- cypherpunks-legacy - lists.cpunks.org

A tad more on Goldbach's Conjecture....
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I figure I'll share the thought I'm trailing.... Given Goldbach's Conjecture as true then it has a geometric interpretation. Given a triangle of even area greater than two it can be tiled with a set of triangles, with areas given by primes, exactly. I'm using equilaterals as a test case since they're easy to deal with geometricaly. So, if one can show that this is true then Goldbach's follows. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

*QX-Tools. What Are you waiting for? 6 Stars?
by listmaster＠extensis.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Extensis QX-Tools 4.0 Takes the Prize-again, and again, and again. http://www.extensis.com/qxtools * 5 STARS! -Publish Magazine, December 1998 * 5 STARS! -Computer Arts UK, November 1998 * 4 1/2 MICE! -MacWorld, December 1998 * 4 MICE! -MacUser UK, October 1998 * 4 DIAMONDS!-Emediaweekly, September 1998 We have received such enthusiasm from customers and reviewers, alike-we just had to share! At Extensis, we never get tired of having multiple wingdings attached to our reviews, and the quotes are even better! Judge for yourself. "QX-Tools 4.0 belongs among your most valuable XTensions. QX-VectorEdit's ability to import PostScript and PDF alone is worth the price." - Publish, 12/98 "Some inventions are so obvious, you wonder why no one thought of them before-enter Extensis QX-Tools 4.0. QX-Tools is an excellent collection of XTensions and it's a good value too-even if you only use half of them"-Computer Arts, 11/98 "QX-Tools 4.0 enables designers to transcend XPress' limitations and work more efficiently and intuitively."-eMediaweekly, 9/98 So, what are YOU waiting for? Six Stars? Check out Extensis QX-Tools, and get the Quark you REALLY want! To download a demo, get information, or to buy on-line, visit http://www.extensis.com/qxtools Or call Extensis at 1(800) 796-9798 or (503) 274-2020. Extensis QX-Tools is fully compatible with QuarkXPress 4.0.3 or later, and is available for both Mac and Windows. PS. We have made every effort to ensure this message is being sent only to people who have expressed interest in Extensis products. If we have sent this to you in error, please accept our apologies and reply with "REMOVE" in the subject line for automatic exclusion from future communications. If you know someone who would like to be on our mailing list have them send an email to listmaster(a)extensis.com with "ADD" in the subject line and their email address in the body. P.P.S. This message is intended for North American customers. If you are located outside of North America and have received this message, please visit http://www.extensis.com/wheretobuy/ to find the nearest local distributor in your country.

1 0

Re: CJ Update Corrected
by Douglas L. Peterson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young wrote: > > This is attorney protected information. > > Received today by e-mail: > > November 16, 1998 > Springfield, Missouri > > To: friends of Carl Johnson, The Last Canadian > Outlaw (name of his last album) > > From: Alia Johnson > > I saw CJ today at the Springfield facility for the > criminally disturbing. We spent five hours, a lot of > laughing, a little crying, and talking, with lots of > cameras and mikes on us. The controllers would not > let me take notes! [large snip] > CJ has been without glasses and without his teeth for > the whole time since he was arrested. JEFF GORDON > STILL HAS CJ'S TEETH. However, his vision has > improved! He is also without proper medication for > his Tourette's. The shrink told him that the > amphetamines he had been prescribed and which were > working well would probably be stolen by the staff > anyway. CJ is very conscious of managing his > neurological condition, with coffee, sugar, fasting, > and self-control. He does complain that he was so > pleased with himself that he got through his last > rage attack without hurting himself or acting it out > that he punched a wall in celebration and hurt his > hand! Someone should talk to Larry Dowling (the lawyer looking out for CJ's rights) about this. This seems to be a violation of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). -Doug www.TheServerFarm.net

1 0

No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

##### # ###### # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # # # ##### # ###### ##### # # # #### ##### #### # # # #### ###### ##### ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ##### # # ##### # # # # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### # # #### ##### #### # # ##### # ###### # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # # # ##### # ###### FUCK micro$oft. Kill them all. Nuke Redmond. Sodomize bILL gATES. Cut his micro$oft prick and shove it up his own ass. Rabid motherfucking whoremongerz at redmond.

