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Question about insurance managed fire services...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

How does company A guarantee that company B won't begin to burn down the customers of company A so that the economic impact on A is sufficient they can't participate in the market? ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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More on blind signal demodulation
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's at least one firm which makes this stuff commercially, their products are available via http://www.appsig.com/prods/index.html. This looks like a one-stop ECHELON shop: you take one or more of their products (pick your type, intended target, and budget), plug as many E1's or E3's or whatever into one side as you can handle (the most impressive one does 16 E3's or 7680 voice/ data channels) and all modem, fax, and voice comms going through the circuit are available on the other side. They have products to do automatic channel/ signal scanning, demuxing, decoding of various data formats, processing of satellite and radio signals ("combines tuning, demodulation, descrambling, decoding, demultiplexing, and output formatting in one chassis"), every kind of mobile phone signal you've ever heard of, digital microwave links, decoding of higher-level protocols like V.42/V.42bis, X.25, HDLC, PPP, every Internet protocol worth doing, etc etc (their terminology is pretty neat, they have for example a 1.5-44.7Mbps "modem for on-the-move applications" :-). Much of the hardware claims to be built to TEMPEST specs. One interesting point is that most of their stuff is for E1's and E3's even though they're a US company. Hmmm.... Peter.

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Re: IP: Clinton Wants Loophole In U.S. Free Speech Closed (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 05:27:11 -0800 (PST) > From: b!X <bix(a)geekforce.org> > Subject: Re: IP: Clinton Wants Loophole In U.S. Free Speech Closed > And notice also that the 1st begins with "Congress shall make no law" while > the 2nd begins with "a well regulated militia". > Becos the attempted paraody was lame in the same ways that all attempts to Hey, can I use that spelling of 'because'? I want to irritate a particular wanna-be-english-teacher subsribed to the CDR...;) > nonrationally support 2nd amendment freedoms by calling down the gods of 1st > amendment freeomds always are nonrational. (And no, that's not me saying > supporting 2nd amendment freedoms is irrational; it's me saying using the > 1st amendment to do so is irrational). Yep, you have to use the 9th and 10th as well. In for a penny end for a pound. ARTICLE IX. The enumeration of the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. ARTICLE X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: IP: Clinton Wants Loophole In U.S. Free Speech Closed (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 05:30:22 -0800 (PST) > From: b!X <bix(a)geekforce.org> > Subject: Re: IP: Clinton Wants Loophole In U.S. Free Speech Closed (fwd) > > I'd say that 'shall make no law' is a clear as 'shall not be infringed' and > > pretty equivalent in meaning. > > Same comments as before. Utiizing the text of the 1st to defend one's > approach to the 2nd is nonrational, which is what the lame parody attempted > to do, and what I was criticizing. I'm not using the 1st to justify the second, all I'm saying is the two related phrases are equivalent within the context of the Constitution. It's semantics. Or are you saying that if you go slow enough it's as good as a stop? How slow is slow enough? ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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send info
by TomHyphen＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

send info cypherpunks tomhyphen(a)aol.com tom steinert-threlkeld

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Re: Question about insurance managed fire services... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:50:12 +0100 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > Subject: Re: Question about insurance managed fire services... > Jim Choate writes: > > > > How does company A guarantee that company B won't begin to burn down the > > customers of company A so that the economic impact on A is sufficient they > > can't participate in the market? > > How does it do so now? Insurance regulatory agencies who monitor the behavior, investigation by a reasonably impartial fire dept after every fire. That's at least two. > Fucking idiot. Do you imagine that the customers of company A (and > their police, security force or other guardian) will stand idly by > while their homes (the implied target) are burned? What police and security forces? You mean the ones the same insurance company co-oped? What makes you thing that Company A or B will even advertise their actions? Who says the homes will be burned when the residents are even home? It isn't like anyone is going to ask their permission. And I'm the 'fucking idiot'. ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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ebanking - What's up with that?
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Anyone got a pointer other than the CNN article on the announcement by Excite Inc. and Bank One about their offering a full line of banking services online? I'd be interested in anything on the particulars of the services and he protocols they intend to impliment. Danke. ____________________________________________________________________ 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 --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: GOST
by scoops 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:50:36 -0800 >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >From: scoops <scoops(a)quiknet.com> >Subject: GOST > >Jetico <www.jetico.com> a Finnish company (I believe) offers a number of encryption algorithms in its BestCrypt package, among which is GOST which it reports having a 256 key (it also sports Blowfish and DES as I recall). I also remember a few weeks ago reports in the press and on the List of a porn ring broken up and some agent involved saying that the some porn was encrypted in an old KGB program which sounded much like GOST. The implication is that it's transparent to the feds. However I have no idea about various levels at which it might be implimented. I'm sure the real experts on the List will fill you in.

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acceptable user policies
by Duncan Licence 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hey there, I am having to formulate an acceptable user policy for the users. Does anybody know of any online references, or examples of such policies. This would have to include specifications like email use, internet access, games over the LAN - anything that you can get your head around pertaining to such. This of course would have to weigh up between the rights of the users and protection of the network and PCs Your help would be greatly appreciated Duncan

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Enter Symbol's Hacker Contest at the Palm Computing Platform Developer Conference!!
by palmdeveloper＠palmdevcon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Symbol announces the first annual Symbol SPT 100 Developer Contest! You could win a Toshiba Tecra 780 DVD 266 MHz Pentium II Notebook by developing the Best SPT 100 Application. Other cool prizes will also be awarded. Everyone who participates will receive a t-shirt. You must be a registered attendee of the Palm Computing Platform Developer Content to participate. Winners will be announced at the Conference, December 1-4. For more details on the contest, and to register for the conference, point your browser to http://www.palmdevcon.com.

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