At 05:26 AM 4/8/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about
Google's proposed Gmail service.
Cypherpunks have two somewhat contradictory positions on the issue.
First, as lovers of privacy, they will share the concerns in the letter
and they would be
At 01:56 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
[Nanotechology at least holds out the possibility of making Von
Neumann machines, that is, switches which make copies of themselves,
You mean Johnny's *replicators*, a vN machine is just one with
a changable program store. But you mentioned Jared
At 02:06 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:14 PM -0700 4/7/04, Steve Schear wrote:
Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling.
On your arms? Legs? Hands?
Arabs in bunny-suits. Whadda concept.
Disposable clothes don't have to be bunny suits. Latex dishwashing
gloves
and
At 11:16 PM 4/8/04 +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote:
In the second place, it fails for elections with more than two parties
running. The casual reference above to representatives on each
side betrays this error. Poorly funded third parties cannot provide
representatives as easily as
At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the
well-...um...-dressed
terrorist...
Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel fuel or equivalent heavy oil
fraction don't show up as
At 05:26 AM 4/8/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about
Google's proposed Gmail service.
Cypherpunks have two somewhat contradictory positions on the issue.
First, as lovers of privacy, they will share the concerns in the letter
and they would be
At 03:29 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with
tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely
taken.
Measure the path in time?
Yeah, some dead french dude
At 01:56 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
[Nanotechology at least holds out the possibility of making Von
Neumann machines, that is, switches which make copies of themselves,
You mean Johnny's *replicators*, a vN machine is just one with
a changable program store. But you mentioned Jared
At 03:36 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
As someone who was a Gerard O'Neill http://www.ssi.org/obit.html fan
long
The L-5 dude? I never knew he dabbled in mental-nano-masturbation.
I'm familiar with his macroscopic living-in-$pace speculations.
The term von Neumann machine also refers
At 11:16 PM 4/8/04 +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote:
In the second place, it fails for elections with more than two parties
running. The casual reference above to representatives on each
side betrays this error. Poorly funded third parties cannot provide
representatives as easily as
(I'm not defending hostile spyware but there are problems with the
law..)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115527,00.asp
Tom Spring, PC World
Friday, April 02, 2004
Utah has become the first state to make spyware a crime, passing a law
that makes it illegal to install such programs on
_Reason_ pulls a cryptomesque BigEye op on subscribers:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
Subject: [Politech] Reason magazine cover story has unusual privacy
theme
[priv]
[Disclaimer: I was involved with the Reason article. --Declan]
(I'm not defending hostile spyware but there are problems with the
law..)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115527,00.asp
Tom Spring, PC World
Friday, April 02, 2004
Utah has become the first state to make spyware a crime, passing a law
that makes it illegal to install such programs on
Peter, what would be wrong with having a machine in the booth that
prints
any valid receipt BUT is not connected to the voting system. To vote
use the red machine; if you're being coerced you can use the blue
machine
to print as many receipts as intimidators.
A trade off between (mild) user
At 09:03 AM 4/3/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 1:26 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Physics, because large entities have different properties (eg
surface-to-mass ratio; inertia) than small entities.
Well, certainly, that's the current wisdom about such things.
However, I'm
At 12:35 PM 4/4/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 1:31 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
A fence is being considered around the Capital in DC also.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume the purpose of a fence around the
Capitol
would be to keep those pesky Congresscritters _in_
At 08:44 PM 4/4/04 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Shiites hit a home run!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3599381.stm
Deposing a harmless tyrant: $87,000,000,000
Generating 2 Islamic republics plus an ethnic republic that destabilizes
Turkey:
priceless
For colonialism, there's the
At 12:35 PM 4/4/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 1:31 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
A fence is being considered around the Capital in DC also.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume the purpose of a fence around the
Capitol
would be to keep those pesky Congresscritters _in_
At 09:03 AM 4/3/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 1:26 PM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Physics, because large entities have different properties (eg
surface-to-mass ratio; inertia) than small entities.
Well, certainly, that's the current wisdom about such things.
However, I'm
3 [2capital] a : a city serving as a seat of government b : a city
preeminent in some special activity the fashion capital
However it seems the ol version is correct when capitalized:
Etymology: Latin Capitolium, temple of Jupiter at Rome on the Capitoline
hill
1 a : a building in which a state
At 08:44 PM 4/4/04 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Shiites hit a home run!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3599381.stm
Deposing a harmless tyrant: $87,000,000,000
Generating 2 Islamic republics plus an ethnic republic that destabilizes
Turkey:
priceless
For colonialism, there's the
3 [2capital] a : a city serving as a seat of government b : a city
preeminent in some special activity the fashion capital
However it seems the ol version is correct when capitalized:
Etymology: Latin Capitolium, temple of Jupiter at Rome on the Capitoline
hill
1 a : a building in which a state
At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly,
it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything
else. Tasted good.
