Re: All your data belongs to Redmond

2004-07-08 Thread Ken Hirsch
See http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tune-08.html and http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-005.shtml Major Variola wrote: >I am currently working as a security consultant at a major kiretsu >that makes printers/fax/copiers/scanners. Important eg in >a hospital where HIPAA requires that info

Re: Wipe your Lamo notes now

2003-10-01 Thread Ken Hirsch
From: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tim May wrote... > > "If it's a felony for _me_ to say "Sources tell me that Valerie Plame, the > wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, has been a CIA covert operative since > 1980," it is a felony for Robert Novak to do so." > > Hum. Particularly in the era o

Re: Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

2003-02-02 Thread Ken Hirsch
From: "Steve Schear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the "Columbia" to be a > > > constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have > > > probably already flagged any transactions which mention "space shuttle" > > > and "Columbia" to be i

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-08 Thread Ken Hirsch
"Sarad AV" writes: > there will be no inconsistency in a formal axiomatic > systems Huh? >-but can any one point me to a contradicting > set of axioms in an axiomatic system? In general you have to consider the whole system, including derivation rules, not just the axioms, although you can certa

Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-04 Thread Ken Hirsch
Jim Choate says: > Godel's does -not- say mathematics is incomplete, it says we can't prove > completeness -within- mathematics proper. To do so requires a > meta-mathematics of some sort. You are mixing up what Godel says about proving consistency within a system, and his incompleteness theorem.

TIA presentation

2002-11-23 Thread Ken Hirsch
Slide show about "Total Information Awareness" http://www.afcea.org/pastevents/fallintel2002/DARPAPresentation_files/frame.htm AFCEA is Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Found link on volokh.blogspot.com

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

2002-11-16 Thread Ken Hirsch
Harmon Seaver wrote: > I don't see that Saddam is any less moral than Dubbya and Asscruft. What can you possibly mean by saying this? You lose all credibility for real criticism when you utter such inanities. It's like comparing a shoplifter with Jeffrey Dahmer. Either you're ignorant of wha

Some non-DRM uses of TCPA/Palladium

2002-10-25 Thread Ken Hirsch
I've thought of some non-DRM uses of TCPA/Palladium technology 1. Electronic voting machines (as in Brazil)--that way you can tell that the vote totals that are communicated to you were indeed generated using the authorized software. I still think there should be an auditable paper trail. 2. Pre