December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by noldcosts＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Cypherpunks HyperArchive (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Cypherpunks HyperArchive > From: Ryan Lackey <rdl(a)MIT.EDU> > Date: 07 Sep 1998 11:41:54 -0400 > The machine suffered either disk controller or HDD problems as I was > logged into it. It is located in Boston, MA. I do not currently have The L0pht folks are there and Wel Pond used to be a subscriber. Perhaps you could contact them and they could provide the support? ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Seed to clone himself, one way or another [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, It seems that scientist in general may soon be forced to roam from country to country to practice their work. Shades of Neuromancer. I am more and more convinced that Gibson's book, and it's social commentary, is right on the mark. Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9809/07/clone.seed.ap/ > CHICAGO PHYSICIST SAYS HE'LL CLONE HIMSELF WITH WIFE'S HELP > > Dr. Richard Seed Richard Seed September 7, 1998 > Web posted at: 3:50 a.m. EDT (0750 GMT) > > BOSTON (AP) -- A physicist with three Harvard degrees but no medical > license said he is ready to begin the first step toward immortality: > he will clone himself. [text deleted] > Seed said his wife, Gloria, has agreed to carry an embryo that would > be created by combining the nucleus of one of his cells with a donor > egg, the newspaper said. [text deleted] > The Chicago scientist has three Harvard degrees, including a Ph.D., > but no medical degree, no money and no institutional backing. He has > vowed to produce a pregnancy with a human clone within 2 1/2 years. [text deleted] > Two states, California and Michigan, have outlawed human cloning and > dozens of other states are considering bans. > > A five-year moratorium on cloning is apparently being observed by > mainstream scientists, but Congress has failed to act on legislation > to outlaw the procedure. > > Seed has said that if Congress bans cloning, he will move his > operation to Tijuana, Mexico. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Government Regulation & Scienctific Research
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Because of the changes in national governments and their increasing desire to regulate their citizenry and their economies according to flawed economic and social dogma we will see the following: - primary research will still occur in the 1st world countries where the interest, money, and infrastructure can support it. - practical applications of this technology will be developed in the 3rd world countries where the destabalizing impact of technology won't hurt as much because the central government infrastructure doesn't exist. - it will become harder and harder for individuals with intellectual capital to express their rights within these 1st world enclaves. In particular, leaving the country. Perhaps it will get so bad that we'll see a return to the Soviet style of sports competition (ie KGB stoolies following all the athletes around). What will be the end result? We'll see bastions of 1st world culture surrounded by a sea of balkan areas that are 'governed' by economic and cultural ethos alone. As this process proceeds it will erode the stability of the 1st world countries and cause their break-up into small independant balkans. The results of this will be: - there will be a slow down in basic research in about 50 years because there won't be any large infrastructures that can support basic research. Hopefuly the balkans will find a way to cooperate in an economic and technological manner. If so the roll of technology will resume, albeit potentialy at a slower rate. - small balkans will band together for periods of time to explore research and develop the base understanding. it'll end up being sort of like a MCC or Sematech at the political level. One aspect that does worry me is that as technology speads the cultures around the world homogenize. This could have a negative impact on the balkanization because the motive to go from here to there won't be relevant because there will be here. It may turn out that xenophobic cultures like the Talibans and Chinese may actualy help in the long run because of their unwillingness to compromise their world views. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Tesla's Secrets
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DoD's latest standard for protection against electromagnetic effects, MIL-STD-464, "Electromagnetic Environmental Effects -- Requirements for Systems," provides a bare 17 pages of dry prescriptions for the official standard, then 90 astonishing pages of ways the standard is to be applied in addressing unexpected EM misfortunes, like ordance spontaneously exploding, planes crashing, ships out of control, radar meltdown, personnel fried, and so on. http://jya.com/mil-std-464.htm (346K plus images) What comes out of this critical "anecdotal" material, not yet subject to precise standardization, is what Tesla learned early this century: the dreadful power of accumulated, boosted EM caused by unexpected interaction of human electronic inventions and natural EM forces. Such as some speculate brought down TWA 800. What also comes out is that each unit of every major weapons system, theirs and ours (and civilian devices) can be identified by its unique EM "fingerprint" -- nuclear sub, B1B, F117, AF One, your family Sports-ute, your chattering computer, cellphone and pager. As if anyone except the NSA can siphon and sort through them all, the compromising emanations are Out There awaiting receivers of secret messages unintentionally sent. A loud and clear message is that electronification of culture is causing a build-up of powerful latent lightning looking for a ground to blast, a sub to sink, a bomber to shatter. Be prepared for a technological attack, to be blamed on terrorists, but really caused by the expected EM effects Tesla warned about.

