At 9:30 AM +0000 on 5/11/02, anonimo arancio wrote:
> This is so fucking boring. So far. I expect that if someone ever gets around to doing really secure, instantaneous transactions very cheaply using financial cryptography, things might get more interesting. My bet is that blind signatures, and other protocols like them, will make that happen, but my bets were taken by the house quite a while ago... Ironically, we should aspire to boredom, as far as those protocols go, as in boringly ubiquitous... > No one gets laid any more for doing FC. Certainly not me, anyway. Sounds like you haven't gotten any since about Anguilla in 2000, either. ;-). Pool parties, much less villas with pool parties, are expensive in the Caymans, much less Bermuda. Your mileage in Edinburgh may vary, I suppose, but, while the whiskey rocks, it *is* cold there, even around the Solstice. Cheers, RAH Who went swimming in Tinker's Hole (down, boy...) that time of year and almost had a heart attack... -- ----------------- 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 deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'