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Security & Personal Communications
by Jim Choate 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1474/byt20011017s0003/1022_hanger.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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NSA Under Attack
by John Young 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

The Boston Globe had a story on October 27 about NSA refusing to share comint on US persons with other federal agencies, destroying the data upon its lawyers' advice sooner than usual in the face of anti-terrorism pressure. (URL may wrap) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/300/nation/Spy_agency_destroys_data_anger ing_others_in_probe+.shtml If true, it's a big plus for NSA for complying with the law when others are rushing to bend, break and revise it. Some assholes are calling for unleashing NSA from its Church Committee restrictions, but a few sane people are saying, no, no domestic spying, we don't want to go through that again. To be sure, the story could be a cover for ignoring the law.

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Napster execs needing culling
by Khoder bin Hakkin 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Napster Wants License to License By Michael Stroud 2:00 a.m. Oct. 30, 2001 PST LOS ANGELES -- Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers says the government should consider compulsory standards requiring music labels to license music at a fair price if they don't close deals with Napster and other independent distributors. "Like any other business person, I'm hesitant to bring government in," Hilbers said. "But government has an obligation to set standards. If there's no agreement, the government should consider compulsory licensing." <snip> http://wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,47977,00.html Compulsory licensing = theft, buddy.

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by Michael Brandley 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

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CNN.com - ACLU: Face recognition systems ineffective - November 2, 2001
by Jim Choate 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/11/02/rec.face.recognition.ap/index.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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update.563 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:51:19 -0500 (EST) From: AIP listserver <physnews(a)aip.org> To: physnews-mailing(a)aip.org Subject: update.563 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 563 October 30, 2001 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? This may seem to be more of a question for psychologists than physicists. But two researchers (Joseph Wakeling, jwakeling(a)webdrake.net, now at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Per Bak, Imperial College, 011-44-20- 7594-8528, p.bak(a)ic.ac.uk) argue that intelligence is not an abstract concept, but must be considered as a physical phenomenon. Any definition of intelligence, they say, cannot ignore a living being's environment, including its very own body. In their view, an organism is only intelligent relative to how well it solves the problems that its surroundings throw at it. This runs counter to many historical ideas, including the concept that the mind is separate from the body, or that it is possible to build a desktop computer that thinks like a human without having the same physical environment or body. To explore the idea of intelligence, the researchers ran computer simulations of artificial neural networks called "minibrains." In the simulations, 251 minibrains each attempted to pick the less popular of two choices, 0 and 1, analogous to 251 motorists all trying to pick the less congested road. This "Minority Game" would be repeated over many successive rounds. Each minibrain consisted of three layers of "neurons": "input neurons," which dictated how many past rounds it could remember, leading to an intermediary layer, which then led into an "output" layer that determined what choice was made. If the minibrain ending up making an incorrect choice, it would reduce the strength of the connections between neurons supplying the "wrong answer." The researchers were in for a surprise when they endowed all of the minibrains with equal abilities, which would be analogous to a bunch of motorists with the same amount of decision-making skill. In this situation, no minibrains correctly guessed the minority choice with even a 50 percent success rate, which is what you'd get by making the choice with a random flip of a coin. Even an E. coli bacterium, which searches for glucose by moving in random directions in its environment, is seemingly more intelligent than this. Only when the researchers introduced a "rogue" minibrain with more intermediate neurons to analyze the past rounds did it attain more than a 50 percent success rate. Their simulations suggest that intelligence often hinges on how much one can make use of the data in its physical environment. (Wakeling and Bak, Physical Review E, November 2001) X-RAY FLASH FLY PHOTOGRAPHY. Researchers at Cornell [SSZ: text deleted] ALL-OPTICAL ELECTRON INJECTOR. Conventional electron [SSZ: text deleted]

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by Claudio V. 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Dear I ask you informations!!! I want buy an tv card for my pc!!! What card i must buy for look tele+ on my pc? Where i found the software for look tele+? I'm sorry for my english!!!! Thanks

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RE: Transperancy Spray?
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

georgemw(a)speakeasy.net wrote : >On 30 Oct 2001, at 14:51, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > >> Mike [mmotyka(a)lsil.com] wrote: >> >> > I would bet that there is SOMETHING that >> > is dissolved by liquid freon. Just mark >> > your letters with the stuff and look for >> > the integrity of the mark at the other end. >> >> Or... is there something that REACTS to freon in an interesting way...? >> >> >> S a n d y >> >> >I think freon is incredibly inert, that's why it's used. > Since there are so many ways to protect the contents of the message the freon topic is not all that interesting. It would be mildly amusing if there were a way to detect that freon had been used on a piece of paper. I would guess that it could be done by either finding an "ink" that was dissolved by freon or some other material that would sit happily in place until lifted and dispersed. http://solvdb.ncms.org/syn01.htm a fun solvents database - not too useful here http://www.redwop.com/technotes.asp?ID=107 not really relevant but interesting Freon seems to be ( or have been ) used mostly for degreasing. Could you make some sort of nondrying oil-based marker that would blur or weaken when drenched with freon? Probably. Buy some raw artist's pigment and mill it with a non-drying grease that is too thick to migrate appreciably over the time period of interest when applied to paper. Wetting with solvent would probably cause damage to a mark. Mike >My impression is that virtually any transparent >liquid will do a reasonable job of making the envelope transparent, >but the considerations are that you'd want something that doesn't >leave a residue and won'tr make the ink run. > >I believe that paper is white for the reason that snow is (as opposed >to the reason that titanium oxide is), that is, you've got a bunch of >surfaces where the index of refraction changes significantly from >that of air and there's a chance of reflection at each surface, but the >actual paper fibers are transparent. The liquid you spray on is >filling in the gaps with something with an index of refraction much >closer to that of the paper fibers. > >Pretty sure that's more or less how they work. Definately there's >no chemical reaction going on. > Sounds like a good explanation. >George

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King George II: Only in America
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

The video was shot at the August 29, 1992 wedding of Jamie Weiss, the daughter of Dubya's close friends Mike and Nancy Weiss. Mike, a Lubbock, Texas lawyer and CPA, was Bush's campaign chairman during his first political race (an unsuccessful 1978 congressional bid) and was one of the Texas governor's earliest political appointments. When cameraman T. Patrick Murray filmed Bush during the wedding reception at a Lubbock country club, the future governor took some rambling--and we presume good-natured--swipes at the newlyweds, the bride's parents, and her brother Kelly (Bush was being quizzed by a member of the bridal party). We love the part where teetotaler George actually disses two of the Weisses for supposedly not drinking or smoking. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/bush/bush.shtml

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New Quickoffice 5.6 for Palm handhelds
by Paul Moreton (VP) 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

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