Re: Anti-globalization

2003-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
editing to insert some smokestacks. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG oS6RUufi6iM2JkeHnX1nXK1wxsbAhlo4Md1bP7PR 4uwZpe5XF48SCJyKwwT6Zbn14lRM00o01bbj5o2SI

Re: Anti-globalization

2003-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
, recall big steel corporations talking about 'fair trade in recent weeks. Tim has been implying that I am a pinko, gold nut, and randroid, which sort of hints that Ayn Rand is too pink for him. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
that purport to be from e-gold *are* fraud. All ethical businesses in the e-gold economy advise that they will *never* send email except in direct response to a user action. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG utxfwVH

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy

2003-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
is identical to every other atom of gold. There is only one stable isotope. E-gold does not provide untraceability -- but gold does. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG sxD6FejwJO/bYQH9Fbek/lB3u1uXGOqk+YI57Vuk

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
is anonymous, and provides a physical mix, since one gold atom looks very like another. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG gFHr0U97wM1IeLX9SRCadMi2qoG+8FaaFXSdMlnB 41xSX7dI0Au/V2pVkuLX2tYRDvsRZ76g3jqqc7NYe

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
standards rise, we are going to spend more on intangibles and natural beauty, and the interesting question is how to do this in a capitalist, hi-tech, framework. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG epHuXfKEnvIeemvmqgSFKseszn18SOm2XFpS1gtE

alt.anonymous.messages

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
to always download all new messages) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zMY49IWQvar+nBxNmFDbRihngyDWi30UIYQY9NAh 4rVDPJdqGIjPUeycOPjbn3AbW2+7fZ0HFzy2xQEeX

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
are also deleted from all ALTA/DMT dbs. Trust us. Would we lie to you? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9P+3EaOU5V9RRtuNGi0n0/2XlM5S3RxLGzOoIMh7 4Imw9MND4w22DnR2n6tOp834DoLrSedKMdIsQGxwn

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tim May: And, as many have noted, very few of the kids today are libertarians (either small L or large L). James A. Donald: When you were a teenager, everyone thought that Ho Chi Minh was the greatest, had a picture of Che Guevera on their wall, and thought the Soviet Union

Re: Got.net and its narcing out of its customers

2003-12-09 Thread James A. Donald
On 8 Dec 2003 at 13:17, Tim May wrote: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=lang_enie=UTF-8oe=UTF -8safe=offthreadm=220820032357238678%25timcmay%40removethis.got.net rn um=1prev=/ groups%3Fq%3Dfrederickson%2Bgot%2Btim%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3D UT F-8%26oe%3DUTF

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-09 Thread James A. Donald
they know better than other people what is good for those other people, and intend to whack those other people for their own good. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG h0PDSIpmiXP6g+EXs3how/E0TY9et8gJKr2+nS0w 4z3+n

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-08 Thread James A. Donald
punks with nose rings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG /JGPIvI11TGnJc6gE6/w/g6k0rZwAOZZoka0PiIJ 4DnWpX4iPZy18KuWpdzmsERHsIS6O34J+itCHGsE2

Re: Type III Anonymous message

2003-12-08 Thread James A. Donald
On 7 Dec 2003 at 22:25, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm seeing similiar trends across virtually all my mailing lists, so I presume it's the medium itself that it's in decline. Spam. people are continually abandoning old addresses. Of course it does not help that the cypherpunks list itself under

Deniable data storage

2003-11-05 Thread James A. Donald
extract a random length of gibberish, a valid key would extract a stream of valid data, and revealing one secret key to the adversary would not give the adversary any evidene that more secrety keys were present or absent. Any good known algorithms for this? --digsig James

Deniable data storage

2003-11-05 Thread James A. Donald
I want to store information deniably. So there would be a fixed sized block of data, say one megabyte, increasing by multiples of 8 as needed. This would contain various items of information that one could extract by supplyin a secret, symmetric, key. A random key would extract a block of

Re: ECC and blinding.