Just out of curiosity, how did you verify that it was in fact that
species?
I mean, if you beat a
At 10:46 AM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
The idea is, if transaction and price discovery costs fall enough,
private force companies that auction their services in a free market
become better than the public ones that rely on confiscated tax
revenue.
Only if they offer comparable services.
At 03:04 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Nozick argues force-monopoly naturally emerges from *any* force
market, that, IIRC, associations will collude and eventually merge
under peaceful circumstances, and, of course, if one fights the
other, it takes the other's turf.
Personally, I wonder
At 03:29 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Howie Carr is shocking Chris Wallace just now about partitioning Iraq
into three countries, Kurdish (who will have oil), Shiite (who will
have oil), and Sunni (who will not; geography's a bitch), all while
putting a Sharon-Fence around the newly
At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly,
it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything
else. Tasted good.
Just out of curiosity, how did you verify that it was in fact that
species?
I mean, if you beat a
At 10:46 AM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
The idea is, if transaction and price discovery costs fall enough,
private force companies that auction their services in a free market
become better than the public ones that rely on confiscated tax
revenue.
Only if they offer comparable services.
At 03:04 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Nozick argues force-monopoly naturally emerges from *any* force
market, that, IIRC, associations will collude and eventually merge
under peaceful circumstances, and, of course, if one fights the
other, it takes the other's turf.
Personally, I wonder
At 03:29 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Howie Carr is shocking Chris Wallace just now about partitioning Iraq
into three countries, Kurdish (who will have oil), Shiite (who will
have oil), and Sunni (who will not; geography's a bitch), all while
putting a Sharon-Fence around the newly
At 05:19 PM 3/31/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
So, what, declare all current property claims in Fallujah to be null
and
void, sell claims off to the highest bidder, and whoever gets there
with
the most men owns it. I mean, it worked in Texas with the Comanches and
Apaches...
How long do we
At 03:22 PM 4/1/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Last year I found it almost impossible to adopt a kitten or cat that
didn't have an RFID tag implanted under its skin.
What is his problem? You just put them in the microwave and the
chip is useless.
At 01:41 PM 4/1/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
More to the point, once you cleaned out a bunch of injuns, *somebody*
had to ranch the land, right?
Well of course. It was our destiny, our mission. Just like bringing
democracy (tm)
to the a-rabs, etc. If, of course, they vote for our puppets,
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.blackwatersecurity.com
Blackwater had no web pages before Aug 2002.
Funny how the 0wn3d media doesn't question the consultant label.
At 03:30 PM 3/31/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Uh...this is getting tiring...as far as I'm concerned this part of the
discussion looks like semantics.
RAH's main point, physical chemistry aside, was that various folks
benefit from hyperbole and/or fearmongering. That point remains
valid, in many
There will be a lot of (justly) dead fishermen in that case. When the
USG
does piracy, or merely boards a ship, there are major snipers
on the US vessel, and the inspectors are accompanied by
well armed folks. In addition, free-lance piracy will be a great
cover for real pirates at sea.
And of
At 02:55 PM 3/31/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Meaning that the mercs come back with more toys, next time...
They need to be driving around in more heavily armored vehicles.
All the toys in the world won't help your Toyota repel an RPG.
Rather hard not to look obviously military in an APC
Pentagon's Papers Found at Starbucks
Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics and a hand-drawn map
to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's house were found at a local
Starbucks.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVFb=42125
Nice opsec there, doofus.
At 03:30 PM 3/31/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Uh...this is getting tiring...as far as I'm concerned this part of the
discussion looks like semantics.
RAH's main point, physical chemistry aside, was that various folks
benefit from hyperbole and/or fearmongering. That point remains
valid, in many
There will be a lot of (justly) dead fishermen in that case. When the
USG
does piracy, or merely boards a ship, there are major snipers
on the US vessel, and the inspectors are accompanied by
well armed folks. In addition, free-lance piracy will be a great
cover for real pirates at sea.
And of
At 02:55 PM 3/31/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Meaning that the mercs come back with more toys, next time...
They need to be driving around in more heavily armored vehicles.
All the toys in the world won't help your Toyota repel an RPG.
Rather hard not to look obviously military in an APC
Pentagon's Papers Found at Starbucks
Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics and a hand-drawn map
to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's house were found at a local
Starbucks.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVFb=42125
Nice opsec there, doofus.
