December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Goldbach's Conjecture (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: "Blake Buzzini" <bab282(a)psu.edu> > Subject: RE: Goldbach's Conjecture > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:54 -0500 > I could be wrong, but I thought Goldbach's conjecture was that every even > number could be expressed as the sum of *two* primes. This doesn't prohibit No, that was Fermat, Goldbach just says every even number greater than two can be represented as a sum of primes. Basicaly Fermat says that if we have n primes we can reduce them to 2 primes only, in all cases. Which happens to exclude using equilateral triangles as a test bed since you can't tile a equilateral with only two other equilaterals, you could use rectangles though. So basicaly from a geometric perspective Fermat says that given a rectangle of even area it is possible to divide it with a bisector into two rectangles of prime area. It's interesting that Fermat doesn't mention that the only prime that can use two as a factor is 4. And you can't factor 2 at all since we eliminate 1 as a potential candidate (another issue of symmetry breaking simply so we don't have to write '....works for every prime but 1' on all our theorems). > repetition. Therefore, under Goldbach's conjecture: > > 4 -> 2 + 2 > 6 -> 3 + 3 but NOT 2 + 2 + 2 > 8 -> 5 + 3 but NOT 2 + 2 + 2 The real issue for me is the interaction of primes (ie n * 1 = n) and the identity theorem (ie n * 1 = n). They're opposite sides of the same coin. It doesn't really matter now since it doesn't look like I'm going to get a copy of EURISKO in this lifetime to play with. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Catastrophic Terrorism
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ex-CIA head John Deutch and two NatSecs write in November Foreign Affairs on "Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger:" http://jya.com/ct-tnd.htm (36K) They propose three new orgs to prevent and respond to terrorist use of WMD on a large scale: 1. National Terrorism Intelligence Center (Mil/Intel/LEA) 2. National Information Assurance Institute (Gov/Corp/Tank) 3. Catastrophic Terrorism Response Offices (Intel/Plan/Train/Task/Direct) Paralleling Senator Kyl and others, the proposals are based on the increased domestic use of the military while proclaiming civil liberties will be protected. And though there is considerable detail about how the military, intelligence agencies and law enforcement will work together - US and foreign - and the vast purchases of sevices and equipment that will be needed, there's next to nothing about how civil liberties will be protected. Reference is made to America's marshalling its patriotism and technology to win the Cold War, and the wondrous inventions developed to do that. Again, though, no mention is made of the price of military industrialism, which is to be expected of our finest catastrophe-obessessed minds unable to imagine a world without endless national security threats to grow their pork.

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Militiamen Assault Federal Command Post
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:22:20 -0500 From: Anarchist News Service <news(a)overthrow.com> Reply-To: "news(a)overthrow.com" <news(a)overthrow.com> Organization: Utopian Anarchist Party MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.anarchism,alt.society.anarchy,alt.law-enforcement,alt.politics.youth,alt .society.high-school,alt.politics.radical-left,dc.general,alt.evil,alt.nuke. the.USA,alt.parents.stupid,alt.politics.drinking-age,alt.politics.libertaria n,alt.politics. To: "news(a)overthrow.com" <news(a)overthrow.com> Subject: Militiamen Assault Federal Command Post; Shots Exchanged, No Injuries Militiamen Assault Federal Command Post Shots Exchanged, No Injuries November 17, 1998 Andrews, NC -- An unknown number of militiamen attacked a federal command post late last week, exchanging fire with agents. No injuries on either side were reported, and the unknown number of militiamen were said to have fled. The Rudolph Command Post, in Andrews NC, is the base from which more than 200 federal agents are conducting a search for Eric Rudolph, suspected bomber of a number of abortion clinics and of the 1996 Olympics. Federal agents say that bullets whizzed by their heads and that one agent was barely grazed when nearly a dozen shots were fired into their headquarters. Eric Rudolph, 32, has been charged in numerous bombings, including one that killed a police officer, and has fled into the woods of Western North Carolina. The eighty agents that had been assigned to the case, until recently, when their number was boosted to 200, have been unable to locate Rudolph. ANS correspondants on the scene that the local residents overwhelmingly support Rudolph, and that many have pledged that they would support and shelter him if they felt it necessary. Rudolph is linked to far-right Christian organizations. ANS's North Carolina correspondents are not sympathetic to these organizations. ----- For more anarchist news and information, contact: Utopian Anarchist Party Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 uap(a)overthrow.com http://www.overthrow.com

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COPA/CDA II blocked until 12/4/98 [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981119S0021 > [IMAGE] TechWeb - The Technology News Site [INLINE] > Technology News - [INLINE] [INLINE] . [INLINE] Judge Blocks CDA II > (11/19/98, 8:34 p.m. ET) > By John Gartner, TechWeb > > A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order > preventing the Justice Department from enforcing the Child Online > Protection Act (COPA), an anti-pornography law Congress passed in > October. > > Judge Lowell Reed's decision will delay enforcement of the law until > at least Dec. 4. The injunction came in response to a lawsuit filed by > free speech advocates, filed just one day after the legislation was > signed by President Clinton. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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An Invitation To Our "Netparty" For Young Professionals
by npusa＠newpostoffice.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Rabid Wombat <wombat(a)mcfeely.bsfs.org> crapped: > >Hey, asshole, keep my name outta this. > Nigga-lovin' asswipe, get yerself off this list.

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More Goldbach's Conjecture
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well there are two more definitions, from the same book [1], that are not equivalent: pp. 335 For all natural numbers x, if x is even, non-zero, and not 2, then there exist prime numbers y and z such that x is the sum of y and z. pp. 673 ...every even number, n>6 (it at least takes care of my question about 4), is the sum of two odd primes. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Moahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah u STOOPID dickheads and fuckwads supporting CUNTS like micro$oft or even working there. FUCK YOU lousy cockroaches. I, the great tormentor and terminator will stamp you out and exterminate you like the pests you are. HaHaHaHaHaHa mothafuckaz. You will all die and give way to a better world, better people and better systems. Long live Unix, Mac, Amiga and TERROR.

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do not fold spindle or mutilate
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:15 PM 11/19/98 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote: >Encryption is NOT just "mathematics, period". It's mathematics, >plus operations, password management, key distribution, >keeping track of who's allowed to see what, >plus hardware and operating systems to run the mathematics on, >and unless you're running it in wetware, it's also >computer security to protect the hardware and operating systems. >And it's black operations to go out and steal the other guys' >hardware and keys and yellow-sticky-notes and crack their OSs. Actually, to a sufficiently advanced civilization, these are all describable with mathematics. >In some contexts, especially real people's contexts, >your PC may be a fine place to run the encryption, >but in an NSA / DoD context, especially when there's a war on, >the safest way to manage many of these things is to use >dedicated tamper-resistant hardware with the users on one side Nota bene: tamper-detection + zeroizing >> tamper resistance. --Pasty aliens spied my mugs

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New postage stamp
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I hear they are coming out with a new "Monica Lewinsky" postage stamp. Initially, it will cost $.35. However, if you lick it, it will be considerably more expensive.

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