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Re: Anthrax on the 'net [Was Re: Fear of Flying -- from HotWired ]
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:14:53 -0400, Mike Fletcher wrote: >>>Gee, biotech has come a long way. Now I can download the Anthrax DNA >>>sequence from the net and insert it in some carrier bacteria and start >>>making Anthrax bacteria. Neat! >> Now the bad news: the DNA replicator only works under Windows 95 and comes >> with buggy drivers! > Buggy drivers? But isn't that the point in this case? :) True, true... <g> And you *really* don't want to see what happens when it crashes! >> Unfortunately, it can be very deadly. The idea here is that it rarely infect >s >> humans - in the normal course of events. If a determined biowarrior is tryin >g >> to infect people, all bets are off. > > The Frank Herbert (of _Dune_ fame) book _White Plague_ comes >to mind. Basically a molecluar biologist's wife and kids are killed >by an IRA bomb while visiting Dublin. He snaps and creates a plague >which kills women (men are carriers) as revenge. All without using >that nasty Internet (in fact, the book was written back before even >ARPAnet). I remember reading this one. Very applicable! # Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell

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Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant.
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:37:17 +0200 (MET DST), Anonymous wrote: >> The thing about _traditional_ charity, of the religious or community sort, >> was that it was not treated as an "entitlement," as something the resentful >> masses could "demand" as part of their "human rights." > There's no substantial difference between their resentful whining about >their rights and your resentful whining about your rights - except maybe >that you whine more. Last time I checked, tcmay has never insisted that it is his right to have something I worked for. . . # Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell

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Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant.
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 15 Sep 96 23:43:33 +0000, attila wrote: > forget the idea that it will build a community --unless > you wish to consider the Bitch's "It Takes a Global > Village" a community. Statist from the cradle; welcome She's right about that, to some extent. It often does take a village to raise a child. What she doesn't mention is that the governmental policies she lobbies for are doing their best to destroy that village. Name one example where wealth-transfers have made people more willing to spread their now vastly reduced resources to the needy? As a sidenote, does anyone know how much of the money taken out in taxes actually goes toward useful things? i.e. maintaining infrastructure like roads, providing for the public defense, paying police (most of whom I've found are great people. It's the higherups who seem to have ODed something), forest service, etc? # Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell

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Interactive Edition free access ends this week
by The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: Risk v. Charity (was: RE: Workers Paradise. /Political.
by jbugden＠smtplink.alis.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> wrote: >Canada has the world's second most expensive system (after ours) and I > think is a bit closer to 80% of our per cap expenditures. [...] >Canadian costs have risen at approx the same rate as ours. Thanks for the figures and historical background. I'll keep trying to verify the figures I cited, but I see no reason to disagree with you. > Interestingly, even though government expenditures here are 60% of the > total, per cap government expenditures on health care are higher here > than in the UK under the Nattie Health. This is a surprise. I guess it would also be an example. >Course Canada lost it when smuggling defeated the high tax levels on >cigarettes. This will be more of a problem in the future as more efficient >markets enable more smuggling. At present, provinces west of Ontario have not dropped taxes, while Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick dropped them significantly (+50%). The drop had a predictably negative effect on the smuggling, although due to the rapid increase in smoking rates among adolescents pressure is mounting to increase the taxes again. Most systems have undesired side-effects (e.g. remailers and spam). But if you can keep second order effects from becoming first order, you're heading in the desired direction. Ciao, James

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Re: Informal Renegotiation of the Law
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:36 PM 9/17/96 -0800, Adamsc wrote: >It has always seemed somewhat amusing that we will have a) a widespread opinion >that homeschooling is of lesser value and b) numerous studies, surveys, >testimonials, reports, etc, that show what a rotten job public education is >doing*. This raises the question of how anyone even remotely concerned with >their children's welfare could do worse. . . Yet another unexplained mass >insanity. 'Gubmint Skools one of the most common forms of child abuse in America today. Luckily, the same contradictions in the Stalinist methods of production that brought the old SU to its knees are working their wonders on Education as well. Expect it to die from the top as tertiary education is seduced away by the cash derived from selling its wares over the Net. Then with the Web easing Primary and Secondary education at home and the schools worsening, more people will opt out. They will be further encouraged as the schools become the nexus for ever tighter regulation of family and personal life. After all, teachers, nurses, and social workers, work on and with their "charges" to uncover, child abusers, illegal aliens, substance abusers and who knows what all among the parents. The schools also keep loads of records on their "customers." Those who have never turned their kids over to the government for brain massage, find that they have many fewer run ins with the authorities. They also find that their kids are more likely to be able to infer, imply, and know the difference between the two. DCF

