December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Commercial delegate in Egypt
by awbd＠awbd.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Feb. 18th 1998. . Dear Sirs, I have the pleasure to enclose herewith a copy of my C.V. introducing myself to you as a person of very good experience in Freight Forwarding & International Transportation and in the different commercial services related thereto; and proposing myself for representing your company in Egypt and the Middle East as its own local resident COMMERCIAL DELEGATE looking after your interests and projects in this area. As a matter of fact, among lots of investors, many international freight forwarding & transportation companies have started their own presence in Egypt seizing the opportunity of the economic reformation achieved in this area; as now is the right time for business starting in Egypt. Starting with Commercial Delegation I foresee our final target, in case my proposal meets your interest, is to develop that delegation into the full operating companys branch in Egypt. That is to be achieved gradually by time, but as quickly as possible, through building a good account of clients and by selecting and training an efficient professional work team. In addition to my qualifications shown in my enclosed C.V., I am actually a USA resident as per the Green Card I have got for lawful admission for permanent residence in America (Employment Authorized). Such advantage is considered as a good asset for a person appointed by an American company to represent it as its own Commercial Delegate in the area where he was grown up. Speaking their own language and understanding their mentality and the way they think, such delegate can move among the companys correspondents & agents, its clients, the local official authorities, and any other concerned parties to intervene, for his companys favor, to avoid any probable problems and to enhance the companys achievements in this area. For any further details and/or information, please feel free and do not hesitate to contact me through any of the contact means listed among my personal data in my C.V. attached hereto. You may also contact me, for the time being and until Feb. 24th when I leave back to Egypt, through my address in USA which is as follows: 915 Mount Olive Dr. #3 Duarte, CA 91010 Tel & Fax (626) 357 0243 E-mail: info(a)awbd.com Looking forward to getting the honor of working with your esteemed company, I wish you all the best and remain faithfully yours. Isaac Youssef CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA: Name: Isaac Youssef Atiya Nationality; Egyptian Place and date of birth: Cairo, On Oct. 5th 1951 Marital Status: Single Education Degree: B.Sc. Cairo University Contact Address: PO Box #15 Al- Afdal Post Office Cairo-11627, Egypt. Tel: 00202-235-3997 Fax: 00202-236-7413 E-mail: andyeg(a)eis.egnet.net JOB HISTORY & BUSINESS EXPERIENCE: Jan. 1st. 94 - Currently: PARTNER and MANAGER of CFT Int1., CENTRE DU FRET ET DU TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL, which is actually an extension of GONDRAND Egypt (A former company mentioned below). As CFT Intl., I represented the following companies: = SDV group, including SCAC, TTA, & ATT France = TRANSCAP INTERNATIONAL France = GEFCO France Aug, 15th 91 - May 31st 94 The GENERAL MANAGER, and the only ACTIVE PARTNER of GONDRAND Egypt, one of the most leading freight forwarding agents and the international transport companies working in Egypt. As GONDRAND Egypt, I was the agent of many world wide companies such as : = S.F.T. GONDRAND FRERES France = MACH + France = SAVING SHIPPING & FORWARDING Italy = UTC, UNION TRANSPORT CORPORATION USA = UAT, UNION AIR TRANSPORT Europe = DSL, DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LTD USA = GEFCO France = TRUST FREIGHT USA Sep. 1st 88 - Aug. 14th 91: During that period, besides managing an export- import group consisting of 3 sister companies, I worked in the following companies: = DMC, the Egyptian daughter company of DOLLFUS MIEG ET CIE, one of the most leading world wide French threads manufacturers, in which I worked as the MATERIALS / INFORMATION FLOW & PURCHASING MANAGER. My duties included the following: 1- Supplying and furnishing both of the clients of the company and its employees with whatever they needed of information, materials, services, and /or products. 2- Controlling the flow of all the materials imported or locally purchased. 3- Supervising the import formalities and regulations with Banks, Customs and Governmental authorities, Air and Maritime lines, and Freight Forwarding agents. 4- Supervising purchasing and maintenance of the company assets through different contractors, suppliers, and services companies. 