RE: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Yes, I am indeed a little suspicious. Clearly, this quantum repeater can't be doing an O/E, or no amount of hype will budge this product an inch. Quantum Crypto utilizes pairs of correlated photons, so we can't be talking about an optical amplifer. So since I've been away from the literature

Re: How small towns are reversing a century of corporate personhood

2004-10-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:04 PM -0400 10/1/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: the idea of abolishing the personhood of corporations Of course, the act of abolition, using the law itself, is an exercise in mental masturbation, which is what is really happening in Pennsylvania. Financial cryptography gives us at least the hope

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Peter Gutmann
R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NEWARK, Sept. 30 - Laetitia Bohn walked into Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday, dazed and sleepy after an eight-hour flight from Paris, and was jolted from her reverie when an immigration officer asked for her photograph and fingerprints

Re: Suit complicates First Data's move to cut porn tie

2004-10-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 1 Oct 2004 at 10:32, R. A. Hettinga wrote: First Data has been terminating all of its contracts with adult entertainment providers as they expire, a spokeswoman said. Way back at the beginning, cypherpunks said that the internet could result in alarming loss of privacy, or

RE: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:12 PM 9/30/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: What's a quantum repeater in this context? It's also known as a wiretap insertion point... As for Hype Watch, I tend to agree, but I also believe that Gelfond (who I spoke to last year) actually does have a 'viable' system. Commerically viable is

Nightclub you'll want to skip - RFID microchipping the guests [BBC article]

2004-10-03 Thread Bill Stewart
Here's a nightclub you'll want to skip, unless you feel like hacking RFIDs... (Nothing up my sleeve but this Rivest RFID Blocker!) ** Barcelona clubbers get chipped ** Some clubbers in Barcelona have opted to have a microchip implanted which lets them pay for drinks.

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

How small towns are reversing a century of corporate personhood

2004-10-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Mopping off the leftist drivel from the facts below, :-), the idea of abolishing the personhood of corporations, as a step towards freeing enterprise from the claws of the state, is a very attractive idea. A limited partnership can get the same results, without the artifical person nonsense.

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:43:04PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: It was more easy to visit before, she said. But I will still come back. Well, no, I won't. (And quite a number of others). No biometrics ID for me either. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Spotting the Airline Terror Threat

2004-10-03 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:37 AM 10/3/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Unlike the TSA's recently announced program to use computer databases to scan for suspicious individuals whose names occur on passenger lists, SPOT is instead based squarely on the human element: the ability of TSA employees to identify suspicious

comfortably numb

2004-10-03 Thread Major Variola (ret)
t 11:22 PM 10/1/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: Questions were going through my mind. Would it hurt? What are the risks? What if I want to get it out? I ordered another drink. In the US its generally illegal to tattoo someone who is drunk. Comfortably numb In many ways this fellow is.

Spotting the Airline Terror Threat

2004-10-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Wherein the TSA thinks they can observe a lot by watching... Cheers, RAH --- http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,708924,00.html Saturday, Oct. 02, 2004 Spotting the Airline Terror Threat TIME exclusive: A new airport security system soon to be tested will rely on human judgment

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: 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

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Justin
On 2004-10-03T13:32:36-0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: The US *is* the Fourth Reich. Personally, I will take what comes. -- The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails. -- L. Ron Hubbard

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:22 AM 10/3/2004, Steve Furlong wrote: 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

Re: comfortably numb

2004-10-03 Thread Dave Howe
Major Variola (ret) wrote: t 11:22 PM 10/1/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: In the US its generally illegal to tattoo someone who is drunk. Not sure about that - certainly its illegal in the UK to tattoo for a number of reasons, but the drunkenness one usually comes down to is not capable of giving

Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://nytimes.com/2004/10/01/politics/01airports.html?pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times October 1, 2004 Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag By RACHEL L. SWARNS EWARK, Sept. 30 - Laetitia Bohn walked into Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday, dazed and sleepy

A Proposed Nomenclature for the Four Horseman of The Infocalypse

2004-10-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been talking about this for the last decade, and never found a reference on the web whenever I was thinking about it. Thanks to Google, it was well within my prodigiously diminished attention span this morning. Given the events on the net over

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

2004-10-03 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: (1) There are also a number of non-rebar+concrete walls in place to keep US citizens from leaving; Please elaborate?