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4,659 |
You're blowing smoke. Qualcomm wants to sell to nice, lucrative overseas
markets like Japan and the EC. The government told them "don't do encryption
if you ever hope to export this technology". The reason that CDMA doesn't
have encryption is NOT because the G-men came a'knocking at Qualcomm's door.
It's because Qu... | 1 |
3,878 |
I think it was a typo for "Karelian photography", which is the
practice of taking pictures of either Finns or Russians, depending
on whom one asks. | 1 |
5,125 | while I
Seeing a dermatologist sounds like a very good idea if you are
worried about your dry skin. | 1 |
2,953 |
fc> Exactly what fraction of current research is done on the big,
fc> visable light telescopes? From what I've seen, 10% or less
fc> (down from amlost 100% 25 years ago.) That sounds like "dying"
fc> to me...
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. Infrared astronomy
didn't really get started until somethin... | 1 |
5,053 |
Reboost may not be a problem, if they have enough fuel. If they don't do a
reboost this time, they will definitely have to do one on the next servicing
mission. But try to land a shuttle with that big huge telescope in the
back and you could have problems. The shuttle just isn't designed to land
with that much w... | 1 |
3,951 |
As I recall, it is a statistical anomaly because of the sample involved in the studies.
I am certain that if it were true the Europeans would be cutting kids right & left.
I think alot do it blindly because "Dad" had it done. But there are many
who get bamboozled into it with the bogus cancer thing. Awhile bac... | 1 |
1,259 | ...
Well, lets for a hypothetical put our selves in the place of the US end
of the drug rings. What do we do about the Cripple chip? First off, we
would express disaproval to our congress critters, and remind them of the
large sums of money our legitimate co.s provide to their campain coffers. We
would also let them k... | 1 |
2,587 | In order to have formulate a rational position on what cryptography
policies are acceptable, we must set forth a list of basic requirements.
I would propose the following as a starting point:
1. The algorithm must be publicly known, and must have a record of
surviving attempts by outside experts to find weakn... | 1 |
3,621 | Colonics were a health fad of the 19th century, which persists to this day.
Except for certain medical conditions, there is no reason to do this.
Certainly no normal person should do this. | 1 |
6,349 | I've sent Gordon R. my posts on protein, vitamin C and vitamin A prior to
posting on internet as a professional courtesy. Somehow I've managed to
delete my vitamin A post from my text file. Gordon R. had promised to send
it back to me but he's pretty mad at me right now so I'll just retype it.
Since digging throug... | 1 |
1,819 |
Robert McElwaine is the authoritative source of scientific data on Internet.
He can be reached alt.fan.mc-elwaine...
Spiros | 1 |
5,990 | Go to your public library and get the February, 1988 issue of Consumer
Reports. An article on allergy shots begins on page 96. This article
is MUST reading for anyone contemplating allergy shots.
| 1 |
6,121 |
Indeed so; it's at the extreme limit of what is humanly possible. It is
possible only because Mount Everest is at a fairly low latitude: there
is a slight equatorial bulge in the atmosphere -- beyond what is induced
by the Earth's rotation -- thanks to the overall circulation pattern of
the atmosphere (air cools at ... | 1 |
6,715 | ..
As Ben says - this re-boost idea is all news to us here. Do you know
something we don't? Please supply a source - it would be nice for
the schedulers of observations to know where the thing is going to
be. These altitude numbers are also way off.
My best source has:
"Minimum ST ALTITUDE in the PMDB is: ... | 1 |
6,063 | Why can't an aircraft be designed so that the pilot can always be
maintained in a upright position, perpendicular to the plane of
acceleration? With the visual helmets now being used that display
some of the flight parameters and with a keyboard and manuvering
equipment moving with the pilot, a pilot may be able to f... | 1 |
6,655 | Yesterday I read an article from someone who was requesting references for
introductory texts on cryptography. Although I marked the article to
return, it appears to have expired on this site.
