RE: U.S. Census questions

2000-03-14 Thread Tim May
I said earlier that anything more than 1/64th negro makes one a negro...Himmler would be proud.) Mighty white of them. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES:

Re: ZDNET FUD Taking Back The Net From Cyberthugs

2000-04-03 Thread Tim May
people treat everything - if you can't tame it, kill it. No appreciation for the finer things in life. We and other freedom fighters have been working to take the Net back from the thugs for close to a decade now. --Tim May

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-05 Thread Tim May
k in this direction, need killing. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corrali

Re: The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-12 Thread Tim May
me guy as in the Microsoft case) and Sunstein may have interesting things to say about this issue. Bork, too, who asserted correctly, in my view, that the Constitution has no specific "privacy protections." --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-

Re: Ownership of information (was Re: The Death of theCypherpunks)

2000-04-13 Thread Tim May
ion, and expenditure of energy. And yet Declan's point that this knowledge is not property in the sense that a car is recognized as property remains valid. Transaction costs to either get or keep the information are not the interestin

Re: triangulation

2000-04-13 Thread Tim May
. Confront him and demand the money owed. If he doesn't pay, blow him away. Justice needs to be carried out by individuals, not left to minions of the State. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy

Re: Looking for Jim Bell

2000-04-14 Thread Tim May
reading stink gas in buildings, and like making specific threats. I don't do any of those things. Still, I'm ready to start shooting if anyone unexpected is found on my hill. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypt

Re: RSA fasion trends.

2000-04-17 Thread Tim May
--or should I say "precious"?--mixing of metaphors seen in a major piece of reporting this year. This latest Dreyfus affair is tedious beyond words. No doubt she (or he) will be an honored guest and probably a speaker at the next CFP.

Re: article

2000-06-08 Thread Tim May
s. If you are just another English major-turned-computer journalist, then fuck off. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous network

Re: MS-Nationalization By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

2000-06-11 Thread Tim May
At 4:44 PM -0700 6/11/00, Lizard wrote: At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote: Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business. Which leads

Re: Jolly Roger

2000-06-13 Thread Tim May
and then be exempt from prosecution, or can buy drugs and be exempt from drug laws, is why we have so much entrapment. Secondly, there are more direct and final solutions to the problem of entrapment. Trusting the courts to throw out entrapments is a weak solution. --Tim May

Re: Artificial intelligence filter blocks news -- but not smut

2000-06-20 Thread Tim May
n the next month. BAIR works by funneling Web connections through Exotrope's proxy server, which the company says is malfunctioning. I am counting on you, Declan, to do the follow-up in a month or two which drives the stake through the heart of Exotrope. --Tim May -- -:-:

More trolling from cops?

2000-06-26 Thread Tim May
is trying to entrap someone. I receive a couple of these a day, almost always of the same form. Sometimes I think the solution is to track down these requesters and deliver the bombs they crave so badly. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timo

Re: Definition: Hacker

2000-07-04 Thread Tim May
on-line dictionaries. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA

The World According to Choate

2000-07-14 Thread Tim May
tections. A weird world. But at least they have unlimited energy from Tesla Physics. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks,

Re: Dropping the Code of Silence (was Re: Dropping toad.com

2000-07-21 Thread Tim May
hought this was still common knowledge. I guess not. People are starting to rely on "security through obscurity," the strategy of the ostrich. As for the notion that the cyberpass list lost its subscriber base temporarily just so (I gather the theory goes...) anonymous posters c

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: John Young, the PSIA, and Aum

2000-07-23 Thread Tim May
who knew quite well that the PSIA did not want this story aired. Duh. There ought to be an I.Q. test before people are allowed to join the Cypherpunks list. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encry

Re: Persistent lack of signal

2000-07-24 Thread Tim May
nd other Canadian agencies leaned heavily on ZKS. Even more obviously, had a site for Homolka-Teale material been operated via Freedom, it surely would have been shut down. Even if the nyms were usd by U.S. residents.) --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-

Re: Choate proposing Dropping toad.com

2000-07-24 Thread Tim May
te toadsters can send out messages to the toadies telling them how to subscribe to other lists. I think of it as evolution in action. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital m

Infanticide

2000-07-25 Thread Tim May
s. And who would dare to interfere with a Woman's Right to Choose? --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudo

Re: The word gullible is not in any dictionary

2000-07-26 Thread Tim May
At 4:35 PM -1000 7/26/00, Reese wrote: At 09:17 AM 26/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote: At 9:18 PM -1000 7/25/00, Reese wrote: At 11:19 PM 25/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote: Get a clue. You do know, don't you, Reeza, that neither "irony" nor "gullible" are in an

