Re: Thank You !!!

2000-12-31 Thread William Jefferson
* IF YOU WANT TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE, YOU MUST READ THIS* I will be honest with you. I use a bulk e-mail program, which I got for free, to send about 100,000 e-mails per day to targeted lists that I also get for free "that's how I got your name." I became an affiliate of the largest

Re: Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext

2000-12-31 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 10:17 PM 12/30/2000 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Note that the two things IRC really needs, end to end encryption and authentication, are not even on the list of "improvements" these people are working on. Is there a forum where it is appropriate to discuss such improvements? The

Re: Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext

2000-12-31 Thread Eric Cordian
Jim Choate writes: A typical citizen-unit will quickly trade a large amount of privacy for a small amount of convenience. That begs the question and misrepresents reality to a good degree. People take the choices they think they have, usually those choices are made available by the party

Re: Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext

2000-12-31 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Eric Cordian wrote: Jim Choate writes: So much for belief in free markets. You realise that there is nothing that requires servers to install this, or cease using the old network? Note that the two things IRC really needs, end to end encryption and authentication, are

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Remailers, science and engineering)

2000-12-30 Thread dmolnar
digital cash and voting protocols as an example. Digital cash has been implemented and re-implemented several times. It's even had a "live" test or two. But how many people have managed to buy something tangible with it? and how does that compare to the amount cleared by credit c

Re: Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext

2000-12-30 Thread Eric Cordian
Jim Choate writes: So much for belief in free markets. You realise that there is nothing that requires servers to install this, or cease using the old network? A typical citizen-unit will quickly trade a large amount of privacy for a small amount of convenience. Sheeple-shearing is never so

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

2000-12-30 Thread Raymond D. Mereniuk
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] I said "at certain times of the year." British Columbia is tied by treaty arrangements (Columbia River Treaty, 1961) to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), and is, VERY SIGNIFICANTLY, now part of same grid that is the ISO, the Independent System

Re: Anarchy Eroded: Project Efnext

2000-12-30 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Eric Cordian wrote: Unknown to much of the Internet, there is a plan brewing to "upgrade" Efnet, the primary IRC network, to something called "Efnext." Server software is being rewritten and tested. Efnet server admins have been contacted and promises to move to the

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

2000-12-29 Thread auto58194
For those who care, take a look at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/opinion/10KRUG.html which is an op-ed piece by an MIT Economics prof. describing the California situation in the same terms I have. He cites a paper which in turn cites evidence that artificial shortages were previously

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

2000-12-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- For those who care, take a look at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/opinion/10KRUG.html which is an op-ed piece by an MIT Economics prof. describing the California situation in the same terms I have. He cites a paper which in turn cites evidence that artificial shortages were

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

2000-12-29 Thread Tim May
At 2:37 PM -1000 12/29/00, Reese wrote: At 03:33 PM 12/29/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the queue of plant requests within California they also seem to be obsessed with building them in highly populated areas. Easy commute for the workers, and a large pool to draw workers from?

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Remailers, science and engineering)

2000-12-28 Thread dmolnar
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote: fewer talks on new stuff people are doing and more on some commercial business (maybe or maybe not run by cypherpunks) doing their product or non-technical talks by EFF lawyer types. I'm in the midddle of composing a reply to Tim's message (which is

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Remailers, science and engineering)

2000-12-28 Thread dmolnar
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote: There's some hope. There was a workshop on "Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability" this past summer which brought people together to talk about these issues. The Info Hiding Workshops are still going strong. With luck, this year's IHW may

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Remailers, science and engineering)

2000-12-28 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote: At 3:56 AM -0500 12/28/00, dmolnar wrote: I'm in the midddle of composing a reply to Tim's message (which is getting bigger every time I sit down to finish it, ominously enough). Sounds good to me! One of the points that has popped into my mind so far is

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

2000-12-27 Thread Raymond D. Mereniuk
erstanding of the energy business. In the energy business (natural gas wise) if you commit to the supply and build infrastructure you get lower prices. I re-state my initial premise, Californians have a lot to learm about energy economics! If you don't commit, you pay more! Raymond D. Meren

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-27 Thread Tom Vogt
Brian Lane wrote: The only way they can make this even begin to work in the marketplace is to force manufacturers to stop producing uncontrollable drives. I wouldn't be suprised if there was an amendment to enact this waiting to attach itself to an obscure bill in Congress. Or maybe