Anyway, on one of the previous occasions when this subject arose I saved
a couple articles which made suggestions. One of th... | 1 |
2,870 | Re: serious discussion about drugs vs. "Where can I get a good bong, man?" | 1 |
4,879 |
A person I know, belonging to a research lab of a rivate
company, claimed to me during a priavte conversation that, given the
equipment in his lab, he could crack a Kerberos ticket in 15 minutes to
an hour. He had access to rather powerful DES hardware, but not of an
extraordinare kind, I believe. The attack was poss... | 1 |
5,681 |
(Sorry about double posting, but I forgot something.)
"make, use or sell" in this context have non-standard meanings:
"Make" means making an encrypted message. "Use" may mean using PGP, or
using an encrypted message. "Sell" would probably mean selling an
encrypted message. It is the message created by a "patente... | 1 |
102 |
Ejon Matejevic who was a full professor at Clarkson University, last
I heard, developed the process for sticking Teflon to metals.
I don't think it was a NASA project, cuz i heard he held the patent
on it, and had made quite a bundle off it.
Anyone from Clarkson know the Exact story. I never wanted to ask
him mys... | 1 |
7,018 | Hello all,
There is a small problem a friend of mine is experiencing and I
would appreciate any help at all with it.
My friend has been diagnosed as having a severe case of depression requiring
antidepressants for a cure. The main problem is the side effects of these.
So far she has been prescribed Proza... | 1 |
1,453 |
How can you be sure the two visitors were really government agents?
:-)
--John | 1 |
23 |
Why not design the solar arrays to be detachable. if the shuttle is going
to retunr the HST, what bother are some arrays. just fit them with a quick release.
one space walk, or use the second canadarm to remove the arrays. | 1 |
2,432 | Does anyone have a reference (something I can look up, not just your own
recollections -- I have a few of those myself) on the temperature of the
(night) sky as seen from space?
Note, I am *not* talking about the temperature of the Microwave Background
Radiation. There are more things in the sky than just the MBR; wh... | 1 |
1,409 | :
: I am facinated by the things I have heard about the PGP
: encryption program. Does anybody out there know where I might get a
: version of this program that runs under Windows 3.1, MS-Dos, Unix
: w/source? As of this writting I have no UNIX access and am running on a
: nifty windows implamentatio... | 1 |
4,093 |
True, but the basic idea behind any communications security system is not
to absolutely deny access, but to make access more expensive (in time,
money, manpower) than it is worth.
| 1 |
673 | My (then) wife used to get recurrent yeast infections. One day, her
doctor sent her home with medication for her and a pill for me. I took
the pill, upon her insistence, and was very relieved the next day when I
looked it up in the PDR. It only RARELY causes testicular atrophy... | 1 |
4,891 | PROGRAM EUROCRYPT'93, MAY 23-27, LOFTHUS, NORWAY
------------------------------------------------
General chair : Kaare Presttun
email: eurocrypt93@alcatel.no
Program chair : Tor Helleseth
Department of Informatics
University of Bergen
N... | 1 |
1,053 |
They can be detached in an emergency. But expensive hardware is not thrown
away casually (bearing in mind that nobody knew the design was defective).
If the deployment crew had found some nasty flaw -- the lid failing to open,
for example -- it would have been a bit embarrassing to have to throw the
solar arrays away... | 1 |
5,334 | : : I have 19 (2 MB worth!) uuencode'd GIF images contain charts outlining
: : one of the many alternative Space Station designs being considered in
: : Crystal City. [...]
: I just posted the GIF files out for anonymous FTP on server ics.uci.edu.
: You can retrieve them from:
: ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode01.gif
: ... | 1 |
1,993 |
Or how about:
"End light pollution now!!"
Your banner would have no effect on its subject, but my banner would.
| 1 |
1,470 |
They are and they have.
David
| 1 |
693 | 1 | |
4,706 |
Advanced Kirlian Photography (try this at home, too)
1. Get a camera
2. Have your subject face you with his/her back to the sun.
3. Take photo
4. Observe the glow behind their silhouetted image on the photo
5. Invent crackpot theory to explain the effect
| 1 |
6,203 |
Sounds pretty familiar. I posted similar cries about last September when
Caroline just entered daycare. She was two, then, and have been with
continuous colds since until last March. As spring approaches, her colds
slowed down. Meanwhile we grew more and more relaxed about her colds.
