peb@PROCASE.COM (Paul Baclace) said:

Yes, but consider that being world famous has its advantages for contracting and lecture fees...

That's also more attractive considering that the U.S. government is quite capable of demanding the secret of the factorization method and generally throw their weight around as "justified" by national security... I'm not generally very paranoid, but I *would* be in a situation like that. Just about any and all other laws go out the window once they invoke national security. Doug -- Doug Merritt doug@netcom.com Professional Wild-eyed Visionary Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow (The above is a joke; the following are mailing lists:) Unicode Novis Cypherpunks Gutenberg Wavelets Conlang Logli Alife HC_III Computational linguistics Fundamental physics Cogsci SF GA VR CASE TLAs