5- Controlling the circulation of raw materials and products. = AMECO, an Egyptian freight forwarder which, in the same time, represents ships owners. In AMECO I had the position of the ASSISTANT MANAGER of Cairo branch. = MEDTRANS, The Egyptian correspondent of a group of European and American freight forwarding companies, such as the French company S.F.T. GONDRAND FRERES, And the American company DANIEL F. YOUNG Inc.. In MEDTRANS I had the position of the EXECUTIVE MANAGER. Feb. 1st 80 - Aug. 31st 88 : A SUPERVISOR and a DEPARTMENT HEAD in MFA - MISR FREIGHT AGENCIES - The Egyptian branch of the world wide DANZAS company for international transportation and freight forwarding - which had, at that time, 450 offices distributed in 42 countries with the head office in Switzerland. In MFA- DANZAS Egypt - I supervised the following departments: 1- Sea Freight Dep. (Conventional and General Cargo, and Containerized Shipments). 2- Air Freight Dep. 3- Projects Transport Dep. 4- Transit Goods & Distribution Dep. 5- Fairs & International Exhibitions Transport Dep. 6- The Local Operations & Inland Road Transport Dep. 7- Besides the above, I supervised some special inter-branches relations between MFA and the other world wide branches of DANZAS group. Before MFA was founded, I worked in the above capacities for the COMMERCIAL DELEGATION OF DANZAS in Egypt. Sept. 78 - Jan. 31st 80: The DIRECTOR ASSISTANT of CENTER FOR EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION STUDIES, in which I supervised the following: 1- Planning & Execution of programs 2- Administration 3- Public Relations 4- Correspondence 5- Translation OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: = Courses in MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR SUPERVISORS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS organized by Monadonck International Limited - London, for International Management Development. = A seminar and a long training course in PROJECTS TRANSPORT, SEA FREIGHT, and INLAND ROAD TRANSPORT in DANZAS branch in Zurich city, and in AIR FREIGHT in its branch in Kloten airport of Zurich. = Courses in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION including FINANCE FOR NON- FINANCIAL MANAGERS, AN INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING, and BASIC PRINCIPLES OF FEASIBILITY STUDIES. These courses were organized by The Egyptian-German Association for Economical and Social Development of The Arab-German Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, among the Business Administration Program in Egypt sponsored by Konrad-Adenauer Foundation. = Write and Speak English language. = Some courses in French language, and still studying. = Traveled in Business Trips to many countries, such as Switzerland, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, and USA. = Active, Head Working, Ambitious, and willing for constant movement & traveling. = Fond of creating new businesses in Egypt. Signature Isaac Youssef PS: Besides the ordinary transport activities and the services related to the freight forwarding business, I represent my clients in the various official authorities, e.g. Customs Authority; Investment Authority, General Organization for Fairs & International Exhibitions, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, National Authority for Wire and Wireless Communications, Traffic Administration, The Import Rationalization Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Banks, Embassies, and Chambers of Commerceetc..

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by jenni＠biznetandmarketing.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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New technology around the corner [slashdot.org]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note: Text edited for relevance. Forwarded message: > Subject: http:--www.slashdot.org- > Hitachi Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin > [Technology] Tue Feb 17 16:40:30 1998 EST > From the rapidly-advancing-society? dept. > Hitachi has made a breakthrough of their own, in a different kind of > storage. Hitachi announced they have found a way to reduce the number > of electrons needed to store a bit of information in a DRAM chip. The > 128MB chips should be coming out soon, and will be perfected in the > 16GB (*drool*) generation of chips. > Read More... > 13 comment(s) > Seagate Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin > [Technology] Tue Feb 17 15:28:31 1998 EST > From the buncha-really-tiny-mirrors dept. > A division of Seagate Technology, Inc. has announced a new way of > increasing disk drive capacity density. Quinta has disclosed key parts > of their technology, which they call Optically Assisted Winchester > (OAW) technology to make a practical magento-optical disk that is > capable of holding 40GB/square inch. The new technology uses mirrors, > a new servo system, and other methods to allow these large capacities. > Slashdot is participating in Distributed.Net's Decryption Projects. > Read who's helping, and why. Check out Our Current Rank. > [Technology] Sun Feb 15 11:12:15 1998 EST > Plastic Screens (12) ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Quebec secession trial - status?
