March 2006 - cypherpunks-legacy

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[Clips] Rodney Dangerfield University
by R. A. Hettinga 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Several well-known cypherpunks have been George Mason Alums. Most joined while they were in school there. Cheers, RAH -------- --- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:21:10 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Rodney Dangerfield University Reply-To: rah(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008168> OpinionJournal WSJ Online DE GUSTIBUS Rodney Dangerfield University It's time that George Mason got a little respect. BY BRENDAN MINITER Friday, March 31, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST "You've got to be kidding." That was the reaction of CBS sportscaster Billy Packer when George Mason University was invited to play in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament. Mason has since defeated Michigan State, the University of North Carolina, Wichita State and the top-seeded University of Connecticut to advance to the Final Four this weekend. The Patriots basketball team is finding out what the rest of the university has long known. George Mason is the Rodney Dangerfield of universities--it just can't get any respect. The school has attracted Nobel economists, developed a top-notch law school and, through the writings of its scholars, affected public policy in major ways. But it is continually dismissed as a no-name state school--a mere convenience for commuters from northern Virginia. Allow me to take offense. When I enrolled at Mason in 1993, a condescending friend described the school to me as a "glorified community college with pretensions of being an elite university." At that point, young and naive, I worried he might be right. By the time I graduated I knew better. With some 28,000 students, GMU resembles many large state schools in that it provides an affordable education to a broad range of people. For state residents, tuition is about $3,000 a semester; for those out of state, $8,500. (These amounts roughly correspond to a few weeks of classroom time at nearby Georgetown.) The education it offers is intellectually rigorous--I can attest to the rigor, having suffered through plenty of annoyingly demanding tests, paper-writing assignments and required courses. But George Mason has no intentions of being an "elite" institution, and a good thing too. Mason began as an extension of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became independent 15 years later. Such relative youth is a clear advantage. The school came into its own after the 1960s generation passed through the halls of higher education. Student protest, and the effort to appease it, never became part of its culture. George W. Johnson, GMU's president from 1978 to 1996, exploited this advantage. He grounded the school in technology, computer science and economics, leaving to elite institutions the competition for hot (read: postmodern) humanities scholars. He also exploited the school's proximity to Washington, using it as a selling point to bring professors to the area and also pulling into the professorial ranks various policy analysts, intellectuals and former government officials. The recruited professors included James Buchanan, who joined the university in 1983 and soon after won a Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking research, with Gordon Tullock, on what drives government bureaucracies to make seemingly irrational decisions. The economists showed that government, no less than private enterprise, responds to economic incentives (e.g., bigger budgets) more than high-minded legislative goals. This idea--known as "Public Choice Theory"--became part of the intellectual framework of the Reagan Revolution. Mr. Johnson also brought to George Mason the Institute for Humane Studies, a constellation of scholars devoted to teaching undergrads (both at GMU and elsewhere) classical economics. Soon after Mr. Johnson stepped down, the economist Vernon Smith and six colleagues migrated to Mason from the University of Arizona. Mr. Smith won a Nobel Prize for developing standards to "lab test" economic theories with small groups, often using real money. Mason's law school isn't even three decades old, but it has already climbed into the first tier of the U.S. News & World Report rankings and is a leader in the field of intellectual property. It is also home to the National Center for Technology and Law, which studies how existing laws--e.g., patents and copyrights--will need to adapt to the information economy. Even the law school's legal-aid program has a novel slant. As John Miller has noted in National Review, George Mason's law students, rather than suing police departments or petitioning for access to government programs, volunteer their time to help, among others, members of the military and their families. Even the school's name cuts against the grain of conventional pieties. George Mason is the Founding Father most Americans have never heard of. He was a key architect of the Constitution (he had written the influential Virginia Bill of Rights more than a decade before) but doomed himself to obscurity by becoming one of the three delegates to the Constitutional Convention who refused to sign the final document. It bothered him that it lacked a bill of rights. Whether or not George Mason University wins on the basketball court this weekend, it is still a great school. And no, Mr. Packer, I'm not kidding. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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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by Jami Davila 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

