...is that the reason people are increasingly accepting of more governmental control in their lives is that they are too busy to take care of and raise their own children, and don't want to be held responsible (as they should be) if Billy goes to school with an AK-47 and blows away 7 other children.
It's all about liability, folks. People want to know that they're not responsible for how their kids turn out if they're not raised properly, when in fact, they should be held accountable. -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
This is a public key encryption system that encrypts bits with a linear (in the number of bits of the key) blowup in size. As has been said before, you are better off doing key exchange with DH (or RSA, after 2000-20-9) and then using a symmetric stream cipher. Ignore people who tell you to use a symmetric block cipher: that's precisely what you're trying to avoid, right? -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
That sucks. At least no one was hurt. Now, let's hope you had replacement insurance instead of normal insurance, because then you'll get almost nothing for your trinkets (e.g., CD's). Yet another advantage to using MP3's: just back up your collection in someone else's house. =) -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
I listen primarily to progressive metal (e.g., Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Queensryche, and more esoteric bands like Lemur Voice, Ice Age, and Superior) and progressive rock (e.g., Rush, Yes, Genesis), though I also listen to power metal (e.g., Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden) and "other" (e.g., Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLachlan, Altan, GWAR, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam).
I like listening to music that challenges me as a listener. I can't stand pop music, especially when I'm coding: it's then when I especially need something complex, so Dream Theater usually fits the bill. Incidentally, Dream Theater's Images and Words is the best album ever written, by any band in any genre. (Nothing like an opinion asserted as fact. =) -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
So rather than look at the reasons why someone wants to attack you, just blow them away? The police are there to stop the kind of abuse you describe, when individuals use your excuse it simply becomes vigilante tactics.
Self-defense is not vigilanteeism (sp). The "police" aren't there the moment some idiot jumps out of a dark alley and tries to stab you. I cannot believe that naive people who think that law enforcement can protect them from anything are willing to trade away _others'_ rights in exchange for a false sense of security.
When guns are outlawed, criminals will still have access to them. Why unlevel the playing field so? The fact that the scrawny guy in the Gap sweater might be carrying a concealed weapon will give criminals second thoughts about trying to rob him. You can't easily defend yourself with any other kind of weapon.
However, let's get this clear: Guns should be available simply because the 2nd amendment says so. If you don't like guns and want to see them disappear, get Congress and the states to revoke the 2nd.
Okay, I know that others have probably figured this out before, but I feel proud for having come up with it from your posting:
Geeks not reproducing is really bad for the human race. The thought of our future world being dominated by blue-collar workers, businessmen, and lawyers because the geeks don't have children is really disturbing. All those years of evolution to bring out intelligence in man will be wasted because intelligence isn't as attractive as confidence (which have an anti-correlation, if anything).
Right, so I'm a jerk because I hang my head and don't talk to people and avoid social situations in which I feel uncomfortable. Sorry, I'm not the bad guy here. -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
"Well, I can't say he doesn't deserve it, well, at least the one or two dicks I know don't deserve to EVER have a girlfriend, or even a boyfriend, if that's what they like. They're complete jerks."
I think most of us in this position are just sick of superficial women. We're nice if you get to know us, but (a) people don't approach us because they're superficial, and (b) we don't approach anyone else because we learn to expect failure after years of encountering it.
DNA computers avoid the problem of superpolynomial space requiring superpolynomial time by exploiting massive parallelism; unfortunately, these DNA computers require superpolynomial space to solve problems, which is arguably just as bad as superpolynomial time.
After having had a girlfriend for exactly three months out of the last five years, I've become extremely cynical about the whole thing, which probably doesn't help my situation at all. Now, when I walk around Harvard Square (about 15 minutes from my apartment), I find the women physically attractive but socially/psychologically repulsive: overdressed, made-up, shallow, immature, and unbrained.
It's a very strange sensation to both want something and be repulsed by it at the same time. But maybe this is what I need to get my mind off women once and for all.
Where are all the good women? They sure aren't here.
In academia, AI is just a synonym for heuristic algorithm design; there is nothing "intelligent" about it. I can see two primary reasons for AI not progressing in the past twenty years:
All the major AI researcher jumped ship into industry in the early 80's. This left the brainless, the unmotivated, and the senile to carry on AI research in academia.
It isn't clear to anyone (except the all mighty Marvin Minsky with LOTS of sarcasm) that it is even possible to model human intelligence with a digital computer. It's a nice idea...for a philosophy book. Additionally, the human brain is so massively parallel that even if we had a "human intelligence algorithm," there might not exist enough digital computers today to run it.
So, AI became a study in heuristic algorithms and machines that learn in a very isolated environment, and strong AI kind of fell by the wayside. Unlike foundational 70's research in cryptography, algorithms, systems, and even graphics, I'm sure we'll be laughing at 70's AI research a hundred years from now.
