Re: All your data belongs to Redmond

2004-07-08 Thread Ken Hirsch
See http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-08.html and http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml Major Variola wrote: I am currently working as a security consultant at a major kiretsu that makes printers/fax/copiers/scanners. Important eg in a hospital where HIPAA requires that info

Re: Wipe your Lamo notes now

2003-10-02 Thread Ken Hirsch
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim May wrote... If it's a felony for _me_ to say Sources tell me that Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, has been a CIA covert operative since 1980, it is a felony for Robert Novak to do so. Hum. Particularly in the era of the Internet

Re: Real Facts and Good Facts

2003-02-04 Thread Ken Hirsch
Eric Cordian writes: In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling at Mock 18. There was an interesting article in the New York Times (http://tinyurl.com/5b4x) back in Nov 2001 about stenographers working on 9/11--that was an angle I didn't see anywhere else. When

Re: Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

2003-02-02 Thread Ken Hirsch
From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the Columbia to be a constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have probably already flagged any transactions which mention space shuttle and Columbia to be illegal thoughtcrime

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-08 Thread Ken Hirsch
Sarad AV writes: there will be no inconsistency in a formal axiomatic systems Huh? -but can any one point me to a contradicting set of axioms in an axiomatic system? In general you have to consider the whole system, including derivation rules, not just the axioms, although you can certain

Re: Akamai

2002-12-09 Thread Ken Hirsch
Harmon Seaver writes: Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web server from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies according to their website. Their main service is serving static

Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-05 Thread Ken Hirsch
Jim Choate says: Godel's does -not- say mathematics is incomplete, it says we can't prove completeness -within- mathematics proper. To do so requires a meta-mathematics of some sort. You are mixing up what Godel says about proving consistency within a system, and his incompleteness theorem.

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Ken Hirsch
But you forget - the BATF agents were all beeped and informed to not bother to come in to work that day, and instead met up elsewhere, suited up so they could arrive just in time (a few minutes after the boom) to be heroic. That indicates something, what exactly it indicates is left as an