December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: VISA Electronic Purse
by jamiel＠sybase.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:08 PM 04/05/94 -0400, Peter Wayner wrote: >Most women I know carry a "wallet" in their "purse". Most people who don't have hormone problems don't worry about it.

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Re: PGP mail disabled ???
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Well, email can only transfer ASCII data, so my first guess would be that > you forgot the '-a' option to apply ASCII armour. No, of course they were using the -a option and the mail was normal ASCII armoured. Hadmut

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Re: Bekenstein Bound (was: Crypto and new computing strategies)
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > > > >You made the assertion in your rebuttal about area -v- volume in relation > >to black holes and event horizons about the entire universe not being > >containable in a volumn, if you accept this premice then you have to accept > >the premice that the universe is unbouded and hence not containable. This > >leads the bounds on the B-equation to be infinitly large number of possible > >states. > > > > > > > > > So what's wrong with that? > > Jay > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I am an attorney, seeking a position in the area of Computer Law. If you > know of such a position available, or of someone who may know of such a > position, please send e-mail! Thanks. > If you accept the universe as unbounded then you have to throw out the Big Bang and much of conventional physics, including large parts of what you are trying to prove.

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Re: VISA Electronic Purse
by lefty＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Gosh, how many Real Men are going to carry an electronic "purse?" I suppose you'd have to hire some Virtual Man to carry it for you. -- Lefty (lefty(a)apple.com) C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.

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I need a book: Applied Combinatorics
by collins＠newton.apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Jamie Lawrence
by dwomack＠runner.utsa.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I regret that I'm not able to read your metashell messages...would it be possible to send me your email address otherwise.. a plain text type perhaps? I think you're looking for a copy of Burn 2.0...but I can't send it until I can find an address! (Sorry for the waste of bandwidth...) Regards, Dave

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CYPHERPUNK CRIMINAL shirts (?)
by Philippe Nave 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello all, Have the CYPHERPUNK CRIMINAL shirts been shipped out yet? I used to have Christian Void's e-mail address, but I blew up my mail file in a fit of incompetence.... We now return you to black holes, chess games, and the Bill of Rights. - -- ........................................................................ Philippe D. Nave, Jr. | Strong Crypto: Don't leave $HOME without it! pdn(a)dwroll.dw.att.com | Denver, Colorado USA | PGP public key: by arrangement. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLaHqpwvlW1K2YdE1AQHvsAQAhpGyfdknItqSzo35V4TOeusrHTNhlKNR M5HdGJ3M7dxfH4EVmQZqKRtaapjF2IjCnxsyAb1HAUbPmg4XzS+N6zN54zRGPCWY 7fseS5lBsCMNeDv1EIK4BjD7vI/VugdpkXGmFANtii0TIjXpKHo1lCWuJtplR2uE vWxyp1MuFcg= =/uF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PGP Tools bug fixed
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Several weeks ago someone mentioned a bug in the fifo_destroy function. At the time, I couldn't find it. The bug finally showed up. Fifo_destroy was freeing some memory and then immediately reading it. This caused problems on systems with fancy memory management, but not under DOS or most Unixes. I just sent an update to csn.org. fifo.c is the only program which has been changed. Pr0duct Cypher -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLaI4aMGoFIWXVYodAQGpRgP/YQZnwUt1o0DGuNWuTuSRK6W4GOapglc9 r7nnb73A2S5kahmSjPVOaaHcAkSg1KYdJiddJbooKW3ptenFaRujr8dEz4/bnbrE IqL0cBrPKBTUJ9ivjpyzktXfEhXbtDw+k1lA6ISQ1W3IadRQqUnqJ89aN2wiaqNW 3YjVm/nCbI8= =wdvG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: PHILIP ZIMMERMAN ARRESTED [NOT!]
by kafka＠desert.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <m0pneHy-0001W9C@ideath>, you write the following: GR> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- GR> GR> GR> > The Zimmerman prank---I'm sure not funny for him---hardens my line GR> > further against anonymity online. At its best, as here, it is an GR> > unholy nuisance. GR> GR> Interesting. The recent thread on alt.security re someone who mentioned GR> thoughts of suicide on Usenet and was held for 48 hours' psychiatric GR> evaluation hardens my line in favor of anonymity online. GR> [stuff deleted] GR> GR> How will we stop folks from setting up accounts with names other than GR> their "real names" .. or from stealing others' accounts .. or from GR> forging mail? A $1000 PC can run Linux and SLIP and look to the rest of GR> the net like any other IP-connected site; how will we enforce our rules GR> on those systems? You can run slip on a $200 vintage IBM-AT. Patrick :) --- "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 4 1994 == To get PGP, FTP /pub/unix/security/crypt/pgp23A.zip from ftp.funet.fi ==

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Re: How Many Games of Chess: Exact answer given!
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > The natural conclusion is that the complexity of the problem depends on how > > much of the game you consider to be the `endgame'. Thus, the actual number > > of different chess games: 5 > > > > 2) White mates > > 1) Black resigns > > 0) Stalemate > > -1) White resigns > > -2) Black mates There are at least 3 others - there's - Black/White's clock runs out - game completion gets postponed for whatever reason and never resumed > i am not sure this is a very reasonable question without any > restrictions. while this answer is humerous, i don't think anybody has > addressed the fact that i can move a king back and forth between 3 > squares infinitely many times. You can't - after the board has been in the same position three times, the rules say it's a stalemate. This lets you calculate an upper bound which somebody did a few days ago.

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