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Yogurt contains Lactobacillus acidophilus and L. bulgaricus. L. acidophilus is the major bacteria in the vaginal tract and is primarily responsible for keeping the vaginal tract acidic and yeast free. Most of the commercial yogurt sold in the U.S. has a very low L. acidophilus and L. bulgaricus count. Neither o...
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I am quite near sighted. I've recently received laser treatment for both eyes to seal holes in the retinas to help prevent retinal detachment. In my left eye a small detachment had begun already and apparently the laser was used to "weld" this back in place as well. My right eye seems fine. In my left eye I was seein...
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OK, I heard a lot of talk about the NSA's infamous control over encryption export through the ITAR. Here's a question. Say I develop this great new encryption system, and I want to sell my software worldwide. The thought police then come in and say "This algorithm is a threat to national security. You...
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I used to be on lopid. It did a good job of reducing cholesterol (295 down to around 214), as well as LDL and triglycerides. Then, I got pneumonia, and for some reason, the Lopid stopped working very well; cholesterol and triglycerides soared. The levels might have stabilized over time, but a new doctor had me quit,...
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=FLAME ON = =Reading through the posts about Kirlian (whatever spelling) =photography I couldn't help but being slightly disgusted by the =narrow-minded, "I know it all", "I don't believe what I can't see or =measure" attitude of many people out there. Where have you seen that attitude? =I am neither a real believer,...
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Speaking of which, a paper was out a few years ago about a weather sat imaging a lunar eclipse -- are those images uploaded anywhere? I could dig out the reference if there's interest. Shag --
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The burden of proof rests upon those who claim the existence of this "syndrome". To date, these claims are unsubstantiated by any available data. Hopefully, as a scientist, you would take issue with anyone overstating their conclusions based upon their data. Gee, I have many interesting and enlightening anecdotes ab...
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I read a great book about eye dominance several years ago. So there is one book out there..at least one :). There were several types of eye dominance. Where a person looks in their memory usually indicates a type of eye dominanc Another type is related to coordination activities like hitting a ball. Another fo...
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Having read in the past about the fail-safe mechanisms on spacecraft, I had assumed that the Command Loss Timer had that sort of function. However I always find disturbing the oxymoron of a "NO-OP" command that does something. If the command changes the behavior or status of the spacecraft it is not a "NO-OP" command....
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That would be a V4 ticket, presumably, not a V5 ticket. The V4 ticket format can even be complicated several more orders of magnitude...
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Iff the phones transmit their serial nos. as part of the message then what is to say that each phone can take that serial number and use it to generate the required key....
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The problem is that this will also cause "a certain amount of interference" in *all* systems within the range of the device. A long time ago I built a small jammer to dissuade my brother from using his radio alarm clock at something like 4am, which had just enough range to cover my room and his. However something ...
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My opinion(for what it's worth) is that 40 x-rays is *way* too many. Guidleines have been set on the number of dental x-rays and chest x-rays that one should have over a given period of time because of all the environmental factors that can cause cancer in humans, ionizing radiation is one of the most potent(spli...
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Given that certain archival methods have certain key(cleartext) in a file I used a programatic dictionary attack. I used the DES library provided with the system that I was using. What is to keep anyone from being lucky with a key? My previous employment has nothing to do with my current address, other than the f...
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The RISC processor made by Fairchild, sold to Intergraph, much the same story as the R4000.
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One possible reason is that file' is made with sassafras leaves, while root beer was made with sassafras bark or root bark. The leaves contain either no or less saffrole than the bark. There is also some sort of treatment which putatively removes saffrole from sassafras products. I have some concentrated sassafras ...
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-jeremy Are you talking about a single BATSE component, or the whole thing? You *could* propose a BATSE probe; launch two or three with ion drive on various planetary trajectories... your resolution increaces the more they're spaced apart. You could probably ch...
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I propose that PepsiCo, Mcdonalds and other companies could put into orbit banners that have timely political messages, such as, "Stop the slaughter in Bosnia!" , etc.
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Hello, does anyone know about allergic reactions caused by the developer/toner of laser printers? What chemical stuff is involved? Thanks in advance! Reinhard
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Terrance, There is a good article entitled: "A long-term in vivo bone strain measurement device," Journal of Investigative Surgery 1989; 2(2): 195-206 by Szivek JA & Magee FP. I think you can find some others by searching MedLine.