Only once did the doctor diag... | 1 |
4,150 |
Accepted by whom? People who think digital watches are a
real good idea? That 60 channels of television is 10x better
than 6 channels of television?
You're right. Keep an open mind to the following:
1. Taco flavored donuts.
2. Cannibalism. Good way to get that extra protein in the diet.
3. Belie... | 1 |
2,254 |
It may be a good way to catch a cold. It's easy to pick up cold
viruses on your fingers, either from touching a contaminated surface,
or by shaking hands with someone that has a cold. Then putting your
fingers in your nose will transfer the viruses to your nose.
--
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
202 Burlin... | 1 |
5,296 | Davis Nicoll sez;
I'd buy that for two reasons. The tubes for TV's and radios (if you can
still find them) are usually 3x or more expensive than comparable transistors.
Also, ask any electric-guitar enthusiast which type of amp they prefer, and
they'll tell you tube-type, since tubes have lower distortion and noise
... | 1 |
3,483 | The clipper chip's User key is formed by:
R1 = E[D[E[N1;S1];S2];S1]
R2 = E[D[E[N2;S1];S2];S1]
R3 = E[D[E[N3;S1];S2];S1]
Why is the triple-encrytion used? Is it just to gain an effective
increase in keyspace to defeat a potential keysearch? (If so, why use
80 bit keys?) Not kno... | 1 |
789 | I have been looking over the postings about the Clipper Chip and noticed
an interesting omission from the discussion.
You all mention that the algorithm is classified and have expressed
concerns and ideas of how to figure out the algorithm using software.
The question that I have is why cant someone take one of thes... | 1 |
2,968 |
My apologies if this is a re-post - I submitted it on Friday, but
got a message that my post might not have gone out. Considering
the confusing spitting contest over 'rights', (there are TOO
inalienable rights damn it! The majority can be just as destructive
of liberty as a despot), I suspect that my post did no... | 1 |
7,414 | There is an article in Communications Week (April 12's issue) which
states definitively that not only is the justice department trying to revive
the "wiretapping bill", but they are ALSO trying to find a way to force key
registration. CLIPPER is an obvious thrust in exactly this direction.
Dorothy Dennings is quoted i... | 1 |
5,068 | 1 | |
2,850 | You mena in the same way french intelliegence agents steal
documents from US corporate executives? | 1 |
2,510 | I don't know if it causes the body any harm, but in the 23
years I've been teaching nine and ten years olds I've never had
one fall over from eating "boogers" which many kids do on a
regular basis [when they think no one is looking . . .]
| 1 |
3,896 | We need following data for human aorta:
Tear and shear stress for aorta.
A plot of the aortic cross-sectional area.
Stroke-volume at the aortic root.
Approximate distribution of blood through the major arterial
branches of the aorta.
Flow velocity of blood in aorta.
We have various values for flow... | 1 |
1,367 |
Something similar has happened to me - ages ago when we were working on PGP
we used to send short messages about development issues or simply to test
new features around. Now at this time PGP (and certainly the newer version)
was unknown over here. Suddenly the admin at the site I was using received
a request t... | 1 |
2,804 |
This presupposes that no supersonic ramjet aircraft/spacecraft can be reliable
or low-cost. This is unproven. | 1 |
5,499 |
My interpretation of Denning's description is that S1 and S2 are chosen
randomly by agents of the key escrow companies at the start of each 300-
chip programming session. I imagine that the chips are in a carrier which
will allow them all to be programmed fairly quickly - there would not be
a need to transfer chips... | 1 |
687 |
You could do what I do: never go near the stuff! :)
| 1 |
3,809 | Being wierd again, so be warned:
Is there a plan to put a satellite around each planet in the solar system to
keep watch? I help it better to ask questions before I spout an opinion.
