Re: Digital Cash

2001-07-11 Thread Gabriel Rocha
,[ On Wed, Jul 11, at 01:30PM, Ray Dillinger wrote: ]-- | Can anybody recommend appropriate reading? | | | Bear `[ End Quote ]--- its not too much, in fact, it is not precisely what you are looking for. but check this paper out:

Re: WHAT THE SWISS HAVE

2001-07-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
"Shoot twice" - the caption on a Swiss postcard of 1914, depicting a Swiss militia man being asked by the Kaiser what the Swiss would do if he sent an army of half a million Germans against the quarter million Swiss Army. I like the attitude though. -- "It's not brave, if you're not scared."

Re: Adobe, EFF Call for Dmitry Release

2001-07-24 Thread Gabriel Rocha
,[ On Mon, Jul 23, at 07:44PM, John Young wrote: ]-- | Adobe Systems Incorporated and the Electronic Frontier | Foundation today jointly recommend the release of Russian | programmer Dmitry Sklyarov from federal custody. | | Adobe is also withdrawing its support for the criminal

Re: THE INCHOATE LAWYER

2001-07-25 Thread Gabriel Rocha
,[ On Mon, Jul 23, at 03:50PM, Black Unicorn wrote: ]-- | Perhaps we should just designate the funds, payable monthly, for every month | Choate doesn't post anything to the list? `[ End Quote ]--- Two ideas on this one; it wouldn't be anywhere as much f

How would this work? Would it work at all? [jsimmons@transvirtual.com: [OT] DMCA loop hole]

2001-07-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
How plausible would this idea be? --gabe -- "It's not brave, if you're not scared." [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type message/rfc822]

Trying again...[jsimmons@transvirtual.com: [OT] DMCA loop hole]

2001-07-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
ok, let me try this again... sorry about that. --gabe - Forwarded message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:14:41 -0700 (PDT) From: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OT] DMCA loop hole Sorry

Re: lynx for mirroring? (Re: Advertisements on Web Pages)

2001-08-08 Thread Gabriel Rocha
,[ On Wed, Aug 08, at 12:41PM, Subcommander Bob wrote: ]-- | Can anyone recommend a better tool? | For wintel? `[ End Quote ]--- It isnt for wintel proper, but you can run wget under cygwin (cygwin.com) and use wget -m which will give you a full mirror

food fo thought

2001-08-14 Thread Gabriel Rocha
I figure this list is as good a place as any if not better to discuss this one. It is off of /. today. Just thinking that these ethos do still apply, in my mind anyway. What needs to happen for them to be true is education of the general population (Yes, I know it is a naive idea.) Perhaps the day

Re: WTC Photos

2001-10-04 Thread Gabriel Rocha
,[ On Thu, Oct 04, at 12:51PM, John Doe Number Two wrote: ]-- | John was busy playing war tourist, and as any journalist who has covered a | conflict will tell you, war tourists are some of the lower forms of life one | can encounter. John was playing someone who was in the area a

Re: cryptome down ?

2001-10-02 Thread Gabriel Rocha
jya.com is fine, cryptome.org's dns servers haven't updated. You might well be using old BIND zone files, if your version of BIND was upgraded, make sure you check the SOA section of the zone file, as with newer versions different syntax was used, check out your logs for named errors on startup. L

[David_Heinrich@urmc.rochester.edu: [mises] praxeology and game theory]

2004-05-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
possibly of interest to some here... - Forwarded message from Pro-Choice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 03:18:25 - From: "Pro-Choice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mises] praxeology and game theory Today, in Managerial Economics, the professor talk

[David_Heinrich@urmc.rochester.edu: [mises] praxeology and game theory]

2004-05-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
Possibly of interest to some here... - Forwarded message from Pro-Choice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 03:18:25 - From: "Pro-Choice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mises] praxeology and game theory Today, in Managerial Economics, the professor talk

Re: Linksys WRT54G (and clones)

