Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk [ Samuelson-bashing ]

2001-04-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:08 AM 04/22/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: I haven't found Samuelson's textbook useful for any of the interesting discussions of markets, black markets, offshore havens, ... I used Samuelson's textbooks to study micro and macro in college. *Terrible*! Badly written, verbose, not structured

RE: layered deception

2001-05-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:45 AM 05/02/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote: Yeah but is there a (contract etc.) *law* being broken or is this a legally-null claim? After all, if click-through EULAs are legally binding... Maybe a real lawyer could tell you. The answer may depend on whether there's valuable consideration

Re: weird logic

2003-06-18 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:15 PM 06/17/2003 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2998870.stm With Iraq's judicial system in disarray after the end of the war, Paul Bremer said a special criminal court would be set up. He said the court would try people, in particular senior Baathists...

Re: kinko spying: criminal caught Scarfing keydata

2003-07-23 Thread Bill Stewart
The real question is whether the FBI's keyloggers caught Jiang's passwords, or whether it was the NSA or Mossad caught the FBI's keyloggers catching Jiang's keylogger catching other passwords. At 01:13 PM 07/23/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Kinko's spy case: Risks of renting PCs

Re: Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:33 PM 07/25/2003 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: At 16:33 2003-07-25 -0700, you wrote: On 24 Jul 2003 at 9:16, Eric Cordian wrote: Now that the new standard for pre-emptive war is to murder the legitimate leader of another sovereign nation and his entire family, an artist's rendering of Shrub

Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

2003-07-29 Thread Bill Stewart
Also, NYT Article was http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?th But it sounds like they've chickened out, because various people freaked about the implications. (And they only got as far as it being an incentive to commit terrorism, without getting to a funding method for

Re: Pentagon discovers Assasination Politics, deadpools

2003-07-30 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:23 AM 07/29/2003 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: Note that properly run, this Ideas Futures market would be a money maker, not a cost center. For only a modest percentage of the winnings, it could be self sustaining. Perhaps someone with a profit motive will pick up the idea. Assuming it can be

Japan making RFID-trackable cash

2003-07-30 Thread Bill Stewart
http://theregister.com/content/55/32061.html Japan's starting to add RFIDs to their 1-yen (~$100) bills. Notes will come with Hitachi's 0.3mm mew-chip which responds to radio signals by sending out a 128-bit number. Each chip costs about 50 yen. The article says that each number _could_ be a

Re: What happened to the Cryptography list...?

2003-08-06 Thread Bill Stewart
Bob - Perry's cryptography list moved from wasabisystems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a few months ago. [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: - lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] serves the following lists: bsd-api-announceThe BSD APIs Announcement Mailing