How about a mission (unmanned) to Pluto to stay in orbit and record things
around and near and on Pluto.. I know it is a strange idea, ... | 1 |
4,796 |
And thus, COINTELPRO, in which horrible people who threatened the
republic by disagreeing with the Government were systematically kept
track of for years...
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com | 1 |
3,989 |
If it's forbidden to inform someone of a police wiretap on their phone, then
is it legal to work privtely as a "sweeper," and report to the person you
work for whether you found a bug?
| 1 |
3,729 | I've recently been reading a paper of Merkle's (publixhed only on the
net, I think) discussing three potential replacements for DES. Was
anyting ever done with these? Are Khufu, Khafre, and/or Snefru still
being discussed anywhere? (I know Snefru is referenced in the RSA
FAQ, and I think it may also be in the sci.cr... | 1 |
2,077 | I am looking for the email address of the World Health Organization,
in particular the address for the Department of Nursing or the Chief
Scientist for Nursing: Dr. Miriam Hirschfeld. The snail-mail address I
have is the following:
World Health Organization
20 Avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
P... | 1 |
2,877 |
big Capacitor :-) Real Big capacitor. | 1 |
2,480 | TO: menon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Ravi or Deantha Menon)
RO> First off, use some decent terms if ya don't mind. This is sci.med, not
RO> alt.sex.
Would you like to rephrase that?
| 1 |
1,905 |
Often Shuttle lifts satellites with upper stages. Yet we still consider it
payload. Ten Saturn flights over about 4 years delivered to LEO roughly the
same as 50 shuttle flights over 10 years.
They where pretty much the same in terms of cost/pound. A resurected
Saturn would cost only $2,000 per pound (if developme... | 1 |
480 |
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. | 1 |
342 |
I've got a very nice collection of historical books on medical quackery,
and on the topic of massage this is a recurring theme. Ordinary massage
is intended to make a person feel better, especially if they have muscular
or joint problems. But -- like chiropracty -- there are some practitioners
who take the technique... | 1 |
2,907 |
Is this "White House e-mail address" really working yet? Someone
posted such an address on CompuServe a few months ago, but apparently
the White House wasn't really set up to recive hundreds (thousands?)
of messages a day to that account and didn't want people to use it
yet. So is this MCI address something the people... | 1 |
6,644 | *****************************************************************************
* Lyme Disease Electronic Mail Network *
* LymeNet Newsletter *
*****************************************************************************
... | 1 |
5,456 |
These substances are normally not the secret, but how to get at them. The
method of preperation is normally patented, which means that no-one else can
make the chemical in the same way, without undergoing an agreement with
American Cyanamid. (But I guess you knew what a patent is :-) )
If you know what substance ... | 1 |
697 |
Since you asked, the above is a bit inaccurate. More accurate is that the
government says its solid, other people 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 Swi... | 1 |
3,457 |
You forget the obvious! If it is an *authorised* tap then it can be done at
the exchange. If the exchange is *digital* then I suspect that you can
auto-monitor a line and pickup the full link. Therefore syncing a piggyback
modem on the line would not be impossible - I suspect.
-- | 1 |
2,293 | <>In this giant bally-ho over this Clipper chip I noticed a rather
<>disturbing trend in some of the E-mail and posts I've tossing back and
<>forth.
<> [ ... deleted ... ]
<A circut court judge in Illinois once said "When dealing with a government
<that seeks continually new and more creative ways to spy on its' citi... | 1 |
5,820 | Here is a potentially dumb question: What prevents the martian landers
themselves from "polluting" the martian environment with earth based
critters? Is the long trip in cold radiation bathed space enough to
completely sterilize the landers?
