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: I am a new reader of sci.crypt I would like to obtain a copy of a : public domain program that can encrypt files, preferably using DES, : that runs under MS-DOS. : I would also like to obtain a program which will password protect : floppy disks, if this is possible. : Thanks. : David Maddison : Melbourne, Australi...
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I remember a physic prof. who talked about scaling a cue ball to Earth size. Its was significantly less spherical that the Earth! --- Terry F Figurelle Boeing Defense & Space Group email: tff@plato.ds.boeing.com PO BOX 3999, Mail Stop 6J-EA phone: 206-394-3115 fax:206-394-4300 Seattle, WA 98124-2499
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THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE ATLANTIC Volume 4, Number 9 - April 1993 ########################### TABLE OF CONTENTS ########################### * ASA Membe...
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I certainly like this "Option C"... It's much more like the original Phase B studies from the early 1970's. Good stuff!
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That's _Five Weeks In A Balloon_. And if anyone can tell me where to get it, I sure would like a reply! I've been looking for that book for TEN YEAR+, and never found it. (Note that I am _not_ looking for a $200 collector's item; I'm hoping that *someone* has published it in modern times, either in paperback or...
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: THe limit on space-walking is a function of suit supplies (MASS) : and Orbiter Duration. : In order to perform the re-boost of the HST, the OMS engines : will be fired for a long period. Now the shuttle is a heavy : thing. THe HST isn't light either. THe amount of OMS fuel : needed to fly both up is substantia...
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Robert, I'm *so* glad that you posted your Biological Alchemy discussion. I've been compared to the famous Robert McElwaine by some readers of Sci. Med. I didn't know how to respond since I had not seen one of your posts(just like I haven't read "The Yeast Connection"). Let me just start by stating that the author...
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I don't think that this should be worked on just in the context of cryptography. That's sure to pose all sorts of problems for all sorts of people. What's needed is for someone to develop a portable telephone quality speech<->RS232 converter. Imagine, if you will, a little box that takes data on its serial port and...
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I think you must have the same hygiene teacher I had in 1955. There is a story about the Civil War about a soldier who was shot in the groin. The bullet, after passing through one of his testes, then entered the abdomen of a young woman standing nearby. Later, when she (a young woman of unimpeachible virtue) was ...
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Again we have the trust in government problem here. Members of Mr. Sternlight's generation trust the government to a degree which members of my generation find ridiculous. I would suggest that Mr. Sternlight read about the COINTELPRO program, or about J. Edgar Hoover, or about the wire-tapping of Martin Luthe...
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I understand Robert Centor has a program called ROC ANALYZER, that can be used to do receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Does anyone know if this is avaliable from an FTP site? If not, does anyone know how to get a copy of it? ==============================
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From article <1993May14.023220.1@vax1.tcd.ie>, by apryan@vax1.tcd.ie: Hmmm... Atlantis left Eureca in a 28 degree orbit. Retrieving it is going to be *REALLY* fun if they fly to 57 degrees. Torque that Canadarm! :-)
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From the description I've read, it's prob. only going to be as bright as Jupiter. Anything else is probably hype from the opponents or wishful thinking from the sponsors. If we could do something as bright as the full moon that soon, that cheap, the CIS would have done it already.
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I tried this code yesterday. On my Sparcstation ELC it takes over 300 seconds to compress 22 seconds' worth of speech. This means that it needs to be "optimized" by over a factor of 10 before it will be usable in even a half-duplex mode. I question whether CELP is the best approach for this application. It produ...
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Sorry, you have a _wish_ for an uncluttered night sky, but it isn't a right. When you get down to it, you actually have no rights that the majority haven't agreed to give you (and them in the process). It's a common misconception that being born somehow endows you with rights to this that and the other. Sadly this is...
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It is one thing to be open-minded about phenomona that have not be demonstrated to be false, and quite another to "believe" in something like Krilian photography, where *all* the claimed effects have be demonstrated to be artifacts. There is no longer any reason to adopt a "wait and see" attitude about Krilian photog...
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hypodermic it. there is me. Looking in The Evolution of Anaesthesia by M.H. Armstrong Davison (pub Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 1965) I found the following chronology: "1853. Charles-Gabriel Pravaz (1791-1853), inventor of the galvanocautery, describes a glass syringe with tapered nozzle. This syringe was intended...
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The domain address of the WHO is: who.arcom.ch So try sending email to postmaster@who.arcom.ch Josh backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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Yes! Just take money from the profitable commercial enterprises and give it to the government to "redistribute." Government is so much more efficient, trustworthy, and noble than self-serving businesses. :) Let's nip this redistributionist ignorance in the bud. If it were not for commercial enterprises, the whole ...
