Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-09 Thread Sampo Syreeni
eds to be conducted to the inner ear. But it probably won't be -- our ossicles and the tympanic membrane are too massive to operate in that frequency range. So I agree if the amplitudes are extreme, but otherwise I doubt it. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-57

Re: Real-world steganography

2002-11-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ped for the first purpose could ever be the best ones for the latter, or that HDCD-like endeavors really have that much to do with the subject matter of this list. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@;iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/fr

Re: Real-world steganography

2002-10-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ped for the first purpose could ever be the best ones for the latter, or that HDCD-like endeavors really have that much to do with the subject matter of this list. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~dec

millicent ghettoes

2002-07-16 Thread Sampo Syreeni
that the millicent ghetto will eventually run over us. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

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

2002-07-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
e commonly accepted image of free market, purely bilateral trade attaining efficiency in a general sense, without any regard for transaction cost analysis. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

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

2002-07-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
derivative works would be another. Extending fair use would be a third. And after we know that the market can do without such property rights, abolition logically follows. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

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

2002-07-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
morality) in action. Examples of trade which are necessarily multilateral are everywhere if you're just willing to look. The interesting part is how to cheaply get around the extra costs incurred by the setting. You're not helping a whole lot in that department. >[...] (government regulation p

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

2002-07-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
or on demand access to everything. That might well be. But being that you're tapping into something largely produced under existing copyright law, I fail to see why this is an argument against continuing the practice of copyright in some form. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
in itself, but when you apply the same reasoning to the educational needs of the young and the societal benefits one would expect of a highly educated younger generation... Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ly use economic reasoning to argue for IP abolition, even when I consider IP a bad idea. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
the master copy, why should anyone create anything, anymore? (Or, more realistically, why should people create at an efficient level?) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Piracy is wrong

2002-06-30 Thread Sampo Syreeni
end. Is it studios backed up by law or individuals backed up by hoardes of P2P programmers and DRM hackers? I'd put my bet on the latter -- nations may be powerful enough to kill millions, but they certainly aren't powerful enough to make a billion or so people respect conditions on listen

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-04-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ATs, true. However, most firewalls I know are there for security reasons. Those will likely be adapted to work for 6to4 as well. The transition period will likely see some cracks where p2p can work, but I suspect those will be closed in due course. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
current. If you're after entropy, you'd likely want to use a constant current source anyway. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
there is no interest in monitoring trivial >amounts.) Who's to say the primary application would be anti-laundering? To me it seems far more likely that low-cost surveillance would be It, even if it's clear that that sort of thing isn't currently doable. >I'm done with t

Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-10 Thread Sampo Syreeni
hased array this size. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-10 Thread Sampo Syreeni
note has plenty of surface to do your thing on. Especially at higher frequencies, like UHF and beyond. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Detectable cash notes a fantasy

2002-04-10 Thread Sampo Syreeni
bank balances, this is just too naive to waste >discussion time on. Good luck selling such a system. Quite. Passive announcers of identity (or signers) with a secondary, "enabled" mode for actually signing something legally binding, on the other hand... Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - ma

Re: fractional reserve banking as economic parasitism

2002-03-18 Thread Sampo Syreeni
like an eminently usable hybrid of private investment and insurance. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Psyops: Every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile

2002-03-06 Thread Sampo Syreeni
n, Wanton Dolls, then? A relatively meticulous exercise in psyops, I'd say. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

authenticable physical bank notes

2002-03-05 Thread Sampo Syreeni
cash and the like do not make a lot of a difference.) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-02-18 Thread Sampo Syreeni
that's what we're slowly sliding towards, at least at the moment. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

test

2002-02-06 Thread Sampo Syreeni
testing. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Fun with bleach and nail polish remover

2001-12-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote: >> Minor correction: /H2H2/ should be /H2O2/, naturally. > >Organic peroxides are useful as improvised blasting caps, but otherwise >much too unstable. Yes, it's unstable, but what, exactly, is it that makes $H_{2}O_{2}$ organic?

Re: Re: Speech May Not Be Free, but It's Refundable

2001-12-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
goes on to demonstrate the grave difference between what is morally permissible on the one hand and legal on the other. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
t hold when property rights are violated. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
g *all* of the normal police activity in the private sector. If I'm not wrong, Tim's essay is part of precisely such an agenda. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E

Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds

2001-10-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Honig wrote: >Enough rads to sterilize? Forget film. What do you suppose happens to disks and other magnetic media at these flux levels? Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
legislators and their backers. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
atshops would never come to the conclusion that they chose to do so. They made a choice over starving to death. Sounds like a choice to me. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
dman's theory "exists only to justify the exploitation of developing countries". Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
n that unions couldn't be good for other people. >From what I have seen, labor unions are a collectivist evil. Well, in a state where they're not hiding behind the government, that's something you'll just have to get used to. They've earned killing? Unions can play

Re: "Alejandro transports"

2001-09-13 Thread Sampo Syreeni
s likely built on top of a generative grammar -- the like of PostModernism Generator. I remember seeing a commercial product capable of this, somewhere, but don't have a link. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http:

Re: Manhattan Mid-Afternoon

2001-09-12 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ng you can easily coerce the pilots to do. Just threaten, watch the switches being thrown, eliminate the pilot and go on from there. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