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Brad Yearwood posts a long response to the issue of registering a phone-clipper relationship. It doesn't wash. Recall that law enforcement gets a court order to tap a suspect's phone calls. They do what they do now--figure out which lines to tap. They then record the stuff. If it's Clipper, they read the law enforcem...
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There's been some discussion very recently as to whether the government once again might exempt themselves from something they use to screw us over... Well, from comp.dcom.telecom: From: lesreeves@attmail.com Subject: Odds 'n Ends in the News * The Clipper Chip device introduced yesterday by AT&T may not be suitable...
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Hi: I went to the orthopedist on Tuesday. He diagnosed me as having "intersection syndrome". He prescribed Feldene for me. I want to know more about the disease and the drug. Thanks
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Only guessing, but from his address I'd say that Jerry, like me, lives in Canada. Unlike me, he thinks that our friends in the US enjoy the same freedom that we do, and he has not seen the slow but steady erosion to the south of us. We have the benefit of relatively slow politi...
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Right? What right? And don't you mean something more like: It so typical that the wants of the minority can obstruct the wants of the majority, no matter how ridiculous those minority wants might be or what benefits those majority wants might have? [My sole connection with the project is that I spent a lot of time...
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How about going to a doctor to get some minor surgery done. Doctor refuses to do it because it's ``to risky'' (still charges me $50!). I go home and do it myself. No problem. The ``surgery'' involved digging out a pine needle that had buried itself under my tongue.
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Dear Netters: Maybe one of you can explain this. From time to time I experience a strange kind of feeling (I have all kinds of weird feelings) which can be best described as the feeling of "losing gravity", like that one experiences in a descending elevator. Needless to say, it is not enjoyable. It sometimes co...
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psionic@wam.umd.edu, whose parenthesized name is either an unfortunate coincidence or casts serious doubt on his bona fides, posts a message in which he seems willing to take the word of a private firm about which he knows little that their new encryption algorithm is secure and contains no trapdoors, while seemingly d...
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:>Sounds to me like someone was pulling your leg. There is only one way for :>pregnancy to occur: intercourse. These days however there is also :>artificial insemination and implantation techniques, but we're speaking of :>"natural" acts here. It is possible for pregnancy to occur if semen is :>deposited just outsid...
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<: <: As a private citizen, I would feel much more "secure in my person and <: papers" knowing that an organization committed to individual civil <: liberties- the ACLU and the NRA come to mind- was safeguarding half of <: my key. Both the ACLU and the NRA are resistent to government pressure <: by the simple expedien...
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Regarding the feasability of retrieving the HST for repair and relaunching it: (Caution: speculation mode engaged) There is another consideration that hasn't been mentioned yet. I expect that retrieving HST would involve 'damaging' it considerably in order to return it to its cradle in the cargo bay. Most of the depl...
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I did. You're mistaken. NSA's communications intelligence mission is strictly against foreign governments. Here's an excerpt from the enabling charter (24 Oct 52, Truman) that should clarify this. The charter was declassified in about Feb 1990 when an FOIA request made it public. Interesting! Where can...
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I feel compelled to complain: the statement that recent observations rule out merging neutron stars as sources of gamma-ray bursts is utterly false, even though it is popular enough to make it to BATSE press releases. The idea behind the statement is as follows: "if you smack two neutron stars together, or ...
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We don't disagree on this. All I said was that a right is whatever you or somebody acting for you can enforce. The Bill of Rights didn't come into effect until it was ratified by the states (and indirectly, the people); from that point it defined legal rights. "Common law" rights are vague and situational; that's...
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:Chronic persistent hepatitis is usually diagnosed when someone does a liver :biopsy on a patient that has persistently elevated serum transaminases months :after a bout of acute viral hepatitis, or when someone is found to have :persistently elevated transaminases on routine screening tests. The degree of :elevation (...
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Recently I've come upon a body of literature which promotes colon cleansing as a vital aid to preventive medicine through nutrition. In particular, Dr. Bernard Jenssen in his book "Colon Cleansing for Health and Longevity" -- the title actually escapes me, but it is very similar to that -- claims that regular self-adm...
