The Den and Black Lounge, U of C - MacEwan Hall, (403) 220-6551
+ The Warehouse Nightclub, 731 10th Ave SW, (403) 264-0535
+ Underground Pub, 731 10 Avenue SW, (403) 266-6629
+ ??? - Where else?
o Edmonton
+ Armoury Dance Lounge, 10310 85 Ave, (780) 702-1800
+ Cowboys, 10102 180 Street NW, (780) 481-8739
+ Diamonds Gentlemen's Club, 4635 Gateway Blvd, (780) 428-2527
+ Escape Ultra Lounge, WEM 8882 - 170 St, (780) 489-1330
+ Globe - Tap Bar & Grill, 10045-109 St, (780) 426-7111
+ Greenhouse, 13103 Fort Rd, (780) 472-9898
[Some people say they have it, they say they don't.]
+ Hudsons Tap House (south), 6107 104 St, (780) 701-0190
[Some people say they have it, they say they don't.]
+ Hudsons Tap House (whyte), 10307 Whyte Ave, (780) 433-4526
[Some people say they have it, they say they don't.]
+ Iron Horse, 8101 103 St, (780) 438-1907
+ Nashville's Electric Roadhouse, 2557 WEM 8770-170 St, (780) 489-1330

In Edmonton, they have a little something called "Barwatch" that calls for (Voluntary per establishment) scanning of photo ID cards. I've submitted this a couple of times but it hasn't gotten to the front page just yet... http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/freedom/barwatc h/barwatch.html Not to stray too far off-topic, but the issue is a lot closer to home than you might have thought.

Enjoy our equsite customer service!
http://www.hackcanada.com/telco/index.html
(this guy really loves his former isp)

Should people be allowed to own fully automatic weapons? RPGs? Artillary? Landmines? All without any sort of license requirements, background checks, etc.

Um, yes? The second amendment says nothing about licenses or background checks.

However, the 1938 Nazi gun control law that our Senator Thomas Dodd (D-Conn.) had translated into English became the basis for our 1968 gun laws.

The price of freedom being eternal viligance and all that.

I'm deeply concerned about not only the motives of the U.S. military engaging in 'cyberspace warfare' in terms of whether it would be kept within legal limitations (if that's even possible), but also about the competence of the people who would be carrying it out to make appropriate decisions with respect to the legality of what they are doing. Take a look at this article to see what I mean.

Sounds a little too much like, http://www.hackcanada.com/homegrown/wetware/ to me. However, its not so much remote, you have to be sitting right in front of the device, literally wearing it. But it opens your eyes to the implications.

You can still download those viruses here:
http://www.hackcanada.com/whacked/filelists/aol.ht ml

Read more about them here:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh- faq/
http://www.nd.edu/~madmacs/virus.html

I had the nVIR A virus on my LC II running System 7.0 in 1993. I got it from a floppy disk with a game on it given to me by a relative. It would screw up the System so that you couldn't launch any apps but it wouldn't harm your data. If you read the above info you'll see that most of these viruses are benign.

The upgrade to MacOS 8 broke most of these threats. Even the 1995 autostart worm if I remember correctly. Considering that The OS X classic environment requires Mac OS 9.1 there is no chance that any of these threats can infect a computer running Mac OS X.

Also, D&D will turn you into Pentagram-doodling witch and the only way to come back to Jeebus is to burn all your D&D stuff (and heck, better throw all your other books on the fire, too).

To which I would reply, "I'll give you kids some candy if you let me hump your dog".

AK-47's can be 'civilianized' down to semi-automatic. (and, apparently, can also be easily re-converted back to full auto once you purchase them). Even if you don't go the criminal route of converting it to full auto, your grandmother (or grandchild) can still do massive ammounts of damage with a semi-automatic AK-47.

Conversion Materials:

1 AK-47
1 twist-tie
1 metal file (optional)
gun assembly tools (dunno -- don't own one)
and lots of ammunition

No it doesn't. This is a nonsense myth that has at best marginal basis in reality. See, for example:

here

here

here

Many places perpetuate this myth, and some even try to explain it. The notion of driving cartilage through bone into the brain may be theoretically possible, but is sufficiently inefficient that anyone capable of doing that would be better off smacking the target somewhere else.

Now, getting data into the brain, that would be easier. We have two main, "high bandwidth" conduits for input; the eyes and the ears. First off - look up "brainwave stimulation", "light and sound", etc - here's a few links:

Hack Canada's Brain-Wave Machine
Futuremind Light & Sound
Neural Signals, Inc

There are other projects out there as well - just google, and you will find them.

