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by Eugen Leitl 17 May '05

17 May '05

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/0250226 Posted by: Cliff, on 2005-05-13 19:38:00 from the browsing-without-regard-for-politics dept. [1]DocMurphy asks: "I'm working with some dissidents who are looking for ways to use the Internet from within repressive regimes. Many have in-home Internet access, but think it too risky to participate in pro-freedom activities on home PCs. Internet cafis are also available, but although fairly anonymous, every machine may be infected with keystroke loggers that give governments access to and knowledge of 'banned' sites. Dissidents not only want to remain anonymous themselves, but also wish to not compromise the sites they access. Any suggestions for products/procedures/systems out there making anonymous access & publishing a reality under repressive regime run Internet access?" References 1. mailto:ahb_yhwh@hotmail.com ----- End forwarded message ----- [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Re: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A): Universities need a little Limbaugh
by cypherpunk 17 May '05

17 May '05

> Now before you label me as a right-wing ideologue, let me present my > credentials as a centrist. Limbaugh has well-known positions on the > following issues: abortion, capital punishment, affirmative action, prayer > in school, gun control, the Iraq war. I disagree with him on half of these. Any speculations on which half? My guess is that he agrees on affirmative action and gun control (opposing both) and probably the Iraq war (a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and many people took 9/11 personally). He certainly disagrees on prayer in school, probably on capital punishment (opposing both, while Limbaugh supports them), and probably supports abortion rights, which Limbaugh opposes. CP

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Len Adleman (of R,S, and A): Universities need a little Limbaugh
by R.A. Hettinga 17 May '05

17 May '05

A little humor this morning... He's right, but it's still funny. Expect Dr. Adleman to be asked to turn in his Liberal Secret Decoder Ring forthwith... Cheers, RAH ------- <http://www.dailynews.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,200%257E20951%257E2872499…> Los Angeles Daily News Universities need a little Limbaugh By Leonard M. Adleman Saturday, May 14, 2005 - Pomp and circumstance. Black-robed students receiving diplomas as proud parents look on. Distinguished members of society receiving honorary degrees and offering sage advice to ''America's future.'' It is commencement time again at the nation's universities. This year I nominated Rush Limbaugh for an honorary doctorate at the University of Southern California, where I am a professor. Why Limbaugh _ a man with whom I disagree at least as much as I agree? Here are some of the reasons I gave in my letter of nomination: ''Rush Limbaugh has engendered epochal changes in politics and the media. He has accomplished this in the noblest of ways, through speech and the power of his ideas. Mr. Limbaugh began his career as a radio talk-show host in Sacramento in 1984. He espoused ideas that were conservative and in clear opposition to the dominant ideas of the time. Perhaps because of the persuasiveness of Mr. Limbaugh's ideas or because they resonated with the unspoken beliefs of a number of Americans, his audience grew. Today, he has the largest audience of any talk show host (said to be in excess of 20 million people per week) and his ideas reverberate throughout our society. ''Mr. Limbaugh is a three-time recipient of the National Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Radio Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year. In 1993, he was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters' Broadcasting Hall of Fame. ''In 1994, an American electorate, transformed by ideas that Mr. Limbaugh championed, gave control of Congress to the Republicans for the first time in 40 years. That year, Republican congressmen held a ceremony for Mr. Limbaugh and declared him an 'honorary member of Congress.' The recent re-election of President Bush suggests that this transformation continues. One of Mr. Limbaugh's major themes through the years has been liberal bias in the 'mainstream' media. His focus on this theme has made him the target of incessant condemnation. Nonetheless, he has persevered and it now appears that his view is prevailing. As the recent debacle at CBS shows, the media is in the process of major change. Ideally, the American people will profit from a reconstituted media that will act more perfectly as a marketplace for ideas.'' But there is a bigger reason why I support giving him an honorary degree: Because I value intellectual diversity. Regrettably, the university declined to offer Limbaugh a degree. As best I can determine, no university has honored him in this way. On the other hand, such presumably liberal media luminaries as Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, Judy Woodruff, Bill Moyers, Terry Gross, Paul Krugman and Peter Arnett have received many honorary degrees from the nation's universities. Now before you label me as a right-wing ideologue, let me present my credentials as a centrist. Limbaugh has well-known positions on the following issues: abortion, capital punishment, affirmative action, prayer in school, gun control, the Iraq war. I disagree with him on half of these. But intellectual diversity has all but vanished from America's campuses. We are failing in our duty to provide our students with a broad spectrum of ideas from which to choose. Honoring Limbaugh, or someone like him, would help to make the academy more intellectually diverse. The great liberal ideas that swept through our universities when I was a student at Berkeley in the 1960s have long ago been digested and largely embraced in academia. Liberalism has triumphed. But a troubling legacy of that triumph is a nation whose professorate is almost entirely liberal. In the 29 years I have been a professor, I do not recall encountering a single colleague who expressed conservative ideas. The left-wing accusations of Ward Churchill (Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Alfred University, 1992) are not the problem _ the problem is the scarcity of professors who are inclined to rebut them. It is time for the nation's universities to address this disturbing situation. So I hereby extend my nomination of Limbaugh to all universities. It would be a refreshing demonstration of renewed commitment to intellectual diversity if next spring we hear Dr. Limbaugh's words as our graduates ''go forth.'' Professor Leonard M. Adleman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. -- ----------------- 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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17 May '05

