December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

New Software Controls
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TH points out that there's a broad new provision in the BXA Wassenaar rule for controlling telecommunications software under Category 5, Part I - Telecommunications, quote: You might want to highlight the following section ... not sure of the entire context ... but this isn't something that I'd seen before. It looks like control of any software that can transmit data. c.3. ``Software'' which provides the capability of recovering ``source code'' of telecommunications ``software'' controlled by 5A001, 5B001, or 5C001; For the citation see: http://jya.com/bxa-wa/cat51.htm#5D001c3 --------- We've broken the rule into several components for easier access to the Commerce Control List revisions. See: http://jya.com/bxa-wa-rule.htm

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Fwd: Skiing
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 01/16 8:27 AM Received: 01/16 5:18 PM From: Patrick McGarvey, mcgoo(a)worldnet.att.net To: Brian Riley, brianbr(a)together.net Subject: For the skier in us... > > What's the difference between John Denver and Michael Kennedy? > John Denver made it alive out of Aspen. > Has Elton John re-written any of his songs for Michael Kennedy? > Not yet, but he's done one about the tree: "I'm Still Standing" > How can you be sure that Michael was really a Kennedy? > Check the family tree. > How will the priest begin Michael Kennedy's eulogy? > "We are gathered here together on this slalom occasion...." > A simple accident? Some witnesses insist there was a second tree at > the snow-covered knoll... > What do Michael and JFK Jr's magazine "George" have in common? > * Wood pulp. > > New bumper sticker...."Plant A Tree....Kill A Kennedy...." > What's an event you don't want to be at? > * A Michael Kennedy New Year's Bash > What will it take to reunite the four Kennedy brothers? > A1: One more bullet. > A2: A season lift pass. ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." -- Nietzche

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Adult Mail................Are you man enough?
by Wombat＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Genetic & Tissue Engineering - The Learning Channel
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Deriving economic profits from writing FREE software?
by igor＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, At my leisure, I write free software. One of these programs is the usenet moderation bot STUMP. Right now I am writing another free program. I feel perfectly comfortable with the idea that I will not CHARGE money for these programs; for one, I am a beneficiary of a multitude of excellent free programs written by others, and just as well i realize that selling them would be more of a hassle than it is worth. My another pet idea is that programming is poetry, and therefore a person who only writes commercial software is almost surely going to lose whatever gift in programming that he had from God. However, aside from the psychic benefits, I would like to somehow derive an economic profit from being a freeware author. So far, I feel that the status of the author of a popular package does sound good on a resume, but it is as far as I could get. Does anyone else feel the same way? Has anybody come up with a way to cash in on the free programs that he writes? Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- char*p="char*p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} \=/, _-===-_-====-_-===-_-==========-_-====-_ | @___oo ( )_ /\ /\ / (___,,,}_--= ) ) /^\) ^\/ _) =__ Anything is good and useful if ) ) /^\/ _) (_ ) ) _ / / _) ( ) /\ )/\/ || | )_) (_ it's made of chocolate. ) < > |(,,) )__) ( ) || / \)___)\ (_ __) | \____( )___) )___ -==-_____-=====-_____-=====-___== \______(_______;;; __;;;

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HOW WILL YOU SURVIVE WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR JOB?
by esoftware57＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Microsoft Metaphors
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > What are the best metaphors to use when talking about a browser > > and an operating system? Is the combination like a car and an > > engine, or a car and a roofrack? A pair of gloves? > >In this specific case it's more like garbage in a trash can. Nah. In this specific case it's more like shit and a toilet. Or if you wanted to get a bit obscure you could say that Windows is like LSD. It kills brain cells, attracts the really stupid in addition to the occasional person with a clue, and the typical user has random flashbacks when put in front of any computer at all. It has no useful purpose beyond making the user feel really good, costs a lot, and is dangerous to your (mental) health. It's produced, handled, and sold by a huge cartel (Microsoft) who shoots (runs out of business) anybody who opposes them. Those the cartel doesn't shoot they bribe (buy). And users enter into temporary or in some cases permanent fits of stupidity and hysteria during which they are a danger to anyone around them, particularly if they're armed (have a bulk mailer or platform-specific "web authoring tools" which produce crappy HTML).

