RE: We're the government and we're here to store your valuable information

2001-05-16 Thread Aimee Farr
Tim wrote: At 10:17 PM -0400 5/15/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:42:25PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: From: SSRN Electronic Paper Collection Human Identification Theory The Identification Problem http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=263213 The author

Re: Entire ISP Forced to Close

2001-05-16 Thread John Young
Eric gets a star for raising a genuinely hard-core political topic here. And there has not as much good discussion for it as for other, easier, if hoary, disputes. From that lacuna, one might suspect that the feds and remnant nuclear family proponents would find sympathizers here for the

RE: Godwins law [was: RE: We're the government...]

2001-05-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Ugg, Cut and paste error, I entered Richards text twice. (I wouldn't bring this up, except it might look like I'm claiming to have done the stuff Richard did). Peter

Re: Entire ISP Forced to Close

2001-05-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Jim Dixon wrote: Still, the Internet is for the most part a Star Network, with only the very largest providers multi-homed. This is not true, unless your definition of 'the very largest' is very loose indeed. There are many thousands of multi-homed ISPs. People periodically attempt to

Fwd: Ed Felten, Princeton, on music copying security, Thurs 2:15

2001-05-16 Thread Steve Schear
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:53:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Terry Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Terry Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ed Felten, Princeton, on music copying security, Thurs 2:15 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reading Between the Lines:

Re: Godwins law [was: RE: We're the government...]

2001-05-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
There seem to be three questions: * Who authored what's commonly known as Godwin's Law? I'm agnostic. I can certainly believe an earlier variant circulated in the 80s. * What is Godwin's law? I cited it as relating to Usenet, but Godwin himself

Re: Label releases copy-protected CD

2001-05-16 Thread tidepool
On Wed, 16 May 2001, ming wrote: But, you'll be recording (unless you break the protection) an analog signal. And you'll have generational loss each copy. True, if one is trying to duplicate physical CD's. Meanwhile, to have the audio captured to a mp3 file, you only lose a little quality

Re: Label releases copy-protected CD

2001-05-16 Thread tidepool
On Wed, 16 May 2001, ming wrote: But, you'll be recording (unless you break the protection) an analog signal. And you'll have generational loss each copy. True, if one is trying to duplicate physical CD's. Meanwhile, to have the audio captured to a mp3 file, you only lose a little quality

RE: Label releases copy-protected CD

2001-05-16 Thread ganns.com
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ray Dillinger Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 19:34 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Label releases copy-protected CD On Wed, 16 May 2001, tidepool wrote: The way I see it, they will be unable

re: travel confirmation..

2001-05-16 Thread mikeedunit
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RE: EM weapons against cars, courtesy of the DoJ

2001-05-16 Thread keyser-soze
OR We can use a string to pull a $50 spikestrip across the road when the target car approaches, then pull it out of the way before any other vehicles pass by. Cheap, reliable, low-tech is often preferable to expensive, chancy, high-tech. Good point, equally in that there are less (if any)