Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!

2004-02-26 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TO SUBSCRIBE to Cypherpunks, one should send a message to ONE of the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no SSZ node anymore. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support

Inferno: PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column (fwd)

2003-12-03 Thread Jim Choate
What I find most interesting in this article is not MS marketing noise but the comment about the White House, robot.txt, and Google... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031120.html Truly a despicable act for a -public servant-. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs,

[discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg (fwd)

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:36:29 -0600 From: David Nunez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! Get ready for chills, thrills and bone-crushing spills! More excitement and more mud

Q: Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys?

2003-10-28 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, One of the local Linux user groups had a talk at their meeting as well as some extended discussion on the mailing list regarding RSA keys and factoring. In particular a claim was made that recent technology has come to light that allows factoring of 1024 bit RSA keys at $1B (US)/day. The

[cdr] SSZ node going down

2003-10-03 Thread Jim Choate
Greetings, As of 17:00 Central today (10-3-03) the SSZ node will cease to operate. All subscribers should move to one of the other nodes to continue to participate in the list. That is my intention. Ta ta. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we

[cdr] CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)

2003-09-25 Thread Jim Choate
50 million Americans can't be wrong. Let's see, there are 300M Americans...this is a logical flaw, an appeal to the majority when in fact it isn't even a majority. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/25/congress.no.call/index.html Now let me make this clear I support the do-not-call list, in

RE: [cdr] Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)

2003-09-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: I don't have much trust in the US media, but this is nonsense. The assasination attempt was covered by the NYT among others. I heard about it on the radio at the weekend, and it was on Yahoo News. Thanks, I fed it back upstream. -- -- God exists

Re: [cdr] Re: CNN.com - House votes for do-not-call registry - Sep. 25, 2003 (fwd)

2003-09-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Pete Capelli wrote: You are assuming that each phone number represents only one person, which in most cases is incorrect. No I am not, the fine senator is. Get your facts straight, like who actually says what. -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and

[cdr] Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org (fwd)

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Choate
Who said there were significant differences in corporations and governments...Oh yeah, CACL didI guess they were wrong...again. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11743 -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it.

[cdr] The Register - eBay to Fees: come and get what you want (fwd)

2003-09-21 Thread Jim Choate
Another example of why CACL [1] approaches don't work. Claims that business are not as bad as the government are bogus because they fail to realize that both are activities of people and people are the cause of problem. The evils of man are not a function of government, business, or whatever.

Re: [cdr] Re: The Register - eBay to Fees: come and get what you want (fwd)

2003-09-21 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.20.1638 +0200]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32936.html Don't want to open a can of worms here, but is cypherpunks secondary function to be Jim's link distribution list? I mean, we all

[cdr] Austin Cypherpunks Montly Social

2003-09-21 Thread Jim Choate
Time:October 14, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: [cdr] Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-13 Thread Jim Choate
Somethings broke in the backbone relay, the CDR has split. I sent the note out and didn't see Tim's response, but do see JAT's. Cool ;) On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tim May wrote: huge snip Were he in the U.S., I'd expect he'd face serious charges.

Re: [cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
I didn't write that, only passed it along. On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as its purpose

[cdr] What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, Is it really so that there are no up to date archives? Venona seems to have stopped a while back. Just curious. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

[cdr] Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, I had an interesting experience yesterday. I got to talk to a person claiming to be with the DoJ in Philly (if memory serves). Apparently they are investigating one or more posts in the Aug. time frame for something. They were interested in a subpeona regarding technical information about

[cdr] An IRC server is available...

2003-09-10 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, Open Forge, LLC is making a IRC server available on kraken.open-forge.com on port 6667 available for use. The current channels include a #cypherpunks. For more information please visit the SSZ Open Forge homepages. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL

[cdr] Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Eric Murray wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:01:51AM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs? If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples, and using this to infer spamfiltering

RE: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-08-26 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Patrick wrote: leaflets is activism. Planting firebombs in restaurants is terrorism. Is spiking a tree? Exactly whose tree is it anyway? What happens when the last whale is in the harpoon site, is it ok to ruin the shot? It's not as simple as you make it out to be. The

Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-08-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: As expected, animal and environmental activists are now being called terrorists. Foie Gras Flap Leads to Vandalism Sonoma Police Chief John Gurney, who described the attacks as a sophisticated campaign of domestic terrorism, said: They're

SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid (fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Choate
I like the ed's comments at the end. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Austin Cypherpunks Monthly Meet, Aug. 12.