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Kaczynski attempts suicide
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I don't get it. The guy is facing the death penalty, and now they're >trying to keep him alive. It's typical government arrogance. They can kill but nobody else can. And they demand that when they consider murdering somebody that the target not murder himself. Stupidity.

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CAD Stego
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This repeats a suggestion from 1994 about using computer assisted design programs to conceal text or other data: 1. CAD uses vectors to make graphics, including text, and most programs can import a wide variety of data from other formats. 2. Several features can manipulate CAD objects into unrecognizable forms by modifying scale, dimension, orientation, opacity and so on. 3. The scale feature is useful to reduce, say, a text of any length, or any digital object, to the size of a pixel. This pixel can be located, say, under a visible line, or, be made transparent as a "phantom" object. (An engineer "stipples" concrete with microdot exotica and lofts the docs to the Saudis, getting paid ten times the regular fee.) 4. Or, the text can be distorted by scale and dimension to appear to be a line serving another function. 5. It's a snap to encrypt the text and import it into CAD via several programs that do that duty. Then the message could be distorted or hidden as described above, for piggy-backing on an innocent- looking document issued, say, to GSA for replenishing the Blanco Bunker, where it would be opened by the cp insider-sou-chef for de-distorted, decrypted instructions on how to prepare and place the bean. 6. To be sure, the underlying CAD code of the ciphertext could be identified by an astute auto-message-vetter of the EOP and then the CADbreakers would be beckoned to the roachtrap. 7. Big shortcoming: how to securely transmit the location (virtual coordinates) of the hidden message and what modifications need to be reversed for message access. Beware of using 0,0,0 -- a near-universal data point for CAD docs. However, 0,0,2^50 miles might be overlooked if the 3d view is disabled. 8. Medium shortcoming: Full-featured CAD programs are expensive, however, the popular lite versions are cheap and can usually read the pricier output.

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call for proposals: "Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere" inJune 1998
by Bill Frantz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wonder what these peoples' take on the Internet is? If the net isn't a "democratic public sphere", what is? >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:56:01 -0800 (PST) >Reply-To: cda96-l(a)willamette.edu >Originator: cda96-l(a)willamette.edu >Sender: cda96-l(a)willamette.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: "T. L. Kelly" <room101(a)teleport.com> >To: Multiple recipients of list <cda96-l(a)willamette.edu> >Subject: call for proposals: "Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere" in >June 1998 > >The Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) invites participation in >its next international meeting, June 11-14, 1998, in San Francisco, >California, addressing the topic "Media, Democracy and the Public >Sphere." > >UDC welcomes papers, audiovisual works, panels, workshops and projects >that break with traditional, monological approaches, to promote dialogue >and interaction around questions of critical communications and media >activism, as suggested below. Please send proposals for presentations >by no later than MARCH 1, 1998, to: > > Prof. Bernadette Barker-Plummer > 1998 UDC Conference Chair > Department of Communication > University of San Francisco > 2130 Fulton Street > San Francisco, CA 94117 > email: barkerplum(a)usfca.edu > >The UDC steering committee suggests the following perspectives on the >conference topic, "Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere": the mass >media are flourishing today; a democratic public sphere is not. What, >then, are the possibilities of resolving the conflicts between a "mass" >media and a "democratic" public sphere? > >Facets of this question which participants may wish to address include >the concept of "the public interest"; the role of public media systems >in the creation of a democratic public sphere; the role of media policy >in helping or hindering democracy; the role of media in >(trans)national"democratization" processes; the dissemination of radical >claims through alternative, community and mainstream media; the ways in >which the everyday media practices of the public help or hinder the >creation of a democratic public sphere; the education of media workers >in the interest of democracy; and the utilization of information >technolgies for and against democracy. > >The host institution is arranging affordable conference housing on the >campus of the University of San Francisco, which, however, requires >timely registration. Please send in your proposal early to faciliate >rapid notification of acceptances in early March! The San Francisco >host committee is also scheduling plenary sessions with featured >speakers and joint evening outings into the city. This promises to be >an very engaged and productive gathering of international media >activists, practitioners, theorists and historians. Please contact Prof. >Barker-Plummer, conference chair, with any questions: > barkerplum(a)usfca.edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | All politicians should ski.| 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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