Re: EFF Report on Trusted Computing

2003-10-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
Just thought someone should take the trouble to rebut the anonymous pro-treacherous-computing rantings... I have heavily trimmed our anonymous ranters verbose writing style to keep just the bits I'm responding to (inline...) The EFF tries to distinguish between good and bad aspects of TC, but

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
Ok, so I finally bothered to read said article. I assumed that they had something interesting that made it look to the error correction code like a scratch, etc... They don't. No such weakness exists in error correction used on CD's. Their protection is no more than putting bad error

Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
Tell Intel simply: We don't want no Scumware Inside We won't buy NGSCB crippleware. Want to sell motherboards? Don't include this shit. Keep it simple. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Jerrold Leichter
| I've not read the said article just yet, but from that direct quote as | the copy degrades... I can already see the trouble with this scheme: | their copy protection already fails them. They allow copies to be made | and rely on the fact that the CDR or whatever media, will eventually |

RSA performance on Athlon64 vs. Itanium

2003-10-13 Thread Lucky Green
I just picked up an Athlon64 3200+, which runs at a 2 GHz clock speed. Using the Red Hat for AMD64 beta and the version of OpenSSL that ships with that beta, I get 922 1024-bit RSA signs per second. This is a tad less RSA signatures per second than I have seen on an 800MHz Itanium using highly

Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
[Can remote soldiering and amplified Terminators be too far away? Steve] Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 13, 2003; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17434-2003Oct12?language=printer Scientists in North

P2P Encrypted VOIP

2003-10-13 Thread Guerry Semones
I caught the announcement this morning from Skype concerning their P2P-based VOIP (free) product. Apparently this is the Kazaa founder's new company. The communications are supposed to be encrypted, etc., etc. Here's the Slashdot article:

Re: Nuking USG: not just for cypherpunks anymore

2003-10-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:08 AM 10/11/03 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Interesting that the State Department goes after Robertson rather than Mowbray. Could it have anything to do with the idea that few(er) people know who Mowbray is? Perhaps Mr. Rosenthal or Mr. Chong might have an opinion on this...

clicking on ads = funding terrorists

2003-10-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Excerpted from politech. Consider the 1st Amend implications, and how clicking on a banner ad (which automatically would pay the source site) makes you a terrorist supporter. Got assets? Subject: US State Department extends FTO list to include Internet sites Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:20:23

Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)

2003-10-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:44:16 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Don

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:46, Steve Schear wrote: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants Which means that even armless retarded monkeys can post to c-punks. Profr, call your office!

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jerrold Leichter wrote: different forms. It's been broken repeatedly. The one advantage they have this time around is that CD readers - and, even more, DVD readers; there is mention of applying the same trick to DVD's - is, compared to the floppy readers of yesteryear,

2 Quantum Crypto Companies partner

2003-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
This makes 3 companies I know of working on Quantum Cryptography for key distribution. There must be a few more... http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreadingdoc_id=41735 -TD _ Instant message during games with MSN