Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

2005-10-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On 10/4/05, gwen hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troll Mode on: TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) ... BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that feature is built in. The NSA

Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

2005-10-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On 10/4/05, gwen hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troll Mode on: TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) .. BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that feature is built in. The NSA

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote I have valid although perhaps unpopular contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the absence of my perspective. Wow. Nice

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote I have valid although perhaps unpopular contributions to make, and not only is my freedom to express myself limited, the quality of the material on Wikipedia suffers due to the absence of my perspective. Wow. Nice

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be asking

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is new journalism, since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does this

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/19/05, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like Ben and Jerry's rainforest crunch, where by buying overpriced and extra fattening icecream, you were supposedly saving the rainforest and preserving indigenous cultures . --shrug-- It's better than directly contributing to most causes.

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is new journalism, since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does this

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be asking

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping (Psst! The FBI is Having

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On 9/9/05, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a recent working email address? Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] still work? You might try sending email to that address. If you don't get a response, either it's not a good address or he thinks you're an idiot. (Or he's dead, but he wasn't

Re: New Drugs

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Furlong
On 8/23/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote: I [want] a new drug... I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a drug-hating

Re: New Drugs

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Furlong
On 8/23/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote: I [want] a new drug... I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a drug-hating

Re: Italy finally holds USA to the world standard!

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On 6/24/05, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2560 Italian Judge Orders 13 CIA Agents Arrested Over Kidnapping John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.

Re: Italy finally holds USA to the world standard!

2005-06-24 Thread Steve Furlong
On 6/24/05, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2560 Italian Judge Orders 13 CIA Agents Arrested Over Kidnapping John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:26, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 9:17 AM -0500 12/8/04, John Kelsey wrote: But once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters and ovens, he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought about some issue in a new and fascinating

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:47, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:38 AM -0500 12/8/04, Steve Furlong wrote: anarchist Bzzt wrong answer. Must filter that *in*, thankewverramuch... I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't think a true anarchy would be the proper

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:47, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:38 AM -0500 12/8/04, Steve Furlong wrote: anarchist Bzzt wrong answer. Must filter that *in*, thankewverramuch... I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't think a true anarchy would be the proper

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:26, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 9:17 AM -0500 12/8/04, John Kelsey wrote: But once in awhile, even amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters and ovens, he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought about some issue in a new and fascinating

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:00, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: I rather suspect that the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are toying with their ability to interpose their data in place of quasi-authoritative texts. Oh, *my*...

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:00, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote: I rather suspect that the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are toying with their ability to interpose their data in place of quasi-authoritative texts. Oh, *my*...

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required. There

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:30, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 8:06 AM -0600 12/5/04, Neil Johnson wrote: Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-) Nah, this is mere Younglish wierdness. You have to talk about useless eaters to be totally mayified... Random racist ranting is also required. There

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-) I tried, years before _UC_

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

Re: Immediate Exception

2004-12-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express purpose of confounding me. Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:42, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Bobhood is never a light burden, as I'm sure RAH can attest Bobbittization would make the burden lighter.

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-03 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-) I tried, years before _UC_

Re: geographically removed? eHalal

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over. Hawala

Re: geographically removed? eHalal

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Halal was deemed a terrorist weapon, and contrary to the treasury's policies, game over. Hawala

US-centrism

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. Response 1: When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. Response 2: The cpunks list isn't US-centric,

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

2004-11-27 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 09:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:38, Will Morton wrote: How long have soldiers deployed in war-zones been able to get life insurance? Would love to see their actuarial process... It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life insurance we had didn't cover

US-centrism

2004-11-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. Response 1: When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. Response 2: The cpunks list isn't US-centric,

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:38, Will Morton wrote: How long have soldiers deployed in war-zones been able to get life insurance? Would love to see their actuarial process... It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life insurance we had didn't cover

Oswald

2004-11-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:31, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:34 PM 11/21/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV,

Oswald

2004-11-24 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:31, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:34 PM 11/21/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV,

Re: Turtles all the way down... (was Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...)

2004-10-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:55, J.A. Terranson wrote: Nothings ever regular around here On the contrary, there's a constant stream of shit on this list. _Someone_ must be pretty regular.

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: As for *kids*, we recently had an 11 year old bride (legal here with parental consent) who was on the news for being the youngest *divorcee* at 12! Why not give her the vote? She can't do any worse than the rest of these rednecks. After the

Re: Turtles all the way down... (was Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...)

2004-10-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:55, J.A. Terranson wrote: Nothings ever regular around here On the contrary, there's a constant stream of shit on this list. _Someone_ must be pretty regular.

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: As for *kids*, we recently had an 11 year old bride (legal here with parental consent) who was on the news for being the youngest *divorcee* at 12! Why not give her the vote? She can't do any worse than the rest of these rednecks. After the

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-27 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:23, R.A. Hettinga wrote: Just for fun, I bet the reason is economics. No need to have yew furriners hammerin' our http ports, 'cuz ya cain't vote, here, anyway. Not that the French or other dickless wonders would attempt to conduct a DDoS on GWB's site, or anything.

