December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Why does the state still stand:
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:35 PM 5/14/96 -0700, Hal wrote: >I think the intention then is to create "fully anonymous" companies. >These would be organizations whose principals and employees are known >only by pseudonyms, even to each other. Their only contact is >electronic, via an anonymous network. And the employees are paid in >anonymous ecash, which they don't pay taxes on since it is unreported >income. > >These companies produce products or services which they offer for sale >across the net. They accept payment in ecash, either from end users or >from other companies. > >Such companies would be illegal, with everyone involved subject to >criminal penalties for tax evasion (and no doubt a myriad of other >violations). But because the anonymity is protected cryptographically, >the government is helpless to learn the true identities of anyone >involved. The companies continue to successfully sell their products >and services, advertising and recruiting openly from anonymous sources, >and there is nothing the government can do about it. The goal, obviously, is to make the cost of collection of $1 in taxes sufficiently expensive so that they can't do it economically. But let me draw an analogy: The easiest form of shooting is paper target practice: The target is fixed. More difficult is trap and skeet, where the target moves. More difficult still is hunting, where the target (animals) is at least somewhat intelligent and usually very mobile, as well as camouflaged. This is analogous to encryption. But the most difficult form of shooting is war, in which the "target" can shoot back. If a computer model could be constructed of it, I think you'd find that the most effective way to avoid taxation is to invest money to target those doing the collection. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that it would probably cost less than 10 cents to prevent the collection of $1 worth of tax, and probably closer to a penny. Any analysis of the destruction of the state is incomplete without considering such a scenario. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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PGPShell & Eudora
by Michael E. Carboy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

While trying to solve a corrupted clearsig problem with Eudora 2.2 and PGPShell, I noticed comments in the c-punks archives on this same problem. I wanted to pass on that Aegis Research's PGPShell "Beta4" version solves the problem and does "preprocess" the message before signing so that Eudora won't wreck it. The shell can be downloaded at http://aegisrc.com. It is self-extracting and, if installed in your existing PGPShell directory will create a subdirectory named "Pretty~1" (no, I am not kidding) and then install the new .exe there. Regards, MEC Michael E. Carboy carboy(a)hooked.net carboy(a)carboy.com Key fingerprint = C9 E9 79 12 43 76 A2 DB 1A 72 FD 04 F2 03 6F 8A -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzDwxdIAAAEEAMmDaOXoZczvK4R7vH7ql+0sY/oHyqdtsjuOG8jbObnFjh2N jh3TAxyXGb83xmsm6Eb6muXf6oZJdTIzO7UuSwKh+afLg6un+LU7S/VTFTUf4QNq T1e2jZxcr33SFUxiKN7q83GkZhHyY1EeM/O8pGX+JhMANMv7gf9JSEYWhfvhAAUT tCVNaWNoYWVsIEUuIENhcmJveSA8Y2FyYm95QGhvb2tlZC5uZXQ+iQCVAwUQMPDG Lv9JSEYWhfvhAQF2VQQAqMj60pWt3+jZow8q/DFiM9Jw73rii2deJwfdju9vGWgU S6Se5TegVYlti8mWLF+mRSldEnRIKZs7mycW9YlVmfxa+uM2sTceoDIACkZy1MWF ULLeIzFDreR2YZLAVMQ4ToWTkRS2T+/jM8RQEMakPCYDIKBzCIuRQ7J+jmpR+Fs= =79nx -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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[NOISE] Unsub Kit
by Dave Del Torto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Grin-noise of the Day. Typos are (sic) as found. Reply-noise to me, not the list (please). Don't forget to rinse and repeat. dave ................................. cut here ................................. From: KJ Fisher <FISHERKJ(a)SNYDELAB.DELHI.EDU> > someonme get me off this fucking mailing list First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then follow these directions. The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron unsubscriber will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver- coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock. The kit is now ready for use. The Cin-Eliminator is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial condition, so that the two orange lines meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron unsubscriber in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button. The controls for System B are located on the opposite side. The red release switch places the Cin-Eliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self- adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button, which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the Cin-Eliminator to its storage position. You may log off if the green exit light is on over the evaporator . If the red light is illuminated, one of the Cin-Eliminator requirements has not been properly implemented. Press the "List Guy" call button on the right of the evaporator . He will secure all facilities from his control panel. To use the Auto-Unsub, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower, taking the entire kit with you. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob, select the desired setting. Now depress the Auto-Unsub activation lever. Bathe normally. The Auto-Unsub will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the "Manual off" override switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue "Shower seal" release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the velcro slippers and place them in their container. If you prefer the ultrasonic log-off mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A & B. The knob to the left, just below the blue light, has three settings, low, medium or high. For normal use, the medium setting is suggested. After these settings have been made, you can activate the device by switching to the "ON" position the clearly marked red switch. If during the unsubscribing operation, you wish to change the settings, place the "manual off" override switch in the "OFF" position. You may now make the change and repeat the cycle. When the green exit light goes on, you may log off and have lunch. Please close the door behind you.

