December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Introductory Post
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dale Thorn wrote: > Death camps? Aw, shit. You know, once you've accumulated 20 or so > Attaboys, one Awshit can erase the whole stack. Guess you'll hafta > start over. Hi, My name is Toto. I'm handsome, witty, and have a humungous schlong. I hope you will not put me in your KillFile, because I am a sensitive person, and easily hurt. Not that I don't support a list member's right- to-choose. It's just that it would make you a free-speech murderer. I could send you some graphic pictures of KillFiled posts, and believe me, it is not a pretty picture. Hanging indents, misplaced pronouns. I also have some sex graphics, with dangling participles. As well, KillFiling can be stastistically shown to have racist underpinnings, as shown by the large number of Ebonics posts which were ruthlessly murdered in the past (although there are those that claim that it was only in retribution for the English language being murdered first). I have been a CypherPunk since kindegarten, when I learned Pig-Latin, and I believe that the only answer to noise is to quote the noise, while adding, "Shut up Dr. Vulis!!!!" -- :: Anon-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Cutmarks: -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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by darrington＠debtfree.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Technology and loss of freedom
by ichudov＠algebra.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I have a thesis that it is the development of technology that has, over the last 100 years, eroded the basis for and appreciation of human freedom. Technology has also done precious little for advancing human freedoms (although cryptography may be an exception). Let's first define freedom as the ability of people to do things without forceful interference from the government. This is an arbitrary definition, but it appears to be useful for the analysis below. First of all, 200 years ago it was very hard for lone people to endanger lives of themselves and many others. For example, the only weapons that were available were single shot and double shot rifles that were very slow to reload. Similarly, people did not have fast moving vehicles and any traffic did not present serious danger for innocent bystanders. Poison gases were not available, and the explosives technology was far less advanced. Even if it was possible to set up a large explosion, limitations in building construction made them useless. "Hard drugs" also became available only in the recent past [please correct me] due to advancements in chemistry and medicine. You can well imagine that airline terrorism could not appear before airlines. No doubt that I only touched upon a very small percentage of newly existent dangers that are created by the technology. At the same time, developments in technology made it easy to spy on and brainwash citizens. TV, which is the ultimate brainwashing machine, came in play only very recently. The wiretapping is new also. It is the remoteness feature of "bugs" that made spying so much cheaper than hiring "stukachi" -- snitches. If you ride a horse, there is no perceived need for an airbag or a mandatory horse insurance. If all houses are 1 story tall, nobody is afraid of an OK City type explosion. With the advent of technology, the balance of perceived social needs and government capabilities shifted radically, and it shifted away from the great freedoms of the past. The public perception of freedom now is that freedom is inherently dangerous and is a threat to the public itself. Is that an evil CoNspiRaCY of purebred sovoks and Zion agents or it is a natural consequence of inventions that dramatically changed the place of the man in the world? I am not sure. - Igor.

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Mechanical workings of Enigma
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At ftp://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/cryptsim/, there are several photos of an Enigma, and simulators for DOS and Windows.

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Re: Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cynthia H. Brown wrote: > The problem with truly criminal drivers, including the criminally > incompetent, is that they tend to kill other people too. They also > have a distressing habit of surviving, unlike the family of four > they hit while running the red light. The reason I start drinking in the morning is that, at bar-closing time, it's just so damn hard finding a school-bus full of children. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Timothy C. May" <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > At 5:48 PM -0600 3/17/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > >do you also oppose mandatory liability insurance? > > Yes. In New York State, every motorist is supposed to have $10K insurance as well as a licence. Of course, a lot of drivers in New York City have no licences or expired/suspended licences, and no insurance. If you're injured by an uninsured driver, or someone who fled, or someone with no assets and a $10K insurance and $500K claim, then your only hope to recover something is to carry "underinsurance insurance" with your own insurer. I understand that it's even messier in New Jersey. It would be much healthier if instead of trying to file a claim against the other party's insuerer (if it exists :-) you always filed a claim against your own insuerer and let them figure out who to sue. The system doesn't work. > (By the way, Igor, could you make a greater effort to snip out sections of > posts you are not directly commenting upon?) Learn to ignore what you're not interested in, Timmy. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mac Norton <mnorton(a)cavern.uark.edu> writes: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Timothy C. May wrote: > > > At 5:48 PM -0600 3/17/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > > >do you also oppose mandatory liability insurance? > > > > Yes. > > And do you also oppose financial responsibility requirements > for obtaining the privilege of operating an automobile on > public roads? > MacN Dunno about Akransas (that's where Uark.edu is, ain't it). Your state is the home state of the muerderer Bill KKKlinton. You should commit suicide at once. But in the more civilized states, like New York or California, if you have an accident and your (good) car is totalled, then one of these three things will happen: * The other driver, who's at fault, has fled. You sue your own insurance company. * The other driver has minimal insurance and no assets. You sue your own insurance company (and the other guy). * You don't carry the appropriate insurance with your own insurance company and have no chance to recover much. Things would be much easier for everyone, including the drivers and the insueres, if the mandatory liability insurance was abolished and evryone delt with their own insurer - who would then try to recover damages from the other party if they had assets. The only people who benefits from the existing system are state bureaucrats. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Secure checksums
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a rumor that Tim May sells his dead relatives as fertilizer as they constitute the best shit in California. \|||/// ~|||// ____ .) // Tim May (____ @ / \ \ ) /\ \ \/ (_

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Re: Market Failures, Monocultures, and Dead Kids (Oh My!)
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

camcc(a)abraxis.com (Alec) writes: > Tim, > > There would be more room if your sig weren't so long. :-> Guys with short dicks use long sigs. > As you know, every year there are a certain number of child deaths as a > result of reactions to state-mandated innoculations/vaccinations. Gone too? > > Perhaps the difference, or rationale, here is the possible spread of disease > to others, rather than trying to protect the individual from himself. Suppose X chooses to innoculate their kids and Y chooses not to innoculate their kids against, say, polio; and Y's kids get it. They're not going to give it to someone whose parents chose to innoculate them. (This is a kind of borderline example, not unlike circumcision. The individual affected by the choice is too young to understand what it's all about, but doesn't want to be stuck with a needle. Why are the parents more qualified to make decisions for him than the state?) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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(fwd) CarlMStarrsimulationExperiment
by ichudov＠galstar.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: mercury.galstar.com!not-for-mail From: ichudov(a)galstar.com (Igor Chudov) Newsgroups: ok.general Subject: CarlMStarrsimulationExperiment Date: 16 Mar 1997 00:36:32 GMT Organization: Bool Sheet Software Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5gffag$3gb(a)mercury.galstar.com> Reply-To: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov) NNTP-Posting-Host: galaxy.galstar.com X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] joe was pulled off a major drug case in the wiretapping of my phone i expect a jealous husband to tap my phone on in gardner ks on and the aftermath info need not lead to indictments or arrest call me or write me your info is worth money also it will help stop wiretap authourity from expanding i will give you your reward as soon as i accept your infomation and we agree what that reward is it could be a trade a car cash etc i have nothing to hide i know what i did and @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ No, the above was NOT written by me, nor by carl starrs. It was generated by a perl script, which emulates writing styles of different people. The way it does it is by keeping track of pairs of words and their most frequently used subsequent words. It reads articles (or any text really) written by the target person, builds the style tables, and then geenrates the "most likely" text. Carl starrs was a good target for two reasons, one of which is that he does not use punctuation. KIBO RULES!!! CLONING MADE EASY!!!

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