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Hi. I have a friend who is interested in subscribing to this newsgroup. Unfortunatly she does not have usenet access. If someone could send her a faq and info on how to subscribe, we'd be very appreciative If you want to send it to me, you can and I will get it to her. I do not read this newsgroup regularly though so ...
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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 expedient fact...
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It's not a question just of who is holding the phone. It's a question of what circuit to wiretap in the first place. If two drug dealers are both using stolen cellular phones, the FBI doesn't know which lines to tap -- unless of course they're tapping *all* phones (maybe *all* cellular phones). If they haven't tap...
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There's a chiropractor who has a stand in the middle of a shopping mall, offering free examinations. Part of the process involves a multiple-jointed sensor arm and a computer that says in a computer- sounding voice "digitize left PSIS" "digitize right PSIS" "digitize C7" "please stand with spine in neutral position". ...
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This is, shall we say, an overly-broad statement. In particular, are you referring to the native American culture that existed in 1400, or the one that existed in 1800? (Simplify things by assuming we're talking about the eastern US rather than the whole continent.) Given that those were *radically* different cultu...
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I like this statement, though for my own reasons. Cost comparisons depend a lot on whether the two options are similar, and *then* it becomes very revealing to consider what their differences are. Can Soyuz launch the Long Exposure Facility? Course not. Will the Shuttle take my television relay to LEO by year's e...
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: : : "Numerical Recipes in C"..Fortran..Pascal has a nice section on : encryption and decryption based on the DES algorithm. There is : also source code provided (I think some versions of this book are : distributed with the source code on disk; the source code can : also be ordered from the publisher). : : --Vi...
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Someone from NASA posted that there were very significant mass margins on the HST re-boost mission. A while back i had asked why not carry the EDO pallet up, and the answer was the mass margins were tight enough, they weren't even carrying extra suits. Where's wingo when you need him:-) COme on. Knock that S**T...
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Actually I am entering vet school next year, but the question is relevant for med students too. Memorizing large amounts has never been my strong point academically. Since this is a major portion of medical education -- anatomy, histology, pathology, pharmacology, are for the most part mass memorization -- I am a l...
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[...] >The Attorney General publishes the number of court-ordered taps each year. [...] I believe you are mistaken. I don't believe the AG publishes the number of state wiretaps. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me. = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu = Hmmm......
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A friend, a 62 year old man, has calcium deposits on one of his heart valves . What causes this to happen and what can be done about it?
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day. Recently, I completed a 2 week juice fast (with 3 days of water) and had two colonics as part of it. My motivation was primarily spiritual, to de-toxify from all the crap I've been putting in my body (not like thats enough to clean it all out but it did have an effect). Personaly, I didn't find it an uncomfort...
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Why don't we move down even further toward the masses by setting this up on an IBM PC clone(probably needs to be a 386 or a 486) with a sound blaster and a V.32bis modem. Those components are very widely available. I don't know if the PC has enough horsepower to encrypt the data at realtime, but the sound blas...
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They are using some technology developed by VLSI systems, the other manufacturer of the Clipper Chips, that produces chips that are supposed to be highly resistant to reverse engineering. --
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The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current elements for the current...
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O.K.- if you've read this group for a while, you know all about the one-time-pad, but here's a question I haven't seen. The one-time-pad yeilds ideal security, but has a well-known flaw in authentication. Suppose you use a random bit stream as the pad, and exclusive-or as the encryption operation. If an adversary kn...
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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 (in...
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I don't like the term "quack" being applied to a licensed physician David. Questionable conduct is more appropriately called unethical(in my opinion). I'll give you some examples. 1. Prescribing controlled substances to patients with no demonstrated need(other than a drug addition) for the medication. 2. Pres...
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[ stuff deleted ] The French SPOT is an example that comes to mind. Although the company (name escapes me at the moment) sells images world-wide, you can bet your last dollar (franc??) that the French gov't gets first dibs. I remember a few years ago (about the time SPOT was launched), I was speaking to my Dad (an U...
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We had a senior NSA scientist in Cambridge at one of our workshops recently (in fact he was here when the Clipper announcement was made, but we didn't learn of it till after he'd gone). He said on this point that he was forbidden by law to monitor conversations between US nationals (and he is a chap who is very pre...
