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4,526 | I came. I lurked. I read the FAQ.
Now having purchased the recommended books, and having taken to heart the advice that
one knows nothing about crypto without having done a stint as a cryptanalyst, I would like
to correspond with people interested in cryptology.
I am working on implementing the cryptanalyst's workben... | 1 |
6,830 |
Some more references:
S.H. Dole
"Habitable Planets for Man"
Blaisdell Publishing Company, New York (1964)
I don't know if this can be found any more.
M.J. Fogg
"Extra-Solar Planetary Systems: A Microcomputer Simulation"
J. Brit. Interplanetary. Soc., _38_, 501-514, (1985)
"An Estimate of the Prevalence of Bioco... | 1 |
2,841 |
You probably were trying to be facetious but just for the record partial nasal
obstruction is correlated with a number of chronic disorders such as migraine,
hyperthyroidism, asthma, peptic ulcer, dysmenorrhea, and lack of libido (:-) )
[Riga IN. Rev d'Oto-Neuro-Ophthalmol 1957;24:325-335], cardiac symptoms
[Jackson ... | 1 |
1,750 | 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... | 1 |
4,432 |
Well, isn't this just a hoot! :) All I read on this group is a bunch
of ppl fearing the misuses of information by the big bad evil govt.
This just happens to be a case of an ordinary-joe-netter, who decided
that he would create and/or distribute some misinformation. Ppl buy
into BS posts like this (I know, because I... | 1 |
375 |
Fine. I'll buy from George. GEORGEEE!!!!
That assumes I can't weasel out a cooperative venture of some sort (cut me a
break on the launcher, I'll cut you in on the proceeds if it works). Only the
government pays higher-than-list price.
Unless you're Martin Marietta, since (as I recall) they bought out the GD lin... | 1 |
3,182 |
Thanks. Got that from two other sources as well. The full quote is as
follows:
From Dorothy Denning, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND DATA SECURITY, Addison-Wesley
1982,1983, page 8:
"Cryptosystems must satisfy three general requirements:
"1. The enciphering and deciphering transformations must be efficient for
all keys.
"2. The ... | 1 |
6,431 | Just thought of something. Yes, laptops can still be read, but it's not quite
as easy as a normal pc with a CRT. My thought, Airline pilots lately have
been complaining about how laptops being used in flight mess with the plane's
instruments. If this can be hyped up, manufacturers may start building
laptops with eve... | 1 |
956 |
Just to throw it out there: The mass of the telescope is 11,600 kg
(25,500 lb). I do not know what Space lab weighs, but I believe it is
less. Can anyone verify??
Also, remember that weight was not the only concern, as many others have
noted, just one possible concern. I was responding to a statement that
if yo... | 1 |
2,236 |
To paraphrase, I may not agree with what you're encrypting, but I defend
your right to encrypt it.
| 1 |
598 | What is NASA's annual budget?
This year will do, a few years back wpuld be nice too
but I need this item fast so emails off the top of your head very
much appreciated (FAQs vanish here!).
-Tony Ryan, "Astronomy & Space", new International magazine, available from:
Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin ... | 1 |
3,727 |
HST is about 25,500 lbs (11,600 kg). That doesn't include the cradle that
would have been in the cargo bay when it was deployed. Spacelab-J on STS-47
was 21,861 lbs (according to the press-kit).
As someone else pointed out if they had been unable to deploy it for some
reason that would have had to land with it st... | 1 |
5,199 | I was annoyed to find that this guy posted my private e-mail response to
him, but since I believe what I said, I'll defend it anyway.
By "almost" I mean the differential cryptanalysis attack. The chosen
plaintext attack requires a detailed analysis of about 2^36 chosen plaintexts
drawn from a total of about 2^47 th... | 1 |
5,230 |
The classic comment on new encryption algorithms comes from
Friedman:
"No new cypher is worth considering unless it comes
from someone who has already broken a very hard one."