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:In article <enea1-270493135255@enea.apple.com> :>Can anyone out there tell me the difference between a "persistent" disease :>and a "chronic" one? For example, persistent hepatitis vs chronic :>hepatitis. : :I don't think there is a general distinction. Rather, there are :two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic act...
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But the sperm would be very diluted in a "x" gallon swimming pool
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I have seen various references to 'triple des' recently. Could anyone tell me what it is ? From context, I would guess that it means encrypting each block 3 times, with a different key each time, but I'd like to be sure. Replies by email preferred - our news is unreliable. Thanks, Richard -- -------------- PGP Pu...
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This is a whole different situation. If aliens were able to get here prior to us being able to get there, one might conclude that they would be more advanced and therefore "more intelegent" that we are. However if we get somewhere where there is life, chances are we wont be able to communicate with them. So we wil...
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1) I think that most of us can afford a stamp and an envelope, and the cost of printing out a letter. 2) If some kind soul out there would write a letter, and upload it to the net, everyone could capture it, print it out, and snail-mail it out to their local congressional critter. BTW>> I'm working on one. -nate
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[re: voyages of discovery...] Could you give examples of privately funded ones? If you believe 1492 (the film), Columbus had substantial private funds. When Columbus asked the merchant why he put the money in, the guy said (slightly paraphrased) , "There is Faith, Hope and Charity. But greater than these is Ba...
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You should have been following the discussion of GRBs going on in sci.astro. It's been discussed in some detail, with references even.
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Is it not also an abomination that somebody would spend money on "space advertising" when those children are starving? Perhaps some redistribution of wealth would help them ...
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Here is a press release from Huntington Medical Research Institutes. New Method For Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Discovered at Huntington Medical Research Institutes: Results to Be Reported To: National Desk, Health Writer Contact: John Lockhart or Belinda Gerber, 310-444-7000, or 800-522-8877, for the ...
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You should read the history. It was Hoover who stopped Nixon's COINTELPRO dead in its tracks because he said it was unconstitutional. They tried to get around him every way they could. Despite other things he may have done, for this alone, Hoover saved the Constitution. David
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Cool! I think you mean Moon. (Sorry, I had to.) ; )
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=>Yup. The demonstration to which you refer consists of placing a leaf between =>the plates, and taking a Kirlian photograph of it. You then cut off part of =>the leaf, put the top plate back on, and take another Kirlian photograph. You =>see pretty much the same image in both cases. Turns out the effect isn't =>ne...
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I never advocated not saying what you believe in. I'm advocating second thought, and calm. "A smart warrior defeats the enemy in ambush on the battlefield" "A smarter warrior defeats the enemy in open warfare on the battlefield" "The smartest warrior defeats the enemy without using the battlefield" Think about it...
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I'm afraid I was not able to find the GIFs... is the list updated weekly, perhaps, or am I just missing something?
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Non-steroid. Proventil is a brand of albuterol, a bronchodilator. Regards,
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Have I mailed this to the correct newsgroup(s)? Are there other newsgroup(s) which cover the following topic? -------- Has anyone with myopia (short-sightedness) ever done the Bates eye-exercises? If so, could you please e-mail me the following information: - age and state of sight before exercises were commenced; ...
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No. Do this. Have the DC-X1, make an unscheduled landing at teh 50 yard line during the halftime show of This years Superbowl. ABC will have more reporters there for that, then at any news event.
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> > What evidence indicates that Gamma Ray bursters are very far away? > >Given the enormous power, i was just wondering, what if they are > >quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by? > >Why would they have to be at galactic ranges? . . . David gives good explainatio...
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Well, I'll avoid your question for now (got some learnin' to do) with a promise to come back with more info when I can find it. I _do_ know that BATSE is the primary instrument in the development of the all-sky map of long-term sources. Given that fact, and the spacecraft attitude knowledge of approx. 2 arcmin, we m...
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There is a description of something called a "fair crypto system" in the May 1993 issue of BYTE, p. 134, attributed to MIT professor Silvio Micali. The way it works is as follows: You generate your private key S, and break it up into pieces s1, s2, s3, s4, and s5, such that (s1 + s2 + ... + s5) mod p = S. You g...
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Could someone explain where these names come from? I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason to name a planetoid "Smiley," but I'm equally sure that I don't know what that reason is. Read John le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Honorable Schoolboy" or "Smiley's People".