This is a message I sent to Congressman Weldon (a representative quoted in the article) and to my Congresswoman, Sue Kelly. It could make a difference if a lot of people did the same.
Kyle
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Dear Congressman Weldon and Congresswoman Kelly:
I don't know why people have a hard time getting this through their skulls, you included. Let me make it plain:
Foreign countries already _have_ strong encryption technology. Restricting export only causes inconvenience and financial loss for providers of encryption within the United States.
Witness RSA Data Security's creation of a partner business in Australia which will allow them to finally compete in the international market for an encryption protocol that the three MIT scientists created in the late 70's. Witness the hoops free software developers have to jump through to get encryption code out of the United States: printing it out on paper and then scanning it in overseas.
Other countries already have access to all the major encryption protocols: RSA and Diffie-Hellman/El-gamal on the public-key side, IDEA, Blowfish, 3DES, RC5/6, et al. on the symmetric key side. This is a _fact_: you cannot contest this. In fact, not only do they have access to such algorithms, they have polished applications allowing them to apply it! The following websites detail just two of many such applications and libraries that are outside the control of the United States and are available to anyone, anywhere in the world:
GnuPG, a free software replacement for PGP http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/gnupg/ (Germany)
OpenSSL, a free software library for the secure socket layer, supporting encryption keys of arbitrary lengths http://www.openssl.org/ (Switzerland)
Therefore, it is illogical to restrict the export of encryption technologies from the United States with arguments based on law-enforcement, because _everyone_ -- criminals and non-criminals alike -- already has full access to the strongest available encryption.
Since I refuse to believe that any of our elected representatives are actually stupid, it remains that you must have _some_ reasonable motive for retaining these inane, damaging, and futile controls. What that is, no one else can figure out; but we, the people of the United States, would certainly like to hear it. I would appreciate your sharing this with the rest of the committee because I cannot honestly believe they would support these controls if they actually knew the information contained herein.
This email, by the way, is signed by my GnuPG private key. You can verify its authenticity with my public key, which can be found on my homepage.
Yours truly, Kyle R. Rose Registered NY State voter
- -- Kyle R. Rose "They can try to bind our arms, Laboratory for Computer Science But they cannot chain our minds MIT NE43-309, 617-253-5883 or hearts..." http://web.mit.edu/krr/www/ Stratovarius krose@theory.lcs.mit.edu Forever Free
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Use GnuPG, not PGP -- support free software. I use GnuPG exclusively, and since it's OpenPGP compliant, it interoperates with PGP 5 without any problems -- you can even use the same keyring files. -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
You can always do the obvious thing: write the email in a text editor, sign it, and then paste it into the web form. Unfortunately, the email service may munge your messages, making the signature invalid; but this is just something you're going to have to try to find out.
Regarding signing email, some of us almost _always_ sign emails and news postings; using Gnus under Emacs makes this very easy -- C-c C-/ C-s (or H-s, as one of my keyboard shortcuts). If anyone ever receives an unsigned email from "me," they should be suspicious...
Yes, I use The Laser's Edge and Empire Entertainment (www.empireent.com) for my esoteric stuff. However, CDNOW is cheaper for the common stuff (like Helloween, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, etc.) I hope they continue to stock this stuff at low prices.
BTW, my impression of Alta Mira is that it's really expensive; Ken is a lot better for what he carries, and CDNOW is even better for what they carry.
I listen to a lot of progressive and power metal, and Music Blvd had a much better selection than Amazon. (CDNOW presumably now has Music Blvd's business deals.)
Also, Amazon's music service sucks apparently. I've never ordered anything from them, but I have two separate accounts from two people who don't know each other of foul-ups in mailing shipments. They were eventually resolved, but it meant a two week delay in each case.
...and this doesn't please me one bit. Here's what I see happening:
CDNOW posts losses for another quarter or two.
The collective company then decides that everyone's better served by Columbia House's crappy club.
They jettison CDNOW's distribution channel (which already ate the only other good online music store, Music Boulevard) and all the customers who had built up fast foward rewards points (and free CD's from MusicBlvd) are forced to either forward their points into a new Columbia House membership and pay $16.99/cd, or lose them.
Some choice.
By the way, Amazon's music service sucks by comparison. I hope this deal doesn't prove bad for customers.
Kyle
NP: Ayreon, Actual Fantasy -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Okay, you people are misunderstanding the point of analogies. If I say something like "Ted Kennedy's mouth is to words as a sphincter is to shit," I'm not comparing Ted Kennedy's mouth or his words to either sphincters or shit.
In an analogy A:B=C:D, there is no implied relationship between individual elements (such as A and C or A and D or even A and B); rather, the relationship between A and B is said to be equivalent or nearly equivalent to that of C and D, even if A(B) has absolutely nothing to do with C(D). Nothing more is implied.
