Debate on Privacy Goes Private
In the debate about new surveillance powers for law enforcement officials,
Americans, in various ways, are asking a basic question: Are we willing to
curtail personal freedom in exchange for greater national security? Now, a
debate heating up in Washington puts a
"Ok, someone PLEASE enlighten me... WHAT on Earth is the problem here? They
paid TOO MUCH in taxes, so they have to pay a fine???
Mark"
END.
The problem for me is the false advertising on this list RE:Libertarianism.
Its the cypherPUNKS list NOT the cyphershills list.
"It doesn't take a judgment by society at large to realize that some
people really are better off alone instead of inflicting their destructive
fucked-up personality on others (psychotics, alcoholics, etc)."
What about silly little girls inflicting their e-gold (!) opinions.
"if more people refu
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Morlock wrote:
Faustine wrote:
> > Too bad you seemed to have missed the entire point of the passage: if your
> > relationships are making you bitter and miserable, there's no sense in
> > blaming the other half of the human race for whatever weaknes
Summary:
Universal Studios Home Video and Hop-On partnered to launch what they say
is the first-of-its-kind, disposable cellphone in connection with the
DVD/home video release of "Jurassic Park III" December 11. The
limited-edition phone, called the Jurassic Park Survival Cell Phone,
includes
."... I am suggesting secure, accountable devices with digital signatures
built in. They're cryptographically time-stamped, their voice signals and
photographs are cryptographically overwritten, proving their source. They
are tamperproofed, and very sternly verifiable, and usable as proven
evi
Right, but will this type of thing cause oscillations, or some sort of
synchronizations, and if so, what are the ways around it...
In some ways I do look at that repcap model as a stock market, but rather
than individual stocks, you have reputations.
--Kaos-Keraunos-Kyberneto
Emergence - the tendency of systems to evolve and self-organise - is the
driving theme of an international digital-art conference in Melbourne this
week.
Second Iteration, at Monash University, will explore the role of artificial
intelligence, Darwin's theory of evolution and complex systems in
Response to...This is often known as "collaborative filtering", and pops up in
systems like NoCeM and GroupLens. What's cool is that you don't need
transitive trust or even poster reputations (anonymity without so much
vandalism!). Just give the right reviewers the reputation "good/bad
judgment
"...Someone once remarked that the most unimaginitive, laziest Harvard
graduate students at the bottom of their class tend to end up at the IMF
and UN. Sort of sinkholes of mediocrity. Oh well! ~Faustine."
Luckily we now have 'open source' AP to take out the ones that get to be
president.Did y
At 03:39 PM 12/3/01 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>Great points, but consider the example "Harvard University." People are
>willing to pay a premium to be associated with it regardless of the academic
>worth of the individual programs in the eyes of specialists. A lot of students
>are after the cachet an
"Most of us now are happy, for example, to tolerate facial recognition
technology at stadiums, and to proffer our driver's licenses at frequent
car, truck and airport checkpoints. We no longer can travel anonymously,
and that may be acceptable given the risks we now face. But while the
ability to
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20043&group=webcast
For reprint of pensioners story.AND...
Anarchist Pamphlet (28 pages) (english)
by Blake 12:23pm Mon Dec 3 '01
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a critique of the global economy from an anarchist perspective. It
is meant for o
From: "Sunder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Say for instance Mr. Measels manages to accumulate quite a large sum of
> positive repcap, if he spews a bunch of the lame ass CJ knockoff messages,
> I suspect most people would adjust their cached repcap's of him pretty
> quickly - At least I would. (CJ did
This is often known as "collaborative filtering", and pops up in
systems like NoCeM and GroupLens. What's cool is that you don't need
transitive trust or even poster reputations (anonymity without so much
vandalism!). Just give the right reviewers the reputation "good/bad
judgment about which ar
Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Tim wrote:
>
>>This is "the reputation of a reputation."
>Ridiculous how so many employers put such stock in a word on a piece of
paper
>too--pure credentialism. How ironic when you contrast that with the
fact that
>the great Herman Kahn didn't have a PhD. I wonder wh
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Tim wrote:
>This is "the reputation of a reputation."
>As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his
>nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
>their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" fal
Ok, then I propose to surround your property from any vantage point on
public land, and setup gigantic speakers from which I would recite very
loud speeches in your direction at 3:00am.
As I would be on public land and excercising my freedom of speech, you
couldn't do anything as that would be ce
Thanks for the pointer, a very good essay indeed. :)
I haven't checked in any meaningful way, but that thread doesn't seem to
have any replies from Ralph... Do you recall any details as to what would
cause oscillations? Would be interesting to explore this.
I expect that having a way to prove
At 11:55 AM 12/03/2001 +0200, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>Anybody checked the license agreement?
>
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>> > Some interesting tips (bottome of this message) for detecting FBI/SS
>> > snoopware that NAI/McAfee is now assisting the FBI in installing.
>> > I especially like the idea of "type hundreds of random key strokes and
>> > see which files increase in size." (Or just look for any file size
>> >
At 09:53 AM 12/03/2001 -0500, Declan McCullagh forwarded articles on
the Ginger Hype Generation Machine finally being revealed.
Boy, what bad timing Kamen has. Not only is it too late for
Christmas sales (if in fact the things are shipping anytime soon,
as opposed to this being a demo for next C
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 09:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 3 Dec 2001, at 13:44, Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> All the discussion about certificates of speaking Navajo or whatever
>> are
>> slightly beside the point. If personal reputation, as such, has a
>> market
>> value it isn't the m
Snoring...Is it affecting YOUR life?
