Indeed, I've heard the same. One could argue that for someone to believe in
something (religion) so intensely as to shun all moral explanation against
this hypothesis and to persist in those beliefs without any proof is akin to
schizophrenia.
Well, I'm sure this is not an issue that
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On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:40, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Sure, there are any number of poker algoerithms which prevent the server
from cheating. See the many literature references on Mental Poker.
One recent protocol is Kurosawa et al, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals,
Vol E00-A, No. 1, January
James Donald writes:
In principle it should be possible to create poker playing
software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious
to me how this can be done.
Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm?
Sure, there are any number of poker algoerithms which prevent the server
from
On Friday 15 November 2002 01:43, Sam Ritchie wrote:
Actually, hehe, I've made this comparison before, of religion to a disease.
(first off, let me clarify that I have nothing against anyone's religion!
I'm looking at this from an outsider's perspective, and harbor no biases.)
The torah, for
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Internet Poker is a big money activity.
A major problem with this activity is that the site can choose
to allow certain privileged players to cheat.
In principle it should be possible to create poker playing
software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious
to me how this can
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:41:55PM -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
On Thursday 14 November 2002 12:16, Harmon Seaver wrote:
It's all relative -- what Dubbya and Asscruft have done to destroy
freedom in the US is far worse than anything Saddam has done. Iraq
had no freedom to lose.
From: Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:31:41 +
To: Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto
On Thursday 14 November 2002 03:50, you wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sam Ritchie wrote:
From: Andri Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:29:26 +
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto
On Friday 15 November 2002 00:41, you wrote:
Indeed, I've heard the same. One could argue that for someone to believe in
something (religion)
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:13:06AM -0500, Mike Diehl wrote:
Dubbya has only been in office about a year and a half, and in that time, he
has destroyed Freedom in this country? I don't think so. I'm still able to
practice my religion freely.
How wonderful for you. Many of us sincerely
Holy Shit!
Does that mean that some 18-year-old script kiddie could get LIFE?
If this wasn't such an immense pile of stupidity, I'd get angry over the
obvious invasions of privacy, etc...
Having worked in many a company, I KNOW how most management systems work.
Let's say there's something as
My Fellow Cypherpunks,
Nomen Nescio writes
Gary Jeffers writes:
The purpose of the coming Iraq war is to steal their oil. After we get
Iraq oil, which arab country is next? If U. State can get away with the
theft of Iraq, then why not just keep on stealing?
The beneficiaries of this war
Jim Choate wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Jim Choate wrote:
What I'd like to know is does Godel's apply to all forms of
para-consistent logic as well
However you can have eg arithmetics without Peano counting, and so on, and
there are (trivial according
On Thursday 14 November 2002 11:29 pm, Harmon Seaver wrote:
How wonderful for you. Many of us sincerely wish we could practice
our religion freely as well.
And just who is stopping you? And what religion is it?
I can criticize my government and stay out of
prison.
List of papers accepted to FC'03
I see pretty much a standard list of crypto papers
here, albeit crypto with a waving of finance salt.
What ever happened to Financial Cryptography? The
organisers did say they were going to look at wider
accessibility for the
This morning I received this threatening letter, apparently from egold
claiming that my maximum balance would be set to zero if I don't promptly
mail them notarized copies of various ID's... Oh, and somehow the
defrauder believes that my true name is Thomas something or other...
As I have no
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sunder wrote:
(assuming that we'd win that Vietnam**2 war - Ha!),
Just as a small aside, I think it's worth noting that every war
the US has gotten involved in since Vietnam has been called Vietnam 2 by
somebody: The first Iraq war, Kosovo, Somalia(even those two
It's been a number of years since Jim Bell wrote his infamous Assassination
Politics essay. If someone were to try to implement the system today and not
share Jim Bell's fate, they would need absolute anonymity and security. The
technical requirements for implementing the system are:
1.