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Choate
Time:Aug. 12, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: CyberShamans who claim to be only mildly interested in Wicca

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tim May wrote: I said many texts. Which isn't the point, the point was 'bible'. You executed a strawman and nobody seems to have noticed. Typical CACL. Of course any word that exists is going to show up in 'many texts' if you look hard enough. Your 'point' is specious.

Re: CyberShamans who claim to be only mildly interested in Wicca

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: I noticed, but arguing with Tim is rather pointless. If he tried to refute primary sources with tertiary sources in a paper at any university he'd not only get an F but probably some very nasty comments from the prof as well. So when you're

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

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: killed hundreds of thousands of noncombatants to get his way. The real irony is that the U.S. ended up granting the desired condition afterwards anyway. Better check your history again, McArthur made that call as supreme commander of the theatre,

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

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: I've heard that people driving through the area contaminated by Chernobyl are just told to roll up the windows and drive fast, but I don't know if that's true, or how much good it does you. Could help a little. Will prevent most of the dust

Austin Cypherpunks Physical Meet - Apr. 8

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Choate
Time:Apr. 8, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: 'Peking' vs 'Beijing'

2003-04-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: And of course, Beijing is no harder to say that Peking, Actually it is, there are -four- ways to say 'Beijing' and only two ways to say Peking. It hinges on the hard or softness of the 'j' in Beijing and the first 'e' in both words (which is where

Austin Cypherpunks Physical Meet - Mar. 11

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
Time:Mar. 11, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: Wheeler

2003-02-15 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Wheeler is also every bit as iconoclastic a thinker as Hawking, perhaps even more so. Wheeler may be the Tyler Durden of physicists. That's funny, not. I've actually met Wheeler and Weinberg several times. They seem like the typical physics prof. I'd

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

2003-02-15 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, James A. Donald wrote: As one approaches the plank length, the structure of space time will become more like fractal quantum foam, It isn't 'fractal' at all, it does cease being continous. Not the same thing. --

Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it? Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large scale structure in time/space. stuff.

Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: You still read science popularizers ? There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading popularizers. Other than an clear block of time that could be better spent looking in the horses mouth ;) --

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, jet wrote: If you've read it recently, I'll take your word for it. That's a very(!!!) dangerous approach. Odds are the person hasn't read it at all. Check the archive for a reference to a pre-print in arXiv (ie xyz.lanl.gov) about pre-prints and how 80% of them are bogus

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Sarad AV wrote: A tape as an evidence?Is a tape still considered as a valid piece of evidence in a court of law? It's that oath thing, it's pretty much always required the person making the tape to swear it hasn't been tampered with and that they are the party who created

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: Some 40+ years ago we had to learn it in kindergarten. One kid refused and they took him out of class. His and the other kids parents were pussies. I first went to school about the same time ago, 1966 in Houston. I didn't do the pledge and they called

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dave Howe wrote: no, lilo is. if you you can mount a pgpdisk (say) without software, then you are obviously much more talented than I am :) Bullshit. lilo isn't doing -anything- at that point without somebody or something (eg dongle) being present that has the -plaintext-

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death...(fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: In real life this will not work as most Windoze hard disk encryption schemes can't encrypt the OS disk - and this is where the temp/cache stuff goes. These can have more than enough info to reveal what's on your crypto disk (ie. shortcuts to url's you've

Re: The Register - Computer ballot outfit perverts Senate race, theorist says (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] André Esteves wrote: A problem in democracy, is that when you tamper with things, and got with it, it will probably be ve dificult to prove you did it. Think: It's evolution!!! There is a wit war between any forces in a democracy to get away with it.

