At 08:45 AM 7/7/03 -0700, alan wrote:
>But the real issue is that all of these DRM methods rely on "security
by
>obscurity". Such methods eventually fail. Either the actual method is
>discovered and published or the DRM method fails in the marketplace and
is
>never heard from again.
Hilary R an
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Tim May wrote:
> > I have to disagree here. Medical insurance is not the same as life
> > or car insurance. It was all supposed to be a big pool that we would
> > draw on when needed. By skimmimng the cream, infant mortality rates
> > rise, along with a host of other pro
On Monday 07 July 2003 19:58, Tyler Durden wrote:
> >"The bottom line is what the victim feels," he said. "Is the victim
> >threatened? Is the victim alarmed? >Hey, that's a crime."
>
> Interesting logic here. Someone writes something not-so-nice about
> somebody on a list and now that person is b
At 07:30 2003-07-07 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
This is only for the minimal forms of "protection" which are designed to
work with existing CD/DVD players. If you look at the new audio formats
like SACD, they use encrypted data. All your lasers won't do you any
good unless you can pry a key (and
On Monday 07 July 2003 22:03, Neil Johnson wrote:
> ... Which makes more sense: Spend
> $X dollars on some 80 year old's heart/lung transplant so he can live
> another 10 years, or spend that money on make sure an unwed mother's
> baby is born healthy?
That's easy: spend it on the 80-year-old. H
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 01:15 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote:
> >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> >> Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
> >
> > The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
> > there are
On Monday 07 July 2003 07:53 pm, Stormwalker wrote:
>
>Medical insurance is about maintenence of our lives. You do not
>need to participate, but I'll bet if you get hurt, you'll head
>to the nearest emergency room. The pool I speak of is simply that
>I may need the services now and
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:51:39AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> And if I know I am not engaging in queer sex
> or IV drug use, why would I pay for AIDS coverage/
You've got to be kidding...
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1497971,00.html
..
The development of digital money, and encryption software restricting
government's ability to monitor Internet activity, are common goals among
the online anarchists and libertarians known as "cypherpunks."
The ultimate purpose
> Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> What's wrong with voluntary eugenics? The invention of
> agriculture started a policy of negative eugenics that culminates
> with the industrial welfare state paying stupids to breed, while
> others chose birth control. And banning soma
At 03:59 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
>There are some things where nearly everyone will agree
>a genetic fix is desirable - for example, suceptibility to
>heart disease, cancer, dental caries, and myopia. Other
>'vanity' fixes seem pretty harmless - being tall, busty,
>or having a well-stuff
At 01:15 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>> Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
>
> The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
> there are many others that go through both lines.
Could you explain
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Stormwalker wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Insurance companies are private entities, so IMHO its moral for
them to gather intel (eg, checking blood for nicotine metabolites),
or give discounts for folks who've had certain inherited dis
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
there are many others that go through both lines.
> >Ethical issues have surfaced around the desire of the subject's
At 08:25 AM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote:
>The issue of knowing about other people based on one subject's DNA
>has been known for for several years. For example, if a a woman
>has the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene (breast cancer), then so does her mother,
>sister(s) and daughter(s) because the gene is her
The issue of knowing about other people based on one subject's DNA
has been known for for several years. For example, if a a woman
has the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene (breast cancer), then so does her mother,
sister(s) and daughter(s) because the gene is hereditary. Insurance
companies can/have refused ins
At 02:19 AM 7/7/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
or how are we supposed to
>find collision free hash functions?What exactly is the
>difficulty in finding collision free hash functions?
Because there are no collision *free* hash functions,
there will always be several domain elements that map to the
same
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Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
> Slashdot pointed to this story of a man indicted via
> his *relative's* DNA sample:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3044282.stm
>
> But an interesting, unmentioned issue is this: in population
> DNA surveys you find that a lot of purported fathers *aren
At 02:33 AM 7/7/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
>On 2003-07-06, Major Variola (ret) uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>>There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to
>>allow or export this flexibility.
>
>I'd guess either because of a) terminal stupidity or b) benefits to
scale
At 11:58 AM 7/7/03 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
>> So the possibility of indicting a cuckolded man on the basis
>> of nominal (only) relatives is quite real.
>
>Only he was convicted because he confessed.
Yes, of course, in this *particular* case. Which is irrelevent.
Th
Thomas Shaddup writes:
> As a welcomed side effect, not only we'd get a device for circumvention of
> just about any contemporary (and possibly a good deal of the future ones)
> optical media "protections"
This is only for the minimal forms of "protection" which are designed to
work with existing
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