I used to get the same kind of spam, and I had to drop cypherpunks because of it. As it turns out, sneakemail can prevent this kind of spam by allowing only mail from a particular domain (the list domain) to arrive at the mailbox. On the whole, I am very impressed with their system.
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A "Ponzi Scheme" is a type of investment fraud wherein the operator promises high dividends or financial returns that are not expected from traditional investments. Instead of investing victims' funds, the operator pays the original investors "dividends" using the money that subsequent investors give. The scheme generally falls apart when the operator flees with all the proceeds, or when a sufficient number of new investors cannot be found to allow the continued payment of "dividends."
The Ponzi Scheme was named after Charles Ponzi of Boston, Massachusetts who operated an investment scheme in the early 1900's. He guaranteed investors a large return on their investments, but ultimately could not pay the dividends. Ponzi was found guilty of mail fraud and imprisoned for five years.
In your recent articles on the Carnivore system, you expressed concern that these 'black boxes' may be intended to act as kill switches for the ISPs they are attached to. What (content-wise) do you think would provoke this 'kill' response? Also, do you think that non-content information (protocol choice, encryption, &c) figures into the Carnivore equation?
After reading the torrent of flame associated with the previous story, I decided to do some research into @Home's actual practices. The results were shocking, to say the least. As it turns out, a UDP has been in place for the entire Internet since August 28, 1980. The details are here. Frankly, while I think UDP has some serious reliability issues, I don't think we need a new one.
For the humor impaired, please click the link to get the joke.
Several people have pointed out that a lot of the "wheels" that are being re-invented are different on the outside. What about something like this:
The repository specifies interfaces, [ie The Prototypes of the public methods, and the names of the public constants.] Individuals deposit implementations of the interfaces. The result: 4 different String's, which are interchangeable.
I know this is OOP dependant, but for this to work, objects or clusters therof are a neccessity (this last assert()ed without proof.)
Here goes: The most common form of DSL, ADSL, can be cranked as high as 7068x1088 kbps, with a range of about 10,000feet in copper-space. Most DSL providers will sell as much as 1088x768 kbps, and do so for about $250/month.
Recently, the most widely deployed algorithms have depended on the difficulty of the factoring problem N=(A * B) in the case where N is large and A and B are relatively close to each other. Most solutions to this problem have hinged on the idea that if N = T^2 - S^2, then N=(T+S)(T-S). The most successful sieves have used the modular representation of this: T^2 % N = S^2 % N, and most other representations of the equations have been ignored. Do you think that this is the only viable representation that works with the modern computational model, or is there undiscovered gold in one of the other representations, such as N = SUM(s,t,2k-1), or the geometric representation (right triangle with hypotenuse T, and legs S, N^.5)?
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I used to get the same kind of spam, and I had to drop cypherpunks because of it. As it turns out, sneakemail can prevent this kind of spam by allowing only mail from a particular domain (the list domain) to arrive at the mailbox. On the whole, I am very impressed with their system.
see above.
A "Ponzi Scheme" is a type of investment fraud wherein the operator promises high dividends or financial returns that are not expected from traditional investments. Instead of investing victims' funds, the operator pays the original investors "dividends" using the money that subsequent investors give. The scheme generally falls apart when the operator flees with all the proceeds, or when a sufficient number of new investors cannot be found to allow the continued payment of "dividends."
The Ponzi Scheme was named after Charles Ponzi of Boston, Massachusetts who operated an investment scheme in the early 1900's. He guaranteed investors a large return on their investments, but ultimately could not pay the dividends. Ponzi was found guilty of mail fraud and imprisoned for five years.
In your recent articles on the Carnivore system, you expressed concern that these 'black boxes' may be intended to act as kill switches for the ISPs they are attached to. What (content-wise) do you think would provoke this 'kill' response? Also, do you think that non-content information (protocol choice, encryption, &c) figures into the Carnivore equation?
For the humor impaired, please click the link to get the joke.
The repository specifies interfaces, [ie The Prototypes of the public methods, and the names of the public constants.] Individuals deposit implementations of the interfaces. The result: 4 different String's, which are interchangeable.
I know this is OOP dependant, but for this to work, objects or clusters therof are a neccessity (this last assert()ed without proof.)
Here goes: The most common form of DSL, ADSL, can be cranked as high as 7068x1088 kbps, with a range of about 10,000feet in copper-space. Most DSL providers will sell as much as 1088x768 kbps, and do so for about $250/month.
Recently, the most widely deployed algorithms have depended on the difficulty of the factoring problem N=(A * B) in the case where N is large and A and B are relatively close to each other. Most solutions to this problem have hinged on the idea that if N = T^2 - S^2, then N=(T+S)(T-S). The most successful sieves have used the modular representation of this: T^2 % N = S^2 % N, and most other representations of the equations have been ignored. Do you think that this is the only viable representation that works with the modern computational model, or is there undiscovered gold in one of the other representations, such as N = SUM(s,t,2k-1), or the geometric representation (right triangle with hypotenuse T, and legs S, N^.5)?