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by Julie Fountain 17 May '05

17 May '05

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by Vernon Scott 16 May '05

16 May '05

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It`s a revolution!
by Randy Sharp 16 May '05

16 May '05

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by A.Melon 16 May '05

16 May '05

=============================================================================== This is the sixth release candidate for the 0.1.0.x series. This is an actual release candidate--it's going to be the final release if there are no bugs--we promise. :) We fixed the last known major problems: we don't use threading on netbsd now, and the new libevent 1.1 detects and disables the broken kqueue that ships with OS X 10.4.0. Libevent 1.1 also has __significant__ performance improvements if you're using poll or select. Try it, you'll like it. Please report any bugs, either in the installers or in Tor operation, so we can get it perfect for an actual release: http://bugs.noreply.org/tor http://tor.eff.org/download.html o Bugfixes: - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver functions. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken. - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup when using the default exit policy. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead. - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py. - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports from getting suppressed in the published descriptor. - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until we fetched a new directory. - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus libevent warning on some Linuxes. o Features: - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on clients yet. - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address. - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to save memory on systems that need to fork. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc is valid without actually launching Tor. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit" rather than just rejecting it. ===============================================================================

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Three Years of A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram 15 May '05

15 May '05

Today it is three years since I published my book A New Kind of Science. It seems like a lot longer than that--so much has happened in the intervening time. What started as a book is steadily emerging as a major intellectual movement with its own structure and community. The first year after the book came out was dominated by a certain amount of "paradigm shift turbulence." But by the second year, many serious projects were starting, and indicators like the publication rate of NKS-based papers began to climb. Now, in the third year, a recurring theme has been the emergence of a growing group of exceptional individuals who are planning to base their careers on NKS. There are scores of NKS-based Ph.D. theses underway, and all sorts of NKS-based corporate ventures--as well as our own growing NKS R&D operation in Boston. Later this year, the first full-length independent book based on NKS will be published, and the first independent NKS conference will be held. In late June, we will be holding our third annual NKS Summer School--for which there were a record number of exceptional applicants. We are planning to have our next major NKS conference in spring 2006; we'll be announcing the details shortly. There will also be an NKS mini-course at our Wolfram Technology Conference this October. This year I myself have mostly been in a tool-building phase, working on major new Mathematica technology that, among other things, will be very important for NKS research--and which I can't wait to use. There's a lot more in the pipeline too. We're developing plans for a new kind of publishing medium for NKS (partly based on the Complex Systems journal that I've been publishing since 1986). We're also planning later this year to start regular "live experiments," in which I'll be leading public web-conferenced explorations into the computational universe. Also in the next few months we're planning to release a rather unexpected consumer-oriented application of NKS, which I expect we'll all be hearing quite a bit about. As we begin the fourth year of NKS, I feel more optimistic than ever before about its promise--and its significance in science, technology, the arts, and beyond. It will be fascinating to see where the most important NKS-based breakthroughs come from, and what they will be. I hope you'll have the opportunity to take part in the excitement of the upcoming years of early NKS growth. -- Stephen Wolfram http://www.wolframscience.com

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15 May '05

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