Also - look into "Neurophone" and "Voice to Skull" technologies - these use two systems: ultrasound and microwave. Of the two, microwave seems to offer direct neuron stimulation. Basically, on both systems, a carrier wave is set up and voice is FM modulated on top of the carrier wave. The signal is beamed to the subjects head. In the ultrasound version, the skull filters out the carrier wave, leaving the original signal, and bone conduction allows the subject to "hear" the original sound. In the microwave system, the brain itself does the filtering, and the brain then reconstructs the sound. Both systems suffer from major drawbacks in sound quality. Both versions are patented. NASA at one time was interested in the research. Basically, to the subject, it sounds like voices are speaking in their heads - and in the case of microwaves being used as the transmission medium (the research originally started when radar and microwave technicians reported hearing "clicking" type noise whenever they worked on live equipment), it makes you wonder about wearing tinfoil hats (hmmm). I know that the ultrasound version has recently been used as a testbed for "beaming" custom music or advertisements to people on an individual basis - I know /. stories have reported on this in the past (heck, you will find my comments in them on voice to skull).

Anyhow - once you have a couple of ways to get data into the eyes and ears (and/or vestibular system) - and note, a good quality HMD could be used as a light/sound device - you then can play. I can see using the sound part to play music, and underneath the music have the sound binaural beat doing the brain-wave thing (basically, what you do is inject two different audio signals into the ears - say the left at 30 Hz, and the right at 36 Hz - which will yield a "beat tone" of around 6 Hz, which will make you drowsy, etc). Get the sound going, and sync up the eyes in a similar matter, to the sound. Maybe monitor (via IR leds and a camera) the eyes, see what they do, and if you can tell when you are in the meditative state - then alter the sound and/or visuals to force something different (say, ramp slowly from 10 Hz to 6 Hz - then hold at 6, then ramp quickly up to 7-8 Hz, injecting crazy patterns into the eyes - if using an HMD, maybe something like a visualization hack).

Another thing or possibility would be the idea of computer controlled or directed lucid dreaming, via a brain-wave system - imagine donning the goggles and headphones, lying back, listening to a relaxing audio CD as the computer drops you down to a lucid dreaming state, then starts putting suggestions into your ears and eyes, suggesting and guiding a lucid dream (perhaps the computer could also monitor breathing rate, skin conductivity, etc - to help control the "dream")...

Fascinating thoughts and ideas...

Well, if VoIP is supposed to replace POTS, it stands to reason caller-id spoofing would be included...

You can spoof POTS caller-ID as it is with an Orange Box, as well as many other ways, including from a Nokia Cellphone.

Personally, I prefer this one.

The Longitudinal Labour Force File fiasco of a couple of years ago. Of course, it has since been dismantled (or else put in the hands of a government body beyond the reach of the Privacy Commissioner) but I would not put it past the federal government to try this again under a different guise.

Here's a little more info.

it would suck if some webpages were made claiming to have porn. This pages could have all the images from panip linked to, but with a size of 1 pix by 1 pix.

Then if lots of people went to the porn page, it would suck the banwidth from them. I think this is called an abundance of service attack or something

As licenses get used increasingly for proof of identity we can only expect this kind of increase in the security of the id cards.

Up here in Ontario we've been doing this for years for drivers licenses and government health cards. So far there hasn't been any use of the data (that I know of) for anything other than printing the photo id cards.

The battle to be fought here is not to prevent these cards from existing, it's going to happen. Work on ensuring that the cards are only proof of identity and are not connected in every which way to every database in existance. Fight for an internally consistent card that only proves you are who you claim to be, then every other database can just look you up. Fight against the shared databases not against the cards themselves.

For instance the Canadian Federal government put together a big database tracking all sorts of personal information about every Canadian tax payer -- they can do this with out without id cards.

The war for anonymity was lost on September 11th. Those of us concerned about privacy didn't get to the field. Fall back and fight for real privacy.

And remember folks, nobody listens to the people wearing the tin foil hats!

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Humans have been using light and sound to achieve altered states of consciousness for thousands of years. Primitive cultures used flickering fires and rythmic drumming to induce these altered states. Today, you can choose from a wide variety of electronic brain-wave machines which use light and/or sound to alter brain-wave activity. Brain-wave activity ranges from fully awake to deep dreamless sleep. This activity is categorized into five primary groups: Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta, and Gamma.