January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Physical Meet: Austin, Tx. Tue. Jan. 9
by Jim Choate 05 Jan '01

05 Jan '01

Time: Jan 9, 2001 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables. If it's inclimate but not overly cold we meet in the outside covered section. Otherwise look for us inside the building proper. Identification: Look for the group with the "Applied Cryptography" book. It will have a red cover and is about 2 in. thick. Contact Info: http://einstein.ssz.com ____________________________________________________________________ The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- >From owner-hell-outgoing(a)ssz.com Sun Jan 23 09:37:10 2000 Return-Path: <owner-hell(a)einstein.ssz.com> Received: (from mdom@localhost) by einstein.ssz.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15293 for hell-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:36:39 -0600 Received: from localhost (ravage@localhost) by einstein.ssz.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA15289 for <hell(a)einstein.ssz.com>; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:36:24 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:36:20 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> To: The Club Inferno <hell(a)einstein.ssz.com> Subject: Inferno: Austin Cypherpunks Physical Meet - Correction Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000123093433.7178f-100000(a)einstein.ssz.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hell(a)ssz.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hell(a)ssz.com Status: RO X-Status: Time: Jan. 29, 2000 Last Saturday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location: Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables. If it's inclimate but not overly cold we meet in the outside covered section. Otherwise look for us inside the building proper. Identification: Look for the group with the "Applied Cryptography" book. It will have a red cover and is about 2 in. thick. Contact Info: The group does not support a local mailing list right now. Other than the physical meetings, announced on cypherpunks(a)ssz.com, there are currently no additional resources. If you have a question please join the CDR and post your question (short and simple please). One of us will respond appropriately.

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[psychohistory] (fwd)
by Jim Choate 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 03:06:26 +0200 From: George Pappas <vagelford(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: psychohistory(a)egroups.com To: psychohistory(a)egroups.com Subject: [psychohistory] Here is a mail I received and I think will interest the group : STOCK MARKET: FOLLOW THE LEADER To make money in the stock market, you have to understand risk. Physicists have been using statistical physics methods to analyze markets in order to better understand market risks, such as the probability that a large shift in market value will occur during a year-long interval. Real markets have a higher probability of experiencing large changes than conventional "pure chance" would predict, and econophysicists have suggested many schemes to explain this fact. The latest idea, reported in the 25 December PRL, points to the "herding behavior" for which traders are famous. The authors describe a simple computer model where information networks grow randomly until entire "clusters" of traders act on the news and then wait for the next "rumor mill" to grow. The model predicts price fluctuations similar to those of real markets. (V. M. Egu‘luz and M. G. Zimmermann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5659. COMPLETE Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/v6/st28.html Link to the paper: http://publish.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v85/p5659/) Attempts like that one could create a good basis for the development of a theory of psychohistory. Vagelford

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by A. Melon 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

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Re: OceanStore - anonymous and distributed data storage?
by Roy Silvernail 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> said: >http://slashdot.org (it's a vector to Forbes). <sigh> No, that's Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/03/0628240 is the actual Slashdot story. http://www.forbes.com/futuretech/forbes/2001/0108/242.html is a vector to Forbes. (and I thought 2001 was going to improve...)

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04 Jan '01

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RE: Anglo-American communications studies
by David Honig 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

At 01:08 PM 1/4/01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >2. The 'storage heater'. The CEGB (central electricity >generating board) rates were far lower at night >than during the day or evening. Interestingly, this time-dependency has also forced other technology. Some years ago, the fuzzy logic people were touting a (german?) dishwasher which was extra quiet because it used their tech... which is important because Europeans apparently do their heavy-wattage usage at night, to save costs. A foreign concept to Yanks :-) Your electric meters must cost more. I once lived in UC grad housing that had no electric bill (free electricity :-) because it would have cost too much to install individual meters.

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(no subject)
by graham compton,Jr. 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

my dog was poisoned by ricin. do you know the antidote? Thanks, GSC Jr

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Steven Levy Talks Crypto
by John Young 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

