Patent nonsense getting out of hand

2002-03-23 Thread matthew X
1st Google and now this...http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24421.html What a shitty week for free speech and encryption.Two dropkicks even tried to rope profesor rat! My heart goes out to proff cyborg in canada,proffs have feelings too.See http://www.theregus.com/content/28/24417.html If only

RE: I'm no agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Morlock Elloi
choice of law between the laws of men, and the laws of mathematics smack of some fallacy? Not hiring a single lawyer, not even _consulting_ (emphasis his) a lawyer, more truly means you are a complete moron and disdain even calculated risk. It should be considered that Mr. May perhaps

Tim may,an Ox for the people to ride.

2002-03-23 Thread matthew X
I might have been mistaken about Tim being CIA,actually with a ring through his nose,( like the lack of idealogical support he's been getting lately),he's becoming quite tractable.An ox for the people to ride. It must be frustrating seeing Jim Bell run off with your Extremely dark markets,idea

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread Anonymous
Adam Back writes: Here's something I wrote up the other night with my thoughts about the differences between peer-to-peer networks vs the more ambitious storage surface type propsals and the design criteria which one might entertain designing against. http://www.cypherspace.org/p2p/

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread keyser-soze
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: Sharing copyrighted material in order to get the same is the only working example that I can see. If someone can point to reason why large number of people would give a fuck about fighting censorship, enhancing privacy and anonymity,

RE: I'm no agent. Sez the cretin agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:33 PM 3/22/02 -0600, Aimee Farr wrote: Tim wrote: Don't hire a single lawyer. As soon as even a single lawyer is hired, you're lost. Because it means you're thinking in terms of using the legal system, of striking business deals with those whose products you napster, and with working

They like to come on fridays

2002-03-23 Thread matthew X
As jim bell twigged and as my dell was taken on one,from now on I'll draw the blinds and not answer the door on fridays... Post made yesterday (as comment)at melb Indymedia. Subject: Soviet style psychiatry.A court case for human rights? Dr lector or Sigmund Fraud? Dr perera has been sacked by

My first post

2002-03-23 Thread matthew X
You can check that I dont work for the Govt,in fact I cost various Govts lots of money in the year you've been lurking. Choate believes in representative democracy and so supports Govt.I am an anarchist and want to destroy all Govts. Anarchy al Ackbar. Lord Hassan [al-Sabbah] preserved his

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:26 AM 3/23/2002 +0100, Anonymous wrote: As far as the economics, one of the main lessons of the failure of Mojo Nation was that Mojo didn't work, or perhaps you might say it worked too well. It caused nothing but problems for the operators of the network. People tried to horde it, they got

Re: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright

2002-03-23 Thread Morlock Elloi
eye-opener (the full paper goes into more detail). My conclusion after reading this (well before also actually, but it re-enforced the view) is that the safest and simplest thing to do is to just publish such software anonymously. Again, motivation. The number of programmers that would

signal to noise proposal

2002-03-23 Thread vznuri
hi all. Ive been fascinated with the problem of signal to noise for as long as Ive been dinking around in internet-cyberspace (now over a decade). oldtimers may recall that Ive had many various proposals over the past on the list. it does seem that cypherpunks has succumbed to significant

Re: future uses for storage surfaces

2002-03-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:42 PM 3/23/2002 +, Adam Back wrote: I just saw Steve Shear's post (copied below) on the dcsb list where he mentions USENET movie trading in VCD format in alt.binaries.vcd. I didnt' try any out, but it took my newsreader a fair while to download and thread the subject lines, and there

Re: I'm no agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:33:00PM -0600, Aimee Farr wrote: Not hiring a single lawyer, not even _consulting_ (emphasis his) a lawyer, more truly means you are a complete moron and disdain even calculated risk. If you break the law by a significant act in that direction, you set your own hook

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Adam Back wrote: Are there people who already read cpunks regularly via the web? (Reading email and mailing-lists via the web always seemed clunky to me, even on broadband, but there are apparently vast numbers of people who use only web-email by preference, and to

Re: I'm no agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Declan McCullagh wrote: If you are comfortable with your ability to publish code anonymously, and do this through the methods that have been oft-discussed here, including chained remailers, perhaps coupled with physical identity- shielding schemes, there is no need to

State of non-agency

2002-03-23 Thread Aimee Farr
Faustine's reply... Aimee wrote: What happens if you break the laws of mathematics? Do fractions with guns chase you? Do you get put in a random number prison? Well for one, If I broke the laws of mathematics I'd lose time, waste an incalculable number of other people's man-hours, lose face,

Re: Where are my turnips?

2002-03-23 Thread Mats O. Bergstrom
_TAZ_ Everyone go read it now!! Yes Mr Molnar, Sir! Please scan, OCR and publish it on the list thru a couple of remailers. //Mob

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-23 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 05:31 PM, Graham Lally wrote: Adam Back wrote: Apart from my recent comments about NoCeM's and on onspool NoCeM reader, another perhaps simpler idea would be to do it all with simple CGI stuff and a web archive. I'm sure this has been discussed before in

Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-23 Thread vznuri
hi guys, thanks for the feedback. I have in mind a system that would work from a few factors, with minimal intervention. I specifically think that a system of appointed moderators is **not** an ideal solution for a bazillion reasons. that is precisely what I have not in mind. the whole

Re: I'm no agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 05:35 PM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Declan McCullagh wrote: If you are comfortable with your ability to publish code anonymously, and do this through the methods that have been oft-discussed here, including chained remailers, perhaps

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread jamesd
-- On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:26, Anonymous wrote: Not all of these are still going but it shows that there is a lot more in the P2P file sharing and publishing world than just a few moldering old cypherpunk projects from the 90s. P2P has really passed the cypherpunk world by. As far as

Re: I'm no agent.

2002-03-23 Thread Steve Furlong
Aimee Farr wrote: What happens if you break the laws of mathematics? You get a black hole. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all