December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by jim 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

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Explosive dicks (was: C4 commercial web page)
by Anonymous 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

>Density: 1.63 g/cm3 My dick, unerect, is about 12 cm long and has 3.5 cm radius. This makes for 37 cm3, or about 60 grams (2 oz) of C4. 60 grams can pierce the aircraft hull no problemo. So, the question is, how do you tell between plastic C4 dick and genuine meat without close tactile observation at the security checkpoint ? Beware of arabs/israelis humping aircraft walls.

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Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.
by mattd 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

>>mattd: > Ahwell! Still if you want to lump stalinists,trots and > anarchs together The difference between Stalinists and Trots is that the Trots were from the beginning more extreme, more brutal, and more contemptuous of ordinary Russians. The original point of dispute between Stalin and Trotsky was that Trotsky though Stalin was too soft on the kulaks. The moderate faction in Russia were the Zinovievists. No one outside Russia thought himself a Zinovievist, all identifying with the more extreme, not less extreme, factions of Soviet communism.<< Spain,jamesd,I thought we were talking about SPAIN! I know a bit about Trotsky's russian background,the betrayal of Makhno and Krondstadt,Its a huge separate issue.Id like to keep this thread a little focused.You are usually very crisp,cool and concise in your posts.Your making extreme statements here. >>There once upon a time was difference between those you falsely call anarchists, and the commies<< Todays anarchs are easy to find at Ainfos and Infoshop and 100's of minor pages.It might pay anyone calling themselves anarcho-whatever to check them out and compare and contrast information.I trust the natural selection of good ideas. There are major differences with real live anarchists and "commies".Trust me on this.I've attacked N.Klein and N.Chompsky myself for playing footsie with the ISO,degenerate MLers.Lump everyone together and you only fool yourself. >>but after the incompatibility between anarchism and socialism was demonstrated in 1936-1938<< By jamesd,sole expert on spanish anarcho-commie-fascism.Yeah right. >>the difference vanished. Chomsky illustrates this well. Wherever the masters boot smashes repeatedly into the face of a child, we can always rely on Chomsky to find a good word for the master, and demonize the child as a CIA agent. Chomsky defended the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, the slave labor camps employed to pacify South Vietnam, rationalized the Soviet reinvasion of Czechoslovakia and Hungary as defence against US aggression, and supported Stalin's attacks on Greece. << The truth vanishes when jamesd gets all in a lather.Im not widely read on Chompsky.I recommend his essay "objectivity and liberal scholarship"on Spain and jamesd and whatever else you can find especially Abel Paz,"Durrutti,The People Armed".IF Chompsky did all those other things you accuse him of then he is contemptible but it would not detract at the slightest from his work on Spain.SPAIN,jamesd.SPAIN.SPAIN.SPAIN.Spainful for you?

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joshuam Registration
by Coollist Subscription 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

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Simplest possible ecash mint
by Nomen Nescio 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

How simple can an ecash mint be? For the simplest case there should be no accounts. All the mint does is exchange coins for other coins. There are no customer lists, no records of transactions (except as needed for double-spending detection). The very simplest mint is a pure ecoin changer. You give it a coin and it gives you a new one in return. It checks that the coin you gave it is valid and has not been spent before. You also supplied blinding factors so that the new coin you get is blinded and will not be recognized by the mint when spent later. By itself, this trivial mint can support a transaction system, and in principle a whole economy. For Alice to pay Bob, she gives him coins. Bob exchanges them at the mint for new coins, thereby checking that they are good. End of transaction. Bob can spend his new coins elsewhere, unlinkable to the exchange. The mint does not even have to be involved in transfers between ecash and other forms of payment. This is one of the things the e-gold people got right. They outsourced in- and out-transactions. You go to any of dozens of coin dealers, currency services, shady operators of all stripes, to get money into or out of your e-gold account. The same thing would work here. Third parties would offer to buy or sell ecash for dollars, grams of gold, hi grade cocaine, etc. As described, this mint has a constant money supply. There is neither creation nor destruction of coins. In practice there would be slow destruction due to occasional losses of data. This could lead to very slow deflation, or the mint could be adjusted to slightly inflate the currency in order to compensate for this effect.

