Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!
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Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!
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Inferno: PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column (fwd)
What I find most interesting in this article is not MS marketing noise but the comment about the White House, robot.txt, and Google... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031120.html Truly a despicable act for a -public servant-. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inferno: PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column (fwd)
What I find most interesting in this article is not MS marketing noise but the comment about the White House, robot.txt, and Google... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031120.html Truly a despicable act for a -public servant-. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:36:29 -0600 From: David Nunez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! Get ready for chills, thrills and bone-crushing spills! More excitement and more mud than ever before! Hear the screaming crowd, hear the crushing of metal, and feel the adrenaline of the CyberDAWWG! That's right, it's time for CyberDAG Madness! Tuesday! Tuesday! TESDAY! Be there! Please RSVP by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] EFF-Austin MegaEvent on Dec 16th, 2003 Opal Divine's in Austin (6th and Rio Grande) * 6:00-8:00 - eVoting Dinner Discussion (serious discussion) * 8:00-close - CyberDawg 2003 (wild party) BuyYerOwnDinner for the eVoting Discussion... Light snacks served at Cyberdawg. Cash bar. Everyone showing up gets a free EFF bumper sticker and instigator badge! All new 2004 exclusive EFF-A T-shirts will be on sale. (http://www.eff-austin.org) = Calling all cyberhippies, geeks, artists, filmmakers, WiFi Superheroes, technovangelists, computer builders/programmers/networkers/users, robotic mad scientists and their cyborganic chimpanzee lab assistants, liberty-lovin' lawyers, techeductors, wonks, weirdos, walruses, open source hackers, octopodes, and friends of all of the above. Come one, come all, and bring 20 of your friends. This is NOT the event to miss. Please help us by forwarding along this invitation to your friends and fellow cybernauts. = EFF-Austin (http://www.eff-austin.org) proudly brings you the CyberDawg 2003 World Tour*** December 16th at Opal Divines in Austin, TX. 6:00-8:00 - eVoting Roundtable: Join Dan Wallach, Computer science professor and security expert from Rice University, for dinner and discussion on eVoting for the December edition of the EFF-Austin Policy Roundtable. Dan Wallach is a member of the team, organized by Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins, which conducted a scathing analysis of the Diebold voting system earlier this year. Dan will discuss the threat model for electronic voting. What can go wrong with evoting systems, what was wrong with the market-leading Diebold system, and what can geek activists do about it? 8:00-close - CyberDawg: What happens when you bring together smart, creative, and passionate minds together to do nothing but talk, laugh, and instigate? We're not sure. We think it'll be an earth-shattering event, though... The Singularity, even. What is EFF-Austin? Who's working behind the scenes? What is it up to these days? What madcap adventures are planned for 2004? Calendar of events? How can YOU get involved in the fray? These questions and more will be answered at the Cyberdawg. If nothing else, you'll be in the same room with movers, shakers, and instigators in the Austin Tech/Art/and Cyberliberties scene... That's gotta be worth something, right? = *** CyberDawg 2003 will not actually go on a world tour. Just Austin... For that matter, there probably won't be too many thrills, chills, and spills or the gnashing of metal or screaming fans, either. But it will be fun, nonetheless. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:36:29 -0600 From: David Nunez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! Get ready for chills, thrills and bone-crushing spills! More excitement and more mud than ever before! Hear the screaming crowd, hear the crushing of metal, and feel the adrenaline of the CyberDAWWG! That's right, it's time for CyberDAG Madness! Tuesday! Tuesday! TESDAY! Be there! Please RSVP by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] EFF-Austin MegaEvent on Dec 16th, 2003 Opal Divine's in Austin (6th and Rio Grande) * 6:00-8:00 - eVoting Dinner Discussion (serious discussion) * 8:00-close - CyberDawg 2003 (wild party) BuyYerOwnDinner for the eVoting Discussion... Light snacks served at Cyberdawg. Cash bar. Everyone showing up gets a free EFF bumper sticker and instigator badge! All new 2004 exclusive EFF-A T-shirts will be on sale. (http://www.eff-austin.org) = Calling all cyberhippies, geeks, artists, filmmakers, WiFi Superheroes, technovangelists, computer builders/programmers/networkers/users, robotic mad scientists and their cyborganic chimpanzee lab assistants, liberty-lovin' lawyers, techeductors, wonks, weirdos, walruses, open source hackers, octopodes, and friends of all of the above. Come one, come all, and bring 20 of your friends. This is NOT the event to miss. Please help us by forwarding along this invitation to your friends and fellow cybernauts. = EFF-Austin (http://www.eff-austin.org) proudly brings you the CyberDawg 2003 World Tour*** December 16th at Opal Divines in Austin, TX. 6:00-8:00 - eVoting Roundtable: Join Dan Wallach, Computer science professor and security expert from Rice University, for dinner and discussion on eVoting for the December edition of the EFF-Austin Policy Roundtable. Dan Wallach is a member of the team, organized by Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins, which conducted a scathing analysis of the Diebold voting system earlier this year. Dan will discuss the threat model for electronic voting. What can go wrong with evoting systems, what was wrong with the market-leading Diebold system, and what can geek activists do about it? 8:00-close - CyberDawg: What happens when you bring together smart, creative, and passionate minds together to do nothing but talk, laugh, and instigate? We're not sure. We think it'll be an earth-shattering event, though... The Singularity, even. What is EFF-Austin? Who's working behind the scenes? What is it up to these days? What madcap adventures are planned for 2004? Calendar of events? How can YOU get involved in the fray? These questions and more will be answered at the Cyberdawg. If nothing else, you'll be in the same room with movers, shakers, and instigators in the Austin Tech/Art/and Cyberliberties scene... That's gotta be worth something, right? = *** CyberDawg 2003 will not actually go on a world tour. Just Austin... For that matter, there probably won't be too many thrills, chills, and spills or the gnashing of metal or screaming fans, either. But it will be fun, nonetheless. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Physics News Update 662 (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:34:46 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Physics News Update 662 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 662 November 18, 2003 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon A LIQUID WALL IN A FUSION ENERGY DEVICE has improved the performance [SSZ: text deleted] ELECTRON SPINS CAN CONTROL NUCLEAR SPINS in a semiconductor when trapped in a very confined space, a recent experimental development which calls upon laser science, solid-state physics, and nuclear magnetic resonance. David Awschalom and his colleagues at the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation at UC Santa Barbara begin by lithographically creating a quantum well, an extremely thin, practically two-dimensional region inside a semiconductor capable of trapping electrons. First, a laser pulse injects polarized electrons (their spins have a definite orientation determined by the laser's polarization) into the well. Once in the well, the tiny disk of electrons (with a radius of about 20 microns but a thickness of only 20 nm) can be controllably moved along one axis, much as an abacus bead can be slid along a wire, by simply changing a voltage. In this case, the disk can be positioned with nm-accuracy. The nuclei of atoms residing within the thin volume occupied by the spin-polarized electrons will in turn be polarized; that is, the spin of these nuclei will tend to align themselves with the spin of the electrons. The result is an extremely thin region---equivalent to the thickness of several tens of atoms--- of polarized nuclei which can be precisely positioned by changing a single voltage. These thin sheets of nuclear polarization could constitute the basic elements of an information storage device in which nuclear spin determines the logical state of the system. One may ask, why not take out the middle man and just use the electron spin to encode information? The answer: nuclear spins have a weaker interaction with the surrounding environment than electron spins. While harder to flip, once oriented, nuclear spins preserve their state longer than do electrons. One may also wonder, why not just use some large magnet to orient the nuclear spins? Why use electrons as intermediaries? The answer: all-electronic control of spin is desirable because electric fields are so much easier to control and create on a small scale than magnetic fields. They are scalable and easy to implement, while it is notoriously hard to produce large and localized magnetic fields. In addition, all of our current integrated circuit technology is based on charge and electric field; it would certainly be helpful to manipulate spin using knobs which are well developed and familiar to engineers. Awschalom ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 805-893-2121) believes this current result is the first step toward the establishment of an all-electrical manipulation of countable numbers of nuclear spins.(Poggio et al., Physical Review Letters, 14 November 2003) *** PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE is a digest of physics news items arising from physics meetings, physics journals, newspapers and magazines, and other news sources. It is provided free of charge as a way of broadly disseminating information about physics and physicists. For that reason, you are free to post it, if you like, where others can read it, providing only that you credit AIP. Physics News Update appears approximately once a week. AUTO-SUBSCRIPTION OR DELETION: By using the expression subscribe physnews in your e-mail message, you will have automatically added the address from which your message was sent to the distribution list for Physics News Update. If you use the signoff physnews expression in your e-mail message, the address in your message header will be deleted from the distribution list. Please send your message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leave the Subject: line blank.)