13yo arrested for kiddie porn

2004-10-20 Thread Steve Furlong
First saw the story linked from Drudge, then googled up a handful of stories: http://www.kptv.com/global/story.asp?s=2435549ClientType=Printable Boy,13. arrested on child porn charges 10-15-04 TACOMA, Wash. -- A 13-year-old Lacey boy is accused of child pornography by taking pictures of himself

13yo arrested for kiddie porn

2004-10-20 Thread Steve Furlong
First saw the story linked from Drudge, then googled up a handful of stories: http://www.kptv.com/global/story.asp?s=2435549ClientType=Printable Boy,13. arrested on child porn charges 10-15-04 TACOMA, Wash. -- A 13-year-old Lacey boy is accused of child pornography by taking pictures of himself

Re: Printers betray document secrets

2004-10-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:14, Ian Grigg wrote: R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/3753886.stm US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. I don't think this is new -

Re: Printers betray document secrets

2004-10-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:14, Ian Grigg wrote: R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/3753886.stm US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. I don't think this is new -

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:17, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it by bombing from high altitude, or by using cruise missiles. Everybody uses the technology available to them. What's bad on it? Invariably, the side that uses the defensive measure -

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:17, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it by bombing from high altitude, or by using cruise missiles. Everybody uses the technology available to them. What's bad on it? Invariably, the side that uses the defensive measure -

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 00:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: -- My profile is radically different from all those who killed nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My holy book of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 00:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: -- My profile is radically different from all those who killed nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My holy book of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

2004-10-10 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens from it. Then it will be safe to carry,

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

2004-10-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. I think I'd get the implant under my scalp somewhere. If the implant gave access to a really critical place, I wouldn't want to risk

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

2004-10-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens from it. Then it will be safe to carry,

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

2004-10-09 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. I think I'd get the implant under my scalp somewhere. If the implant gave access to a really critical place, I wouldn't want to risk

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: The regular encryption scheme (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers are second to none. (Microsoft's

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:27, Dave Howe wrote: I have yet to see an advantage to QKE that even mildly justifies the limitations and cost over anything more than a trivial link (two buildings within easy walking distance, sending high volumes of extremely sensitive material between them) But

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: The regular encryption scheme (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers are second to none. (Microsoft's

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 05:18, Peter Gutmann wrote: The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure, the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones). I wonder whether

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 05:18, Peter Gutmann wrote: The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure, the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones). I wonder whether

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Furlong
Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote: That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it out of one of em.

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Furlong
Talking out his ass, Tyler Durden wrote: That's a good point. And those screeners ain't exactly the cream of the crop, if ya' know what I mean. A year ago they were making minimum wage, so if someone wanted a copy of those guidelines, it'd be easy as hell to con it out of one of em.

Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0x)

Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously enough) 4294967295 (0x)

Re: T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

2004-08-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:54, Sunder wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL Washington -- Sen. Edward Ted Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on

Re: T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

2004-08-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:54, Sunder wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL Washington -- Sen. Edward Ted Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:43, Sunder wrote: Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. It's ok, you can still say Tim May around here.

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:43, Sunder wrote: Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. It's ok, you can still say Tim May around here.

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-27 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 11:34, Jack Lloyd wrote: Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: You're *all* going up the chimneys. I voted for Cthulhu -- why vote for the lesser of two evils? http://www.cthulhu.org/

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-26 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote: Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC against lyrics in songs. And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a Tipper Sticker, indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-26 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote: Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC against lyrics in songs. And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a Tipper Sticker, indicating obscene lyrics. They didn't notice that

Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Furlong
Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's contact us address. But I don't know if Brands is still at ZKS.)

Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Furlong
Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's contact us address. But I don't know if Brands is still at ZKS.)

Re: Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:25, David Crookes wrote: He started a new company called Credentica. http://archives.abditum.com/cypherpunks/C-punks20020603/0053.html Pretty amusing -- that link points to the achive I maintain. There's probably a parable in there about having knowledge at your

Re: Real-world quantum cryptography

2004-04-22 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 21:49, Steve Furlong wrote: http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Gah. That's what I get for trying to do a Hettinga -- he beats me to it. OK, Bob, you got me this time. grin

Real-world quantum cryptography

2004-04-21 Thread Steve Furlong
http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Click on the News: April 21 link, which goes to http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/rathaus_press.html World Premiere: Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography Based on Entangled Photons Press conference and demonstration of the ground-breaking experiment: 21

Re: Real-world quantum cryptography

2004-04-21 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 21:49, Steve Furlong wrote: http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/ Gah. That's what I get for trying to do a Hettinga -- he beats me to it. OK, Bob, you got me this time. grin