Welcome to Crypto World

2000-07-27 Thread Tim May
"Crypto World" cannot be built, with more and more of these protocols that Ray lists not implemented with varying degrees of efficiency and robustness. Even if crudely implementing, exploring interactions in this Crypto World would be interesting, and possibly useful in the Real Wo

Re: The Standard discovers Regulatory Arbitrage

2000-08-09 Thread Tim May
an we have. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, r

RE: Major University to Review Carnivore [cpunk]

2000-08-14 Thread Tim May
At 2:59 PM -0400 8/14/00, Trei, Peter wrote: -- From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 11:04 AM 8/11/00 -0700, jeradonah wrote: Major University to Be Asked to Review F.B.I.'s 'Carnivore' Pesonally, I agree that the problem with Carnivore is not in the device

Re: europe physical meeting

2000-08-17 Thread Tim May
is to post more signal. Complaining about low S/N just never seems to help, does it? --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks

Re: stupid hackers

2000-08-20 Thread Tim May
hair, rings through numerous facial features, and dark sunglasses. As much of a disguise as any mask. And yet they get their money, with no sirens, no Thought Police. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto

Re: Blood in the Gears of the Machinery of Freedom?

2000-08-25 Thread Tim May
, merely defending yourself." Of course. So take all of my comments about "X needs killing" to mean "X has intitated the use of force and reasonable men will kill X if necessary to defend themselves." Same result, just more awkward.

Re: PRNG server

2000-08-31 Thread Tim May
run through some cryptographic crunching to distill out the entropy, are better than a thousand bits generated by some other agent. If this needs to be explained, there's no point in doing so. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timo

Re: Whipped Europeans

2000-08-31 Thread Tim May
to lessen liberties and expand the power of the state. And when Denmark and Norway, say, decide to leave the Union, look for the fascists to dust off the speeches of Lincoln. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | C

Re: GA-CAT-CA

2000-09-11 Thread Tim May
uot; found at a crime scene from others. That is, they are not seeking to get traceability. And they figure they can get their 1600 cat sample purely by voluntary means. So, it sounds plausible, even interesting. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timo

Re: Voluntary Mandatory Taxes

2000-09-12 Thread Tim May
At 10:35 AM -0700 9/12/00, Marshall Clow wrote: At 4:44 AM + 9/12/00, Michael Shields wrote: In article a0431010cb5e346ed8216@[207.111.241.215], Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13169.html "Here's something to think about - while queui

Re: Lee Free - Judge Apologizes For Government's Conduct

2000-09-13 Thread Tim May
downloading top secrets to his home computer and leaving codeword material where his family, housekeepers, and other visitors could have found and copied it. There are a couple of cases of other DOD folks in the same straits. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. --Tim May

Re: RC4 source as a literate program

2000-09-19 Thread Tim May
away have not helped. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA

Fwd: Re: First Cypherpunks Physical Meeting Europe

2000-09-24 Thread Tim May
L PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: First Cypherpunks Physical Meeting Europe Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: At 11:39 AM +0200 9/24/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday the 30th of September at 16:00 h

Re: Meth bill resurfaces on Capitol Hill

2000-09-27 Thread Tim May
surprises me anymore. They all need killing. Tens of thousands of them at the very least. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous

Re: CDR: Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...

2000-09-27 Thread Tim May
/cypherpunkshyper Buy This Book! Keep this advertising shit off of the list. Fucking unbelievable. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous

Re: Down with techno-egalitarinism, from a reluctant cpunk

2000-10-02 Thread Tim May
ll? When digital reputations, handled on a peer-to-peer basis and not subject to "top-down" commands, become the currency of cypherspace? Unrealistic? Check back in a decade and see where things are headed. Meanwhile, I welcome Mr. Fazekas to our community. --Tim May -- -

Re: Re: police IR searches to Supremes

2000-09-29 Thread Tim May
stop including bullshit MIME cruft in e-mail. If you do it one more time I plan to killfile you. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread Tim May
quot; BTW, the issue is a lot more than just "plausible deniability." This may work in the U.S., until the Constitution is further shredded. But "plausibility deniability" is not enough when dealing with the Staasi, or SAVAK, or Shin Bet, or the Ayotollahs. Mere su

Re: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns

2000-10-10 Thread Tim May
of them need to be liquidated in the purge. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E