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_The_ problem with Oort cloud sources is that absolutely no plausible mechanism has been proposed. It would have to involve new physics as far as I can tell. Closest to "conventional" Oort sources is a model of B-field pinching by comets, it's got too many holes in it to count, but at ...
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Correct, we have no parallax measurements on the bursts. Therefore, we can't tell whether they're slightly extra solar or not! (which means that parallax can't tell us whether or not it's real close.)
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This is one of those "yes, but" things. It's true that a hydraulically pressurized tube can be somewhat more rigid than an unpressurized tube, but even at 2000 PSI levels a hydraulic hose will bend rather easily, though it's straight-on compressive strength is high, and it's torsional resistance increase is practical...
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[Description of Boeing study of two-staged spaceplane using supersonic ramjets deleted.]
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... There's a better way. Doesn't Qualcom have a secure design that it decided not to market? Since they aren't going to use it, wouldn't the patriotic thing be to put the design in the public domain? How about selling a "Cryptography Educational Kit" with the critical parts?...
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As far as I can see if your obstetrition has an ultrasound in his rooms and is expirienced its use and interpretation, he should be just as capable of reading it as any radiologist. All doctors are "qualified" to read x-rays, u/s, ct scans etc. it is just that a radiologist does nothing else, and thus, is only b...
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Wm Hathaway comments; I agree that the desire for beauty is valid, but I think your desire to impose your vision of beauty is not. You mention the age-old desire to somehow get up there, but ignore the beauty of the actual achievment of that vision. You mention the beauty of a very dark sky, not impeded by the eff...
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>supposed to develop cryptosystems. If the government chooses to go >ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses, so be it.
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I have been struck down this past week by a stomach bug and fever which went away quickly when treated with an antibiotic. The pharmacist told me the antibiotic is effective against a wide variety of "gram-negative bacteria." I was wondering where I might have acquired such a bacteria. Could they hang out in swimming- ...
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The compressed image format used for the Voyager disks is not (yet) supported by any Macintosh display software that I know of. However, there does exist a program that can convert the images to a format that is recognized by recent versions of both Pixel Pusher and NIH/Image. It is called "PDS Decompress" and is avai...
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Although the $1 billion scheme is a fantasy (it's an old canard in the space business called "trolling for billionaires"), there is a good chance that a much smaller program ($65 million) will pass the 103rd Congress. This is the Back to the Moon bill, put together by the people who passed the Launch Services Purchase ...
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Re; Response from CoB of Boeing on SSTO ... Boeing has been looking at several TSTO vehicles and has carried out extensive conceptual studies of advanced launch systems for some time. A good reference on this might be: "Comparison of Propulsion Options for Advanced Earth-To-Orbit (ETO) Applications (IAF-92- 0639...
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It is interesting to note in the past few days' correspondance that some believe that poor old New Mexico is not capable of hosting a commercial space launch business. For many reasons, it can, and we here on the front lines see no reason why it should not. The 'spaceport political publicity' referred to the other da...
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I don't think there is a general distinction. Rather, there are two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic active hepatitis and chronic persistent hepatitis. I can't think of any other disease where the term persistent is used with or in preference to chronic. Much as these two terms "chronic active" and "chronic pe...
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Do not presume to tell me what I have and have not read. The system may not rely upon registering people as owning particular phone units, but it is necessary to know which phone units are likely to be used for some suspected criminal communication before you can obtain their unit keys from escrow. This necessity ra...
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I had ankle reconstruction (grafting the extensor digitorum longus to the lateral side of the ankle, along with a video arthroscopy of the ankle (interesting to watch, to say the least). Since then, I have had periodic muscle spasms (not cramping, but twitching that is very fast) in some of the muscle groups along the ...
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# >Coca Cola company will want to paint the moon red and white. (Well, # >if not this moon, then a moon of Jupiter)... This reminds me of the old Arthur C. Clarke story about the Coca Cola ad stashed inside an experiment.
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: : >move a little, the pain will be excrutiating. I was told by my doctor : >at that time that the pain was comparable to that of childbirth. (Yes, : >by a male doctor, so I'm sure some of you women will disagree). I'd : >really like to know the truth in this, so maybe some of you women who : >have had a baby and a k...
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"The security of the system should depend only on the secrecy of the keys and not on the secrecy of the algorithms" -- Dorothy Denning
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Why jettison the SSMEs? Why not hold on to them and have a shuttle bring them down to use as spares?