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death...(fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Dave Howe wrote: Jim Choate wrote: Yes, it can mount the partition. That isn't the problem. The problem is that for lilo to do this it has to have access to the key in plaintext. That makes the entire exercise moot. not if you have to type it every time. Then I'd say

Re: The news from May's peech...Narc-power

2003-01-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Me? I grew up here in NYC in the 70s, where/when Punk began (please, no one out in the sticks there try to tell me about the Brits inventing Punk, and Yeah, right...not. MC5 (1969, Detroit), Iggy Pop (1973, Detroit)...Kick out the jams brothers and

re: handhelds and crypto anarchy

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote: A far mroe exciting idea to me is how handhelds like palms, ipaqs, etc, could beused to transfer digital anonymous cash. They seem like perfect delivery vehicles. Say, secret agent X meets congressman Y in a dark alley somewhere to give him a

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

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: Ovshinsky, the amorphous semiconductor guy, developed a relatively efficient photovoltaic film that could be manufactured by continuous extrusion by a simple machine. For some reason, that never hit the big time either. He had several problems in

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

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 30 Jan 2003 at 11:31, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm not arguing pro strong state. I'm merely saying that the tax funded ivory tower RD is complementary in scope to privately funded research. If 95% of it is wasted (and lacking libertarian

Re: Who feigned Roger Rabbit?

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: This is a terribly important point, and failure to understand this point is the source of more disagreements than I can count. What if everyone thought that way? (Fallacy, as my actions will NOT affect the choices of others, a situation most evident in

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

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Howie Goodell wrote: Tim May wrote: For example, the space program. The Moon Flag Planting cost about 100,000 slave-lives (about $125 thousand milliion in today's dollars) to finance. It distorted the market for things like single stage to orbit, which might have

Re: Palm Pilot Handshake

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible? Yes, but there are caveats. What I mean is, Let's say some disgruntled and generic crypto-kook (let's call him, say,...'Tyler Durden') has been signing his (tiring) cyber-missives

Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Get some scurf from expensive D.C. restaurants. PCRAmplify it up if you And be sure to open it -only- at the crime scene. If the investigator could grab a sample of the same mix of DNA at some other location that the suspect visits then they'd

washingtonpost.com || Bush To Name Tech Security Leaders (fwd)

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:20:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: washingtonpost.com || Bush To Name Tech Security Leaders http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34171-2003Jan9.html?referer=email snip One senior intelligence officer said Clapper faces a

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the case, then I want to know. Figured I'd ask for clarification on this issue. (And from some of May's comments in

Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: Replying to Blah Jim Choate wrote... It's called relativity because it assumes no absolute frame against which speeds must be referenced. Wrong. OK, Senior Choate, Pot, Kettle, Black. You should consider asking Tim for membership in the CACL

Gun Ownership in America, It's bigger than the 2nd

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Choate
From: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Constitutional analysis of the right to bear arms Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:07:32 -0500 (CDT) A Review of The Constitution and The Use of Force: -- [Here is where the federal government is given the job

Re: Subject: CDR: Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, blah wrote: From: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, blah wrote: Not from the photons perspective, from a photons perspective there is -no- time. A photon has no perspective. Yes it does. It is a particle and it interacts with the rest

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote: As a (fellow) trained physicst, do you actually believe that quantum-encrypted signals are truly secure as a byproduct of basic physical law, or do even YOU believe that QM is merely a useful calculational tool, No 'label' is ever the thing it labels. QM

Re: Quantum suicide without suicide

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: -- Newcomb's Paradox (discussed in Pearl, Joyce, Nozick, etc.) This is no paradox, it is a silly question with an obvious answer that a lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time over. You mug the alien and take both boxes. Hence if the alien could

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, blah wrote: Blah wrote quite an excellent post. In fact, I've met few physics PhDs which would have been able to respond so well. So needless to say, my curiosity is peaked concerning who Blah is in the real world. (Tim May, Thanks. It's nice to run into

Re: CDR: Re: Television

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote: Sam Ritchie sneered: Hmmm, is someone a wittle upset over a certain recent textual reprimand? No need for petty schoolyard insults, May. What happened to the new year's resolution you made? ~S Am I just imagining it, or is there a definite

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Ken Hirsch wrote: In general you have to consider the whole system, including derivation rules, not just the axioms, although you can certain start with a set of axioms like: { x=1, x=2} or, come to think of it, { 1=2 } You'd first have to define what '=' means, that

Re: Television

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Todd Boyle wrote: And anyway, you don't come into a community that is working based on certain shared assumptions, and start questioning the assumptions. Actually that is -exactly- what one should do. No man is the communities nigger. Or as Decarte once said: If you

