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
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:
The list can go on and on. The US is *not* a popular country right now.
Not only could I see Mexico turning a blind eye, but I can see a large part
of the world taking the same stance.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying. The US, I'd like
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:
And then the whole world dies, because of ... what?
Natural stupidity.
Seriously, I *highly* doubt that any nation at this time would *seriously*
think of bombing another nuclear-enabled nation with a nuclear weapon. It's
just suicide.
'a couple
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Duncan Frissell wrote:
So when the rest of the world retaliates with all their military power that
the US fails to appreciate, what strategic war plan does the rest of the
world have for handling a couple thousand nukes? Just trying to figure
their options?
Russia,
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
The images shown at the begining of the war showing
iraqi soldiers surrending and walking up with their
hands behind their head might have cost US dear again.
Iraqi tv then showed a iraqi general with a large
rifle in his hand saying to iraqi tv-what do
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote:
It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly
badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the
Land of Freedom.
aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and english.aljazeera.net all give me
213.30.180.219
All of
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
All this happening on the worlds greatest demcoracy.
may be you read this news.
The worlds greatest democracy is India. Over 500 million people
vote in one election.
In any case US military pow's are going to have a hard
time and since U.S didnot give
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Gabriel Rocha wrote:
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...
It's definitly being jammed in Wisconsin - I get the error:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
let X be a 32 bit vector
X={X_(w -1),x_(w-2),..x_0}
These are the coefficients of a polynomial, and all the values are in
the set {0,1}.
A=
|1 0 . .|
|0 .|
|. . |
|. .|
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Yup, I get it from the UK, though I didn't get it two and three
days ago. URLs are all in English, though this may be normal.
BTW, does anyone know about www.aljezeerah.info ? I've been
getting my news from there since the start of the war, but
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, 'Gabriel Rocha' wrote:
Gotta contact exodus to find out whom they have alocated that subnet
block...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whois -h whois.arin.net 216.34.94.186
[whois.arin.net]
I can run that via telnet to my isp, and get the same response (good!)
OrgName:Cable
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote:
Gabriel Rocha[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Mar 27, at 06:33AM, Mike Rosing wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.aljazeera.net
www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186
This is from the US, fyi. It also works (and even
I don't think it matters what we do, check this out:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/26/HNjazeera_1.html
This really is infowar, and I suspect the US government is the hacker.
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
It's definitly jammed in
www.aljazeerah.info.3322IN A 207.150.192.12
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Sunder wrote:
Got an ip for .info? I can't resolve that from here.
Here's some more info for ya to work with:
--forwarded message
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:31:17 -0500 (EST)
From: GNOC Provide - IP Address Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Error resolving global address.
Mike,
This is Exodus legacy
I get that from www.aljazeera.ru. The cached pages on google come up
with www.aljazeera.net not in the DNS, and the live pages go to the
dotster. I did find a live feed that works, but it's in arabic :-(
Also, the NYSE kicked al-jazeera reporters out of the exchange:
Mar. 26, 2003. 01:00 AM
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Still, www.aljazeerah.info is still accessible if you're feeling
so inclined. Odd though that the Arabic side is down but this one
stays up, if they're aiming for propaganda in their own countries,
mostly English speaking but not much Arabic
Scanning aljazeerah.info I found this:
A US delegation arrived in Amman in its way to Baghdad for ceasefire
negotiations
Abu Dhabi, Alittihad Daily, 3/26/2003 -- The UAE leading semi-official
daily newspaper, Alittihad, reported today that a US government delegation
has arrived in Amman, Jordan,
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, stuart wrote:
I've been enjoying Robert Fisk's reporting from Baghdad in UK's
Independent, but Brian Whitaker's daily briefing in the Guardian
sometimes has wonderful gems you'd never see in American press:
Same here. Thanks for the pointer to Whitaker, I'll add him to
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote:
What I don't understand is how at projected 2004 US deficit of 307 G$ --
not counting already happened capital losses of 1.1 T$ in trading and
projected 1.9 T$ worst case overall costs anyone is expecting the US
economy, and shortly's the world's not
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Hey, this war is looking better all the time. We got our first fragging
already, and the US troops are finding themselves no real match for the
Iraqis. I just heard that there's at least 1 million well armed Ba'ath party
irregulars, plus unknown
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
It would be great if the UN imposed sanctions on the US and UK and demanded
they turn over their WOMD. And their leaders, including top generals, to the
Hague.