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I am a student from San Leandro High school. I am doing a research project for physics and I would like information on Edward Jenner and the vaccination for small pox. Any information at all would be greatly apprectiated. Thank you.
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I don't wish to rehash the PGP patent issue at all, but I do feel that some potential misconceptions in interpretting intellectual property laws need to be raised. You are correct that executing PGP would be a violation (unless the patent were declared invalid by the courts), but... there is a question as to when, h...
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[ ... ] [ ... ] One very interesting thing I notice about this is that the only use of the chip key is to encode the session key for the law enforcement field. It is not used at all by the encryption algorithm. It seems like it would be possible to create a device that would be otherwise compatible, but would s...
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: Mike Adams suggested discussions on long-term effects of spaceflight : to the human being. I love this topic, as some of you regulars know. : So, having seen Henry's encouraging statement about starting to talk : about it; I shall. : I feel that we as a community of people have unique resources : to deliver to the...
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A student told me today that she has been diagnosed with kidney stones, a cyst on one kidney, and a kidney infection. She was upset because her condition had been misdiagnosed since last fall, and she has been ill all this time. During her most recent doctor's appointment at her parents' HMO clinic, she said that abo...
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: Well, now, Doc, I sure would not want to bet my life on those little : critters not being able to get thru one layer of sweat-soaked cotton : on their way to do their programmed task. Infrequent, yes, unlikely, : yes, but impossible? I learned a long time ago never to say never in : medicine <g> ...
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David, While I disagree strongly with you on the issue of our trusting the government, I think you have a good idea here. There is danger that, with funding coming from asset forfeitures, the government could continue to promulgate a bad product in spite of poor acceptance. Making the product pay its way (as it mus...
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From the word 'statim' (Latin, I think), meaning immediately. =========================
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I know that alot of how people think and act in a long distance space project would be much like old tiem explorers, sailors, hunters and such who spent alot of time alone, isolated, and alone or in minimal surroundings and sopcial contacts.. Such as the old arctic and antarctic expeditions and such.. I vote for a lat...
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The following is based on copies I was given of some articles published in Hearing Instruments. I would appreciate any comments about this and other 'new' technology for hearing aids. The ReSound system was developed on the basis of some research at AT&T and appears to take a different approach from other aids. It app...
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>Remember that they've promised to let a committee of outside experts see >the cryptosystem design. I hope there are some silicon jocks on the committee who can follow the algorithm through to hardware. While I doubt the NSA would pull any monkey business on this point -- they have to expect that the ...
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: Hi All, : Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an : authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that : is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki? : Thanks, I have a receipe at home that was posted to me by one of our fellow netters about a month ago. I am recalling this from memory but I think ...
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In 1967, when I was a grad student at UW in Seattle I had a chance to read Hoover's book "Masters of Deceit", and I quote a sentence (from memory): "and beware my fellow Americans, a communist may look just as an ordinary person..." I went to the mirror and it was true. -- Borut B. Lavrencic, D.Sc. | X.400 ...
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But no one (or at least, not many people) are trying to pass off God as a scientific fact. Not so with Kirlian photography. I'll admit that it is possible that some superior intelligence exists elsewhere, and if people want to label that intelligence "God", I'm not going to stop them. Anyway, let's _not_ turn t...
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Food products can get through breast milk and cause allergies in the young. Since the son is allergic it would be best not to go to bottle feedings, but rather eliminate foods from mother's diet. Your pediatrician should be able to give you a list of foods to avoid.
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Also,if they did come from the Oort cloud we would expect to see the same from other stars Oort Clouds.
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So, who is Mykotronx, Inc.? It would be nice to know that they are not a front company used by an intelligence or other agency of the U.S. government. While we are at it, the chip design(s) should be examined and verified against silicon to insure no trap doors or hidden protocols exist in silicon, regardless of...
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Well, I agree. I hope others chime in with suggestions on specific technologies which could be applied towards the maintenance of an Earth like atmosphere on a long-duration spacecraft. Tim et al: I think we should try looking at atmosphere first. This seems to be the single most fundamental issue in keeping an...
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I know it's only wishful thinking, with our current President, but this is from last fall: "Is there life on Mars? Maybe not now. But there will be." -- Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator, 24 August 1992 -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (7...
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