Historically, Friedman has been right. It's really hard to develop
a good cypher. IBM's Lucifer, the precursor to DES, turns out ... | 1 |
4,420 | I'm looking for information regarding dosages of prozac used in minor
depression. Also any other information regarding the drug is helpful.
Please send responses direct. Thanks! | 1 |
6,495 | I recently heard of some testing of a new migraine drug called sumatripton
(I have no idea of the actual spelling) that supposedly utilizes a chemical
that trips neuro-transmitters. My mother has regular migraines and nothing
seems to help - does anyone know anything about this new drug? Is it in
a testing phaze or a... | 1 |
3,952 |
For one week, she probably wants to see how you react to the diet. If it
changes anything.
You can live on the diet but you need to up your calories. Where before you
had a pat of butter now you need a medium apple (probably microwave
cooked). Smaller meals but more of them. Not terrific amounts of meat, i... | 1 |
6,217 | 1 | |
1,296 |
Hans> As somebody replied on whether the space shuttle is connected to
Hans> Usenet: "No. Of course the main flow of information would be up,
Hans> unless Henry Spencer would be aboard, in which case the main
Hans> flow of information would be down."
Gene Miya says that Henry will never go aloft in the Shuttle; the
p... | 1 |
2,774 | Ever since Craig Rowland posted his piece "New Encryption"
to sci.crypt there has been some discussion of our company,
Secured Communications Technologies, Inc, and on encryption
algorithm, NEA.
I spoke to Craig at length on 4/21/93 and we covered a lot
of ground. Some of the information in the posting requires s... | 1 |
2,812 |
I guess I'm still not clear on what the term "candida bloom" means,
but certainly it is well known that thrush (superficial candidal
infections on mucous membranes) can occur after antibiotic use.
This has nothing to do with systemic yeast syndrome, the "quack"
diagnosis that has been being discussed.
Lucky how? S... | 1 |
563 | 1 | |
2,477 |
[Partial deletion]
Nice explanation except that it isn't N-hydroxylation that causes the
formation of the N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine (NAPQI), but rather a
direct two-electron oxidation. In addition, there is one school of thought
that contends that oxidative stress rather than arylation of protein
is the more crit... | 1 |
6,338 | : My girlfriend is in pain from kidney stones. She says that because she has no
: medical insurance, she cannot get them removed.
:
: My question: Is there any way she can treat them herself, or at least mitigate
: their effects? Any help is deeply appreciated. (Advice, referral to literature,
: etc...)
:
: Thank you... | 1 |
1,198 | : >Why not build a inflatable space dock.
: If you're doing large-scale satellite servicing, being able to do it in
: a pressurized hangar makes considerable sense. The question is whether
: anyone is going to be doing large-scale satellite servicing in the near
: future, to the point of justifying development of suc... | 1 |
6,882 |
KK> Newsgroups: sci.crypt
KK> From: sphughes@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Shaun P. Hughes)
KK> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 07:18:59 GMT
[..]
KK> Just a random passing thought, but can anyone cite a documented use
KK> of encryption technology by criminals and terrorists.
KK> (Excluding the Iran-Contra Gan... | 1 |
4,337 |
You should realize that form letters are the *worst* way to influence
your congresscritters; exact copies are routinely placed on the lowest
rung of the opinion ladder.
If you want to write (and I think you should!), take the time to really
*write* a letter. Things to emphasize:
- It's been said that Usenet is ava... | 1 |
2,810 | 1 | |
6,506 | Wouldn't this method be vulnerable against a "birthday" attack?
Currently a cracker needs to find the _only_ (*1) key that produces
the given ciphertext. He has to try about 2^63 keys on the average.
In the proposed method the cracker only needs _any pair_ of key halves.
If he can store about 2^32 guesses for one half... | 1 |
3,868 |
I've already written a 5000 char commentary (from my MCI MAIL account, so I
can't be accused of being a "hacker".) | 1 |
5,989 | I can think of a couple of ways of guaranteeing authenticity in a one-time
pad encrytped scheme, though I'm not sure how to prove that what kind of
authenicity they provide.