Re: Evil Copy Protection vs. Good Crypto-Capable Objects

2000-12-27 Thread Tom Vogt
Bill Stewart wrote: Music Hoarders have a somewhat harder problem, in that they want to copy-protect information while providing near-identical copies to large numbers of people, while you're more likely to want to provide your personal transaction information or private messages only to a

Re: nambla

2000-12-27 Thread John Galt
www.rcmp.ca Most LEOs are among their most supportive members. They troll mailinglists for membership and often supplement their income by blowing little boys for lunch money On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Paul Coleman wrote: is there a group in canada? -- Pardon me, but you have obviously

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

2000-12-27 Thread Tim May
ive understanding of the energy business. In the energy business (natural gas wise) if you commit to the supply and build infrastructure you get lower prices. I re-state my initial premise, Californians have a lot to learm about energy economics! If you don't commit, you pay more! --Tim May --

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Remailers, science and engineering)

2000-12-27 Thread Bill Stewart
Tim May wrote: In other words, it's time to get crypto out of the math and computer science departments and put it in the engineering departments where it belongs. Tim's complained for a while that the cypherpunks meetings and discussions have declined in quality, partly because we've

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Scalability and Napster)

2000-12-27 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:42 AM 12/26/00 -0500, dmolnar wrote: More than that, if the "tragedy of the commons" really happens for Gnutella and Napster and friends, then people will look for ways to avert it. Maybe it won't happen ("The Cornucopia of the Commons"), but if it does, reputation systems might see some

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Re: Dude! It's wired!)

2000-12-26 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:38:36AM -0800, Tim May wrote: | I don't think I'd go that far. As far as I'm concerned, elliptic curves | are just another group to do Diffie-Hellman friends in. What I'd call | the "core" of mathematical crypto is the work that Goldreich, Goldwasser, | Micali, et. al.

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

2000-12-26 Thread auto58194
At Sun, 24 Dec 2000 23:50:01 -0800, "Raymond D. Mereniuk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my initial message I stated the current rise in natural gas prices are caused by multiple factors. [blah blah blah] That's outright bullshit. You wrote: "The bad decisions of the citizens of California

Re: nambla

2000-12-26 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Paul Coleman wrote: is there a group in canada? There are, of course, many groups in canada. Including the moose lodge, elks, eastern star, parliament, ladies' sewing circles, church congregations, aldermen, political parties, juries, and random sets of people who

Re: Turbo C

2000-12-26 Thread Guilherme Oliveira
"ANALISTAS_ONSET CONTR [CONBR]" wrote: Hi there, I am looking for the software Turbo C from Borland and I never found. So I am sorry to ask that to you, but could you send the turbo C from e-mail to me ? I will really aprecciate if it is possible. Thanks in advance Luiz Eduardo de

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

2000-12-25 Thread Tim May
You don't get it, do you? At 11:50 PM -0800 12/24/00, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote: was created by un-expected demand in California. Another issue in this problem, as in this month and next, is low water levels in the northwest causing lower than expected power generating capacity. Lost on your

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

2000-12-25 Thread Raymond D. Mereniuk
"Me" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:47:18 -0500 The politicians are the only electricity producers in British Columbia. Almost true but not the complete story. While the provincially (state) owned utility BC Hydro owns most of the capacity there is an entity called East

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

2000-12-25 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote: In my initial message I stated the current rise in natural gas prices are caused by multiple factors. Natural gas prices were too low in recent years and this caused a shortage in supply. MASSIVE SNIP Just an observation, but most of the

Re: About Gilmore's letter on IBMIntel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives

2000-12-25 Thread Neil Johnson
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Emery writes: A note on this note - I was told back in that era by Sun field service people that the standard thing to do when a motherboard failed was to swap the ID prom from the old motherboard onto the new one, thus avoiding the whole license

Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

2000-12-25 Thread Allen Ethridge
On 12/25/00 at 11:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim May) wrote: Nope, no basements. No basement in the house I lived in in San Diego in the 1950s. Built on a slab. No air conditioning, either. No need. You mean there's someplace in San Diego that's flat enough to lay a slab? The "solution" to

Re: Dude! It's wired!

