January 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)
by Michael Motyka 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Eric Cordian <emc(a)artifact.psychedelic.net> wrote : >Someone else needs to read the comp.compression FAQ. > >http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720 > >----- > >NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida research start-up working with a team of >renowned mathematicians said on Monday it had achieved a breakthrough that >overcomes the previously known limits of compression used to store and >transmit data. >... >ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in >compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the >same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss. >That would be at least an order of magnitude beyond current known >algorithms for compacting data. >... >-- >Eric Michael Cordian 0+ > There may be a way to derive & patch together pseudorandom sequence generators, who knows. If there is anything real about this I wonder how long it takes to compress large blocks of arbitrary input data? Geological time scales anyone? Mike

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VoxCRYPT Advanced Digital Scrambler (fwd)
by Jim Choate 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

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Re: Prisoner on line discussion (fwd)
by Michael Motyka 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Never saw it. I'm still waiting for the complete Maxwell Smart on DVD. Mike

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Prisoner on line discussion (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

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Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)
by Eric Cordian 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Someone else needs to read the comp.compression FAQ. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720 ----- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida research start-up working with a team of renowned mathematicians said on Monday it had achieved a breakthrough that overcomes the previously known limits of compression used to store and transmit data. If proven and successfully commercialized, the discovery asserted by ZeoSync Corp of West Palm Beach, Florida could overturn half a century of thinking in the field of lossless data compression and undermine business assumptions on which the telecommunications and other digital industries are based. Lossless compression is the process by which computer data can be compacted, stored and then restored with complete fidelity, or zero loss of data. Existing compression techniques typically shed redundant data in order to conserve space. ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss. That would be at least an order of magnitude beyond current known algorithms for compacting data. [Someone needs to learn the pigeonhole principle. You can not give each member of a set of 2^(N*100) things its own unique identifier taken from a set of 2^N things.] The company's claims, which are yet to be demonstrated in any public forum, could vastly boost the ability of computer disks to store, text, music and video -- if ZeoSync's formulae succeed in scaling up to handle massive amounts of data. The same compression technique might one day make make high-speed Internet access cheaper and widely available across the globe, posing a threat to huge investments in telecommunications network capacity, an industry analyst said. "Either this research is the next 'Cold Fusion' scam that dies away or it's the foundation for a Nobel Prize. I don't have an answer to which one it is yet," said David Hill, a data storage analyst with Boston-based Aberdeen Group. [David needs to read the comp.compression FAQ too.] In 1990, a group of Utah researchers scandalized the scientific world with claims -- quickly found to be unsupported -- that the long-sought answer to the problem of Cold Fusion had been discovered. Hill, the only independent analyst briefed ahead of the announcement, said ZeoSync's claims were theoretically feasible, but years away from definitive proof. He will require more information before evaluating ZeoSync's claims, he said. [You know, if you run the random data through the algorithm a second time, I bet you would get 10,000:1 compression.] ZeoSync, whose Web site can be located at http://www.zeosync.com/, was founded by Peter St. George, an Internet and financial services entrepreneur, who has a background in telecommunications research. ZeoSync, with 30 full-time employees, said it had collaborated with experts from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and researchers in Warsaw, Moscow, and Beijing. BREAK WITH CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES Among the scientific team working with ZeoSync is Steve Smale, one of America's most renowned mathematicians. Smale is an emeritus professor at the University of California at Berkeley and the 1966 winner of the Fields Prize, the Nobel Prize for researchers in this field. He could not be reached for comment on his role in the project. Peter St. George, ZeoSync founder and chief executive, said his company's technique challenged the foundations of digital communications theory spelled out by AT&T's Dr. Claude Shannon in his classic 1948 treatise on Information Theory. Shannon, who died in 1991, had proposed that any type of information, from human speech to computer keyboards to storage disks is limited by the capacity of the data channel over which it flows. This is the basis of digital communications theory. "What we've developed is a new plateau in communications theory," St. George said. "We are expecting to produce the enormous capacity of analog signaling, with the benefit of the noise-free integrity of digital communications." The techniques described by ZeoSync would mark a break with the dozens of existing compression technologies, including MPEG for video and music and JPEG for pictures and graphics are able to compact data at compression rates up to 10 times the original. These algorithms typically work by eliminating long strings of identifiable bits of data such as blue sky, green grass or the white background of a snow-covered landscape. In a statement, ZeoSync said its techniques, "once fully developed, will offer compression ratios that are anticipated to approach the hundreds-to-one range." Using mathematical terminology, the company said its technique "intentionally randomizes naturally occurring patterns to form entropy-like random sequences." ZeoSync said it had applied for patent protection for a technology it calls Zero Space Tuner, and a related technique it calls BinaryAccelerator, which encodes data into perfectly reproducible compressed formats. The company expects the technology to be in commercial use during 2003, it said. [It is much more likely that winged monkeys will fly out of St George's nether regions.] St. George told Reuters the company was in talks with unnamed potential strategic partners, including a major supplier of computer chips used in multimedia compression and also a leading Hollywood music studio, among others. Partnerships deals will be announced over the next several months, he said, although no deals had yet been reached. The company said its technology could be used to enhance existing compression techniques such as fractals, a school of geometry that seeks to find order in the chaos of the natural world. "We would like to invite additional members of the scientific community to join us in our efforts to revolutionize digital technology," St. George said of the formerly secretive project. "There is a lot of exciting work to be done." -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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by Paulmcatee27＠aol.com 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

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Re: Fear and Trembling
by mattd 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

>>Why "surprisingly"? Every UK administration since 1945 has been America's poodle in foreign affairs and military matters. << Thank fuck for Philby and the rest.Eh! >>George III's rule on the American continent lasted longer than George Washington's did. The present Queen is *still* the head of state of more of the American continent than the president of the USA is (http://www.communication.gc.ca/facts/geography_e.html)<< Fear and Trembling indeed.Join M.A.M. APster a windsor! >>Ken Brown (I may be British but I'm not a bloody monarchist - though I don't mind the royals as much in places like Canada & Australia as I do here http://www.cix.co.uk/~kbrown/rotm/1999nov.htm)<< That URL gave me a 404.After 1975 you can tip your butt ends of the aristocracy off the white cliffs of ben Dover.M.A.M. "Facing an enemy which is being organized to criminalize and eradicate resistance, it's up to the revolutionaries to create permanent conditions of communication, coordination and internationalist solidarity, so as to counter repression and to promote the escalation of the struggle"http://www.mam.cy.net/ sorry try http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/1793/Index.html

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Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
by faustine.＠hushmail.com 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Tim wrote: >> You're a waste of electrons here. Even Agent Farr was more on-topic. Is >> this some kind of ersatz chick thing? > > Posting about guns and survivalism is a chick thing? Sure, whatever you say. >>You conveniently edited my post to leave out what I was commenting on: >>your psychobabble about the MMPI and how to present oneself as a >>suitably servile sheeple. It's ironic that a neo-Calvinist Nietzschean would give a damn what people think of him one way or the other. Must be an alpha baboon thing. And for the record, my reference to the MMPI was nothing more than a passing comment until you replied and got me interested me in elaborating on it. Though I'll admit I never should have bothered responding to the thread in the first place, anyone who thinks it ought to die a natural death should for god's sake quit prolonging it. >I didn't take issue with your posts about guns, did I? No, but only because it suited you. The alpha giveth a banana and the alpha taketh away... >I've yet to see you add anything to the discussion about ostensibly >list-related topics. While all of us post off-topic things at times, you >are almost completely off-topic. >Something I suggested to you last spring bears repeating: read up on >some of the basics. I have been. Though somehow I never felt the need to generate and churn unnecessary posts to "prove" it. I also don't do "me too" posts; or delight in shooting fish in a barrel by pointing out incorrigible idiots' idiocy, etc. It's not as if my tiny handful of posts each week is anything a filter file couldn't cure. One wonders why you aren't drawing a bead on the high-volume, high-profile nuisances instead. Er, I mean, so to speak, that is. >Your stories about living as a homeless person but now being paid to >surf the Net (you say) Quite a convenient troll you have there. Not bad. If there's one thing that can get to a person who came from shitty circumstances and bettered themseves through intelligence, cunning and sheer strength of will alone, it's has to be something along those lines. (Did you catch that? Any unimaginative dimwit flunky out there looking to score ass-kiss beta brownie points by baiting me really should be taking notes.) But I would like to take this opportunity to say that if it makes any of you feel better to think I'm paid to surf the net or work as a Special Agent to spy on you or whatever else you happen to cook up in one of your more colorful delusional/alcohol-soaked moments, be my guest. You're on the wrong track and it's win-win