June 2010 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Liberty Dollar
by Gary Jeffers 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

My fellow Cypherpunks, The Liberty Dollar My fellow Cypherpunks, I think I may have some really great news here, but you all can check it out to be sure. I found an alternative money on the Internet. It is called the Liberty Dollar. The Internet site is: http://www.norfed.org NORFED is The National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code. The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely in America. As many of you know, the $US is a corrupt, proprietary, debt issued, fait, fractional reserved,illegal, unconstituional, U. S. State enforced monopoly currency. As corrupt as it is I don't know why it hasn't already collasped and dragged us down with it! If the Liberty Dollar is honest and robust, then it may be the vehical to beat the elite bankers tyranny and give us an honest wealth produced money. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE !!!!

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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, drawing on the way. You > attempt to locate opponents and identify the safest route away from the > situation. > > Mike > > > >CYPHERPUNKS IQ TEST > > > >QUESTION #1. > > > >You are walking through the woods alone. A beautiful unclothed woman > >magically appears in front of you. She holds out an apple. > > > >1. Please darken in the correct choice using a Number Two pencil: > > > >(a) you bite the apple. > >(b) you take the woman. > >(c) you run away. > >(d) a and b, but not c. > >(e) b and c only. > >(f) all of the above. > >(g) none of the above. > > > >2. Please justify your answer: > > > > > >___________________________________________________________________. > > > > > >Just curious.... > > > > -Aimee

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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 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

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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 with, at least) would require that the email recipient check with the bank to detect doublespending. This would introduce an additional delay before delivery from unknown senders, yes, but I fail to see how it would impose an unacceptable cost in bandwidth or CPU usage. Spammers could still try the same-micropayment-a-million-times route, just as they could try to spam without micropayments, but if their email is rejected in sufficient quantities, the cost to the spammer would outweigh the benefits. The key is achieving sufficient quantities. -Declan

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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 that Bell's theory does a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination,...< Oh THATS funny.I get it. HAHAHA! >>Killing one person, especially a public official, pisses a whole bunch of people off. Those people have a tendency to come find their buddy's killer. Mmm,where do we start,lets get some firebrands and go up to the proffrs? Look at sites with no logs for quad anon 'predictors' who may be overseas briefly visiting cybercafes,Good luck china.(you just contradicted yrself btw.) Oh,unless you mean the torture/french village reprisal thang.Win friends and influence people. The one person killed will have had to have done a lot of evil shit to get enough pooled (presumably) to tempt a seasoned pro.Unless some professional killer turns all altruistic,stranger things have happened.The killer could be suicidal.another possibility.Lots of scenarios possible here,movie scripts,even.Pop songs,video games.DoCoMo assasinphones. Someone like a torturer,murderer,terrorist,pedophile is a logical candidate.(stephen roach?)Sometimes these happen to be public officials.Theres one here where I live named dennis Tanner.(vic.au) Those killers by remote control like arbusto might be be made more accountable. What better way than...Bell's theory, "a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination"according to you. KILL THE PRESIDENT! "Id buy that for a dollar!" >>No kind of real or threatened assassination can weaken a government in which a majority of the governed people >believe. It can only make it seem more righteous and be more strong. Thats true,roll over and go back to sleep,if you live under that govt you have nothing to worry about. More righteous and more smug.

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Wireless network modded to see through walls
by Eugen Leitl 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