2000-12-25 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Eric Cordian wrote: Perhaps next year will be better. I'm almost begining to feel that Cryptology has achieved the status of a "Mature Science." It's my impression that mature sciences don't have the same kind of foundational or engineering problems cryptography does.

Re: That 70's Crypto Show (Re: Dude! It's wired!)

2000-12-25 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote: Some of the foundations are, of course, "mature"...and not very exciting. The core of mathematical crypto is hardly frontier mathematics. (Yeah, I suppose Dave and Eric and a few others could make a case that there's some connection with the proof of

Re: Crypto on cable...chuck the vce?

2000-12-24 Thread Bill Stewart
The Register's front page only shows the most recent N stories, constantly changing. You'll need to point to the article itself, which looks like http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15679.html an article Kevin Poulsen did for securityfocus.com. It looks quite similar to the stuff John

Re: Dude! It's wired!

2000-12-24 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim expounds: I haven't been posting here a lot for various reasons. First, the quality of the responses has not been good. It seems repartee and tired Nazi vs. Stalinist debate is the norm, with Choatian physics and Choatian history filling in the gaps. It's been a slow politics and

Re: About Gilmore's letter on IBMIntel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives

2000-12-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Emery writes: A note on this note - I was told back in that era by Sun field service people that the standard thing to do when a motherboard failed was to swap the ID prom from the old motherboard onto the new one, thus avoiding the whole license

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

2000-12-24 Thread Raymond D. Mereniuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:15:09 -0500 (EST) Raymond's pointed out that some gas plants normally idle are now running full-time to meet demand. To me this reads the same as using idle plants instead of building new ones. Perhaps not a bright move in terms of safety,

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Shirado
David, You have a simple view of China-Taiwan relations, but you are more of a computer specialist than an Asia one, so your deficiency is quite forgivable. I recently heard a story about policeman in Taiwan who is close to retiring. When he was asked what he planned to do when he retires, he

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-23 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Alex Shirado wrote: David, You have a simple view of China-Taiwan relations, but you are more of a computer specialist than an Asia one, so your deficiency is quite forgivable. I suspected as much. The problem with this is that I saw the "individual action

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Tom Vogt
Brian Lane wrote: Maybe I'm being dense today, but I don't see how this is going to work. So they have a key on your drive, they encrypt the data using this key, but at some point the data has to be decrypted and used, which means that it can be intercepted. The article isn't too

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Brian Lane wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html Stealth plan puts copy protection into every hard drive But because the system makes use of the physical location on the device of the encrypted item, software designed for non-compliant

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Ken Brown
Isn't the idea that you don't get to see the surface of the disk? The copy protection is in the onboard circuitry. The drive refuses to return data from "unreadable" sectors/blocks, where readability depends on a function of the of the drive serial number, some sort of certificate in the system

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Brian Lane
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:13:53PM +0100, Tom Vogt wrote: Brian Lane wrote: Maybe I'm being dense today, but I don't see how this is going to work. So they have a key on your drive, they encrypt the data using this key, but at some point the data has to be decrypted and used, which

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Crisp
to re-join them, so if they can weaken them they feel they are more likely to be successful. rdc petro wrote: Recently a friend asked me what my opinion was as a "computer guy" about the China-Taiwan "cyber warfare." At first it seemed that there wasn't much to say, excep

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-22 Thread dmolnar
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Richard Crisp wrote: I think the attacks are far more likely to be launched by the Mainland folks against the Taiwanese rather than the other way around. The mainlanders want to destabilize Taiwan. Taiwan likes a stable mainland, because so many What intrigues me about

Re: An A to Z G U N R E F R E S H E R C O U R S E

2000-12-21 Thread Peter Capelli
I followed your 'argument' until "w", "enforce the existing gun laws, don't make new ones" So apparently the currently unconstitutional laws are okay with you? -p "Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Re: CDR: One thing about Bell's case...

2000-12-21 Thread petro
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

Re: Tim's Motorcycles

2000-12-21 Thread petro
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

Re: crypto questions - encrypted mail standards

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Stewart
A separate discussion over on coderpunks maybe helpful here. To: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: encrypted mail standards Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:34:55 -0800 From: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bram - you can do encryption

Re: How do I become a member of Cyberpunks??