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Good idea, But why put all the eggs in one basket? Given that the escrow keys are generated 200 at a time on floppy disks, why not keep them there rather than creating one huge database that will have to be guarded better than Fort Knox. Give each floppy to a different bank for safekeeping. The USA has over 10,000 ...
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The temperature of intergalactic space (or intercluster or intersupercluster space) would be very, very close to the microwave background temperature, 2.73 kelvins. I recall that in interstellar space in our neighborhood of the galaxy it's something like 4 K. Is that what you were looking for?
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they weren't even carrying extra suits. So how much mass is saved by not burning the OMS? That's the critical question. My data shows that the OMS engines hold 10,900 kg of propellant. Of that, a substantial fraction is going to be used for the first OMS burn, the reentry burn and the reserve. So Pat, tell us ho...
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Depression can also have various chemical (environmental) components. I noticed that I became depressed in various buildings, and at home when the air conditioning was on. Subsequent testing revealed that I was allergic to stemphyllium, a mold commonly found in air conditioners. After I began taking antigens, that pro...
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People who criticize "big Government" and its projects rarely seem to have a consistent view of the role of Government in science and technology. Basically, the U.S. Government has gotten into the role of supporting research which private industry finds too expensive or too long-term. (Historically, this role for t...
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Climbers regard 8000 metres and up as "The Death Zone". Even on 100% Oxygen, you are slowly dying. At 8848m (Everest), most climbers spend only a short period of time before descending. I've been above 8000 once. Descending as little as 300m feels like walking into a jungle, the air is so thick. Everest in winter...
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Ideas for the relief of sciatica. Please respond to my E-mail
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From article <67@cyberia.win.net>, by johnston@cyberia.win.net (Robert Johnston): Hmmm... I wouldn't consider encryption to be a weapon. How would the government classify encryption? Seems to me that encryption ought to be covered by the first amendment. Using this line of reasoning, the government shouldn't be ab...
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All right, listen up.... What are the possibilities of transmission through swimming pool water? Especially if the chlorination isn't up to par?
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We can only say that they are beyond about 25 AU, due to the low accuracy of position determination by single detectors. It may be a NEW Physics problem (i.e. a problem involving new physics). However, the data is not good enough to rule out the >100 models which use old physics. New physics is a big step, and is ...
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The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current elements for the current...
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>in the field who might be able to find out haven't yet done their >review of the chip design, and there's been a lot of wild speculation >and guesswork from those with little information that it might be >Swiss cheese. Oh, that puts the debate on -excellent- terms for our side: FEDS: You people saying that ...
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I don't know. Does anyone in NASA land know how much fuel is budgeted for the altitude change? Henry, any figures on the mass (full) for the EDO pallet plus it's dry weight? How about for the dry mass of Bus-1? it was being de-classified as i checked last. Also, I need. 1) current orbital parameters of HST ...
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No, they do not work well. My doctor started using one recently, and I thought the concept was so amazing that I bought one too. The thing works by reading the infrared emissions from the ear drum. The ear drum is hotter than the ear canal walls, so you have to point the thing very carefully. This means tugging o...
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Someone please help me. I am searching to find out (as many others may) an absolute 'cure' to removing all detectable traces of marijuana from a persons body. Is there a chemical or natural substance that can be ingested or added to urine to make it undetectable in urine analysis. If so where can these substances be fo...
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Hello, I am new to this news group, but I need some info. I am currently doing a project for a class on the Internet. I am looking for good sources of information on space and astronomy, more notably, our own solar system. If anyone knows any good sites where I can get information about this kinda stuff, please ...
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I don't believe any state licenses herbologists or iridologists.
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How about half a friend? The Motorola Codex preliminary V.Fast modem (which you can by right now) does 24.4 kbps (raw) over standard phone lines. 28.8 kbps is what is usually claimed for the "final" v.fast, but you can't go out and buy that right now, the standard isn't done yet. Again, voice can be compressed qui...
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And I lived out there too. It was a nice sleepy farm valley until the Butler family decided to stick up all sorts of really tacky High RIse office buildings and ruin my view of the sky. I guess i should have sued somebody :-;
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Batse alone isn't always used to determine position. WHen a particularly bright burst occurs, There are a couple of other detectors that catch it going off. Pioneer 10 or 11 is the one I'm getting at here. This puppy is far enough away, that if a bright burst happens nearby, the huge annulus created by it wi...
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Don't forget Chemical Abstracts Service (which is pretty much the international clearinghouse for all chemical information), whose former director (Ronald Wigington) and head of R&D (Nick Farmer) were openly former NSA employees.