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[Fwd: End-2000 Alert: John Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp Regs]
by Harmon Seaver 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: End-2000 Alert: John Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp Regs Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:43:09 -0500 X-Loop: openpgp.net From: DRCNet <drcnet(a)drcnet.org> To: drc-natl(a)drcnet.org ************************************************************* Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNet) Rapid Response Team ************************************************************* End-2000 Alert: John Ashcroft, Clemencies, Hemp Regs ----------------------------------------------------- 12/28/00 Dear friend of drug law reform: As the year winds to an end, with Congress in recess and many of you on vacation, drug reformers are faced with not one, or even two, but three urgent action items -- as well as a little bit of good news. Please take a few moments to call Congress and the President this week -- it could make all the difference in the coming year! URGENT ACTION ITEM #1: John Ashcroft As you may have read in mainstream news accounts, Sen. John Ashcroft, who was defeated for reelection in Missouri by the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, has been nominated by George W. Bush to be the next US Attorney General. It is vital that his nomination be opposed. John Ashcroft is one of the most ideologically extreme drug warriors, and his appointment would spell trouble for sentencing/prison policies, medical marijuana, needle exchange, racial profiling, you name it. We will be publishing much more information about him in tomorrow's issue of The Week Online with DRCNet, and will be issuing detailed action alerts, by January 4th when the new Senate is sworn in, for opposing him on a state-by-state basis. In the meantime, please call your two US Senators and ask them to oppose the controversial John Ashcroft nomination. You can reach your Senators (or find out who they are) by calling the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. You can also visit http://www.senate.gov to look up their web sites and find out their direct numbers in Washington and their local phone numbers and locations in your state. Make an in-person visit if you can! URGENT ACTION ITEM #2: Save Industrial Hemp Drug warriors at the DEA and ONDCP are trying to ban a whole range of products made with industrial, non-drug hemp. Their motivation, ostensibly, is that hemp interferes with drug testing and creates false positives, causing problems with federal drug testing programs more complicated. Really, they are simply committed to a bizarre ideology that considers hemp a drug, even though you can't get high with it. But in doing so, they are attempting to administratively rewrite 63 years of US law that clearly makes an exception for low-THC hemp in the marijuana laws. Their actions threaten to make a perfectly legal, fledgling industry and its patrons all victims of the drug war. What is happening is that DEA is planning to publish three "interim rules," which would immediately become effective while they go through the longer process. First, the DEA proposes to change its interpretation of existing law to bring hemp products within the purview of the Controlled Substances Act; second, to change DEA regulations to agree with the new interpretation; and third, to exempt traditional hemp products not designed for human consumption, such as paper and clothing, from being subject to the Controlled Substances Act. (See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/165.html#hempembargo for further information on the looming Hemp Embargo.) For the rules to become effective, several federal agencies have to sign off on them. The so-called Dept. of Justice has already done so, but they still have to go through Customs, Treasury, Commerce, and the Office of Management and Budget. Please call your US Representative and your two US Senators; ask them to oppose the DEA's illegal hemp regulations and to put pressure on these agencies to reject the regulations. Again, you can reach all three of them via the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121, or look up their DC and local contact information and locations via http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov on the web. URGENT ACTION ITEM #3: Appeal to Clinton for More Clemencies Less than an hour after the last issue of The Week Online with DRCNet was published, the news came out that President Bill Clinton had granted clemencies to two prisoners whose names are well known to drug reformers: Dorothy Gaines and Kemba Smith, now home with their families. That's the good news; read more about it in tomorrow's issue. The action item is to urge Clinton to release more such prisoners. There are hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders in the nation's penal institutions, tens of thousands of them in the federal system over which Clinton has jurisdiction. It is wonderful that Dorothy and Kemba have gotten to go home, but two is not enough! In particular, the 350+ "safety-valve" prisoners should be released. These are people who would likely be free today if they had been sentenced after the passage of the 1994 Crime Bill, which allowed judges to reduce the sentences of certain drug offenders who would otherwise get five or ten year mandatory minimums. The law was almost passed with retroactivity, but that fell victim to a frenzied election- year intersection of drug and gun politics. Many similar people's sentences have begun and ended since then. There is no reason not to release them. Another prisoner who deserves to be released is our friend Todd McCormick, a medical marijuana patient and activist, whose health is ill-equipped to handle incarceration. Of course, there are many prisoners who deserve to be released, and we will publish more names early next year. Clinton has until the end of his term, January 20th, to issue more pardons or clemencies. Please call the White House Comment Line at (202) 456-1111, get through to a live operator, thank the President for releasing Dorothy Gaines and Kemba Smith but ask him to release more prisoners, such as the 350+ safety-valve prisoners and Todd McCormick, before his term expires. Stay tuned for more information and alerts on these urgent action items. Please consider making a donation to DRCNet to help us provide this service. Contributions from readers like yourself are our primary means of financing action alerts, most of which cannot be paid for out of our educational grants. Visit http://www.drcnet.org/drcreg.html to make a donation by credit card or print out a form to mail in, or just mail your check or money order to: DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036. 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