On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:42:09AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
The proposal has been made that the Constitution doesn't prevent other
agents from participating in the postal service. The Constitution was
quoted as proof.
This 'proof' isn't.
The clause clearly states "...Congress shall".
At 10:59 AM +0300 8/17/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote:
They [obviously] don't believe in "getting rid of guns": they believe in
getting rid of OUR guns.
I think there is nothing much wrong in that. The problem is not the guns of
a select
At 07:04 PM 25/08/00 +, Phaedrus wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Reese wrote:
No, I didn't read the link.
No, I'm not going to, until you explain something, and then, I'm going to
bounce your reply against the link to see if you cheated:
Um, huh?
Is americanized english a second language
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, petro wrote:
No one should have the ability to *stop* someone from
acquiring decent housing, medical care, strong crypto, or a gun.
Really? So it's ok for me to come ot your house and kill you with your gun
to get my new house? And I'll use your ID and medical
Jim Choate wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Phaedrus wrote:
So saying that the requirement of operating only licensed motor vehicles
by licensed operators prohibits those without from accessing
public roads
is incorrect.
Well, actually -- you cannot ride a vehicle that you
Would a public PRNG (Yarrow?) server be of any use? I suppose it could be
done as a proof-of-concept, or as another source of entropy for an internal
PRNG... and the trust issue could be dealt with just as you deal with the
Intel PRNG. IMO, the bandwidth would be the limitation here; an intranet
RAH:
But, again, I'm sure the thing was a spoof.
Nope not a spoof.
Heard it on NPR, and several other outlets the day it came out.
I thought I remembered hearing about it as well, but I can't
find anything on CNN's web site, nor on the LA Times web site.
Remember, they use animal
At 10:12 PM -0500 9/10/00, Jim Choate wrote:
http://www.worldaudit.org/home.htm
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(25K of included junk elided)
Amazing. You give the URL of a site with almost no list
significance, which is fine, because a URL only takes a few bytes.
But then the rest of your message consumes 25K of
Tim May wrote:
"Here's something to think about - while queuing up for petrol this
afternoon (yes - I confess to being a panic buyer) I worked out that
OPEC is charging $30 a barrel and our government is taxing us at
slightly over $150 a barrel - ouch!"
this is true, and similiar pretty
He of the CDR tag wrote:
On the cynical side: maybe the feds shouldn't be putting child care
facilities in potential terrorist targets. (Really cynical: maybe
it was intended as a human shield.)
Their own kids? That level of cold blooded-ness is probably unrealistic.
It is quite
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Michael Motyka wrote:
a greal deal of pain for some plain folks
The folks who worked at the federal building were far from 'plain' folks.
It isn't like they walked into a corner grocery.
In addition, the plain fact is there is a considerable underground
movement in
(I'm cc'ing this to the cypherpunks list as well)
The easy solution to this is to put up a web page with information
*about* the NAMBLA site, and instructions on how to request that the
site be delivered anonymously--as a gzip, zip, or stuffit archive.
If one has access to a web server that
petro wrote:
You are wrong to protect them without knowing what they're about, Jay.
Their motto is, "Sex before eight, or it's too late." They are
referring to grown men having sex with an under-eight year old little
boy. Surely you don't mean to suggest that a website
Tim is guilty of statistics abuse, because it never happens to
Tim he assumes it can never happen to anyone who is passing
the local Nazi encampment.
What Tim does not explain is why sending a truck full of thugs
off to beat up someone carrying a loaded, recently fired weapon
is a reasonable
Tim May wrote:
For example, receiving or sending text with PGP (of an early-enough
vintage, or one which has been vetted extensively). Using
clipboards, for example.
This works for text, sending and receiving, and has the advantage
that the crypto program is orthogonal to the browser, mail
could actually read the stuff. It seemed to work. I don't think he ever
paid any royalties though. I don't think we've all becopme Nazis yet.
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair?
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Sometimes it is said that man
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searches of your home. That bill is currently before a conference
committee, which has only about a week left to finish it before
Congress adjourns for the year. You may want to contact your
legislators before it's too late.
Yes. "contact."
I think the word is
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:57:25PM -0400, David Honig wrote:
At 01:37 AM 10/16/00 -0400, Nathan Saper wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:11:19PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
Have you been sealed in a box the last ten years? Companies may
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:53:26PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
"Riad S. Wahby" wrote:
Nathan Saper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huh? Tarquin Fintimlinbin-Whinbimlim-Bus Stop F'Tang F'Tang Olé
Biscuit-Barrel?
Uh, what?
This
Could a factoring breakthrough happen to convert this exptime problem
to polynomial time? Maybe. I said as much. Is it likely? See
discussions on progress toward proving factoring to be NP-hard (it
hasn't been proved to be such, though it is suspected to be so, i.e.,
that there will never be
Cypherpunks is archived? Isn't that against what most cypherpunks stand
for? I know it sets up a "style fingerprint" attack against anonymity...