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Leaflet for First Monday
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:32:45 +0200 (METDST) From: Erik Barfoed <journals(a)inet.uni-c.dk> Subject: Leaflet for First Monday To: tony durham <tdurham(a)cix.compulink.co.uk>, robert hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com>, ed krol <e-krol(a)uiuc.edu>, bonnie nardi <nardi(a)taurus.apple.com>, ian peter <ianp(a)peg.apc.org>, rich wiggins <rwwmaint(a)msu.edu>, vint cerf <vcerf(a)mci.net>, Ed Valauskas <g0094(a)applelink.apple.com>, Esther Dyson <edyson(a)eff.org>, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab(a)dxm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear Everybody Once again I forward you the plain text version of the First Monday leaflet, which I kindly urge you to distribute. Best regards Pernille Hammels| Editor Journals Division e-mail: journals(a)inet.uni-c.dk Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="fmleaf.txt" Content-ID: <Pine.3.89.9605151245.A25943(a)inet.uni-c.dk> Content-Description: Leaflet for First Monday CALL FOR PAPERS Editor-in-Chief Edward J. Valauskas, Internet Mechanics, Chicago, IL, USA (valauskas(a)firstmonday.dk) Consulting Editor Esther Dyson EDventure Holdings, New York, NY, USA (dyson(a)firstmonday.dk) International Editor Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, The Indian Techonomist, New Delhi, India (ghosh(a)firstmonday.dk) Editorial Board Vinton G. Cerf, Senior, Vice-Presiden at MCI Tony Durham, The Times Higher Education Supplement, UK Robert A. Hettinga, Shipwright Development Corp., USA Ed Krol, University of Illinois, USA Bonnie Nardi, Apple Computer, USA Ian Peter, Ian Peter and Associates Cathsworth Island, Australia Rich Wiggins, Michigan State University, USA First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet - about the Internet. This scientific journal expands the frontiers of academic publishing by combining the tradi-tional values of peer-reviewing and strict quality control with a new way of publishing on the World Wide Web. Aim and Scope The aim of First Monday is to publish original articles about the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure. First Monday will: - follow the political and regulatory regimes affecting the Internet - examine the use of the Internet on a global scale, by analyzing economic, technical, and social factors - analyze research and development of Internet software and hardware - study the use of the Internet in specific communities - report on standards - discuss the content of the Internet First Monday will appear in three formats 1. Monthly Mail from a Mail Server First Monday will appear first of all as an electronic mail posting from the First Monday listserver. This issue of First Monday will be sent to the subscribers on the first monday of every month as an ASCII text file. It will include all the articles of each issue and pointers to information resources located at various Web, Gopher, and other sites. 2. Web Site This is the place where subscribers - and newcomers - can read about the journal, learn how to subscribe, read previously published articles, and submit manu-scripts and other materials for publication. This Web Site will also provide access to objects and files that are part of the articles. These objects and files can be downloaded. All back issues of First Monday will also be available for downloading. 3. Annual CD-ROM First Monday will also appear as an annual CD-ROM, containing all articles published in a given year. This CD-ROM will be offered at a low price to subscribers at the end of the year. Will paper versions be available? First Monday is an experiment in electronic publishing, exploring the possibilities of communicating in this Internet medium. At the insistence of subscribers, we can offer printing, but only on-demand. Process The flow of a typical article, from author to publication: - An author is contacted by an Editor to write an _article, or - An author submits an article to a Editor by electronic mail. The article is forwarded by electronic mail to the Editorial Office in Chicago. - The Editorial Office starts the peer-review process by forwarding the article to reviewers by electronic mail. The Editorial Office is responsible for tracking the article, handling comments from editors and _reviewers to authors, editing, and creating a final accepted article. - This initial peer-reviewing process is private. - Articles that are accepted for publication are distributed to all subscribers in the monthly mail, and posted on the First Monday Web Site. The Web Site version of the article is likely to contain objects (illustrations, programs, and other digital items) that are not included in the monthly mailing of the plain ASCII text. - All articles published in First Monday will be included in an annual archival CD-ROM. This CD-ROM will be offered to subscribers at a low price. How to submit articles To submit an article to First Monday, simply send it _by electronic mail to the Editorial Office (Edward J. Valauskas), valauskas(a)firstmonday.dk. Preference will be given to articles which take advantage of the Internet, using graphics, programs, HTML features and components, and other features not pos-sible in print. The text of the article (exclusive of any other objects like pictures, tables et cetera) should not exceed 30.000 characters. Format The manuscript must be in its final form, as a plain ASCII text, suited for distribution in the monthly e-mail. If an Internet resource is