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Re: Disco Inferno
by R. A. Hettinga 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/dec… Groups Advanced Groups Search Preferences Groups Help "com" is a very common word and was not included in your search. [ details ] Groups search result 7 for http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap3.jpg Patriot Act Compliance * FastWatch provides compliance for Sec. 326 of the Patriot Act * Penley Sponsored Links Attn: Corporate Counsel * USA Patriot Act analysis available online from major US law firms * www.lawperiscope.com Search Result 7 From: leon skunkers Subject: Re: Disco Inferno View: Complete Thread (30 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: misc.survivalism Date: 2003-02-22 15:02:38 PST On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:34:34 -0800, Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: >In article <NtD5a.46383$na.1148309(a)news2.calgary.shaw.ca>, Patt ><pattj(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Aren`t you being just a little INSENSITIVE?? >> Ptt > >Speaking of disasters, I lived for a while in an apartment complex >immediately across the street from the "Toys-R-Us" in Maryland where >the roof collapsed this morning under the weight of a heavy load of >snow. I guess it gives new meaning to "a crush of shoppers." > >--Tim May if that's your kind of humor, and you want a REALLY good laugh, check THIS stuff out. story here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/atlanta/0203/16suspect.html pics of the body: http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap1.jpg http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap2.jpg http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap3.jpg I damn near laughed MY head off. Post a follow-up to this message Google Home -Advertise with Us -Search Solutions -Services & Tools -Jobs, Press, & Help )2003 Google -- ----------------- 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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Re: Ethnomathematics
by Bill Stewart 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

At 05:41 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: >Seriously, this flap is old news. I remember about a dozen years ago >when some feminista professor was teaching "female-oriented physics." >Actually, she was _advocating_ the teaching of female-oriented physics. Was she an actual physics professor, talking about her own field, or some sort of literature/philosophy/sociology/politics professor? The latter type are definitely old news, but as long as they spend their time trying to convince female physics and mathematics professors to think about new ways to structure or teach their curriculum, that's fine. It's when they start dissing physics and math as "hostile to women" and thereby discouraging young women from going into the field that they really cause problems (as opposed to old boring sexist white male professors discouraging women from going into the field, which was the old problem.) Actually doing a female-oriented physics or teaching curriculum is fine, if somebody can do a good job of it. After all, most of these fields consist of real mathematics, exposure to real materials and their behaviour, sets of metaphors for understanding how the math and behaviour are related, and various levels of abstraction and concrete examples to interest students. The math is the math, and the materials either will or won't cooperate, but if feminist approaches can provide a set of metaphors or abstractions that help students (or at least female-culture-oriented students) understand how the math relates to the real world, then great! And if they can find a set of examples or problems that are less male-oriented than guns, rocketships, pushing pool cues into objects of various hardness and softness, or football and if this helps female students be more interested in the problems, or gives them examples that are more familiar to them, then great! There's certainly no shortage of boring textbooks out there, and if women who understand math and physics and communications can overcome Sturgeon's Law and the textbook publishers' mafia or teacher selection committees, then more power to them, and otherwise, well, the other 90% will be more gender-balanced.

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25 Feb '03

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Re: Ethnomathematics
by R. A. Hettinga 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

At 5:41 PM -0800 on 2/24/03, Tim May wrote: > Here's an image the censors are already trying to get removed: > > <http://images.ogrish.com/2003/2212003/decap3.jpg> Yuck. I can't wait to see where Tim got this one from. I expect he's trolling the universe with it, though... Cheers, RAH Who remembers a biker-dismemberment series here, from some court case or another. It's where they usually come from... -- ----------------- 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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Weizmann Institute Sets "Guinness Record"
by Eric Cordian 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