all the way: your wasting time is its own reward. But if I'm really as uninteresting as all that, why anyone would bother is less than self-evident. >may be fodder for Oprah's Online Chat Room ("You >go, girl!"), but this is not that forum. If you didn't know I'm a woman you wouldn't have taken them that way. ~Faustine. *** "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril." - --Harry S. Truman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjw3vWYXHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8Vc mACdHBwstaucKoewZv6sNFa3triW25YAn04mpG0t6X6PTuY/lS05PxfUFffq =MuMi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Propaganda or Turkey.
by mattd 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ Dateline: ISTANBUL, Turkey Noam Chomsky, the American linguist and political dissident, has attacked a court's decision to prosecute his Turkish publisher over a book that slams Turkey's human rights record. In a letter to Istanbul-based Aram Publishing, Chomsky expressed sympathy with the firm's director Fatih Tas, who faces a one-year jail sentence if convicted on charges of conducting propaganda against the state. The trial is due to begin in February. The charges are "a very severe attack on the most elementary human and civil rights," wrote Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aram earlier this year published "American Interventionism," a collection of Chomsky's essays and lectures translated into Turkish. The book includes a translation of a lecture Chomsky gave at the University of Toledo, Ohio in March. In the lecture, Chomsky said the Turkish government had "launched a major war in the Southeast against the Kurdish population," and described the conflict as "one of the most severe human rights atrocities of the 1990s." Chomsky said the lecture was based on material from "the leading human rights organizations ... the most respected standard scholarship, and official U.S. government documents." In an indictment issued last week, Istanbul's State Security Court said these and other passages in the book constituted "propaganda against the indivisible unity of the nation." No charges have been filed against Chomsky himself. Turkey fought a 15-year war against Kurdish rebels demanding autonomy in the southeast. The conflict has eased since the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, announced a unilateral cease-fire in 1999, but the government rejected the cease-fire and sporadic fighting continues. About 37,000 people, mostly Kurdish rebels and civilians, have been killed as a result of the fighting since 1984. Dozens of Turkish writers and intellectuals have been jailed under strict laws that forbid criticism of the state's conduct of the war.

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Fort Detrick the US Empires Unit 731
by mattd 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/unit_731.html For forty years the grisly activities of Japan's Unit 731 and sister units, remained the best kept secret of World War two. The victorious Allies were desperate to secretly acquire the expertise and know how of the Japanese Biological Warfare research. Fulsome records of the human experimentation undertaken, were especially sought. Hindered at home by social repulsion to such activities, human experimentation data was viewed as the jewel in the crown. Scientists and medical experts from Fort Detrick, Maryland - the American top secret BW facility - raced to interview Japanese technicians. Barely one of them stopped to consider the ethical implications. Having assessed the facts, an intelligence cable coldly informed the War Department, Washington DC, that the "foregoing information warrants conclusion that Japanese BW Group, headed by Ishii did violate rules of land warfare." The message added pragmatically: "this expression of opinion is not a recommendation that group be charged and tried as such." None of those implicated in Japanese BW research were brought to trial by the Allies.

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