December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Net Results: elections and the Internet, from The Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Net Results: elections and the Internet, from The Netly News [I recommend that you visit The Netly News to read the article with the links -- I wrote it with a web audience in mind. --Declan] --- The Netly News November 6, 1996 http://netlynews.com/ Net Results By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) Nineteen ninety-six was to have been the Year of the Netizen. Bob Dole this spring endorsed strong crypto, making it a likely campaign issue. The Communications Decency Act was accelerating toward the Supreme Court. Every political candidate sported a web page. The First Cat and the Dole Dog were online. Electronic mailing lists such as Netizens-l were springing up as symbols of netizens' hope to start wielding power over the body politic. It didn't happen. Yesterday's election largely preserves the status quo: a Clinton White House and a Republican Congress. Matters important to netizens never became campaign issues. Sure, Bill Clinton may have pledged to wire all schools to the Net, but election year rhetoric is cheap and realizing his plan will be expensive. Dole's stammering announcement of his web site's address demonstrated only his lack of a cyber-clue. Yet with the election, the political terrain has shifted subtly. Sen. Jim Exon (D-Neb.), architect of the CDA, has retired. The leadership of the powerful Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will change. Attorney General Janet Reno, who has attacked the Net repeatedly, may step down or be replaced. Even with a slimmer majority, Republicans in the House likely will continue to resist hasty "anti-terrorist" measures and remain unlikely champions of online liberties. Some civil libertarians hope that Clinton will emerge as a statesman who for the first time does not fear defeat at the hands of voters. CYBER-RIGHTS DARLING RICK WHITE WINS REELECTION: Fighting against Internet regulation may keep the campaign checks from Bill Gates coming, but Washington State voters would rather talk about the environment. Still, cyber-rights champion and Newt Gingrich fan Rep. Rick White (R-Washington) narrowly won his first re-election bid yesterday. It's bad news for the environment and good news for netizens. As a sophomore rep, White will be in a better position to shepherd pro-cyberspace legislation through the House next year. LEADERSHIP OF SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE CHANGES: Larry Pressler (R-South Dakota) ended an 18-year Senate career yesterday when he lost to challenger Tim Johnson, a House Democrat. Now the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee -- which handles telecommunications and Internet bills -- is in flux, with Arizona's John McCain the likely successor. "McCain is an unknown quantity. He voted for the CDA and supported crypto without being out in front on it," says Jonah Seiger from the Center for Democracy and Technology. SENATOR JOHN KERRY, TECHNO-FRIENDLY WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: Although we may not agree with all of Massachusetts incumbent Sen. Kerry's positions on Net freedom, he at least recognizes Netizens as an important constituency. His vote in favor of the CDA seemed a strike against Netizens until he vociferously modified it to say that such matters should be handled by parents rather than the law. Kerry was the only Senator to answer the Voters Telecommunications Watch Pledge, a political platform for the technological public, and now that he's been reelected we should remind him of just what that pledge means. As a senator representing high-tech firms and sitting on the Commerce and Intelligence committees, Kerry is well-positioned to back up his email with his votes. ONLINE COPYRIGHT BILL LOSES CHAMPIONS: Free speech on the Net may get a reprieve in the next Congress, thanks to the retirement of Reps. Carlos Moorhead (R-California) and Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado). The duo championed the heinous NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995, which would hold Internet providers financially liable for the actions of their users and make browsing the Net without a license from copyright holders against the law. With librarians, PTA groups, and teachers arguing against it, the legislation died in committee this summer. IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND FCC NEXT YEAR: Brace yourself for more steamy Net-rhetoric from Al Gore, who will take a more prominent role as administration spokesperson on technology and telecom issues as he prepares for a presidential bid in 2000. Inside the White House, failed health care czar Ira Magaziner has turned his attention towards online commerce. Sensing a possible growth opportunity, the FCC has started to take an interest in Internet regulation -- and Clinton now will appoint a commissioner to fill a vacancy at the FCC. With Naderites like Jamie Love calling for FCC regulation of spam, bureaucratic meddling seems near-inevitable. ###

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Re: black high heal shoes?
by Mark Neely 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mark, >I had yet another strange dream recently: You gotta stop eating those pepperoni pizzas just before bed time! :) Regards, Mark Mark Neely - accessnt(a)ozemail.com.au Lawyer, Internet Consultant, Professional Cynic & Author