The Weizmann Institute has done it again. Written yet another press release, that is. I wasn't even aware Guinness had a record for the smallest biological computing device. Have the Guinness people even heard of the Weizmann people? One wonders. In any case, they claim that two spoonfuls of their latest goo is a 600 TeraOP DNA computer. I'll be more impressed when they port Linux. Har. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030224-045551-7398r ----- REHOVAT, Israel, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The latest entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for smallest biological computing device is a microscopic gadget composed of DNA and enzymes that not only reads DNA for data but uses it as fuel. Israeli scientists reported Monday that just two spoonfuls could hold up to 30 million billion of such molecular computers, which could perform about 660 trillion operations per second -- nearly 20 times as many as Japan's Earth Simulator, the most powerful supercomputer now active. "The long-term goal is to eventually create autonomous, programmable molecular computing devices that can operate in vivo, eventually inside the human body, and function as 'doctors in a cell,'" researcher Ehud Shapiro, a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, told United Press International. By detecting biochemical anomalies, the micro-computers could consult "their programmed medical knowledge to direct the synthesis and delivery of biomolecules that serve as drugs," Shapiro explained. DNA stores both information -- in the form of the genetic code in humans -- and energy. "Nature uses DNA for information storage, but does not exploit it as an energy supply," Shapiro said. The new device is an advance on a computer made of DNA previously announced by Shapiro and colleagues about a year ago. The device's input, output and "software" are composed of DNA molecules, while the hardware is made of naturally occurring enzymes that can manipulate DNA. When mixed together in a solution, the hardware and software work together, with the enzyme regulating the input according to rules encoded on the software molecule. All computers need energy, and the research team's previous DNA computer used a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, the biochemical whose high-energy phosphate bonds are used by all cells as their standard fuel. In findings appearing online Feb. 24 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists said the enzymes regulating the input molecules can use the energy released to drive calculations. "Our experiments demonstrate for the first time that we may use a DNA molecule as an input for computation, and at the same time fuel this computation by the energy stored in the very same molecule," Shapiro said. "Such combination, although theoretically conceivable, is practically impossible with conventional electronic computers." The computer requires very little energy, the scientists said. For example, even the hypothetical spoonful releases less than 25 millionths of a watt as heat. Moreover, the new computer is 50 times faster than before. "I would say this is a proof of concept," said IBM researcher Charles Bennett in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. "I think there's a long way to go from doing a particular computation like they propose here to making a general purpose molecular computer that's fast enough and reliable enough and energetically cheap enough to be useful." Shapiro admitted that the work remains at a very basic stage, but added the researchers hope to create even more powerful devices and perhaps create DNA computers that can work in living cells. "The main hurdle, which will take a decade or so to overcome, is science's inability to synthesize 'designer enzymes,'" Shapiro said. "Science does not know how to create enzymes that meet our needs." -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message you sent. The inf ected attachment was deleted.
by NAV for Microsoft Exchange-MAIL 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Recipient of the infected attachment: MotorSPO\Inbox Subject of the message: Coremetrics One or more attachments were deleted Attachment src.pif was Deleted for the following reasons: Virus W32.Klez.H@mm was found.

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Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL
by Steve Schear 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

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[ANNOUNCE] OpenSSL 0.9.7a and 0.9.6i released
by Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

OpenSSL version 0.9.7a and 0.9.6i released ========================================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.7a of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a security and bugfix release and incorporates at least 11 changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES. We also release 0.9.6i, which contains the same security bugfix as 0.9.7a and a few more small bugfixes compared to 0.9.6h. The most significant changes are: o Security: Important security related bugfixes. [0.9.7a and 0.9.6i] o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. [0.9.7a] o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. [0.9.7a] o IA32 assembler enhancements. [0.9.7a] o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. [0.9.7a] o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. [0.9.7a] o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. [0.9.7a] o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. [0.9.7a] We consider OpenSSL 0.9.7a to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.7a is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you can find the various FTP mirrors under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html) o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ For those who want or have to stay with the 0.9.6 series of OpenSSL, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.6i as soon as possible. It's available in the same location as 0.9.7a. The distribution file name is: o openssl-0.9.7a.tar.gz [normal] MD5 checksum: a0d3203ecf10989fdc61c784ae82e531 o openssl-0.9.6i.tar.gz [normal] MD5 checksum: 9c4db437c17e0b6412c5e4645b6fcf5c o openssl-engine-0.9.6i.tar.gz [engine] MD5 checksum: c9adc0596c630b31b999eba32fc0a6b3 The checksums were calculated using the following command: openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.7a.tar.gz openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.6i.tar.gz openssl md5 < openssl-engine-0.9.6i.tar.gz Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov Ralf S. Engelschall Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe Dr. Stephen Henson Bodo Möller Lutz Jänicke Ulf Möller --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Lucrative update
by R. A. Hettinga 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

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Re: Degenerate Political Pressure (was RE: The Wimps of War)
by R. A. Hettinga 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

At 10:28 AM -0500 on 2/14/03, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > How would you distinguish the actions of the Royal Navy from those of > ordinary pirates? Just prettier uniforms, better weaponry, and a bitch > back in London with a crown on her head, or what? Sounds about right to me. :-) Seriously, just chalk it up to emergent phenomena, and you're not too far from the truth. Cheers, RAH "A prince is a bandit who doesn't move." -- Mancur Olsen, 'Power and Prosperity' -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Camels, fleas, and princes exist everywhere." -- Persian proverb

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