2003-11-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Simple Chaumian blinding works fine on EC. On 31 Oct 2003 at 15:26, Adam Back wrote: So Chaumian blinding with public exponent e, private exponent d, and modulus n is this and blinding factor b chosen by the client: blind: b^e.m mod n- sign: - (b

Re: ECC and blinding.

2003-10-30 Thread James A. Donald
. Some more complex schemes, such as some of Brand's, do not. But I do not see any demand for the more complex schemes. The simplest scheme is already complicated enough, that some of the complexities afflict the end user. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2003-10-02 Thread James A. Donald
posting on it would seem to prove it is alive, though breathing its last. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG dcuOonOpNgPgqZpgbJF0j6ClGa0j1it1Uk51kc/Q 4Nnby2D6L0GGqj2rwXsyWpY1xoKh901QBG9bsYjxG

Re: Critique of CyberInsecurity report

2003-09-27 Thread James A. Donald
that come up --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG EVBFXSY8i4yhJTutdCL23/zyQbi/geQCUHZqoCr7 4J07R9CO6/ynTCaqgsY63x7wtTEVaTRpK5nt5xMio

The world turned upside down.

2003-09-22 Thread James A. Donald
. The fact that no-true-name money seems to be beating true-name money leads me hope that economics can beat inertia and regulation. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ForgDjc+maghCgZHGp2ILgpQ1EJ4weji+guNpA6d 4V0E4la174KcnGEHgMo0C/zJlMQlOcMwzRGJ

Re: [cdr] Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread James A. Donald
killed a cop, or seriously pissed off an important politician, the FBI might get its act together enough and swallow its pride sufficiently to manage a successful extradition, but for this sort of minor crap, nothing will happen. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: more SSH MITM

2003-09-09 Thread James A. Donald
will wind up continually throwing irrelevant dialog boxes at the user, which the user eventually learns to click through and ignore. It is hard to do what you propose. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG McThKMMEVOKkdz4RWIcbMuoi2/6QWYqfbndp1rrO

Re: Cathedra and the Bizarre: Why Free Stuff is Good

2003-09-09 Thread James A. Donald
. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG w43FmWVSVxGrGkglKwhrbDlYPv+GcqZ9RzftUTCi 4nRt4abzGjha5XY7VEVcS7IDx7m9vN9VBDIRElHh7

Re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-06 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: SSH server public/private keys are widely deployed. PKI public keys are not. Reason is that each SSH server just whips up its own keys without asking anyone's permission, or getting any certificates. Eric Murray: ..which means that it [ssh-- ericm

Re: more SSH MITM

2003-09-06 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Think about what would happen if you tried a man in the middle attack on an SSH server. Eric Murray: By checking the key against the IP address of the server. This is easily spoofed. The links I included in my last post pointed to a tool to do just

re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-04 Thread James A. Donald
people have been prepared to do it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG tvYlPJRcqo6WpcnJV+UoskrpqMAjhfJBgGyIDKtO 4lu+EE81UdLOihMlOIZFKZbPYYYlp9BIfRfdHBM7K

Re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-04 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Outlook and outlook express support digital signing and encryption -- but one must first get a certificate. Now what I want is a certificate that merely asserts that the holder of the certificate can receive email at such and such an address, and that only one

Re: The Word Spy for 08/28/2003 -- darknet

2003-08-31 Thread James A. Donald
of the brigands from Redmond, their extensions genuinely are improvements for the most part. Darknet is an improvement on blacknet, since it really does come in shades of gray. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 4QdufdOaOhUa

Re: Controlled nymity

2003-08-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to make it provable. Major Variola (ret) Does it help if: Alice generates

Controlled nymity

2003-08-14 Thread James A. Donald
an email linked account for Bob, into which Alice pays. This sounds ominous, for the next step might be to link the account to true names, can anyone see any other problems with it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG a4EU

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6m8Zy521rRepAVrb3dETgXNWt9NDAvaYuajSTF57 46THZypxYrrH7t2ctOrqdaFckSJzgnUviQzp4u4i0

