Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-07 Thread Tom Vogt
Tim May wrote: > You're missing a more important point: there is no correlation > between who is using the service or product and who is paying the tax. > > Taxing a computer used for video game playing, for example, when > absolutely no "piracy" is happening from that computer. An overly > wide

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2000-09-07 Thread insightbook4
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Re: Mind altering drugs

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Newby
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:26:14PM -0400, David Marshall wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Kuzas) writes: > > > Can mind altering drugs be given to someone without - that person > > knowing? > > Of course. What a silly question. How else can we explain you? In fact, most contemporary mind-a

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-07 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > Tim May wrote: > > > > Governments like this sort of thing, however. Tax everyone, then > > spend the revenues as they wish. > > not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not > a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA

FBI "rejects" student profiling

2000-09-07 Thread brflgnk
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23462-2000Sep6.html Of interest: though the unnamed spokesman asserted that the FBI is opposed to profiling students to detect potential school violence, the article still includes a laundry list of "warning signs": "The FBI provided a list of clues t

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-07 Thread David Honig
At 06:15 AM 9/7/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not >a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA that collects and >re-distributes these things. > So if you don't pay GEMA who *are* those folks with the guns?

Hardware support for trusted pc

2000-09-07 Thread David Honig
Basically next year you could get a motherboard with a security module onboard. Which is both your friend, and not. The last EETimes-print-edition had an article with *much* more info but I found the following online. You can comment on the www.trustedpc.org stuff until October, on their site;

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:15 AM 9/7/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >Tim May wrote: >> You're missing a more important point: there is no correlation >> between who is using the service or product and who is paying the tax. >> >> Taxing a computer used for video game playing, for example, when >> absolutely no "piracy" is

Domestic surveillance: infilatration

2000-09-07 Thread A. Melon
State police infiltrated protest groups, documents show Search-warrant affidavits reveal an undercover operation aimed at activists in Philadelphia for the GOP convention. By Linda K. Harris,, Craig R. McCoy and Thomas Ginsberg

IP protection

2000-09-07 Thread A. Melon
http://www.vsia.com/ has a new paper on IP protection/detection for cores. Table of Contents VSIA IP Protection DWG 1 Scope 1 Introduction 1 Overview: Security Schemes 2 Deterrents 3 Patents 4 Copyright 4 Trade Secrets 4 Governing Law 4 Protection Mechanisms 5 Encryption 5 Hardware Protection 5

Re: Domestic surveillance: infilatration

2000-09-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:27 PM 9/7/00 -0400, A. Melon wrote: > Search-warrant affidavits reveal an undercover operation > aimed at activists in Philadelphia for the GOP convention. > By Linda K. Harris,, Craig R. McCoy and Thomas Ginsberg > INQUIRER STAFF WRIT

Re: membership

2000-09-07 Thread Steven Furlong
Larry Levinson wrote: > > Hi. I'm trying to get information on NAMBLA and found your post on a random > search. I'm having trouble locating NAMBLA. The website seems to have been > stopped. I've written to someone else (a former secretary of the group) but > thought I'd try you as well. > > Some

Federal agencies share taxpayer info from Web sites

2000-09-07 Thread An Metet
By LANCE GAY Scripps Howard News Service September 07, 2000 WASHINGTON - At least four federal agencies are sharing taxpayer data they are gathering from Internet visitors to government Web sites with trade organizations, retailers or other outside parties, congressional investigators say. In

Re: StoN, Diffie-Hellman, other junk..

2000-09-07 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Asymmetric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An aside is that I'm writing the application in Delphi 5, and the maximum > native supported integer sizes are 32bit unsigned, and 64bit signed.. I've > been writing a math library of my own in assembler that at compile time > will allo