Q: Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys?
Hi, One of the local Linux user groups had a talk at their meeting as well as some extended discussion on the mailing list regarding RSA keys and factoring. In particular a claim was made that recent technology has come to light that allows factoring of 1024 bit RSA keys at $1B (US)/day. The basic gist was that they were claiming that 1024 keys were no longer reasonable outside of a life time of approx. a year. That 2048 keys were by extension weaker, and that larger keys should be the norm. There was some discussion about hacking GPG to generate 8k keys. I'm wondering if anyone might comment on this with regard to sources of info or other efforts? In particular I'm interested in any leads regarding this supposed hardware breakthrough. I spent about an hour googling around and didn't really come up with anything substantial. Thanks. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOWAR - Leader of India's largest movement to speak (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:15:36 -0500 From: NOWAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NOWAR - Leader of India's largest movement to speak Hello, all. We have just received news of a unique opportunity to hear an important speaker. Medha Patkar, one of the most respected political activists in the world, will be speaking in Austin the evening of Nov. 4 (specifics below). This is a rare chance to hear directly from someone on the cutting edge of resistance to the reckless uses of state and private power that threaten so many lives and livelihoods. Patkar founded and leads the Naramda Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement), the largest nonviolent people's movement in India. Over the course of two decades -- through relentless organizing, demonstrations, and hunger strikes -- the movement has been the voice of hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples and peasants who are losing their land and way of life to large dams on the Narmada River. Like so many large centralized development projects, the benefits of these dams go to a small elite and the costs are borne by ordinary people. The movement has won policy changes in World Bank and other multilateral funding agencies but continues to face hostility from the Indian government and often violent police responses -- and continues to resist through nonviolent civil disobedience. With significant leadership and participation from women, the nonviolent satyagraha (insistence on truth) has refused to back down. Visit http://www.narmada.org to learn more about the struggle. Patkar also spearheads the National Alliance of People's Movements, a powerful network of more than 150 mass-based movements across India. NAPM is a non-electoral, secular political alliance of peasant, tribal, dalit, women and labor groups that are critical of corporate globalization and offer alternative development plans. Patkar's work has been recognized through countless international awards, including the Right to Livelihood Award (known as the alternative Nobel Prize), Goldman Environmental Prize, a Human Rights Defender's Award from Amnesty International, the Magsaysay Award, and Global Villager Award. Patkar's lecture, Who pays for progress?, will focus on policies that inhibit sustainable development and people's non-violent struggles for social justice. The talk will be Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the LBJ Auditorium in Sid Richardson Hall (the one-story building directly east of the LBJ Library and Museum) on the University of Texas campus. Free parking is available in the lots on Red River just south of Dean Keeton (26th St.) Map available at http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/srh.html Because the event happens in just over a week, it's important to spread the word widely so as many people as possible can hear Patkar. Please forward this information to any relevant email lists and web sites. Flyers can be downloaded from http://ThirdCoastActivist.org The primary sponsor of the event is the Austin chapter of the Association for India's Development, a nonprofit organization promoting grassroots efforts for health care, education, small enterprise, alternate energy, environmental action and people's rights in India. For more information, visit www.aidaustin.org or www.aidindia.org. Co-sponsors will be announced later. For more information, contact Harish Sharma, 695-7983, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information about this and many other events can be found at http://ThirdCoastActivist.org In Solidarity, the Nowar Collective
ABCNEWS.com : Scalia Ridicules Court's Gay Sex Ruling (fwd)
Why does anyone listen to this punkleave it up to him and women would be barefoot and pregnant and non-anglo's would still be 5/8 human. The guy is a bigot. Strict adherence to the words of the Constitution, this nitwit hasn't -ever- stuck to the words or the intents. Just another two-faced liar like Lincoln. 'Conservative'indeed. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031023_2301.html -- -- Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools - H.D. Thoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
PhysicsWeb - Utopia theory (fwd)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/16/10/7 -- -- Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools - H.D. Thoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Inferno: Why War?: All the President's Votes? (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:18:22 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Why War?: All the President's Votes? Interesting read from our chief black-box voting researcher, martini... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:41:12 -0500 (CDT) Subject: heya.. seen this? http://www.why-war.com/news/2003/10/14/allthepr.html I'm still reading through it, but thought I'd send it forward sooner than later.