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"info on spooks"
by Xena - Warrior Princess 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > > Maybe *you* can help, Mighty Oracle. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 20:19:26 EDT > From: XxxxXxxx(a)aol.com > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: tell me > > hola and good tidings > send some info on spooks please > i will be grateful > And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } } In a way, you have come to the right place, Supplicant. Some of my best } friends are spooks. Generally, they like to be known as "The Intangible } Ones", but that's a bit of pretentiousness on their parts. "Ghoul", } "ghost", "spirit", and "weird white smudge on film" all are appropriate } names. } Some of their favorite haunts, if you will, tend to be different than } what current culture dictates. For example, spooks will not hang out in } old houses. Too many cobwebs, bugs, and general naughtiness. Spooks are } very sensitive creatures, and prefer to relax in libraries, arboretums, } Newt Gingrich's bedroom -- places where nothing ever happens. } There's not much else to spooks, dear Supplicant. They're really quite } nice and friendly, and I recommend you make them a big steak dinner every } once in a while. Leave it out on the table, and make sure you tell me } your address so I can come by... er, so I can notify the spooks. } } You owe the Oracle some new potatoes to go with that steak. }

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Re: Archives? What archives?
by Ryan Lackey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > > At 1:44 AM -0700 9/4/98, Sparkes, Ian, ZFRD AC wrote: > > >---- Facetious comment begin ----- > >At least now we know why people aren't following Tim's > >advice to 'check the archives' before putting their feet in > >their mouths. > >---- Facetious comment end ----- > > Try http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/ > > If the archives at some sites are going down, this could be for various > reasons. > > Being an assembly of mostly-anarchist-leaning folks, with no leadership, no > organization, no hierarchy, and no procedures, there are no officially > maintained archives. > > What we have are what people choose to put up. > > Someone was talking in the last half year about burning a CD-ROM with a big > chunk of the archives on it. I haven't heard if this ever happened and if > it was made available for sale. (It seems that about every year someone > launches a project to generate such a CD-ROM, but I haven't seen the > followthrough.) > > --Tim May I had an archive on sof.mit.edu, but shortly after I left Boston, MA, US where the machine is located, the HDD on the machine (or the controller) died, and I'm still trying to get one of my former housemates to repair it. I'm currently in the wrong country to fix the drive, and don't expect to be back. I prepared the CD-ROMs for sale (I had a CD-R on the machine), and posted several times offering to sell them, but no one ever actually sent me the money. Actually, a small number of people did, and I sold them, but I don't remember who they were. I also don't have particularly good backups of that machine. I think someone mirrored it at toad.com before it died, so they're probably not lost forever. I don't have a machine with free bandwidth from which to host it, though, until sof.mit.edu is back on the net. I may be sending the HDD out to a drive recovery company anyway for the other data on the drive. This was an amateurish hobby server of mine, and not a production-grade service, so people shouldn't complain too much that I didn't invest the money in quality replication. -- Ryan Lackey rdl(a)mit.edu http://sof.mit.edu/rdl/

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IP: ISPI Clips 4.21:New Up-Scale Home Designs Reflect PrivacyConcerns
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com From: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 4.21:New Up-Scale Home Designs Reflect Privacy Concerns Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:35:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: "ama-gi ISPI" <offshore(a)email.msn.com> ISPI Clips 4.21: New Up-Scale Home Designs Reflect Privacy Concerns News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Monday September 7, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: The Washington Post, Saturday, September 5, 1998; Page E03 http://www.washingtonpost.com The Neo-Fortress Home: Can the Concept Be Defended? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-09/05/070l-090598-idx.html By Roger K. Lewis "A House for the New Millennium" was the headline on a recent Wall Street Journal article about residential design trends. It should have read, "A House for the New Millionaires," or perhaps, "A House for Fearful Millionaires." With a full-color, bird's-eye view illustration and a tabulation of what's in and what's out, writer June Fletcher predicts that homes of the future will "look more like medieval fortresses than futuristic bubbles." Picture what Fletcher calls the Neo-Fortress Movement: towers and turrets; walled yards; locked gates; and tall, narrow windows. And most of the examples she cites have fortress-like price tags. At the low end were subdivision houses in Arizona ranging from $382,000 to $639,000. More typical were $950,000 homes in California; $1 million homes in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; a 10,000-square-foot, $3.3 million spec home in New Jersey; and a 14,000-square-foot, $8 million home in Florida. "The neo-fortress style reflects end-of-the-century anxieties about privacy and security," according to the article, along with diminishing home owner interest in the "showy houses of the '80s, with their soaring ceilings, open floor plans and huge windows that invite passersby to peer in and check out the furniture." On the article's "out" list: Palladian windows, Greek columns, grand entries, two-story plans, big lawns, common areas, great rooms and computer nooks in kitchens. On the "in" list: motor courts, walled courtyards, single-story plans, numerous defined rooms, 10-foot ceilings, two home offices and turrets. Turrets, California architect Barry Berkus told the Journal, "connote fortification and strength." Indeed, Berkus suggests that people are attracted to turrets because they evoke lonely, romantic symbols such as lighthouses and silos. By the time I reached the end of the article, I was wondering what the average American homeowner or home buyer might make of all this, not to mention architects and