Gary Shapiro: P2P File Sharing is Legal and Moral

2002-09-19 Thread Seth Johnson
(This essay hits many very effective points. One of the key things that needs to be borne in mind, however, is the fact that technological proposals currently on the table are implementations of the notion, foreign to American society and jurisprudence, of creators' moral rights -- a term

Fwd: Physics News Update 605 - liquid crystal random numbergenerator

2002-09-19 Thread Charles McElwain
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:27:56 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Physics News Update 605 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 605 September 18, 2002 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon [...] FAST, CHEAP RANDOM NUMBERS.

Re: Fwd: Physics News Update 605 - liquid crystal random numbergenerator

2002-09-19 Thread Bram Cohen
Charles McElwain wrote: James Gleeson, a physicist at Kent State University (330-672-9592, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) has come up with a cheap, fast solution. He shoots laser light into a sample of liquid crystals. But because the sample is subject to a turbulent flow, causing haphazard

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-19 Thread Peter N. Biddle
Hi Nomen I am sending to crypto only as I am not on any of the other aliases you sent to. Feel free to fwd. How about hacked instead of broken? Broken implies that a machine doesn't work; hacked implies it has been changed somehow but that it still works. Let's say that a hacked Pd machine is a

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-19 Thread David Wagner
Peter N. Biddle wrote: [...] You can still extract everything in Pd via a HW attack. [...] How is this BORE resistant? The Pd security model is BORE resistant for a unique secret protected by a unique key on a given machine. Your hack on your machine won't let you learn the secrets on my