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by sales＠galaxyhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Why do we need remailers, anyway?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 23 Sep 1998 04:27:46 Reeza! wrote: > anonymouse, 32 bit aohell to boot. you must feel very safe. Yours is hardly > the type of post that might necessitate the use of a remailer, so it should > be safe to assume you haven't the courage to stand behind your words, even > as mild as they are. > > Fuck you too. I suggest you discuss your lack of a spine with the maker. > See the above for instructions to meet the maker. > > Reeza! Hello? This is an old topic, but what the heck... There is a concept cypherpunks have called "Blacknet", which is an organisation that sells profiles of prospective employees based on their public comments on the Internet. This allows employers to filter out undesirables who might or might not have outgrown their rebellious youth. (You can never be too safe!) Now, there are laws making discrimination illegal. But it's hard to *prove* that an employer based its decision on BlackNet files, isn't it.... The cypherpunk philosophy is to rely on technology to solve the problem, rather than rely on the government (or anyone else). Cypherpunks write code. -- an anonymous aol32 user.

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GNUcash [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.gnucash.org/ > content In the spirit of cooperation we bring you The GnuCash > Project. We all realized that it was senseless to have several > different projects working toward the same goals. So we did the most > logical thing, we merged! The result of this merger is the GnuCash > Project. > > Some of the projects that merged included X-Accountant, and GnoMoney. > GnuCash will be based on the lastest version of Xacc. We will use the > "transaction engine" from Xacc, and port the GUI from Motif to > Gnome/Gtk. Several other significant features will also be added. Such > as support for splits, and online banking via OFX. To see a list of > other planned features please check out the features page. > > There is unfortunately no stable version of GnuCash available yet. So > if you are interested in using a financial package now I suggest using > the lastest version of Xacc, which is a very stable, and full featured > piece of software! =) Check out the pages below for more info on Xacc. > News 09-17-98 > * ANNOUNCE - Gnucash 1.1.18 is released. Get it at ftp.gnucash.org ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb 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: Private and Public
by doug＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- Forwarded mail from pmetzger(a)lehman.com >From owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Tue Nov 9 09:15:40 1993 Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com> Received: from relay2.UU.NET by mail.netcom.com (8.6.4/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id JAA12727; Tue, 9 Nov 1993 09:15:36 -0800 Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04858; Tue, 9 Nov 93 12:13:54 -0500 Received: by toad.com id AA17446; Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:03:39 PST Received: by toad.com id AA17443; Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:03:11 PST Received: from lehman.com ([192.147.66.1]) by toad.com id AA17438; Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:03:06 PST "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger(a)lehman.com> said: >Since Mr. Merritt has insisted, I will take a foray into this issue. I >would suggest, however, that this is not the forum for this discussion. Ok...I'll desist after a brief comment: I actually don't disagree with any of the major points you make when you put it that way -- although some of the other things I call minor points you might call major points :-) I think I do have some quibbles which would probably turn *into* serious disagreement, but even I would say that raising those things would take us far afield, so I'll leave it at that. P.S. This is ad hominem...tsk, tsk: >Mr. Merritt, this discussion is much like that of a Catholic peasant >in 1500 trying to understand an atheist, with me in the role of the >atheist. Doug

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Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:45:55 +0100 > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction > There are two distinct licenses promoted by the FSF. They are the GNU > GPL (General Public License) and the GNU LGPL (Library General Public > License). > > As you suggest the LGPL is usuable. I'm suggesting both are usable for commercial code development, just don't put GPL'ed source code in your source code. There is NO limitation of the GPL or the LGPL that prevents a commercial product from making calls into the GPL'ed library. The problem with your interpretation is that in a sense you want your cake and eat it too. In short you want to be able to use somebody elses code in your product without their having a say in how their code is used or receiving a cut of the profits. The GPL/LGPL is specificaly designed to prevent this. If you use their code (not the binaries, though you will be required to provide source to those binaries if you distribute it with your product though this won't include the binaries to your commercial product) then you must release your code - an extension of derivation. If you desire to produce commercial secure-source code compatible with a GPL license then simply don't ship *any* GPL with your product and use no GPL source or LGPL'ed library in source form in that product. The point to the L/GPL is not to prevent commercial code development but rather to prevent somebody from taking a library some programmer written and released for non-commercial (a distinction not permited under public domain) use while retaining control over that source so that if somebody, like yourself, bops along and decides they can make a million with it the original programmer gets a cut or you loose your million. How does the original programmer get a cut? Simple, the commercial entity contacts the programmer and licenses a non-GPL'ed version of the library. Bottem line, don't steal other peoples code to make money without paying them for their effort. It's that simple. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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complex mathematical formulae
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I hope http://www.jya.com/itl-news.htm enjoys black and white. "complex mathematical formulae" aka pseduomathematics Then, in late 1942, the Royal Navy switched codes to the one-time pad system. The Nazi tap was lost forever because the pad system is unbreakable in both theory as well as practice. U-boats could no longer ambush helpless ships like wolves on sheep. Convoy after convoy arrived safe and intact, protected in the armor of an unbreakable code system. The U-boats had to change tactics. http://www.us.net/softwar/ Germany used the enigma algorithm and machine. Japan used the purple algorithm. And look what happened to them! I hope all of this helps Charles R Smith's business. http://www.softwar.net/plight.html Title: Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms Jump to Forum Click Image to Jump to Next Article Go to Text Only Print Version Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms by William H. Payne This article requires special formatting. Please Click Here to Read Send This Article to a Friend: Your Name: Email Address of your Friend: Your Email address: Back to Home Page Quick Menu Visit the Button Shop Interactive Forum Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms E-mail the Editor

