At 07:59 AM 04/08/2002 -0600, Anonymous wrote:
Any attacker who can control 100,000 machines is a major force on the
internet, while someone with a million or more is currently unstoppable:
able to launch massively diffuse DDOS attacks, perform needle in a
hayfield searches, and commit all sorts
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Bill Stewart wrote:
Do you mean How hard would it be to crack into Brilliant Digital's
servers before some other SKR1P7 K1DD13Z take it over? Or do you mean
Is that easier than cracking into Microsoft or Adobe or M0Zilla or
some other quasi-reputable company's
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:52:32PM -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
While I agree with goal, it's not clear to me that it's physically
possible. What makes money useful is it's physical existance, people
have been counterfiting coins since they were invented but it's been
getting harder to do.
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Identification Citizenship Believe it or Nots
by Duncan Frissell
http://technoptimist.blogspot.com/?/2002_04_07_technoptimist_archive.html
Last September's attack on the United States vastly increased debate on
identification, citizenship, and immigration. For your education and
amusement,
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Adam Back wrote:
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Another example would be having to give a deposit to get mobile phone
for people with poor credit ratings. Also in Europe pay as you go,
cash only mobile phone usage is popular due to credit elegibility
reasons also I think. You can plunk down a 10 pound note
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On 9 Apr 2002 at 14:40, Steve Furlong wrote:
Trei, Peter wrote:
US don't want dollar coins
Just about a
year ago, they tried again, with the 'Sacagawea' or 'Golden Dollar'.
This is a very handsome coin, gold in color, but it was the same size
as a SBA dollar (to fit the machines).
Ben Laurie wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
It's not just an extra feature; an off-line system inherently requires
users to identify themselves to the bank at withdrawal time. It cannot
allow users to anonymously exchange coins at the bank. So it has an
inherent lack of anonymity which is not
On 9 Apr 2002 at 16:54, Ken Brown wrote:
But paper money is such a 20th-century thing! These days we're slowly
drifting back to higher value metal coins (2 pounds out for a few years
now, 5 pounds coming soon I think). Much more fun. Feels like real
treasure! Less of the floppy stuff, we
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Trei, Peter wrote:
I was living in Britain (and of an allowance-recieving age) when
decimalization
occured. While we lost the big penny, we gained the 50p piece. In those
days,
it was a large, heavy, seven-sided coin, bigger than a US half-dollar, and
worth
$1.20. It
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Trei, Peter wrote:
I was living in Britain (and of an allowance-recieving age) when
decimalization
occured. While we lost the big penny, we gained the 50p piece. In those
days,
it was a large, heavy, seven-sided coin,
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Putting RF Tags in cash is one of those ideas with Unintended Consequences.
Muggers would love having a way of determining which victims are carrying a
wad, as would many salesmen (and JBTs looking to perform a 'civil
confiscation'
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote:
I'd rather have stiff cards than floppy paper ones. At least you can put
them into the slot of a machine easily.
But with an RF tag you'd not even have to pull it out
Peter Trei writes:
Speaking for myself and a few friends and relations, we'd
be perfectly happy to use them, if they were available.
A good place to get Sacagawea dollars is from the stamp machine at your
local post office. Put in a $20 bill and buy as small an amount of
stamps as you can,
On 9 Apr 2002 at 10:07, Steve Schear wrote:
New breed spam filter slashes junk email
10:31 09 April 02 NewScientist.com news service
A new breed of spam-filtering technology that combines peer-to-peer
communications with machine learning could intercept nearly all unwanted
email,
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At 12:47 AM 4/10/02 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
But from what I saw it was around 4x more expensive. A SIM with a
years contract (all paid up front) is pretty easy to obtain for 10 -
50 pounds depending on number of free minutes included.
And some people even like anonymity.
Yes other things
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Tim May wrote:
Physics-wise, it's a jiveass fantasy. No way are there micro-strips
readable from a distance in today's currency, and very likely not in the
next 20 years. (I don't dispute that a careful lab setup could maybe
read a note at a few meters, in a
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