Re: Authentification required. Read the attachment!

2004-02-25 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 Supp

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, Net

[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 t

Physics News Update 662 (fwd)

2003-11-18 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:34:46 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Physics News Update 662 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 662 November 18, 2003 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein

PhysicsWeb - Utopia theory (fwd)

2003-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/16/10/7 -- -- Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools - H.D. Thoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

ABCNEWS.com : Scalia Ridicules Court's Gay Sex Ruling (fwd)

2003-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
Why does anyone listen to this punkleave it up to him and women would be barefoot and pregnant and non-anglo's would still be 5/8 human. The guy is a bigot. Strict adherence to the words of the Constitution, this nitwit hasn't -ever- stuck to the words or the intents. Just another two-faced li

NOWAR - Leader of India's largest movement to speak (fwd)

2003-10-24 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:15:36 -0500 From: NOWAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NOWAR - Leader of India's largest movement to speak Hello, all. We have just received news of a unique opportunity to hear an important speaker. Medha Patk

Inferno: Why War?: All the President's Votes? (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:18:22 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Why War?: All the President's Votes? Interesting read from our chief black-box voting researcher, martini... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:41:12 -0500 (CDT) S

RE: Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | CNET News.com (fwd)

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > > Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject:Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | > > CNET News.com (fwd) > > > > This is great news for crypto... > > > > http://ne

Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | CNET News.com (fwd)

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Choate
This is great news for crypto... http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5092154.html?tag=nefd_top -- -- Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools - H.D. Thoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-for

[announce] Postponing CyberDawg (fwd)

2003-10-14 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:58:20 -0500 From: David Nunez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [announce] Postponing CyberDawg Hi folks, As some of you may have heard, we were moving very fast on having a Cyberdawg next week. I spoke with JonL

CNN.com - CD copy protection trumped by Shift key - Oct. 8, 2003 (fwd)

2003-10-08 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Register - Expect terrorist attacks on Global Financial System (fwd)

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33269.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Register - Prison for KaZaA? Surely not in the UK (fwd)

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33267.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

[texas-hpr] University of Tennessee Amateur Science Survey (fwd)

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:49:56 - From: ron_gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [texas-hpr] University of Tennessee Amateur Science Survey We would like to invite you to participate in the Amateur Science Information Survey (AMSIS)

The Register - Smart cards get really smart (fwd)

2003-10-05 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33218.html -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

Yahoo! News - Israel Strikes Terrorist Base in Syria (fwd)

2003-10-05 Thread Jim Choate
Oh shit. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20031005/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_attack -- -- God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exist because we can't prove it. Andre Weil, in H. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu

Online NewsHour: Forum -- Copyright Conundrum (fwd)

2003-06-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyright.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Pl

Slashdot | FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers (fwd)

2003-06-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/06 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Pla

Slashdot | Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness (fwd)

2003-06-08 Thread Jim Choate
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/06/08/2242250.shtml?tid=158&tid=99 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Cri

Slashdot | New AIM Offering "end to end" Encryption (fwd)

2003-06-08 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/08/1547215.shtml?tid=120&tid=126&tid=187&tid=93 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction (fwd)

2003-06-08 Thread Jim Choate
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html -- 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 fro

CNN.com - Man wins right to sue U.S. government over pot car - Jun.2, 2003 (fwd)

2003-06-04 Thread Jim Choate
;) http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/02/pot.lawsuit.reut/index.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Cri

The Register When is e-money not e-money? When it stays on yourphone. (fwd)

2003-05-31 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/30962.html -- 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

Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - NZ makes contact with detainednational in China (fwd)

2003-05-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.goasiapacific.com/news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_868036.htm -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswel

4 essay writers sentenced for subversion in Beijing / Friends metto talk about politics on university grounds (fwd)

2003-05-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/05/30/MN49458.DTL -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

U.S. Cautiously Begins to Seize Millions in Foreign Banks (fwd)

2003-05-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/national/30PATR.html?ex=1054872000&en=4a5517c0b3572cc8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of