At 04:35 PM 3/30/04 -0600, bgt wrote:
You need ID to drive, bus, train, or fly... I guess all that's left is
walking and possibly biking. :P
The police can ask for ID if you're walking and fit a description
(negro in plaid shirt I believe was the instance);
also that Nevada case pending in the
At 04:35 PM 3/30/04 -0600, bgt wrote:
You need ID to drive, bus, train, or fly... I guess all that's left is
walking and possibly biking. :P
The police can ask for ID if you're walking and fit a description
(negro in plaid shirt I believe was the instance);
also that Nevada case pending in the
Ballot Error Effect Cited
Orange County registrar says incorrect electronic ballots may have
altered a race's outcome, but says results will be certified today.
By Jean O. Pasco
Times Staff Writer
March 30, 2004
Although some Orange County voters cast the wrong electronic ballots in
the March 2
STATE OF CONNETICUT REPORTED THE DISCOVERY OF A STRONTIUM-90 SOURCE
The item was found adjacent to a house in a wooded area in East Lyme,
CT. It was a cylinder measuring 6 inches in length and 2 inches in
diameter. The bottom of the cylinder had the following serial number:
M2477. It was a
At 08:54 PM 3/28/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Listen up. Cypherpunks is a cryptography list, and al-qaeda.net is a
node.
True so far Well, al-qaeda.net is a DNS record, and the list includes
social issues related to crypto-related tech, but lets start off by
giving you the point.
The
At 11:28 AM 3/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl forwarded:
'WiFi.Bedouin
is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global
Internet. It forms a WiFi island Internet challenging conventional
assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital
networks that are
At 06:44 PM 3/27/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
And, remember again, you have to *enclose* a burning gas to make it
explosive first place.
Bob, stick with obfuscated economics and playing with boats.
Many gases are explosive in certain ratios to air.
Gasoline vapor, acetylene, in a wide range
At 06:44 PM 3/27/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
And, remember again, you have to *enclose* a burning gas to make it
explosive first place.
Bob, stick with obfuscated economics and playing with boats.
Many gases are explosive in certain ratios to air.
Gasoline vapor, acetylene, in a wide range
the all your dinars turn to toilet paper attack on folks who have lots
of cash. Ie,
exchange your old currency for new (or check your egold account).
Meanwhile these transactions are *monitored*, providing the IRS and DEA
(etc) with new leads. Or in the case of egold, traceable IP routes.
At
At 12:41 AM 3/27/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And yet one would've thought that a smart radical would have been able
to
purchase a measly couple of 50 lb bags of (NH4NO3) without having to
call
all over the place and brag about it, and for cash at that. You don't
want
it known, don't say
At 01:05 AM 3/27/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 01:51 PM 3/26/2004, Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suggested countermeasure: When true anonymity is requested, use the
card
ONLY ONCE, then destroy it.
Better yet, take another 10 minutes, get change from a laundromat, and
use
At 08:39 PM 3/26/04 -0600, Black Unicorn wrote:
Keeping calling cards from leaking information probably isn't possible.
Limiting the information leaked to that which is already known or is
useless
is probably the best bet. Using separate cards for separate
operations /
cells and immediate
At 08:10 AM 3/26/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:48 PM -0800 3/25/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
This recently occurred to me. There is a type of bearer document
which is exactly like cash (anonymous, finder's keepers/spenders)
*except*
that it expires. Its called a concert ticket
At 08:39 PM 3/26/04 -0600, Black Unicorn wrote:
Keeping calling cards from leaking information probably isn't possible.
Limiting the information leaked to that which is already known or is
useless
is probably the best bet. Using separate cards for separate
operations /
cells and immediate
At 12:41 AM 3/27/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And yet one would've thought that a smart radical would have been able
to
purchase a measly couple of 50 lb bags of (NH4NO3) without having to
call
all over the place and brag about it, and for cash at that. You don't
want
it known, don't say
At 01:05 AM 3/27/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 01:51 PM 3/26/2004, Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suggested countermeasure: When true anonymity is requested, use the
card
ONLY ONCE, then destroy it.
Better yet, take another 10 minutes, get change from a laundromat, and
use
The World Trade Organization, in its first decision on an
Internet-related dispute, has ignited a political, cultural and legal
tinderbox by ruling that the United States policy prohibiting online
gambling violates international trade law.
The ruling, issued by a W.T.O. panel on Wednesday, is
At 01:59 PM 3/26/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 10:14 AM -0800 3/26/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
The point is that the asset (a performance) which the
bearer-document (ticket) grants access to expires. I think that's
actually orthogonal to the
ticket itself expiring.