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Daniel Ellsberg: Julian Assange is in danger
by J.A. Terranson 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-11/daniel-ellsberg-w… As feds hunt for Wikileaks. Julian Assange in hopes of preventing him from publishing diplomatic secrets, Samuel P. Jacobs talks with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he should stay out of America.and why some things should be kept secret. Government officials tell The Daily Beast that they are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, whom they believe is in possession of State Department secrets leaked to him by an Army intelligence specialist now under arrest. As Assange, the Australian champion of whistleblowers cancelled a public appearance in Las Vegas Friday night, The Daily Beast talked with Daniel Ellsberg, the legendary leaker of the Pentagon Papers about Assange.s safety and what he would do if he were in possession of the State Department.s confidential traffic. Since standing trial for providing state secrets to newspapers.he was acquitted in 1973.Ellsberg has become an author and activist. The Daily Beast: Could the release of the diplomatic cables said to be in the possession of Wikileaks endanger national security? Daniel Ellsberg: Any serious risk to that national security is extremely low. There may be 260,000 diplomatic cables. It.s very hard to think of any of that which could be plausibly described as a national security risk. Will it embarrass diplomatic relationships? Sure, very likely.all to the good of our democratic functioning. The embarrassment would be our awareness that we are supporting and facilitating dictators and corrupt and murderous governments, and we are quite aware of their nature. An example would be surrounding a visit of Hamid Karzai to this country.where he is given a special audience with the president. We know that privately he is seen realistically. We know that because of the leak, which I think started out of this investigation. We know that because of the leak from Ambassador Eikenberry. He describes him as irredeemably corrupt, not an appropriate partner for a pacification program, and cannot change. They would regard this as very embarrassing, [since publicly they.ve been] saying, he is a perfectly suitable partner for pacification, working on corruption.Ha ha..Bullshit. Do you think Assange is in danger? I happen to have been the target of a White House hit squad myself. On May 3, 1972, a dozen CIA assets from the Bay of Pigs, Cuban imigris were brought up from Miami with orders to .incapacitate me totally.. I said to the prosecutor, .What does that mean? Kill me.. He said, .It means to incapacitate you totally. But you have to understand these guys never use the word .kill... Is the Obama White House anymore enlightened than Nixon.s? We.ve now been told by Dennis Blair, the late head of intelligence here, that President Obama has authorized the killing of American citizens overseas, who are suspected of involvement in terrorism. Assange is not American, so he doesn.t even have that constraint. I would think that he is in some danger. Granted, I would think that his notoriety now would provide him some degree of protection. You would think that would protect him, but you could have said the same thing about me. I was the number one defendant. I was on trail but they brought up people to beat me up. You believe he is in danger of bodily harm, then? Absolutely. On the same basis, I was..Obama is now proclaiming rights of life and death, being judge, jury, and executioner of Americans without due process. No president has ever claimed that and possibly no one since John the First. What advice would you give Assange? Stay out of the U.S. Otherwise, keep doing what he is doing. It.s pretty valuable.He is serving our democracy and serving our rule of law precisely by challenging the secrecy regulations, which are not laws in most cases, in this country. He is doing very good work for our democracy. If [the alleged leaker, Bradley Manning] has done what he is alleged to have done, I congratulate him. He has used his opportunities very well. He has upheld his oath of office to support the Constitution. It so happens that enlisted men also take an oath to obey the orders of superiors. Officers don.t make that oath, only to the Constitution. But sometimes the oath to the Constitution and oath to superiors are in conflict. Assange has taken the position that all information should be out there. Do you agree? He has talked about not holding anything back. I wouldn.t agree with that. Some judgments should be made. Frankly, I don.t know whether he would really act on that. In your opinion, not everything should be released. Yes, there are things that should be kept secret for some period of time. It.s a matter of time that it can be kept. To say that there are no such things is unrealistic and doesn.t stand up under much thought. [Assange] is taking a position there that on its face is not sustainable, but he might well not keep it. He.s obviously a very competent guy in many ways. I think his instincts are that most of this material deserves to be out. We are arguing over a very small fragment that doesn.t. He has not yet put out anything that hurt anybody.s national security. And what about these cables in particular? On the question of those 260,000 diplomatic cables, it is not my position that nothing in them could deserve to be secret, that nothing deserves to be secret. I don.t know. I haven.t read them. Having read a hell of a lot of diplomatic cables, I would confidently make the judgment that very little, less than one percent, one percent perhaps, can honestly be said to endanger national security. That.s distinct [from the percentage that could cause] embarrassment.very serious embarrassment, [if people] realize that we are aware of highly murderous and corrupt operations by people and that we are supporting them. It is very seriously embarrassing. I think a better judgment would be to look over the 260,000 cables and exclude those which on their surface are dangerous. If the choice is between putting none of them out, as the State Department would like, and putting all of them out, I definitely feel our national security would be improved if they were put out. Between those two choices, I would rather see them all of them out. It would help understand our own foreign policy and give us the chance to improve it democratically. I hope they are out, I hope we get to see them. Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online. Get a head start with the Morning Scoop email. It.s your Cheat Sheet with must reads from across the Web. Get it. For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial(a)thedailybeast.com.

