December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Anguilla
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Charles: > his country shows few signs of libertarian ideology; e.g. they have a > state-owned radio station, they haven't quite embraced the idea of > competitive bids for government projects, and they still have a > monopolistic phone service that has disabled all the pound and star keys > on island phones so that people can't save money using American call-back > services. I am going to have to check tomorrow and see about thse star and pound keys. It would amuse me if we had seen the birth of an urban legend. Anguilla vs USA 1) Income taxes Libertarian Socialist 2) Sales Taxes Libertarian Socialist 3) State owned radio Yes Yes 4) Competative bids Sometimes Sometimes 5) Pound keys that work ? Will check Yes 6) Reporting of finances Libertarian Totalitarian 7) Free Speech Yes, sort of Yes, sort of -- Vince

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MicroSoft Schill Blanc Weber EXPOSED!!!
by TOTO 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back wrote: > > Blanc Weber <blancw(a)microsoft.com> writes: > > Yikes - don't know how this happened, but it was I sent this email, not > > Uni, who is also not @sirius.infonex.com. > I suspect it's something to do with this (Microsoft mailers were the > bane of many mailing lists a while back): > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 > No offense, but Microsoft software is not my idea of quality -- it > seems Gates takes the attitude that he's got the market in a > strangle-hold so he can sell any crap and get away with it. Yes, but he's right. > I saw TV interview with him in which he claimed that "no one _ever_ > upgraded to a new version of his software to get a bug fix" -- instead > he claimed they upgraded to get "new features". He appeared serious. There are reports that his physicians have desperately pleaded with him to seek treatment for these delusions but he fears that if he does so, he may suffer reprecussions from facing reality. > The microsoft attitude to standards is annoying also -- what do they care > about rfc822? "The good thing about microsoft is that we set the standards, > and we can change them when we want to". quote from a microsoft > representative at a standards meeting. IBM had the same attitude for years, and were quite arrogant about it when they announced the computer of our future, the PS/2. "Napoleon was Emperor, "But still, he met his Waterloo. "IBM was King, but still, "No one bought their PS/2." "Now, stepping up to the plate... "A 'heavy hitter', named Billy Gates. "Who just can't hit the 'long ball', hence, "He has the umpires move the fence." "Billy G. is not a fool, "He's handsome, witty, smart, and rich. "His products may be weak, so what? "He owns the team, he gets to pitch." "Besides, someone, somewhere, sometime, "Will learn to make his products work. "While cussing out the big MS, "And calling Billy G. a jerk." "Then Billy G. will buy them out, "(Or steal a 'base', some would say) "One way or the other, though, "Billy G. will get his way." "MS does offer some support, "(Even though they have to bill you). "Then say, 'We could tell you how it works. "'But then, of course, we'd have to kill you.'" "So here I sit, broken hearted... "Bought Win95, the nightmare started. "Those who write on shithouse walls... "Know MS has them by the balls." "For a good time, call..." [ MODERATOR'S NOTE: ] The obvious degeneration of this slanderous poem into a babbling morass of shithouse wit comes as no surprise to those who righteously supported the attempt to protect the cypherpunks list from exactly this type of off-topic trash. I am certain that the other troublemakers on the list will be spreading rumors and lies concerning Toto's sudden disappearance, which I am sure will be noticed shortly. To set the record straight concerning the rumors that are bound to be surfacing, let me state that it is a known fact that the lunatic asylums in Saskatchewan often use vehicles bearing Washington State license plates. The witnesses who claim that the white-suited asylum employees had MicroSoft emblems on their uniforms were obviously confused by the similarities to the 'MindSoft' emblem of the Sanitarium (which was legally formed shortly after Toto's soon-to-be discovered mysterious disappearance). Rumors that Toto was subsequently murdered because he had actually gotten Win95 to work, and thus 'knew too much', are obviously tripe, since it is a well-known fact that nobody can get it to work properly. The lies that will be attempting to connect Toto's disappearance to tonight's MicroSoft/C2Net party are also false, since it has been in the planning for months. It's just that we (I mean...'they') forgot to send out the invitations earlier, so it only appears to be a hastily organized event. As to the hogwash spouted by Dale Thorn, and others, concerning some purported behind-the-scenes moderation/censorship of the cypherpunks list--this is patent nonsense. This 'Moderator's Note' that you are reading now is an obvious forgery--part of some sick, demented plan to continue to cast slander and libel upon MicroSoft and C2Net. It is a mere continuation of the shallow attempts of slimeballs and perverts to cast aspersions on saints like Bill Gates, John Gilmore, Sandy Sandfort, Greg Broiles, and my employer, Sammy, who only want what is best for everyone. [END OF 'ALLEGED' MODERATOR'S NOTE] "For a good time call...Toto" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