Re: CDR: RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-04-03 Thread James A. Donald
?Its in our genes, since we were worms in the precambrian mud. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG h36DwI5e5vKElHg28/4q4kfgUVDbydGrPgeZEKTW 4yX4xozKZVtShKVVoYTUKqhgLxnvl1fTT1cTOFgzC

Re: CDR: RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-04-03 Thread James A. Donald
and simple attack, and would provoke a corresponding response. If Russia bombs a US oil refinery with Mexican cooperation, the existing government in Mexico would wind up dead real fast, and some Russian ports would be in flames. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- If Russia, Chaina and the EU really wanted to, they could use conventional weapons and force the US to at least retreat from trying to rule the world. James A. Donald: This supposes the US is trying to rule the world, which is not apparent -- at least not to the US. Tim

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-04-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Indeed, this He said, she said approach, which treats US reports and Iraqi reports as equally credible, seems to me like Baathist propaganda, like anti western bias. Kevin S. Van Horn: Lying is as natural to governments as breathing is to normal, healthy people

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-04-01 Thread James A. Donald
, the US press must be more or less telling the truth, spinning it but not totally lying. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6fxj7GERad3pVCNYJEUKlrfmVElIfTowYaQ6eXu3 4/cC3r1eeWi4IhogVi2IB18HPcWu2xcBRUXHSSr3E

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-31 Thread James A. Donald
of witchcraft persecutions You are projecting modern totalitarianism back to an era when it was unknown. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG CEuYOd291bcXxoavT5ui+z/HAllVD8WvbDsHoRGf 4qVTHDgROmduCiqFYjA5IkOz8TwW84E6AOkfVC6vv

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-31 Thread James A. Donald
as witches and heretics. A typical communist regime murders a millon or so. The murder ratio between communism and Christianity is aproximately ten thousand to one. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG o6N7UezDa+3zXxelmapB

RE: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-31 Thread James A. Donald
announces the west is losing, it is indeed obvious from which corner the propaganda is emanating. It seems to me you are falling into the Chomskyite fallacy If even the New York Times reports the kulaks are reasonably happy, then the truth must be utopia --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
servers. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zGNjNM42e2hEu8yIJrhenqbS0TkNf/6rzBfGJfBN 4YqqQnCTGeWDS3yBqZCEFGENvlML/3pgy37qawJDa

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
is a western ideology -- a mixture of communism and Nazism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG cDyROq05eXVdXrQ/HStZ1tAb4kwCRb+ckvJgOZY0 4wVxnr4we+T1Xk1zbF5T4Ml44xzV8Gn2T1/GmudO/

Re: Practice to Deceive Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
by aggressive imperial war, and the practical effect so far has been to make America less free, rather than Iraq more free, Perhaps a more subtle means would be more likely to succeed, but exporting that program by some means is a sound plan --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: The Highway of Death II

2003-03-26 Thread James A. Donald
Iraqi forces destroy US forces as they expected. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG FtNSFBPae6z59xAyY2exgmtSHovSXjkTMnfI4IMO 4558v5+aYMDuew4RXyfpUVz6CiEXUkoxp2eWVN5JB

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: If the US trys to avoid civilian casualties, this is not out of fear and weakness. Indeed, when we observe the recent past, it seems that it is failure to commit sufficient murder that provokes these attacks. On 24 Mar 2003 at 17:41, Eugen Leitl wrote

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
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Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
universities, amongst the very best people, and the most prestigious publications, with glowing praise. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3ugzZZGkxDJMCzgCZSym0TNHDvLJtovGA0GdGNLC 4eZu4NvyASZJK56sH1lBkFMLUv6ARCl1r7M/m6epB

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: The more Iraqi children the US napalms, the safer every US resident who works in a tall building will be, and less our cities will be troubled with protests. Declan McCullagh I assume you're joking. I am stating a fact. It should be obvious I do not conclude

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: Not inside the cities they can't, not without tons of collateral damage, which will crucify Dubbya and Blair. James A. Donald: No one (except the US military which hopes to rule an intact Iraq) least of all the protestors, care how many Iraqis get killed. Who

Re: CDR: Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
that hostile lies about US allies who fought communists are usually accompanied by favorable lies about the Soviet Union and its servants. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2k9j5EK5Y4xNHQyHIAHgfLEiBFSDcgpeGajUQCOX 4+j

