December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: My citizenship renunciation made difficult
by John Cypherpunk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Vince Cate: : But most of all, the very idea that the US government has to give me : permission to renounce my association with it seems totally : wrong. The people in the US are supposed to be free, not slaves or : subjects. Free means free to leave. ........................................................ Did you use the right forms to establish your citizenship? Suggest the nice embassy people attend your offices to prove you are a US citizen. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control
by Theodor.SCHLICKMANN＠BXL.DG13.cec.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/166499/execsum.htm

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Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:17:50 +0100 > From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen(a)stud.uni-muenchen.de> > Subject: Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory... > I see there are lots of interesting discussions on economy recently > on this list. But I miss stuffs relating to the currently existing > crisis of the financial market, topics like causes of failure of > LTCM etc. etc. All I've been discussing is a handful of thought on free-market economies and human psychology. Haven't really touched the actual market issues directly. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Happy Birthday to Convicted Child Molester Gary Burnore
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hackman <hacker(a)nospam.jump.net> wrote: > James howard wrote: > > > > Did anyone remember to wish convicted child molester Gary Lee > > > Burnore a happy 41st birthday on Tuesday? I was just doing a net > > > search and came across this excerpt taken from his info on the North > > > Carolina registered sex offenders' website: > > > > > > > Street: 4201 BLAND ROAD APT J > > > > City: RALEIGH State: NC Zip: 27609 County: WAKE > > > > > > > > Race: W Sex: M Height: 5'08" Weight: 170 LBS. Hair: BRO Eyes: BLU > > > > Birth Date(s): 10-13-1957 > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > Why is it "Birth Date(s)"? Is it possible to have more than one? > > multiple alias ? Since "Megan's law" where an effort has been made to warn residents of a convicted child molester living in their neighborhood, I can well imagine that many of them have resorted to using aliases. Another possibility is that since so many of them have multiple convictions on their rap sheets, and since the data entry operators cannot always read an officer's handwriting, multiple *POSSIBLE* birthdates for the same perp sometimes float around in the system.

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Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory...
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I see there are lots of interesting discussions on economy recently > on this list. But I miss stuffs relating to the currently existing > crisis of the financial market, topics like causes of failure of > LTCM etc. etc. Haven't we discused the failures of Little Timmy C. May enough?

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CREDIT CARD PROCESSING
by pop7＠angelfire.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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criticize....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am creating a program about sparse matrix I am going to use different compression schemes used in building compilers. It is suppose to output a library wherein it support the compression scheme. It would either be used by C, Pascal, or FORTRAN whatever the user intends to use. Could you degrade or "upgrade" my said proposal (just say anything except nonsense of course). Thank you very much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. It's me Bernie. metaphone(a)altavista.net ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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desperate....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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could you help.....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found this example in a book It's about Homophonic substitution and I can't figure how they did it , I mean how the other letters where substituted Here's the example Suppose the alphabet is mapped into the numbers 1 to 99 then map E to 17,19,23,47,64 map A to 8,20,25,49 map R to 1,29,65 map T to 16,31,85 but otherwise the ith letter maps to the 3ith letter Then the cleartext MANY A SLIP TWIXT THE CUP AND THE LIP will become 08 20 16 3185 17 25 16 47 3608397220543324451666246931852117066045253909162147332445 My question is what/how did they represent the other letters like L (etc.) coz I've tried to map them and yet I still can't understand I even wrote A to Z then map them to 1 to 99, I still can't figure it out. Could you also give me an example for polygram substitution. Thank you very much. SALAMAT PO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. It's me Bernie. metaphone(a)altavista.net ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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Dust off your anonymous voting protocols...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now all we need is a modern-day Robbespierre? I love the smell of mob rule in the morning? Nawwwwww... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: massmail@css Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:46:02 -0600 To: rah(a)shipwright.com From: cwheeler(a)activmedia.com Subject: Will 'Net Ballots Supplant Congress? WILL DIRECT DEMOCRACY PRE-EMPT SOME OF CONGRESS'S POWER? Questions Remain about Implementation ActivMedia Research (http://www.activmedia.com) - Two of three Internet afficionados think online elections are a good idea (66% to 33%). The same proportion would like to be able to vote on ballot referenda and exercise direct democracy via the 'Net (67%). "Obviously, the technical ability to move toward direct democracy must be accompanied by debate about its merits and what is an appropriate level of technocratic and professional decision-making on our behalf," notes ActivMedia's Director of Information Services Chris Anne Wheeler. "Some laws are best implemented by professionals for the public good such as environmental protection, national defense, and public welfare. But virtually all online consumers polled in ActivMedia's FutureScapes agree that a sunshine policy making legislative bills, voting records, and budgets available online for public inspection would be a good idea (97%)." ------------------------------------------------------------- CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES ONLINE (Good Idea) Total Sample 4+ Yrs Online ------------ ------------- Vote for elected officials 66% 71% Vote on ballot referenda 67% 72% Search bills, voting records, budgets 97% 98% -------------------------------------------------------------- Source: FutureScapes Study, ActivMedia Research, © 1998 Survey respondents with 4+ years of online experience the greatest propensity to want to vote online. As expected, younger (under 15) as well as older (over 65) 'Netizens show a somewhat higher resistance to carrying out civic responsibilities online. The conservatives in the Northeast show a slightly greater resistance especially when it comes to voting for elected officials (63%), but essentially the desire to vote online is favored by the majority no matter their demographic background. All across the country, websites are cropping up that help voters weed through the oftentimes overwhelming amount of information on candidates and issues. The greatest challenge for voters is tracking down objective nonpartisan sources of candidate information. Trials of online voting are scarce as policy-makers grapple with issues of fraud and security. Data in this release is from ActivMedia Research's syndicated study "FutureScapes: Refining 'Net Strategy for the 21st Century." The full study of online habits and interests of 5,600 online citizens is available to purchase for $2,995 (single copy) or $5,000 (multi-user site license). ActivMedia Incorporated conducts custom and syndicated research that guides businesses to profitable online positions. Since 1994, ActivMedia has been detailing global 'Net trends and sector slices with a series of quantitative research reports, market analyses and case studies. Insightful analyses and accessible data support rational businesses decisions for clients including Andersen Consulting, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Visa, Yahoo and Ziff-Davis. CONTACT INFORMATION ActivMedia, Inc. http://www.activmedia.com (Research Home Page) Email: research(a)activmedia.com Harold Wolhandler, Vice President of Market Research Chris Anne Wheeler, Director of Information Services Tel: 800-639-9481, 603-924-9100 Fax: 603-924-2184 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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