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Anguilla is not Marxist!
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Charles: > The Minister of Finance in Anguilla is a nice guy, but > he did his graduate degree in economics at The New School for Social > Research here in New York City, which just happens to be attached to the > computer lab where I teach; and I know for a fact that the graduate > studies division is the last bastion of Marxist economic theory in > America. > [...] Of course, > the Anguillan Minister of Finance may have undergone a subsequent > philosophical conversion to the free market (just like Deng, right?) but > his country shows few signs of libertarian ideology; e.g. they have a > state-owned radio station, they haven't quite embraced the idea of > competitive bids for government projects, and they still have a > monopolistic phone service that has disabled all the pound and star keys > on island phones so that people can't save money using American call-back > services. Hold it right there! There is no Marxism or socialism in Anguilla. We don't even have income tax! They are not busy redistributing wealth here. They let you keep your own wealth in Anguilla. Get a clue! The current minister of finance is not at all responsible for the Cable and Wireless monopoly. It was the previous government that set them up and the current government is not happy about it. It is absurd to assume that since 20 years ago our Minister of Finance went to some school you are attached to, and you have noticed Marxists there, that he is anything close to a Marxist or to assume anything at all about Anguilla. After all, you are currently near this school, so by your logic you must have caught the infection too. Yet you claim to be a Libertarian. The USA had a monopoly phone company not that long ago. You might say that Anguilla is behind the US in terms of telecom policy. But to yell communism is totally nuts. Please. Be reasonable. -- Vince

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BBN
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The arrival of warm weather is heralded by the pig shit (or whatever kind of shit Intel swines have for brains) getting soft in Tim C. Mayonnaise's mini-cranium and the resulting green slime seeping through his cocaine- and syphilis- damaged nose and onto his keyboard. o/ \ / \ / / \o /# ##o # o## #\ Tim C. Mayonnaise / \ / \ /o\ / |\ / \

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Re: Tim in Anguilla vs. USA
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:42 PM 3/8/97 -0400, Vincent Cate wrote: > >If Tim were a French citizen in the USA, and ranting about crypto-anarchy >and destabilizing governments on street corners (or communism or >something), he *might not* get his visa/work-permit renewed in the USA. >Tim is very safe in the USA partly because he does not have to get a visa >renewed. Were Tim a French citizen in the US who had worked for Intel and gotten a passel of stock, or founded Borland like French illegal alien Phillippe Kahn, he could say whatever he wanted without problems. He would only run into such problems if he was Palestinian. DCF

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Re: [IMPORTANT] Diffie-Hellman
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy May's obsessive masturbation has lead to advanced degree of blindness and hairy palms. /_/\/\ \_\ / Timmy May /_/ \ \_\/\ \ \_\/