builders who create houses that buck or ignore this fortification trend. In 2001, would those of us whose homes sport large windows, vaulted ceilings and lack medievally inspired towers feel vulnerable and defenseless as well as out of fashion? There is nothing intrinsically wrong, either aesthetically or functionally, with most of the trendy features mentioned in the article. Walled-in courtyards, towers and narrow windows have been around for thousands of years. Constructing homes with discrete, functionally differentiated rooms is an established tradition. In most cultures, visually separating spaces for private, domestic use from public spaces is a standard and desirable practice. But these design elements and strategies for shaping a house should be employed when they fit the circumstances and context pertaining to the house, its location and site, its occupants and its occupants' budget. Thus the courtyard house, which evolved as the dominant residential building type in ancient Mediterranean, African, southern European and Asian cultures, is well suited for mild climates where inhabitants can spend much of the year outdoors in the courtyard, and where they don't have to cope with snow and ice -- places such as Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. But courtyard houses usually make little sense in New England, upstate New York, Appalachia, the upper Midwest or the foothills of the Rockies. One-level courtyard homes fit poorly on sites that aren't reasonably flat or on tight, awkwardly shaped lots. Given their introverted nature, they are rarely the logical choice for lots with dramatic views. Generally, the one-level courtyard house configuration is among the more expensive ways to build a home. It is much less compact than other building types, especially the two- or three-story, cubicly shaped house with basement and attic. It entails more roof area and perimeter wall surface to enclose a given amount of interior space, resulting in not only increased construction costs but also increased heating, cooling and maintenance costs. Some could read the Wall Street Journal article and mistakenly infer that the neo-fortress style may be perfectly okay for anyone, anywhere. Clearly it is not. But there's something more disturbing than the potential for readers to draw incorrect inferences about architectural styling. The report implies that Americans' perceptions, attitudes and behavior are increasingly shaped by security concerns. Segregation and isolation, not integration and connection, seem to preoccupy more and more citizens who want to live not only in gated communities, but also in gated homes. Referring to the $8 million home in Florida with a pair of turrets, Fletcher reports that the turret near the garage houses a platform accessed by a circular stair and a fireman's pole. "The client," noted the builder, "thought it would be great for his grandchildren to be able to shoot their BB guns out the window, then slide down the pole." Before arriving at this Florida bastion, perhaps visitors should know more about the prospective BB gun targets as well as the rest of the home arsenal -- what about crossbows and boiling oil? The $1 million builder's house in Kentucky encompasses 10,000 square feet and has a three-story, outdoor media room, according to Fletcher, including a shower, hot tub, fireplace, gazebo with built-in television and kitchenette, bar, small pool and waterfall. The owners boast that, when fireworks are flying in distant Cincinnati, they can sit in their outdoor media room and watch the fireworks live and on television at the same time, experiencing the real and the virtual simultaneously. Could this be the ultimate suburban house, a house connected only electronically to the rest of the world, a house you never would have to leave? Courtyard homes can be wonderful in their place, their virtues being spatial amenity, not defendability. They should be built not to escape the communal world outside, but rather to heighten enjoyment of the familial world inside. As for turrets, man's home may be his castle, but it doesn't have to look like one. © Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed free without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). 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Man arrested while screwing Pumpkin/Couple caught screwing in monkey cage
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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clinton digital signing
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 01:04:12 +1200 To: snetnews(a)world.std.com From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> (by way of jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)) Subject: SNET: [FP] FW: Clinton "Useless" w/o Pen: Uses SmartCard Encrption - -> SNETNEWS Mailing List [Forwarded message] Clinton "Useless" w/o Pen: Uses SmartCard Encrption Source: Fox News - AP http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/ WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Clinton feels 'utterly useless' without his pen 6.33 p.m. ET (2233 GMT) September 4, 1998 By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) What's the point of being president if you can't use your pen? Seated at matching laptops, President Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern used "smart cards,'' personalized codes and digital readers Friday to electronically affix their signatures to an electronic commerce agreement. Clinton joked that he missed the old-fashioned way of approving deals. "Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if I can't do that anymore,'' he said. He also offered this insight on being president: "You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You just sign your name. "You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything. You know, just stick a little card in and get the predictable response.'' <snip part about Clinton's golf game> © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml - ----------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: believer(a)telepath.com [mailto:believer@telepath.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 1998 6:09 PM To: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: Clinton "Useless" w/o Pen: Uses SmartCard Encrption - -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com - -> Posted by: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds(a)airnet.net> (by way of jeremy.compton(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)) ------- End of Forwarded Message

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