Re: request for info about DU

2000-10-10 Thread Tim May
to do with its radioactivity, though.) Again, consult online sources, or encyclopedias. And if you asked on the Cypherpunks list because you thought it would be cute to implicate us in nuclear weapons chatter, get a clue. If not, it was still the wrong place to ask such a question. --Tim May

Re: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns

2000-10-11 Thread Tim May
. Bear May's Corollary to Godwin's Law: At least 97% of all invocations of Godwin's Law are done so to squelch debate. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Tim May
rs required to factor a number with the GNFS: BitsMips-years 512 30,000 768 2*10^8 10243*10^11 12801*10^14 15363*10^16 20483*10^20 --end excerpt-- Good luck with your PALs and gate arrays. Ha

Re: A helpful ruling on anonymity

2000-10-17 Thread Tim May
e are concerned, one not-knowing is as good as another. It violates the same assumption, therefore in popular view, it must be the same thing. Very well said. This is indeed what's happening. More reason not to trust the laws

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Tim May
cks _must_ be useful. As another poster noted, where's the 10^78-fold improvement? (And the 10^200-fold improvement? Etc.) --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3

Cypherpunks is archived?

2000-10-17 Thread Tim May
ir identities should take positive measures to do so. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.

Re: Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
it until you finally grasp the full implications of crypto anarchy. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudony

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
At 10:20 PM -0500 10/17/00, Allen Ethridge wrote: On Tuesday, October 17, 2000, at 08:19 PM, Tim May wrote: As for insurance companies "discriminating," this is what I hope for. Those of us who don't engage in certain practices--smoking, sky diving, anal sex, whatever--should not be s

Re: I created the Al Gore created the Internet story

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
s what has changed dramatically, not modem speeds and screen resolutions. The very growth of the Web is what fed it. Prior to browsers and URLs, the Net just wasn't as interesting, and it was limited to the aforementioned cognoscenti. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-

Re: Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
tudes have been your stock in trade. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corrali

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
with. You, Nathan, may set up your own insurance company if you wish. Or you may offer to pay for the health care of those you think are not getting a fair deal. But you may NOT tell me I must sell insurance if I choose not to. --Tim May

Re: Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
At 6:54 PM -0700 10/18/00, Yardena Arar + Christian Goetze wrote: I almost never participate in this group, but here it's hard to resist. On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote: At 6:01 PM -0700 10/18/00, Nathan Saper wrote: And what is wrong with this? Nothing that I can see

Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?)

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
r pay them anonymous digital cash to go away). Another socialist simp-wimp heard from. Lots of socialists to be dealt with and disposed of. I wonder who will stoke the furnaces? --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May

Re: Re: Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread Tim May
At 9:20 PM -0500 10/18/00, Neil Johnson wrote: --- Original Message - From: "Tim May" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the way markets in general have always worked. Economists talk about "preference revealing" and "selective disclosure of information." But

Re: CDR: Re: Nuclear waste

2000-10-21 Thread Tim May
this stuff in some *really* tough polycarbonate containers aboard "mature" technology rockets and launch it into the biggest heat source in the solar system. I realize that there is a lot of it, but still. This is a very old idea, rejected for good cause many, many years ago. Need

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-22 Thread Tim May
out of virtually all assets by a serious illness, even one completely unrelated in any way to his genetic predisposition. Yes...so? --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComS

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-23 Thread Tim May
. Frankly, I think I've read enough of you, Nathan Saper. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero

Re: Gort in granny-shades (was Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?)

2000-10-24 Thread Tim May
y thought the effects were far from pedestrian. As to your not liking "The Matrix," fair enough. But using it as some kind of touchstone for everything that is bad in modern America is a bit of a reach. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:--

Re: Insurance: My Last Post

2000-10-25 Thread Tim May
At 3:36 PM -0400 10/25/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: It must have something to do with being Canadianized. Only folks from Alberta seem to get it right. Not counting a certain someone, initials SB/SS, from British Columbia? --Tim May

Re: Zero Knowledge changes business model (press release)

2000-10-31 Thread Tim May
it. The "relevant legislation" language is the real kicker. Sounds like the many former government types working at ZKS got the focus shifted from truly secure systems to basically uninteresting--and even pernicious!--systems which "meet the legit

Re: Zero Knowledge changes business model to Split KeyEscrow(NSA-Key (press release)

2000-10-31 Thread Tim May
ing a "trusted third parties" system. And is precisely the reason the United Kingdom was campaigning for this kind of system. By building precisely the tools they and other governments would need to implement such a system, you are making such a system more likely to

Re: Zero Knowledge changes business model (press release)

