Thomas Shaddup writes:
As a welcomed side effect, not only we'd get a device for circumvention of
just about any contemporary (and possibly a good deal of the future ones)
optical media protections
This is only for the minimal forms of protection which are designed to
work with existing CD/DVD
At 02:33 AM 7/7/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2003-07-06, Major Variola (ret) uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to
allow or export this flexibility.
I'd guess either because of a) terminal stupidity or b) benefits to
scale
in
Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Slashdot pointed to this story of a man indicted via
his *relative's* DNA sample:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3044282.stm
But an interesting, unmentioned issue is this: in population
DNA surveys you find that a lot of purported fathers *aren't*.
At 02:19 AM 7/7/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
or how are we supposed to
find collision free hash functions?What exactly is the
difficulty in finding collision free hash functions?
Because there are no collision *free* hash functions,
there will always be several domain elements that map to the
same
today...
TECHNOLOGY
National Academies
Meeting of the Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community.
Closed session summary posted after the meeting
Location: Keck Center of the National Academies, 500
5th St., NW, Washington, D.C..
Contact: James Killian, 202-334-1758;
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
there are many others that go through both lines.
Ethical issues have surfaced around the desire of the subject's
At 01:15 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
there are many others that go through both lines.
Could you explain how
At 03:59 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
There are some things where nearly everyone will agree
a genetic fix is desirable - for example, suceptibility to
heart disease, cancer, dental caries, and myopia. Other
'vanity' fixes seem pretty harmless - being tall, busty,
or having a well-stuffed
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:51:39AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
And if I know I am not engaging in queer sex
or IV drug use, why would I pay for AIDS coverage/
You've got to be kidding...
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1497971,00.html
..
The development of digital money, and encryption software restricting
government's ability to monitor Internet activity, are common goals among
the online anarchists and libertarians known as cypherpunks.
The ultimate purpose
On Monday 07 July 2003 22:03, Neil Johnson wrote:
... Which makes more sense: Spend
$X dollars on some 80 year old's heart/lung transplant so he can live
another 10 years, or spend that money on make sure an unwed mother's
baby is born healthy?
That's easy: spend it on the 80-year-old. He's
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Stormwalker wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Insurance companies are private entities, so IMHO its moral for
them to gather intel (eg, checking blood for nicotine metabolites),
or give discounts for folks who've had certain inherited
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