An obvious first-attempt might be to prepend a truly random (unpredictable
for Eve) block to the message, and then calculate a CRC which incl... | 1 |
3,046 | I've had cold sores in the past. But they have always been in the
corner of my mouth. Recently, I've had what appears to be
a cold sore, but on my lower lip in the middle (above the chin).
Can cold sores appear anywhere around the mouth (or body)?
Is there a medical term for cold sore?
| 1 |
1,918 |
Antihistamines have been the active ingredient of OTC sleep aids for
decades. Go to any drugstore and look at the packages of such sleep
aids as Sominex, Nytol, etc. The active ingredient is:
diphenhydramine, the same antihistamine that's in Benadryl.
--
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
... | 1 |
7,173 | In Space Digest V16 #487,
...about the protests over proposals to put a giant billboard into orbit,
Mr. Hathaway's post is right on the money, if a little lengthy. In short,
an orbiting billboard would be trash, in the same way that a billboard on
the Earth is trash. Billboards make a place look trashy. That is ... | 1 |
3,432 | I am both new to this news group and to the net.
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 run... | 1 |
2,882 |
But the NSA will not be doing any wiretapping. The actual wiretapping will,
presumably, be conducted by the FBI. Of course, the capability for this was
provided by the NSA, but I think that they are still within the limitations
of their charter.
I realize this is a fine point, and some may differ, but this is my op... | 1 |
3,209 |
70277.2502@compuserve.com
| 1 |
3,972 |
It is kind of absurd, isn't it? Some players even want more distortion,
especially the Hendrix fans :-) But there are a lot of them out there
that can only afford the amp, or who like playing music without distortion.
Then there are your hard-core Hendirx fans that want particular *types*
of distortion, i.e., they ... | 1 |
7,250 |
Correction, and some more info: The Kaliningrad that Mr. Larrison
writes about is indeed near Moscow. I've read that it may also be known by
the name Podlipk, and is a short distance from Zvezdny Gorodok (Star
City) and the Cosmonaut Training Center there. I read that the Tsniimach
(Central Scientific Research Instit... | 1 |
6,745 | 1 | |
246 |
Heck, some of his ships were loaners. One was owned by a Basque...
(you know, one of those groups that probably crossed the Atlantic
_before_ Columbus came along).
| 1 |
5,935 |
I agree with this consensus that it should not have been written the way
it was. My doctor - who claims to have introduced Dr. Crook to the
possibility of candida overbloom causing diffuse symptoms way back in
1961 (I have no reason to doubt him on this) - does not like the book
because 1) it makes too many unfounde... | 1 |
2,977 | My wife has requested that I poll the Sages of Usenet to see what is
known about the use of chromium in weight-control diet suppliments.
She has seen multiple products advertising it and would like any kind
real information.
My first impulse was "Yuck! a metal!" but I have zero data on it.
What do you know?
| 1 |
2,000 | 1 | |
1,466 |
No one has mentioned violence other than you, Mr. Han. I believe you
are imagining things.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com | 1 |
7,043 | Ken:
Your arguments are thoughtful but you are going up against the Big
Boys if you're tackling Henry. Allen Sherzer will doubtless chime in
on the subject of staggering operational costs, too. Good luck, son.
Ahem. The Russians are in the Free World now, or at least it would be
Politically Correct to contend so.... | 1 |
6,800 | (in answer to Amruth Laxman
Apart from the fact that you get G in the pull-out, not the dive, that
figure is about right for sustained G, no protection.
The duration of G, it's rate of onset, body position and support aids are
all critical parts of the equation. I remember one note about instrumented
gridiron players... | 1 |
2,571 |
Think we can lose the sci.image.processing group from this thread,
folks?
Thanks bunches.
spl | 1 |
7,285 |
Motorola certainly makes them, but I don't know how you
would go about buying one. You'd probably have to buy one
of our secure radios.
You could also bring in encryption chips from outside the country.
| 1 |
4,673 |
Well, I know one person who is ready to kill. Me. And the victim is
this whole topic, damnit.