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
resistance wil not be one of the problems that results. Of course the war is far from over yet, but once it is over, it will indeed be over -- as the war in Afghanistan, against people far tougher and more determined, is over. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
in a day. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG CEot0/Fv5upkisp2OkrlJ7HOSs54PKAvATPS9MMh 4yzGvQnbJbVyDJ/tpJS7TGIrVyZ/9wVT0lt6W2p9a

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- Ken Brown: But there certainly was some assistance from the US to the Taliban. US They didn't buy those 500 Stingers in Kmart James A. Donald: Commie lies. At the beginning of the recent Afghan war the US estimated the Taliban had at most fifty stingers. During the war

Re:Liberation party express concern over war

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
kissing US ass while simultaneously kissing terrorist ass. It is embarrassing to attack someone who loudly proclaims I am on your side, even if one is inclined to doubt the sincerity of these loud proclamations. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
of the reason why they drove out much of the Afghan population. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 53Wyhn5mvmbLsfCa8xeusjGGTFC0Ynkauohr4Uov 4nszIWnEYzkvcoHX0K/dqcsoCOCdvV1NwFasx3H/G

Re: When is iraq expected to fall.

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
will be a defeat. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pXZ8V7ZVSnZEJTIAOWVcd7RvKnGDxic8agd6TY6o 453h7nDyLl5QIvUPrVvYm1kEJJ/vJpfXSwkzd8wbm

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread James A. Donald
commie lie -- that the US aided the bigoted Taliban against the elightened communists who created a constitutional democracy where every man and every women have a vote, and universal education and health care were guaranteed, etc. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: The difference between private property owners doing this, and the governemnt doing this is that 100% of private property owners are NOT going to agree on anything. On 9 Mar 2003 at 8:36, Thomas Shaddack wrote: This presumes the existence of significant amount

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
that the capitalists are like the state, a single entity with a single will, in which case it is obvious that simply replacing the will of the capitalists with the will of the people would be a vast improvement, rather than slavery terror and mass murder. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Someone explain...Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
an anarchic society, where roads were not made according to any central plan, would produce. Then, there would be no problem with one particular turnpike operator turning away blacks, or turning away whites. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
with most of their audience. Similarly recall the debate between Chagnon and his various opponents. The joke so often made about feminists is also very much applicable to those than in the America call themselves liberals. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
. Not sure what station it was on. Terribly earnest public good stuff. Sure the press is biased, but there is plenty of stuff that is very far from pro Israel, even on channels that are openly pro Israel, such as Fox. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

Re: Ethnomathematics

2003-02-28 Thread James A. Donald
that often something we think of as universal is merely universal to those who share our cultural and historical perspectives. Doubtless among Margaret Mead's happy fun loving socialist free love practicing Samoans, three plus three equalled four. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-24 Thread James A. Donald
Rouge were rebuilding Cambodia, that they were comparable to the french resistance, that the stories of massacres had been repeatedly discovered to be false, and so on and so forth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG TF+XPgep9hB6HF8pL

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minoritie s

2003-02-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. On 21 Feb 2003 at 17:09, David Howe wrote: but their highly capitalist companies sometimes do. Don't be silly. You have been reading too much Lenin. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-22 Thread James A. Donald
competence they cannot get well paid jobs elsewhere, so they are trapped. Secondly in high welfare state countries, by definition, wealth is politally distributed, leading to correspondingly high levels of organized group violence, as frequently illustrated in France. --digsig James

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minoritie s

2003-02-21 Thread James A. Donald
nations do not murder millions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG LS0PPszrbHPaadDyv9OpkI1d4Tym+mjxMyowVUMa 4dEsfuHBg8G0mXDn/U8FBak0jzB4WFSXGPt/n1Lt9

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

2003-02-20 Thread James A. Donald
So the US killed a lot of people there, so as to spread respect for freedom and democracy, and installed another dictator without elections, or any plan for elections The current leader was elected, not in accordance with western democratic norms that some people want to impose of Afghans

Re: M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...

