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Ping? -- A quote from Petro's Archives: *** "Campaigns to bear-proof all garbage containers in wild areas have been difficult because, as one biologist put it, `There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the

supercomputer announcement (nytimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03spee.html July 3, 2000 A Break in Moore's Law, But, Hey, Who's Counting? By STEVE LOHR Ever-faster computers are just in the nature of things. Behind the blasi optimism is Moore's Law -- named after Gor

New Encryption System for Music (nytimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03pate.html July 3, 2000 PATENTS New Encryption System Would Protect Digital Music By SABRA CHARTRAND As the Internet continues to influence the evolution of intellectual property law and policy

Re: Oakland Gungrabbing Gimmick

At 01:47 AM 6/30/00 -0400, Anonymous Sender wrote: > >Computers offered if weapons are turned in >Associated Press > >OAKLAND [yeah, what a surprise there...] >The city ran a similar program in 1995 and drew about 300 people. Back >then, they were handing out free 286s. Now, they've upgraded to

your DNA, congressman?

Maybe they'll find the gene for obedience... Worried police refuse to give DNA samples BY DAVID TAYLOR http://www.lineone.net/express/00/07/02/news/n0240-d.html THOUSANDS of police officers have refused to give DNA samples to a new Home Office database amid concerns th

Re: Has RSADSI Lost their mind?

Dave Del Torto wrote: > An amusing if merely semi-related followup... > > Network Solutions, Inc. (recently acquired by VeriSign for umpteen > hundreds of Billions of $, and a now major user of RSADSI's "*-SAFE" > toolkits... hmmm...) announced on 29 June that (as of 07 July, plenty > of lead tim

Re: Oakland Gungrabbing Gimmick

Can we cut out the middleman? I have a Pentium laptop I'd love to trade for a decent gun. -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Encryption System for Music (nytimes)

jeradonah wrote: > New Encryption System Would > Protect Digital Music interesting concept, but won't work. as long as there is an unencrypted datastream somewhere, said datastream can be copied. and once it's copied, it'll be available as an unencrypted .mp3 or whatever the for

RE: Has RSADSI Lost their mind?

Hm... After failing to find a press release about this on the NSI web site, I decided found the following article on SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/54 After reading it, I think there must have been some misunderstanding on the part of the person who wrote the article Dave is re

Answers from sealand!

Answers From Sealand: CTO Ryan Lackey Responds <<...>> Posted by timothy on Monday July 03, @11:00AM from the drysuits-required dept. A few weeks ago, you asked questions of

Re: supercomputer announcement (nytimes)

At 10:05 AM -0400 7/3/00, jeradonah wrote: >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/03spee.html > >July 3, 2000 > > A Break in Moore's Law, But, Hey, > Who's Counting? > > By STEVE LOHR > >Ever-faster computers are just in the nature of things. Behind

The Electronic Signature

I am surprised that I don't see anybody commenting on the ... Yeah, there were a few remarks some weeks ago, but nothing more. http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/7/1/163938/3517 Mark

Re: Has RSADSI Lost their mind?

Dave Del Torto writes: > ostensibly been offering for years, i.e. "CRYPT-PW" (which was always > people), and "PGP" (which never really worked anyway as you know if crypt-pw never worked either. At least, I could never get it to work. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.c