Re: BBC2 to recreate Stanford Prison Experiment

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Brown
A quick walk round South London would show that a very large number of men (including myself) shave their heads anyway - probably not as many as 5 years ago, when it was almost normal, but a significant minority. Ken Generic Poster wrote: ..from an ad in circulation on BBC2 (UK) if I recall

which tends to extreme early specialisation,

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Brown
Jim Choate wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote: One of the classic examples of what is now called chaos (a word that I don't like in this context). The exact trajectory taken by simple models Uhuh... of predator-prey systems is often very sensitively dependent on initial

Fwd: GnuPG 1.0.7 released

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Kuhm
===SNIP=== To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Werner Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:07:55 +0200 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It is a complete and free replacement

Re: Upcoming workshop on category theory and concurrency

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Brown
KPJ wrote: [...] I have noticed this on-line anomaly which several people: they require more data on an online communication subject than on an offline communication subject. Appears irrational to me: online security can never become higher than physical security of the subject. But I

Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-30 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Neil Johnson wrote: I made a sign for a friend who had recently purchased a Vette. It said please ignore, this car is just a AMC Pacer with a REALLY GOOD paint job. You gotta be old enough to remember the pacer for that to make sense tho :-) I hope it was big

Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-30 Thread Optimizzin Al-gorithym
At 09:02 AM 4/30/02 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: Ken Brown wrote: ... An even if cars were like little tanks why not open them with ordinary physical keys, like real tanks? US tanks don't have built-in locks as in private autos. They have heavy wire loops or bars and are locked with ordinary

Re: haos -- from MathWorld

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Brown
Jim Choate wrote: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Chaos.html Er, yes, it is a great site. It even has a definition of mathematical chaos: A dynamical system is chaotic if it 1. Has a dense collection of points with periodic orbits, 2. Is sensitive to the initial

RE: Got carried away...

2002-04-30 Thread Trei, Peter
Optimizzin Al-gorithym[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 09:02 AM 4/30/02 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: Ken Brown wrote: ... An even if cars were like little tanks why not open them with ordinary physical keys, like real tanks? US tanks don't have built-in locks as in private autos. They

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-04-30 Thread Michael Motyka
As a simple illustration of the inability to separate the Good Guys from the Bad Guys I use my experiences with my Visa card company. I use the damn thing to buy gas a few times a week and every so often I'll use it for a big ticket item like a PC or a Spa for example. At which time I generally

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility atCodeCon)

2002-04-30 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 29 Apr 2002 at 14:58, Sampo Syreeni wrote: [IPv6] nicely solves the problem with NATs, true. However, most firewalls I know are there for security reasons. Those will likely be adapted to work for 6to4 as well. The transition period will likely see

Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-04-30 Thread Tim May
Note: I wrote the following item to Dave Molnar, as part of our off-line conversation. I ended up summing-up a bunch of points I wanted to put out to the list, and Dave has given me permission to include his remarks. A few places refer to you...this is why. On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 09:06

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-04-30 Thread georgemw
On 29 Apr 2002 at 12:29, Tim May wrote: The deep error which has been with us for a long time is the assumption that we can create legal systems or surveillance systems which go after bad guys but not good guys. That is, that we can separate bad guys like Mohammed Atta from good guys, all

Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-04-30 Thread Tim May
Note: I wrote the following item to Dave Molnar, as part of our off-line conversation. I ended up summing-up a bunch of points I wanted to put out to the list, and Dave has given me permission to include his remarks. A few places refer to you...this is why. On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 09:06