PLEASE STOP COPYING ALL THIS CRAP TO comp.org.acm. PLEASE?
-- | 1 |
4,298 | I've read that exercise makes the heart pump more blood at a stroke, and
that it also makes the heart pumb slower, in order to make up for the
greater volume. My Internist, who diagnosed my AV block, slow heart rate
and PVC's, told me something different. She says that heart rate is
associated with the electrical prope... | 1 |
2,927 |
The paper was distributed (against the wishes of the NSA - I have a copy
with a few 'illicit distribution' footnotes scribbled on it :-), and eventually
published at one of the crypto conferences. Things were looking good.
Then Xerox patented the algorithms. <Plonk!>
I don't know of anything which uses them. Als... | 1 |
5,674 |
I don't know what you mean by 'edged', but surely there are two other
possibilities for an isotropic distribution: near interstellar (up to
~100 pc, i.e. within the disc), or the Galaxy's corona?
| 1 |
2,622 | 1 | |
6,459 |
<: ....other good stuff about the Drs idiocy
Ok, much as I hate to do it, here I am posting an EVEN BETTER "Dr. Idiot"
story.
I was in my 18th hour of labor, had been pushing for 4.5 hours and was
exhausted. My OB and I decided to go for a csec. The OB called in
the anesthisiologist (sp?) and asked him to help p... | 1 |
4,010 |
I decided to come back and amend this so it quotes me and has added
comments...
before you had a pat of butter, now you need a medium apple (probably microwave
the body will make fat out of carbohydrates if it needs them. Third, your
body, like most peoples, wasn't bred to live on a high fat, modern diet.
If y... | 1 |
462 |
This is stupid. Won't it cost more to those companies hoping to
serve the gov't and private markets if they DON'T use the same
technology?
| 1 |
5,216 | I commend everybody to look at the FTP site 'ftp.cicb.fr'
-> Ethernet address 129.20.128.2 <-
in the directory /pub/Images/ASTRO:
there are lots of images (all of kinds in astronomy subject)
especially in GIF format and a NEW ! directory of some JPL animations
For your comfort, README files in all subdirectories give ... | 1 |
6,284 |
You'll find that in Allen, C.W., "Astrophysical Quantities", Athlone
Press, Dover, NH, 3rd edition, pp. 268-269 (1973). To the accuracy it can
be calculated (see specific references in Allen about how it is
calculated), the temperature is 3 degrees K.
Lots of people have remarked on this temperature. The... | 1 |
2,103 | I was told by my doctor
I've had three children and the pain was different in degree for each. I
think it just depends. I was impressed by how awful a kidney stone seemed
to be, when I saw a relative with one. I bet they depend, too--some are
probably worse than others.
Pain--yucch.
| 1 |
3,637 |
The same could be said for many other goverment agencies, but big budgets,
large staffs, and long lead time haven't made many of them into models of
effectiveness.
The fact is that those of us outside the inner circles have only James
Bamford's word that the people at the NSA use those legendary masses of
computers f... | 1 |
389 |
The Shannon limit for voice lines is likely somewhere around 25kbps.
We are rapidly approaching it. The fastest affordable full-duplex
modems currently on the market are V32bis, which is 14400bps.
CELP manages to sound decent at 4800 bps.
In theory, if you built a speech recognition system that turned voice
into AS... | 1 |
5,431 |
Exactly what would that show, ?! the "law enforcement block" is easy to
create, given the Government key and any serial number.
*IF* it comes to trail about the wiretap.... ya, some safegaurd that is.
What if they just harass people as a result, or learn things they shouldn't
have learned, etc?
The whole point ... | 1 |
494 |
Greg,
No flame intended, but I think you just missed one of the rare attempts of
humor in sci.skeptic.
"Krillean" against "Kirilian". Get it?
