Declan writes:
It's important for cypherpunks to understand why Seth Finkelstein has
(apparently) recently subscribed to the list. Seth is essentially an
anti-cypherpunk, someone who violently disagrees with free-market points of
view and has spent (a conservative estimate) hundreds of
DALNet, a San Diego company that provides Internet
chat networks, contacted the FBI and complained that
several computer users had begun attacks on it. The
hackers caused computers to become disabled and denied
other
On the heels of the Efnext debacle, I just read this fascinating
article in Wired News which purports to explain that Usenet is already
dead, and IRC will be next.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41077,00.html
Methinks some people are just a teensy bit too eager to announce the
Jim Choate writes:
A typical citizen-unit will quickly trade a large amount of privacy for
a small amount of convenience.
That begs the question and misrepresents reality to a good degree. People
take the choices they think they have, usually those choices are made
available by the party
Almost since the inception of the Internet, Usenet and IRC have been
uncensorable distributed resources defined only by adherence to published
protocols.
With no centralized administration, and resilience against the loss of
individual servers, they carry enough traffic to provide complete and
Jim Choate writes:
So much for belief in free markets. You realise that there is nothing
that requires servers to install this, or cease using the old network?
A typical citizen-unit will quickly trade a large amount of privacy for a
small amount of convenience.
Sheeple-shearing is never so
Tim expounds:
I haven't been posting here a lot for various reasons.
First, the quality of the responses has not been good. It seems
repartee and tired Nazi vs. Stalinist debate is the norm, with
Choatian physics and Choatian history filling in the gaps.
It's been a slow politics and
Tim May writes:
Folks, this increase in MIME attachments is getting out of hand.
People are reading this list on a variety of machines, from PDAs to
Amigas to VT100s to Unix boxes to Windows.
I have a solution.
I keep MIME turned off, and if the 7-bit representation of the
message is not
A Texas couple who ran two very well known and popular age-verification
services for Adult Web content have been convicted over the contents of
two foreign Web sites which were illegal in the United States, one hosted
in Russia, and the other hosted in Indonesia.
Age-verification services are a
Declan writes:
Check out the affidavit/complaint at:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/21/1944238
And from the aforementioned document...
On or about October 23, 2000, at Vancouver, within the Western District
of Washington, James Dalton Bell did travel across a state line from
Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bell was not coerced into taking the plea agreement; if
anything, he seems to have more mental resources to fight
the system than other defendants I have interviewed.
Unless the plea agreement specifies a sentence equal to the upper range
that
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Journalists have no special rights. None. They are simply those who
are (usually) paid for their words. This does not exempt them from
any laws. The First Amendment does not confer special rights to
writers; in fact, it says that government may not create
The Lovely and Talented Jodi Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are wrong to protect them without knowing what they're about, Jay.
Their motto is, "Sex before eight, or it's too late."
I'll never understand the ability of Child Sex Hysterics to look at one
thing and see another. "Sex Before
Jodi Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I knew there was a reason I printed out NAMBLA's website
throughout the years.
So you can lie about what's in it cleverly enough not to get caught?
You *are* the same Jodi Hoffman who claims Sex Education is Satan's
Doorway to our Childrens' Innocence,
Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why, then, did he find Lee guilty of a felony? He could have dismissed
the charges, eh?
He was bound by the terms of the plea agreement, without which the DOJ and
DOE would have continued to give Dr. Lee the broom handle/asshole
treatment.
Politics is
Bill Stewart writes:
We've done remailers around here for a while, and extending the
concepts to anonymizers does take some work - but the only thing that's
rocket science is getting both security and efficiency at the same time.
Having Ian around is a big help
The hard part is making
Jim Choate writes:
I rather doubt you'll find a single line of Plan 9 in any Linux and there
are no 'ideas' from Plan 9 in Linux, no mulitple server kernels, no 'no
root users', no 'private work space', no 'work space looks the same
irrespective of terminal server used, no transparent
An Anonymous Person Writes:
It is past time for ZKS to take the actions they have long promised.
Instead they are moving in the opposite direction. Let the community
speak up and tell them plainly that rhetoric is no longer enough.
ZKS should at least commit to a timetable for when their
Looks like the jackbooted thugs are just itching to try out the new
Federal lethal injection chamber on a marijuana distributor, convicted
under the Federal Drug Kingpin law.
This creative bit of legislation permits one to be given the death penalty
for any killing committed by someone the
Jim Choate wrotes:
I've looked around, the only thing I can find is a paper by Y.K. Huen.
However, it requires a change in some definitions.
The abstract I remember reading proved GC on a set of finite number fields
of increasing size, and then inferred it for the integers at the end.
The
Jim Choate wrote:
The abstract I remember reading proved GC on a set of finite number
fields of increasing size, and then inferred it for the integers at the
end.
That wouldn't be sufficiently robust. Simply because the first n primes do
it is not sufficient to prove that all primes will
Declan writes:
I'm a little confused. There are at least two places on that page where Bob
dates his resignation as October 1997. --Declan
Someone mentioned the URL of the letter in a discussion of the $200
million lawsuit just filed against NAMBLA/Verio, and I was so enamored by
Bob's
Gary Jeffers writes:
Note: I am assuming that Tim May is not doing some kind of spoof
here.
Been reading the list for a long time, have we?
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
Colin writes:
So, he is not a Holocaust Denier?
Well, I suppose these days if you say 5,999,999 Jews died instead of
6,000,000 you qualify.
How exactly is he the victim, when he would never have been fined if
he hadn't brought the suit himself?
Being called names like "Holocaust Denier"
Who is this jerk - some kind of Microsoft paid flunky?
I read the judge's decision, and his claims are the following.
1. Because of the "application barrier to entry", no one can effectively
compete with Microsoft in the Intel/PC market OS, giving microsoft a
monopoly in this
A Spammer writes:
*This is the Famous R-O Shack TV Descrambler
You can assemble it from Radio Shack parts for about $12 to $15.
Won't work unless your cable company is using technology from the 1960's.
Modern cable scrambling uses techniques such as sync suppression, random
inversion and
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