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26 Dec '01

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I am the Walrus.
by mattd 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

The Cybercrime Act gives police the power to search computer networks across different locations and force individuals to reveal encryption keys Mr Taylor said computer users could also face prosecution for failing to hand over encryption keys, even if they forgot their password.(greg Taylor EFA) Alternatives to Passport The Liberty group argues such specifications should be based on open standards and not controlled by a single company. Microsoft also says it supports an open model for authentication based on internet standards. "We agree and have said for some time that no one company should be in control of such a system," Microsoft spokesman Erik Denny said. Previously announced founders and members of the Liberty Alliance management board include Bell Canada, Global Crossing, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RealNetworks, RSA Security, Sony, United Airlines and Vodafone. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3432981%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E… Internet bank in the black Correspondents in London DECEMBER 14, 2001 BRITAIN'S pioneering internet bank, Egg, said today it had hatched a profit last month for the first time since its launch two years ago. Egg, which was part-floated by its parent, insurance group Prudential, in June last year, said it had pulled in 1.9 million customers and had hit its profitability target. "At our IPO in June 2000, we committed to break even at some point during the fourth quarter of this year. Today, we are pleased to announce that our management accounts for November show that Egg has made a profit for the month," it said. Egg stock rose 0.6 per cent to 155 pence ($4.30)in a lower overall market on the news. Agence France-Presse Net defamation reaches top court Matthew Spencer DECEMBER 15, 2001 THE High Court will be the first top court in the world to rule on the boundaries of defamation in cyberspace, having agreed to hear an appeal from Dow Jones after the US publisher implied mining magnate Joseph Gutnick was a money launderer. Gutnick says case should be heard in OZ cos info could be printed out there(!) The guy has others do his laundering while he buys up land for armed zionist fundamentalist fanatics in occupied palestine. New life for Grand Theft Auto 3 Caitlin Fitzsimmons DECEMBER 14, 2001 THE banned PlayStation 2 game, Grand Theft Auto 3, is likely to be recoded and could return to Australian stores by February. The game, which is one of the most popular PS2 games worldwide, was refused classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) because of implied scenes of sexual violence. The game had been launched a month earlier with an MA15+ advisory sticker because of an apparent misunderstanding between the distributors, Take 2 Interactive, and the OFLC. But after the OFLC ban and a failed appeal, it is now illegal to sell or demonstrate the game anywhere in Australia. Take 2 Interactive managing director James Ellingford said he was in discussions with the developer to modify the game to pass Australia's censorship guidelines. The expense of the product recall, recoding the game and reprinting the discs would be "significant". Mr Ellingford said he was waiting for the final report from the OFLC and a face-to-face meeting to discuss the specific problems before he would "push the button" for recoding to start. He expected to give the go-ahead on December 20 and the best-case scenario would see the game back on shelves by January 25. Take 2 Interactive planned to launch a version of the game in PC format by March, but there were no plans at this stage to develop it for Microsoft's Xbox. Grand Theft Auto 3 is one of a new breed of highly realistic games that give complete freedom to the player within the game world. The player is cast as a gangster who car-jacks vehicles and performs contract work for various crime bosses. The game contains a scene in which the player can hire a prostitute - although the graphics are limited to a shaking car parked under a tree - but this is not required to complete the game. The OFLC objected to the fact that the player can bash and kill the prostitute for money after having sex with her. Cant wait for Grand Theft Crypto.

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FY;) [Pigdog] I've changed my mind, the 2nd amendment rocks (fwd),
by mattd 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

http://www.metalstorm.com/ What is a Smart Gun? The numerous gun-related deaths each year in the US has prompted widespread calls for improvements in the safety of handguns. This has led to the development of "smart guns". 100% electronic prototype The O'Dwyer VLe - the world's first totally electronic handgun live firing prototype - is Metal Storm's 'smart gun', being developed for military and police. With advanced access limiting features, the O'Dwyer VLe operates without any moving parts. The only thing that moves in the weapon is the bullets.

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Re: Time to unsubscribe...
by Nomen Nescio 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

>Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling >from mattd(a)useoz.com and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully >interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to >motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows >of a filtered version of this list, please let me know. Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options): declan(a)well.com jchoate(a)dev.tivoli.com jchoate(a)tivoli.com jchoate(a)us.tivoli.com" jim_choate/tivoli_systems(a)us.ibm.com mattd(a)useoz.com ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com ravage(a)ssz.com sandfort(a)mindspring.com tcmay(a)got.net

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Re: Big Bang Thought Experiment,
by mattd 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

The Big Bang was a fizzle.Like the 1st ashes series of cricket and the first flight by harry Houdini,it happened near Sunbury ,victoria,au.People began a system of barter.Bob would do a few hours work for alice and earn Barter Units of Money at the rate pegged to the dollar.This system grew organically and exponentially to the point where the treasurer,Peter fuckface costello stepped in and ruled that these BUMs (I forget what they where called) would be taxed at the rate of 1 to the dollar. Thus nipping the experiment,that directly threatened the state, in the bud.Since then we have APster so I believe we should try again.Ryan sounds like he might be the "forth man"to do this.I wish him well.Use the force,ryan,the APster force. "No complex system was ever written from scratch. It always started out as a simple system that was patched incrementally. "chairman jamesd.

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