Kyle
NP: Gamma Ray, Sigh No More -- Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
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...is that the reason people are increasingly accepting of more governmental control in their lives is that they are too busy to take care of and raise their own children, and don't want to be held responsible (as they should be) if Billy goes to school with an AK-47 and blows away 7 other children.
It's all about liability, folks. People want to know that they're not responsible for how their kids turn out if they're not raised properly, when in fact, they should be held accountable.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
This is a public key encryption system that encrypts bits with a linear (in the number of bits of the key) blowup in size. As has been said before, you are better off doing key exchange with DH (or RSA, after 2000-20-9) and then using a symmetric stream cipher. Ignore people who tell you to use a symmetric block cipher: that's precisely what you're trying to avoid, right?
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
That sucks. At least no one was hurt. Now, let's hope you had replacement insurance instead of normal insurance, because then you'll get almost nothing for your trinkets (e.g., CD's). Yet another advantage to using MP3's: just back up your collection in someone else's house. =)
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
I listen primarily to progressive metal (e.g., Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Queensryche, and more esoteric bands like Lemur Voice, Ice Age, and Superior) and progressive rock (e.g., Rush, Yes, Genesis), though I also listen to power metal (e.g., Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden) and "other" (e.g., Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLachlan, Altan, GWAR, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam).
I like listening to music that challenges me as a listener. I can't stand pop music, especially when I'm coding: it's then when I especially need something complex, so Dream Theater usually fits the bill. Incidentally, Dream Theater's Images and Words is the best album ever written, by any band in any genre. (Nothing like an opinion asserted as fact. =)
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Okay, a little tangental, but marginally relevant. =)
Kyle
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
So rather than look at the reasons why someone wants to attack you, just blow them away? The
police are there to stop the kind of abuse you describe, when individuals use your excuse it
simply becomes vigilante tactics.
Self-defense is not vigilanteeism (sp). The "police" aren't there the moment some idiot jumps out of a dark alley and tries to stab you. I cannot believe that naive people who think that law enforcement can protect them from anything are willing to trade away _others'_ rights in exchange for a false sense of security.
When guns are outlawed, criminals will still have access to them. Why unlevel the playing field so? The fact that the scrawny guy in the Gap sweater might be carrying a concealed weapon will give criminals second thoughts about trying to rob him. You can't easily defend yourself with any other kind of weapon.
However, let's get this clear: Guns should be available simply because the 2nd amendment says so. If you don't like guns and want to see them disappear, get Congress and the states to revoke the 2nd.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Okay, I know that others have probably figured this out before, but I feel proud for having come up with it from your posting:
Geeks not reproducing is really bad for the human race. The thought of our future world being dominated by blue-collar workers, businessmen, and lawyers because the geeks don't have children is really disturbing. All those years of evolution to bring out intelligence in man will be wasted because intelligence isn't as attractive as confidence (which have an anti-correlation, if anything).
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Right, so I'm a jerk because I hang my head and don't talk to people and avoid social situations in which I feel uncomfortable. Sorry, I'm not the bad guy here.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
"Well, I can't say he doesn't deserve it, well, at least the one or two dicks I know don't deserve to EVER have a girlfriend, or even a boyfriend, if that's what they like. They're complete jerks."
I think most of us in this position are just sick of superficial women. We're nice if you get to know us, but (a) people don't approach us because they're superficial, and (b) we don't approach anyone else because we learn to expect failure after years of encountering it.
"The concept of being alone terrifies me."
You're not the only one.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Pre-nup. I know I would never get married without one.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Sprint PCS just went out for me in the Boston area. You gotta be shittin' me...
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
DNA computers avoid the problem of superpolynomial space requiring superpolynomial time by exploiting massive parallelism; unfortunately, these DNA computers require superpolynomial space to solve problems, which is arguably just as bad as superpolynomial time.
Kyle
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Now, if we can all avoid the NIH ("Not Invented Here") syndrome, it might actually make it into the main kernel distribution.
Kyle
NP: Queensryche, Empire
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
After having had a girlfriend for exactly three months out of the last five years, I've become extremely cynical about the whole thing, which probably doesn't help my situation at all. Now, when I walk around Harvard Square (about 15 minutes from my apartment), I find the women physically attractive but socially/psychologically repulsive: overdressed, made-up, shallow, immature, and unbrained.
It's a very strange sensation to both want something and be repulsed by it at the same time. But maybe this is what I need to get my mind off women once and for all.
Where are all the good women? They sure aren't here.
