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Quantum Computers
by jim bell 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-06/quantum-computers-are-co… [partial quote] Quantum mechanics, Carl Sagan once observed, is so strange that "common sense is almost useless in approaching it." Scientists still don't understand exactly why matter behaves as it does at the quantum level. Yet they're getting better at exploiting its peculiar dynamics -- in ways that may soon upend the technology business. One of the most interesting applications is in computing. In theory, quantum computers could take advantage of odd subatomic interactions to solve certain problems far faster than a conventional machine could. Although a full-scale quantum computer is still years off, scientists have lately made a lot of progress on thematerials, designs and methods needed to make one. And that could have some striking benefits. Quantum computers could simulate how atoms and molecules behave, to the greatadvantage of chemists and drug designers. They could solveoptimization problems -- say, how to efficiently route airplane traffic -- far faster than current technology can. They could speed advances in artificial intelligence, improve sensors, and lead to the design of stronger and lighter industrial materials.[end of partial quote] Jim Bell

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women’s desire “is not relational [but] narcissistic” - the phenomenal popularity of the "rape fantasy" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

So E. Jean "most people think of rape as being sexy" Carroll is back on the 16 minutes of fame trail after her "Trump raped me" book bombed: 'Rape Is Sexy' Trump Accuser Sues President For Defamation https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rape-sexy-trump-accuser-sues-president-… ... is now suing Trump for defamation ... I guess since the book did not make any money ... But the deeper qwestion here is why women are overwhelmingly tittilated with the "soft rape" fantasy, and the tl;dr appears to be "narcissism": Don’t Call Them “Rape Fantasies” Women: Ever had exciting fantasies of being sexually “devoured” by a stranger? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201411/don-t-cal… Study after study has revealed that one of women’s most popular erotic fantasies is being raped. Yet the fundamental dynamics of such fantasies has almost nothing to do with such a heinous act—which isn’t simply aggressive, but coercive, violent, and at times even life-threatening. After all, a woman feeling scared out of her mind is hardly conducive to sexual arousal. Additionally, women are frequently embarrassed, or ashamed, about the fact that such lascivious imaginings can actually turn them on. So what exactly is going on here? Why is it so exciting for many women to fantasize themselves as the recipient of a male’s unbridled, out-of-control lust? This post will attempt to clarify a topic as intriguing as it’s controversial. (Not to mention, absolutely mortifying to feminists!) Many of my ideas here relate to the findings of two contemporary female sexologists, as interviewed in a recent New York Times article (09/24/14) called “What Do Women Want?—Discovering What Ignites Female Desire” by Daniel Bergner. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?pagewanted=all&_… Not cited in this piece is a famous quote from the conversationally gifted Madame de Staël (1766-1817), whose prescient words on the subject I regard as seminal. “The desire of the man,” she opined, “is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.” Without being overly simplistic or reductive, I think this timeless reflection goes to the heart of why women’s imagining what’s best appreciated as a “safe rape” [talk about oxymorons!] is so common a theme in their fantasies. And it’s no less common in literally thousands of romance novels, composed especially to titillate an almost mind-bogglingly large female audience. Bergner, interviewing Marta Meana, a psychology professor at UNLV, quotes this researcher (who, by the way, explicitly deems herself a feminist) as regretfully being obliged to admit that for women “being desired is the orgasm.” Further—and in stark contrast to virtually everything that’s been written about the close tie between female sexual interest and emotional intimacy—Meana asserts that women’s desire “is not relational [but] narcissistic.” It’s mostly about externally validating, or strengthening, feelings of self-love through experiencing her physical being as the coveted object of both a man’s sexual needs and adulation. And here Meana cites the research showing that in comparison with men, women’s fantasies attend less to giving pleasure than getting it, concluding that when it comes to desire, “women may be far less relational than men.” ...

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Cypherpunks archive description.
by jim bell 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Cypherpunks Archive 1992-1998 John Young jya(a)pipeline.com Fri Sep 6 16:17:54 EDT 2013 - Previous message: Old list archives - Next message: [pfSense] [liberationtech] NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches - Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Cypherpunks Archive 1992-1998 in raw text: http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-92-98.zip (83MB) By year: http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1992.zip (790KB) http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1993.zip (7.4MB) http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1994.zip (11.8MB) http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1995.zip (10.1MB) http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1996.zip (21.6MB) http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1997.zip (20.7MB) http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpunks-1998.zip (10.8MB) Who October 26, 1996: http://cryptome.org/cpunks/cpnkwho-102296.txt (34KB) At 03:06 PM 9/6/2013, you wrote: >On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:13:50PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > On 9/6/13, CypherPunk <cypherpunk(a)cpunk.us> wrote: > > > On 09/06/2013 06:17 AM, John Preston wrote: > > >> I'm having trouble finding the list archives going back into the 90's; > > >> they're not on cpunks.org. Anyone got them? > > > > > > http://cypherpunks.venona.com/ > > > > cryptome has a partial zip archive you can search for. > > > > For those that use real MUA's/search with local copies > > instead of crippled web indexes further subject to disappearance, > > and to cover time gaps and provide a canonical answer > > to this recurring question.... > > > > I suggest people here collaborate and contribute to > > create a complete historical archive in mbox and/or maildir > >An excellent idea. Unfortunately, I lost my 1980s/90s >emails due to a shredded RAID. > > > format. Once compiled and deduplicated it could be > > broken out and presented by year in said formats and > > also loaded into mailman/pipermail. > > > > What datasets do you all have and in what formats? > > Can you upload and/or post links to them? > > > > I believe cpunks.org is willing to host such an archive. > >I will put up a mirror as well. mbox format is perfect. - Previous message: Old list archives - Next message: [pfSense] [liberationtech] NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches - Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] More information about the cypherpunks mailing list

