Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jerrold Leichter wrote: > different forms. It's been broken repeatedly. The one advantage they have > this time around is that CD readers - and, even more, DVD readers; there is > mention of applying the same trick to DVD's - is, compared to the floppy > readers of yesteryea

Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
Tell Intel simply: We don't want no "Scumware Inside" We won't buy NGSCB crippleware. Want to sell motherboards? Don't include this shit. Keep it simple. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons o

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:46, Steve Schear wrote: > Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants Which means that even armless retarded monkeys can post to c-punks. Profr, call your office!

Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)

2003-10-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:44:16 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Don

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
Ok, so I finally bothered to read said article. I assumed that they had something interesting that made it look to the error correction code like a scratch, etc... They don't. No such weakness exists in error correction used on CD's. Their protection is no more than putting bad error correcting

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Jerrold Leichter
| I've not read the said article just yet, but from that direct quote "as | the copy degrades..." I can already see the trouble with this scheme: | their copy protection already fails them. They allow copies to be made | and rely on the fact that the CDR or whatever media, will eventually | degrad

clicking on ads = funding terrorists

2003-10-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Excerpted from politech. Consider the 1st Amend implications, and how clicking on a banner ad (which automatically would pay the source site) makes you a terrorist supporter. Got assets? Subject: US State Department extends FTO list to include Internet sites Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:20:23 -040

Re: Nuking USG: not just for cypherpunks anymore

2003-10-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:08 AM 10/11/03 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >Interesting that the State Department goes after Robertson rather than >Mowbray. Could it have anything to do with the idea that few(er) people know >who Mowbray is? Perhaps Mr. Rosenthal or Mr. Chong might have an opinion on this...

P2P Encrypted VOIP

2003-10-13 Thread Guerry Semones
I caught the announcement this morning from Skype concerning their P2P-based VOIP (free) product. Apparently this is the Kazaa founder's new company. The communications are supposed to be encrypted, etc., etc. Here's the Slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/13/1120202&mode=

Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
[Can remote soldiering and amplified "Terminators" be too far away? Steve] Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 13, 2003; Page A01 Scientists in Nort

2 Quantum Crypto Companies partner

2003-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
This makes 3 companies I know of working on Quantum Cryptography for key distribution. There must be a few more... http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=41735 -TD _ Instant message during games with MSN

RSA performance on Athlon64 vs. Itanium

2003-10-13 Thread Lucky Green
I just picked up an Athlon64 3200+, which runs at a 2 GHz clock speed. Using the Red Hat for AMD64 beta and the version of OpenSSL that ships with that beta, I get 922 1024-bit RSA signs per second. This is a tad less RSA signatures per second than I have seen on an 800MHz Itanium using highly opti

Removing SSZ - Re: Cypherpunks List Info

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Stewart
Jim Choate recently announced he was closing the SSZ cypherpunks mailing list.

Re: EFF Report on Trusted Computing

2003-10-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
Just thought someone should take the trouble to rebut the anonymous pro-treacherous-computing rantings... I have heavily trimmed our anonymous ranters verbose writing style to keep just the bits I'm responding to (inline...) > The EFF tries to distinguish between "good" and "bad" aspects of TC, >