It probably is, but it's also against what most cypherpunks
stand for to tell them what to do with the bits that hit their
network card.
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Merkle does not seem to be the kind of person who either would be
working for the NSA or whom the NSA would pick to be a conduit for
leaked secrets.
3. Ditto in spades for Whit Diffie. And Martin Hellman was, at that
time, an active anti-war activist ("Beyond War"). Seems unlikely
that NSA
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:48:48PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-1] Ing. Fausto C.G. wrote:
I dont now where did you get my e-mail, but I am
receiving spam from you. Stop it right now, please, I
didnt ask
P.S. I too would be interested in documented cases where DNA
collected by the police was given to insurance companies.
It's (apparently) England where there is wide spread DNA
collection for use in finding certain types of criminals.
In England both the Police and the Health
At 1:10 PM -0400 10/18/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Speaking of "The Ungoverned", I've been looking for it, can't find
it in libraries, Amazon, or Bibliofind, so I'm thinking that it was in a
collection? Does anyone know which?
It's in one of the two paperback collections of Vinge's short
At 1:39 PM -0400 10/18/00, Tim May wrote:
At 1:10 PM -0400 10/18/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Speaking of "The Ungoverned", I've been looking for it, can't find
it in libraries, Amazon, or Bibliofind, so I'm thinking that it was in a
collection? Does anyone know which?
It's in one of the
...
Usenet and mailing lists were usable by the cognoscenti from the
mid-80s up to the "modern age." Using gopher and Archie and
anonymous ftp was for the cognoscenti only, though. Not much fun for
ordinary folks.
This obviously all changed around 1994, with Mosaic/Netscape. "Point
and
At 12:24 AM 10/19/00 -0700, Petro wrote:
I need a perl module or a function that would perform symmetric key
encryption/decryption. I need it to encode secret information in
URLs. Thanks
I thought you were brighter than that Igor.
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=modulequery
Who is to blame for hurricanes?
"God", but so far he seems rather judgement proof.
Haiti, for not stopping them before they reach Florida?
Who is to blame for a bee flying into your mouth while you are driving?
(which, if you've never had it happen, leads quickly to a car crash)
The Red Sed:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:23:32AM -0700, petro wrote:
Most children--which is where genetic "abnormalities" show
up--are covered often sight unseen through their parents policies,
and often before they are even conceived.
OK. This lowers the amount
May:
5. Not that this is necessarily the best option. The domes in deep
caves are perfectly fine. And there is much to be said for the
Pournelle/Hogan solution: put the vitreous beads in concrete-filled
drums, load them onto pallets, then park the pallets in neat rows
and columns in the
Without massive employer-funded health care, most people
would be more likely to pay for their routine costs directly
and buy insurance for excessive costs.
"Catastrophic" health insurance--insurance which covers
things massive trauma (car accidents etc) or Cancer are pretty cheap.
At 9:02 PM -0700 10/21/00, petro wrote:
May:
5. Not that this is necessarily the best option. The domes in deep
caves are perfectly fine. And there is much to be said for the
Pournelle/Hogan solution: put the vitreous beads in
concrete-filled drums, load them onto pallets, then park
At 10:35 PM -0700 10/22/00, Nathan Saper wrote:
This is true in theory. However, from what I have read, it appears
that the care given to these people is far from the quality of care
given to those who can pay. Also, many diseases require very
expensive treatments, and I do not believe the
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:37:42PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
At 09:07 PM 10/22/2000 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
OK, granted, the government needs to be kept on a tight leash. Most
people will not want the government breaking into their
Test Dick
Dude, this isn't the place to check that...
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A quote from Petro's Archives:
**
"Despite almost every experience I've ever had with federal
authority, I keep imagining its competence."
John Perry Barlow
At 2:05 PM -0500 on 11/9/00, Jim Burnes wrote:
I've seen first hand the intent and demeanor of St. Louis
politics and its not pretty.
Agreed. I don't know if it still is, but, say, 23 years ago, St. Louis was
a great place to be *from*.
According to the wife, it's a really nice
a Democrat -- and that might well be so. But I doubt the
Federal Election Commision will think much of a ballot
where 'you vote Democratic -- we'll fill in the blank'
is a legitimate vote.
I would say the same for any 'candidate', but they Republican,
Democrat, Libertarian or Dead.
Mr. May:
At 10:20 AM + 11/14/00, Ken Brown wrote:
But maybe to redraw the boundaries. That's a common problem in Britain.
Every now and again some government (almost always Conservative, for
reasons to do with gerrymandering I suspect) gets it into its head that
it would be a Good Thing if
From: petro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It would be fairly simple to eliminate *most* of the current
voter fraud schemes, and fairly inexpensive.