Tired of waking up at all hours?
Tired of not getting a good night's sleep?
Tired of waking up every morning to hear how you snored the night before?
Tired of sleeping in seperate rooms?
Just Tired of being Tired?
It is not your fault,there is a solution!
IS THIS YOUR CAR?
It's a tricked out 1923 T-Bucket Hot Rod, with a high performance Chevrolet engine!
This Babe Magnet is being given away, no strings attached, to some lucky surfer, just for looking at free XXX pics and video.
CLICK HERE for a chance to drive this baby home!
When you click on
OUTBOUND traffic is what I meant, of course :)
Although, comedy aside, there's an interesting point herein: even a
lot of traffic that you would normally assume would be intra-Western
Europe traffic actually crosses into U.S. NAPs -- counterintuitively
stupid, I know, but it happens more than
--
James A. Donald:
> > "Anarcho capitalism corresponds to what any normal person
> > would call anarchy"
mattd
> Who said I was normal?
If you use the word anarchy to refer to something that is
very far from anarchy as it is normally understood, without
explaining that you are using a speci
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Included below is the ASCII CFP for our upcoming PKI research
worksho
Symposium's in San Francisco in August. Papers due January 28 for review.
In case your mailer doesn't like the way Eudora munges headers while
forwarding,
it was originally sent by Kevin Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bill Stewart
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2002 USENIX S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The full text is at
> http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/WhatYouWant.asp?NT=185
>
> Note that no signatories have signed, and it requires at least 5 to
> sign before going into force.
>
> This is interesting because basically all of Western Europe's IP
> traffic cr
Speaking of cows and poly-ticks...
THE "TWO COW" EXPLANATION OF WHAT MAKES...
A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows.You keep one and give one to your neighbor.
A SOCIALIST:
You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your
neighbor.
AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN:
You have two
On 3 Dec 2001, at 13:44, Ken Brown wrote:
> All the discussion about certificates of speaking Navajo or whatever are
> slightly beside the point. If personal reputation, as such, has a market
> value it isn't the money you'd get by selling the reputation, because as
> everyone else already pointe
mattd wrote:
[...]
> If you are into cryptoanarchy with the emphasis on the anarchy,you may
> enjoy this...
[...]
> We used to say, NO to Western Imperialism and NO to Soviet Imperialism
> both. Self determination for ALL PEOPLES!
> One Empire has fallen. One still has to fall. But we should n
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excerpt from http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/national/03POWD.html
The preliminary analysis of the powder
shows that it has the same extraordinarily high concentration of deadly
spores as the
anthrax produced in the American weapons program. While it is still
possible that the
anthrax could have
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nyt/20011201/ts/ashcroft_seeking_to_free_f_b_i_to_spy_on_groups_1.html
Saturday December 01 09:01 AM EST
Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups
By DAVID JOHNSTON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. The New York Times
Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a pl
The full text is at
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/WhatYouWant.asp?NT=185
Note that no signatories have signed, and it requires at least 5 to
sign before going into force.
This is interesting because basically all of Western Europe's IP
traffic crosses the U.S. at some point, and there
"Anarcho capitalism corresponds to what any normal person
would call anarchy"
Who said I was normal? Normal for norte america Yes,maybe.(just say 'so')
>Explanations of "anarcho" socialism are evasive, euphemistic
>and full of equivocations
I dont remember seeing any,Its usually anarchism or li
"...nothing more than a cop-out. So it seems to me, at any rate. ~Faustine. "
Like you last week (agent ?) faustine (cop-in?) Silence speaks volumes in
this house.
Thanks for that,Im going to publish it on Indymedia soon,real soon.
If you are into cryptoanarchy with the emphasis on the anarchy,you may
enjoy this...
Elliott Abrams, who had pleaded guilty in 1981 to lying to Congress over
the conduct of the war, was installed by the president to head his "
203.238.135.35.
Return of Micropayments
By Michael Hurwicz
Early attempts at micropayments have failed. Is it an innovative idea that
needs more work, or a doomed concept?
Programming with Perl
Want accurate polls? Randal L. Schwartz provides a solution built around
the fact that form validation
www.accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm
IPA Articles - Cato Institute
... Libertarian" in a Corporate Way. ... book "No Mercy: How Conservative
Think Tanks and ... over
the years. Cato's main philanthropic backing ... come from the right-wing
Koch ...
Description: Article explores the Cato Institute
From: "mattd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.mediatransparency.org/Stories/bradley_error.htm
Ok, someone PLEASE enlighten me... WHAT on Earth is the problem here? They
paid TOO MUCH in taxes, so they have to pay a fine???
Mark
At 04:31 PM 12/01/2001 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
>Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP?
OpenPGP, ClosedPGP, GPG, PGP2.x, and X.509 all have blazingly ugly data
formats,
especially for keys. The main advantages of recycling one of the
N variations on PGP form
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Just a little note, if you know of anoth
Eugene Leitl forwarded:
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: 2 Dec 2001 23:23:55 -
> From: Bruce Sterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Viridian Note 00283: Geeks and Spooks
>
> Key concepts: cryptography, information warfare,
> imaginary products, Amer
Tim May wrote:
[...]
> >
> > We're not disagreeing. By a "single" value I meant a universally
> > agreed upon value.
>
> If there is a "universally agreed upon value" for something, and someone
> values it differently, is it still "universal"?
>
> Nope.
>
> What there may be are market-cleari
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