2003-02-14 Thread James A. Donald
now control. Then we could remake a small region of space time to have physical laws that we might find more convenient for some purposes. All of this, however, seems hard. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ok

RE: The Wimps of War

2003-02-12 Thread James A. Donald
. The Germans and the French are not very keen on doing it at all, but realizing that position is unpopular, instead say they doubt the US will to do it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3cgDYFmaaqwoNleSbHMta+Lh1jBHPKeYH8milYX4

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-31 Thread James A. Donald
observed success in finding oil. Doomsayers predict failure to find oil from alleged oil reserves. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG C9e+ZUPyVGI4wbdMUNNKXWkQWaRXRTL/Nu+zv66g 4tjmevo5q83abI8gkC1baI1odUsQH0a8O86Tquf+1

Re: CDR: US health care,a winner for Hillary in 04?

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
On 28 Jan 2003 at 19:46, Marc de Piolenc wrote: PS - the infant mortality statistics are bogus; they are a record-keeping artefact. Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the USA is always being compared) don't count a child as born until it has reached a certain age (three weeks in

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
that their scientists want to publish interesting research findings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vj9XFJICkQyBZHtzNbSmc+aK6sW4+dfeCW2jBsxp 4SNzRPDCqDY1oqcXuKPS207CG2oaSOsRAObNR7CKl

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
with the one overly optimistic estimate -- but the association is thin. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8af9YKuTzIfi6eW+kuKC5iSQr1ItRdPJmiiqa7oK 40um9WOOe1GxHnczql5Bykr/viCnjY0+DHauSAK8v

Re: Palm Pilot Handshake

2003-01-29 Thread James A. Donald
, stating I'm not worthy, Sire.) This can be done without a palm pilot. Normally the flesh and blood Tyler Durden would reveal knowledge of information sent encrypted to the net Tyler Durden, or vice versa. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified specialists, you would not need the army. Of course you would. Look, once again, this isn't a normal

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: Well, but only a strike of the executives and some technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: When they bring out the army against the strikers as well as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver: Nope, not a chance. Most

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: Well, but only a strike of the executives and some technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: When they bring out the army against the strikers as well as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver: Nope, not a chance. Most

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread James A. Donald
workers, though they theoretically have the skills of those they are supposed to replace, do not actually have the skills. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kwfJU4cOdKICpZB82NV/SqXAxmw3TVvx9Mj+s73N 4qKieDYF+J3ghbatlXw9fpFG6hLJOwipHAEQ+/QjK

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-19 Thread James A. Donald
suspect that the original Bin Laden is now a grease smear on some Afghan rocks, since the original Bin Laden was a Heideggerean, and would spit on any Marxist unless that Marxist was dying of thirst in the desert. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
. Of course no such discoveries are to be found in the material he cites, and his article appeared shortly after the massacres reported by the refugees were devastatingly confirmed by when such a massacre occurred on the border. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Question on Mixmaster

2003-01-13 Thread James A. Donald
. Download quicksilver, which is a wrapper around Mixmaster. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SOzCf2IlFaRP9bX1C0CNSyBqZtT2LHJw6xVNbuQg 42jEIkLSj0DRPCGqFJuNhf6tC8RHusnbDZzvJzdg5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-13 Thread James A. Donald
that the first line was a joke, would believe that cypherpunks really do go hunting black people. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG VZWpdVuMGJXwD+8kUsrx9HO13zFp6hwvFIsezAEw 414DzHlNJd+xhIFwTZwjjprhbh3YCmMrWCkNV4SM5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread James A. Donald
for men. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG eeK7Lx/2xa/jMsqP3nKuxuq4g/yRmQtaTm/6pzMG 4WNfeWcezvgs7vrhiCTz68qRAGREiuHgqil78zrNJ

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: It is unsurprising that with current computing power we should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to emulate a nematode is troubling. Eugen Leitl The crunch power is there. We're lacking a good enough model, and empirical data to feed that nonexisting model