RE: Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | CNET News.com (fwd)
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | CNET News.com (fwd) This is great news for crypto... http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5092154.html?tag=nefd_top [Judge Patel throws out Bernstein case after USG 'promises' not to enforce the laws requiring notification of publication of crypto source code] There was something else in that story that was even more important than this ruling. What was it Peter? This is a great reason not to rely on other peoples synopsis and read the articles for yourself. Think for yourself. Computer code was found to have 1st Amendment protection. It was a form of communications. -- -- Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools - H.D. Thoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | CNET News.com (fwd)
This is great news for crypto... http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5092154.html?tag=nefd_top -- -- Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools - H.D. Thoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[announce] Postponing CyberDawg (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:58:20 -0500 From: David Nunez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [announce] Postponing CyberDawg Hi folks, As some of you may have heard, we were moving very fast on having a Cyberdawg next week. I spoke with JonL this morning and we decided to postpone the cyberdawg this month. We had picked the 21st as a good date because it coincided with a panel that the LBJ school was trying to pull together on eVoting. Unfortunately, the panel fell through. I decided that it would be useful to have an extra week or two to get a lot of the ducks in a row (ex. T-shirts) before having our event rather than trying to rush it. Next week's major event, then, will be the Wireless party on Thursday(?) for which EFF-A is a sponsor. It'll be useful for us to get the word out about this event. (details coming) Furthermore, I'll work again with Ruta Maya to nail down a different date (hopefully this won't be a big deal) and prepare fliers to pass around at the Wireless event. Thanks and sorry for the rampant misinformation, David Nunez [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CNN.com - CD copy protection trumped by Shift key - Oct. 8, 2003 (fwd)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[texas-hpr] University of Tennessee Amateur Science Survey (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:49:56 - From: ron_gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [texas-hpr] University of Tennessee Amateur Science Survey We would like to invite you to participate in the Amateur Science Information Survey (AMSIS). The AMSIS is being conducted by information professionals at the University of Tennessee. This anonymous survey is an attempt to determine where and how amateur scientists find information related to their scientific interests. The online survey takes approximately 10 minutes to fill out. The results of this survey will help libraries provide services and materials to better meet the diverse needs of amateur scientists. To take the survey please go to http://www.lib.utk.edu/cic/amsci/amscisurvey.htm. Sincerely, Travis Dolence Ron Gilmour University of Tennessee Libraries Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/PMYolB/TM
The Register - Prison for KaZaA? Surely not in the UK (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33267.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
The Register - Expect terrorist attacks on Global Financial System (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33269.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Yahoo! News - Israel Strikes Terrorist Base in Syria (fwd)
Oh shit. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=540ncid=716e=1u=/ap/20031005/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_attack -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
The Register - Smart cards get really smart (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33218.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] SSZ node going down
Greetings, As of 17:00 Central today (10-3-03) the SSZ node will cease to operate. All subscribers should move to one of the other nodes to continue to participate in the list. That is my intention. Ta ta. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)
50 million Americans can't be wrong. Let's see, there are 300M Americans...this is a logical flaw, an appeal to the majority when in fact it isn't even a majority. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/25/congress.no.call/index.html Now let me make this clear I support the do-not-call list, in fact I believe it should be the defacto and people should have to sign up to be called, not the other way around. Such an approach would resolve the 'unsolicted' issues as well. As usual we have the cart in front of the horse. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
RE: [cdr] Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: I don't have much trust in the US media, but this is nonsense. The assasination attempt was covered by the NYT among others. I heard about it on the radio at the weekend, and it was on Yahoo News. Thanks, I fed it back upstream. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Re: [cdr] Re: CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Pete Capelli wrote: You are assuming that each phone number represents only one person, which in most cases is incorrect. No I am not, the fine senator is. Get your facts straight, like who actually says what. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org (fwd)
Who said there were significant differences in corporations and governments...Oh yeah, CACL didI guess they were wrong...again. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11743 -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] The Register - eBay to Fees: come and get what you want (fwd)
Another example of why CACL [1] approaches don't work. Claims that business are not as bad as the government are bogus because they fail to realize that both are activities of people and people are the cause of problem. The evils of man are not a function of government, business, or whatever. They rest solely on the human mind. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32936.html [1] Crypto-Anarchy, Anarcho-Capitalist, Capitalist, Libertarian And note the 'big C' on capitalistthe distinction is whether the commerce is the means or the ends. Big C capitalism it is the ends and human lifetimes are the means. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Re: [cdr] Re: The Register - eBay to Fees: come and get what you want (fwd)
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.20.1638 +0200]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32936.html Don't want to open a can of worms here, but is cypherpunks secondary function to be Jim's link distribution list? I mean, we all know The Register and we all look around. And this is still the best you can come up with. You'll fit right in with Tim, Declan, and the rest of the CACL crowd. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] Austin Cypherpunks Montly Social
Time:October 14, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables. If it's inclimate but not overly cold we meet in the outside covered section. Otherwise look for us inside the building proper. Identification: Look for the group with the Applied Cryptography book. It will have a red cover and is about 2 in. thick. Contact Info:http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr There is an irc channel that is available 24/365 at irc.open-forge.org on port 6667. This resource is made available by the good graces of Open Forge, LLC. The mailing list can be joined by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'subscribe austin-cpunks' in the body. News Events: The H18 Plan 9 efforts are well underway with three three (3) boxes available in Austin (more on the way) and other boxes in places like Russia, Spain, and Portugal. We are currently working on kernel patches that allow an increased pool of cpu servers to be available to user processes. Another P9 effort is integrating RSA into the factotum. We've got several wireless nodes available now and will be upgrading the SSZ node in particular in the next couple of weeks. We're expanding our system from just 802.11b to include a, b, g. There will be a road trip to Dallas on Oct. 4 for the 1st Saturday Computer Sale that is held each month.
Re: [cdr] Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?
Somethings broke in the backbone relay, the CDR has split. I sent the note out and didn't see Tim's response, but do see JAT's. Cool ;) On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tim May wrote: huge snip Were he in the U.S., I'd expect he'd face serious charges. Being that he's in Australia, as far as I know, I doubt extradition will occur. I disagree (although I would not have several years ago). The FBI has been learning to use international extradition over the last two years or so, and are actually getting to be quite good at it from what I hear. And even if he were prosecuted, by Oz or by the U.S., his various articles indicate mental disturbance could be a winning defense, with him ordered to get back on his Prozac or Zoloft or whatever. I would dearly love to see this idiot named an enemy combatant, if for no other reason that to laugh my ass off. To paraphrase both Tim *and* Mattd: Proffr Needs Killing - rlmao! The questions being asked of Jim may have to do with the Feds making the only prosecution they can make: that those passing on such threats via mailing lists are somehow guilty of some crime. This is just speculation on my part. If these are indeed the types of questions being asked, I would be very surprised. While *anonymous* remailers are very definitely on their radar, I cannot see any reason why a CDR node would be of interest (other than to establish the actual delivery chain). As someone who works closely with a bunch of these guys, I can state with authority that the FBI is technically, um, less than what the public thinks they are. A LOT less, at least technically. Nevertheless, the guys (and gals) they hire are generally a good cross-section of smart and educated middle classers, who are quite capable of learning what they need to know. I would guess that the operational questions were just that - attempts to understand the operation of the CDR system. If so, the case may hinge on issues of common carrier status. Highly unlikely - CCS is a concept they are all familiar with, and it quite obviously does not apply here. Also, I believe Congress passed a bill explicitly saying that sysops are not liable for the e-mail passing through their systems...Declan will likely have the latest on this. No, I think you are referring to the side effect of the Prodigy Decision. Either way though, you are correct that your average sysop enjoys some limited immunities here. Anyway, I'll bet good money this is the series of messages in question. Nothing else I have seen either rises to this level or seems to involve Pennsylvania in any significant way. You sure there were no SPAM travel guides making outrageously prosecutable claims that Pennsylvania was a Good Place To Visit? snicker --Tim May -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every living thing dies alone. Donnie Darko -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Re: [cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)
I didn't write that, only passed it along. On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as its purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to the goals of WIPO. Not surprising. Any beast that sees its habitat being destroyed will react this way. At the least, not running a conference for it; and perhaps lobbying beyond their charter. One imagines the Telegraph Union vigorously opposed the introduction of telephones. And think of the National Security (tm) implications of peer-to-peer communications like telephony! --- One man's blowback is another man's feedback -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?