2004-06-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Jun 20 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: | Anyone here using that device? With Sveasoft's firmware? Building the | firmware yourself, or using VPNs/IPsec? I have one here at work. Works wonders. I didn't build it myself though. I actually paid the subscription too. The $20 seemed worthi

Re: [IP] When police ask your name, you must give it, Supreme Court says (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-06-21 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Jun 21 2004, Steve Schear wrote: | Not a problem. Its legal to use any name you wish, including those that | use gyphs and sounds which cannot be represented by standard Roman and | non-Roman alphabets (as is common in some African tribes). So, those that | wish to avoid thi

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Mon, Oct 22, at 04:58PM, Julian Assange wrote: | This years Nobel for Economics won by George A. Akerlof, A. Michael | Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz "for their analysis of markets with | assymetric information" is typical. The Nobel priye was won by people who published ideas

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Mon, Oct 22, at 10:27AM, Tim May wrote: | This is one of the problems with the whole "Economics" prize. There's | not even a prize in _mathematics_, fer chrissake, so why one in | _economics_? Alfred Nobel certainly did not endow an economics prize. | (The econ prize gets its

George Mason U. adopts a free-market philosophy to an unusual degree

2001-10-24 Thread Gabriel Rocha
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/10/22/focus1.html George Mason U. adopts a free-market philosophy to an unusual degree Eric Winig Staff Reporter While the U.S. economy continues to sink, the majority of economists are scratching their heads, unable to divine

Re: FBI MAS

2001-10-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Oct 31, at 06:52AM, John Young wrote: | Anybody have information about this FBI operation, | which siphoned about 1/5 of Cryptome this AM: | | IP address: 65.207.53.168 | | MAS (NETBLK-UU-65-207-53) | 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW | Washington, D

Re: FBI MAS

2001-10-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Oct 31, at 09:57AM, John Young wrote: | Mothermary, there's nothing like logs to boost paranoia, and | depression that nobody gives a FF except rampaging | bots endlessly shredding your shaggers and OBB. In my time I have found that keeping logs of internet activities is

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-06 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Mon, Nov 05, at 07:44PM, Jim Choate wrote: | What does it take to create a 'free market'? Hayeks says 'perfect | competition'. Here you go using a Good Name(tm) in vain...again. | What is 'perfect competition'? "Perfect Competition" is not an Austrian idea, in fact, it is an

Re: Mail filters in qmail?

2001-11-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Nov 06, at 11:27PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: | Put this in your procmail.rc file before your cypherpunks rule: | INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/kill.rc | | Insert in the new $PMDIR/kill.rc file something like this: | :0: | * ^From:.*?ravage@.*?ssz.com.* | trash/ ^^ Make sure you

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Nov 06, at 09:19AM, Tim May wrote: | Bluntly, when Choate makes strange claims about math, history, physics, | and economics, it's never worth the time to try to correct his many | wrong-headed (in our reality) ideas and definitions. Thank you for helping me see the ligh

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Nov 06, at 05:42PM, Marcel Popescu wrote: | And in this, he gave way to David Friedman and the like. Hayek is the least | Austrian of the Austrians. Look to Mises - or better yet, to Rothbard - to | find a much better Austrian. By and by, "better" is a relative term... |

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-11-25 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Sun, Nov 25, at 03:05PM, Tim May wrote | Thus, what is the "reputation of the dollar"? Is it because of foolproof | anti-forgery measures? Is it because of the laws of the U.S.? Etc.? | | No, it is a kind of collective hallucination. It is not a "Collective hallucination" un

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-11-25 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Sun, Nov 25, at 05:24PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: | Are you saying that governments are providing a valuable service by propping up | arbitrary prohibitions and thus establish a value system against which we can | bang our heads ? If you got that out of the quote you left in the em

Re: Einstein.ssz.com down hard...