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an image of the moon has been caught in a weather satellite images of the earth. it appears in both the 0430-1500UT ir and visual images of the earth. the GIF images can be down loaded from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu and are named CI043015.GIF and CV043015.GIF for the IR and visual images respectively. pretty cool pictures; in...
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This question comes up frequently enough that there should be a faq about it...
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My information shows that the last San Marco launch was 1988. There seem to have been a total of seven before that. I seem to recall that someone, either ASI or the University of Rome (?) includes money in their annual budget for maintainance of the platforms (there are actually two). The Italians have been spe...
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I've heard of NO studies, but speculation: Why on _earth_ would there be any effect on women's health? That's about the most absurd idea I've heard since Ted Kaldis's claim that no more than 35,000 people would march on Washington. Ok, _one_ point: Greatly reduced chance of pregnancy. But that's it.
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The main effect of the spherical aberration problems with the primary mirror was to drive the computer engineers to develop the image processing software that much faster. When they use the _same_ deconvolution software on the images from the fixed Hubble, be ready for some incredible results! There is every reaso...
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I'm a fellow applicant and my situation is not too much better. I applied to about 20 schools, got two interviews, got one offer, and am waiting to hear from the other school. Let me be honest about my experiences and impressions about the medical school admissions process. Numbers (GPA, MCATs) are not everything, ...
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Friend's unpleasant experience uring CT scan deleted I'd suggest writing a detailed letter about the incident to the hospital administrator. Specify the date and time. If possible the names of the technicians. Send a copy to the clinician under whose care your friend was admitted. I say this because, though your fri...
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I am aware of the restrictions imposed by the munitions act on the export of cryptographic technology, however, is it illegal to transmit encrypted data from the U.S. to another country? If so, then which laws apply to this situation? From the US law perspective, unless you're engaging in illegal speec...
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When I went thru all the spinning chair tests at JSC the PhD in charge was Milt Reshke but the technician who strapped me in and, on occasion, inserted the "probe" (needle) was named Bev Bloodworth.
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Sorry, I've lost track of who asked the question originally (our news server at GSFC keeps things around for tremendously short periods of time), but wanted to be certain before I replied. Someone asked about displaying the compressed images from the Voyager imaging CD-ROMs on a Mac. As Peter Ford (MIT) pointed o...
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When I was a school boy, my biology teacher told us of an incident in which a couple were very passionate without actually having sexual intercourse. Somehow the girl became pregnent as sperm cells made their way to her through the clothes via persperation. Was my biology teacher misinforming us, or do such incidents...
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Of course, How many government projects after Using PERT, GANT, C.P.M.s Process flow diagrams, Level 5 software projects.... actually come in on schedule and under Cost. I know the GAO determined that 80% of all NASA projects miss their budgets due to failing to adequately measure engineering developement cost...
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Since the law requires that wiretaps be requested by the Executive Branch and approved by the Judicial Branch, it seems clear that one of the key registering bodies should be under the control of the Judicial Branch. I suggest the Supreme Court, or, regionally, the Courts of Appeal. More specifically, the offices of ...
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It would be nice if someone here from the HST program was talking instead of all the speculation that is going on here. From what I understand from Dr. Frank Six of the Marshall Space Flight Center there is no insrmountable problem in bringing HST back. IT was designed that way to begin with. Also it is my understand...
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Julie, it doesn't necessarily follow that you should use it (MSG or something else for that matter) simply because you are not allergic to it. For example you might not be allergic to (animal) fats, and like their taste, yet it doesn't follow that you should be using them (regularly). MSG might have other bad (or good...
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Pat Myrto says if law enforcement wants keys, let them get a court order and then ask him for them. Most use of probably cause wiretapping warrants isn't to decrypt historical traffic, but for prospective listening once probably cause is established. Pat's approach would tip off the crooks. David
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I'm not sure it has been established that the government can prevent you from sending an algorithm abroad. The NSA seems to have won by intimidation so far. Why don't you try it? ;-) Of course you could just distribute your algorithm widely for free and screw them up big time. (That would be my approach ;-))
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I didn't think the bi-stem design was used so much for the retrieval as for the ability to launch in a tight (size) STS envelope. This is my own guess, based on similar designs flown on other large STS-launched s/c (GRO, UARS). Also, there _might_ be some consideration given to mass requirements (bi-stems weight l...
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Tell that to the people who run the 10-meter Keck telescope, or the astronomers and engineers working on the Gemini twin 8-meter telescope project. It took 7 years to build Keck I and now they are building Keck II. According to the December 1992 Sky & Telescope, "This second 10-meter eye will convert the facilit...