I could imagine that a few teeny microbes could manage to get all the
way the... | 1 |
1,150 | From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org
If this facility is in Kaliningrad, this is not near Moscow,
it is in fact the ex-East Prussian Konigsberg, now a Russian
enclave on the Baltic coast. It is served by ships and rail,
and the intrepid traveller in Europe would find it accessible
and might even want to try to a... | 1 |
6,546 |
We've been progressing towards that goal for 30 years now. We precede
any orbiting mission with flyby missions. Of course, it gets harder to
do as we work our way farther away from Earth. We're just starting to
work out to the outer planets: Galileo will orbit Jupiter, and Cassini around
Saturn.
| 1 |
5,982 | Because everyone but you expects that making alternative methods of
encryption illegal is the next step. Otherwise the Cripple chip is
utterly worthless. It should be obvious that
a) the Cripple Chip is aimed at spying on ordinary citizens
OR
b) that other forms of encryption will soon be illegal. | 1 |
4,995 |
Mainly carbon dust with iron in a plastic binder that is melted on to the
paper. Same stuff as dry paper photocopiers.
Allergies? Haven't heard of any, but anything's possible with allergies ;-) | 1 |
7,063 | I can see it now emblazened across the evening sky -- | 1 |
2,375 | I am taking a course entitled "Exploring Science Using Internet".
For our final project, we are to find a compendium of Internet resources
dealing with a science-related topic. I chose Astronomy. Anyway, I was
wondering if anyone out there knew of any interesting resources on Internet
that provide information on Astr... | 1 |
1,156 |
Can you tell us more? | 1 |
6,356 | I'm a nursing student, and I would like to respond to #66966 on haldol
and the elderly.
Message-ID: <25APR199316225142@fsphy1.physics.fsu.edu>
Organization: Florida State University - School of Higher Thought
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
First, I'm sorry to hear that you have had to see your grandmother go
th... | 1 |
604 |
Why not? It hasn't been released, so there's no way for you to evaluate it
yet. After all, Apple could have been smart and had AOCE use an MD5 hash
encrypted with RSA, just like PKCS signatures. They could even be actually
PKCS compliant, for all you know; why not wait until it is released, and hard
information... | 1 |
3,525 | [...]
No no no no no no no.
It will go like this:
FEDS: We need the key to phone 334RE67D99.
ESCROW: You have a warrant to tap the line phone 334RE67D99 is on?
FEDS: Yes.
ESCROW: Fine, here is our key.
What happens is, Feds tap a line; find Clipper is being used; extract
serial number; get key; decipher convo. ... | 1 |
339 |
This is also being replied to via e-mail. I dialed my university
librarian, and he looked it up:
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, CA 92350
I don't know an Internet address for them, but they can be reached by
telephone at (714) 824-4300.
Good luck.
| 1 |
1,737 | This question derives from the Waco incident:
Could CS ("gas") particles create an allergic response which would
result in laryngospasm and asphyxiation?- especially in children. | 1 |
3,087 |
Interstellar grains are not at all close to blackbodies. The "large"
grains have sizes of order 0.1 micron and absorb visible light with
fair efficiency. However, at temperatures below 100 K, 90% of the
thermal emission will be beyond 22 microns, where radiating
efficiency is poor. (A small antenna cannot easily ra... | 1 |
2,023 |
I don't think they can do that without changing the law. The chip itself
isn't classified, and reverse engineering is allowed by law (possibly)
unless prohibited by a valid contract. The algorithm may be classified,
but there are many court cases ruling that information identical to
classfied information, but obta... | 1 |
90 | I'd like to thank everyone and anyone who sent me information
to help me with my project.
_______ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
--| |- | | | | / /\ \ | |\ \ | | \ \/ /
| | | -- | / -- \ | | \ \ | | \ /
| | | __ | / ----- \ | | \ \| | ... | 1 |
1,854 | Does anyone here know anything about chelation therapy using EDTA? My
uncle has emphesema, and a doctor wants to try it on him. We are
wondering if:
1. Is there any evidence EDTA chelation therapy is beneficial for his
condition, or any condition?
