Suggested Reading: Crypto in fiction

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Choate
Found another example of crypto use in fiction: Collected Ghost Stories "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" (1904) Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) ISBN 1-85326-053-3 (Wordsworth Classic, '92) Apparently some consider James to be the 'finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced". -- _

Suggested Reading...

2002-11-12 Thread Jim Choate
"How will human behaviour shift when the appliances we hold in our hands, carry in our pockets, or wear in our clothing become supercomputers that talk to each other through a wireless mega-Internet?" Smart Mobs The Next Social Revolution Transforming Culture and Communities in the Age of Instant

Suggested Reading: Godel's Incompleteness Theorem - original paperavailable again...

2002-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems Kurt Godel ISBN 0-486-66980-7 (Dover) $7 US -- We don't see things as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we see them

Suggested Reading

2002-07-18 Thread Jim Choate
Espionage: An encyclopedia of spies and secrets R.M. Bennett (Forward by Bamford) ISBN 1-85227-942-7 $30 US -- When I die, I would like to be born again as me. H

Suggested Reading: Codes & Ciphers

2002-05-13 Thread Jim Choate
Codes & Ciphers: Julius Ceasar, the Enigma, and the Internet R. Churchhouse ISBN ISBN 0-521-00890-5 This looks to be a great book for intermediate readers (or beginners who have the math). It's nowhere near the completeness or complexity of Applied Cryptography, but then for $20 who would expect

Re: Inferno: Con-Sim Suggested Reading,

2002-02-17 Thread proffr11
Agent faustine scribbled...future warfare, theory and practice: RAND National Security Research and Analysis http://www.rand.org/natsec_area/ << If you liked that you might like "assassination politics" by Jim Bell. "Surrounded by Moslem maniacs on one side and Christian maniacs on the other, t

Suggested Reading: GURPS - Transhuman Space

2002-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
Anyone interested in the next hundred years should get a copy of this book. Even if you don't play RPG's...Excellent introduction...Send a copy to your representatives...Educate them perhaps... http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/transhuman/core/ -- -- ___

Re: Inferno: Con-Sim Suggested Reading

2002-02-16 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jim Choate wrote: > If you're interested in reading more about modern warfare, theory and > practice: future warfare, theory and practice: RAND National Security Research and Analysis http://www.rand.org/natsec_area/ ~F.

Con-Sim Suggested Reading

2002-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
If you're interested in reading more about modern warfare, theory and practice: http://www.ssz.com/consim/books.html -- -- James Choate - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ssz.com

Re: Inferno: Con-Sim Suggested Reading

2002-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jim Choate wrote: > If you're interested in reading more about modern warfare, theory and > practice: > > http://www.ssz.com/consim/books.html Doh! Make that, http://einstein.ssz.com/consim/books.html Sorry. -- ___

Suggested Reading: To better understand anti-Capitalism

2002-01-18 Thread mattd
www.infoshop.org www.a-infos.org flagblackened's anarchist FAQ's and www.indymedia.org If capitalism is not stopped soon it could easily be the death of us.In a revolutionary period the close study of all previous revolutions is advisable. Participation, not consumption, is the single most im

Suggested Reading

2000-09-30 Thread Jim Choate
Algebraic Coding Theory E.R. Berlekamp ISBN n/a LoC 68-17175 (out of print) c. 1968 ?$ ($14 used) This is a book put out by Bell describing various methods and techniques of coding and compression in digital logic. Would be useful if designing algorithms in hardware. There is also some discussio