Hi, Is it really so that there are no up to date archives? Venona seems to have stopped a while back. Just curious. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] Another Cypherpunks Investigation?
Hi, I had an interesting experience yesterday. I got to talk to a person claiming to be with the DoJ in Philly (if memory serves). Apparently they are investigating one or more posts in the Aug. time frame for something. They were interested in a subpeona regarding technical information about the list. The person didn't make it clear exactly who they were investigating. The questions were focused on how the mailing list worked and where there was editorial opportunity. They were also interested in mail and network logs for that time frame (which I don't normally keep past 3-4 days). I was very carefull to explain that IP spoofing was easy to do so that the veracity or reliability of the logs was in question. I'm deciding not to provide the persons name and contact info since I'm not sure what the effect would be. I requested they talk with my lawyer in regards to future information and that I wasn't interested in getting involved. That's about all I have on the topic at this time. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] An IRC server is available...
Hi, Open Forge, LLC is making a IRC server available on kraken.open-forge.com on port 6667 available for use. The current channels include a #cypherpunks. For more information please visit the SSZ Open Forge homepages. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
[cdr] Re: Random musing about words and spam
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Eric Murray wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:01:51AM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs? If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples, and using this to infer spamfiltering rules? Good project for a machine learning type. My unscientific observations are that there's at least 6 or 8 different formats. Some are pretty long, i.e.: Subject: RE: your medications fygbzdwvyyjqvvpnj uyaecf ixoimctgdtrn kwqs mxatjr (that one could be encrypted text) others are short or have only numbers. My favorite spam-obfuscation technique is where they break up key words with HTML comments, i.e. pen!--Mary had a little la--is. (that won't show if you are using a mail reader that interprets HTML... read the source). There are many patterns to these emails. We've got the 'legitimate' spam, and then there is the spam that gets sent to the list by members who subscribe the list to the spammers. Then theres emails which are spam sitting in peoples inbox that gets retransmitted by viruses, worms, and trojans. They may have started out as spam but they've been hijacked for more nepharious purposes. Usually these have lots of garbbled text in them. Then ther are emails like the previous which are just 'snow' to blind the users. Another is non-english text. We've been seeing a lot more of these over the last six months or so. We've also been seeing lists of words being sent to email addresses. The purpose is to dictionary attack the various security passwords on the list. It wouldn't surprise me one bit considering the human mind if a lot of the spam we get isn't from non-spammers themselves. Priming the pump so to speak. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
RE: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Patrick wrote: leaflets is activism. Planting firebombs in restaurants is terrorism. Is spiking a tree? Exactly whose tree is it anyway? What happens when the last whale is in the harpoon site, is it ok to ruin the shot? It's not as simple as you make it out to be. The reality is there is a whole host of response ranges that exist between flyers and firebombs. Your binary view is simply an indicator of your brainwashing ;) -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: As expected, animal and environmental activists are now being called terrorists. Foie Gras Flap Leads to Vandalism Sonoma Police Chief John Gurney, who described the attacks as a sophisticated campaign of domestic terrorism, said: They're trying to impose their beliefs on others through the use of force, fear and intimidation. Ask him why he carries a gun. While I don't agree with their methods in all cases it seems to me that they're not telling people what to do, but rather telling others to stop doing it to them. The reality is that the domestic activist movement has only made progress when resorting to violence and destruction. Look at the womens rights movement, 60's civil rights movement, conservation movements in the 60's and 70's. Anything less and the powers that be choose over anything else. It's the nature of the beast who goes for these sorts of positions of 'authority'. A perfect example of why greed is -not- good and 'power' should never be placed in one 'authority'. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com
SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid (fwd)
I like the ed's comments at the end. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Austin Cypherpunks Monthly Meet, Aug. 12.
Time:Aug. 12, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables. If it's inclimate but not overly cold we meet in the outside covered section. Otherwise look for us inside the building proper. Identification: Look for the group with the Applied Cryptography book. It will have a red cover and is about 2 in. thick. Contact Info:http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html#austincpunks -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers (fwd)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/06 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Online NewsHour: Forum -- Copyright Conundrum (fwd)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyright.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction (fwd)
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | New AIM Offering end to end Encryption (fwd)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/08/1547215.shtml?tid=120tid=126tid=187tid=93 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
CNN.com - Man wins right to sue U.S. government over pot car - Jun.2, 2003 (fwd)
;) http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/02/pot.lawsuit.reut/index.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Register When is e-money not e-money? When it stays on yourphone. (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/30962.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Register - Court confirms DMCA 'Good Faith' web site shut downrights (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Register - California Supremes hear DeCSS Case (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30944.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
U.S. Cautiously Begins to Seize Millions in Foreign Banks (fwd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/national/30PATR.html?ex=1054872000en=4a5517c0b3572cc8ei=5062partner=GOOGLE -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
4 essay writers sentenced for subversion in Beijing / Friends metto talk about politics on university grounds (fwd)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/05/30/MN49458.DTL -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - NZ makes contact with detainednational in China (fwd)
http://www.goasiapacific.com/news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_868036.htm -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CyberShamans who claim to be only mildly interested in Wicca
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tim May wrote: I said many texts. Which isn't the point, the point was 'bible'. You executed a strawman and nobody seems to have noticed. Typical CACL. Of course any word that exists is going to show up in 'many texts' if you look hard enough. Your 'point' is specious. Religious scholarship is a hell of a lot more than just the several texts you cite which choose not to use this name. Religous scholarship isn't, it's an exercise in fantasy and psy-ops. It plays on peoples inborn fear of the unknown. [Rest of Tim's self-agrandizing bullshit deleted] -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CyberShamans who claim to be only mildly interested in Wicca