cited, just type in the URL. _Manuscripts can be marked up in HTML, as long as the tags are recognizable by most popular Web browsers. Non-text objects, like pictures, programs, spreadsheets, audio files, and full motion video files, can be part of an article. These non-text objects must be forwarded as binary files to the Editorial Office. Non-text should conform to well established de facto standards on the net: PDF, GIF, JPEG et cetera. Priority will be given to particular items of a high scientific standard, and articles with a relevant timeframe can be published at short notice as a rapid publication. Only original papers written in English will be considered for publication. Copyright Authors submitting a paper to First Monday automatically agree to assign copyright to Munksgaard International Publishers if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication. The articles published in First Monday are protected by copyright, which covers translation rights and the right to reproduce and distribute all of the articles in the journal. Authors submitting a paper to First Monday do so in the understanding that online publishing on the Internet is a new opportunity and challenge, but also a step into a new territory, where authors and publishers do not always have the means to protect against unauthorized copying or editing of copyright protected works. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/

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DCSB: The FSTC Electronic Check Project
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Notice the corrected reservation deadline date (now June 1st, 1996) :-) Sorry about that... Cheers, Bob Hettinga -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Frank Jaffe, of The Bank of Boston and The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) "The FSTC Electronic Check Project" Tuesday, June 4, 1996 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Frank Jaffe is a Senior Systems Consultant in the Applied Technology Group at the Bank of Boston. Frank is currently the project manager for the FSTC Electronic Check project which involves over 30 companies. Frank has played a leadership role in planning the amalgamation of Bank of Boston's five major retail computer systems into a single, common software system; acting as project leader for a new teller system, and leading the screen phone R&D project in cooperation with Northern Telecom and Bellcore. The FSTC Electronic Check project will develop an enhanced all-electronic replacement to the paper check. Electronic checks will be used like paper checks, by businesses and consumers, and will use existing inter-bank clearing systems. Like its paper counterpart, the Electronic Check represents a self contained "information object," which has all of the information necessary to complete a payment. Likewise, paper checkbooks are replaced by portable Electronic Checkbooks; pens & signatures are replaced by signature card functions and digital signatures using advanced cryptographic techniques; stamps and envelopes by electronic mail or other communications options such as the World Wide Web over the Internet. The fully automated processing capabilities of Electronic Checks opens the possibility of other types of financial instruments, such as electronic cashiers, travelers, and certified checks. Electronic check writing and processing will be integrated into existing applications, from cash registers to personal checkbook managers to large corporate accounting systems, to greatly increase the convenience, and reduce the costs, of writing, accepting, and processing checks. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, June 4, 1996 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men, and "appropriate business attire" for women. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, June 1, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for the following few months are: July Pete Loshin Author, "Electronic Commerce" August Duane Hewitt Idea Futures We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah(a)shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZnOlvgyLN8bw6ZVAQEm8gP/deJ/J0ncmiUTJo82jeGMRp38q+8u+/LH zUZ3dgOCXFM9Nldni/EM0nKiRAgPJTqlcGkrE6Q44s2+ZSPtTiop2Tbx+3xoCW9t zTeKoLoTLgcS7LYS1b/VpcJqN9+q7gGxqmyAd88yZei+i4ZHw6kUGB6MyeHMPq+t CSrEOkkikXE= =SWUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/

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Micro$oft Online Banking Strategy
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Extract from Micro$oft WinNews Volume 3, #17: >>>>>>> MICROSOFT ONLINE BANKING STRATEGY Microsoft announced that 58 financial institutions have committed to offering online banking using Microsoft Money through a group of leading banking-software vendors and banking-processing companies. To further help banks build their online-banking services, Microsoft is readying software-component technology for performing secure, ATM-like transactions using popular World Wide Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. These tools to facilitate browser-based banking are scheduled to be available by the end of the year. In addition, the Microsoft Windows NT Server network operating system includes embedded support for Internet publishing, helping facilitate an end-to-end Internet banking solution. Press release: http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1996/may96 /hmbankpr.htm <<<<<<<

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(Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure.