The Register - California Supremes hear DeCSS Case (fwd)

2003-05-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30944.html -- 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 f

The Register - Court confirms DMCA 'Good Faith' web site shut downrights (fwd)

2003-05-30 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html -- 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 f

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. >

[9fans] 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'03) (fwd)

2003-03-14 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:00:20 GMT From: Alex Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [9fans] 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03) 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Tech

[texas-hpr] Update/Status report on Books to Senators (fwd)

2003-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:38:33 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [texas-hpr] Update/Status report on Books to Senators Hope everybody is not getting sick of this topic, but; Homer Hickam contacted me thi

Karl Rove quote (fwd)

2003-02-27 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:04:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Karl Rove quote "As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." - Karl Rove, Georg

Speaking of places to get pre-prints and such...

2003-02-25 Thread Jim Choate
Howdy, Very shortly we'll be bringing online the first Hangar 18 Auth servers (actually they are online now but not available). After that we'll be bringing on a 9P server. One of the primary questions we are struggling with currently is what goes on that 9P server? Clearly swapping mp3's and suc

Re: Supressed? speech by Sen. Robert Byrd -- Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences

2003-02-14 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: > We live in fascist times. People are fascist, not the times. Read your own posts sometime. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going

Re: Wheeler

2003-02-14 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'

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

2003-02-12 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: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 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. > st

I've got saucer.ssz.com under Plan 9 r4

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, Just a quick note that I've finally got Plan 9 to load without a lot of hassle (eg some temporary DOS partition w/ a image). It now sees the CD on install. So, I'm ready to do the demo next Thu. We are hot and online people, finally ;) After that I'll put my energy into getting the Auth func

February 15th Protests (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:50:04 -0600 (CST) Subject: February 15th Protests Saturday February 15th has been designated an international day of protest against war in Iraq. Organized protests will be occurring in at least 431 cities around the world. http:/

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

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23811 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswe

Guardian Unlimited Online Evolution, not revolution (Dreams ofCyberspace were wrong) (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,893381,00.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

News: Red Hat clears government's red tape (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-984202.html -- 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 Out

PCWorld.com - DataViz Tool Secures Your Password List (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109313,00.asp -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Pl

House, Senate agree to prohibit citizens' e-mail surveillance (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3647992.html -- 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

News: New technology sees through objects (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-984207.html -- 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 Out

Slashdot | Software/Hardware FPGA Dev Board that runs Linux (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/02/12/026247.shtml?tid=126&tid=152&tid=156 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Slashdot | IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/02/11/2124229.shtml?tid=103 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

The Register - Open and Closed Security Roughly Equal (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29294.html -- 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

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 create

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

Inferno: The notion of separation of church and state (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:32:05 -0600 Subject: The notion of separation of church and state Just in case there was any confusion about where this administration stands. Original Message Subject: ugh. Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:47:31 -0600

The Water Barons - How privatized water supply fails in Manila...(fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Choate
Another example of the CACL theory going down the tubes of actuality... http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/water/default.aspx?SECTION=CHAPTER&ID=5 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I ar

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 calle

Slashdot | RIAA Unveils Net Tracking Tag for Online Sales (fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Choate
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/02/10/2026248.shtml?tid=141 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

Slashdot | Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption (fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/11/0217201.shtml?tid=93&tid=172 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Cr

ABCNEWS.com : New 'Brain Fingerprinting' Could Help Solve Crimes(fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030211_157.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

[9fans] FAST '03, 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(fwd)

2003-02-10 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:03:43 GMT From: Alex Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [9fans] FAST '03, 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies Dear Colleague, I am writing to invite you to

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: > > Which is a blind path since those files -must- be unencrypted and if > > they do mount the disk they have to have access to the key to > > unencrypt the fs hence you're in the same boat as with Winblows. &

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

The Register - Computer ballot outfit perverts Senate race, theoristsays (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29247.html -- 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