Okay. The inverse
At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what
has
been described as Crypto-Anarchy.
Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against
you.
You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one
At 02:05 PM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
In the Brinworld of Phonecams this is a nice challenge for the
freelancer...
Fuck you, Anderson III
All he did was raise the prices of said photos, correct? Shit...I
should get
on out there and make myself a fortune...
In practice, because markets
At 02:02 PM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Think I'm gonna have to disagree with ya' hear partner.
For one, in the old days Corporations regularly hired goons to mow down
striking coalminers and whatnot.
You have no right to trespass simply because you once worked there.
Neither does anyone
At 05:27 PM 3/25/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Nonsense -- corporations are not humans, they have zero rights.
Unfortunately, there are a whole slew of Supreme Court decisions that
say
otherwise - mostly applying the 14th amendment (you know,
At 12:39 AM 3/26/04 -, Frog wrote:
Harmon Seaver wrote:
each and every person involved in it should be liable.
If a member of a club, to which you belong, commits an act of violence,
are you liable for that act?
Excellent question. The gestap^H^H^H^H Feds think you are --membership
in a
At 09:20 PM 3/25/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Fine. Make it cheaper. Moore's Law creates geodesic networks, so
let's have geodesic internet bearer transactions.
Yesss! Its only taken a month or so of plonklessness, and we've
got the geodesics back!
:-)
This recently occurred to me. There
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- On the eve of grand jury proceedings in the Michael
Jackson molestation case, the presiding judge of the Santa Barbara
courts barred pictures or communication with any prospective or final
panelists, or grand jury witnesses.
Superior Court Judge Clifford R. Anderson III did
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- On the eve of grand jury proceedings in the Michael
Jackson molestation case, the presiding judge of the Santa Barbara
courts barred pictures or communication with any prospective or final
panelists, or grand jury witnesses.
Superior Court Judge Clifford R. Anderson III did
At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what
has
been described as Crypto-Anarchy.
Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against
you.
You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-wiretap24mar24,1,760243.story?coll=la-editions-orange
Man Indicted in Wiretap Case
The defendant is accused of recording the computer keystrokes of a
workplace
The abuse called the grand jury has been detailed here before. The fun
continues.
Mar 24, 2004
Attorneys to Argue Palestinian Activist Suffers From Mental Problems
The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - Attorneys for a Palestinian activist jailed for refusing
to testify before a grand jury
Appeals Court Lets Interior Computers Back Online, Despite Judge's
Security Concerns
By Robert Gehrke
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Interior Department will go back online after an
appeals court Wednesday blocked a judge's ruling that ordered most of
the department's computers
At 06:53 PM 3/23/04 -0800, John Young wrote:
Why pity Martha Stewart, so far she's escaped the pokey,
Because she got charged with *lying* to a fed when she
was *not* under oath.
The lesson is real. The ordinary pig on the street --not just a fed--
can lie
to you, and bust you if you return
At 09:30 PM 3/22/04 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:12:34PM -0500, An Metet wrote:
Robert Hettinga forwards:
By concentrating sensing and data storage on the body, a wearable
computer allows its user to ``control his own butt.'' The user
What the hell does this have
Once, our national office in Washington called the phone company to say
they couldn't pay the bill, said Bill Crandell, a writer who lives in
Silver Spring, Md. They were told, 'Don't worry, it's being paid.'
It was Nixon's spooks paying the phone bill for Kerry's antiwar group.
At 09:30 PM 3/22/04 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:12:34PM -0500, An Metet wrote:
Robert Hettinga forwards:
By concentrating sensing and data storage on the body, a wearable
computer allows its user to ``control his own butt.'' The user
What the hell does this have
Once, our national office in Washington called the phone company to say
they couldn't pay the bill, said Bill Crandell, a writer who lives in
Silver Spring, Md. They were told, 'Don't worry, it's being paid.'
It was Nixon's spooks paying the phone bill for Kerry's antiwar group.
At 02:18 PM 3/18/04 -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote:
The obvious next step is writing a bot that poses as an adult posing as
a
kid.
I think its easily (if crudely) simulated thusly:
All you need is another kidbot which is 1. not controlled
by the adversary 2. eventually uses keywords that trigger the
At 02:18 PM 3/18/04 -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote:
The obvious next step is writing a bot that poses as an adult posing as
a
kid.