2001-12-04 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Dec 04, at 09:36PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 18 DS3-R6-1e-n.realtime.net (205.238.159.101) 121 ms | DS3-R6-1d-n.realtime.net (205.238.159.105) 115 ms DS3-R6-1e-n.realtime.net | (205.238.159.101) 113 ms | 19 * * DS3-R6-1d-n.realtime.net (205.238.159.105) 104 ms !H |

Re: Fwd: Imagine Bob owns an ISP...

2001-12-09 Thread Gabriel Rocha
| I thought the following question might be of interest: Imagine Bob owns an | ISP. Bob doesn't like government agencies very much and has (yet) no | surveillence equipment installed. Alice now makes a contract with Bob that he | provides internet access to Alice and she pays for it. If Bob is

Re: : Re: How do you sleep?

2001-12-13 Thread Gabriel Rocha
Would Declan be more effective in your mind if he started throwing rocks at a MacDonalds arch on Pennsylvania Avenue? Somehow I see his contributions to any movement I would be associated with as being a little more worthwhile than what you have written/done that I have read||about. --Gabe

Re: Time to unsubscribe...

2001-12-24 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Dec 25, at 05:56AM, Dr. Evil wrote: | Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling | from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully | interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to | motivate me to figure out how

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-10 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Dec 10 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: | | Because nodes are not geographically constrained to US jurisdiction? | | If mixter won't survive, it's due to spammers, and malware spreaders. The latter statement my well be true, I don't use the network, nor know the ratios of good/bad tra

Interesting article

2005-07-08 Thread Gabriel Rocha
Don't know how many of you saw this... http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050705.gtrussia05/BNStory/Technology/ In the stolen-data trade, Moscow is the Wild East By GRAEME SMITH Tuesday, July 5, 2005 Updated at 8:40 AM EDT >From Tuesday's Globe and Mail MOSCOW — The most e

Re: Cypherpunkly concerns over virii

2004-01-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Sat, Jan 31, at 01:49PM, Tyler Durden wrote: | One byproduct I'm noticing as a result of the MyDoom virus(es) is that we're | seeing all sorts of email addresses we've never seen before. Does this mean | these are all sorts of subscribers' names we've never seen before? Is a |

Jackbooted thugs, mercs and non-gov paramilitaries

2004-03-31 Thread Gabriel Rocha
I don't normally forward articles, but this one might be of interest to some here. I especially like the part where these guys are exempt from the legal system... http://www.economist.com/world/europe/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2539816 British companies have been grousing about losing out to th

Anarchy and Capitalism in Africa of all places...

2004-04-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
http://www.economist.com/World/africa/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2559183 (it requires a login... article pasted below) I specially like the part about taxation and the difficulties of implementing it... Somalia Coke and al-Qaeda Apr 1st 2004 | MOGADISHU >From The Economist print edition Reu

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-15 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Apr 14, at 08:22PM, Justin wrote: | I'm not concerned with the advertising itself. My concern is that the | Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message | content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs. I only say something because I have

Re: IRS may use First Data info for help in finding tax evaders

2004-08-04 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Aug 04 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: | The IRS said in a court filing that it believes those account holders "may | fail, or may have failed, to comply with internal revenue laws." Standards of proof are going way down when "may have..." is enough to get a court order...

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-20 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Aug 20 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: | Yup. Reruns of the Daily Show are usually on at 7pm the following day, | though check your local cable schedule. Don't suppose anyone is willing to record and post for those of us who don't have access to US channels right now?

Was: (US health care...). Now: Child mortality in Sweden.

2003-01-30 Thread Gabriel Rocha
| PS - the infant mortality statistics are bogus; they are a | record-keeping artefact. Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the | USA is always being compared) don't "count" a child as born until it has | reached a certain age (three weeks in Sweden). Guess when most infant | deaths occur? W

Re: FW: Spädbarnsdödlighet Much more readable (Child mortality rate)

2003-01-30 Thread &#x27;Gabriel Rocha'
Sorry, here is a much more readable version of the email exchange. On Thu, Jan 30, at 11:01AM, Ola Nordbeck wrote: | -Original Message- | From: *Befolkningsstatistik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:59 AM | To: ola nordbeck | Subject: SV: Sp

