Re: US: Democracy or Republic?

2000-12-10 Thread petro
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: From: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. IT IS A REPUBLIC. THE ELECTORAL A republic is a form of democracy, a representative one. No, it isn't. -- A quote from Petro's

Re: Re: Data Logs

2000-12-10 Thread petro
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Russ K wrote: Maybe not, but the tools used to remove the barrel/s can be traced by teeth marks and other metal to metal contact. So the moral of the story is... If you want to destroy the potential barrel you'll need to: - Have replacement barrels purchased in a

Re: The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

2000-12-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
Robert, With respect, you're joking, right? The current system is flawed, true, but an Internet voting system would likely suffer from far more serious security, authentication, and fraud problems. This is a recurring topic of discussion in cryptographic and computer-risks circles. Do some web

Re: The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

2000-12-10 Thread Robert Guerra
Declan: I completely agree with you that internet voting isn't quite ready fom prime-time just yet. But given the current snafu I highly suspect that there will be a lot of interest in the field. Certainly, I hope one of the few things the new congress will be able to do is set-up a

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-10 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote: (RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got this strange Marxist idea that politics is just an emergent property of economics :-) Just by the way, how widespread is this use of the word 'geodesic'? Not very, I think. It seems

Re: Fractal geodesic networks

2000-12-10 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Carol A Braddock wrote: So say you -could- estimate a fractal dimension for the internet. What would the number be good for? If it could be shown that a consistent estimate exists and it was calculated, it would probably affect the scaling properties of the Net - after all,

Re: The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

2000-12-10 Thread Me
- Original Message - From: "Robert Guerra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] personally, if I had a say I'd say they should adopt the same system Canada uses. They use a 100 year old system, had few if any recounts, and managed to count all thier manual ballots in less than 72 hours. is there any

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A piece of advice??

2000-12-10 Thread FRANKY
Hello to everyone. I'm Alexis and as I'm new to cryptography I would appreciate a piece of advice. I've read the book "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier and I also have the "ICSA Guide to cryptography". However I would like to know where could I find more books related to

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Re: Gates to Privacy Rescue? Riiight!

2000-12-10 Thread Tim May
At 2:27 PM -0800 12/10/00, petro wrote: Mr. May: The author also mentions that consumers dislike (so?) tracking of their purchases...and then in the next paragraphs cites the Firestone tire recall as an example of better policy than most Web sites have (or something like this...I re-read his

Re: IBM Uses Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case (was Re:

2000-12-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:06 PM -0800 on 12/10/00, petro wrote: RAH whinged ...and in error. My apologies. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may

Re: Sunders point on copyright infringement HTML

2000-12-10 Thread Tim May
At 5:24 PM -0600 12/10/00, Allen Ethridge wrote: On 11/30/00 at 1:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim May) wrote: So, you might say, "it works." Nope. Problems: 1. I ain't gonna read messages that require me to launch my word processor. Mail shouldn't need external word processors or text

Re: A piece of advice??

2000-12-10 Thread Tim May
At 6:18 PM +0200 12/10/00, FRANKY wrote: Hello to everyone. I'm Alexis and as I'm new to cryptography I would appreciate a piece of advice. I've read the book "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier and I also have the "ICSA Guide to cryptography". However I would like to know where

Re: A piece of advice??

2000-12-10 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, FRANKY wrote: to cryptography". However I would like to know where could I find more books related to cryptography. amazon.com is one place. see also http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ for an online copy of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography. secure one system

Re: US: Democracy or Republic?

2000-12-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:26 AM 12/10/00 -0800, petro wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: From: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. IT IS A REPUBLIC. THE ELECTORAL A republic is a form of democracy, a representative one. No,

Re: Gates to Privacy Rescue? Riiight!

2000-12-10 Thread petro
At 2:27 PM -0800 12/10/00, petro wrote: Mr. May: The author also mentions that consumers dislike (so?) tracking of their purchases...and then in the next paragraphs cites the Firestone tire recall as an example of better policy than most Web sites have (or something like this...I re-read his

Re: Sunders point on copyright infringement HTML

2000-12-10 Thread Anonymous
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:46:05PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Fact is, PGP and SMIME went the _wrong_ direction when message signings started to require RTF, MIME, HTML, etc. (I realize these are not all the same thing. The real issue is "non-ASCII.") Apparently, Eudora didn't manage to

Re: Sunders point on copyright infringement HTML

2000-12-10 Thread Tim May
At 2:19 AM + 12/11/00, Anonymous wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:46:05PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Fact is, PGP and SMIME went the _wrong_ direction when message signings started to require RTF, MIME, HTML, etc. (I realize these are not all the same thing. The real issue is

Re: CDR:Re: The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

2000-12-10 Thread Robert Guerra
In article 001c01c062e0$5db95fc0$0100a8c0@golem, "Me" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any benefit to the 'canadian system' above it's lack of lawyers? Having a plethora of different standards sure doesn't help.. In Canada, and other countries there is a uniform ballot across the

BS about RFC2015 messages being attachments

2000-12-10 Thread Sean R. Lynch
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:04:18PM -0800, Tim May wrote: [...] You're missing the point. Several people set their systems to provide their _entire_ messages as attachments. Riad Wahby acknowledged this, and fixed it. Others did not, so I started filtering them out. Riad "fixed" his software

Re: Sunders point on copyright infringement HTML

2000-12-10 Thread Sean R. Lynch
Sorry, that last one from me was out of line. I'm just tired of being accused of sending my messages as attachments by people with broken MUAs, and then their claiming that their MUA must handle MIME fine because they can click on the pretty little icon and have attachments magically open for