RE: FC: Anonymous remailer operators start to take remailers offline

2001-09-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
t; That does not sound good at all -- it's likely the public FBI and/or CIA servers could handle a higher load, yet they've decided to use an Internet fraud reporting site for this incident. Do they think online circles have some special role in all this? They *have* been touting Osama as a

Re: Voluntary Mandatory Self-Ratings and Limits on Speech

2001-08-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
still react to unrated content as a part of a collective effort to control some (imaginary) externality. Nobody wants this to happen, of course, and it hardly will, given the effort it would take to "rate the Internet". The point is, there is nothing wrong with the economics per se. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Voluntary Mandatory Self-Ratings and Limits on Speech

2001-08-21 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ituations (using a disposable tentacle to communicate and/or misrate). This way, anonymity does make a difference even in an uncoerced situation. >this point explodes in too many obvious directions for me to even try to >write about here, given the low level of interest in the discussion t

Re: Re: NRC asks for reviewers for forthcoming Internet porn report

2001-08-15 Thread Sampo Syreeni
s rights, but do not touch porn that was produced. Then there's the nagging question of whether all of the so called child pornography actually calls for a violation of a minor's rights. I won't go there here. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: NRC asks for reviewers for forthcoming Internet porn report

2001-08-15 Thread Sampo Syreeni
rial "offensive" to Creationists. Agreed. But I do think self-labelling is a nice gesture, and may even afford one a direct means of targeting a site specifically for the kind of people most vocal about banning online speech. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Making text difficult for OCR?

2001-08-09 Thread Sampo Syreeni
s to throw off the scanner. Print your stuff on extremely heat and/or light sensitive paper.) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Advertisements on Web Pages

2001-08-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
m handle Unicode better than Lynx. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Possible Internet Split (plan D)

2001-07-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
MPLS (for VPN sorta configurations and QoS guarantees), what the manet WG is doing (for decentralized routing infra), and broadcast/multicast routing (for replication and anonymity). Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Possible Internet Split (plan D)

2001-07-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
MPLS (for VPN sorta configurations and QoS guarantees), what the manet WG is doing (for decentralized routing infra), and broadcast/multicast routing (for replication and anonymity). Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Open 802.11b wireless access points and remailers

2001-07-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
high microwave bands, and so on. Dunno how useful the latter are for portable equipment, though, or in the battlefield conditions. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Choate Prime Physics

2001-07-26 Thread Sampo Syreeni
that an incident magnetic field does not visibly affect the reflectance of a conductive mirror.) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Choate Prime Physics

2001-07-26 Thread Sampo Syreeni
that an incident magnetic field does not visibly affect the reflectance of a conductive mirror.) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: THE INCHOATE LAWYER

2001-07-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Black Unicorn wrote: >Perhaps we should just designate the funds, payable monthly, for every month >Choate doesn't post anything to the list? Coase at work, eh? Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki

RE: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonp ost.com)

2001-07-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
e, death-from-above FUD, that sort of thing. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonpost.com)

2001-07-23 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Jim Choate wrote: >Point this baby at the ground... > >http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27248-2001Jul20.html Seen some of this before. It's sexy, especially if one thinks of the propaganda value: it's basically "death from above". Sam

RE: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

2001-07-23 Thread Sampo Syreeni
rmation theory posits steganography squarely as the kind of race-in-statistics you describe. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

2001-07-23 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ElcomSoft may not >be altogether innocent, not least for sending Dmitry into the lion's den. This would be another reasonable guess, of course. Who knows? Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
will come up with something like the G8 protests, only with far less resources to combat the trouble. >Exercise your right to free speech. Do it carefully. Not carefully. Wisely. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
ut still wants take them, sure. One just shouldn't be surprised if that leads to behavior one might regret later. He really does seem to need a clue pill. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Geek Profiling Upheld by Appeals Court

2001-07-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
the more close-minded may perceive as threatening necessarily manifest. (BTW, the poem was pretty evocative, as far as I can tell.) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Killing the G8 Anarchists

2001-07-21 Thread Sampo Syreeni
they'll get nailed for it, no matter how righteous the shooting might seem to be. Dunno... Seeing what went down in Gothenburg, and the shit that's going on now in Genoa, I too am beginning to think there is something very wrong with all this... >The property-destroying "anarchists&qu

Re: Meatspace anonymity manual

2001-07-09 Thread Sampo Syreeni
s enough muscle to overthrow something before then, which I highly doubt, their raising the stakes seems fairly unwise. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Meatspace anonymity manual

2001-07-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
l undeniably broadcasting a message telling Black Blockers are willing to operate in ways diametrically opposed to the core anachist ideology, the whole thing seems both clueless and untrustworthy. I think those are precisely the criteria sarcasm was invented to be applied by. Sampo Syreeni, aka d

Re: Meatspace anonymity manual

2001-07-07 Thread Sampo Syreeni
l undeniably broadcasting a message telling Black Blockers are willing to operate in ways diametrically opposed to the core anachist ideology, the whole thing seems both clueless and untrustworthy. I think those are precisely the criteria sarcasm was invented to be applied by. Sampo Syreeni, aka d

Re: Cypherpunks IQ test

2001-03-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, How stupid do I look wrote: >> Ms. Farr is unquestionably an AI. Please do not feed the Markov chains. > >But how can you really tell? She/it seems to be failing Turing, no? Sampo Syreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university