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tim May wrote: I said many texts. Which isn't the point, the point was 'bible'. You executed a strawman and nobody seems to have noticed. Typical CACL. Of course any word that exists is going to show up in 'many texts' if you look hard enough. Your 'point' is specious. Religious scholarship is a hell of a lot more than just the several texts you cite which choose not to use this name. Religous scholarship isn't, it's an exercise in fantasy and psy-ops. It plays on peoples inborn fear of the unknown. [Rest of Tim's self-agrandizing bullshit deleted] -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CyberShamans who claim to be only mildly interested in Wicca
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: I noticed, but arguing with Tim is rather pointless. If he tried to refute primary sources with tertiary sources in a paper at any university he'd not only get an F but probably some very nasty comments from the prof as well. So when you're dealing with someone who resorts to that kind of crap, what's the point? Excellent! The reason I do it is not to bang heads with Tim (he's welcome to whatever fucking nutiness he prefers) but there are others out there who will get the wrong idea if it's not refuted reasonably regularly. They haven't made up their minds and because of their unfamiliarity [1] with the various issues they may be a monotonic viewpoint. That just exacerbates the problem by creating more 'Tim's'. If nothing else it lets them know that there -are- other views out there that can stand toe-to-toe, and at least give as good as they get. Personaly, one of him is enough ;) Outside of that it is pointless, and one of the reasons that over the years of my participation in this list I've dropped my interaction with him more and more. [1] I'm in a discussion on a private list with a person who believes the the way to solve Iraq's problems is to import Soccer (actually more generally, sports) into their culture. My responce that forcing western views on them at the expense of their consent and culture is just plain evil. I got the typical knuckeheaded response that if I didn't like it I should move. I responded that I intend to stay and fight for my country and what it -really- stands for. For some reason Americans in general don't seem able to keen the distinction between ones 'country' and its 'government'. More of tha religous type psy-ops I suspect. It reminds me of a picture I saw on CNN of one of our aircraft carries with a list of various events against American forces in the Middle East, it was titled Why we are hear trying to cast the fact we are acting in self-defense irrespective of the fact that it is -us- in their backyard with big guns. Why are we here? Because we can't keep our nose out of other peoples business and believe that 'I want' justifies taking something. In short, if anyone believes 'greed is good' they only need to look at the news for a excellent example of why that view is simply bullshit. I simply refer them to Verne's books Paris in the 20th Century and Invasion of the Sea. If one doesn't 'get it' by the end of those two, they never will. The latter is an excellent answer as to why the Middle East is the way it is, and why 'we' (as in Western civilization) are responsible and the wrong-doer here. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: killed hundreds of thousands of noncombatants to get his way. The real irony is that the U.S. ended up granting the desired condition afterwards anyway. Better check your history again, McArthur made that call as supreme commander of the theatre, and got in hot water over it. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: I've heard that people driving through the area contaminated by Chernobyl are just told to roll up the windows and drive fast, but I don't know if that's true, or how much good it does you. Could help a little. Will prevent most of the dust getting into the car This is another example of the old question from school as to whether one gets wetter by running in a rain rather than walking. Google: Get wetter running in the rain? More of that psy-ops crap. Don't do anything about it, just make 'em feel good. What bullshit. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Austin Cypherpunks Physical Meet - Apr. 8
Time:Apr. 8, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables. If it's inclimate but not overly cold we meet in the outside covered section. Otherwise look for us inside the building proper. Identification: Look for the group with the Applied Cryptography book. It will have a red cover and is about 2 in. thick. Contact Info:http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html#austincpunks -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: 'Peking' vs 'Beijing'
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: And of course, Beijing is no harder to say that Peking, Actually it is, there are -four- ways to say 'Beijing' and only two ways to say Peking. It hinges on the hard or softness of the 'j' in Beijing and the first 'e' in both words (which is where the extra 'i' in Beijing came from). Is it a 'j' or a 'g' sound? The native pronunciation of Beijing for example is a hard j sound like in 'jewel'. Most westerners pronounce it with a soft j. About that bit, I remember, some years ago (or maybe even tens of years, I seem to tend to remember various stuff happening later than they actually did), the official transcription of chinese has been changed, leading to some name changes. Peiping had nothing to do with transliteration but a change in regime. However, a Google search yields nothing, so this may be just my imagination going a bit too overboard ?? Wade-Giles was replaced by Pinyin. The entire Peking/Beijing pronunciation is people reading the original transliteration (e.g. j in a -lot- of transliteration systems means both a 'j' sound and a 'y' sound, Russki is a good example of the 'y' sound usage) using their native pronunciation instead of the correct transliteration sounds. The same sort of thing has happened several times with the ideograms as well. Over the last few decades the Chinese have made a concerted effort to 'modernize' their language with respect to both transliteration (ala Pinyin) and ideograms (ala 'Modern Chinese'). It's reached a point where many native (and well versed foreign) Chinese can read one or the other but not both fluently. Taiwan and the PRC have also developed different ideograms for the same meaning, and the same ideogram for different meanings. The Chinese language has been and continues to be going through a major transformation (another historic one is the move from a focus on single ideograms to using two ideograms as the standard). -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
[9fans] 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'03) (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:00:20 GMT From: Alex Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [9fans] 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03) 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03) March 31 - April 2, 2003 San Francisco, California USA http://www.usenix.org/events/fast03/ Join leading researchers and technologists for three days of active discussion on operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and computational science. The FAST program features: * 18 technical papers carefully selected from 67 submissions. Topics range from RAID design to secure wide-area file sharing. * Keynote address by Dr. John Wilkes of HP Labs, HP Fellow and ACM Fellow with 15 years of research leadership in self-managing large-scale storage. * Dave Belanger, Chief Scientist, ATT Research; EMC's David Black, IETF chair for Internet Storage; CMU's Garth Gibson, founder and CTO of Panasas; Steve Kleiman, CTO of Network Appliance; Reagan Moore, associate director of Data-Intensive Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center; and Tom Ruwart, I/O Performance, Inc.
