Re: fingerprint mouse.

2000-12-09 Thread Tim May
At 12:30 AM -0800 12/9/00, Ray Dillinger wrote: >On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Anonymous wrote: > >>update HONG KONG--Siemens has a solution for people who constantly >>forget computer passwords: a mouse that recognizes fingerprints. >> >> >>By lightly tapping the fingertip sensor located at the top of the

Re: Mask Laws: About 5yr. log retention

2000-12-09 Thread Bill Stewart
>"Trei, Peter" wrote: >> Unless there is a specific loophole for Muslim women's veils, I suppose >> they are technically in violation, but as I said, these laws are hardly >> ever invoked. If say, there were a rash of terrorist attacks involving >> veiled persons occured, there'd be crackdown. On

Re: ip: Chaos Theory

2000-12-09 Thread auto110413
So this is interesting, but you do understand that from a strictly logical perspective it's completely inconsistent and makes no sense whatsoever?? Mr. Murphy complains that Gaza does not meet this "requirements" for being an anarchy - I would then respectully ask "what does???".. If Gaza is no

Hettinga does *nothing* but hand-waving, folks...

2000-12-09 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Depends on what dimension you're measuring. For fun, I pick time. >> >>I leave a definition of fractal time to the more mathematically >>creative out there. > > You're the one using it, so why would you ask us to try to guess what > you mean? Actually, since

My short writeup of the NymIP effort

2000-12-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40582,00.html Devising Invisible Ink by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Dec. 9, 2000 PST WASHINGTON -- An ambitious effort to protect online anonymity will kick off this weekend. A working group of about a dozen

Re: Ranks Of Privacy 'Pragmatists' Are Growing

2000-12-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:00:25AM -0500, Daniel Orr wrote: > Ronald Plesser, quoted at the end of the article, is an attorney for the > Individual Reference Services group. You may remember the group as among the > most vocal defenders of Lexis-Nexis when LN was going to sell social > security nu

Re:

2000-12-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 03:00:47AM -0800, Jonathan Wienke wrote: > Hasn't any seen the movie 6th Day? Who needs a password when you can borrow > the necessary biometric token from its owner if you have a hatchet or decent > knife? I taped a CSPAN show about two years ago before a bunch of high sc

No Subject

2000-12-09 Thread Kessler Thompkins
 

Re: Masks [was: Re: About 5yr. log retention]

2000-12-09 Thread Anonymous
Ond 12/09/2000, Ray Dillinger wrote: > It is illegal in Georgia, and a number of other Southern states of the > US, to appear in public wearing a mask. > Not that it's usually enforced on anybody but the Ku Klux Klan. > Dunno about other countries and other states. In "Church of the America

Systems

2000-12-09 Thread Tim May
The debate about "fractal dimensions" and "geodesic networks" and what characterizes them is part of a much larger analysis of systems in general. Minsky once said that most of AI is about people applying their own names to previously studied concepts and phenomena. This applies to _systems_

Re: Masks [was: Re: About 5yr. log retention]

2000-12-09 Thread Greg Broiles
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:06:03PM +0100, Anonymous wrote: > > I was unable to locate any other states with statutes addressing "mask > wearing" in public (without intent to commit burglary). No doubt the rest > of the offending rules are ordinances instead. > Also see 18 USC 242 and 42 USC 19

Re: Masks [was: Re: About 5yr. log retention]

2000-12-09 Thread Peter Capelli
Hot dayum, we got the ATF on that one!!! -p "Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Greg Broiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cyberpass.net on 12/09/2000 05:34:17 PM Please respond to Greg Broiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Masks [was: Re: About 5yr. log retention]

2000-12-09 Thread Anonymous
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oklahoma has a state statute prohibiting mask wearing (note the > exceptions): > > § 1301. Masks and hoods--Unlawful to wear--Exceptions > > It shall be unlawful for any person in this state to wear a mask, hood > or covering, which conceals the identit