Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: An axiom is an improvable statement which is accepted as true. An axiom is a statement which is -assumed to be universaly required-. That is -not- equivalent to 'true' (eg A point has only position is not 'true' but a -definition- which is neither true or

Re: FC: Will this column land me in federal prison under the DMCA?

2003-01-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:52 AM 1/2/2003 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://news.com.com/2010-1028-978636.html Perspective: Will this land me in jail? By Declan McCullagh December 23, 2002, 4:00 AM PT WASHINGTON--It's not every day that I fret about committing a string of federal felonies that

Re: constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Isn't the obvious way to handle this to include an undeveloped (latent image) photograph of some obscure object, person, or place on the film rather than just a blank film ? ? You could then develop it and check for light damage and evidence of lack of authenticity. I suspect there

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 04:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the latest news on Adelman's cryptological soup? Once his DNA crypto was touted as a substantial breakthrough for crypto, though since overshadowed by quantum crypto smoke-blowing.

Re: Won't someone think of the stoned data-entry keyboarders? (Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards)

2003-01-03 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Its very common, if the person in front of you hasn't a card, to loan your card (to a total stranger! gasp!) when you them without. I've also noticed that the checkers now keep a working card to use in these situations.

Tyler Durdens

2003-01-03 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 07:38 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: Actually, Tyler Durden (ie, me) wrote what is attributed to the generic anonymous name of Norman Nescio. Anyway,... Hilarious to see a generic Tyler Durden, last seen in movie theaters, claiming to be the _real_ Tyler Durden.

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: An axiom is an improvable statement which is accepted as true. An axiom is a statement which is -assumed to be universaly required-. That is -not- equivalent to 'true' (eg A point has only position is

Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, with reference to http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/par-liar.htm it says The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The most familiar Liar Sentence is the following self-referential sentence: (1) This sentence is false. Experts

Re: Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The most familiar Liar Sentence is the following self-referential sentence: As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do we learn from the

Re: QM, etc...

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, A.Melon wrote: If you still want to say there's some kind of hole in quantum theory, then are you saying that if we fix this hole, QM will bve able to predict experimental outcomes to, say 20 decimals rather than 10? (QM is by far the most sucesful physical theory ever

Re: re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is there a way to RELIABLY find the mail was opened? I have a related question. I have a little server sitting in a wall closet. Does anyone have an easy solution (preferably low tech) for figuring out

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:23:51PM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: How do you all see the future use of biologically based systems affecting cryptography in general?

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the latest news on Adelman's cryptological soup? Once his DNA crypto was touted as a substantial breakthrough for crypto, though since overshadowed by quantum crypto smoke-blowing. DNA computes

Re: How Free is the Free Market?

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Matthew X wrote: Chompsky makes the point that the state underwrites the so called free market. As we are all libertarians,(cept shoate) here we should be doing our utmost to expose,ridicule,attack and destroy the state,nest pas? You're right, I don't want to get rid of

Re: CDR: Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: As you already see-what you say is correct for your definition of proof and axiom. Here is the fundamental error in your thinking, you are trying to argue apples and oranges. As my comments alude to, what you are doing is trying to argue geometry using two

Re: re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: I have a related question. I have a little server sitting in a wall closet. Does anyone have an easy solution (preferably low tech) for figuring out that the closet door has been opened? A switch that shutdowns the server, and a passphrase on

Re: Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do we learn from the liars paradox? We arrive at a senseless result-doesn't all other paradoxes do that-with the difference that they pick only either true or false-which they so strongly beleive in and

re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Thomas Shaddack
I have a related question. I have a little server sitting in a wall closet. Does anyone have an easy solution (preferably low tech) for figuring out that the closet door has been opened? A switch that shutdowns the server, and a passphrase on the startup. Remote logging of the power-ups, using

Re: CDR: François Marc de Piolenc and US Intelligence.

2003-01-03 Thread Marc de Piolenc
And your point is? I mean, I really appreciate your posting an excerpt from my resume on the list - thereby attributing rather more importance to it than it deserves - but I somehow don't think you did it to promote my translation or editing work. Why, then? Marc de Piolenc Matthew X wrote:

QM, A-B, and the Z

2003-01-03 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
Jim Choate wrote... Burrowing into what I claimed is 'wacky crapola' I discovered a nugget of truth I can agree with (but it'll take a minute to get there...) And no, Relativity and QM have -not- been joined into a -single cohesive theory-. You have to qualify this. General relativity has

P4 Docs?

2003-01-03 Thread Adam Shostack
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 ? A 19-year-old University of Chicago student was arrested in Los Angeles today and charged with stealing trade secrets from DirecTV, the nation's leading satellite television provider http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/technology/03PIRA.html According to prosecutors,

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:18 AM 01/03/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: People do break cyphers, by finding weaknesses in them. Are you saying that you think that current cyphers are unbreakable? You know not whereof you speak. Breaking RSA or similar

Re: constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread anonimo arancio
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:24:12 +0100 (CET), you wrote: We have a resourceful adversary, who will quickly learn the tricks. We need a low-tech technology that will be highly resistant against undetected tampering by the adversary. Hindering the adversary is the fact that he must face thousands

Why anyone on this list might give a crap about QM

2003-01-03 Thread Anonymous
Here's why wavefunction collapse matters, or might. A few months ago, we were debating the End of the Golden age of crypto, and that went into a discussion of the inherent (or not!) difficulty wrt factoring large numbers consisting of big primes. And the question that was raised (and is still

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Cardenas
I see that you're entirely correct. I've read about half of Scheiner's applied cryptography, and I'm familiar with the fact that current algorithms' strength is based on factoring large primes, and familiar with his estimates of 10^11 years for a 112 bit key, (given the caveat of no new scifi

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:39:45AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 02:18 AM 01/03/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: People do break cyphers, by finding weaknesses in them. Are you saying that you think that current cyphers are

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Tim May
On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 08:39 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: I see that you're entirely correct. I've read about half of Scheiner's applied cryptography, and I'm familiar with the fact that current algorithms' strength is based on factoring large primes, Factoring large primes is easy.

Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas

2003-01-03 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:16:48PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: A year or two ago, I suggested to someone associated with http://www.thebunker.com (an ISP based in an underground ex-RAF bunker in Britain) that they set up a web-accessible camera on the entrance, so that anyone could detect an

Re: FC: Will this column land me in federal prison under the DMCA?

2003-01-03 Thread Declan McCullagh
It's a tradeoff. I was able to raise an alarm about the DMCA and get journalists (who usually don't think of it as a threat) to be more skeptical. Also show the silly security practices of the TSA. I'm happy to balance that against the actual value of the information in the encrypted documents