[texas-hpr] Update/Status report on Books to Senators (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:38:33 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [texas-hpr] Update/Status report on Books to Senators Hope everybody is not getting sick of this topic, but; Homer Hickam contacted me this AM that he would be happy to do the cover letter that will be enclosed with the books to be sent to Senators, and personalize the books as well. John Shavers has already secured the book order, they will be in Friday. He will call Homer to give him a heads up when they arrive. Mr Shavers will be sending the books Priority Mail possibly Friday, and definitely by Monday. I have had numerous requests from folks wanting to donate via paypal, is there anyone out there that can help with this request? Via emails and phone calls, there is a groundswell on this effort to morph in something much larger. A liason between Mr Wickman and Senator Enzi has made contact and and bounced a few ideas off me, such as getting Boy Scouts to deliver other articles to our Senators, whether it be in DC or their State offices, etc. (more details to follow).Essentially I was asked for approval as they did not want to step on our toes in our efforts. I replied that I thought it was a great idea, and they promised to keep me posted. The pledges of support so far has surpassed $3000.00, so not only does this effort get our cause in front of the Lawmakers, but it also adds to our war chest on the Judicial front. Don't stop now, we are on a role. I am going to copy below the post I made last night, in case there are newcomers to the lists. And I hope everyone shares this information to your clubs, etc, that are not on this list, the more involved, the better. Thanks again Pat G Well folks, Your responses have been positively overwhelming. I have had offers from around the country from individuals/clubs as well as possible corporate sponsors to help make this happen. What started as a seed turned into a Sequoia in two days. Thanks for all the support, from everyone. And especially to you Homer, for your most gracious offer. I am going to take a leap of faith tomorrow and get with John Shavers (Shaver's Bookstore) in Homer's hometown of Huntsville, Alabama to see if he can get 100 books in for Homer to sign by Friday. Mr. Shaver volunteered to oversee timely mailing to the Senators. Payment for the books and postage to the individual Senators via Priority Mail will be placed on Potrocs Inc. credit card, for $2500. If funding to cover this expense does not materialize, I will personally cover the balance. There can be three ways of handling funding this effort. You can make out a check to Potrocs Inc. or to Tripoli Inc. or to NAR Inc., as a donation. If the check is made out to Tripoli Inc. or NAR Inc., Then mail your donations to: Potrocs Inc. c/o Pat Gordzelik 4525 Maverick Amarillo, TX 79109 If you would rather use your credit card, I have made arrangements through my company, PGP Inc., to process donations accepting MC/Discover/AMEX/VISA. You can call in at 1-800-687-9625 where either I or my staff can process it. Business hours are 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST. Any excess funding will be distributed to the legal fund. Now, for the cover letter. Several people have emailed me off list and have indicated that the letter needs to be short, and to the point. And I have received many sample letters from individuals that have brought up some excellent points. A. We want to stress that the book to the Senators was funded from thousands of hobbyist's, educators, and concerned citizens effected by restrictions on Rocketry proposed by the Safe Explosives Act embedded into the Homeland Security Act. B. That the book depicts the origins of this hobby before there was a structured environment and safe self regulation for budding Rocketeers and future Scientists, Astronauts, Engineers, etc. C. That with proposed, restrictive, regulations limiting access to propellant to people wanting to continue or get involved in this rewarding, exciting hobby, the efforts made by organizations over the span of 40 years plus to make this a safe hobby will be undermined by those inexperienced individuals attempting to recreate what we as a group learned from the Original Rocket Boys. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Austin Cypherpunks Physical Meet - Mar. 11
Time:Mar. 11, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables. If it's inclimate but not overly cold we meet in the outside covered section. Otherwise look for us inside the building proper. Identification: Look for the group with the Applied Cryptography book. It will have a red cover and is about 2 in. thick. Contact Info:http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html#austincpunks -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Karl Rove quote (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:04:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Karl Rove quote As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. - Karl Rove, George W. Bush's long-time political guru/handler and White House advisor. http://www.cba.uiuc.edu/seppala/econ102/newyork.html
Speaking of places to get pre-prints and such...
Howdy, Very shortly we'll be bringing online the first Hangar 18 Auth servers (actually they are online now but not available). After that we'll be bringing on a 9P server. One of the primary questions we are struggling with currently is what goes on that 9P server? Clearly swapping mp3's and such are not legitimate uses of these resources. So, one of the things I'm going to do is have a bunch of web sites that I use a lot for reference included in the tree. Below is my initial target candidate list, enjoy... ps ARC is especially good pss If you've pinged us re projects/ports under Plan 9 please contact us again as we're very close to having resources available. The Mathematical Atlas http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/tour_div.html Applied and Computational Category Theory http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/research/category/ Artificial Life http://www.it.uom.gr/pdp/DigitalLib/ALife/Al_soft.htm BEAM Robotics http://www.nis.lanl.gov/projects/robot// Bibliography of Plan 9 http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Os/plan9.html Configurable Computing Lab http://splish.ee.byu.edu/ CALL - Center for Army Lessons Learned http://call.army.mil/ Clay Mathematics Institute http://www.claymath.org/ CogPrints http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Numerical Evaluation of Special Functions http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/Reports/2001/nesf/paper.html The Squeak Smalltalk Page http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/ Emulation Software RD WWW Page http://www.uruk.org/~erich/emu/ World of Mathematics http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ Science Archive Facility (ESO Space Telescope) http://archive.eso.org/ Eureka Alert! http://www.eurekalert.org/ FM 90-10 MOUT GlobalSpec http://www.globalspec.com/ProductFinder?se=ggka; HardCOREware http://www.hardcoreware.net/index.php Hard Soft (Russki) http://www.hardnsoft.ru/ The Honeynet Project (hacking) http://project.honeynet.org/ Hotlist (weekly science news) http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/sciencenews.html Hum-MolGen (Human Molecular Genetics) http://hum-molgen.org/ IDG http://www.idg.net/ Kenge World (Swarm/CA computing) http://www.gis.usu.edu/swarm/ LANL Pre-prints (arXiv mirror) http://xxx.lanl.gov/ Links to Open Problems in Mathematics http://www.geocities.com/ednitou/ Linux Firewall Security Site http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/ List of Dictionaries http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries.html LogoMedia Technical Dictionaries http://www.translation.net/logomedia-transdict.html MachineBrain (robotics) http://www.machinebrain.com/ Assault Technologies (online gun store) http://www.assaulttech.com/ Memepool http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/ MIT LCS Parallel Distributed Computing http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/ Mobile Mesh (mobile ad hoc networking) http://www.mitre.org/tech_transfer/mobilemesh/ Modular Robotics Links http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~paredis/modular/ NASA Life Sciences Data Archive http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/ News Hub (15m updates) http://www.newshub.com/science/ Odum Institute Data Archive http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/home.asp Online Dictionaries http://www.online-dictionary.net/alpha.htm Open PINO Platform (Open Source anthropic robotics) http://www.symbio.jst.go.jp/PINO/index.html OpenCyc http://www.opencyc.org/ OQO http://www.oqo.com/ Operating System Resource Center http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles Philosophy of Science Archive http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/ Physics Web http://physicsweb.org/ Plan 9 Index http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/ PLEAC (programming language) http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ Prime Numbers and Factoring http://www.ontko.com/~rayo/primes/ Reconfigurable Computing http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/James-RoxbyP/reconfig.htm Research Operating Systems (old) http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/research.html Resource Central - Dictionaries http://www.kalama.com/~mariner/qserdictionary.htm Resources for Old Computers http://www.coyotecom.com/database/old.html Review of Operating Systems http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html Classic Computing Links http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/resources.htm Worldwide Military Links http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/nontrad/urbanwarfare/urbanwar.htm SciTech Daily http://www.scitechdaily.com/ Scotts eVest http://www.scottevest.com/ SDSS Science Archive http://www.sdss.jhu.edu/ScienceArchive/home.html SkyOS http://www.skyos.org/ Special Operations .Com http://www.specialoperations.com/ Sputnik (wireless) http://www.sputnik.com/ Squeak Smalltalk http://mucow.com/squeak-qref.html Squeak for WinCE http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/WinCE/ Squeakland http://www.squeakland.org/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html#a Swarm Libraries http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~nelson/research/swarm/node6.html Ranger Handbook http://www.benning.army.mil/rtb/ranger/HDBOOK/TABLEOFCONTENTS.htm
