Geodesic markets for nuclear secrets

2004-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
The price of nuclear secrets has been dropping rapidly: http://theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4014 WASHINGTON, DC­ Top-secret information about the design, construction, and delivery of nuclear weapons has never been more affordable than it is today, CIA Director George Tenet announced

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-12 Thread Jim Dixon
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, sunder wrote: The term is used because most or all trees in the region where the English language originated are shaped just like that: they have a single trunk which forks into branches which may themselves fork and so on. These branches do not connect back to one

Re: On Needing Killing (Orwell was an optimist)

2004-04-12 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:20 PM 4/11/04 +, Justin wrote: Major Variola (ret) (2004-04-11 16:42Z) wrote: Blacknet is a robust archive for words, immune to force (by State or private actors), but merely words. With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all that, I think that cypherpunks, and

Re: On Killing Blaster

2004-04-12 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:26 PM 4/11/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: When faced with force, you reply with force when you can. Nah. This isn't even true in a fistfight, except when the guy you're fighting is a) significantly smaller than you, and b) less trained. More often than not, if someone attacks you, it's

my periodic rant on quantum crypto

2004-04-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: my periodic rant on quantum crypto From: Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:37:33 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /. is running yet another story on quantum cryptography today,

nettime PlayFair Sarovar

2004-04-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text To: nettime [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: kevin lahoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime PlayFair Sarovar Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:51:11 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: kevin lahoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under

Re: nettime PlayFair Sarovar

2004-04-12 Thread proclus
The GNU-Darwin Distribution is taking a stand against what Apple has done, and we have blackened our website so that people will take notice. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ MacNN is also running a story about it, and it is interesting that Apple has sometimes used the DMCA to threaten them as well.

Re: nettime PlayFair Sarovar

2004-04-12 Thread proclus
On 12 Apr, To: R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6042 Ahh, that link just dropped ;-}. Here is another. http://www.advogato.org/article/764.html Regards, proclus http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ -- Visit proclus realm! http://proclus.tripod.com/