Kyle
NP: Dream Theater, Awake
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
So, AI became a study in heuristic algorithms and machines that learn in a very isolated environment, and strong AI kind of fell by the wayside. Unlike foundational 70's research in cryptography, algorithms, systems, and even graphics, I'm sure we'll be laughing at 70's AI research a hundred years from now.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
This is a message I sent to Congressman Weldon (a representative quoted in the article) and to my Congresswoman, Sue Kelly. It could make a difference if a lot of people did the same.
w +ByqDFc17wCeKJT6
Kyle
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Dear Congressman Weldon and Congresswoman Kelly:
I don't know why people have a hard time getting this through their
skulls, you included. Let me make it plain:
Foreign countries already _have_ strong encryption technology.
Restricting export only causes inconvenience and financial loss for
providers of encryption within the United States.
Witness RSA Data Security's creation of a partner business in
Australia which will allow them to finally compete in the
international market for an encryption protocol that the three MIT
scientists created in the late 70's. Witness the hoops free software
developers have to jump through to get encryption code out of the
United States: printing it out on paper and then scanning it in
overseas.
Other countries already have access to all the major encryption
protocols: RSA and Diffie-Hellman/El-gamal on the public-key side,
IDEA, Blowfish, 3DES, RC5/6, et al. on the symmetric key side. This
is a _fact_: you cannot contest this. In fact, not only do they have
access to such algorithms, they have polished applications allowing
them to apply it! The following websites detail just two of many
such applications and libraries that are outside the control of the
United States and are available to anyone, anywhere in the world:
GnuPG, a free software replacement for PGP
http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/gnupg/ (Germany)
OpenSSL, a free software library for the secure socket layer,
supporting encryption keys of arbitrary lengths
http://www.openssl.org/ (Switzerland)
Therefore, it is illogical to restrict the export of encryption
technologies from the United States with arguments based on
law-enforcement, because _everyone_ -- criminals and non-criminals
alike -- already has full access to the strongest available
encryption.
Since I refuse to believe that any of our elected representatives are
actually stupid, it remains that you must have _some_ reasonable
motive for retaining these inane, damaging, and futile controls. What
that is, no one else can figure out; but we, the people of the United
States, would certainly like to hear it. I would appreciate your
sharing this with the rest of the committee because I cannot honestly
believe they would support these controls if they actually knew the
information contained herein.
This email, by the way, is signed by my GnuPG private key. You can
verify its authenticity with my public key, which can be found on my
homepage.
Yours truly,
Kyle R. Rose
Registered NY State voter
- --
Kyle R. Rose "They can try to bind our arms,
Laboratory for Computer Science But they cannot chain our minds
MIT NE43-309, 617-253-5883 or hearts..."
http://web.mit.edu/krr/www/ Stratovarius
krose@theory.lcs.mit.edu Forever Free
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Use GnuPG, not PGP -- support free software. I use GnuPG exclusively, and since it's OpenPGP compliant, it interoperates with PGP 5 without any problems -- you can even use the same keyring files.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
.
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
You can always do the obvious thing: write the email in a text editor, sign it, and then paste it into the web form. Unfortunately, the email service may munge your messages, making the signature invalid; but this is just something you're going to have to try to find out.
Regarding signing email, some of us almost _always_ sign emails and news postings; using Gnus under Emacs makes this very easy -- C-c C-/ C-s (or H-s, as one of my keyboard shortcuts). If anyone ever receives an unsigned email from "me," they should be suspicious...
Kyle
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
A dual-sided, dual-layer DVD has 15.6GB of storage.
Kyle
NP: Loreena McKennitt, Book of Secrets
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Yes, I use The Laser's Edge and Empire Entertainment (www.empireent.com) for my esoteric stuff. However, CDNOW is cheaper for the common stuff (like Helloween, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, etc.) I hope they continue to stock this stuff at low prices.
BTW, my impression of Alta Mira is that it's really expensive; Ken is a lot better for what he carries, and CDNOW is even better for what they carry.
Kyle
NP: Lemur Voice, Insights
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
I listen to a lot of progressive and power metal, and Music Blvd had a much better selection than Amazon. (CDNOW presumably now has Music Blvd's business deals.)
Also, Amazon's music service sucks apparently. I've never ordered anything from them, but I have two separate accounts from two people who don't know each other of foul-ups in mailing shipments. They were eventually resolved, but it meant a two week delay in each case.
Kyle
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
By the way, Amazon's music service sucks by comparison. I hope this deal doesn't prove bad for customers.
Kyle
NP: Ayreon, Actual Fantasy
--
Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
Okay, you people are misunderstanding the point of analogies. If I say something like "Ted Kennedy's mouth is to words as a sphincter is to shit," I'm not comparing Ted Kennedy's mouth or his words to either sphincters or shit.
In an analogy A:B=C:D, there is no implied relationship between individual elements (such as A and C or A and D or even A and B); rather, the relationship between A and B is said to be equivalent or nearly equivalent to that of C and D, even if A(B) has absolutely nothing to do with C(D). Nothing more is implied.
Kyle
NP: Gamma Ray, Sigh No More
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS