CNN.com - Jefferson kin reject slave descendants - May 6, 2002

2002-05-06 Thread Jim Choate
How much racial progress have we made again?... http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/06/jefferson.hemings.ap/index.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its

CNN.com - Jefferson kin reject slave descendants - May 6, 2002

2002-05-06 Thread Jim Choate
Some one is spoofing me The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly - Wildlife [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slashdot | Three Years Under the DMCA (EFF Report)

2002-05-05 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/05/05/1157235.shtml?tid=103 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Slashdot | The Dangers of Being A Microbiologist (Conspiracy Theory, maybe ;)

2002-05-05 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/science/02/05/05/0043203.shtml?tid=134 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Why I fill this list with SPAM

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
Because I can. More slashdot is coming The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly - Wildlife

CNN.com - Mailbox bomb letter text - May 3, 2002

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/03/pipebomb.letter/index.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Slashdot | The Next Tech Revolution

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/04/0220232.shtml?tid=158 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

The Register - Sen. Biden thrills MS

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25156.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

Re: CDR: Re: Why I fill this list with SPAM

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
You dumbass, it's some CACL spoofer using a system in Korea. You need to look to your own. On Sat, 4 May 2002, John Young wrote: Jim pukes: Because I can. More slashdot is coming The shit you post is less than spam which has minimal content and is anonymous or forged and took slim

The Gift Economy

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.regexps.com/gift-economy.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly -

Slashdot | Free Software Law in Peruvian Congress

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/04/220237.shtml?tid=117 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

CNN.COM-LIGHT

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
We attempt them, then we dully smell Madeleine and Laura's elder tree. How will you receive the unique sharp games before Allen does? If you will kick Abdul's forest around exits, it will subtly creep the film. A lot of fresh stale cloud moulds onions over Waleed's rural potter. Let's

Slashdot | Megaspammer Monsterhut Loses On Appeal (Monsterhut loses to Pae Tec, plug pulled)

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/05/0040237.shtml?tid=111 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Slashdot | SonicBlue Ordered to Spy on ReplayTV Viewers

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/05/03/0425240.shtml?tid=158 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Inside the Ring -- The Washington Times

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020503-85196840.htm -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- High school journalist sues after his article is banned

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/2464737p-2915910c.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

The social construction of drug debates (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.uow.edu.au:80/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/96ssm.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Next-generation training of peacekeepers is part technology, part psychology (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-05/uop-nto050302.php -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Unbreakable Code Could Thwart Cyber Crooks (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17553.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

Slashdot | Oracle Investigation Grows (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/03/120202.shtml?tid=98 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

The Register - MS' MIT prof witness gets toasted over KDE, GNOME (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25136.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

NewsForge: University systems a haven for hackers (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/03/142251 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

The Independent Thinker Homepage (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.accd.edu/pac/philosop/phil1301/c-think.htm -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

TCS: Tech - Phony Kass Council (Cloning) (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250CID=1051-050102D -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

20 Years of Censored News (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.accd.edu/pac/philosop/phil1301/outofcon.htm -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Study suggests global extinction crisis more serious than previously thought (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-05/su-ssg042502.php -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Computer games to outsell music (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=572560in_review_text_id=539735 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

vnunet.com No crisis over 1,024-bit encryption (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1131452 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly - Wildlife

The Register - Pipex slams rip-off broadband charges (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/22/25123.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

CNN.com - Girl suspended for stick-figure doodle - May 2, 2002 (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
I didn't realize paranoid schizophrenia was contagious...I knew stupidity was. http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/02/doodle.death.threat.ap/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is

Christian right, progressive left: Birds of a feather? (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.zompist.com/leqr.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly - Wildlife

KernelTrap - Linux: Encrypted Ethernet Bridging (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=167 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly -

Collection of prisoner DNA widens Major crimes linked to non-violent offenders (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020502/4077837s.htm -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Burns Predicts Swift Movement On Spam Legislation (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://newsbytes.com/news/02/176289.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly -

The Register- Solaris 9 to beef up OS, application security (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/25125.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

CNN.com - Report: No one fix for Net porn and kids - May 2, 2002 (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/05/02/youth.internet.porn/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Scandals shred investors' faith Because of Enron, Andersen and rising gas prices, the public is more wary than ever of Corporate America (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
Hopefully the death knell of 'capitalism'... http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020502/4077691s.htm -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first

Olympic Bioterrorism And Disease Watch Worked Well (fwd)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0501022.htm -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly -

Slashdot | Sharing Increases Music Purchases?

