Re: Boston flights to FC00

2000-02-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
That may be right -- I just got off the phone with American. The bottleneck seems to be San Juan, and American will happily fly you there on many available flights. You'll just have to switch to another carrier once you get that far. TWA apparently offers codeshare flights, for instance, so t

Re: Cypherpunks@algebra.com to be CLOSED next week

2000-02-07 Thread William H. Geiger III
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/07/00 at 03:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor Chudov @ home) said: >I will close it next week. Nothing political, I have enough traffic on >the computer that handles it and the 200 MHZ CPU is not up to the task. >Something had to go. >It was pleasant to help keep

Re: Two DVD-encryption articles

2000-02-07 Thread Tim May
At 4:40 PM -0800 1/30/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0005/silverglate.shtml > >#DVD DESPERADOES BY HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE ># >#Are the Hackers Unfairly Prosecuted? ># >#In a fit of megalomania, Canute, the 11th-century >#king of Norway, held his

Re: Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread Tim May
At 10:40 PM -0800 2/7/00, dmolnar wrote: >On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Tim May wrote: > >> light that he'd been a Nazi sympathizer who actually wrote articles about >> the inferiority of Jews and the need to cleanse the world of them. I don't >> recall his name at this moment, but it was quite an academic

Re: Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Tim May wrote: > light that he'd been a Nazi sympathizer who actually wrote articles about > the inferiority of Jews and the need to cleanse the world of them. I don't > recall his name at this moment, but it was quite an academic scandal half a > dozen years ago.) Paul de

Boston flights to FC00

2000-02-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 9:15 PM -0800 on 2/7/00, Lucky Green wrote, on cypherpunks: > Hope to see you all at the conference. It is still possible to register > at http://www.fc00.ai Which reminds me. As of yesterday noon, there were still 5 seats on a charter flight out of Bosto

Free Energy

2000-02-07 Thread Þorsteinn Ólafsson
Gary Jeffers Just checking. I was sending you an email on your other address concerning John Bedini's generator but the eamil went back to me again. If this one gets through and you respond to my email I will send you some explanation about John's generator. I am no real expert but I think thi

Registration confirmation - Yahoo! Mail

2000-02-07 Thread mail-register
Welcome to Yahoo! DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. SEE BELOW FOR INSTRUCTIONS IF THERE IS A PROBLEM. This confirmation message is sent to all users when they create a new account with Yahoo!. Your Yahoo! ID is: jcypherpunk Your e-mail address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your alternate e-mail is:

Re: Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread Tim May
At 6:13 PM -0800 2/7/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Not the least of those reasons, however, is that philosophy is where an >enormous amount of *science* comes from, sooner or later. Quite literally, >"new stuff"; reality, ab initio. I just don't believe this. I've been reading philosophy (and

Two DVD-encryption articles

2000-02-07 Thread cypherpunks
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0005/howe.shtml #FADE TO BLACK BY JEFF HOWE # #The Motion Picture Association Shuts Down Crypto Research # #[Image] t's 2:30 p.m. and Roman Kazan and his fianc\351e #huddle on a couch in the entryway of Judge Lewis A. #Kapla

Re: New KGB Takes Internet by SORM

2000-02-07 Thread amp
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Anonymous wrote: > > > >New KGB Takes Internet by SORM > >The Russian government has just authorized itself to spy on everything >its citizens do on the Net -- and to punish ISPs that won't help. So >much for post-Soviet civil

RE: Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread Lucky Green
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dmolnar > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 19:02 > To: R. A. Hettinga > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy > on that note, which FC00 papers, if any, excite you? >

Re: Re: Nietzsche as the Gîdel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:37 PM -0500 on 2/7/00, dmolnar wrote: >> Dude, you should spend less time on "philosophy" and more time >> on productive stuff. > > what is the nature of productive stuff? I'm laughing so hard, the tears are streaming down my face... :-). Cheers, RAH Who's probably being more "producti

FC00 contents...

2000-02-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:02 PM -0500 on 2/7/00, dmolnar wrote: > on that note, which FC00 papers, if any, excite you? > > (that's a generic "you", by the way - I'd like to hear from lots of people) Not to be *too* generic, I'm interested in hearing Miller, Franz and Morningstar's bearer-rights stuff, but then th

Re: Patents (was Re: RABobby 0: Spam King)

2000-02-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:37 PM -0500 on 2/7/00, Marcel Popescu wrote: > If an application is developed in another country, where the patent isn't > registered, do you still need to pay for it if you use the application in > the US? I have nothing against Brands or Chaum (I admire them, in fact), but > this patent-

Re: CDR: Re: Nietzsche as the G”del of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Aaron wrote: > Dude, you should spend less time on "philosophy" and more time > on productive stuff. what is the nature of productive stuff?

Re: CDR: Re: Nietzsche as the G”del of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread Aaron
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 21:13:28 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >I also quite agree with Tim about the ultimate outcome of analytic >philosophy after Russell and Whitehead crashed and burned (Wittgenstein, >et.al., sheesh...), with the exception, of course, of G”del, who solved the >problem with actual

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2000-02-07 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > ladies and gentlemen, is going to be a *great* FC conference, even if you > don't sail. :-). on that note, which FC00 papers, if any, excite you? (that's a generic "you", by the way - I'd like to hear from lots of people) Thanks, -David

The Game of M ..

2000-02-07 Thread M
I am back and I have a gift with me ... it is the Game of General - or the Game of M ... .. do you like to play the game with me ... you can find it at http://homestead.virtualjerusalem.com/waeg/gameofm.html ... actually, it will be very interesting ...

Re: Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:14 PM -0800 on 2/7/00, Tim May wrote: > In summary, Nietzsche was the first major philosopher to address the deep > questions about what humans really are. Not as biological beings, not as > cultural beings, but as thinking beings in a world where there is no > fundamental purpose to the u

number of payment systems out there

2000-02-07 Thread Ryan Lackey
Someone who works for one of the many payment systems recently told me "there are about 73 of them, in fact". Is there a list somewhere, or anyone centrally offering exchange? The definition she uses (working for a billpay company which collaterally offers c2c payments) is pretty lax; c2c, b2c,

openbsd now encrypts swap

2000-02-07 Thread Anonymous remailer
http://slashdot.org/bsd/00/01/16/1943235.shtml OpenBSD can encrypt swapspace Posted by nik on Tuesday January 18, @05:00AM from the nothing-to-hide dept. Continuing it's reputation for security, the OpenBSD kernel can now encrypt the

Proposed US military budget will fund domestic wiretapping

2000-02-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
>Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 17:12:43 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FC: Proposed US military budget will fund domestic wiretapping >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34164,00.html > >

Nietzsche as the Gödel of Philosophy

2000-02-07 Thread Tim May
At 3:15 PM -0800 2/6/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 9:48 AM -0800 on 2/6/00, Matilda Waltzed: > > >> how right he is to 'poo poo' the works of such non-entities as s¯ren >>kierkegaard, >> friedrich nietzsche, jean paul sartre, martin heidegger, blaise pascal, >> fyodor dostoyevsky and karl jaspe

365% Yearly Return on your money

2000-02-07 Thread Competition
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Re: The IETF Wiretap [raven] draft is out.

2000-02-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 11:56 2/7/2000 -0800, Kerry L. Bonin wrote: >Didn't see this here yet, so: > >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iab-raven-00.txt > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34055,00.html Thumbs Down on Net Wiretaps by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 3:00 a.m. 3.Feb.2000 P

The IETF Wiretap [raven] draft is out.

2000-02-07 Thread Kerry L. Bonin
Didn't see this here yet, so: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iab-raven-00.txt

RE: New government-approved ID: your fingerprint

2000-02-07 Thread Carol A Braddock
Yes, it is all over the Twin Cities media today. Wonder how many folks will alter their thumbprints? They also said that it was gonna be used in East LA. and some places in NY. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mond

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2000-02-07 Thread Competition
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New government-approved ID: your fingerprint

2000-02-07 Thread cypherpunks
Mon Feb 7 13:32:25 EST 2000 2/7/2000: CNN reports Minnesota (or was it Minneapolis?) police are test-piloting instant fingerprinting scanners (on the scene). GO

Patents (was Re: RABobby 0: Spam King)

2000-02-07 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How about this then: get me the > rights to the blind signature patent so people can store money (yup, > *that*'s what it's for, *storage*; seriously... :-)) before it zips around > in such little bitty bits. If an application is

Re: TEST AGAIN - Please Reply

2000-02-07 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Bill Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry - looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been dead for a week or so. > Thanks! Reply. I have seen another test message of yours, but it didn't say "reply". You might want to resend, if it was the cyberpass.net one. Hope you don't g

ICANN cracks down on critics on "general assembly" list

2000-02-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
reminds me of late 1996 right here... http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34126,00.html ICANN CRACKDOWN: Trying to muzzle criticism of ICANN's foibles is a task as hopeless as Orrin Hatch placing above

go around the wall

2000-02-07 Thread Secret Squirrel
Excerpt on how folks figured out that if you use a different proxy, university censorship goes away. (The correct solution, of course, is to throttle consumption based on bandwidth, not content of the b/w. Assuming the university is not lying about their intent in filtering. [The same objectio

Hacker hits Thai e-commerce

2000-02-07 Thread Steve Orrin
http://www.bangkokpost.net/today/070200_News05.html February 7, 2000 Hacker hits Thai e-commerce Steals thousands of credit card numbers A US-based computer hacker claimed he has broken into a leading Thai web commerce site, stolen thousands of credit card numbers, and posted them on the world

copy protection relaxed on oncomouse

2000-02-07 Thread Anonymous
Last _Science_ had a few inches on how Dupont has formally decided not to pursue lawsuits where one person gives copies of liscenced info to another, if for noncommercial use. The 'copies' are copies of patented genes, packaged in living mice. - Rattus norvegicus

Re: Jodi Hoffman's R.A.M.P. Victimization of Children/Research & Education Council of America

2000-02-07 Thread Jodi Hoffman
Hmm. Looks like I left a word out. When the tire hit, it caused his father's head to split apart. Sorry for the typo. Jodi Hoffman wrote: > > Matthew: > > Not that it should be of interest to anyone on this loop... > > Dustin, at the age of six, was sitting by his father in

Re: Jodi Hoffman's R.A.M.P. Victimization of Children/Research & Education Council of America

2000-02-07 Thread Jodi Hoffman
Matthew: Not that it should be of interest to anyone on this loop... Dustin, at the age of six, was sitting by his father in a minivan when a runaway semi truck tire hit the front bumper (at a rate of about 70 miles per hour, bounced 30-40 feet in the air, then crashed down o

RE: TEST AGAIN - Please DONT Reply

2000-02-07 Thread Bill Stewart
Well, one subscriber out there saw it, even if I didn't... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: The sound of silence?

2000-02-07 Thread Tom Vogt
Anonymous wrote: > The computer failure illustrates the perilous state of the NSA, but it also shows >how America's role in the high-stakes game of intelligence collection has changed >since the end of the Cold War. it mostly shows that the NSA knows how to beg for more $$$. seriously - thi

TEST AGAIN - Please Reply

2000-02-07 Thread Bill Stewart
Sorry - looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been dead for a week or so. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Remailer abuser caught:

2000-02-07 Thread RProcess
On 7 Feb 2000, Frog-Admin wrote in alt.privacy.anon-server: > I caught an abuser (trivial traffic analysis): > > Azerty received 100 * messages 160 K initially > giving 100 * identical messages 60 K on arrival with 14*gif (batman) each. > In-between, transparent-remix generated a few hundreds