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I was wondering if anyone in the great white north might enlighten us on what is going on with the Quebec secession case that starts this week... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | When a man assumes a public trust, he should | | consider himself public property. | | | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Websites and trademarks at odds [CNN]
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199802181552.JAA11020(a)einstein.ssz.com>, on 02/18/98 at 09:52 AM, Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> said: >> How can consumers trust using the Web, where guessing about a >> company's address can be like playing shopper's roulette? Imagine >> visiting your local grocery store and finding no milk or eggs but >> auto parts instead. Imagine walking into Burger King and being >> offered computer software. This is really much todo about nothing and shows a complete lack of understanding of Trademark laws. Trademarks are product specific, there is nothing preventing preventing two companies from having the same name provided they are not in the same business. You can even have two companies with the same name in the same business provided that the likelyhood of mistaking one company for another is small. Some examples: It is perfectly legal to have a company name IBM (the computer company) and another company called IBM (a local auto repair shop in Podunk, AK). It is also legal to have two companies called Widgets both making widgets provided that both were operating in different regions (Widgets #1 only operated in NewEngland while Widgets #2 only operated in Texas). Trademarks not only involve company names but also include product names. A good example of this is Intel and the naming of thier CPU's. The courts ruled that they could not trademark a Number (286,386,486,...) an this is the reason for the Pentium(TM) name for their chips which is trademarkable. Even so there is nothing preventing McDonalds from calling thier new burger the Pentium as no one should mistake a burger for a CPU (well except for some windows users <g>). Now understanding that even when one Tradmarks a name it does not give you exclusive use of the name how does one apply trademarks to a domain name? Should www.windows.com be the exclusive domain of Microsoft just because they have a program with that name? What about a window manufacture shouldn't he have an equal if not greater claim to that domain (after all his whole business is windows)? Which windows manufacture? Should ABC Windows have that claim or Billy-Bob's Windows Imporium? Should the trademark claim extend to all possible domains? (www.windows.com, www.windows.org, www.windows.net, www.windows-blows-chunks-and-bill-gates-sucks-eggs.com)? I haven't even touched on the international issues. Should a company from one company have the ability to enforce it's trademark claim to all domains world-wide? I fear that this is just another example of the Government trying to get it's sticky fat fingers on another portion of the net not to mention yet aother shoddy piece of journalism (calling it that give too much credit to the author). Just for the slow ones out there it is perfectly legal for me to open a computer store, call it Buger King and call my computer system the Wopper. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: I'm an OS/2 developer...I don't NEED a life! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNOsCLI9Co1n+aLhhAQGPUAP/XIg+CYn3zGQH6ztVDY+gZAEVjPMU04QF 4JePKqGUOPSaXwHF6U7Fvx9bqGl9cBd36JT0KwwQluBRQBdJ4q2FAX4a92JubtuX PqeJRTXNf9QszMDh5LFVSBu+aQi5qozqAglHf6Ep7hMNQ8ZyK1yw7pYHWRvLALGJ dQQaIWI/zKo= =RrnK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Dealing with Spam, Part 2
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>MailGuard, which can be downloaded from www.fundi.com, interposes itself >>between your existing email package and the Internet. When a piece of mail >>comes in, it checks to see whether it recognizes the address of the sender. >>If not, it issues a carefully drafted challenge, asking the sender politely >>to confirm that he is not a bulk sender of commercial mail by replying with >>a specified phrase in the subject field of the email. A freeware Java-based, open architected client-side proxy (ByProxy), which includes agents for SPAM filtration, auto pgp encrypt/decrypt among others is posted to www.besiex.com. It already has noCem and auto/manually builds a friends and enemies list (similar to MailGuard). --Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- reply to schear - at - lvdi - dot - net --- PGP mail preferred, see http://www.pgp.com and http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html RSA fingerprint: FE90 1A95 9DEA 8D61 812E CCA9 A44A FBA9 RSA key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x55C78B0D ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Private schools as free speech havens?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 9:56 PM -0800 2/17/98, Bennett Haselton wrote: >But you wouldn't ask them to accept discriminatory treatment that had >nothing to do with their disability, simply on the basis that the condition >causing them to be discriminated against would eventually go away. What is this "ask them to accept discriminatory treatment" nonsense? An employer should be free to hire and fire whom he chooses, based on the criteria he chooses. --Tim May Just Say No to "Big Brother Inside" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^3,021,377 | black markets, collapse of governments.