And given the very evident worldwide animosity toward the US today, I'd not
be at
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tim Meehan wrote:
Vancouver is nice, but the economy sucks (except if you're growing). Toronto has
an okay economy but too many yuppies and climbers (and crappy pot). Montreal is
the best, but you're better off if you speak Freedom -- and like hash.
Yeah, I can speak
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bill Frantz wrote:
One view of the war in Iraq is that it is to assure an oil supply so we can
take on Saudi Arabia, home of three quarters of the 911 hijackers.
Makes sense, use Saudia Arabia as a land base to take over Iraq, then
use Iraq as a land base to take over
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tim Meehan wrote:
Bill Stewart said:
Then there's the old America: Love it or Leave it line,
from folks who got really really upset when people _did_ leave it
to avoid Selective Slavery during the Vietnam Police Action.
Some yahoo from Kansas has been flaming me with
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
It would be a pain for their families and worse for their insurers,
certainly, but think of
the evolutionary benefits to mankind. You remove folks who
*voluntarily* gave
up moral control of their bodies to an unjust, cruel regime. Such
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:
While I wish Mike were correct that the party would get some spine
just because we tell them to, I'm not holding my breath.
I was expecting better from Geoff.
The LP's traditional heritage was pretty radical about issues
like the draft (we opposed
. and international law. Greens and other antiwar activists are
organizing emergency responses to the invasion, including a recall
campaign...
I'm not a Green Party voter, but at least they have spine.
-Declan
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:38:51PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote:
Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely
that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance
is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the
current Ba'athist government. A lot of
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote:
There are other factors that the Turks have on their minds, aside from
the US and NATO. Turkey is anxious to join the European Union, and
has been cleaning up its human rights act to gain acceptance.
Turkey recently lifted martial law in the Kurdish
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, David Howe wrote:
Chemical weapons are legally dodgy - but under the Bush Doctorine,
saddam could blow huge civilian areas of Washington away with missles,
and just call it a shock and awe demonstration against a country that
might attack it and that is known to have all
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, jburnes wrote:
btw: hope the hacking and coughing aren't getting you down
too much. there are now two treatments for that that i know
of. www.lef.org, search protocols
...MENTAL IMPAIRMENT ...
Seems appropriate for you guys!
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
number. When you purchase an item, it's tag
number is transfered from the 'unsold inventory' list to the 'Mike Rosing'
list, or, if no link to a name can be found, 'John Doe #2345'.
I hope you're right because the amount of engineering work that will
be required to make this work is huge! That's
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I can imagine some ways to deal with this. Have certain blocks of RFID
address space assigned to specific companies, who publish what products
they'll be used for. They won't specify what *individuals* will get what
tags, just that it's a $2,500
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Shields wrote:
It adds up, especially in low-margin businesses. Groceries are a good
example; unpacking every cart, scanning, and bagging is an expensive
bottleneck. The process could be streamlined a lot if an entire cart
were scanned at once.
There are
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote:
They don't want to deactivate them. Go back and read the SFGate
article I linked in my initial post. They want to recognize when a
loyal customer returns, so they can pull up his/her profile and give
then personalized treatment.
And what happens when
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Adam Shostack wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
The other motivator is liability. If I build the mugger's little
helper, a PDA attachement that scans for real prada bags, then perhaps
the RFID tag will be removed at the counter after the
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Seems the trend is here. We can thank Benetton for providing us with
a playground for live tests of the capabilities and limits of the system.
We have several ways for countermeasures.
Passive countermeasures are shielding or tag destruction. We
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
I heard these ones have range up to 1.5 meters. And you need much less
power if you use a directional antenna (which can be part of some fixed
installation).
Easy to find the antenna then :-)
Wasn't aware about RF tags being magnetically coupled.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote:
This is incorrect. I interviewed one RFID tag maker who said up to 15
feet in free space. Presumably a beefier transmitter or a more
sensitive receiver would allow longer ranges.
