Re: A QA exchange between me and Eugene Volokh

2002-08-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 8:59 AM -0700 on 7/31/02, Steve Schear wrote: If I have nothing to hide, nobody wants to know. steve Ding! I think we have a winner, boys and girls... Steve Schear, welcome to my .sig file... :-). Cheers, RAH viz, -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread AARG! Anonymous
James Donald writes: TCPA and Palladium give someone else super root privileges on my machine, and TAKE THOSE PRIVILEGES AWAY FROM ME. All claims that they will not do this are not claims that they will not do this, but are merely claims that the possessor of super root privilege on my

Re: Pizza with a credit card

2002-08-01 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Michael Motyka wrote: Quite clearly cash has got to go! I'm not sure how tough this would be to sneak past the slumbering electorate. Pretty tough I expect. But the usage level is certainly going down while the percentage of electronic transactions is skyrocketing. We've

Re: Pizza with a credit card

2002-08-01 Thread Ken Brown
Michael Motyka wrote: Quite clearly cash has got to go! I'm not sure how tough this would be to sneak past the slumbering electorate. Pretty tough I expect. But the usage level is certainly going down while the percentage of electronic transactions is skyrocketing. We've even had

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-08-01 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, A.Melon wrote: and on the left hand side of the page it says: At the moment, we do not support non-Javascript browsers. If they are concerned about security, Shouldn't they be avoiding javascript? Shapiro has a strange love for Javascript. I don't know what that

Freedom of association denied in Ventura Cty

2002-08-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
(Note that this *is* political as the Fairgrounds are State property) Dress Code Keeps 9 Hells Angels Out of Fair in Ventura Security: The new policy is enforced after biker club members refuse to remove vests marked with group's insignia. Their leader says he will sue. By

thoughtcrime, art, mandatory youth education camps, AP, kirkland

2002-08-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Court rules student's artwork not a threat to police Published 9:35 a.m. PDT Thursday, August 1, 2002 CHICO, Calif. (AP) - A Pleasant Valley High School student's art class painting that showed him shooting a police officer who had cited him for possessing marijuana did not

Re: Mandatory hardware

2002-08-01 Thread Michael Motyka
Major Variola \(ret\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : TV makers may face mandate on digital receivers Wed Jul 31, 9:17 AM ET In an effort to jump-start the languid rollout of digital TV, federal regulators next week are expected to require all new TV sets to include digital receivers by 2006,

Re: Freedom of association denied in Ventura Cty

2002-08-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:46 PM -0700 on 8/1/02, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Dress Code Keeps 9 Hells Angels Out of Fair in Ventura Security: The new policy is enforced after biker club members refuse to remove vests marked with group's insignia. Their leader says he will sue. What ever happened to One on all,

Re: document popularity estimation / amortizable hashcash (Re: Hollywood Hackers)

2002-08-01 Thread Adam Back
This paper is quite interesting and proposes another method of metering content [1]: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/naor98secure.html It's proposed in the context of web site traffic metering to determine site traffic rates (for advertising payment or other applications). It relies on a

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread David Wagner
James A. Donald wrote: According to Microsoft, the end user can turn the palladium hardware off, and the computer will still boot. As long as that is true, it is an end user option and no one can object. Your point is taken. That said, even if you could turn off TCPA Palladium and run some

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 31 Jul 2002 at 23:45, AARG! Anonymous wrote: So TCPA and Palladium could restrict which software you could run. They aren't designed to do so, but the design could be changed and restrictions added. Their design, and the institutions and software to be designed around them, is

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:33:43PM -0700, James A. Donald wrote: According to Microsoft, the end user can turn the palladium hardware off, and the computer will still boot. As long as that is true, it is an end user option and no one can object. But this is not what the content

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread R. Hirschfeld
From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:51:24 -0700 On 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to restrict what applications you run. The TPM FAQ at

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread AARG! Anonymous
Eric Murray writes: TCPA (when it isn't turned off) WILL restrict the software that you can run. Software that has an invalid or missing signature won't be able to access sensitive data[1]. Meaning that unapproved software won't work. [1] TCPAmain_20v1_1a.pdf, section 2.2 We need to