Re: Wheeler
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Wheeler is also every bit as iconoclastic a thinker as Hawking, perhaps even more so. Wheeler may be the Tyler Durden of physicists. That's funny, not. I've actually met Wheeler and Weinberg several times. They seem like the typical physics prof. I'd call Wheeler a lot of things, iconoclast isn't one of them (I wouldn't call Hawkings one either). The one whom I've met that I can say I really admire is Prigogine. Ilya fucking rocks! It's cool that all three of them live part of each year here in Austin and I've got a big 'in' with the Prigogine crowd (Hi Dr. Turner :). -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, James A. Donald wrote: As one approaches the plank length, the structure of space time will become more like fractal quantum foam, It isn't 'fractal' at all, it does cease being continous. Not the same thing. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Supressed? speech by Sen. Robert Byrd -- Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: We live in fascist times. People are fascist, not the times. Read your own posts sometime. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Wheeler
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Wheeler is also every bit as iconoclastic a thinker as Hawking, perhaps even more so. Wheeler may be the Tyler Durden of physicists. That's funny, not. I've actually met Wheeler and Weinberg several times. They seem like the typical physics prof. I'd call Wheeler a lot of things, iconoclast isn't one of them (I wouldn't call Hawkings one either). The one whom I've met that I can say I really admire is Prigogine. Ilya fucking rocks! It's cool that all three of them live part of each year here in Austin and I've got a big 'in' with the Prigogine crowd (Hi Dr. Turner :). -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it? Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large scale structure in time/space. stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've skimmed. Then you should skim more of them. Hawkings really jelled black hole theory in the '73 work. He's pretty much the real modern father to some folks. I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler). -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: You still read science popularizers ? There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading popularizers. Other than an clear block of time that could be better spent looking in the horses mouth ;) -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Inferno: The notion of separation of church and state (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:32:05 -0600 Subject: The notion of separation of church and state Just in case there was any confusion about where this administration stands. Original Message Subject: ugh. Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:47:31 -0600 From: Sheilagh http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361521,00.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, jet wrote: If you've read it recently, I'll take your word for it. That's a very(!!!) dangerous approach. Odds are the person hasn't read it at all. Check the archive for a reference to a pre-print in arXiv (ie xyz.lanl.gov) about pre-prints and how 80% of them are bogus in reference to claims of having read references/cites. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Sarad AV wrote: A tape as an evidence?Is a tape still considered as a valid piece of evidence in a court of law? It's that oath thing, it's pretty much always required the person making the tape to swear it hasn't been tampered with and that they are the party who created it. Otherwise it would generaly fall into hearsay. Than of course it also depends on the particular states view of 1-party or 2-party permission issues. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Register - Open and Closed Security Roughly Equal (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29294.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA (fwd)
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/02/11/2124229.shtml?tid=103 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | Software/Hardware FPGA Dev Board that runs Linux (fwd)
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/02/12/026247.shtml?tid=126tid=152tid=156 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
News: New technology sees through objects (fwd)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-984207.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
House, Senate agree to prohibit citizens' e-mail surveillance (fwd)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3647992.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
PCWorld.com - DataViz Tool Secures Your Password List (fwd)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109313,00.asp -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
News: Red Hat clears government's red tape (fwd)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-984202.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23811 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
February 15th Protests (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:50:04 -0600 (CST) Subject: February 15th Protests Saturday February 15th has been designated an international day of protest against war in Iraq. Organized protests will be occurring in at least 431 cities around the world. http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=725 Here are some details. In NYC, for the first time ever, a court has upheld the denial of a permit for a protest march. Instead, the uncontrolled peace marchers will be confined to a stationary rally point on First Avenue and 49th street, extending uptown. Confirmed speakers and performers include: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther King III, Julian Bond, Mos Def, Patti Smith, Holly Near, Tony Kushner, Welfare Poets. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0307/ferguson2.php http://www.nirs.org/Feb15info.htm http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=subsub=30 In Austin, there will be a rally at the State Capitol and a march down Congress. from NOWAR mailing list, February 10 On Saturday, February 15, at 1:00 pm, concerned Austinites will join people around the country and around the world in protesting the impending war on Iraq. UT Prof. Robert Jensen will emcee. Speakers include author and activist Rahul Mahajan, a Gulf War veteran, UT Prof. Dana Cloud, and Lisa Krebs, a UT student activist. Music by Guy Forsyth. It will be followed by a march down Congress Avenue. Massive outreach is needed. To download flyers for printing and distribution, see http://www.austinagainstwar.org/events.html Location: State Capitol, 11th and Congress. In Houston, protests will be rallying in Eleanor Tinsley Park, along Allen Parkway. http://www.tuaw.org/f15hou/ In San Antonio, activists will be marching for peace from Hemisfair Park (The Tower of Americas) to Milam park. http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=1697 In Seattle, activists will gather at the Seattle Center at 11:30 (Fisher Pavillion/Center Fountain), rally at noon, and march at 1pm to the Federal Building and the INS Detention Center. I like that they are encouraging everyone to bring a red flower of some sort to leave at the march destinations. http://www.feb15.org/ In Dallas, protestors will gather behind the Guadalupe Cathedral, 2215 Ross @ 1pm, march @ 1:30pm to Kennedy Memorial, stopping briefly at symbolic locations, and rally @ 3:00 pm at the Kennedy Memorial, including speakers, music, and more. http://www.dallaspeacecenter.org/ In Flagstaff, protestors will convene at Wheeler Park (Humphries and Aspen?) at noon then parade downtown. http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=1607 In Phoenix, activists will rally in Patriot's Square Park and march through downtown... http://www.spidel.net/justice/march.htm In Paris... it sounds like the rally point is à 14h Place Denfert Rochereau, with a march on the Bastille... http://france.attac.org/site/page.php?idpage=2208 I encourage participation in this day's events. Cats up in NYC, keep your heads about ya, as I imagine that's going to be a major focal point. After all, it's a march for peace. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
I've got saucer.ssz.com under Plan 9 r4
Hi, Just a quick note that I've finally got Plan 9 to load without a lot of hassle (eg some temporary DOS partition w/ a image). It now sees the CD on install. So, I'm ready to do the demo next Thu. We are hot and online people, finally ;) After that I'll put my energy into getting the Auth functionality working. At that point we'll bring the 9P file server online (ie roswell.ssz.com). It will be 80G. After that I'll get igor (ie general purpose anonymizing remailer under Plan 9) working so we can move all the mailing lists and such over (that's going to take a little longer). In the interim I'll get a irc server and webpage going on saucer. I should have much ready in the next 2-3 weeks. At that point I'll be in a position to start managing keys for other sites w/ respect to namespace/resource access. We need somebody who can do graphics, for the webpage. All work would be contributed in some sort of Open Source license (which we'll have to work out). We need machines with dedicated and reasonably high speed (= 128kb ISDN) connections. Process serves are probably needed first. I'd suggest that anyone interested create their own public (and private) namespace and then we can transitively mount it through any of them. It would also be nice if anyone has the resources if we could keep a 'lazy update' going so nobody would lose anything in the namespace (at least that stuff that is reasonable to back up). Several archive sites would be even sweeter. With respect to the number of connections per node, we're trying to make this a 'small worlds' network architecture. That means that each node should have ln(n) connections (this is backbone connections as compared to users accessing via a server. Each pair of nodes on a connection should act to minimize common connections. Regarding the irc server we'll have the following channels: #plan9 #inferno #hangar18 #cypherpunks #open-science #cliology We can make other channels on request, provided they seem 'reasonable'...;) If you're receiving this it means that you're on a mailing list which is set to be moved in the near future to a Plan 9 based server. If you're intrested in Plan 9 then please visit: http://plan9.bell-labs.com http://open-forge.org ps If there are any musicians out there, I'm interested in having a demo where muscians pipe their data via Plan 9 servers from distant sites where they each share the n-1 hardware feeds in parallel from the other sites.this means that any listener would mount the outgoing feeds under /dev/* and then dump them to their local sound card. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it? Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large scale structure in time/space. stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've skimmed. Then you should skim more of them. Hawkings really jelled black hole theory in the '73 work. He's pretty much the real modern father to some folks. I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler). -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: You still read science popularizers ? There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading popularizers. Other than an clear block of time that could be better spent looking in the horses mouth ;) -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, jet wrote: If you've read it recently, I'll take your word for it. That's a very(!!!) dangerous approach. Odds are the person hasn't read it at all. Check the archive for a reference to a pre-print in arXiv (ie xyz.lanl.gov) about pre-prints and how 80% of them are bogus in reference to claims of having read references/cites. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Sarad AV wrote: A tape as an evidence?Is a tape still considered as a valid piece of evidence in a court of law? It's that oath thing, it's pretty much always required the person making the tape to swear it hasn't been tampered with and that they are the party who created it. Otherwise it would generaly fall into hearsay. Than of course it also depends on the particular states view of 1-party or 2-party permission issues. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
ABCNEWS.com : New 'Brain Fingerprinting' Could Help Solve Crimes(fwd)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030211_157.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption (fwd)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/11/0217201.shtml?tid=93tid=172 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | RIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales (fwd)
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/02/10/2026248.shtml?tid=141 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Water Barons - How privatized water supply fails in Manila...(fwd)
Another example of the CACL theory going down the tubes of actuality... http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/water/default.aspx?SECTION=CHAPTERID=5 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: Some 40+ years ago we had to learn it in kindergarten. One kid refused and they took him out of class. His and the other kids parents were pussies. I first went to school about the same time ago, 1966 in Houston. I didn't do the pledge and they called my parents. The solution, I had to stand but didn't have to say anything. So that's what I did. Worked for 12 years of public school (of course after about the 4'th or 5'th grade I don't ever remember having to do it in school except perhaps at assembly or a sports event). Reminds me of the time in 5th grade when a teacher threatened to tie me in a chair. I told her my mother would 'beat her ass'. They called my mother, she asked the teacher and the principle if the threat had been made. They said yes. She said I was right, she would beat their asses. Pretty impressive from a women barely over 5ft. This was the same women in high school who told the principle he had better things to do with his time than bother me about not tucking my shirt in or having long hair. I wish I had a picture of the instructor in the only time I ever got detention (in HS) when they threatened me with more detention and expulsion for long hair. 'Ripping them a new asshole' only begins to describe. I did my three days and that was that. I've never put my hand on my heart or said the pledge, don't ever intend to either. I'll never sign an oath either. I've had people ask me about it, a simple 'Fuck you' resolved the problem quite nicely. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
[9fans] FAST '03, 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:03:43 GMT From: Alex Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [9fans] FAST '03, 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies Dear Colleague, I am writing to invite you to attend the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03), March 31 through April 2, 2003, in beautiful San Francisco, California. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast03/ Also, if you have work you would like to share or a cool idea that's not quite ready for publication, send a one- or two-paragraph summary to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by March 1, 2003. We are particularly interested in presenting students' work. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the conference, and the speakers will be notified in advance. Work-in-Progress reports are five-minute presentations; File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and computational science. FAST '03 will bring together over 250 storage specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum. FAST '03 will bring together over 200 storage specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum. The FAST '03 program includes 18 technical papers carefully selected from a pool of 67 submissions by a program committee of 16 leading researchers. These papers represent some of the outstanding work in the area, ranging from RAID design to secure wide-area file sharing. The technical presentations will be given by top researchers from both academia and industry. The program features a keynote address by Dr. John Wilkes of Hewlett-Packard Labs, an HP Fellow and ACM Fellow with 15 years of research leadership in self-managing large-scale storage. Technical presentations will be given by top researchers from both academia and industry, including Dave Belanger, Chief Scientist, ATT Research; EMC's David Black, IETF chair for Internet Storage; CMU's Garth Gibson, founder and CTO of Panasas; Steve Kleiman, CTO of Network Appliance; Reagan Moore, Associate Director of Data-Intensive Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center; and Tom Ruwart of I/O Performance, Inc. FAST '03 promises to be an exciting conference presenting the best of current research and a strong vision of the future. Please join us in San Francisco. Jeffrey S. Chase, Duke University FAST '03 Program Chair P.S. Thanks to SNIA and HP for their support of student stipends to attend the conference. -- Alex Walker Production Editor USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 510/528-8649 x33
Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dave Howe wrote: no, lilo is. if you you can mount a pgpdisk (say) without software, then you are obviously much more talented than I am :) Bullshit. lilo isn't doing -anything- at that point without somebody or something (eg dongle) being present that has the -plaintext- key. Without the key the disk isn't doing anything. So no, lilo isn't mounting the partition. It -is- a tool to do the mount. Subtle but important distinction. As to mounting the disk without software, not a problem it could be done all in hardware. Though you'd still need the passphrase/dongle. for virtual drives, the real question is at what point in the boot process you can mount a drive - if it is not until the os is fully functional, then you are unable to protect the os itself. if the bootstrap process can mount the drive before the os is functional, then you *can* protect the os. No you can't. If the drive is mounted before the OS is loaded you can put the system into a DMA state and read the disk (screw the OS) since it's contents are now in plaintext. You can also prevent the default OS from being loaded as well. Clue: If you own the hardware, you own the software. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | Cashless Society (fwd)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/08/2130219.shtml?tid=126 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | The Future of Money (fwd)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/09/1855223.shtml?tid=98 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Slashdot | US Immigration Implements Biometric-based Border (fwd)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/08/2322201.shtml?tid=158tid=103 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
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http://drudgereport.com/mad.htm -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act (fwd)
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=502L1=10L2=10L3=0L4=0L5=0 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death...(fwd)
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: In real life this will not work as most Windoze hard disk encryption schemes can't encrypt the OS disk - and this is where the temp/cache stuff goes. These can have more than enough info to reveal what's on your crypto disk (ie. shortcuts to url's you've recently visited, recently opened documents, etc...) At least with a unixish OS you can mount your crypto file systems up at boot time before the OS really starts up (before the system goes to multi-user mode for example (at the end of /etc/rc1.d and before the rc2.d init starts.) Which is a blind path since those files -must- be unencrypted and if they do mount the disk they have to have access to the key to unencrypt the fs hence you're in the same boat as with Winblows. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Yahoo! News - Online Game Simulates 'Worst Case Scenario' in Iraq(fwd)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=569ncid=738e=3u=/nm/20030209/tc_nm/iraq_usa_game_dc -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Register - Computer ballot outfit perverts Senate race, theoristsays (fwd)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29247.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
