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Re: PBS show
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:24 PM 6/14/96 -0500, David E. Smith wrote: >>I know i will regret saying this but: >> >>The mac OS is 3 times better than Windows '95 >> > >Gee, what's three times zero? > >dave > > > > 48? you can thank the public education system for that answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Age-13 Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> My page- http://www.iglou.com/members/jwilk.html Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson

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Re: PBS show
by Ryan Russell/SYBASE 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

143K. Per side. Ryan ---------- Previous Message ---------- The original Apple II floppy held ONLY 90 kilobytes on a 5" floppy. How did they do such a bad job?

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SF Bay Area: 6/18 Smart Talk on WhoWhere? (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI. Sounds like a venture capital shindig. Pity I won't be able to make it. That would have been Highly Amusing. -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 13 Jun 1996 16:03:52 -0400 From: Leslie Kareckas <lesliek(a)svi.org> Newsgroups: ba.smartvalley, ba.announce Subject: 6/18 Smart Talk on WhoWhere? ***************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION ***************************************************************** SMART TALK Sponsored by Smart Valley, Inc. and Gemini Management Consulting SPEAKER: Gunjan Sinha President, WhoWhere? TITLE: WhoWhere?: The Global White Pages of the Internet DATE: Tuesday, June 18, 1996 TIME: 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM LOCATION: Smart Valley, Inc. 2520 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara CONTACT: Isabel Sarkis - IsabelS(a)svi.org or 408-562-7794 ABSTRACT WhoWhere? is the largest directory of personal and corporate phone numbers, physical addresses and e-mail addresses on the Internet. As the Net rapidly evolves, defines and redefines itself, WhoWhere? provides a worldwide collection of fundamental information which serves both individual and business communication needs. It has become the Global White Pages and enables people to locate others around the world, whether they are on or off the Net. Gunjan Sinha will share the challenges associated with building and maintaining this type of directory and the ways in which it can be utilized. BIO Prior to forming WhoWhere? Inc., Gunjan Sinha was the architect of video servers at Olivetti Advanced Technology, where he developed interactive video servers. He was also involved with multiprocessor and distributed server development. Earlier is his career, Sinha was the co-founder of Viman Software Inc., a network license management company, which was later acquired by Central Designs Systems Inc. Sinha holds a Masters in Engineering Management from Stanford University, and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Cruz. DIRECTIONS: Take the Great America Parkway exit North from 101. Turn right at the first traffic light (Mission College Boulevard) and go straight approximately three blocks. Turn right into the second UB Networks driveway. Smart Valley is on the left at 2520 Mission College Blvd. There is ample parking throughout the campus. ************************************************************** All are welcome to attend this Smart Talk. Admission is free to individual members and all employees of Smart Valley member companies. Non-members are charged a $5.00 fee. Continental breakfast is included. Reservations are required as seating is limited. RSVP to Isabel Sarkis at IsabelS(a)svi.org or 408-562- 7794. Smart Talk announcements can also be found on the Web (http://www.svi.org)

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Mission Anonymous / U.S. News & World Report
by printing＠explicit.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: IP: Wired News: Y2Kaboom?
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Make that "inappropriate" behavior. >The fact that one entity is enaging in appropriate behavior does not excuse the >rest. -Declan At 11:30 AM 11-16-98 -0800, b!X wrote: >On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Declan McCullagh wrote: > ># I hope that in the future, "Believer" would see fit not to distribute Wired ># News articles in full. Not only does it violate civil and criminal ># copyright law, but it's also just plain rude. > >Hey Congress gets to insert the full test of articles into the Congressional >Record as much they want, why can't we? ;) > > >- b!X (Guerrilla Techno-fetishist @ GEEK Force) >

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WEB: Child molester database
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Along with the arms trafficker page, now we have a "child molester database": http://www.greatworld.com/public Deadbeat Dads, Drug Dealers and more, coming soon according to blurb. -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ...for the best in unapproved information "We think people like seeing somebody in a uniform on the porch." -US Postal spokeswoman, quoted in AP, 1/27/96. I don't know about you, but most people I know who saw someone in uniform on their porch would pull out the shotgun...

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update.275 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From physnews(a)aip.org Fri Jun 14 18:39:08 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 16:45:16 EDT From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) Message-Id: <9606142045.AA11832(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.275 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 275 June 14, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE FIRST QUANTUM COMMUNICATION USES "TRITS" INSTEAD OF BITS. For the first time, physicists have exploited the laws of quantum mechanics to send data, and with their technique have conveyed information more efficiently than with traditional means. In contrast to a traditional computer, in which messages consist of tiny electric pulses encoded in binary form (i.e., streams of 0s and 1s), researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria send messages consisting of single photons which can be coded as 0s, 1s, and 2s, setting up a base three system called "trits." The Innsbruck group (Harald Weinfurter, harald.weinfurter(a)uibk.ac.at) converts a single ultraviolet photon into two photons whose properties are quantum mechanically interlinked, or "entangled." Devices then encode a 0, 1, or 2 onto one of the photons by performing an operation on it (such as flipping its spin or shifting its phase); since the devices are blind to the initial state of the photon, they change the overall properties of the entangled photon pair without determining its final state. The two photons are recombined and then the interlinked pair travels towards a network of detectors. Two-photon interference creates three different sets of detection possibilities in the Innsbruck setup that reveal the quantum state of the entangled pair and whether the photon was encoded with a 0, 1, or 2. The physics of entanglement has been exploited in numerous recent experiments, to build quantum logic gates (Update 250) and perform an atom-level demonstration of Schrodinger's cat (Update 273), but until now it has never been used for quantum communication---encoding a message at one location and receiving it at another. Furthermore, the same information contained in a typical ASCII character, normally requiring the use of 8 bits, can also be transmitted using only 5 trits. (K. Mattle et al, Physical Review Letters, 17 June 1996. More information and graphics can be found at http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/c7/c704/qo/photon/_qdc) THE CLOSEST EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET yet discovered orbits the star Lalande 21185, only 8.1 light years from Earth. George Gatewood of the University of Pittsburgh observed a telltale wobble in the light coming from the star, indicating the presence of a Jupiter-sized planet circling the star in a Saturn-sized orbit. Gatewood's data, presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Madison, WI, even hinted at the possibility of other planets in the same solar system. (Washington Post, 12 June.) Also, another planet has been found by Geoff Marcy of San Francisco State and Paul Butler of Berkeley, who announced two new planets in January 1996. Their new find is a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Rho Cancri (40 light years from Earth) at a distance of only 0.1 astronomical units. It completes a "year" in only about two Earth weeks. (Sky & Telescope, July 1996) A MOVIE OF THE CRAB NEBULA provides new details about pulsar dynamics. At the heart of the nebula is a pulsar (the remnant of a 1000-year-old supernova) which casts powerful streams of particles into the surrounding debris-filled medium. The Hubble Space Telescope has recorded a sequence of pictures which show where much of the pulsar's energy goes. One surprise was how quickly the landscape alters: noticeable changes in the region around the pulsar sometimes occurred in a matter of days. A second surprise is that the outward flow of energy is confined largely to two zones: jets shooting out from the poles and wisps of material in the pulsar's equatorial plane. (Science News, 8 June; Science, 7 June.)