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17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: SecureFile
by Jeremey Barrett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Querisoft's SecureFile v1.0 Beta for Windows NT and Windows 95 (with IE > 3.x) is now available > for download from http://www.querisoft.com/securefile.html. This is one > of the first client > applications that uses Microsoft's CAPI 2.0 (beta) Umm... reading your faq... (http://www.querisoft.com/SFFAQ.html) you state that you use the windows95 user password as the password for encrypting files. You also seem to imply that you don't actually _ask_ for the password, windows gives it to you (albeit hashed or something already, I imagine). If that is the case, that is extremely worrisome. In fact it's outrageous. That would imply that any _other_ application, benign or evil, could also access the same password and immediately decrypt files. Is that so? (Not coding much on windows, I don't know if applications can access the user's hashed or encrypted password, but I would guess they could.) Jeremey. - -- =-----------------------------------------------------------------------= Jeremey Barrett VeriWeb Internet Corp. Crypto, Ecash, Commerce Systems http://www.veriweb.com/ PGP Key fingerprint = 3B 42 1E D4 4B 17 0D 80 DC 59 6F 59 04 C3 83 64 =-----------------------------------------------------------------------= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMyA7YS/fy+vkqMxNAQGVSAP/dc1ZwWdfdJZ8gfJNUY3tias5LZi3pWzf NihyMClArDG7Nb+XQ+s+EILi+FCMCJgtnxoc5AYGW/M/2YlHq9P0ZsUG/PQCgP9x 3+rHi8Zl2BIEqhbkKh0RfAo1Ag6/gSygpTKJz+jQCb440FpTT1CpFCKyN5HSNczc ZuJwhM4Fzi4= =ao2E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Why Income Tax is Unconstitutional (fwd)
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:21 PM 3/9/97 -0500, Mark M. wrote: >http://www.iac.net/~solution/notax/ actually says that the tax law excludes >U.S. citizens who do not live in Washington D.C. or are not federal employees. Yes, the web page says that, but it is incorrect. >I'm not about to read all 7,000 pages of the tax code to see if they are >correct, but the definitions section of the code do indicate that their >interpretation is correct. It's not even necessary to look at the tax code (which is not 7,000 pages long, although it is complex) to see that their argument is wrong. Their argument is that 26 USC 7701(a)(9) defines "United States" to mean "States" and "the District of Columbia", and that 26 USC 7701(a)(10) defines "States" as "District of Columbia". Leaving aside their (incorrect) interpretation of "includes" as "is", their interpretation of 7701(a)(10) suggests that 7701(a)(9) really says "United States" means "District of Columbia and District of Columbia" which makes no sense at all. "States" cannot mean "District of Columbia" if, in the same subsection, another definition uses the phrase "the States and the District of Columbia". Clearly Congress did not intend "States" to mean "District of Columbia". (The web page points out this flaw in their construction of the statute but apparently fails to understand that it's fatal to their interpretation. Bzzt.) Their other arguments are similarly absurd. Their interpretation of the Supreme Court case they cite is ridiculous. The decision is on the web at <http://www.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=324&invol=652>, (paper cite is 324 US 652); given the discrepancy between their version and the actual text I can see why they haven't bothered to provide a cite. The real heart of their screwed-up-ness is that they interpret "includes" to mean "is", so that they think "employee includes government employees" reads "employee is government employees" and "states includes the District of Columbia" reads "states is the District of Columbia". That interpretation is wrong, and all of their arguments that rest upon it are fatally flawed. For example, according to Black's Law Dictionary (which isn't the law anywhere, but isn't an awful place to look for the definition of a word, other resources being unavailable), says that "include" .. "may, according to context, express an enlargement and have the meaning of *and* or *in addition to*, or merely specify a particular thing already included within general words theretofore used. 'Including' within statute is interpreted as a word of enlargement or of illustrative application as well as a word of limitation. Premier Products Co. v. Cameron, 240 Or 123, 400 P2d 227, 228." (emphasized words were italicized in original) >I suppose using this information as a defense >might work, but one would probably have to sue the IRS to get all forfeited >property returned for failure to pay income tax. >From time to time tax protestors and people with weird interpretations of the tax code manage to convince juries that they believed that their failure to pay tax was lawful, and hence they didn't have the required criminal intent to be guilty of criminal evasion/failure to file. But more frequently, juries (who pay income tax, too) aren't especially sympathetic to that story and send the goofballs to jail. (Misinterpretation of the tax code might - might - keep you out of jail. But it won't get your house back, or put the $ back in your bank account.) The people who publish this crap ought to be ashamed of themselves. As it happens, they usually don't follow their own advice, *go ahead and pay their taxes*, and get rich while their gullible customers get themselves in a lot of trouble. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |

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