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update.294 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Wed Nov 6 15:22:21 1996 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 96 10:14:13 EST From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <9611061514.AA06755(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.294 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 294 November 6, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein NANOSCALE ABACUS. Scientists at IBM Zurich have used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) probe to reposition C-60 molecules on a copper substrate, making in effect the first room- temperature device capable of storing and manipulating numbers at the single molecule level. The buckyballs (which are big, sturdy molecules) act as the counters of a tiny abacus in which low (indeed mono-atomic) terraces in the copper surface constrain the buckyballs to move accurately in a straight line. (The abacus is perhaps the first human calculating device, and the Greek word means "sand on a board.") IBM researcher James Gimzewski (gim(a)zurich.ibm.com) admits that his device is slow: "The tool we use (the STM probe) is the equivalent of operating a normal abacus with the Eiffel Tower." But things should improve in coming years; with this new advance, hundreds of buckyball ranks could fit neatly inside the same linewidth that characterizes features on a Pentium processor chip. As for speed, engineers expect to fabricate arrays of hundreds and even thousands of STM probes for simultaneously imaging (and repositioning) many atoms and molecules. (M.T. Cuberes et al., to appear in the 11 November issue of Applied Physics Letters; an associated figure can be obtained on the Web at http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics) THE SHORTEST X-RAY PULSES yet produced have been made at LBL by shooting 100-femtosecond bursts of infrared laser light at right angles into a beam of electrons. Some of the photons are converted into x rays by scattering (through 90 degrees) into the same direction as the electrons. The resultant x-ray bursts are themselves short---about 300 fsec---and potent, with an energy of 30 keV (or, equivalently, a wavelength of 0.4 angstroms). By narrowing the electron beam further (currently it is a mere 90 microns wide), even sharper x-ray pulses (50 fsec) are in the offing. Theses pulses are ideal probes---their small wavelength permits studies of atomic structure with high resolution. Meanwhile their short duration make them an excellent strobe light for glimpsing ultrafast phenomena. For example, the LBL researchers are using the x-ray pulses to study the melting of silicon. (R.W. Schoenlein et al., Science, 11 October 1996.) PHOTONIC CRYSTALS NOW OPERATE IN THE NEAR INFRARED. These structures are to optics what semiconductors are to electronics: they allow the passage of light at some wavelengths but exclude light in certain other energy ranges (also called photon bandgaps). Since the first photonic crystals (operating at microwave wavelengths) were developed several years ago, researchers have attempted to move toward the visible, where potential technological applications beckon. Scientists at the University of Glasgow and the University of Durham have now constructed a tiny wafer riddled with 100-micron holes which exhibits the lowest-wavelength photonic bandgap yet: 800- 900 nm. (Thomas F. Krauss et al., Nature, 24 October 1996.) CORRECTION: Harold Kroto (not Croto) is the correct spelling for the chemistry Nobelist (Update 291).

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Re: Judge Kozinski responds to our responses
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:39 AM 11/6/96 -0500, Jim Ray wrote: >Judge Kozinski wrote: >> ... Perhaps the answer >> is that the post office should not accept mail unless there >> is a clear indication of who the sender is on the upper left >> hand corner of the envelope. ... In the case of postal mail, return address forgery is so easy that anyone who can address an envelope can figure it out. Requiring something scribbled there certainly wouldn't help protect against anonymous mail. You would have to couple it with "is a person" checks to ensure the person posting it is the person referenced by the return address. Bye bye corner post box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | This space for rent. | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Re: UNSUBCRIBE CENSORSHIP
by Jim Ray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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UNSUBCRIBE
by paratama＠idola.net.id 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Censorship on cypherpunks
by Steve Edwards 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 06:54 PM 11/3/96 -0500, you wrote: > Except it's not very effective, is it, since he's still >posting flames? In any case, it's an admission on John >Gilmore's part that libertarianism can't work without some >measure of authoritarianism; the only argument is over _just how >much_ authoritarianism we need. > > I'm quite upset about this. Up to now I was able to tell >people that "there is at least one mailing list on the net that >functions in a completely open manner". No more. > > >Will French <wfrench(a)interport.net> What has it got to do with libertarianism? John Gilmore is not the government, he just runs the list. If we don't like what he does, we can start a new list. I'm not sure that it was a good idea to remove Vulis, but I don't believe that this single act reflects on any theory of governance. > > SAlanEd(a)concentric.net, SAlanEd(a)aol.com, http://users.aol.com/salaned/cyberplace.html "Life, he himself said once, (his biografiend, in fact, kills him verysoon, if yet not, after) is a wake, livit or krikit, and on the bunk of our breadwinning, lies the cropse of our seedfather..."

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ANO_mal
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

11-6-96. FiTi: "Anomalies across international borders" "I think there is a feeling that the UK's long history of success in code-cracking makes the security services confident about being able to break through any encryption scheme -- or use criminal law to enforce surrender of the key," Neil Barrett says. In his recent book, "The State of the Cybernation", he examines cross-border encryption issues in greater detail. ----- http://jya.com/anomal.txt ANO_mal

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[MEDPOT] MedPot foundation scores important victory
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/06/medical.marijuana/index.html Marijuana proponents relish victory California attorney general predicts legal anarchy November 6, 1996 Web posted at: 6:00 p.m. EST From Correspondent Rusty Dornin SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Medical marijuana proponents celebrated their victory in Tuesday's elections with a ceremonial smoke. "It's the will of the people," said Dennis Peron, an advocate for medical marijuana. "It is a mandate. It's about love and compassion about doing something that's concrete to help people who are sick and dying." With the passage of the proposition, people who are sick and dying in California and Arizona can smoke pot legally if recommended by a physician. While the two states may say it's legal, federal law still says 'no way'. California's attorney general predicted the law change will lead to legal anarchy. "This thing is disastrous," said Dan Lungren. "We're going to have an unprecedented mess." Anyone suffering from AIDS and cancer to chronic pain and migraine headaches would be free to smoke pot under the new laws. No written prescriptions are required. The passage of the proposition also means it's legal to grow pot for medicinal use. That's exactly what worries Lungren. "We're going to have a hell of a time limiting marijuana use among young people in California at the very time that marijuana use is skyrocketing around the country," he said. Medical pot proponents are setting their sights on the rest of the country, launching a national campaign, "Americans for medical rights," to focus on marijuana legislation in other states and on the federal level. The news laws are expected to face court challenges in California. In any event, top nation drug enforcers said they will continue to enforce federal drug laws, including federal marijuana statutes. - Igor.

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Mixmaster Test
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the spam, folks ... just looking for a mixmaster that puts the Subject: line into cypherpunk messages. Name-Withheld-By-Request Editor in Chief, Cypherpunk Enquirer

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