December 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: The Cost of Natural Gas [was Re: The Cost of California Liberalism]
by auto58194＠hushmail.com 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

At Sun, 24 Dec 2000 23:50:01 -0800, "Raymond D. Mereniuk" <Raymond(a)fbn.bc.ca> wrote: >In my initial message I stated the current rise in natural gas prices >are caused by multiple factors. [blah blah blah] That's outright bullshit. You wrote: "The bad decisions of the citizens of California have produced an energy crisis in what is called the Northwest for which all citizens in what is called the Northwest must pay the price." You said nothing about other factors. Nothing at all. You also ignore that your subject was "The Cost of California Liberalism." That was your point, wasn't it? To blame California Liberalism for your home heating bills? >On top of these factors I stated the greater portion of the increase >was created by un-expected demand in California. Greater portion in what terms? Land area? Population? IQ? Ralph Nader voters? It's an easy game to play when your claims are based on things like a whole bunch of Californians using more power than relatively few Vancouverites. And how much of this unexpected California demand was caused by California Liberalism? Have Sierra Club members been baking lots of extra cookies lately? Or is it all the electric cars that are selling like hotcakes? No, I got it, all those people living in trees to keep them from getting cut down to be used for firewood are forcing people to use their electric heaters, that's it, right? Or are you just going back to blaming Californian Liberals for preferring natural gas for electric power generation and saying it's their fault that you use the same fuel source to heat your home? >Coupled with the low water situation, and the resulting decrease in >hydro generated power, the increased use of natural gas powered >generating capacity would be expected to cause an increase in the >price of a commodity in which the increase in demand was >unexpected or exceeded supply. No shit, but what does this have to do with California Liberalism? >If a power generating utility had built new power plants and >commited to a fuel supply (and the accompanying infrastructure) the >likelihood of unexpected prices increases would be much lower. So? As you now admit, the demand was unexpected. Why would a utility build a new plant and commit to a fuel supply for unexpected demand? You say they're using reserve natural gas fueled plants to meet unexpected demand. Isn't this what they're supposed to do? Do you actually expect power utilities to build plants and commit to fuel they don't expect a need for just to provide a buffer for natural gas prices? That's not what happens in a deregulated environment and I don't think California's electric utility deregulation is considered a result of California Liberalism. Is it?

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About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
by Peter Wayner 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

I'm glad that John spent the time and energy to write a good summary of what is going on in the hard disk area. He's spot on about the dangers to our liberties. But I was quite worried until I began to see the dangers for IBM and Intel in the scheme. This is not an easy play for them because it threatens much of the entire industry in these ways: 1) This is going to increase the cost of using PCs dramatically. Hard disk crashes are going to go from major disasters to utter catastrophes. When the disks go bad, you'll need to buy all new copies of the software, images, movies, and what not. Backing up? Well, that will be another headache that won't be possible without the right permissions. They can wave their hands, but there's no getting around the fact that installing software is going to have plenty of new red tape. I don't see how they will be able to distinguish between the truth and a lie when a guy calls up and say, "uh, my hard disk crashed. I need to install it on a new machine." They either authorize it or they don't. In fact, they'll probably have to automate the process because it's so expensive to have an actual human on the other end. My mean time between hard disk failures is about 2 years, but I'm a heavy user. Can we really afford to create a new class of technicians who do special hard disk replacement for 20% of America each year? 2) This really changes the nature of the business. Right now the PC and software manufacturers sell you a box, wave good bye and say, "Good luck." Support is a joke. Actually fixing the machines costs too much money. Anything worth under $400 is essentially disposable. If they put trusted hard disks in place, then there needs to be someone to care for these disks. They can't just keep waving good bye when you walk out the door. The business model needs to change to be something like cable television. That means hiring thousands if not millions of technicians who will come to your house and fix your hard drive. 3) This is really going to slow innovation and that's really going to hurt IBM and Intel. Already the hardware guys depend heavily on upgrades to keep people buying machines. If people can't move their software to a new zippier computer, then they're not going to buy a new zippier computer. Take a look at the cable television world. Most people are still using 1970's era technology. It just takes too long for the service technicians to go to each house and replace things. But that's the only way you can run the world when you have trusted corrals for special data. You can't just let any schmoe upgrade their hard disk or any schmoe is going to be able to pirate Hollywood movies. Gosh, that's all us proles do all day long you know. Pirate content. 4) This is another opportunity for the open source community to come in and steal market share. If the press reports in Slashdot and other places are to believed, it was only a few months ago that Microsoft marched into the offices at Virginia Beach and asked them to produce the certificates for their copies of Windows. You know, those neat hologram embossed slips of paper. They didn't have one for each PC so they had to pay more than $121,000. (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/01/0532206.shtml) This is another opportunity for Red Hat or some other Linux box company to walk into companies and say, "Use Red Hat, Mozilla, and Star Office and you'll never have license problems again. The hardware guys claim that they can take care of rights management issues for you. So can we and we cost alot less." I think this may be the greatest thing that's come along for open source OSs yet. As Princess Leia said in the Hollywood content "Star Wars", "The harder you squeeze your fingers Vader, the more planets slip through the fingers." Do those content wrangling lawyers down there ever look at the content they protect? -- -------------------------- Tune to http://www.wayner.org/books/ffa/ for information on my book on Free Software.

