Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-05 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yeah, thriving economies that only a handful of elite got to benefit from > while the rest of the population were pretty much on bread and water. You > really should study the fall of the Ottoman Empire a tad more closely (or > at least

(Possibly OT) Free speech through "pads"

2000-03-04 Thread Marcel Popescu
Hi! David Madore had an interesting idea - you can read about it at http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/misc/freespeech.html . Being a fan of Delphi, I wrote a program that enables one to implement that idea. Unfortunately, he doesn't have Windows, and - until Kylix shows up - I can't compi

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm using other definitions. > > What a fucking putz. Invent your own language and you expect others to go > along with it? Fat chance. EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does not "define" words, i

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually Marcel this was a humorous insight --it truly > gets at what mean when they gripe about > capitalism. They are really griping about economics, ie, reality. Interesting way of putting it. Yes, I agree with you. [I think I rea

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-03 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: R. A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a > > transaction by those not involved). > > Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning "economics". Well, it seems that we're arguing about word definitions, which

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-02 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Socialism is the ownership and management of all property by the state > with the elimination of private property. > > Feudalism is the situation where within a geographic area EVERYTHING is > property and owned by a single INDIVIDUAL. >

Re: Reliable Remailers

2000-03-01 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: COQUIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was using one located at > comm.pub.ro and it worked pretty good but as of late the program is not > working well with it. comm.pub.ro??? We have one in Romania??? Boy, I really need to get up-to-date on this one, don't I? Mark

Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: Re: Re: why worry?)

2000-03-01 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It might not even be the "standard of living" making for the disparity, but > rather the value of the dollar versus the value of the local currency. Sure, > these guys make $20 a month, but that $20 a month would buy them as much as our > $2

Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: why worry?)

2000-03-01 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But with our institution of intellectual property, it becomes possible > to keep competition at bay such that the consumer has no choice but to > either live without the product or service completely, or hand over > the money to the corporation. T

Re: LogJam

2000-03-01 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Which brings up another topic. How would libraries be funded in a > true libertarian society? Privately? 8-) 8-) I've given that a lot of > thought, and am quite familiar with library costs, etc. There's not any poss

Re: Brands on privacy

2000-02-28 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > True 'nuff. And American (or EU) laws are just that: laws that end 3 miles > from shore. What's the geographic scope of his > patents? India? Israel? I've already asked about this several days / weeks ago (I'm sure he doesn't hav

Re: Magic Money

2000-02-28 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The encryption code is the easy part. I could recreate magic money, using > the tools I now have, in day or two days, using any of the standard crypto > libraries. Getting up a decent web server and user interface would take > f

Re: LogJam

2000-02-28 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "STIGLIC Anton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How many people do you think are aware of all this tracking? > How many people do you think know that every message posted do a news > group is archieved, forever? So, once again, the proper way to handle this is educating people.

Re: LogJam

2000-02-28 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Adam Back" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hmmm, but do you have the right to be comply maliciously.. by sending > him so much identifying info (long names mapping to long URLs in this > analogy) that his database fills up, and until he notices he doesn't > record any more marke

Re: LogJam

2000-02-27 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Jay Holovacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually it's more like the store owner logging your name when you come in > just to take a look at his price for beer (and he doesn't even have to ask > you, because his security system will just query your ID smartcard). And > whil

Re: Diffie-Helman

2000-02-22 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Frank Andrew Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2) Calculate MD5( passphrase ) and pads it repeadedly to get the number >of bits in p less one. > 3) calculates B = g ** md5md5... mod p , and publishes this as public key I was under the impression that the exponents

Re: why worry?

2000-02-16 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You're quite right...that 35 cents an hour is exploiting them. :) Actually, that's a good salary even here (Romania, Eastern Europe), and we believe we're in the 2nd world... Mark

Craptology

2000-02-15 Thread Marcel Popescu
http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/craptology/crv0n1-2.html Practical Key Recovery, by David Beynon The purpose of this paper is to propose a model for automatic key recovery based on principles of practical, rather than theoretical, cryptography. The paper then addresses some of the problems which mu

Re: why worry?

2000-02-14 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Allan Hunt-Badiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > government is is more and more beholden to corporate power and the > trend will continue. I don't believe in the "corporations are evil" mantra. The government is to blame, not the corporations. > and why should > citizens ha

Re: why worry?

2000-02-13 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Allan Hunt-Badiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...by automated algorithms and shared data that give rise to > insurance cancellations, denials of credit or scholarships, And is this supposed to be BAD? I mean, is someone going to deny me a credit application because I alwa

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