Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the latest news on Adelman's cryptological soup? Once his DNA crypto was touted as a substantial breakthrough for crypto, though since overshadowed by quantum crypto smoke-blowing. DNA computes very slowly; it's bound by viscous drag and

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2003-01-01 Thread Peter Gutmann
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Collecting valid name information costs a vendor money (both in labor, computerization/records, and in driving some customers elsewhere). It also deters some people from completing transactions. To see an example of data collection done on a grand scale, have a

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: Does a paradox ever help in understanding any thing? Yes, it can demonstrate that you aren't asking the right questions within the correct context. We define a paradox on a base of rules we want to prove. No, a paradox is two things we accept that

Americans Revolt in Pennsylvania - New Battle Lines Are Drawn

2003-01-01 Thread Steve Schear
[It will be interesting to see where this could go if Nadar, Demos and other anti-corporate types take up the banner.] Corporations shall not be considered to be 'persons' protected by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within the

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:57:58AM -0800, Tim May wrote: First, I sent this in error to the CP list...it was intended for another list. (My mailer has command completion and I am so used to typing cy in the To: box and having it expand to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I sent it to CP by accident. As

Re: CDR: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Matthew X wrote: To Kill Or Not To Kill ' Surveys of criminologists and police chiefs show that substantial majorities of both groups doubt that the death penalty significantly reduces the number of homicides' All of which ignores the best reason for killing convicted murderers: that one

Re: re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is there a way to RELIABLY find the mail was opened? There are a variety of plastics and such that will change color and break-down; the new time-limited DVD's that become unplayable after some short period of days after opening the air tight

re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is there a way to RELIABLY find the mail was opened? I have a related question. I have a little server sitting in a wall closet. Does anyone have an easy solution (preferably low tech) for figuring out that the closet door has been opened?

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-01 Thread dmolnar
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: How do you all see the future use of biologically based systems affecting cryptography in general? As Tim pointed out, barring some incredible breakthrough, such systems are unlikely to affect cryptography at all. You may be interested to see that

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2003-01-01 Thread Peter Gutmann
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote: At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote: Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired membership card in the

Re: How Free is the Free Market?

2003-01-01 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:42 PM +0800 on 1/1/03, Marc de Piolenc wrote: Who's we, Professor Chomsky? I sure as hell don't call it that, nor does any free-market advocate that I know. This is simply a Socialist striking a straw man, nicht wahr? No. It's a troll by someone who's in almost everyone *else's*

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Choate hails from Texas,the state with the highest rate of cold blooded state murder. Have we heard the slightest peep out of this serial spammer about this? Choate condemn the state murderers or remain a cold blooded conforming creep. Check the

Re: Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film

2003-01-01 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:23 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Tim May wrote: ... (The next time a CP meeting/party is at my house, someone remind me and I'll put it on. Along with A Beautiful Mind, also of interest to us.) The tree of

Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote: Tim May wrote... I don't believe, necessarily, in certain forms of the Copenhagen Interpretation, especially anything about signals propagating instantaneously, 'instantaneously' from -whose- perspective? Yes, this has been a fashionable set of

Re: CDR: How Free is the Free Market?

2003-01-01 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Matthew X wrote: Debt repayment means that commercial banks made bad loans to their favorite dictators, those loans are now being paid by the poor, who have absolutely nothing to do with it, of course by the taxpayers in the wealthy countries, because the debts are socialized. That's

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Marc de Piolenc wrote: All of which ignores the best reason for killing convicted murderers: that one will never kill again. Which leads to a ethical paradox regarding the state's murder and it's public admission of the fact, and the need of society to protect itself from

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-01 Thread jya
What's the latest news on Adelman's cryptological soup? Once his DNA crypto was touted as a substantial breakthrough for crypto, though since overshadowed by quantum crypto smoke-blowing. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/crypto/1999-q4/0257.html Isn't it a given that crypto is never free