May 2007 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Gary Jeffers 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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RE: Cypherpunks IQ Test
by Aimee Farr 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Mike: Are you often the victim of mercenary females? > -----Original Message----- > From: mmotyka(a)lsil.com [mailto:mmotyka@lsil.com] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:28 PM > To: aimee.farr(a)pobox.com > Subject: Cypherpunks IQ Test > > > It's an obvious setup. The woods are part of a defense installation, > apple is filled with coke, the girl is underage, the woods are full of > trigger happy fibbies. > > You hit the ground and roll into the brush, … [View More]

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More on "new physics"
by Tim May 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Someone sent me a private note. I have deleted his name for this public reply. > Tim May wrote: > > >> The "new physics" stuff is quite different. It is scorned in a way >> that plate tectonics was not, and for good reason. Folks should visit >> Bearden's site. http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/index.html > > I did. Oh, dear. > > Not sure what is supposed to be denoted by "Tesla physics", but Tesla's > work with power transmission via HF is … [View More]fascinating, even if there was > apparently no practical or safe use for it. No one disputes the outstanding work Tesla did on a.c. transmission. And anyone who has seen or used a Tesla coil knows how real it is. "Tesla physics" is all the cruft that has developed around some of his more obscure (and late) writings, usually mixed together with stuff Tesla could not have known about at the time of his death. To wit, the stuff about zero point energy and perpetual motion machines. And, sometimes, mixed together with the usual nutcase stuff about the Hollow Earth theory (zeta reticulans colonizing the hollow earth, Greys, underground UFO bases, secret Nazi weapons, etc.). Tesla is a hero to these "new physics" nuts, even though nothing Tesla ever worked on or built contradicts in the slightest way the predictions of Maxwell's theories. They take Tesla's very real contributions and some of his weirder theories (though none of them so weird as the Hollow Earth/antigravity/time reversal theories of modern nutters) and say that this means "They laughed at Tesla, they laugh at me!" BTW, I was/am an early ("angel") investor in a company doing work on ultrawideband transmissions. Some of the works Bearden cites, like those of Barrett, are familiar to me and others with this company. Saying that there is a role for ultrawideband pulse technology, a la spread spectrum and beyond SS, is NOT the same as saying there are confirmed "problems" with electromagnetic theory. There may be, and there are a handful of folks doing "foundational" work in E&M, but, so far, there are no indications that their foundational work is changing any engineering calculations. Quite the contrary, in my view. Electromagnetic theory basically "works"--to many decimal places of accuracy. Circuits work as expected, antennas work as expected, and there are no "unexplained observations" (as usually exist before a new theory arrives). There may be some _semantic_ issues, e.g., does a square wave or impulse "really" have components that were sent out _before_ the square wave or impulse? (A Fourier decomposition of a square wave starting at time t = 0 has "sine wave components" spread out over time and adding up in such a way as to give the square wave, or the impulse, or any other signal. Some think this means deep and mysterious things are happening, something having to do with time travel and reversing the aging process, blah blah blah. Henning Harmuth may write fairly eloquently about the "dogma of the circle" and how the Fourier decomposition of a signal into (allegedly) a near-infinite series of sine waves is "not real," but for all intents and purposes it all works. And the "new physics" people like Bearden go way beyond what Harmuth and Barrett are talking about: they bring in "curved space-time" and gravitation and antigravity and the ultra-weird notion that aging can be reversed by "pumping the conjugate time-axis of the Minkowski manifold" (OK, I made this up...don't have time to lift one of Bearden's direct quotes...and this will help train me in the jargon if I ever become a "new physicist."). Nut cases like Bearden have the patter of physics down. Very few actual physicists waste their time dissecting and refuting Bearden for obvious reasons. I urge readers of this list not to waste time on this stuff. --Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787 [View Less]

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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 09:57 AM 5/14/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: >Yes, but how will you stop the spammer from double spending the same $0.25 >micropayment on all of his 170,000 email addresses? Depending on whether >you check that there is a payment attached or not, and also check it with >the bank before delivering it, you'd have already wasted your bandwith and >possibly have accepted a spam into your mail spool. It is true that the notions of micropayments as applied to spam (that I'm familiar … [View More]