I stand corrected, the one by Matrics looks very nice indeed:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
Taking v=3 bit accuracy,the 3 leading bits are
000
100
110
111
In the example k=3 and v=3
So according to definition there are 2^(kv) possible
combinations of bits occur the same
number of times in a period.
i.e 2^(3*3)=512 combinations.
But
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Anonymous wrote:
Whose motto should be So little time, so many windmills.
Pretty much applies to most people don't ya think?
Look at the US feds - they really have done a bang up job catching people
who grow their own marijuana. Let alone those who fly airplanes into
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Musing over
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf
The moral seems to be don't work in a dark room with windows :-)
Using the software-DSP approach of GNUradio project and replacing the
tuner part of the hardware with the
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote:
For those doing the classifying, i.e., those inside government, since
when did they start charging each other real folding money for
attending meetings?
Capitalism maybe ? :-)
For those outside the government, since when did they start worrying
about
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
Anyone have any comments?
This seems to be of only occasional usefulness. You'd need a chip for every
POS/PPP/HDLC connection in the SONET signal. This could be a single
connection (unlikely, OC-192c is rare), or hundreds (DS-1s? If not, 16
STS-3cs).
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote:
on Saturday...
It will be difficult to help freedom take hold in a country that has known
three decades of dictatorship, secret police, internal divisions, and war.
I *think* he's talking about Iraq.
Yeah, kinda too bad he's forgotten about
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, James A. Donald wrote:
Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions.
That's because they make better slaves than fertilizer. The real trick is
to make the slaves think they have a great deal, then the controllers get
more power and less trouble. Unfortunately, this
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no
teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR
helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine tailoring themselves to
the individual students needs
Check this one out for a very simple description:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question261.htm
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
http://www.x5.net/faqs/crypto/q95.html
If some function, when supplied with a random input,
returns one of k equally-likely values, then by
repeatedly
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
But this did not fit the saber-rattling, so Tenet lied.
Someday he will go before a firing squad.
What kind of drugs are you on Tim? He'll get away with it, just like
every body else has. Look at Poindexter!! If anyone needed a firing
squad, he's a prime
The statement is real, it may not have been from the floor tho:
http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_feb/news_2003_february/news_2003_february_9.html
Thanks, I'll send this to Feingold and see if he'll try to
get a vote or motion going to force the executive to justify
it's actions.
Thanks Len. I am very sorry to hear this, I worked some code with
Disastry and had a lot of fun discussing things with him. I hope that
Disastry's code is long lived!
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote:
It was all pure bullshit anyway, and strangely enough they're admitting
that! Anything to get the sheeple nervous and compliant:
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,78593,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78593,00.html
Seems
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, david wrote:
The main body of the constitution does not apply to the
individuals, it is the law the politicians and bureaucrats of the
federal government are supposed to obey (and instead completely
ignore). The fourteenth amendment prohibits the state governments
from
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
But wouldn't that hint to these children that they may actually
have to think ? You don't have to think of a flag, you just react
with (preprepared) emotions, but with a constitution...
No reason we can't start a movement to plege alegiance to
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Michel Messerschmidt wrote:
The TPM is a mandatory part of the TCPA specifications.
There will be no TCPA without TPM.
That makes sense, TPM is just key storage.
And there will be no TCPA-enabled system with complete user control.
Just look at the main specification:
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
And so on. He talks the talk, but he and his buddies in HomeSec are
establishing a national police force, states rights be damned.
He's proof that you can fool just about everyone simultaneously -
the NRA supports him inspite of his lack of of commitment to
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Probably what they're most scared of are drugs that open the sheeple's
minds. Psychedelics expose the nakedness of the emperor and break open the most
rigid lockstep mentality.
Yup, leading robots is so much more fun than actually doing
something
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/columbia_spectral.htm
I love conspiricy theory! Take totally unrelated stuff, mix it together
and voila - instant evil! The problem with this article is that it uses
a reference (to a really cool idea BTW) for a nuclear
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.dailyrotten.com/source-docs/patriot2draft.html
terrorism is at least as dangerous to the United States' national security
as drug offenses
That's a good find! People sitting around laughing their butts off is
really a dangerous
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
However note: you can't defend TCPA as being good vs Palladium bad
(as you did by in an earlier post) by saying that TCPA only provides
key storage.