Austin Cypherpunks Monthly Meeting - Tue. Jan. 14

2003-01-07 Thread Jim Choate
Time:Jan. 14, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: Subject: CDR: Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, blah wrote: 'instantaneously' from -whose- perspective? From anyone's perspective. Not from the photons perspective, from a photons perspective there is -no- time. It is clear from Relativity that as -anything- approaches the speed of light it's mass grows larger

Re: CDR: Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: how do you know that apples and oranges are not same or are same? Its the way you look at it. No, ever see Apple and Oranges cross-breed? -THEY- look at it that way too. So there -is- something there to the cladistic viewpoint. --

Re: QM, A-B, and the Z

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: And no, Relativity and QM have -not- been joined into a -single cohesive theory-. You have to qualify this. No, I don't. General relativity has not been unified with quantum mechanics in any way that is universally

Re: CDR: Re: Liars Paradox Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: There has been much speculation around Fermi's famous question: Where are they? Why haven't we seen any traces of intelligent extraterrestrial life?. One way in which this question has been answered (Brin 1983) is that we have not seen any traces of

Re: CDR: Re: Liars Paradox Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: So does the fermi paradox mean that there are no extra terrestrials.Can't we throw away this paradox like every other paradox? It's easier to assume we don't know what we're looking for. That's not a paradox

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: An axiom is an improvable statement which is accepted as true. An axiom is a statement which is -assumed to be universaly required-. That is -not- equivalent to 'true' (eg A point has only position is not 'true' but a -definition- which is neither true or

Re: Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The most familiar Liar Sentence is the following self-referential sentence: As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do we learn from the

Re: QM, etc...

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, A.Melon wrote: If you still want to say there's some kind of hole in quantum theory, then are you saying that if we fix this hole, QM will bve able to predict experimental outcomes to, say 20 decimals rather than 10? (QM is by far the most sucesful physical theory ever

Re: re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is there a way to RELIABLY find the mail was opened? I have a related question. I have a little server sitting in a wall closet. Does anyone have an easy solution (preferably low tech) for figuring out

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the latest news on Adelman's cryptological soup? Once his DNA crypto was touted as a substantial breakthrough for crypto, though since overshadowed by quantum crypto smoke-blowing. DNA computes

Re: How Free is the Free Market?

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Matthew X wrote: Chompsky makes the point that the state underwrites the so called free market. As we are all libertarians,(cept shoate) here we should be doing our utmost to expose,ridicule,attack and destroy the state,nest pas? You're right, I don't want to get rid of

Re: CDR: Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: As you already see-what you say is correct for your definition of proof and axiom. Here is the fundamental error in your thinking, you are trying to argue apples and oranges. As my comments alude to, what you are doing is trying to argue geometry using two

Re: re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: I have a related question. I have a little server sitting in a wall closet. Does anyone have an easy solution (preferably low tech) for figuring out that the closet door has been opened? A switch that shutdowns the server, and a passphrase on

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: Does a paradox ever help in understanding any thing? Yes, it can demonstrate that you aren't asking the right questions within the correct context. We define a paradox on a base of rules we want to prove. No, a paradox is two things we accept that

Re: re:constant encryped stream

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is there a way to RELIABLY find the mail was opened? There are a variety of plastics and such that will change color and break-down; the new time-limited DVD's that become unplayable after some short period of days after opening the air tight

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Choate hails from Texas,the state with the highest rate of cold blooded state murder. Have we heard the slightest peep out of this serial spammer about this? Choate condemn the state murderers or remain a cold blooded conforming creep. Check the

Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote: Tim May wrote... I don't believe, necessarily, in certain forms of the Copenhagen Interpretation, especially anything about signals propagating instantaneously, 'instantaneously' from -whose- perspective? Yes, this has been a fashionable set of

Re: The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Marc de Piolenc wrote: All of which ignores the best reason for killing convicted murderers: that one will never kill again. Which leads to a ethical paradox regarding the state's murder and it's public admission of the fact, and the need of society to protect itself from

Re: Wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Too much egg-nog? Try... Stoicism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stoicism is a school of philosophy commonly associated with such philosophers as Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus. Organized at Athens in the third century B.C.E.

Re: Drivel and Gutter,Boring.,

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Isn't it fascinating to see the neo-liberal Choate post marxist stuff here and relate to this post? Neo-liberal? What a joke. I'm not a liberal or a conservative. Do you have a point to make other than name calling? Typical CACL bullshit. --

Re: CDR: Re: What is Anarchism?