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sneakernet
by Eugen Leitl 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

http://github.com/drewcrawford/sneakernet THE SNEAKERNET The sneakernet is a 99% offline encrypted filesharing network. Mac and Windows support at the moment. OVERVIEW The sneakernet is designed as a 99% offline campus filesharing network to distribute gigabyte-sized files to a network of upwards of several thousand users who all live within a square mile or so. The sneakernet can also be set up as a smaller installation at your office or apartment complex, or could conceivably cover a smallish downtown area with enough horsepower. Not intended for large metropolitan installations; however patches accepted :-) The sneakernet uses flash drives as a transport layer to move encrypted files around from point to point until they reaches their destination. The sneakernet is designed for redundancy against data loss and to protect the privacy of its users; the network is segregated to prevent against network destruction or snooping. All routing decisions and encryption key exchange is handled by a trusted web server; all transfer of encrypted data happens offline via fully-automatic flash drive synchronization. STATUS The sneakernet is operational (although it's a little beta-ey) and is being actively tested on several campuses (or at least, so I'm toldo?=). Patches welcome. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * An appengine-compatible server stack to render the web pages etc. (Appengine isn't strictly required, but it is easy to deploy on) * Some flash drives * Some lockboxes (preferably the ones with numeric combination locks; there are some cheap ones on Amazon) * A few friends (or a few thousand) INSTALL Read the build & deploy guide, followed by the basic configuration guide. Large installs should additionally read the large configuration guide. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Официальное обналичивание. Новые положения в 2010г..
by обналичка 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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Платить налоги, но не ПЕРЕПЛАЧИВАТЬ. Оптимизация налогов
by черная зарплата 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

O5 Июля 2010 г. (495) 742 9I 98,(495) ЧЧ5-ЧО/95 Налоговое планирование в условиях кризиса. Законная альтернатива обналички и фирмам - однодневкам. 1.Что такое "черные" , "серые" и "белые" схемы, обналичка, фирма-однодневка ("помойка" , "недобросовестный" или "проблемный" налогоплательщик, "фонарь" и т.п.). Как выявить внешнего контрагента-однодневку и исключить отношения с ним. 2.Обналичивание. Для чего используется: "черная" зарплата и доходы собственников бизнеса; оплата расходов, которые не хочется проводить официально; незаконная деятельность (взятки, откаты, финансирование политической деятельности; Законные альтернативы (только для законных целей!: зарплата и дивиденды на спецрежимах, выплата процентов, компенсаций, аренда, покупка у физлиц ТМЦ, ИП на ЕНВД или УСН (в т.ч. на патенте) √ как использовать; дарение физлицом наличных денег, заработанных в качестве ИП √ легальная альтернатива обналичиванию, дающая безналоговый доход? Текущая ситуация с обложением таких доходов НДФЛ. Получение наличных по чеку на расходы ИП, через личные (карточные) счета, по сделкам с другими ИП, занимающимися розницей, общепитом, услугами населению и т.п.; зарплата в большом размере √ нулевая ставка страховых взносов; платежи от нерезидентов на карты, основания. Аутстафинг от нерезидента; перевод расходов в безналичную форму. Представительские расходы. 3.Однодневки. Для чего используются: псевдооптимизация НДС и налога на прибыль в отдельных сделках или всей деятельности; "серый импорт" ; "серая конвертация" ; незаконная деятельность. Законные альтернативы однодневкам (только для законных целей!: затратные механизмы или трансфертное ценообразование с участием низконалоговых субъектов; выявление (создание) покупателей (заказчиков), не нуждающихся в вычете НДС, разделение финансовых потоков "с НДС" и "без НДС" ; простое товарищество с участием субъектов УСН и/или нерезидентов, работа по агентским или комиссионным договорам с ними; прямой импорт с использованием или не использованием трансфертных цен и затратных механизмов; выплата нерезидентам дивидендов, роялти, процентов вклады в их уставные капиталы, покупка акций, инвестиции и т.п 4.Расчет налоговой нагрузки на примере. Каковы будут (и будут ли) потери при отказе от "черных" схем. Когда при этом можно даже сэкономить. Стоимость участия в семинаре 7 900 рублей Информацию можно получить по телефонам: (495) 742 9I 98;; Ч45-40/девять пять 6CVQ4

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