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Re: IBM_gak
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Apparently, senile Tim May (fart) is a Clinton administration troll planted > here to sabotage any discussions of actual crypto work and to flood this > mailing list with lies and personal attacks and to make it unusable. You would appear to be an accomplice.... Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az6JAJUDBRAy NwfvNkCBjDT0xHEBATQPA/9TORmN/UjNecj03q4anpvdyCLiez5sKuNbnYK50RiP Jj4QpWWvST3smyQ0A86DrZY/re056MXwQmARESx0rFZxdnD0oORICl5r8dJLIy3b j8rbA5olXwZwKz73/X5s13v/pvHYX4cIsbVK8NHXqh5llSKt6TBAuGgkIGF29z5k C4kAlQMFEDI3B9mdtf/umVkv7QEBcRYD/1FBteLqsUmr81euxqqnnrpLlyHb58B/ 9sdATuua4uSjX46hXDZ264YozspNrzSB4NEdrmXOWVX3fiE0ga6XkSSkIeF23V90 En37Z0BdbFzgF00FRYTFyTq8eezQrdg/+rBPUsZUmG5wpq3e12FKHQsX01i+1mB2 YmqqwCV5e95eiQCVAgUQMh8uSb5OPIRbv66xAQEqJwP/fxQyiCasjFcbDpsFfsYp put5cCC/9pOx6X3DlbKShPMpUOS+A9HsTEmJQN8Iawv1nSwPdtc2cR/GhW6ilVjW LSloGdMVLabm9pGpZZMkRaZlXFUkOv7VhfgsUiL+vIDryBCAwUZCzQiWycjt/cPi mUqFH41Z7NkyO8ZFdi5GGX0= =CMZA -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Assassination Politics, is now Mercenarial Stuff
by Michelle Thompson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: kwheeler(a)intellinet.com >Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:08:18 -0500 >X-Sender: kwheeler(a)intellinet.com >To: Michelle Thompson <mthompso> >Subject: Re: Assassination Politics, is now Mercenarial Stuff > >Loosely the term mercenary means one who does a job solely for >profit. Technically, as outlined in Article 47 of Protocol I >Additional to the Geneva Convention of 1949: > >" 2. A mercenary is a person who: > > (a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to > fight in an armed conflict; > > (b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities; > > (c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities by the desire > for private gain, and, in fact, is promised by or on behalf > of a party to the conflict, material compensation substaintially > in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of _simliar_ > ranks (my added emphasis -KMW) and functions in the armed forces > of that party; > > (d) is neither a national of a party to the conflict nor a resident of > terrritory controlled by a part to the conflict; > > (e) is not a memeber of the armed forces of a party to the conflict; >" > > >The foreign legions of France, Spain, and Libya are considered to be >part of the armed forces of those nations, and therefore, strictly speaking, >personnel enlisted in these forces are _not_ mercenaries. > >I had to go dig that info up to see if I had remembered things >somewhat correctly... > >-K > > >

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Re: 56 kbps modems
by declan＠well.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From "Technical Aspects of Data Communications" by John E. McNamara: BAUD: A unit of signaling speed equal to the number of discrete conditions or signal events per second. In asynchronous transmission, the unit of signaling speed corresponding to one unit interval per second; that is, if the duration of the unit interval is 20 milliseconds, the signaling speed is 50 baud. Baud is the same as "bits per second" only if each signal event represents exactly one bit. A baud is the reciprocal of the unit interval. In other words, McNamara says (p148), in common 2400 bps modems, the "baud rate" is 1200 baud. -Declan Chris writes: >On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:16:08 +0200, Gary Howland wrote: > >>craigw(a)dg.ce.com.au wrote: >>> well here in Australia Telstra our national carrier only "garantees" >>> 2400 baud to work. >>As I am sure has been discussed at length before, baud does not equal >>bps. AFAIK, V32bis is only 2400baud. >This is correct. The difference is in the number of values for each of the >2400 signals sent per second. > ># Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | >http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp ># cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 >"I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on >a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, >spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." > -- Duncan Frissell

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a simple cypher scheme
by sjohnson＠packetengines.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

all, i've been on cypherpunks for about a year a half now, and have wacthed many interesting threads pass by but i've never posited anything. what has brought me out into the open is this : i work for an engineering firm doing asic design, i use pgp ( as do all rational persons ), a co-worker here has come up with a 'cypher' scheme that he would like to use to send code to our clients. the scheme is this : he would take the file of code and pad all lines to the length of the longest line, he would then preform column swaps, and then row swaps, to 'mix up' the file. the person receiving the file would then preform the opposite functions to recover the file. it seems so simple that it can't be good. i've convenced him to use pgp, but i would like some input if possible on why his cypher scheme is not a good one. thanx -stuart Packet Engines - The Industry leader in Gigabit ethernet / o o o o o o o . . . o o ______ _________ ________ ________ __=====__T___ o |DDD[ _______ | | | | | | | |_|| .][__n_n_| | | 802.3 | | ATM | | MPEG | | FDDI | | SCSI | >(________|___|__|_______|_|_______|_|______|_|______|_.|________|_| _/oo OOOOO oo` 'o^o o^o 'o^o o^o`'o^o o^o`'o^o o^o`'o^o o^o` -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | "all sufficiently advanced || Stuart Johnson | technologies are indistinguishable || Lead Asic Engineer | from magic," || Packet Engines Inc. | --Arthur C. Clarke || sjohnson(a)packetengines.com

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