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That is not true, with chosen plaintext attacks DES keys can be determined without the full search. I am not willing to take that bet. You can obviously shove arbitrary data through your chip...... As for the key, it is stated that the sesion key exchange is external to the chip, so I can pick my keys too. BING ...
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BIOLOGICAL ALCHEMY ( ANOTHER Form of COLD FUSION ) ( ALTERNATIVE Heavy Element Creation in Universe ) A very simple experiment can demonstrate (PROVE) the FACT of "BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS" (reactions like Mg + O ...
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[...] B > Medicine has not, and probalby never will be, practiced this way. There B > has always been the use of conventional wisdom. A very good example is B > kidney stones. Conventional wisdom(because clinical trails have not been B > done to come up with an effective prevention), was that restricitng the B >...
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Then there are always osteopathy colleges....
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Someone named Hansk asked about pictures. Well, there is an archive of portraits in xfaces format at ftp.uu.net. Henry Spencer's picture is there somewhere, along with several thousand others. I don't remember the path, though it should be easy to find. Remember, though, it seems to use both internet and uucp address...
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In some sense, I think that the folks who think the idea is wonderful, and the folks who want to boycott anyone who has anything to do with this project are both right. That is, I think that space advertising is an interesting idea, and if someone wants to try it out, more power to them. However, a company may discove...
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Being a chronic HBsAg carrier does not necessarily mean the patient has chronic persistent anything. Persons who are chronic carriers may have no clinical, biochemical, or histologic evidence of liver disease, or they may have chronic persistent hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcin...
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I have a fairly severe high frequency hearing loss. A recent rough test showed a gently sloping loss to 10-20db down at 1000cps. Then it falls off a cliff to 70-80dbs down from 1500cps on. This type of loss is difficult to fit. I am currently using some old siemens behind the ear aids which keep me roughly functional,...
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EDTA(chelation therapy) has been used by some physicians to try to remove calcium from calcified plaques in the arterial system(not approved for such use). There is also the possibility that lung tissue in patients with lung disease has become calcified(chest x-rays would show this). There are side -effects to th...
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Dorothy Denning, _Cryptography and Data Security_, 1982, Addison Wesley. Page 8, under the heading "Cryptosystems must satisfy three general requirements. The other two are efficiency and ease of use.
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Cite source, please. --Mike
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.. One thing to recall. Putting a satellite as high as possible is one thing. Coming back to not only that altitude, but matching the position of it in its orbit on a subsequent mission is another thing. Any misalignment of the plane of the orbit during launch or being ahead or behind the target will require m...
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See the rec.pets.cats FAQ or any doctor or vet for more information. I am not any of the above, but we do have a couple of cats. It is transmitted through the fecal matter, so a pregnant woman should avoid cleaning the cat tray and you should both wash hands before preparing or eating meals. The latter is sound ad...
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I understand the when one is in orbit, the inward force of gravity at one's center of mass is exactly balanced by the outward centrifugal force from the orbiting motion, resulting in weightlessness. I want to know what weightlessness actually FEELS like. For example, is there a constant sensation of falling? And what...
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[discussion of pros and cons deleted] Could someone give me the references to the LLNL proposal? I've been meaning to track it down in conjuntion with something I'm working on. It's not directly related to space stations, but I think many of the principles will carry over.
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Umm, weren't you the one objecting to someone who is a "licensed physician" being called a quack? Or is it just that being a licensed physician is a good defense against charges of quackery when the physician agrees with your system of beliefs? Actually, I almost never use the term quack. When I discuss "systemic...
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There are chips which perform the voice compression/expansion. They can't be expensive, because they exist in many phones connected to PBXs or on the PBX line cards, as well as in a lot of equipment which compresses voice-grade circuits to save the cost of long-distance, leased T1s or satellite circuits. I can't reme...
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According to my *Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics*: "parsec (abbreviation for parallax second) The distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of 1 second of arc. 1 pc = 206,265 AU = 3.086 X 10^13 km = 3.26 lt-yr." George
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by the way ms. olmstead dna is not degraded in the stomach nor under pH of 2. its degraded in the duodenum under approx. neutral pH by DNAase enzymes secreted by the pancreas. my point: check your facts before yelling at other people for not doing so. just a friendly suggestion.
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The Private Scietific & industrial firm "Intercom 2000" can supply You with the transplantants that could be delivered according to Your order. Selection and preparation of the materials is carried out by the qualified personnel having 20-year experience in this sphere. We provide: - Immunological selection...
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