2000-12-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:28 AM 12/19/00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I become a member of Cyberpunks?? Read too much William Gibson, get the jack installed in yer head, or maybe a set of those nice Ono-Sendai eye implants, and cowboy your way onto the net. If, however, you're looking for the

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

2000-12-19 Thread Raymond D. Mereniuk
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Size of a market is a shifting concept. British Columbia and Vancouver are certainly large markets. Compared to California markets this is a small market. Two million folks in the metro area and 3 million total in the province (state). If there were a

Re: How do I become a member of Cyberpunks??

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Olsen
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote: At 02:28 AM 12/19/00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I become a member of Cyberpunks?? Read too much William Gibson, get the jack installed in yer head, or maybe a set of those nice Ono-Sendai eye implants, and cowboy your way onto

Re: Announce: secret-admirers mail list(usenet)

2000-12-19 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:39:58AM -0800, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote: At 11:24 AM 12/16/2000 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: Only by running your own mail or news server can you prevent the ISP from monitoring your email or news reading. Sorry to entering this thread so late but I had

Re: keyboard loggers.

2000-12-19 Thread John Young
Somebody wrote in response to Bill Stewart's message: At least under Windows 98 you can "Start", "Programs", "Accessories", "System Tools", "System Information", and list the "System Hooks".  Most keyboard sniffers are installed as "hooks".  If you see a new one, you may have a

Re: keyboard loggers.

2000-12-19 Thread Scot Scot
ntium" -Wierd Al From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "PFSanta Claus" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: keyboard loggers. Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:23:22 -0800 If you have to worry about people installing keyboard logging programs on your machine wit

Re: Crypto questions

2000-12-19 Thread Joseph Ashwood
Honestly, it's pretty easy to take care of everything you need. Since you're using SMTP you obviously know how long the message is so you can use fairly well anything. Also because it's going over SMTP you need to be aware that you should base-64 encode everything, and the other issues. However

Re: BT sues Prodigy over U.S. hyperlink patent

2000-12-18 Thread Tom Vogt
"Templeton, Stuart" wrote: probably behind the times, didn't see this spark up yet, but the quote below caught my attention... How serious would you guys suggest this "threat" to be? any information regarding other patents that could turn up like this in a more SERIOUS fashion? two

Re: FBI Sniff

2000-12-18 Thread Tom Vogt
John Young wrote: Is any of this Douglas stuff true? We don't know. at least one of his claims is false: his books are NOT banned in germany. on the contrary, there's even a german translation: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3806111049/qid%3D977139380/302-3127721-2116047

Re: CDR: Re: The Cost of California Liberalism

2000-12-18 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote: Besides, Jim, as a Texan your tradition role in discussions of natural gas policies is supposed to be to say "let the bastards freeze in the dark" :-) ITYM "Wal, we can ship ya some natcherl gas, er some awl, but it's a gonna cost ya Tha awl

Re: This is why a free society is evil. [Re: This is why HTML email is evil.]

2000-12-18 Thread auto58194
Tim May wrote: You seem to fundammentally misunderstand the situation. The reason the Personnel Commissar is ordering sensitivity training, workshops, and is requiring that posters of Brittny Spears be removed from office walls is because government and lawyers have made companies liable

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

2000-12-18 Thread Mac Norton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Let's make this simple. How is California's lack of power plants causing natural gas prices to rise? Plants that don't exist don't use gas and don't contribute to shortages. What the fella said was the lack of power plants indicates a

Re: keyboard loggers.

2000-12-18 Thread Bill Stewart
If you have to worry about people installing keyboard logging programs on your machine without your permission, either - you're using a public shared machine at a coffeeshop or school or Kinko's to do things you think need security, or - you're using your employer's machine, and shouldn't

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

2000-12-18 Thread Raymond D. Mereniuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Huh? Let's make this simple. How is California's lack of power plants causing natural gas prices to rise? Plants that don't exist don't use gas and don't contribute to shortages. California's importing power from elsewhere, so why didn't these other generators

Re: CDR: Re: This is why a free society is evil.

2000-12-17 Thread petro
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

Re: The Cost of California Liberalism

2000-12-17 Thread petro
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

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

2000-12-17 Thread auto58194
"Raymond D. Mereniuk" wrote: Here I sit in Vancouver BC Canada paying outrageous prices for natural gas because of the demand in California for natural gas for heating and electrical generation purposes. I feel California should pay for their previous decisions themselves, if you don't

Re: CDR: Re: This is why a free society is evil. (fwd)

2000-12-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May writes: Folks, this increase in MIME attachments is getting out of hand. People are reading this list on a variety of machines, from PDAs to Amigas to VT100s to Unix boxes to Windows. I have a solution. I keep MIME turned off, and if the 7-bit representation of the message is not

Re: CDR: Re: This is why a free society is evil.