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 14 May 96 at 19:35, Timothy C. May wrote: > (This is having yet another interesting side effect: the wealthy who > can afford digital DSS dishes are suddenly very uninterested in > local cable problems, and the impetus for improvement is lost. > Obviously the "poor" are then left with a decaying, outmoded > infrastructure. Even as a Darwinian, I have to feel for them. They > got sold a bill of goods, about how awarding "the franchise" to TCI > or Sonic or Galactronic Cable would result in "universal access," > and now they're stuck.) Hey Tim, where are your bandwith-saving manners? You should simply have said : "You asked for it, brother..." ? ;-) Regards! JFA DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Limoges porcelain, Silverware and mouth blown crystal glasses JFA Technologies, R&D consultants. Physists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 Unsollicited commercial e-mail will be proofread at US165 $/h Any sender of such material will be considered as to have ac- cepted the above mentionned terms.

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Anonymous message failed (wrong password)
by daemon＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The message you sent to the anonymous server could not be processed, as your password (in the X-Anon-Password: header) didn't match the one stored in the server. Either you have made a mistake, or somebody has used your account and changed the password. If the latter is the case, please contact admin(a)anon.penet.fi. You can check your current password by sending an (empty) message to send-password(a)anon.penet.fi. Contents of failed message: ------------------------- X-Envelope-To: <nick(a)anon.penet.fi> Received: from mail.crl.com(165.113.1.22) by anon.penet.fi via anonsmtp (V1.3mjr) id sma008018; Sun May 12 06:14:37 1996 Received: from crl2.crl.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA19905 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for <nick(a)anon.penet.fi>); Sat, 11 May 1996 23:10:02 -0700 Received: by crl2.crl.com id AA10484 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for nick(a)anon.penet.fi) Sat, 11 May 1996 22:56:53 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 22:56:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199605120556.AA10484(a)crl2.crl.com> To: nick(a)anon.penet.fi Subject: Cyber An@rchy From: cypherpunks(a)toad.com x-anon-password: have-fun

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Past one terabit/second on fiber
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the April 1996 issue of Fiber Optic Product news, there is an article on a Lucent Technologies (formerly Bell Labs...no relation...sigh...) product which wavelength-multiplexes quantity 8, 2.5 Gb/second signals on a single fiber, for a total of 20 Gb/sec. This is a real, purchaseable system. On the same page is a somewhat more experimental system, done by Corning and Siemens, in which eight channels at 10 Gb/sec each were transmitted on a single Corning fiber. "Wow", I said. Far faster than the 2.5 Gb/sec transmission that is currently fairly standard for long-haul fiber trunks. I wasn't prepared, however, for page 38, in an article titled "Research Teams Achieve 1 Trillion bits a Second." In fact, three separate groups did this. I copy the article below. CP relevance? Well, the justification the government uses to regulate the airwaves, via the FCC, is that the available bandwidth is limited, which it is. But that argument has never been true with fiber, at least in theory, and is becoming even less true in practice. For example, that recent flap over Internet-based long-distance telephone interconnects (LD companies don't want competition) is based on the fact that the normal providers of these services want to get their dime a minute rates come hell or high water. Sure, that's a might cheaper than it was a decade ago. But with fiber transmission probably less than 1/100th the cost of older coaxial transmission systems, per connection, it is unclear why they're even continuing to meter LD phone calls. Even if we only consider that 20 Gb/second fiber from Lucent, that is equivalent to about 300,000 simultaneous voice calls. With a standard, 36-fiber cable, that represents 18x300,000 two-way calls, or about 4.8 million calls. This is probably far greater than the maximum number of people on LD in the US at any given time, and that's just a single cable trunk. If we assume that the fiber cable costs $1/meter per fiber, and