I think its easily (if crudely) simulated thusly:
All you need is another kidbot which is 1. not controlled
by the adversary 2. eventually uses keywords that trigger the
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=312492004
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=312492004
COMPUTER SECURITY
French Move To Fend Off U.S. Domination
With some help from Germany, the French are discreetly seeking an
alternative to U.S. domination of the field of computer authentication
systems and security (Public Key Infrastructure: [...] [ 617 words
5,5USD ]
COMPUTER SECURITY
French Move To Fend Off U.S. Domination
With some help from Germany, the French are discreetly seeking an
alternative to U.S. domination of the field of computer authentication
systems and security (Public Key Infrastructure: [...] [ 617 words
5,5USD ]
At 05:04 AM 3/15/04 +, Justin wrote:
If You Want to Protect
A Security Secret,
Make Sure It's Public
What is terrible article titles for $500, Alex?
Give the author a break, he actually cited K's principle in the friggin
WSJ.
Thanks for the forwards, RAH. Some of us actually do
Report: Ohio Sold Records To Fla. Database Company For $50K
POSTED: 6:56 pm EST March 14, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state Bureau of Motor Vehicles sold driving
records of Ohioans for about $50,000 to a Florida company developing a
multistate crime database program, according to a report.
The
Report: Ohio Sold Records To Fla. Database Company For $50K
POSTED: 6:56 pm EST March 14, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state Bureau of Motor Vehicles sold driving
records of Ohioans for about $50,000 to a Florida company developing a
multistate crime database program, according to a report.
The
At 12:45 PM 3/13/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl FORWARDED:
- Forwarded message from Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Skype claims to use RSA-based key exchange, which is good for
multi-party
conferencing but does not preserve forward secrecy. Maybe some variant
of
ephemeral D-H authenticated
At 09:55 PM 3/12/04 -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
if gcd(a,m)=1,
for a*a inverse==1 mod m
is it better to find
a invese=a^(m-2) mod m by binary exponentiation
modulo m or is it more time efficient by extended
euclids algorithm for large 'm'?
I dunno, why don't you think about it some?
How are you
At 10:11 AM 3/14/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Return of the homebrew coder
BEFORE Henry Ford unleashed the practice of mass production on the
world,
every little town had a few dozen artisans who made the lives of
citizens
easier.
Software is also still in the craft stage where the designers
At 02:27 PM 3/10/04 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
At 11:49 AM 3/10/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
This is how the US intimidates such that the USG can monitor
all transactions. A serious practical problem for e$ when it
needs to interface to atoms.
not really. it means there is a need for a more
At 10:11 AM 3/10/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Holy Crap this seems bizarre. This isn't even really a case of know
your
customers, but know your customers' customers, isn't it?
Is this some kind of snipe hunt or mere Brazil-like government
incompetence and mindless application of half-baked laws?
Science News Online
Week of Feb. 28, 2004; Vol. 165, No. 9
Toss Out the Toss-Up: Bias in heads-or-tails
Erica Klarreich
If you want to decide which football team takes the ball first or who
gets the larger piece of
cake, the fairest thing is to toss a coin, right? Not necessarily.
A new
At 10:56 AM 3/6/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as
coming from a particular sender. Reputation can work here, even with no
meat-space identity attached. Anonymity means reputation can't work, so
each message has to be taken on its
At 10:56 AM 3/6/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as
coming from a particular sender. Reputation can work here, even with no
meat-space identity attached. Anonymity means reputation can't work, so
each message has to be taken on its
Some Insurers Checking Provider Lists for Terrorists
Joyce Frieden
Associate Editor, Practice Trends
Insurance plans say they now must cross-reference lists of business
partnersincluding providersagainst a federal list of known or
suspected terrorists.
As a result of an executive
At 10:30 PM 3/3/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
http://nytimes.com/2004/03/04/international/europe/04PHON.html?hp=pagewanted=printposition=
The New York Times
March 4, 2004
How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web
And that, boys and girls, is what traffic analysis is
The Pinellas school system is ready to approve a new technology that
uses student fingerprints to keep track of who is riding school buses.
Beginning in the fall, the fingerprint system would identify students as
they board and leave. The goal is to ensure they are getting on the
right bus and
Some Insurers Checking Provider Lists for Terrorists
Joyce Frieden
Associate Editor, Practice Trends
Insurance plans say they now must cross-reference lists of business
partnersincluding providersagainst a federal list of known or
suspected terrorists.
As a result of an executive
At 10:30 PM 3/3/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
http://nytimes.com/2004/03/04/international/europe/04PHON.html?hp=pagewanted=printposition=
The New York Times
March 4, 2004
How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web
And that, boys and girls, is what traffic analysis is
The Pinellas school system is ready to approve a new technology that
uses student fingerprints to keep track of who is riding school buses.
Beginning in the fall, the fingerprint system would identify students as
they board and leave. The goal is to ensure they are getting on the
right bus and
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