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At 09:27 PM 6/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
Lucky:
I agree with Peter in that Sealand may wish to consider adding a
nuke to
their budget of small arms. Nuclear powers are the only
sovereigns that
command any kind of respect from the other
Simply fill one of the lower legs of the platfrom with
mercury, and a little high explosives. Have a panic button in the ops
center. The SAS lands, and 1000 gallons of pure mercury are blasted
out into the channel. That wouldn't be nice.
Plays heck with your mercury delay line memory
At 09:32 PM 6/10/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
I'm still at a loss as to just what you actually mean by saying
"crypto makes it all invisible.' The devil is in the details.
Handwaving about crypto making things invisible just won't cut it,
not when a specific model (Sealand) is being looked at.
By
At 07:51 PM 6/11/00 -0400, Lizard wrote:
Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't Bill just close up
shop? He's got fifty+ billion dollars -- he couldn't spend it all in
his lifetime if he tried. So why doesn't he just pull a John Galt and
say, "Fine. I hereby close down Microsoft.
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
And that is why UNIX deserves to be thrown in the trash can. It is NOT a
good operating system. It is poorly designed, buggy and baddly documented.
Read the UNIX hater's manual for chapter and verse. Its success had
everything to the fact it was once given away
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
You confuse market share, e.g., the decision by most consumers to
choose Windows over OS/2 or Plan 9 or DrDOS, etc.
How are the consumers who can't cope with the Web and have to use the AOL
version meant to be able to learn UNIX or Plan-9?
I take it you've
That's ok, I still got you on the Apple "stealing" from Xerox bit. :)
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tim May wrote:
--Xerox PARC had overlapping windows. Apple used the 1979
demonstration to redirect it's nonoverlapping windows to be
overlapping. This is detailed in some of the histories of PARC,
including "Dealers in Lightning."
Hmm, yes, now that I read back,
Patrick Henry wrote:
[About ZKS being mentioned in the WSJ]
One can only wonder where we're headed when cypherpunkery gets
this mainstream.
I don't know where we are headed. But I do know where we are: Cypherpunks is
about strong crypto, open source, and peer review of that source. With the