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ScienceAlert: Scientists Have Made a Quantum Encryptor 1,000 Times Smaller Than What Came Before
by jim bell 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

ScienceAlert: Scientists Have Made a Quantum Encryptor 1,000 Times Smaller Than What Came Before. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-made-a-quantum-chip-that-s-1-0…

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My comment on the Cypherpunks archive website, https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/blog/2018/07/05/the-cypherpunks-mailing-list-archives-must-be-preserved.html
by jim bell 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/blog/2018/07/05/the-cypherpunks-mailing-list-arc… Four days ago, I began to discover the existence of a massive data-tampering fraud associated with the 1995 database of the Cypherpunks email list. There is a huge 4-5-month gap, beginning Feb 14, 2019, in which virtually no messages appear, probably missing many thousands of postings. This wasn't due to an innocent loss of data, either. Then, the messages dated both during and subsequent to July, 1995, virtually every instance of the text string "jim bell", "jimbell(a)pacifier.com", "AP" (when the text AP means "Assassination Politics"; and yet the few remaining instances of "ap" stand for "Associated Press" and in one case "killer ap" astonishingly remain), and "Assassination Politics" itself. For an archive where these gargantuan forgeries presumably (I hope!!!) don't exist, see the same archive for the year 1996.I, Jim Bell, had been posting extensively, perhaps beginning shortly after Feb 14, 1995, and fairly continuously at the CP list at least until early 1997. My Assassination Politics essay https://cryptome.org/ap.htm was heavily discussed during these times, and during and after 1997 as well. Any people who posted messages on that list, Cypherpunks, should have been listed, although their emails might subsequently have changed in the 24 years subsequent to that. And, of course, any messages either to or from me, from anyone, (at the time jimbell(a)pacifier.com, address no longer valid in 2019)Presumably, the current operator of the archive, Tom Busby, was fed intentionally false and carefully-forged data, a fraud which he must not have known about, and he dutifully turned it into the archive which now appears, unaware of the data sham that preceded his role. I am now requesting that anyone who has data for this period (1995) of the Cypherpunks email list first post it publicly in a location where it will be regularly scraped by the Internet's Wayback Machine https://archive.org/web/ , and post a citation to that data on the Cypherpunks list contemporaneous to its availability.

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lightweight attestation/ signatures - GPG - minisign
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

This one recent LWN.net article shares this one amazing secret to lightweight attestation digital signatures. Instead of a GPG sig block, which is rather fat 'n' frumpy in the face of a short email, minisign signatures look more like a git hash: untrusted comment: <arbitrary text> base64(<signature_algorithm> || <key_id> || <signature>) trusted_comment: <arbitrary text> base64(<global_signature>) - signature_algorithm: Ed - key_id: 8 random bytes, matching the public key - signature (PureEdDSA): ed25519(<file data>) - signature (HashedEdDSA): ed25519(Blake2b-512(<file data>)) - global_signature: ed25519(<signature> || <trusted_comment>) For emails, I'm guessing the untrusted and trusted comments (at least) would not be needed; needs more exploration. Another tool fer ya lolibag... Next steps for kernel workflow improvement https://lwn.net/Articles/803619/ ... His proposal is to introduce signatures on emailed patches as well. The mechanism used would be minisign, not GnuPG; one of the big advantages of minisign is that the attached signatures are much shorter than those created by GnuPG. Steve Rostedt interrupted at this point to question the value of this approach; he said that an attack, to be successful, would have to involve a relatively complex patch written in a style that mimics that of the purported author. It would be a big effort, he said; anybody with the resources to do that could also crack the encryption scheme used for attestation. ... https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/ # Minisign Minisign is a dead simple tool to sign files and verify signatures. It is portable, lightweight, and uses the highly secure Ed25519 public-key signature system. ## Creating a key pair $ minisign -G The public key is printed and put into the minisign.pub file. The secret key is encrypted and saved as a file named ~/.minisign/minisign.key. ## Signing a file $ minisign -Sm myfile.txt Or to include a comment in the signature, that will be verified and displayed when verifying the file: $ minisign -Sm myfile.txt -t 'This comment will be signed as well' The signature is put into myfile.txt.minisig. Starting with version 0.8, multiple files can also be signed at once: $ minisign -Sm file1.txt file2.txt *.jpg ## Verifying a file $ minisign -Vm myfile.txt -P RWQf6LRCGA9i53mlYecO4IzT51TGPpvWucNSCh1CBM0QTaLn73Y7GFO3 or $ minisign -Vm myfile.txt -p signature.pub This requires the signature myfile.txt.minisig to be present in the same directory. The public key can either reside in a file (./minisign.pub by default) or be directly specified on the command line. ...

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Why Google's Quantum Victory Is a Huge Deal—and a Letdown
by jim bell 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

https://www.wired.com/story/why-googles-quantum-computing-victory-is-a-huge…

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[PEACE] True story: Afghanistan's last remaining Jew kicked out of Taliban jail "for being too annoying"
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

Some true stories "say waht?!" but yes, it's true, Afghanistan's (believed to be) last remaining Jew, Zabulon Simentov, was too annoying for the Taliban to keep jailed, so they kicked him out: Afghanistan’s Last Jews Were Freed From Prison Because They Were So Annoying https://forward.com/news/world/434041/afghanistan-jews-taliban/ ... Meet Zabulon Simentov, 66, who is believed to be the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan. Emran Feroz recently profiled Simentov for Foreign Policy and uncovered some incredible stories about the feisty Afghan — including that the Taliban once imprisoned him for arguing with a fellow Jew, then kicked him out because the constant bickering became too annoying. ... Found here: Finally, A Jewish News Headline I Can Believe http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/finally-a-jewish-news-headline-i-can-believe/

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[PEACE] - ABSOLUTE CRISIS - Climate on brink of CHANGING! - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

It's an absolute crisis folkd, the climate is right on the brink of changing - down under we're about to get all hot and steamy as the climate changes into Summer, and all you mad c##ts up North are about to experience an amazing annual climate change - Winter! Empress Greta "The Supinate Autiste" Thunderburger is on a mission to SAVE the world from climate change! To do this, she is is here to expose, willfully, climate change deniers by staring at them disapprovingly! Di Caprio and Thundberg are now travelling to the UN's climate hoaxes, sorry I mean climate conferences, in Di Caprio's private jet, since Thunberg got lost in Africa or somewhere on the globe... and started begging for $$ to get to the next hoax conference. In return, Thunberg is volunteering her gift to Di Caprio of "stare at people very disapprovingly to force them to donate money or something". Now THAT's climate co-operation: Greta Thunberg May or May Not be in Some Kind of Relationship with Leo DiCaprio http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/greta-thunberg-may-or-may-not-be-in-some-kind…

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RPI develops 3-D-printed living skin with blood vessels included
by Razer 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: "Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3-D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement, published online today in Tissue Engineering Part A, is a significant step toward creating grafts that are more like the skin our bodies produce naturally. "Right now, whatever is available as a clinical product is more like a fancy Band-Aid," said Pankaj Karande, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), who led this research at Rensselaer. "It provides some accelerated wound healing, but eventually it just falls off; it never really integrates with the host cells." A significant barrier to that integration has been the absence of a functioning vascular system in the skin grafts. Karande has been working on this challenge for several years, previously publishing one of the first papers showing that researchers could take two types of living human cells, make them into "bio-inks," and print them into a skin-like structure. Since then, he and his team have been working with researchers from Yale School of Medicine to incorporate vasculature. In this paper, the researchers show that if they add key elements—including human endothelial cells, which line the inside of blood vessels, and human pericyte cells, which wrap around the endothelial cells—with animal collagen and other structural cells typically found in a skin graft, the cells start communicating and forming a biologically relevant vascular structure within the span of a few weeks. You can watch Karande explain this development here. "As engineers working to recreate biology, we've always appreciated and been aware of the fact that biology is far more complex than the simple systems we make in the lab," Karande said. "We were pleasantly surprised to find that, once we start approaching that complexity, biology takes over and starts getting closer and closer to what exists in nature." Once the Yale team grafted it onto a special type of mouse, the vessels from the skin printed by the Rensselaer team began to communicate and connect with the mouse's own vessels. "That's extremely important, because we know there is actually a transfer of blood and nutrients to the graft which is keeping the graft alive," Karande said. In order to make this usable at a clinical level, researchers need to be able to edit the donor cells using something like the CRISPR technology, so that the vessels can integrate and be accepted by the patient's body. "We are still not at that step, but we are one step closer," Karande said. "This significant development highlights the vast potential of 3-D bioprinting in precision medicine, where solutions can be tailored to specific situations and eventually to individuals," said Deepak Vashishth, the director CBIS. "This is a perfect example of how engineers at Rensselaer are solving challenges related to human health." Karande said more work will need to be done to address the challenges associated with burn patients, which include the loss of nerve and vascular endings. But the grafts his team has created bring researchers closer to helping people with more discrete issues, like diabetic or pressure ulcers. "For those patients, these would be perfect, because ulcers usually appear at distinct locations on the body and can be addressed with smaller pieces of skin," Karande said. "Wound healing typically takes longer in diabetic patients, and this could also help to accelerate that process." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-11-skin-d-printed-blood-vessels.html Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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