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/03/2144202.shtml?tid=141 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Bombs Explode in Rural Mailboxes (washingtonpost.com)

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28945-2002May3.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

About me and the third

2002-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.geocities.com/durhamshallot/edit32a.html The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly - Wildlife

Slashdot | Turner CEO: PVR Users Are Thieves

2002-05-02 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/05/02/0550214.shtml?tid=129 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

CNN.com - Feds plan crackdown on identity theft - May 2, 2002

2002-05-02 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/05/02/identity.theft/index.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Slashdot | Wireless Registers May Expose Your Credit Card

2002-05-02 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/02/0514241.shtml?tid=172 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Slashdot | A New Challenge from Honeynet (Decoding a given file)

2002-05-02 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/developers/02/05/02/2034256.shtml?tid=172 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Re: [9fans] md5sum of plan9.iso.bz2 (fwd)

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:08:48 +0200 From: Lucio De Re [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [9fans] md5sum of plan9.iso.bz2 On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:03:12PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is md5sum

haos -- from MathWorld

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Chaos.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly -

Stochastic -- from MathWorld

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stochastic.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

Re: which tends to extreme early specialisation,

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote: Jim Choate wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote: One of the classic examples of what is now called chaos (a word that I don't like in this context). The exact trajectory taken by simple models Uhuh... of predator-prey

Slashdot | Optical Waveguides in Photonic Crystals

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/science/02/04/30/1144228.shtml?tid=126 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

CNN.com - Experts: Vivendi hack charge doesn't compute - April 30, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/30/vivendi.vote.hack.reut/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Yahoo! News - Head of Congressional Probe Into Sept. 11 Quits (fwd)

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20020430/ts_nm/congress_intelligence_dc_2printer=1 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Register: RSA removes patent block to SAML uptake (fwd)

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/25089.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

CNN.com - Where's SDMI? Code to battle piracy is MIA - April 30, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/30/digital.insecurities.ap/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

CNN-Whitehouse

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2002/042602.asp The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly -

Register: Multiple Sun vulnerabilities reported... (fwd)

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25083.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

[9fans] Fourth Release of Plan 9 Now Available (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:35:56 -0400 From: rob pike, esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [9fans] Fourth Release of Plan 9 Now Available The Fourth Edition of Plan 9 may now be downloaded from

[9fans] PGP (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:28:00 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [9fans] PGP are there as yet any non-technical users of Plan 9? that is, is anyone's wife or girlfriend or secretary using it? also,

Re: [9fans] PGP (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:46:40 -0400 From: Russ Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [9fans] PGP There's no direct support in the mail clients for exchanging mail with PGP/GPG users. Someone ported PGP at

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David Howe wrote: No it isn't. You -want- a RNG but you can't have one. Nobody -wants- a PRNG, they -settle- for it. I think there is some confusion here - if you are using a PRNG as a stream cypher, the last thing in the world you want is for it to be truely random -

Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is, to get the infinite cycle, you'd have to have some method of generating a uniform random integer 0 to infinity for the initial state, and you'd need an infinite amount of memory to store the current internal state. Neither of which is

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
Comments inline... On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: I seem to be channeling mathematicians this morning... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Status: U From: Somebody with a sheepskin... To: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two ideas for random number

Re: CDR: Re: (P)RNG's and k-distribution

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a RNG to -be- a RNG it -must- be infinity-distributed. This means that there are -no- string repititions -ever-. Ummm, wrong. No, correct. It's called -infinity

Slashdot | Nanotechnology, US Government, and Secrecy (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/science/02/04/25/1339239.shtml?tid=134 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Byte: Getting in the game - effective lobbying for Open Source (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=664 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

CNN.com - Britain tests early, high-tech voting - April 25, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/25/high.tech.voting.ap/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

kuro5hin.org || The Death of the West (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/23/221217/509 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

RE: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: My point, I hope it is clear, was to prove that there are deterministic algorithms which do not repeat. There are, AND they are continous and -not- based on NOT-AND-OR. I -never- said there were not deterministic algorithms but then again those

Re: Quantum mechanics, England, and Topos Theory

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote: One of the classic examples of what is now called chaos (a word that I don't like in this context). The exact trajectory taken by simple models Uhuh... of predator-prey systems is often very sensitively dependent on initial conditions. Of course in

