Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Dec 10 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: | | Because nodes are not geographically constrained to US jurisdiction? | | If mixter won't survive, it's due to spammers, and malware spreaders. The latter statement my well be true, I don't use the network, nor know the ratios of good/bad

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Aug 20 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: | Yup. Reruns of the Daily Show are usually on at 7pm the following day, | though check your local cable schedule. Don't suppose anyone is willing to record and post for those of us who don't have access to US channels right now?

Re: [IP] When police ask your name, you must give it, Supreme Court says (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-06-22 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Jun 21 2004, Steve Schear wrote: | Not a problem. Its legal to use any name you wish, including those that | use gyphs and sounds which cannot be represented by standard Roman and | non-Roman alphabets (as is common in some African tribes). So, those that | wish to avoid

Re: Linksys WRT54G (and clones)

2004-06-21 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Jun 20 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: | Anyone here using that device? With Sveasoft's firmware? Building the | firmware yourself, or using VPNs/IPsec? I have one here at work. Works wonders. I didn't build it myself though. I actually paid the subscription too. The $20 seemed

[David_Heinrich@urmc.rochester.edu: [mises] praxeology and game theory]

2004-05-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
possibly of interest to some here... - Forwarded message from Pro-Choice [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 03:18:25 - From: Pro-Choice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mises] praxeology and game theory Today, in Managerial Economics, the professor talked

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-15 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Apr 14, at 08:22PM, Justin wrote: | I'm not concerned with the advertising itself. My concern is that the | Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message | content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs. I only say something because I have

Anarchy and Capitalism in Africa of all places...

2004-04-08 Thread Gabriel Rocha
http://www.economist.com/World/africa/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2559183 (it requires a login... article pasted below) I specially like the part about taxation and the difficulties of implementing it... Somalia Coke and al-Qaeda Apr 1st 2004 | MOGADISHU From The Economist print edition

Jackbooted thugs, mercs and non-gov paramilitaries

2004-03-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
I don't normally forward articles, but this one might be of interest to some here. I especially like the part where these guys are exempt from the legal system... http://www.economist.com/world/europe/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2539816 British companies have been grousing about losing out to

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

2003-03-28 Thread 'Gabriel Rocha'
it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know)

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

2003-03-28 Thread 'Gabriel Rocha'
On Thu, Mar 27, at 01:12PM, Sunder wrote: The site was defaced last I saw it, I would suspect that to still be the case, or it is down for other reasons (overloaded, etc...) For those of you who are getting a dotster page, try using a different dns server than what your isp is

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

2003-03-27 Thread Gabriel Rocha
I just checked out http://www.aljazeera.net/ and there is a big red US flag on the front, courtesy of the Freedom Cyber Force Militia... well, perhaps aljazeera needs better network people...

Re: Switzerland: Another hit for phone privacy

2003-03-13 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Mar 13, at 12:41AM, Lucky Green wrote: | What Swisscom's EasyRoam pre-paid SIMs offered that no other pre-paid | service that I am aware of offered, at least as of a year ago, was | roaming in nearly every country that has GSM service. Most pre-paid SIMs | are limited to

Was: (US health care...). Now: Child mortality in Sweden.

2003-01-30 Thread Gabriel Rocha
| 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 Sweden). Guess when most infant | deaths occur?

[martin@quebecoislibre.org: [mises] Soviet propaganda posters]

2002-10-17 Thread Gabriel Rocha
I thought this might be amusing for some of our list members as well. --Gabe - Forwarded message from Martin Masse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:22:33 -0400 From: Martin Masse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mises] Soviet propaganda posters List

[labs@foundstone.com: Foundstone Labs Advisory - Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow in PGP]

2002-09-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
- Forwarded message from Foundstone Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:54:17 -0700 From: Foundstone Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Foundstone Labs Advisory - Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow in PGP Foundstone Labs Advisory - 090502-PCRO

Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the CAPS System

2002-08-17 Thread Gabriel Rocha
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/student-papers/spring02-papers/caps.htm Abstract To improve the efficiency of airport security screening, the FAA deployed the Computer Assisted Passenger Screening system (CAPS) in 1999. CAPS attempts to identify potential terrorists through the use of profiles

Re: status of various projects?

2002-08-15 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Aug 14, at 10:58AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: | It seems like a lot of interesting projects haven't been active for a | while - notably Free Haven and Eternity Usenet. Where is the most active | work, these days, on distributed publishing systems? I forwarded this to Roger

[aleph1@securityfocus.com: Implementation of Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks against PGP and GnuPG]

2002-08-13 Thread Gabriel Rocha
Figured this might be of interest to folks here... - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:45:26 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Implementation of Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks against PGP and GnuPG

Re: cypherpunks@lne.com

2002-07-10 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Jul 10, at 02:12AM, anonimo arancio wrote: | I am considering becoming a US citizen immediately before I leave. My concern is |that if I become a US citizen, the IRS might want to tax me wherever I go. We're starting to beat on dead horse. Yes, the IRS will tax you

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-10 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Jul 09, at 05:11PM, Tim May wrote: | Mexico does not allow _any_ noncitizen to work! Two point. I did not know that about Mexico (I did say it was made about the countries I knew about.) Switzerland and Brasil both allow student visa holders to work, albeit with

Re: Markets (was Re: Hayek was right. Twice.)

2002-07-03 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Jul 04, at 01:26AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: | I can't see a market defined as anything else than private property and | voluntary exchange. | | Then you really must be blind. Markets not based on private property or | volition abound. The political process is one of them.

Re: maximize best case, worst case, or average case? (TCPA

2002-07-01 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Mon, Jul 01, at 10:10PM, Anonymous wrote: | Brilliant. Let the market solve the problem. Why bother with the auction | part, then? If the market's going to solve the problem for the 2nd guy | to hold the copy, why not let it solve the problem for the 1st? The fact | is,