2000-10-31 Thread Tim May
h, proxies, and suchlike are interesting. Perhaps ZKS is planning to unveil robust versions of all of these things. If so, I applaud them. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digi

The Market for Privacy

2000-11-01 Thread Tim May
, this may take years to develop. Until then, tough sledding. MojoNation seems to be a lower burn-rate run at the real low hanging fruit. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital m

Applying California law to ICANN

2000-11-05 Thread Tim May
nizations will likely be going into overtime. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
At 4:18 PM -0800 11/7/00, Tim May wrote: I thought I was jaded, but this is too much even for me to believe. A judge in St. Louis has ordered the polls kept open later, until 10 pm local time. The effect will be to let more inner city, Democrat-leaning voters vote. The rural and suburban

RE: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
something I am not willing to share with the rest of the list. You aren't that special. Ern Retardation is a dangerous thing. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComS

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
Beach had changes made to their voting situations as a result of Republican legal actions a few hours before the polls were to close. As to your insults lobbed at me, _you're_ the one hiding behind a nym. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timo

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
At 8:52 PM -0500 11/7/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TimMay was entirely silent on why he objects to this time extension. You lying sack of shit. I've made my objections very, very clear. I need to find out who you are and where you live. --Tim May

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
cinct captainst call on their troops should not be rewarded by keeping the polls open longer. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymo

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
IN THE MORNING. Yeah, makes sense to me, in a liberal kind of way. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
that extra blast of welfare roll voters may have been enough to defeat him. Mighty niggardly of the Democrats, I'd say. Spooky, in fact. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital mon

Democrat Delay Elects Dead Man

2000-11-07 Thread Tim May
At 11:17 PM -0500 11/7/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 7:46 PM -0800 on 11/7/00, Tim May wrote: (if he was appointed by Democrats, the jig's up) He was Gebhart's former chief of staff... :-). It looks like the extra 3 hours did the job in the Democrat-heavy precincts. The dead man, Mel

Re: Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election

2000-11-08 Thread Tim May
l have the "mandate" to push for lots of new laws. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, z

Re: Bush Florida lead dwindles toward zero...

2000-11-12 Thread Tim May
, you're the same commie fool you were a a couple of years ago. Your kind has earned liquidation. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous

Re: the ballot

2000-11-14 Thread Tim May
n a laborious manual fiddling-with of the paper ballots. Hence the canvassing board voted to not expend more time and money fiddling with the entire county's ballots. The Democrat Gorehoppers are going to court to force them to.) The whole charade is delicious to watch. --Tim May -- (This .sig f

Democrat FUD: If our lead does not mount, you must re-count!

2000-11-11 Thread Tim May
At 2:43 PM -0500 11/11/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:05:54AM -0800, Tim May wrote: Hilarious. Things are falling apart better and with more acrimony than I'd hoped. [...snip...] And so it goes, with recounts, judicial adjustments, do overs, and other such things

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Tim May
ansactions.) A financial bond, or guarantee, is only one aspect of belief. Perhaps an important one, but only a subset. Belief is all. "All cryptography is about belief." --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)

Needs killing

2000-11-24 Thread Tim May
or whether it exists or not. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)

Re: Jim Bell

2000-11-27 Thread Tim May
; (Wasn't Joshua the computer in "War Games"?) On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:46:14PM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 7:45 PM -0800 on 11/27/00, Tim May wrote: (I think any of us could be called as witnesses to refute a state claim that he was deploying a real system!) Which, un

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-19 Thread Tim May
the government cracks down on polluting vehicles while school districts and public bus agencies run the worst-polluting vehicles. Or the pension plans which Congress exempts itself from. Government always cracks own on others and exempts itself. Nothing surprising. We just shouldn't let it happen. --Tim

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-09 Thread Tim May
At 5:24 PM -0500 11/9/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spooky Cypherpunk Niggar Tim May Moroned: #And, of course, Palm County will _not_ be given a #second chance to vote in this election. I guarantee it. It's either that or the choice you liked even less. Oh, I _like_ that other choice

Re: Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

2000-12-06 Thread Tim May
At 12:58 PM +0100 12/6/00, Tom Vogt wrote: Tim May wrote: This is misleading. There is much debate about ownership of the copyright, whether it has expired (as would normally be the case after roughly 70 years, whether the licenses sold to other publishers are valid, etc.). it's been

My plan to deal with subpoenas to testify

2000-12-06 Thread Tim May
t of a phone book knowing anything more about First and Fourth Amendment sorts of issues than I've picked up over the years. Most of the "court-appointed attorneys" seem to have been especially clueless in anything beyond pleading out a rapist. Anyway, I was not called to testify i