Re: maximize best case, worst case, or average case? (TCPA

2002-07-01 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Mon, Jul 01, at 10:10PM, Anonymous wrote: | Brilliant. Let the market solve the problem. Why bother with the auction | part, then? If the market's going to solve the problem for the 2nd guy | to hold the copy, why not let it solve the problem for the 1st? The fact | is, quot

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

2002-07-03 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Jul 04, at 01:26AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: | >I can't see a market defined as anything else than "private property and | >voluntary exchange". | | Then you really must be blind. Markets not based on private property or | volition abound. The political process is one of them.

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Jul 09, at 11:52AM, An Metet wrote: | What are the tax implications of a US resident green card holder, with substantial |assets both in his original nation and in the US, of becoming a US citizen? Well, think positive because you're already screwed. If you have a greenca

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Jul 09, at 02:02PM, Tim May wrote: | Why do you think a person without a green card is exempt from IRS | jurisdiction? I should have been clearer. I was speaking for his specific case, but as it was pointed out, it applies to people who don't come here to work. | Unless

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen

2002-07-09 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Jul 10, at 03:20AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: | Are you saying that if someone is legally resident in the US for a | while, the US IRS will attempt to get his assets all over the | world forever? I find this hard to believe. For a specific time period, this is absolutely true.

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Jul 09, at 05:11PM, Tim May wrote: | Mexico does not allow _any_ noncitizen to work! Two point. I did not know that about Mexico (I did say it was made about the countries I knew about.) Switzerland and Brasil both allow student visa holders to work, albeit with restrictio

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen

2002-07-09 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Wed, Jul 10, at 03:30AM, Anonymous wrote: | The question really is: Suppose one becomes a US citizen, and | then resides outside the US. Then is money on earned on assets | outside the US taxable by US authorities. Yes it is. If you are a US citizen your income can be taxed a

Re: Switzerland: Another hit for phone privacy

2003-03-13 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Mar 13, at 12:41AM, Lucky Green wrote: | What Swisscom's EasyRoam pre-paid SIMs offered that no other pre-paid | service that I am aware of offered, at least as of a year ago, was | roaming in nearly every country that has GSM service. Most pre-paid SIMs | are limited to roa

[labs@foundstone.com: Foundstone Labs Advisory - Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow in PGP]

2002-09-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
- Forwarded message from Foundstone Labs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:54:17 -0700 From: "Foundstone Labs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Foundstone Labs Advisory - Remotely Exploitable Buffer Overflow in PGP Foundstone Labs Advisory - 090502-PCRO

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-27 Thread &#x27;Gabriel Rocha'
On Thu, Mar 27, at 09:19AM, Mike Rosing wrote: | Note I do get: | | $ host www.aljazeera.net | www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186 | | So why the original error response if "host" can find it? | Interesting! Gotta contact exodus to find out whom they have alocated that

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread &#x27;Gabriel Rocha'
On Fri, Mar 28, at 10:27AM, Sunder wrote: | Um, watch your attributions, I didn't write that paragraph. :) My apologies, I wrote the paragraph below. Must have missed your attribution while deleting stuff. --Gabe | On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, 'Gabriel Rocha' wrote: | | &

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-27 Thread Gabriel Rocha
I just checked out http://www.aljazeera.net/ and there is a big red US flag on the front, courtesy of the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia"... well, perhaps aljazeera needs better network people...

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-27 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Mar 27, at 06:33AM, Mike Rosing wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.aljazeera.net www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186 This is from the US, fyi. It also works (and even resolves to the same thing :) from other hosts outside the US)

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread &#x27;Gabriel Rocha'
On Thu, Mar 27, at 01:12PM, Sunder wrote: The site was defaced last I saw it, I would suspect that to still be the case, or it is down for other reasons (overloaded, etc...) For those of you who are getting a dotster page, try using a different dns server than what your isp is givi

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread &#x27;Gabriel Rocha'
it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know)