TPM != TCPA. TCPA with *user* control is good.
As Michel noted TCPA
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote:
If secret searches with secret warrants are legal now, what good is it
to use public key encryption and keep a backup of your private key at
home on a floppy?
Is there a protocol to have a blinded private key, so you wouldn't
actually have access
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Michel Messerschmidt wrote:
AFAIK, IBM's embedded security subsystem 1.0 is only a key
storage device (Atmel AT90SP0801 chip).
But the TPM we're talking about is part of the TCPA compliant
embedded security subsystem 2.0 which supports all specified
TPM functions, even if
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
I think you may have been mislead by the slant of paper.
Quoting from the paper:
http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/why_tcpa.pdf
you will see:
| The TCPA chip is not particularly suited to DRM. While it does have
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
Will this work for -everything- that could go on a drive? (In other words,
if I set up an encrypted disk, will web caches, cookies, and all of the
other 'trivial' junk be encrypted without really slowing down the PC?)
Depends on how well you build the
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, AARG! Anonymous wrote:
The main features of TCPA are:
- key storage
The IBM TPM does this part.
- secure boot
- sealing
- remote attestation
It does *not* do these parts. That's why IBM wants the TPM != TCPA
to be loud and clear. That's why the RIAA can't expect it
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Wonder if any current .gov domains are owned by individuals pulling a prank?
-Declan
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:46:20 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FC: Feds pull plug on suspicious cyberwarfare .gov
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Yeah, but most pilots, if they suspected an even semi-serious breach of their
craft's integrity, *AND* had the ability to fairly safely send someone outside
to have a looksee, wouldn't hesitate a moment before doing so. They've been
delayed by
From:
http://ltp.arc.nasa.gov/space/ask/landing/Black_tiles_falling_off.txt
If more than a few were lost from the same area, though, the heat could
get bad enough to cause damage to the aluminum skin. Nobody wants to see
what would happen if the wings started to deform like taffy, so the tiles
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Michael Motyka wrote:
Seems kindof like leaving the spare tire, jack, poncho and duck boots out of your
car to
save weight and space. It's fine except for that one day you get a flat while it's
pouring
freezing rain and there's 3 or 4 inches of slush on the ground.
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote:
I think this is what you call taxation without representation
Note also, that the judge in the case was the brother of the supreme
court judge who bush appointed who's totally opposed to these sates
right cases.
Great how bush's daughter, the
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Actually, VW has a plant making synfuel out of biomass. And we won't have to
wait long before oil is $50-100 a barrel, it's at $35 right now and world oil
production will peak this decade.
In the '80's it was obvious that oil production would peak
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Declan McCullagh quoted Bush:
And tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, Central
Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop
a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat
information in a single
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Oh come on. Its all economics. (With tech changing the params)
Fuel cells for cars are too expensive today. There is not enough
methanol
production/distrib infrastructure, which costs to create. [insert
Metcalfe's law (aka fax or network
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible?
I'd like to be able digitally shake hands using a Palm Pilot. Is this
possible?
Yes.
And now let's say there's some guy at a party claiming to be that very same
Tyler Durden, but
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Watching local TV, a police brass with three stars is talking about DNA
(Using deeper-penetrating techniques it should be possible to do things
like permanently change skin color, eg. by disabling or stimulating
melanine production, or even achieve
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, John Kelsey wrote:
I think the best way to think about any biometric is as a very cheap,
moderately hard to copy identification token. Think of it like a good ID
card that just happens to be very hard to misplace or lend to your friends.
Like an implant in the forehead.
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:29:27 -0500
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers
-- Forwarded Message
From: David Safford [EMAIL
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, David Howe wrote:
Bearing in mind though that DRM/Paladium won't work at all if it can't
trust its hardware - so TPM != Paladium, but TPM (or an improved TPM) is
a prerequisite.