Please provide details of this simple technique for
eliminating voter fraud. I've always found utopian
fantasies intriguing.
"Re
Mr. May:
At 5:31 PM -0500 11/17/00, David Honig wrote:
At 03:05 PM 11/17/00 -0500, Tim May wrote:
years, many decades, to publish learned articles on chads, pregnant
chads,
And despite all the talk, chad pregnancy is still a problem in America
today. You know all those chads are just going to
A totally different bandwidth segment is inside the big hosting centers -
Exodus, Globalcenter, etc. Most of that's Gigabit Ether,
We've got Fiber running to our cage, but you're right about
the Gigabit part.
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A quote from Petro's Archives:
Do people on this list really believe that the solution to
problems is to kill people?
Or are we just getting sarcastic and frustrated?
(Yes, I know Tim May believes people should be killed, but
he's just a fuckhead bag of hot air.)
Seems to me that anarchy where people solve their problems
by
The "Needs Killing" verbiage you see here, I think, is mostly from
people who, correctly or not, tend to think in terms either of there
not being any governments, or in terms of the government being so
ineffective that they are effectively in an ungoverned state.
Or from people who
Mr. May said:
At 2:27 PM -0500 12/3/00, Adam Langley wrote:
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This is really getting out of hand! Attempting to open this message,
by clicking on the attachment, bombs/crashes my Eudora Pro 5.0.1
mailer.
RAH whinged:
At 6:52 PM -0800 on 12/7/00, petro wrote:
At 05:31 PM 12/5/00 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
An instructive case. Apparently they used the keystroke monitoring
to obtain the pgp passphrase, which was then used to decrypt the files.
A PDA would have been harder to hack, one
Mr. May:
The author also mentions that consumers dislike (so?) tracking of
their purchases...and then in the next paragraphs cites the
Firestone tire recall as an example of better policy than most Web
sites have (or something like this...I re-read his analogy several
times and still wasn't
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote:
-- If an employee doesn't like the calendar that another employee has
on his desk, she can talk to others in the company. Maybe they'll
have it removed. But she CANNOT use the courts to intervene in a
matter of how the company's owners deal with their
In recent years California citizens have decided against new
electric power generation projects within their jurisdiction and to
enforce strict air pollution standards on any existing facilities.
This is great as long as the people making this decision pay the
cost. Unfortunately the cost of
It seems to me that charging Bell for 'stalking' in relation to the
collection of public documents violates his 1st Amendment rights with
respect to 'press'.
It's probably the showing up on the door step that got him in trouble.
Or at least that gave the government the excuse
At 11:24 AM 12/18/00 +0200, Ben wrote:
Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED]Corralitos, California
Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go
Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel
David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since no one has yet mentioned it, Ryan Lackey once mentioned a
secure chat program.. Zephyr? Gale? (the name was related to some
other existing, insecure chat program)
MIT uses Zephyr for text messaging. It's not secure, but it can
authenticate with
Actual boiler-type furnaces are quite rare in the US, and
No they aren't. Out of 5 apartments I lived in in Chicago, 4
of them had steam heat. So did the apartments of most of my friends.
My grandmother's house in Saint Louis has/had a boiler and steam heat.
--
A quote
Bet on it? We don't have to do that -- look who he picked.
Asscroft,
the boob who got beat by a dead man. Check out his
ultra-fascist voting
record. Gag. Barf.
Yes, but I bet he will burn very few children to death in a
church during his first year.
No, instead he'll
and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding.
So Ken if you read that Blair was near Thatcher's house and knocked
her up, Yanks would think something very different from Brits.
That's where technology can help : catch it on video.
I think I'm going to be sick...
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The camel's back has just broken.
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A quote from Petro's Archives:
**
"As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia,
whenever I hear
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
from fas:
ASSASSINATION POLITICS
In a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives on January 3, Rep.
Bob Barr proposed to eliminate the longstanding official prohibition
against assassination.
Ew, ick.
This seems to be devolving to the
Ex-MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson's book, "The Big Breach:
From Top Secret To Maximum Security," is available for
order on a Russian Web site:
http://www.thebigbreach.com
It also seems to be available at spAmazon.
--
A quote from Petro's Archives:
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:32PM -1000, Reese wrote:
Then why were the troops laying siege to the compound, instead of
snatching koresh when he made one of his frequent trips into town?
At 11:54 PM 1/19/2001 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Because sometimes a show of force is
nks list: "Blank Frank" is anonymous. S/he
could be anybody, or several different anybodies at the same time.
You happened to catch it/him/her/them in a nasty mood, and at
least one of it/him/her/them flamed you pretty hard. Perhaps that
particular persona of "Blank Frank" is all out of
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