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Re: PBS show
by wxfield＠shore.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Blake; I agree with you...(re:Apple II was a toy)... <smirk> Eniac, by comparison was also a toy...(I wonder how many lives it saved???) Heck, Eniac has it 'all over' the Abacus - Gosh, those darn Babylonians seem so primitive nowadays! >At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote: >>At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: > >>>But the Apple II WAS a toy! Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset >>>key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY >>>SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile >>>legal situation regarding the building of clones. Hell, they even objected >>>to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus! >> >> >>I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution > >Grandly ignoring the Altair, the TRS-80 Model I, the IMSAI, et al. Even Jolt! > > >Jim Bell >jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Fuseable Links - no guarantees??
by wxfield＠shore.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have never paid much attention to the protection of firmware or the technical issues revolving around such schemes...was wondering: I recently saw an add for a UK based group that says they can take a PIC OTP micro and read the prom (for a fee, of course) - How the heck is this done?? I have my suspicion that they (somehow) magically peel off the ceramic coating (without destroying the chewy center), get a circuit mask and 'micro probe' the I/O of the IC...they then download the secret recipe to the afore mentioned 'chewy center'. Is this close to accurate?? How is it 'done' ??? -Just Curious

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Dead as a Dollar
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6-15-96. NYP Mag: "Dead as a Dollar." For everyone who uses cash, everyone who stores it and everyone who regulates it, a challenge is nearing. The challenge will be to make choices. Some kinds of electronic currency will protect privacy, and some will violate privacy. Some will make crime easier, and some will make it extraordinarily difficult. Some will tax commerce parasitically, and some will catalyze it. The new minters of money will have enormous power to choose -- unless consumers, on the one hand, and Government officials, on the other, decide to make their own choices. In the "current climate," as those in Washington tend to say, anything that smacks of an expanded role for the Government is anathema. Policy makers at the Treasury are reluctant even to talk about electronic money on the record. "It's easy to go in and say, 'Oh, we're going to regulate everything,' without knowing what everything is," says a senior Treasury official. "We want to know what everything is." He adds: "There are very serious policy issues -- seigniorage, money laundering, financial- stability issues, consumer issues that are genuinely important that we must address and look hard at. It may be sensible for the Government to issue a card -- that's conceivable -- but what if you issue it and nobody uses it?" As money enters a new age, so does counterfeiting. The ultimate threat is the perfect copy -- the virtual coin that proves mathematically identical to the real thing. If money is a string of bits, then someone, some where, can make a perfect copy, and another and another. An arms race is already raging between those working to armor-plate digital cash with doubly and triply secure cryptography and those working to pierce the armor. Security experts assume that nefarious characters, in search of an unending stream of money, are already investing millions in the next stages of research and development. For every new idea in tamper resistance, there is a new idea in tampering.... "At least you can cause people to have to spend a lot of money," says Eric Hughes, a cryptography expert. "But doing the second chip is far, far less money than the first. And if you could make a master chip that spoke the right protocol, you could make a little money mint for yourself." "Information warfare is going to make people very worried downstream," says Crook at Citicorp. "We have an immense paranoia about how dangerous it's going to be. I think that the security requirements in our industry are going to be more severe than at the Department of Defense." Cryptography is as close as modern mathematics comes to magic. It's simply a design choice. Smart cards, or their on-line equivalents, could function as blindly as raw cash. They could be even less traceable than in Chaum's system. That is a frightening prospect to law- enforcement authorities. Having finally made life difficult for drug smugglers with heavy cash suitcases, they will not casually allow the manufacture of half- ounce chips that could make possible blind transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars, a money launderer's dream. Even if the Government takes no other action in the electronic-money arena, it will surely move to extend its restrictions on cash to cover digital equivalents. And so far, the large institutions entering the electronic-money arena are leaning toward less-anonymous, less-private approaches than Chaum's, betting that most of us will be willing to sacrifice more pieces of privacy for, say, convenience. Chaum could prove right, but only if the marketplace is willing to cast its votes for privacy. [With many remarks by Kawika Daguio.] http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/deaddoll.txt (48 kb) ----- Or, if http fails, DED_dol to <jya(a)pipeline.com> Thanks to JG and NYPaper.

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