2000-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 02:15 AM 12/17/2000 -0800, petro wrote: Her civil liberties aren't the employers property. Further, the PRIVILIGE of running a business does not have greater importance than freedom of speech and such. If running a business is a privilege, then of course it will be restricted

Re: throw-away acct test

2000-12-17 Thread Brian Lane
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:18:11PM -0800, montag montag wrote: testing ... testing CHECK ! It works. Not too useful when Yahoo records your IP address. Received: from [64.164.25.91] by web11403.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 +13:18:11 PST Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:18:11 -0800

Re: The Cost of California Liberalism

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:35 AM 12/17/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: The reality is the NW people got what they deserved. They voted to use the Cali. power grid instead of their own. No injustice or wrong has occured here because everyone got a say. You reap what you sow. It's a market thing, or as liberals would

Re: CDR: Re: This is why a free society is evil.

2000-12-16 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:13 PM 12/15/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: 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

Re: This is why a free society is evil.

2000-12-16 Thread Me
- Original Message - From: "Jim Choate" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crypto-anarchy and libertarianism are just another form of fascism at best and socialism at worst. It's a means for one group of people to oppress and control another. If Choatean programming follows Choatean physics and

Inquiry RE: audiobook reviewers

2000-12-15 Thread Dwayne Parsons
Found your request on Editor's Choice. I'm a professional writer, avid reader and believe in audiobooks. Spend a lot of time driving across rural Montana. What's your terms? Can you be more specific if your need still exists. I'm capable and interested and have done numerous book reviews

Re: Final Carnivore Report Offers No New Answers

2000-12-15 Thread mmotyka
It's all well and good to hear this coming from a Congressman but this is a Republican Congressman who is using it as a opportunity to attack a Democratic Administration : should we read anything into this statement regarding some significant difference between the two parties in regards privacy

Re: ATT signs bulk hosting contract with spammers

2000-12-15 Thread Bill Stewart
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: BTW the first things the Feds are now saying when they speak in public (http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-17/aba-netspionage-broadcast.html) is that they do not come in and cart off everything you own. At least that's the latest spin. :) Of course

Re: CDR: This is why a free society is evil. [Re: This is why HTML email is evil.]

2000-12-15 Thread Bill Stewart
Tim May wrote: In a free society, free economy, then employers and employees are much more flexible. A solid contributor would not be fired for something so trivial as having a porn picture embedded in some minor way. Hell, a solid contributor probably wouldn't be fired even for sending

Re: All these different addresses.

2000-12-14 Thread Greg Newby
Gary, take a look at http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html The short answer is that the list is intentionally distributed, so that there is no single point of failure, censure or seizure. They're all real addresses, though @toad.com is deprecated. The software details for each address may be

Re: nambla

2000-12-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
Only four lines of curses? Sheesh. Thought we'd rate at least five. -Declan On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:03:09PM -0800, gary seven wrote: You are under the Judgement of the LORD GOD OF HOST for the sin of the sea of babies, abortion and infant sacrifice to the devil. You will burn in the

Re: All these different addresses.

2000-12-14 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Gary Benson wrote: How come this list has so many addresses: snip Is any of these the *real* address, or it is a personal choice? Yes. Bear

Re: nambla

2000-12-14 Thread Matthew Gaylor
Our father, who's art is in porn ; Halloween by Thy name; Thy kingdom Cum; Thy wife will be done, on earth as she were in a whore house. Give us this day our daily blow job; and forgive us our sales taxes, as we forgive those who tax against us, and lead us not into D.C. ; but deliver us from

Re: nambla

2000-12-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
Matt, I didn't know you were the religious type! -Declan At 21:07 12/14/2000 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote: Our father, who's art is in porn ; Halloween by Thy name; Thy kingdom Cum; Thy wife will be done, on earth as she were in a whore house. Give us this day our daily blow job; and forgive