Certainly! But this TPM is really nothing more than a dongle
attached to the pci bus. It
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Has built-in Ethernet and serial ports, and with a chip like FT8U232AM it
could work with USB as well.
The 232BM version is easier to use and costs the same.
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
I think it has more to do with the fact that freedom is just an abstract
concept until your own door gets kicked in. Most people don't get their
doors kicked in, so they ignore the men with guns. Quite a few people
have had SWAT teams rough them up (and few have gotten killed) with WoD,
so it's
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Steve Schear wrote:
Record Source Categories:
This system contains investigative material compiled for law
enforcement purposes whose sources need not be reported.
Exemptions Claimed for the System:
This system is exempt from 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), (d), (e)(1),
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote:
Does anyone know a source for a spam list for US military?
It would be great to start spamming them with messages about
how much they are hated by the entire world, how little real
support they have at home - We hope you don't come home,
sucker, unless
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
There is a new oil pipe line being completed through
turkey-caspian sea.once thats over the war should
start.
Russia will never give US its support-the russians are
looking big to invest in iraqi oil once the u.n
sanctions are lifted.Most of asia also
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote:
do you have an actual specification of the algorithm used by the rolling
code system or is that just another ingenious high-level whitepaper
leaving out all the nice details ?
No nice details, just whitepaper blurbs. That's why I'm asking!
I
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
I'd also point out the need to be deliberately oblique. I'm not sure we
aren't actually headed towards a time where any of us can be carted away for
expressing how we really think. I also don't kid myself about whether
someone could be listening. And
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Steve Mynott wrote:
Read the Rig Veda and break out the soma (if you know what it was).
Or better, what it is :-)
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
Anybody know the TI chip used in Ford 2002 and newer
immobilizers? I've found a white paper on TI's web
site that describes their challenge/response system,
but nobody at Ford customer service has a clue what
I'm talking about.
Ford calls it securilock, but the Ilco tester at
my local hardware
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote:
It's amusing that Mr. May thinks that anyone gives a fuck if he (Mr. May) filters
him/her out for whatever reason and considers worthwhile/effective effort to explain
that reason at length every time, and yet doesn't consider that similar and far more
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 at all. If you measure the same thing under
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote:
As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do
we learn from the liars paradox?
We arrive at a senseless result-doesn't all other
paradoxes do that-with the difference that they pick
only either true or false-which they so strongly
beleive in and
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Eugen Leitl 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?
from a kids cartoon a couple weeks ago: put a bowl of marbles next
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote:
* I expect most uses of customer courtesy cards are to try to get
some kind of brand loyalty going. People thinking Well, I have a card
at Albertson's, but not at Safeway, so I'll go to Albertson's.
They'd love that, but know better.
* Dossier-compiling
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Todd Boyle wrote:
Its not enough to put the chips next to the beer. They want
to examining the layout of all their shelf space.
The cash register data alone, is enough to do this, but
it doesn't work very well for shoppers who come and
buy chips on tuesday and beer on
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote:
People do break cyphers, by finding weaknesses in them. Are you saying
that you think that current cyphers are unbreakable?
Also, what about using biological systems to create strong cyphers,
not to break them?
We do pretty good already don't we
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
Actually, Tyler Durden (ie, me) wrote what is attributed to the generic
anonymous name of Norman Nescio. Anyway,...
Yeah, the TD gave that away :-)
With all due respect, Pooey Dr Mike. Take a nice, straightforward EPR using
two correlated photons
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote:
No. Bell's inequality tells us that there are no hidden variables.
It's not that we don't know the value of the measureable prior to
wavefunction collapse...the specific measureable doesn't exist prior to
wavefunction collapse. When Bell formulated the
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote:
One way out is to ditch quantum mechanics as being anything near a
description of reality as classical theories in essence are. Tim Boyer
of CUNY and a batch of Italian researchers have done a pretty convincing
job of showing that Ahranov-Bohm can be
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 individual
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Dave Howe wrote:
Not sure about Georgia - must be a fairly common problem though as I found a
case at Browns Ferry Alabama (1975) where it all went tits up - no radiation
That's it. I guess everything south of the mason-dixon line is the same
to me :-) Ooops.
danger on
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