Re: "Geeks with Guns" at Atlanta Linux Showcase

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:54:55 -0400


Chris Farris <chris@perun.room17.com>:
> 1. To carry a pistol in GA (concealed or in the open) requires a permit.
> 2. It is illegal to bring a pistol to a Public Gathering. I will assume
> that the show counts as such. Irregardless....
> 3. Anyone bringing any firearms to the show will escorted out, and
> possibly arrested. This is Show and convention center policy.
> 4. Bringing a pistol on MARTA (our subway) is illegal.

To deal with these problems, case your pistol *disassembled* -- slide
or cylinder separate from frame. That's how I get by the airline regs.

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The following is a Python RSA implementation. According to the US Government posting these four lines makes me an international arms trafficker! Join me in civil disobedience; add these lines of code to your .sig block to help get this stupid and unconstitutional law changed. ============================================================================ from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mohandas Gandhi

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