Yahoo! News - Online Game Simulates 'Worst Case Scenario' in Iraq(fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=3&u=/nm/20030209/tc_nm/iraq_usa_game_dc -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our liv

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'

Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=502&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

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2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://drudgereport.com/mad.htm -- 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 Space"

Slashdot | The Future of Money (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/09/1855223.shtml?tid=98 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

Slashdot | US Immigration Implements Biometric-based Border (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/08/2322201.shtml?tid=158&tid=103 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. C

Slashdot | Cashless Society (fwd)

2003-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/08/2130219.shtml?tid=126 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

Techweb > News > signature authentication > Signature-Authenti...MakerHopes To Replace Text-Based Passwords > February 6, 2003 (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030206S0003 -- 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

ABCNEWS.com : Searchers Seek Mystery Object from Doomed Shuttle(fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20030206_671.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

FBI taps Chinese students at U.S. universities / Attempt to learnwhat military information China may be seeking (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/02/07/MN3492.DTL -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

ScienceDaily News Release: 'Sticky' DNA Crystals Promise New Way ToProcess Information (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030207070412.htm -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswel

ABCNEWS.com : Court Rules in Favor of Vote Swap Web Site (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Jim Choate
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20030206_694.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell,

Fwd: if you're happy and you know it bomb iraq (fwd)

2003-02-06 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:34:37 -0600 (CST) Subject: Fwd: if you're happy and you know it bomb iraq Original Message Subject: FW: if you're happy and you know it bomb iraq From: christopher johnson Date: Wed, February 5, 2003 7:18 am To: ..

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 mi

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 R&D is complementary in scope to > > privately funded research. If 95% of it is wasted (and > > lacking li

Re: Who feigned Roger Rabbit?

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Well, yes, but the thread is primarily about the destructive effects of > subsidy. Sort of fantasizing what it would be in a libertarian dream world, I > guess. > > > > -- > Harmon Seaver > CyberShamanix > http://www.cybershamanix.com >

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

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

2003-01-29 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 i

re: handhelds and crypto anarchy

2003-01-29 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

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 h

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-missiv

Physicist proposes deeper layer of reality (fwd)

2003-01-15 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030106/030106-6.html -- 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

China Strengthens Supervision of RMB Payments (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Choate
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200301/14/eng20030114_110120.shtml -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Yahoo! News - Transmeta to Embed Security Features in Processor(fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Choate
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030114/tc_nm/tech_transmeta_dc -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our li

Guardian Unlimited Observer | Comment | Andrew Rawnsley: Even themegapower needs friends (fwd)

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,873008,00.html -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "

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 giv

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > Any time you post to a list of a bunch of people you don't know, > > you might be posting to a list of a bunch of people you don't like. > > Reading the archives sometimes helps. > > A (hopefully) helpful

Cities Pass Resolutions Saying Terrorism Fight Must Not DestroyCivil Liberties (fwd)

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAV51JRRAD.html -- 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

Re: Quantum suicide without suicide

2003-01-09 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 -reall

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

2003-01-09 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 i

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-09 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 int

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: > People, > > Please don't quote a long article and then bottom-post a few comments. > Or top-post a few comments. In fact, the best idea is to only quote > enough to remind other readers what you are commenting on. > > It's not a matter of bandwidth, it's a mat

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-09 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 label

Examples of Paradoxes...

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Choate
Axiomatic Set Theory P. Suppes ISBN 0-486-61630-4 (Dover) $12 US ToC Excerpt... 1. Introduction 1.1 Set Theory and the Foundation of Mathematics 1.2 Logic and Notation 1.3 Axiom Schema of Abstraction and Russell's Paradox 1.4 More Paradoxes

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-08 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

Re: CDR: Re: Television

2003-01-08 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

Re: Television

2003-01-08 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

Re: CDR: Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > there will be no inconsistency in a formal axiomatic > systems Can't prove a negative, even in a formal system. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you an

News: Congress takes on spam, copyrights, taxes (fwd)

2003-01-08 Thread Jim Choate
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-979623.html -- 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 Out

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