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote: Trei, Peter wrote: [...] Exactly what is the Choatian definition of a PRNG which requires it to repeat, anyway? Possibly confusion between 2 common English meanings of repeat. (1) repeatable, so if someone else runs the same algorithm on

CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-042502china.story -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Journey to the Internet\'s Unknown Regions (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17418.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

EU Body: U.S. Must Follow Law (washingtonpost.com) (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47622-2002Apr25.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

The Oakland Press - The State Legislature has given police power to search your home without telling you why (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3936063BRD=982PAG=461dept_id=467992rfi=6 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

\'Sky Net\' Could Enable Large-Scale Drone Wars (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17442.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

Any info on this maybe improved matrix algebra for GNFS? (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:23:40 +0200 From: Francois Grieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Any info on this maybe improved matrix algebra for GNFS? Found the following at http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=712a=25047,00.asp (..) The

CNN.com - Senate measure embraces opt-in privacy standard - April 25, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/25/senate.opt.in.idg/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

Slashdot | RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/26/1236245.shtml?tid=99 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

CNN.com - U.S. criticizes China over copyrights - April 25, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/25/china.copyrights.idg/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

USATODAY.com - Ex-CIA chief revitalizes 'truth serum' debate (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/04/26/torture.htm -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Re: Any info on this maybe improved matrix algebra for GNFS? (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:42:58 +0100 From: Nicko van Someren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Francois Grieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any info on this maybe improved matrix algebra for GNFS? Francois, This is a new

kuro5hin.org || Hard reduction: The basis for rational drug policy (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/81546/3419 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

CNN.com - Net firms object to Senate privacy bill - April 26, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/26/online.privacy.ap/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

kuro5hin.org || Macaulay on Copyright (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/1345/03329 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

The Register - Crackers favour war dailling and weak passwords (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25044.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

CNN.com - UK city begins smart card e-government plan - April 26, 2002 (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/26/smart.card.govt.idg/index.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

The Register - WIPOUT names essay winners (on WIP Day!) (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/25047.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly

Times Online - Loose connections, 'six degrees of seperation' study a myth? (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,591-260065,00.html -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

Re: Quantum mechanics, England, and Topos Theory

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. Maybe. People who think like economists or libertarians will conclude that markets tend to stability, because humans will analyze fluctuations, The examples of stable free markets include lots of examples that are not involved with

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Lucky Green wrote: I concur. In fact, I was surprised that not a single one of the many P2P solutions presented at the recent excellent CODECON made any mention of support for IPv6, which can be easily be added to just about any P2P application, while every presenter

Re: Quantum mechanics, England, and Topos Theory

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Except if they're, paradoxically, Austrian economists, like Hayek, or von Mises, who reject scientism and, oddly enough, equilbrium theory. Then again Mises equated 'capitalism' with 'economics'...even the great fallfor a good intro to some

NewsForge: Commentary: The future of copyright laws creates two seperate worlds (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/04/27/0227251.shtml?tid=19 -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James

FW: NAI's seeming replacement for PGP desktop (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:45:56 -0400 From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Digital Bearer Settlement List [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: NAI's seeming replacement for PGP desktop --- begin forwarded text Status: U From:

Gartner supports HK smart ID card use (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:27:59 -0400 From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Digital Bearer Settlement List [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gartner supports HK smart ID card use

BBC News | SCI/TECH | PC networks inspired by gossip (fwd)

2002-04-29 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:47:25 -0500 From: James Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BBC News | SCI/TECH | PC networks inspired by gossip Can you say 'Small World Networks'?...

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David Howe wrote: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that changes the game in the middle of play, the sequence of digits in pi is fixed, not random. You can't get a random number from a constant. Otherwise it wouldn't be a constant. PRNG output is fixed

(P)RNG's and k-distribution

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Choate
It has been suggested by some that a PRNG can be created that is -not- repeating. There is a property of -all- RNG's that is called k-distribution. For a RNG to -be- a RNG it -must- be infinity-distributed. This means that there are -no- string repititions -ever-. If this can't be guaranteed

Lindh Opposes Secrecy for Reports (washingtonpost.com)

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36532-2002Apr23.html -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles.

kuro5hin.org || The US chemical weapons, foul play and the OPCW

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/23/19170/1201 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

kuro5hin.org || Should record companies own copyrights?

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/23/174344/154 -- -- The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick

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