Re: Ranks Of Privacy 'Pragmatists' Are Growing

2000-12-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
Bill, this is splendid! Can I talk you into writing a similar screed about privacy leftists? I'll cite you in my weekly column. --Declan At 21:28 12/13/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 04:46 PM 12/13/00 -0800, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 11:35 AM -0500 on 12/9/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:

Re: My short writeup of the NymIP effort

2000-12-13 Thread auto110413
you have people like Schneier basically advising companies to just buy insurance to cover computer security risks – after all, the whole security game is just a risk management game, and what better way to manage risk than via insurance? But at ZKS, they’re still living in a world where

Re: Geodesic Fractal Whatitz

2000-12-13 Thread mmotyka
"Carskadden, Rush" wrote: Well, hell, that's what I said. Well I'll be! I guess you did! But you make it sound so much more _clear_. I don't remember who was saying that geodesic definition is based solely on local information, but that appears to be the major roadblock for our logic.

RE: Geodesic Fractal Whatitz

2000-12-13 Thread Carskadden, Rush
Title: RE: Geodesic Fractal Whatitz Well, hell, that's what I said. But you make it sound so much more _clear_. I don't remember who was saying that geodesic definition is based solely on local information, but that appears to be the major roadblock for our logic. If I could find out where

Re: Ranks Of Privacy 'Pragmatists' Are Growing

2000-12-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 11:35 AM -0500 on 12/9/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: Privacy leftists We have a winner. Time to patch the old buzzword engine with something *truly* inflammatory... :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Re: Geodesic Fractal Whatzit

2000-12-13 Thread Neil Johnson
I think this article from satirewire sums it all up: http://satirewire.com/briefs/lobster.shtml Neil M. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interl.net/~njohnson PGP Key Finger Print: 93C0 793F B66E A0C7 CEEA 3E92 6B99 2DCC

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

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Vogt
Tim May wrote: Lighten up. It was a joke. (I even provided a hint, in the "honored in some cultures.") sorry, I've been working overtime on some stuff here lately, and I was too tired to get it. also, I'm tired of the nitpicking some people here exhibit as if there were nothing more

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Ben Laurie
"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: At 9:48 PM + on 12/11/00, Ben Laurie wrote: Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two points on it" Thank you. It works in all dimensions, and, thus it's topological, right? Indeed. Cheers, Ben. --

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity. No question about it. The term also doesn't mean a whole lot when applied as-is in the many instances it is on

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two points on it" Thank you. It works in all dimensions, and, thus it's topological, right? Topology does not deal with dimension or distance. Pure geometry. Not even affine or

RE: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Carskadden, Rush
Title: RE: Questions of size... Comments below: -Original Message- From: Tim May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions of size... snip By the way, one topological aspect of a geodesic dome, to go

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Ben Laurie
Sampo A Syreeni wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity. No question about it. The term also doesn't mean a whole lot when applied as-is

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-12 Thread Tim May
At 7:42 PM + 12/12/00, Ben Laurie wrote: Sampo A Syreeni wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity. No question about it. The term also

Re: Info..help

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:11 AM 12/12/00 MST, sunil pandith wrote: Dear Sir, I am an engineering student. I am interested in real time encryption of = voice using a DSP kit and a stream cipher., Kindly send me the link = where the algorithm is available... I am in need of the white paper or similar thing, which is

Re: Hettinga does *nothing* but hand-waving, folks...

2000-12-11 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:49:44 -0800 To: "R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Somebody Subject: Re: Hettinga does *nothing* but hand-waving, folks... Note: This is off-list. I don't care if you post it back there, but I don't see the need to take it t

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 usually add obvious

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-11 Thread Ben Laurie
PROTECTED] To: Ray Dillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions of size... Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Sampo A Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote: (RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got this

RE: Personal Firewalls Fail the Leak Test

2000-12-11 Thread Carskadden, Rush
Title: RE: Personal Firewalls Fail the Leak Test Whatever. Comments below. -Original Message- From: Nomen Nescio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Personal Firewalls Fail the Leak Test problem of hacker attacks

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

2000-12-10 Thread Tim May
At 11:58 AM -0500 12/10/00, Robert Guerra wrote: Declan: I completely agree with you that internet voting isn't quite ready fom prime-time just yet. But given the current snafu I highly suspect that there will be a lot of interest in the field. Certainly, I hope one of the few things the new

Re: IBM Uses Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case (was Re:

2000-12-10 Thread petro
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

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