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Re: [p2p-hackers] group key agreement (was: lockstep synchronization protocol problem)
by coderman 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

a very detailed paper on group key agreement for ad-hoc networks: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/006 Abstract. Over the last 30 years the study of group key agreement has stimulated much work. And as a result of the increased popularity of ad hoc networks, some approaches for the group key establishment in such networks are proposed. However, they are either only for static group or the memory, computation and communication costs are unacceptable for ad-hoc networks. In this thesis some protocol suites from the literature (2^d-cube, 2^d-octopus, Asokan-Ginzboorg, CLIQUES, STR and TGDH) shall be discussed. We have optimized STR and TGDH by reducing the memory, communication and computation costs. The optimized version are denoted by 5STR and 5TGDH respectively. Based on the protocol suites 5STR and 5TGDH we present a Tree-based group key agreement Framework for Ad-hoc Networks (TFAN). TFAN is especially suitable for ad-hoc networks with limited bandwidth and devices with limited memory and computation capability. To simulate the protocols, we have implemented TFAN, 5STR and 5TGDH with J2ME CDC. The TFAN API will be described in this thesis.

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30 Mar '06

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cypherpunks write girl code? :)
by coderman 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/ Do engineers and programmers care about concepts like beauty and elegance? Should they? Designers have always known that looks matter--that the outside (interface) matters. But deep in the heart of those building the inside--the technology most users never see--lies the sensibility of an artist. In a kind of "Design Eye for the Code Guy" way. While I'm stereotyping with abandon, I might as well be honest. I've been going to tech conferences for the last 15 years, and I swear the ratio of pocket protectors to Urban Outfitter clothes has shifted dramatically. So maybe it's not accurate to say geeks today are better looking--but they're certainly better dressed. With hipper haircuts. Does this /mean/ anything? Maybe. What prompted this post--and it's whimsical title--is a post by Jamis Buck titled Beautiful code, test first, which includes the following: "He was telling me how he feels like he has to sit and tweak his code over and over until it not only acts right, but looks right. It cannot be merely functional, it must be beautiful, as well." But the best part was a comment by "Morten" that included the line: "As for spending too much time on making the code look right down to the last indentation - my code has been called "girl code" for the same reason..." And there you have it. I think "girl code" is quite a compliment. Because caring about things like beauty makes us better programmers and engineers. We make better things. Things that aren't just functional, but easy to read, elegantly maintainable, easier--and more joyful--to use, and sometimes flat-out sexy. And whether we like it or not, most of the world associates an appreciation for beauty more with women than men (especially geek men). Women may have a genetic advantage here. A passion for aesthetics can mean the difference between code that others enjoy working on vs. code that's stressful to look at. ... Yes, calling beautiful code "girl code" is both silly and some might believe sexist. But that doesn't mean there isn't some truth to it. As a female technologist in a heavily male-skewed industry, I don't need you to compliment my hair. But if you tell me my code is pretty, I might give you some tips. And if it makes you feel better, I'll refer to YOUR gorgeous code as metrosexual. But we'll both know the truth.

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Fwd: driver for Atheros 5213 chipset (fuck the fcc!)
by coderman 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

fuck the fcc! :P ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> Date: Mar 30, 2006 6:17 AM Subject: Re: driver for Atheros 5213 chipset On 3/28/06, Jean-Baptiste Note <jean-baptiste.note(a)m4x.org> wrote: > ... > Can you elaborate on "the other team" or "other teams" you're referring > to ? Well, i'm only following this mailing-list, and have not heard > about all this -- apart from the possible litigation problems. their identities cannot be exposed lest the FCC sniper team neutralize their potential threat to authoritarian spectrum monopoly. > Is *everything*, specs and all, behind closed doors now? Can we get > access to the specs at least? and translated across three languages... just to be sure. > No info on the webpage either... the dcs1000 has been having problems.

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30 Mar '06

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Extending funding for the USA.Report Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:57:40 -0100
by Lynn Macdonald 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

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