At 1:08 AM -0400 4/13/00, dmolnar wrote:
Just the other day I received a note from TheoryNet (list-serv of academic
job announcements and calls for papers) on the "6th Annual Conference on
DNA Computing." I may have deleted the announcement, but I bet something
interesting is happening there...
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At 11:55 PM -0400 on 4/12/00, dmolnar wrote:
Time to go pick up "Anarchy, State, and
Utopia..."
"The Machinery of Freedom" is also pretty good, though dated.
I particularly like his description of the tax collection process involving
a politician and pennies...
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
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At 11:33 PM -0400 on 4/12/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Clearly information about me cannot be "property" in
the sense that my car is.
Actually, it isn't but not the way you think. Information can be possessed,
but transaction cost to own it is *extremely* low. Like something
asymptotically
The basic argument that I make in the book Database
Nation is that property is a dangerous tool to protect privacy for the
following reasons:
1. What you own, you can sell, give away, or have taken from you.
2. Traditionally, you don't own information about yourself --- the
companies
Reese insists:
You know why he's the cleanest president? He has a press corps that
watches his back. Didn't you see them decrying the single digit millions
spent on the Star investigation? Did you hear a single peep from the
mainstream press, on the 50-70 million he wasted on a junket to
Note Salon's article that appeared today:
"The Twilight of the Crypto-Geeks"
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/04/13/libertarians/index.html
-Declan
My answer to same, when someone noted it on the dbs list...
Cheers,
RAH
(who's been reminded, several times now, that it's Simson, not "Simpson". Doh.)
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 04:38:25 -0400
To: Digital Bearer Settlements [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL
[To be removed from this list read bottom of message]
Dear Sirs,
I would like to offer you the following on FOB Germany Basis:
original Eurospec stock:
Motorola L7089 300 pieces DEM 442
Motorola P7389 500 pieces DEM 542
Ericsson T28
"R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually, it isn't but not the way you think. Information can be possessed,
but transaction cost to own it is *extremely* low. Like something
asymptotically approaching the cost of transmission, storage, and, of
course, encrypting it.
I'll buy the
Why not just put the software on another box? Email me offlist.
-Declan
At 10:35 4/13/2000 -0600, noisebox remailer admin wrote:
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i run the noisebox anonymous remailer which processes anywhere from 400 to
6000 messages a day.
from mid-may through mid-august,
In the 24 hours since 11:00 am 04/12:
45 messages have come through cypherpunks.
By author:
Jim Choate - 14
Tim May - 4
Sunder - 3
"King" RAHenry VIII - 3
tskinner - 2
Mac Norton - 2
Reese -2
Others... 1
Of these posts my subjective analysis (which is admittedly picky) lists
their quality
salon.com Technology April 13, 2000
URL: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/04/13/libertarians
Twilight of the crypto-geeks
Lone-wolf digital libertarians are beginning to abandon their faith in technology uber
alles and espouse suspiciously socialist-sounding ideas.
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