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Re: AP Al Qaeda
by mattd 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>>No, no. AP is funny because it's impracticeable. One does not find an assassin exclusively by tracing who paid him to kill. One can (and often does) find him because he makes a mistake in the act of commiting the crime. Which, if I'm >>reading my history right, is what's hampered the noisy proponents of AP up to this point already. Crime? Wot crime,guvnor? Jim and CJ were not 'noisy'.imo. Im a bit noisy cos Im pushing the 'let it all hang out' version. >The point is … [View More]

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Jim Bell Looking for a Job Out of Jail in 2009
by John Young 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

[Envelope postmarked 29 September 2006.] Bell 26908-086 Federal Correction Institution P.O. Box 33 Terre Haute, IN 47808 INMATE IDENTIFICATION CONFIRMED Legal Mail/Special Mail Cryptome E-Magazine Attn John Young, Editor 251 West 89th STreet Suite 6E New York, NY 10024 [Letter] Jim Bell 26909-086 P.O. Box 33 TerreHaute, IN 47808 Dear Mr. Young, I am still in prison, and I will probably be so until Sept 2009. (You know I was railroaded.) I am very, very worried about my future. When I get … [View More]

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by Eugen Leitl 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

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by R.A. Hettinga 31 May '07

31 May '07

--- begin forwarded text From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Subject: [IP] "deleted" children in Japan Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:48 -0400 To: ip(a)v2.listbox.com Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net Begin forwarded message: From: Rodney Van Meter <rdv(a)sfc.wide.ad.jp> Date: May 30, 2007 10:44:22 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Subject: "deleted" children in Japan Dave, I'm trying not to wear out my welcome on IP, but if you wish... This tidbit … [View More]bothers me because it speaks to the entire future of our history in the world in which "If Google can't find it, it doesn't exist." A little background: in Japan, you don't have a birth certificate. Each family has a family registry, and children who are born are entered into the registry. I think the same holds for proof of marriage. Generally, the registry has a family name on it (just one -- making it difficult for women to keep their maiden names, but that's not the point here) and a head of household. Then underneath that are the members of the household -- wife and kids. Normally, kids stay on their parents' registry until they marry or the parents die. When you marry, you move off your parents' registry and start your own. You do your registration at the city office, but it's a national registry run by the Justice Department. In the normal progress of things, of course, the last entry for each child is a notation that they moved off of this registry and onto another one. But if a child dies, then a notation is made of that fact. An article in yesterday's Daily Yomiuri http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20070530TDY02009.htm says that they are still in the process of digitizing the registry, and that some deceased children are being "deleted" in the process, simply to keep down the amount of data input work (which undoubtedly has to be done by hand). While it certainly makes sense to prioritize the digitization of currently-active families, as opposed to the historical records of deceased grandparents whose registers consist of no one alive, this choice has the effect of creating an apparently complete registry of an active family that portrays an inaccurate picture of the family history. > From the article: According to the [Justice] ministry, the names of family members who died before the digitization have been included on the original hard copy of the family registry as one who has been "removed." But the names, the ministry said, have been stricken from the data files. The reasoning behind this was an attempt to reduce the data input into the system--by even only a bit--during the digitization process. Family members who died following the move of data files are still represented in the electronic registers. "You've got it backward if you think digitizing family registers will result in more work," a ministry official said. "Even if the name of the deceased disappears from the data, you can still see it on the original, so it isn't a problem." --- "isn't a problem"! A hundred years from now no one will know that the families in question ever *had* children. Looking at a particular digital record, you wouldn't even know to *ask* to see the original hard copy. Statistics on births and deaths from various causes will no doubt be skewed, let alone the impact on geneology. While it seems likely that eventually they will get around to digitizing historical records, this particular gap in the data seems unlikely to be fixed -- or even fixABLE, without a second by-hand check of every registry comparing the original hard copy with the digitized version. There are gaps in my family history where e.g. the courthouse holding birth certificates burned down. But at least we *know* that there are gaps. Is this a bigger loss than, oh, say, the burning of the library at Alexandria, or the one at Bukhara (~650 and again 1920), or the burning of Mayan texts by the Spanish? Nah. But I mourn the loss of every bit(!) of our collective history. --Rod ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com --- 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' [View Less]

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