Re: Ben's blinding, plus pre-publishing

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Jason Holt wrote: copyright issues? Why haven't I seen other papers published on usenet and such before going to press? This is a joke right? Copyright, they want it as the exclusive distributor which they can't do if it's been published somewhere else. --

Re: Sci Journals, authors, internet

2002-06-11 Thread Tim May
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 08:55 PM, Greg Newby wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:53:05PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: My experience with scientific journals is more than a few years old. Do any of youse have personal experience with publishing both several years ago and recently? Not

Re: Sci Journals, authors, internet

2002-06-11 Thread Greg Newby
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:53:05PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 22:20, Jim Choate wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Jason Holt wrote: copyright issues? Why haven't I seen other papers published on usenet and such before going to press? This is a joke right?

lsfr with odd charecteristics

2002-06-11 Thread gfgs pedo
hi, Book says, a construction that involved computing LSFR's over a field of 'odd charecteristics' is insecure. Does that mean a register with odd number of bits is insecure which would mean a tap sequence which uses an odd degree polynomial is insecure? Regards Data.

Re: Ben's blinding, plus pre-publishing

2002-06-11 Thread Ben Laurie
Jason Holt wrote: Are the journals going to be snippy about copyright issues? Most journals don't like papers to have been published elsewhere first. Screw 'em, I say. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can

What's with all the spam?...

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Choate
The list has been under 'attack' for a while. There are multiple parties and they don't seem to be working in concert. I base this on the observation, for example, that during the recent group diatribe over 'filter this ...' at one point I received a mass of removal notices from a bunch of spam