2 1

No Subject
by holist 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I only subscribed to this list a few weeks ago. I break my silence in defense of Bernardo B. Terrado, who was viciously attacked by Adam Hupp and then rather more graciously advised by Jim Gillogly. Having read a significant amount of material on the ideological (rather than the technical) background of cypherpunks (Tim May's writings, mainly) it seems to me rather obvious that a relative newcomer to these circles would come to expect to find people who may not be "mannered intellectuals", but who are certainly not erstwhile defenders of intellectual property, particularly asthe concept is applied to software today. I understand that there may be other reasons why it is unwise to post requests for warez on these lists, but moral outrage at the thought of software piracy was not one I expected to read here. Especially as I hear nobody complaining about the advertisement for pornography that I receive every two days, regular as clockwork, from the cypherpunks list, not to mention the great deal of other entirely useless, automatically generated advertising. Unlike most of you lucky people in the States, I pay through the nose for on-line time. Perhaps priorities could do with rethinking. holist

4 3

Forwarded mail...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:15:07 -0800 (PST) > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: holist <holist(a)mail.matav.hu> You should consider subscribing through one of the normal CDR nodes, the toad.com site is unreliable. > come to expect to find people who may not be "mannered intellectuals", but > who are certainly not erstwhile defenders of intellectual property, > particularly asthe concept is applied to software today. Now just exactly what makes you believe that I want other people deciding what happens to the results of my labor? I support Open Source software, however not to the extent I want somebody else to decide without my input whether any given piece happens to Open Source. > requests for warez on these lists, but moral outrage at the thought of > software piracy was not one I expected to read here. Then perhaps you need to work on your morality. > Especially as I hear nobody complaining about the advertisement for > pornography So what? How exactly does pornography map to stolen software? > Unlike most of you lucky people in the States, I pay through the nose for > on-line time. Sounds like a personal problem to me. > Perhaps priorities could do with rethinking. I agree, you need to do some rethinking. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Goldbach & two or more primes...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I'm aware of the Goldbach Reduction by Fermat. The problem is once this theorem is placed in the geometric domain the fact that n-prime factors can be reduced to 2 prime factors is critical and a hinderance. It simply isn't possible to tile a even aread triangle with two smaller congruent triangles whose area is prime. As a result Goldbach's older form is more applicable. If it can be shown that such a tiling is always possible then by extension of Fermat's conjecture the two prime supposition is proved. Reductionism can be a friend or an enemy, swords cut both ways. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

manners
by Richard.Bragg＠ssa.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are ways and means. If someone requests software that is NOT free then a simple NO will surfice. A list of contacts to purchase would aid income for the producer. An additional approach would be to suggest alternatives that are free. There is never any call to be rude.

5 4

Piracy and cypherpunks
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

holist writes: > Having read a significant amount of material on the ideological (rather than > the technical) background of cypherpunks (Tim May's writings, mainly) it > seems to me rather obvious that a relative newcomer to these circles would > come to expect to find people who may not be "mannered intellectuals", but > who are certainly not erstwhile defenders of intellectual property, > particularly asthe concept is applied to software today. Hurm. Does Tim May advocate passing around unlicensed copies of an $895 Statgraphics program? I think I must have missed that post. In any case, cypherpunks are not a monolithic bunch. While many (like me) are wild-eyed libertarians of one flavor or another, others are feds, corporate shills, government apologists, prepubescent hackers, and (d'oh) working professionals in the computing industry. I, for example, do believe that the concept of intellectual property makes sense in some cases -- e.g. the inventions of public-key encryption and the RSA algorithm, which were important breakthroughs that merit substantial rewards, and I recognize that this is probably not a majority cypherpunk opinion. I do <not> appreciate patents on all the ticky-tack trivial modifications of every silly algorithm that nobody else thought was worth patenting. However, pirating commercial software is not a good way to make your protest. If you don't want to pay for it, write your own version and make it freely available. > Especially as I hear nobody complaining about the advertisement for > pornography that I receive every two days, regular as clockwork, from the > cypherpunks list, not to mention the great deal of other entirely useless, > automatically generated advertising. The difference is that the porn spammers don't read the lists they spam, so complaining on the list does no good. The piracy request came from a fairly regular poster to this list. Big difference. One kind of complaint might lead to a behavioral change, and the other leads only to more noise. If I <must> be mannered and intellectual when addressing wannabe software pirates, I'll quote Catullus: Pedicabo et irrumabo, Mentula! -- Jim Gillogly 29 Blotmath S.R. 1998, 15:12 12.19.5.12.12, 4 Eb 5 Ceh, Ninth Lord of Night

5 4

manners (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Richard.Bragg(a)ssa.co.uk > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:14:44 +0000 > Subject: manners > There are ways and means. If someone requests software that is NOT free > then a simple NO will surfice. A list of contacts to purchase would aid > income for the producer. > An additional approach would be to suggest alternatives that are free. > > There is never any call to be rude. Agreed, just be sure you can recognize the difference between rude and simply uncomfortable directness. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0