On Thursday 14 November 2002 12:16, Harmon Seaver wrote:
It's all relative -- what Dubbya and Asscruft have done to destroy
freedom in the US is far worse than anything Saddam has done. Iraq
had no freedom to lose.
So...When Iraqis are tortured to death, it's not really that bad because
On Thursday 14 November 2002 12:16 pm, Harmon Seaver wrote:
It's all relative
Ya, very relative.
-- what Dubbya and Asscruft have done to destroy
freedom in the US is far worse than anything Saddam has done. Iraq had
no freedom to lose. Is Saddam really any different
Also, this scammer has registered www.e-gold.cc which nic.cc doesn't give
full into in whois. If you look at the urls, the human visible part says
www.e-gold.com, but the anchor tag actually points to www.e-gold.cc.
I noticed this after sending the original email to cypherpunks.
Tim May wrote:
There are a lot of Godel anecdotes to tell. I never met him.
Two things about his theory:
1. There's a more powerful (IMNSHO) formulation of it in terms of
algorithmic information theory, usually associated with Greg Chaitin
but also drawing on the AIT work of Kolmogorov
--
On 15 Nov 2002 at 10:55, IanG wrote:
List of papers accepted to FC'03
I see pretty much a standard list of crypto papers here,
albeit crypto with a waving of finance salt.
Theory of what could be implemented has run well ahead of what
has in
It is a fake, I contacted e-gold before posting it here and sent them the
email with headers, they've confirmed it and are attempting to shut down
the web site of the spoofer.
What's disturbing about this is that we are on someone's list as e-gold
customers or something, and this is very likely
James Donald writes:
In principle it should be possible to create poker playing
software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious
to me how this can be done.
Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm?
At 05:40 AM 11/15/2002 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Sure, there are any
Don't obsess on the message headers. Look at the scam site (the URL is
cloaked in the e-mail):
https://www.e-gold.cc/acct/manager.htm
Unencoded, the HTML appears to be stuffing stolen account info into a page
called https://a.e-gold.cc/acct.php
In other words, there's no throwaway Hotmail
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
Anyone guess where's Waldo (Osama) now? My guess he's on the end of a bungee
being kicked into Iraq right now! (The other end of the bungee is in a US
chopper!)
Osama is wherever Bush wants him to be. Once we're done with Iraq
(assuming that we'd
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:31:23AM -0500, Ken Hirsch wrote:
Harmon Seaver wrote:
I don't see that Saddam is any less moral than Dubbya and Asscruft.
What can you possibly mean by saying this? You lose all credibility for
real criticism when you utter such inanities. It's like
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote:
The religious person is always battling against reality wich with a minimum
of inteligence from the observer always bring doubts on the truth of his
faith.
It's a state of mind wich can only be compared with mental
On Friday 15 November 2002 00:41, you wrote:
Indeed, I've heard the same. One could argue that for someone to believe in
something (religion) so intensely as to shun all moral explanation against
this hypothesis and to persist in those beliefs without any proof is akin
to schizophrenia. But
I would however, reverse your two definitions, I think the word belief suggests the
more rational, evidence based mental model, faith is a subset belief that requires no
evidence.
All of us have beliefs (under my schema above) that are evidence based (we believe in
the atomic model). Often our
[A edited copy of a piece I published Oct 4th in the International
Relations list. steve]
I think that most Western nation leadership will eventually support the U.S.'
military action against Iraq. However, they may do so not because they
necessarily think Bush is right that Saddam's weapons
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 08:01 AM, Sunder wrote:
This morning I received this threatening letter, apparently from egold
claiming that my maximum balance would be set to zero if I don't
promptly
mail them notarized copies of various ID's... Oh, and somehow the
defrauder believes
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:09:37AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Holy Shit!
Does that mean that some 18-year-old script kiddie could get LIFE?
Yes, that's what the law says. Has to be a malicious attack, etc. I linked
to the text of the bill -- you may want to read the gory details for yourself.
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