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, (Shoate shite) Sez who? Sez you, actually.. A lot of people attracted to anarchism seem to think like Lord Acton,that power corrupts and the less your average person has over you the safer

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: And this general line of reasoning leads to a Many Worlds Version of the Fermi Paradox: Why aren't they here? Why aren't they all where? If they were 'here' then they wouldn't be another world now would they? The reason I lean toward the shut up and

Happy New Year!

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
If you are going to drink, don't drive. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer

Re: What is Anarchism?

2002-12-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: It is notoriously difficult to define Anarchism. Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, that they are corrupted by interaction with others. And as a result the way to make the world a more idyllic place is to minimize the ways in which

Re: Drivel and Gutter,Boring.

2002-12-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: EXTRACT from The Catastrophe of Postmodernism - Deleuze, Guattari Baudrillard intensified to the point of shattering. Deleuze seems to share, or at least comes very close to, the absurdist conviction of Yoshimoto Takai that consumption constitutes a

Re: CDR: Peace Through Trade, Redux: Medieval Iceland and the Absenceof Government

2002-12-28 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: --- begin forwarded text Status: RO Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: moderator for [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, James A. Donald wrote: On the other hand, our inability to emulate a nematode, or the a portion of the retina, is grounds for concern. This does not indicate that the mystery is QM, but does suggest that there is some mystery -- some special quality either of

Re: I crypt you

2002-12-25 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote: What are the possible technical solutions ? Plan 9. Replace the DES component, understand small-world networks, and begin to distribute to your friends. Then everything can be encrypted at all levels transparently to the user (outside of key generation).

Re: Bruce Schneier Hullabaloo

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Neil Johnson wrote: U, how about. 1. Big multi-national corporation buys off politicians to pass laws to protect their business model (DMCA anyone ?) 2. Gets meter maid to enforce said law. 3. See above. Ahhh, I see. Let's just get rid of the middle-man

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: Non-voters are NOT viewed by those in power as protesting against the system. They are viewed as: a: People who are happy as fat with the way things are going. and b: People whose viewpoints can be totally ignored. So Jim, I think you have it

Re: Joe Strummer RIP.

2002-12-23 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Strange but Rock The Casbah was a premonition of things to come at a future date in time and space? And it was filmed right here in Austin. The F4's are landing at Bergstom back when it was a AFB. I'll leave the other locations as a test for the class ;)

Re: Suspending the Constitution

2002-12-20 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Petro wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:18:09PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: Lincoln's notion that the Constitution is suspendable during a war, or other emergency conditions, was disgraceful. Nothing in the Constitution says that

Re: CDR: Re: Suspending the Constitution

2002-12-20 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Mike Rosing wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Volkh conspiracy blog had this Learned Hand quote recently: I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me,

[texas-hpr] My first run-in with the Safe Explosives Act (fwd)

2002-12-18 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:21:17 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rocketry - Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rocketry - North Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rocketry - Waco [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [CHOATE FIX] No quantum postcards (Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere)

2002-12-18 Thread Jim Choate
fix. I refuse to respond to the next gripe, where JC brings up quantum postcards that take all paths at the same time, until you open your mailbox. Yada yada yada...same old CACL bullshit. At 07:12 AM 12/17/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote

Re: CDR: Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Miles Fidelman wrote: On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote: From the article: The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal

Re: CDR: Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world viamultimedia phones (fwd)

2002-12-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Steve Furlong wrote: Jim Choate, in a display of bad judgement and ill temper never before seen on the internet, spewed forth the following blood-libel: I have fulfilled a lifelong goal, I have walked where no man has ever

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

2002-12-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Steve Furlong wrote: Jim Choate, in a display of bad judgement and ill temper never before seen on the internet, spewed forth the following blood-libel: I have fulfilled a lifelong goal, I have walked where no man has ever walked before. I can now die happy ;) I'm

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote: From the article: The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal was to be transmitted. This is totally bogus thinking. The Internet is not broadcast medium. Yes, it is.

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'SHotel

2002-12-15 Thread Jim Choate
On 15 Dec 2002, David Wagner wrote: Declan McCullagh wrote: Also epic.org (not a cypherpunk-friendly organization, but it does try to limit law enforcement surveillance) [...] Is the cypherpunks movement truly so radicalized that it is not willing to count even EPIC among its friends?

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