Psychological analysis of anonymous benefactors

2002-03-24 Thread Optimizzin Al-gorithym
At 03:08 PM 3/23/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: There are other examples of one man projects with limited expectations of financial gain, whether anonymity was an issue or not. Stallman comes to mind. What Tim writes is correct, but he ignores personal motivational psychology. Stallman felt burnt

Math and crypto videos available at msri.org

2002-03-24 Thread Tim May
I've been enjoying the streaming video lectures available at www.msri.org. MSRI is the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, which sits on a hill above UC Berkeley. MSRI is funded by NSF and other donors and has no apparent formal connection with UCB (that I can find). The streaming

Bleeding heart liberals

2002-03-24 Thread matthew X
1901 - Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipino rebels is captured. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War the US had returned Aguinaldo to the Philippines to direct the native uprisings against the Spanish. In 1899 when the Filipinos learned the US did not intend to give them their

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-24 Thread Anonymous
Lucky Green writes: The panel, consisting of Ian Goldberg and Nicko van Someren, put forth the following rough first estimates: While the interconnections required by Bernstein's proposed architecture add a non-trivial level of complexity, as Bruce Schneier correctly pointed out in his

Re: Define signal and noise.

2002-03-24 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: The real issue seems more properly couched as salience. The blur here causes conceptual errors, and I would appreciate enlightenment, by way of an alternative taxonomy and any refs to recent papers measuring the S/N ratio within a channel. There's no

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Graham Lally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] - ... the mailing list simply records # of posts written by each poster. call this P - mailing list records # of times someone wrote a post that was replied to. ... call this R - pseudoreputation is a measure of the above two parameters. one can

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:45:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - posts to the list are like currency. lurkers Not a useful analogy. For some people, the more they post, the lower their reputation falls. - mailing list records # of times someone wrote a post that was replied to. posts

Lawyers!? We dont need no steenkin lawyers!

2002-03-24 Thread matthew X
Protest behavior is infectious and I am sure it will get inside the center...I feel that if there is a large group of people engaging in civil disobedience,that is infectious,it is a bad example to set. The above is part of what a lawyer for some of the detained at wackenhutt west of

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 12:30 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:45:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - posts to the list are like currency. lurkers Not a useful analogy. For some people, the more they post, the lower their reputation falls. A lot of the

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Declan wrote: There may be the germ of an idea here, but I'm hardly convinced an automated mechanism such as you describe will work. Even if it did, getting people focused on improving their popularity ratings rather than contributing ideas is

Re: Henry VI and Lawyer-Killing

2002-03-24 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 12:26 PM, A. Melon wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:12:41 +1100, matthew X wrote: First we kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare.henry the something. Falling into camp I resemble that remark, here's a bit of history on one of the worlds' most common epithets

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread vznuri
ahem, yes I am aware any simple system is easily circumvented defeated, but that doesnt imply that it will be. Ive noticed many objections to any new proposal often take the form, but that would be different than what we have now!!! wow, amazing, no kidding!!! I can come up with all kinds of

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-24 Thread georgemw
On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:26, Anonymous wrote: Also, you have not distinguished clearly one of the main differences between the Napster-type file sharing networks and what you are calling storage-surface networks (what does surface mean here anyway?). The difference is that in the latter you

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Nomen Nescio
All these mental efforts are not cost effective. Tens of people spending hours on filtering/rating schemes is expensive. Choate's whereabouts are well known, deploying persuasion contractors will cost a fraction of the proposed engineering efforts. Think of it as of simulation run of AP.

GeoCap: Nietzsche vs. Shakespeare, Tim May vs. Lawrence Lessig, and the definition of actual property in cypherspace (was Re: Henry VI and Lawyer-Killing)

2002-03-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Are you a GOD??? No... Then you DIE!!! -- Zool talking to Venckman Ghostbusters Geodesic Capital Nietzsche vs. Shakespeare, Tim May vs. Lawrence Lessig, and the Definition of Actual Property in Cypherspace Robert

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ahem, yes I am aware any simple system is easily circumvented defeated, but that doesnt imply that it will be. Ive noticed many objections to any new proposal often take the form, but that would be different than what we have now!!! wow,