Re: Trouble at HavenCo?

2003-08-06 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 11:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HavenCo's error was not initially raising the necessary cash to buy Sealand outright from the Bates, or if that didn't work they could have done it the old fashioned way by marrying into the family. Not having total control led

They never learn: "Omniva Policy Systems"

2003-08-06 Thread Tim May
I ran across a reference to this company, which says it has raised $20 M in VC financing and which claims it has a system which implements the digital equivalent of "disappearing ink." (Perhaps distilled from snake oil?) The URL is still called disappearing.com, but the company is now called O

Re: They never learn: "Omniva Policy Systems"

2003-08-06 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:52 PM 08/05/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 01:00 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: It's nice to see that they're still around, unlike so many dot.bombs. Why is it "nice"? They had what looked like a legitimate security / privacy product, and were upfront about the threat m

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-06 Thread John Kozubik
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 19:27]: > > > > That is incorrect. AOL owns their network, and they can respond to your > > arbitrary communications on their network in any way they see fit. > > Unfortunately, you're correct. > > > Mayb

RE: Year in Jail for Web Links

2003-08-06 Thread John Young
Mac Norton wrote: >There was a weapons charge as well, which will always complicate >matters considerably. There was a weapons charge -- Molotov cocktail -- in the first indictment which was dropped. The second indictment was for the single charge of distribution of information, to wit: 1

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-06 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] I'm > talking about is AOL committing a DoS attack on me, which is > actionable regardless of Bob's contract. Dear honorable Mr. Mindfuq, I am from this point forward blocking all mail traffic from you to the networks I control. None of your

Re: Trouble at HavenCo?

2003-08-06 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 8/5/2003 2:51:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sterling had placed much too much emphasis on the havens' attempt to be physically secure by owning small countries and not nearly enough (if any) emphasis on using strong cryptography to achieve security ins

Re: What happened to the Cryptography list...?

2003-08-06 Thread Bill Stewart
Bob - Perry's cryptography list moved from wasabisystems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a few months ago. [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: - lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] serves the following lists: bsd-api-announceThe BSD APIs Announcement Mailing

Colored people and cripples

2003-08-06 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... "Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?" Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard. I hear them using this _frequently_. Just abo

Re: Colored people and cripples

2003-08-06 Thread Cardenas
once again, we can count on Tim May to contribute the least productive comment to this thread. On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:01:48PM -0700, Tim May wrote: > On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: > > >Tim May wrote... > > > >"Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?"

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

2003-08-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:16 PM 8/6/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >> >What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time? > >We wouldn't have to go back to OTP, just symmetric-key keyservers >which people used before public-key became well-known. > >While the public-key algorithms are based on math proble

Colored people

2003-08-06 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 08:39 PM, Mac Norton wrote: There was a weapons charge as well, which will always complicate matters considerably. The unconventional life is a more or less fine thing until it gets perpendicular to the conventional life, usually in the form of law enforcement a

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

2003-08-06 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:17 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: At 06:17 PM 08/05/2003 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: The problem here is that if you have a family and assets and responsibility and something resembling a future, you cannot afford to be the 1 in 100 who refuses to plea bargain, It's a