July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Insight on the News Email Edition
by Insight on the News 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

INSIGHT NEWS ALERT! New articles from Insight on the News are now online http://insightmag.com ............................................... Folks, I hope you haven’t missed Kelly O’Meara’s article on the revival of The King http://insightmag.com/news/258197.html for your summer enjoyment. And you’ll be stunned by Mike Waller’s investigation of the way Hamas and Hezbollah supporters are bringing President Bush to court http://insightmag.com/news/258607.html. And we have an especially choice selection of inside-Washington articles for you, too. That’s it for today. Until next time. I remain your newsman from the Bunker. ............................................... HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH ALLIES SUE BUSH Michael Waller dishes up the latest from the American Muslim Council.http://insightmag.com/news/258607.html ............................................... FBI DOESN’T COMPUTE Sean Paige tells us that until September 11, no one fully understood the danger the FBI’s hodgepodge of incomplete, incompatible and inoperable computer systems and databases posed to national security. http://insightmag.com/news/258214.html ======================================== Pat Boone’s 7 Reasons to Own Gold! http://insightmag.com/media/paper441/ads/6qm7xk1g0.gif ======================================== TERROR – THE LASTING CLINTON/CARTER LEGACY David Landrith shows that a brief look at the Democrats' foreign-policy track record makes it clear that they offer no real solutions. In fact, it is no coincidence that the foreign policy pursued by both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton culminated in unprecedented terrorist attacks on Americans. http://insightmag.com/news/258205.html ............................................... WHAT ABOUT WASHINGTON’S FINANCIAL MESS? (THAT KETTLE LOOKS BLACK!) Sean Paige writes that Newton's famous third law of motion apparently applies everywhere in the known universe except for Washington, where for every action there is an unequal and opposite overreaction. http://insightmag.com/news/258213.html ............................................... CONGRESS’ BAD BOY KEEPS MISBEHAVIN’ Michelle Malkin writes that if Rep. James P. Moran of Virginia were a Republican he'd be a household name by now — for all the wrong reasons. http://insightmag.com/news/258206.html ............................................... AMERICA’S PRIVATE ARMIES? Sam Vaknin asks: Have the Americans hired the services of MPRI -- Military Professional Resources Inc. in Macedonia? http://insightmag.com/news/258576.html ............................................... SYMPOSIUM PRO & CON – IS CHINA REALLY A THREAT? LARRY M. WORTZEL SAYS: YES: China's propensity for settling disputes with the use of force poses a direct threat to U.S. interests in the region. LAWRENCE KORB SAYS: NO: China is not, and is unlikely to be, a strategic military threat the way the Soviet Union once was. http://insightmag.com/news/258209.html ............................................... WORKFARE FOR SURPLUS NUKE EXPERTS Brandon Spun talks with David Zigelman, who assists nuclear scientists who lost their livelihoods as the Cold War closed, and keeps them off the market where rogue nations covet their expertise. http://insightmag.com/news/258208.html ............................................... THE DATA IS IN – PRIVATE EDUCATION IS BETTER Deroy Murdock writes now that the Supreme Court has found tuition vouchers constitutional, school-choice programs will blossom nationwide. This is superb news for poor, largely, minority students — especially in the long term. http://insightmag.com/news/258203.html ======================================== SUBSCRIBE TO INSIGHT TODAY AND SAVE Over $50 off the cover price! http://insightmag.com/media/paper441/template/templatemedia/subscribe.gif ======================================== You have received this newsletter because you have a user name and password at Insight on the News. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, visit "http://insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=unsubscribe". You may also log into Insight on the News and edit your account preferences on the Web. If you have forgotten or don't know your user name and password, it will be emailed to you after visiting the following link: http://insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=emailPassword&serialNumber=16oai891z…

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Phone companies to violate your privacy more.
by Trei, Peter 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Do you have a 'reduced expectation of privacy'? Well, FCC Chairman Michael Powell thinks you do, and that this justifies letting the telcos sell your detailed call information (whom you call, when, and for how long) to 'affiliates', without bothering to ask you first. It's explicitly an opt-out system. Expect a densely worded insert in ant type in your next phone bill, which, if you hire a lawyer to decode, will tell you how to opt out. See: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/18/1245202.shtml?tid=158 Peter Trei

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18 Jul '02

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18 Jul '02

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by Ebargains 18 Jul '02

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CNN.com - Hackers help counter Net censorship - July 15, 2002 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

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Gilmore Sues on FAA ID
by John Young 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

John Gilmore initiated a federal suit today in CA Northern District against Ashcroft, et al, challenging the air travel ID requirement: http://cryptome.org/freetotravel.htm

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Re: Which universe are we in? (tossing tennis balls into spinning props)
by drs 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

On n Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 11:02 Tim May wrote: >On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Peter Fairbrother wrote: >> Oh dear. QM does rule out internal states. I didn't think I would >> have to explain why I capitalised "Bell", but perhaps it was a bit >> too subtle. Google "Bell" and "inequalities", and go from there. > I disagree. Bell's Inequality is not dependent on QM...it's a > mathematical statement about the outcomes of measurements where > stochastic processes play a role. The fact that QM is strongly > believed to involve stochastic processes is why Bell's inequality > shows up prominently in QM. However, we cannot then use B.I. to > prove things about QM. It's a statement about quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics and the violation of bell's inequality rest on the inseparability of a quantum state. Typically, that means a test using an epr pair, i.e. a pair of S = 1 photons with total J = 0, so that the pair behaves as a single object with J = 0. The pair MUST be originate from the same quantum process, (e.g., a single \pi_{0} decay), not as two arbitrarily selected photons from a stochastic process (e.g., 2 photons selected at random from the 4 produced in the decay of two pions). In short, quantum mechanics is not stat mech. > A more persuasive proof of why hidden variables are not viable in QM is >the work done on extending some theorems about Hilbert spaces. Namely, >Gleason's theorem from the mid-50s, later extended by Kochen and Specker >in the 1960s. The Kochen-Specker Theorem is accepted as the "no go" >proof that hidden variables is not viable. While K-S is an improvement, it's fundamentally the same idea as bell's but eliminates a loop-hole: From: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kochen-specker/ "This is the easiest argument against the possibility of an HV interpretation afforded by Gleason's theorem. Bell (1966: 6-8) offers a variant with a particular twist which later is repeated as the crucial step in the KS theorem. (This explains why some authors (like Mermin 1990b) call the KS theorem the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem; they think that the decisive idea of the KS theorem is due to Bell.[3]) He proves that the mapping dictates that two vectors and mapped into 1 and 0 cannot be arbitrarily close, but must have a minimal angular separation, while the HV mapping, on the other hand, requires that they must be arbitrarily close." In any case, quantum mechanics is well established by a lot of convincing arguments, even without any of the above to rely upon.

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Work harder for yourself, not someone else!
by taxfree4476319＠yahoo.com 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

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