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Re: Meriweather v. Gates
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > It's an ironic indication of where we are that Bill Gates is being hounded > by the Justice Department, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Novell, and Ralph > Nader while no one is hounding John Meriwether. In fact, the Federal > Reserve System, nominally nongovernmental (wink wink) just helped to bail > out his firm, Long-Term Capital Management. > > Gates, you see, has a non-leveraged investment of $50 billion in Microsoft. > No borrowing, no margin debt, just plain old-fashioned ownership. And a monopoly that doesn't need a bailout. > Meriwether, on the other hand, started in 1991 and took in money from > speculators. He took the $2.2 billion and borrowed with it, hitting the > $125 B in borrowed assets point. Then he and his rocket scientists > essentially borrowed still more, using this $125 B to leverage $1.25 T. (T > for "trillion.") > > Not bad, going from $2.2 B to $1.25 T, a mere 500-fold increase. Sheer unmitigated greed on the part of the banks, not knowing or forcing Meriwether to tell them. Over leveraging is what caused the Great Depression via the stock market collapse. ---guy Gosh, thank goodness they are loosening the bank/brokerage rules...not.

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Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:33:38 -0400 > From: Adam Shostack <adam(a)homeport.org> > Subject: Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd) > What did I say about not paying for people's work? I'm perfectly > happy to pay for code, and I prefer to buy open source code; it tends > to be higher quality. I don't want to have to accept your opinion on > how I should release code along with the code. Jesus Christ on a stick. Take a fucking chill pill Adam. That 'you' is the literary you, not you personaly. You (not the literary you) should seriously consider counseling. Talk about hair-triggered. If anybody is guilty of demanding people do it 'their way' it's you. You really need to better understand this inability of yours to seperate your self-worth as an individual from the ideas you espouse and supposedly put out for public dialog. Everybody has stupid idea, if you can't admit that then there's a problem more serious than having stupid ideas. Everybody makes mistakes everyday, and if you seriously think you don't then you have found your first mistake today. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:30 AM 9/29/98 -0400, John Young wrote: >Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and >NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and >"temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend >a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and >secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians >to gameboy infofoolery? Well, for some months now they've password protected some of the more delicate stuff (e.g., "lessons learned", some of the field manuals). And they have been rejecting non .mil addresses too. Certainly we can expect them to eventually get a clue and think about what's out there. Mostly they have. (Of course it was within the last year that a .mil was exporting PGP!) The army's over-reaction is quaint but essentially reasonable --the W3 pages are just PR, and they're real edgy these days after they tried to scalp Osama with a tomohawk. [digression: I wonder when Osama will have his own web page with matching funds for the head of the Great Satan, and whether there would be a shootout on the net, e.g., the DNS records being changed, a phone call to their ISP] As far as the NSA's online personnel records, I bet they're still worried about the CIA shootout down the street a few years back. There's still plenty of names, phones, email addresses in the .gov domain, with building locations, etc. But Jim Bell is locked up so they're not so uptight. >That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use >terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession. They keep trying different passwords to the constitution. Its a dictionary attack: "pedophile", "droogs", "terrorist", "WMD", etc. --Ceci n'est-ce pas un Toto

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unsubscribe 9307905p@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au
by 9307905p＠ntx.city.unisa.edu.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ARRRRRRGGH.... Unsubscribe me. Im drowning..... 9307905p(a)ntx.city.unisa.edu.au --- F.R.J. Cichy B.CS U of SA, Australia

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