the cost of trenching, burial, and interconnects raise this to $10/meter/fiber, and if we generously assume that the average LD call goes 3000 miles (5,000,000m), that call occupies 1/150,000th of a $50 million fiber for a few minutes. If we suppose that the fiber has to gross $100,000,000 per year to pay for itself, and even if it's only operating at an average 10% load level(both assumptions are pessimistic, that only works out to a cost of 1.3 cents per minute per call. That's why these LD phone companies are so scared: If we can transmit Internet on fiber, that fiber can accept this extra traffic at very low marginal cost. Part of article follows: "Research teams Achieve 1 Trillion bits a second" Debra Norman, Editor in Chief. Three research teams achieved their ultimate goal by sending the most information possible over optical fiber. The scientists, including a 12-member group from AT&T Research, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, reported in post-deadline papers at the Optical Fiber Conference held recently in San Jose, Calif., that they had sent one terabit of information over non-zero-dispersion fiber in a second's time. In short, it is similar to transmitting the contents of 1,000 copies of a 30-volume encyclopedia in one second. The researchers had not expected to send that much data until at least the year 2000. In the paper, the group described a 1 Tb/s transmission experiment that utilized WDM [wavelength division multiplexing] and polarization multiplexing. The outputs of 25 lasers were multiplexed using star couplers and waveguide grating routers. The wavelengths ranged from 1542 nm (channel 1) to 1561.2 nm (channel 25) with 100 GHz channel spacing. All lasers were external-cavity lasers except for channel 16, which used a DFB laser. Four of the laser outputs (channels 10,11,17, and 25) were amplified and filtered before multiplexing. The multiplexed wavelengths were then amplified and propagatedthrough an polarization beamsplitter to align al the polarizations. Polarization controllers at the output of each laser allowed independent polarization control for each source. The 25 co-polarized wavelengths were split by a 3-dB coupler, separatedly modulated by LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder modulators, and then recombined with orthogonal polarizations in a PBS. The modulators have a small-signal bandwidth of 18 GHz and built-in polarizers. The 20 Gb/s NRZ drive signals were produced by electronically multiplexing two 10-Gb/s 215-1 pseudorandom bit streams using a commercial GaAs multiplexer. Two other groups from Japan, Fujitsu and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Co., also submitted papers reporting that they reached the terabit mark. All three groups achieved the record with different experiments. Scientists from NTT demonstrated 100 Gb/s x 10 channel (1 Tb/s), error-free transmission of all the 10 channels over a 40 km dispersion-shifted fiber using a low-noise single supercontinuum WDM source fitted with a newly developed arrayed-waveguide grating demultiplexer/multiplexer. By fully utilizing the super-broad bandwidth of the SC spectra over 200 nm, up to 5 Tb/s would be possible. Fujitsu researchers achieved 1.1 Tb/s (55 wavelengths x 20 Gb/s) WDM transmission over 150 km of 1.3 mm [?] zero-dispersion singlemode fiber using preemphasis and dispersion compensating fiber with a negative dispersion slope. BER [bit error rate] degradation was not observed in any channel, even without channel-by-channel dispersion adjustment. [end of quoted portion] Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: S-Tools 4 now available
by Matts Kallioniemi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 17:41 1996-05-13 CST, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >> You will need either Windows 95 or Windows NT (at least v3.51) to use >> this, and all further releases of S-Tools (Win32s is not sufficient). ><sigh> >I suppose this is market pressure, but it means you are alienating a >number of potential users (including myself). Some of us are working >toward being Microsoft-free, you know. It's not just marketing, it's a fact of life. 16 bit operating systems are not supported any more. Just as 8 bit OSes haven't been supported for quite a while either. There will come a day when 64 bits are considered the minimum for useful software (large database systems are already there). You just can't stick with 16 bits forever, MS-free or not. Face it. Matts

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