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:55, Harmon Seaver wrote: Chickens ain't herbivores, they are omnivores, and, in fact, prefer meat, bugs, etc. to all else. Yah, ducks and geese, too. But factory chickens, which is almost all of the chicken most Americans eat, are fed mostly grain. A lot of

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:55, Harmon Seaver wrote: Chickens ain't herbivores, they are omnivores, and, in fact, prefer meat, bugs, etc. to all else. Yah, ducks and geese, too. But factory chickens, which is almost all of the chicken most Americans eat, are fed mostly grain. A lot of

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and kittens

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Tastes just like chicken? Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten things that I wouldn't have considered to be food, she doesn't like my cat, and I don't want her getting any ideas. However, to answer Robert's

Career advise on entering the tech field

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:36, Major Variola (ret) wrote: How are you going to land a sweet outsourced job if you ask others to do your homework? If Sarath is, in fact, a student who will soon be looking for work, he may do just fine. Getting a tech job has little to do with how much you know or

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 2:21 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: Facultative strong authentication doesn't nuke anonynimity. Perfect pseudonymity is functional anonymity, in my book... No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as coming

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-06 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 2:21 PM +0100 3/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: Facultative strong authentication doesn't nuke anonynimity. Perfect pseudonymity is functional anonymity, in my book... No, pseudonymity lets others identify messages on, say c-punks, as coming

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

2004-03-01 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 10:42, sunder wrote: For example, one way to piss them off is to attempt to sing when you have zero singing skills, and do it for hours on end, purposely off key, abusing whatever instrument is available... Ugh. I did _not_ want to think about Kofi Annan yodeling for

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

2004-02-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:19, Major Variola (ret.) forwarded: Blix says US spied on him over Iraq ... It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side. Begging the question of whether Blix was actually on the same side as the Brits or the

Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!

2004-02-25 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:00, Jim Choate wrote: TO SUBSCRIBE to Cypherpunks, one should send a message to ONE of the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no SSZ node anymore. LNE, neither. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-14 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:02, Justin wrote: Case law on point? I don't think that is true at all. Trade secrets that are leaked are no longer trade secrets. Incorrect. Trade secrets that are deliberately released by the owner are no longer secret. Secrets that are carelessly released by the

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:45, Major Variola (ret) wrote: [sent to al-q; does [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward there?] At 06:25 PM 2/12/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: Among others, /. is reporting that Win2k and WinNT source code may have leaked. ... If you didn't steal it, its not your problem if

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:02, Justin wrote: Case law on point? I don't think that is true at all. Trade secrets that are leaked are no longer trade secrets. Incorrect. Trade secrets that are deliberately released by the owner are no longer secret. Secrets that are carelessly released by the

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:48, Tim May wrote: (Though of course this is only the _theory_. The fact that all of the Bill of Rights, except perhaps the Third, have been violated by the Evildoers in government is well-known.) A few years ago I wrote a short paper looking at government-installed

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:07, Tim May wrote: Read up on the Lawson case in San Diego. Tim is referring to Edward Lawson, arrested repeatedly and convicted once in the late 1970s for walking around without ID. The appeal made it to the Supreme Court, as Kolender v Lawson, 461 US 352 (1983).

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:48, Tim May wrote: (Though of course this is only the _theory_. The fact that all of the Bill of Rights, except perhaps the Third, have been violated by the Evildoers in government is well-known.) A few years ago I wrote a short paper looking at government-installed

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:07, Tim May wrote: Read up on the Lawson case in San Diego. Tim is referring to Edward Lawson, arrested repeatedly and convicted once in the late 1970s for walking around without ID. The appeal made it to the Supreme Court, as Kolender v Lawson, 461 US 352 (1983).

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:18, Steve Schear wrote: Did you carry and present ID? No. Once it was requested (strongly requested, just short of a demand with threats), but when I demanded his justification he backed down. In NY, at least at the time, citizens were not required to carry or present

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:18, Steve Schear wrote: Did you carry and present ID? No. Once it was requested (strongly requested, just short of a demand with threats), but when I demanded his justification he backed down. In NY, at least at the time, citizens were not required to carry or present

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:02, J.A. Terranson wrote: What good is a Jury when the judge can pick and choose which arguments and evidence you can provide in support of your case? I've occasionally handed out pamphlets on jury nullification outside the local county courthouse. Never been arrested

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Steve Mynott wrote: Jim Dixon wrote: The term 'software engineer' is becoming less common in the States these days. I have watched the job title wax and wane for more than twenty five years. I think that it was most fashionable in the early 1980s. Any

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Steve Mynott wrote: Jim Dixon wrote: The term 'software engineer' is becoming less common in the States these days. I have watched the job title wax and wane for more than twenty five years. I think that it was most fashionable in the early 1980s. Any

Re: Alt.cypherpunks will be where I do most of my posting

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 02:19, James A. Donald wrote: And to get back to the topic of this thread. I cannot see anything but random deranged crap in alt.cypherpunks -- maybe I need to adjust my filters, but there does not seem to be any signal in the noise. I don't see anything on

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