Re: human failings question

2000-10-05 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 9:23 AM -0700 10/5/2000, David Honig wrote: At 09:07 PM 10/3/00 -0400, Nina H. Fefferman wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where (if at all) I can find statistics for the predictable strings humans tend to produce when asked to create a "random" sequence of zeros and ones? Maybe

UK Companies free to snoop on staff

2000-10-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Obviously, if someone who uses company assets for personal business deserves all the snooping he gets, at least theoretically, though certainly not in actual practice. The tweak in the British RIP vs. Eurocrat case here is that, same as it ever was, the nation-state is again quite literally

Enigma owners to pay ransom

2000-10-05 Thread William Knowles
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/10/06/timnwsnws01010.html October 6th, 2000 BY SAM LISTER THE owners of a stolen Second World War Enigma code machine have appealed to a thief to get in contact after agreeing to pay a 25,000 ransom for its safe return. In a letter addressed to