Will QCs ever deliver? (was: The Star Online: Is quantum computing a cybersecurity threat? - Tech News)

2018-12-25 Thread Steven Schear
After reading some articles, written by some credible mathematicians and computer science engineers, I've become skeptical whether quantum computers are likely to become practical devices for the many problems they are being proposed to solve.

Re: Bitcoin Private Denies Fraud Allegations and Calls for Halt to BTCP Trading

2018-12-25 Thread grarpamp
On 12/25/18, jim bell wrote: >> https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-private-researchers-allege-fraudulent-inflation/ > https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-private-denies-fraud-allegations-and-calls-for-halt-to-btcp-trading/ https://twitter.com/bitcoinprivate https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/

Re: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 66, Issue 55

2018-12-25 Thread morlockelloi
Mr. May was amiable in person and exhibited high integrity. My take is that he detected the plague of identarianism early on, before many did, and had instinctive revulsion to it. Too bad so few did the same. From: John Young Subject: Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1Timothy C. May Fan

The Star Online: Is quantum computing a cybersecurity threat? - Tech News

2018-12-25 Thread jim bell
The Star Online: Is quantum computing a cybersecurity threat? - Tech News. http://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2018/12/26/is-quantum-computing-a-cybersecurity-threat/

Re: 2019 Predictions Thread

2018-12-25 Thread jamesd
On 26/12/2018 12:50, grarpamp wrote: Here is yearly thread to make the predictions for 2019 before it arrives and starts becoming true or false... Trump wins the shutdown - Democrats fight each other, bill funding the wall gets passed. Democrats fail to impeach Trump on the basis of the

Cryptography national rules and freedom

2018-12-25 Thread Jan Dusatko
Dear, I would like to apologize for this e-mail, may you can help me. Because I collecting detailed data about national restriction of cryptography (under term cryptography I mean software, hardware, devices, algorithm - almost everything), could you take a look on questions bellow? Do any of you

2019 Predictions Thread

2018-12-25 Thread grarpamp
Here is yearly thread to make the predictions for 2019 before it arrives and starts becoming true or false...

Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1Timothy C. May Fan Site”

2018-12-25 Thread jamesd
On 26/12/2018 06:46, John Young wrote: Tim relished hurling offensive language in the way Trump (and a slew of others) do against herdish PC. But he does not curse and spout vulgarities as if linguistic propriety enhances credibility, hard to imagine him bragging of grabbing pussies. Trump's

Bitcoin Private Denies Fraud Allegations and Calls for Halt to BTCP Trading

2018-12-25 Thread jim bell
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-private-denies-fraud-allegations-and-calls-for-halt-to-btcp-trading/

Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1 Timothy C. May Fan Site”

2018-12-25 Thread jamesd
On 26/12/2018 03:55, juan wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:04:29 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote: https://mobile.twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1076576924032331776/photo/1 so that's a journo from the joo york times saying that Tim May said this

Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1Timothy C. May Fan Site”

2018-12-25 Thread John Young
Tim relished hurling offensive language in the way Trump (and a slew of others) do against herdish PC. But he does not curse and spout vulgarities as if linguistic propriety enhances credibility, hard to imagine him bragging of grabbing pussies. Those who knew him praise his courtesy and

Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1 Timothy C. May Fan Site”

2018-12-25 Thread juan
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 15:38:23 -0500 John Young wrote: > From: Tim May > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:15:33 +0800 > To: cypherpu...@algebra.com > > ... [Sig tag] > > --Tim May > > We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and > their children. We would kill their families I

Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1 Timothy C. May Fan Site”

2018-12-25 Thread John Young
From: Tim May Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:15:33 +0800 To: cypherpu...@algebra.com ... [Sig tag] --Tim May We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C.

Re: Timothy C. May tribute - TDS “#1 Timothy C. May Fan Site”

2018-12-25 Thread juan
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 09:04:29 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote: https://mobile.twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1076576924032331776/photo/1 so that's a journo from the joo york times saying that Tim May said this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvDE58vVAAA9Ob-.jpg:small Is there

Cypherpunks was demon seed of Trump

2018-12-25 Thread John Young
Cypherpunks Spawn Google Hits, December 25, 2018 Trump 1,480,000,000 Bear Market 734,000,000 Bitcoin 639,000,000 Bull Market 302,000,000 Crypto 170,000,000 Mueller 148,000,000 WikiLeaks 29,300,000 Assange 20,300,000 1. The spawn of the devil. 2. A person that does things that are really evil.

There really is "White privilege" - perhaps not quite what we thought though... - [PEACE]

2018-12-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Looks like there really is "white" privelege, just not quite what we've been lead to believe ... pic attached. Enjoy, and create your world :) On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:56:31AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:44:21PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12,