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Is spam really a problem?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I see discussion of spam here and everywhere on the net. But who finds it a *real* problem, and why? I've been on the net for nearly 20 years. I'm active on numerous mailing lists. I post to usenet. I have a website. In all cases (except this post) I use real email addresses. Nevertheless, spam does not create a big problem for me. Perhaps 10-15% of my home email is spam, (much less at work) and I identify and kill it in less time than it takes me to sort out the junk from my snail mail. Don't get me wrong; I don't *like* spam. But for me it's a minor problem, certainly not worthy of legal remedies. I'm willing to suffer a certain level of foolish annoyance gladly in return for liberty. The only point at which spam is more than a minor irritation is when sexual spam turns up in my home mail or in inappropriate news groups, and then only because I have young kids, who I don't wish to be exposed to porn until they are more mature (if you flame me on this, you're missing the point of this post, and will be ignored). Masque. PS: I'm slightly anonymous in this message because I fear that if I used my real name, some jerk would decide to sign me up for every spam source on the planet, to prove a point. M

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Re: bugged?
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Breezy wrote: >Babu Mengelepouti wrote: >> >> Ken Williams wrote: >> > >> > I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-) >> >> He's the one who needs to change his version... to 2.6.x > >Why use 2.6.x vs 5.0? Is 5.0 not as stable or something? Not as good? >What's up? > >====/------ Breezy ----------------------------/ >===/---- ebresie(a)ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ----------/ >==/---- http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~ebresie --/ > PGP v2.6.2 for UNIX is RSA, and cannot decrypt anything crypted with PGP v5.x. v5.0 for UNIX features the DSS/Diffie-Hellman algorithm that all the other 5.x versions have. v5.0 is stable, better, and is basically the current standard. it is more script-friendly and has a better command-line. basically, it really sucks when every encrypted message i have gotten in the past week was encrypted with RSA/DSS and i couldn't decrypt it with the v2.6.2 that is installed at work. due to space limitations on my volume server and our nihilistic copyrighted software policy, my only solution/option at the moment is to bring my laptop to work just for message decryption. i've sent in a software request for a PGP upgrade on the network, but due to the expensive PGP licensing agreements and the fact that we have close to 50,000 active users, i don't expect anything to be done. guess state employees don't have the right to privacy any more huh? and neither do the studnets here for that matter... TATTOOMAN work disclaimer: i lied and i'm legally insane.

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(forw) Re: Cypherpunks - Austin: Sat. Feb. 21 6-7pm, physical meet (fwd)
by Troy A. Bollinger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I made the mistake of replying back to austin-cpunks instead of this list. If anyone attending CFP this week in Austin would like to get together let me know. Or just show up on Saturday for the local meet. Thanks, Troy ----- Forwarded message from Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> ----- Message-Id: <199802181631.KAA11452(a)einstein.ssz.com> Subject: Re: Cypherpunks - Austin: Sat. Feb. 21 6-7pm, physical meet (fwd) To: austin-cpunks(a)ssz.com Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:31:27 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <19980218101742.09049(a)austin.ibm.com> from "Troy A. Bollinger" at Feb 18, 98 10:17:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-austin-cpunks(a)ssz.com Reply-To: austin-cpunks(a)ssz.com Hi Troy, > Well, I'm free to meet anytime this week. I don't know what the > schedule is for CFP, but if someone sends me a time and place I'll show > up. > > > Lots of us out-of-towners will be in Austin for CFP this week -- but the > > > conference ends on Friday. People start leaving that evening or the next > > > morning. And those of us are staying through Saturday are planning a day > > > trip outside of Austin that won't get us back by 6 pm. > > > > > > Why not have a pre-meet, or the meet itself, during CFP? You should send a notice to 'cypherpunks(a)ssz.com' so that your offer can be propogated to the entire crew quickly. Thanks for the effort. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Troy Bollinger troy(a)austin.ibm.com AIX Security Development security-alert(a)austin.ibm.com PGP keyid: 1024/0xB7783129 Troy's opinions are not IBM policy

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