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CDR: New penalties to silence whistle blowers
by George＠Orwellian.Org 16 Oct '00

16 Oct '00

http://foxnews.com/national/101300/leaks.sml Congress Increases Penalty for Classified Leaks Friday, October 13, 2000 An intelligence bill passed by Congress could stifle the ability of whistle-blowers and the media to get information to the public by expanding criminal penalties for government employees leaking secrets. [snip]

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CDR: Re: Rijndael & Hitachi
by Derek Atkins 16 Oct '00

16 Oct '00

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb(a)research.att.com> writes: > Precisely. What is the *real* threat model? > > History does indeed show that believed-secure ciphers may not be, and > that we do indeed need a safety margin. But history shows even more > strongly that there are many better ways to the plaintext, and that's > the real goal. Why try to pick a Medeco when it's locking a glass door? :-) -derek PS: This isn't a hypothetical; I visited a friend's parents a number of years ago, and noticed that their front door, all glass (with nothing behind it) was locked using a Medeco lock. For those who don't know, a Medeco is a top-of-the-line lock, practically impossible to pick, drill out, etc. -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord(a)MIT.EDU PGP key available

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CDR: Re: Re: A famine averted...
by James A.. Donald 16 Oct '00

16 Oct '00

-- > I freely admit that I have absolutely no authority over things > economic. But I do think you too have an overly simplified view of > the theory - you do not seem to distinquish between the derivation > of some of the parameters (e.g. price) of a dynamic system which is > assumed to be in equilibrium based on known ones (e.g. measures > of/related to demand, availability etc.) from actually working with > the time evolution of the system (none of the variables are known a > priori and the solution consists of complete time functions). Economists do that all the time. It is called modeling. Lucas and Lawrence Klein won nobel prizes for doing it. I expect that other economists that I am not familiar with have also won Nobels in it. > For instance, in the basic example given above - price formation of > a single good in an ideal closed market (i.e. given the normal > assumptions of independence of participants, continuity of > variables, perfect knowledge and so on) - can you cite a single > understandable source with the rigorous derivation of bounds for > over/undershoot in price upon rapid fluctuation in supply? I doubt that I could provide any source on economics that you would regard as understandable. You are asking for a prediction of the behavior of human actors, predicting what people will do. One can only derive "rigorous" results if one makes assumptions about how people think and what they want. The most rigorous attempt at that is known as "rational expectations theory". Rational expectations theory (for which Lucas got his Nobel) assumes that people will make the best guess they can about future behavior of the market, then base their present behavior on that best guess, and the market will then reflect that present behavior. This of course produces inaccurate results for obvious reasons, and economists attempt to model people more accurately but less rigorously by using "rational ignorance" and "bounded rationality." All these are major areas of study in economics. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG DxdupuGKPAB/3JK3xLW6o/vv+Pqu/DksQ40lUL6M 4brEUhWqvkA5XljkmlgM1eGujT4yTvhuOYMtt5ayb

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CDR: Gov. Bush links Columbine massacre to Internet use
by Declan McCullagh 16 Oct '00

16 Oct '00

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/0326212&mode=nested Bush Links Columbine Massacre to Internet Use posted by cicero on Wednesday October 11, @10:25PM from the sounds-a-lot-like-joseph-lieberman dept. George W. Bush may have bested Al Gore in tonight's presidential debate, but it sure wasn't because of the governor's tech-savviness. Warned the Texas Republican, in response to a gun-control question: "Columbine spoke to a larger issue, and it's really a matter of culture. It's a culture that somewhere along the line we begun to disrespect life, where a child can walk in and have their heart turn dark as a result of being on the Internet and walk in and decide to take somebody else's life." It was undeniably a good, mushy, appeal-to-the-softhearted line, but the sheer schmaltziness of it is in questionable taste. For instance: Was the Net really to blame? Shouldn't even a "compassionate conservative" want to hold miscreants responsible for their own actions? And would the guv have offered the same warning to millions of Americans if the Columbine killers had, say, been regulars at the public library? Transcript is at: http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/0326212&mode=nested

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CDR: Boost your internet connection and PC's speed..
by Hi There... 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

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CDR: Swedish Team Cracks Tough Computer Codes (was Re: NewsScan Daily,
by David Marshall 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

"R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> writes: > They must mean RSA512, of course. > > Given various people's pings to me about the death of 128-bit RC4, :-), > someone should tell the New York Times, and others, about the difference > between symmetric and asymmetric ciphers... > > Cheers, > RAH Someone might also want to tell them that "70 years of computer time" is a meaningless measurement unless they define how many cycles are in a year of "computer time." Of course, I could be missing some phantom standard concerning what constitutes a year of computer time. > > codes, which took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer time to > > decrypt, ranged from ciphers dating back to ancient Greece through the

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CDR: Re: UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS FOR YOU, LIKE TODAY!
by David Marshall 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

Mac Norton <mnorton(a)cavern.uark.edu> writes: > Do you award the DDS, Doctor of Divine Surgery? > If so, please contact me at this address. > Rev. N.M. Norton I don't think that they do. They don't offer degrees in English either. They do, however, offer degrees in hip So-Cal slang and 'bonics. What it is, man! Just slip dem some billz and they'll hit ya back on the first with diplomaz, my bruddah! Like, totally, and stuff.

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by Mac Norton 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

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15 Oct '00

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CDR: Senate approves online booze ban; FCC, landlords, and telcos
by Declan McCullagh 15 Oct '00

15 Oct '00

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/15/2120258&mode=nested Senate Votes to Restrict Online Booze Sales posted by cicero on Sunday October 15, @04:19PM from the so-junior-doesn't-order-that-$45-california-merlot dept. The U.S. Senate voted 95-0 last week to restrict online alcohol sales. The purported reason: Beer and wine wholesalers claim it would protect children. "This law will put real power behind state efforts to enforce laws that require responsible marketing (and) ID checks," one lobbyist said in a Wired News article. The real reason: Wholesalers fear being bypassed by mail order firms -- that would mean losing lucrative markups -- and have handed millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Congress. The House has already approved the bill, part of an unrelated measure about trafficking in sex slaves, and the president is expected to sign it shortly. http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/14/1956211&mode=nested FCC Wants to Force Net Access on Landlords posted by cicero on Saturday October 14, @02:47PM from the so-much-for-private-property dept. Adam Thierer of the conservative Heritage Foundation writes in with a recent article he wrote about the FCC. He's angry about a proposed regulation the agency is considering: It requires apartment and office building owners to let telcom companies wire the place, at a cost to be determined by the Feds. So much for private property, eh? Thierer's article is below.

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