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26 Dec '00

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Re: About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
by Steven M. Bellovin 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

In message <20001224150321.A24733(a)die.com>, Dave Emery writes: > > > A note on this note - I was told back in that era by Sun field >service people that the standard thing to do when a motherboard failed >was to swap the ID prom from the old motherboard onto the new one, thus >avoiding the whole license conversion problem in the first place (but of >course also doing wonders for the ability to track specific pieces of >hardware and document ECO levels and the like, since a significant number >of motherboards had swapped ID proms in which all the other information >in the prom didn't match the actual board). "Standard"? It was more than that; it was the *right* thing to do. On a diskless workstation, there was no other identity to the machine; if you didn't swap the ID prom -- which was used for the low-order 24 bits of the Ethernet address -- your machine wouldn't receive the proper boot image, etc. Add to that the number of machines in the mid-to-late 80's that didn't have ARP, and it was utterly necessary. --Steve Bellovin

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Fwd: Martin Minow died
by Bill Stewart 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

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U.S. Draws Attention to Information Warfare Threat
by Nomen Nescio 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

By REUTERS Filed at 0:56 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after the Y2K bug, U.S. officials are once again warning about perceived dangers to a United States increasingly stitched together by bits and bytes of computer code. This time, a key stated fear is information warfare, or sneak electronic assaults that could crash power grids, financial networks, transportation systems and telecommunications, among other vital services. National security aides trace the threat to hostile or potentially hostile governments as well as drug lords, criminal cartels and increasingly computer savvy guerrilla groups. Some of these organizations ``are doing reconnaissance today on our networks, mapping them, looking for vulnerabilities,'' Richard Clarke, President Clinton's top aide for infrastructure protection and counterterrorism, told a Microsoft Corp. digital security conference in Redmond, Washington, on Dec. 8. Cyberblitzes like those that briefly knocked out major Web sites in February -- including Yahoo! Inc.'s Internet gateway, eBay Inc.'s auction service and Amazon.com Inc.'s retail site -- could easily be copied on a larger scale, said Clarke, a staff member of the White House National Security Council. ``Criminals, crackers, foreign governments -- when the new president reads that intelligence briefing, he had better move pretty fast,'' he added. Such warnings are not new from Clarke, who has frequently conjured up a ``digital Pearl Harbor,'' a reference to the Japanese surprise attack that threw the United States into the Second World War. But Clarke and other U.S. officials seem to be stepping up a public awareness campaign, spurred by the spread of information technology, growing knowledge of malicious computer code and ever greater U.S. reliance on networked systems. CYBERINICIDENT GROUP MEETS On Dec. 18, the National Security Council held the first meeting of the recently formed Cyberincident Steering Group, aimed at fostering cooperation between the private sector and government to secure systems from domestic and international cyberattack. ``This meeting was an important first step in building computer security programs for the nation,'' said Peter Tippett, chief technologist for TruSecure Corp., a leading computer security company. Among topics discussed were the creation of a rapid response system and communications between industry and government, said David Perry, the public education director for Trend Micro Inc., a maker of anti-virus products, and the co-chairman of the steering group. The U.S. intelligence community voiced its concerns last week with the release of ``Global Trends 2015,'' a wide-ranging analysis by the CIA, its sister U.S. spy shops and outside experts. The report said foes of a militarily dominant United States, rather than challenging it head-on, would seek to target an Achilles' heel in cyberspace or threaten the use of the deadliest chemical, nuclear or biological weapons. ``Such asymmetric approaches -- whether undertaken by states or nonstate actors -- will become the dominant characteristic of most threats to the U.S. homeland,'' the report, released by the National Intelligence Council, said. Over time, attacks are increasingly likely to be fired off through computer networks rather than conventional arms, as ``the skill of U.S. adversaries in employing them'' evolves, the assessment said. FBI FINGERS CHINA It said many unnamed countries were developing such technologies to complicate what the U.S. military refers to as ''power projection'' and to undermine morale at home. The interagency, FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center uses a slide depicting China's Great Wall in its standard presentation on cyberthreats, along with a quote from Sun Zi, author of a treatise on war in about 350 B.C. ``Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence,'' the FBI's slide quotes the ancient Chinese strategist as saying. In a telltale update, the slide includes a 1999 quote from a Chinese newspaper referring to information warfare as a means of achieving strategic victory over a militarily superior enemy.

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26 Dec '00

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Fwd: Martin Minow
by Jon Callas 26 Dec '00

26 Dec '00

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