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
neurons or very small networks of neurons that we have not yet grasped. It is unsurprising that with current computing power we should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to emulate a nematode is troubling. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
that Disney, and lots of other groups own various small things makes me free. Voting does not make me free. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qikI/Zvu3HswGlLSZkKaevQ3pU6OY28ELljC0Jbd 4cAxIRdESGs/ZREaCsKc0sn3T8IF21aiD8Wwoy3Os

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
on. By voting, you give the appearance of consent to what the government does to you. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xmBBW56MrvFmh7U6fPSMDbyYqa+PTDPhTlRLmwmD 4cHSTvSFFo32sjmnBGPqe0vLtp3CfQhXyVLccQaXm

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- William Warren voting keeps you free..voting is our way of controlling and shaping the government. In http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Chapter_19/PT hy_Chap_19.html David Friedman explains why democracy does not work. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: To Marcel Popescu On the Interventionist pseudo-Libs

2002-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
and digress. To get back on point, if those who purport to be objectivists are also militant zionist interventionists, we should not take their supposed objectivist ideals too seriously. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Verdict's in: Elcomsoft NOT GUILTY of criminal DMCA violations

2002-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
On 17 Dec 2002 at 16:43, Steve Schear wrote: [I'm more convinced than ever that nullification figured into the verdict. If so, bravo for the jury. steve] Both the defense and the prosecution sought to make the facts clear and understandable to the jury. So the defense was betting on

Re: Extradition, Snatching,and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-16 Thread James A. Donald
invasion, but no more violent that it was before the Soviet invasion. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG k2IMyoZuE05D4VVX0FkW1hRQSzvJRDmLhlhwppHX 4+V+mECM7CjCVvLuL1WVl7q6w8saodTqAtyPLDY7v

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-09 Thread James A. Donald
as it pleases on or near the battlefield. Trouble is, with terrorism or guerrilla war, the battlefield is arguably everywhere. We need a declaration of victory that will push the battlefield to somewhere far away. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread James A. Donald
out my Chomsky web page: Chomsky lies http://www.jim.com/Chomsdis.htm --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 5U6Z7xMp4zTN7LYnZeRTOkIV+P8krIJAvwxGPmE3 4EkYXklGNdtijKPek7gdRsTyzwt1PLpWiSTSKliuv

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-19 Thread James A. Donald
of men in the process, they eventually gave up. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8rJK0TzKk1D62GWmAZ6vUvsi4CeZZEc5RL+nY/pG 4uNqMiU5DCnLXIoq1IVsaQobFOgZedKfb3qFuXYdl

RE: Where's Osama? (Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's next)

2002-11-17 Thread James A. Donald
government from nothing. It took about five years for a plausibly German government to get its hands on the reins of power, and few more years for it to get rid of the institutions and apparatus of nazism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Poker

2002-11-15 Thread James A. Donald
be done. Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG d4omBF08eFWhHQd6CDKVp4lJjfAS5GR56iMNcbAA 4XIes5IiykHpRT31kmyvZJTH0pPeUGMmBmORhd56d

Re: Fwd: [fc] list of papers accepted to FC'03

2002-11-15 Thread James A. Donald
in fact been implemented. This has doubtless reduced enthusiasm for the theory. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG XmqKAbnJ3zxWonUYjLQTEauIWVuczMy3fiZXjszK 4BOXbFJHRJ+piLFRffQdmB84zd8OiOgRKr7wytw+r

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-13 Thread James A. Donald
The Yodel does not have a web site where yodels can be converted into some other form of money, and other forms of money converted into Yodels. Instead it has an IIRC bot. Use of this bot is described at http://yodel.deep-ice.com/bankbot.html This means a command line interface, to do

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
have a ninety percent humbug and fraud rate. If his currency works well enough that one can buy addresses with it, this indicates a somewhat surprising level of success. I will check out his currency, and see what there is to see. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
. Problem is that most users will not understand cryptographic mixing, whereas they do understand a furnace. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 50wZVsHzWVCcQBwTOHonjfe6YktnJgFEe7CRcnOu 4qPIe4UB2pjTm4BTLInH60M2fku9pH217a/zFX8Jc

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