Re: My plan to deal with subpoenas to testify

2000-12-06 Thread Tim May
At 1:08 PM -0800 12/6/00, Tim May wrote: At 3:52 PM -0500 12/6/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: (Note about expenses: I had heard during the Parker trial that various witnesses called to travel to Washington were to "submit travel expense receipts." Is this true? What part of the Constit

Bill Clinton belatedly decides that pot smoking should not becriminal

2000-12-06 Thread Tim May
they'd better watch out for the pre-dawn raids!" --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)

Re: CDR: RE: Re: About 5yr. log retention

2000-12-08 Thread Tim May
osed to have any special favor in the eyes of the law. There are even Satanist chaplains/priests in the U.S. armed services. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)

Fractal geodesic networks

2000-12-08 Thread Tim May
tired of hearing me talk about crypto anarchy. I'm not sure "geodesic" captures the important issues. Are merchants in a Baghdad bazaar part of a "fractal geodesic network"? I suppose. But this is just a basic open market, with no top-down rules set. Is the Law Merchant

Re: The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

2000-12-10 Thread Tim May
As someone said in recentl weeks, if we really want to see elections stolen efficiently, make them electronic. No paper trail, no evidence, no chads, just pure gleaming bits. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds,

RE: Re: About 5yr. log retention

2000-12-11 Thread Tim May
At 12:45 PM +0100 12/11/00, Tom Vogt wrote: Tim May wrote: At 1:41 PM +0100 12/8/00, Tom Vogt wrote: Me wrote: In English it is preferable to write "I wrote," though "Me wrote" is honored in some subcultures. that part is put in automatically by netscape. I don't

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Tim May
es to the Cypherpunks list if you are, as you say, not subscribed. While we don't reject articles by nonsubscribers, as per the above, it is tacky and rude for nonsubscribers to address articles to lists they are not tracking. Thank you, --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly c

Re: The Cost of Natural Gas [was Re: The Cost of CaliforniaLiberalism]

2000-12-25 Thread Tim May
shly naive. If a power generating utility had built new power plants and commited to a fuel supply (and the accompanying infrastructure) the likelihood of unexpected prices increases would be much lower. See above. Childishly naive. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More half-baked social planning ideas

2000-12-25 Thread Tim May
ad to bear the first ten years of utility costs out of house prices, we'd probably see a substantial reduction in the so-called "need" for power. Bear Do you simply invent this stuff? Cypherpunks has become a dumping ground for half-baked social theorists. --T

Re: The Cost of Natural Gas [was Re: The Cost of CaliforniaLiberalism]

2000-12-27 Thread Tim May
At 11:22 PM -0800 12/26/00, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Lost on your typically smug Canadian analysis has been any objective analysis of markets for power. Do you know, for example, that California as a state is a _net exporter_ of power to the Northwest

Re: The Cost of Natural Gas [was Re: The Cost of California Liberalism]

2000-12-29 Thread Tim May
-evident considerations. Especially for the "micro plants" described above. Economies of scale, etc. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smallt

Re: The uses of pseudo-links

2001-01-09 Thread Tim May
ues. Merely dumping out "general science" items, with general URLs, is just plain abusing the list. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Sm

Re: Bell Case Subpoena

2001-01-09 Thread Tim May
issues, but some court will someday have to contend with this utter malleability of received mail files. Unlike paper letters which can be forensically analyzed, e-mail is nearly meaningless. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Politica

Tales from an Alternate Reality

2001-01-10 Thread Tim May
At 12:23 PM -0500 1/10/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: It's amazing how Jim can be so earnest and so completely wrong. Actually, I've known him too long: It's not remarkable, but predictable. (Hint: U.S. copyright law does not make mere possession or archiving an offense. Try distribution,

Re: IP, forwarded posts, and copyright infringement

2001-01-10 Thread Tim May
I just cut the tags off of a mattress. Call before I commit more crimes. Fucking retard. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/G

Re: Refutations Considered Unnecessary

2001-01-10 Thread Tim May
eded. See! At least we don't hear this kind of tripe at Bay Area gatherings. People are too aware of how foolish this stuff sounds. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/s

Re: Refutations Considered Unnecessary

2001-01-10 Thread Tim May
At 3:52 PM -0500 1/10/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:06:25AM -0800, Tim May wrote: e) Brin's book would be just another drop in the ocean, anyway. His vision of the future is unlikely in the extreme (t.v. cameras in police offices...sure, whatever), so refuting his

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