2. What possible side effects are there. How can they be mimimize... | 1 |
1,669 |
We would like to keep it that way. Thats the point. By reacting
strongly and forcefully now, we will assure that we continue to remain
free. You cannot overreact to a threat like this. The worst that
happens if we overreact is that we waste time and effort. The worst that
happens if we underreact is tyranny. I prefer ... | 1 |
577 | [deleted]
[deleted]
Ok, so those scientists can get around the atmosphere with fancy
computer algorythims, but have you looked ad the Hubble results, the
defects of the mirror are partially correctable with software (see
those jupiter pictures for results), but is the effects are completely
reversable, why is there goi... | 1 |
5,232 | fc> Modern,
fc> ground-based, visible light astronomy (what these proposed
fc> orbiting billboards would upset) is already a dying field: The
fc> opacity and distortions caused by the atmosphere itself have
fc> driven most of the field to use radio, far infrared or space-based
fc> telescopes.
Here's one radio astro... | 1 |
5,970 | 1 | |
353 | : In article <1993Apr22.170418.15799@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com
...cascades elided to preserve our sanity....
: That wasn't my point. My point is that your implied position about the "Waco
: Massacre" is an assertion cum political position. According to a CNN poll,
....
: What you call the "Big Brother C... | 1 |
4,270 | >drug dealers, spies, terrorists, and organized crime figures (assuming
>enough probable cause to convince a judge) who need to be watched, not
>law-abiding citizens. | 1 |
5,221 | Iridology is descendant from a 19th-century theory which mapped certain
diseases to sectors of the iris of the eye. There's enough natural
variation in color that a skilled examiner can find indicators of
virtually any disease. | 1 |
5,226 |
Just a couple of days ago, I heard on the radio news that a Neo-Nazi
organization had set up a BBS to keep its members informed. According
to the radio man, the Nazis were using encryption to reduce their risk
if they were prosecuted. No, I do not have any more information.
Have fun.
| 1 |
6,956 |
Greg, no flame intended, but you have no discernible sense of
humor. What Bill wrote was intended to be funny. It's called a
"joke", Greg. Look into it.
Besides, Kirilian photography is actually photography of my
friend's two-year-old son Kiril. Perhaps you meant "Kirlian"?
| 1 |
1,486 | : 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... | 1 |
5,241 | I know its semantics, but the "no-op" _doesn't_ do anything. The
Command Loss Timer is simply looking for a command, any command. A
"no-op" is simply a spacecraft command that drops bits into the big
bit bucket in the sky. "No-op" also get used as timekeepers to provide
millisecond delays between command sequences (... | 1 |
7,489 |
We know that sermon. It is posted roughly every month or so by different
persons, and that doesn't make it any better.
How did you get the idea that skeptics are closed-minded? Why don't you
consider the possibility that they came to their conclusions by the
proper methods? Besides, one can come to a conclusion wi... | 1 |
1,125 |
I've seen children do this and wondered about something. If the
mucus in one's nose collects (filters) particles going into the
airway, if a child then picks and ingests this material, might
it have a vaccinatory effect, since if the body ingests airborne
diseases or other 'stuff' on the mucus, the body might generat... | 1 |
5,063 | I am looking for statistics on the prevalence of disorders that are
treatable with Botulinum Type A. These disorders include: facial
dyskinesia, meige syndrome, hemifacial spasm, apraxia of eyelid openeing,
aberrant regeneration of the facial nerve, facial paralysis, strabismus,
spasmodic torticollis, muscle spasm, oc... | 1 |
4,222 |
Hmm. This is certainly among the things I would refer to as quack
therapy and would tend to refer to any practitioner who prescribed
laetrile (whether licensed or not) as a quack. There are unethical
behaviors (such as ordering unneccessary tests to increase fees)
which I would not lable as quackish, but prescribin... | 1 |
4,630 | I am currently in the throes of a hay fever attack. SO who certainly
never reads Usenet, let alone Sci.med, said quite spontaneously "
There are a lot of mushrooms and toadstools out on the lawn at the
moment. Sure that's not your problem?"
Well, who knows? Or maybe it's the sourdough bread I bake?
After reading l... | 1 |
7,265 |
I'd guess this was a garbled report of the NERVA effort to develop a
solid-core fission rocket (the most mundane type of nuclear rocket).
That was the only advanced-propulsion project that was done on a large
enough scale to be likely to attract news attention. It *could* be any
number of things -- the description gi... | 1 |
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