;-)
BTW, I think you're a bit of base yourself, since, to my knowledge, the
electromagnetic field around a stone is rather abscent. But still, a stone
has a nice "aura" on ... | 1 |
2,725 | A > From some of the replies to my original posting, it's evident that some
A > people do not secrete enough mucous to keep their nose lining protected
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Include small amounts of hot, spicy foods with your meals. It's
not a cure, but many people find it helpful to ... | 1 |
2,436 |
A placebo is an accepted treatment at times.
Why should it? Placebos are effective under certain circumstances. That's
why they're used.
Actually, I don't know know anyone who has actually gotten a "sugar pill".
I don't know how it could be done, since prescription drugs are always
labeled, and it's easy enoug... | 1 |
3,871 | Another factor against bringing the HST back to Earth is risk of contamination. | 1 |
3,603 |
...
There are several different types of Thyroid diseases which would cause
a hypothyroid condition (reduction in the output of the thyroid, mainly
thyroxin). Except for ones caused by infections, the treatment is
generally thyroxin pills. Hypothyroid conditions caused by infections
usually disappear when the infecti... | 1 |
2,358 |
I suspect the government feels it is enough to prevent companies from
offering secure encryption services. Big companies don't take that
kind of risk. They're too visible and have too much to lose.
The US government may not have to make encryption illegal to prevent its
use. If they could credibly say to IBM or M... | 1 |
2,845 | Hi, I am doing a term paper on the syringe and I have found some
information. It is said that Charles Pravaz has invented the hypodermic
needle, but then I have also found that Alexander Wood has invented it.
Does anyone know which one it is, of if it was anyone else? If there is
anymore information that is out ther... | 1 |
437 | Could someone please help me. I am trying to find the
address to the TDRS receiving station at White Sands
Missile Range. I am interested in possible employment
and would like to write for information. | 1 |
7,430 |
I'm worried by the concern about it though, for a number of reasons
that have nothing to do with Space Advertising (which for a number of
reasons is probably doomed to fail on financial grounds).
(And I've been reading and (and writing) this thread since way
back when it was only on sci.space).
For starters, I don'... | 1 |
2,088 |
[much more deleted]
Here is how! Lets write a DOCUMENT which includes all the reasons
we oppose Clipper, in clear, concise, non-techincal manner. I urge
everyone of you to take the (very simple) "start" below and repost it
with changes. Let the text evolve until we reach something most of us
like. Then, all of yo... | 1 |
5,253 | ------------- cut here -----------------
call for employers to keep information about the HIV status of health-care
workers confidential. But doctors who know of an HIV-positive colleague who
has not sought advice must inform the employing authority and the appropriate
professional regulatory body. The guidelin... | 1 |
3,116 |
It's public because it belongs to everybody. It's vandalism because many people -- power companies -- do maliciously waste light. If they can sell you
or your city or your state an unshielded light that wastes 30 to 50 percent
of its light, they make more _money_. Never mind that your money is wasted.
Never mind th... | 1 |
5,056 |
Dear Senator/Congressman/President {fill in the blank}
I am writing you to voice my strong opposition to President Clinton's Clipper
Chip initiative. This proposal to establish a secret government designed
cryptography chip with government key registration as the standard for voice
encryption is very disturbing. The... | 1 |
4,026 |
This is not quite right. The differential arrival time techinique
requires interplanetary baselines to get good positions. The
differential arrival at the eight detectors differ by 10's of nanoseconds.
This is smaller than BATSE's microsecond timing capabilities.
BATSE, Ulysses, and Mars Obsverver are used for this ... | 1 |
4,468 |
Unfortunately, Hoover thought himself above the constitution, whatever he
considered the limits others should obey. He ruthlessly invaded the privacy
of many private and public citizens.
-mel | 1 |
2,716 | 1 | |
3,939 | 1 | |
211 | If this man Clark is a NASA administrator then god save NASA. Of course
the Shuttles record is unrivaled ! There is only one Shuttle. Furthermore,
there is only likely to be one Shuttle now that Hermes and Boron are
effectively cancelled.
These officials should spend more of their time explaining to their
European a... | 1 |
6,503 | This request goes out to medical students who have done
or are planning to sit the USMLE (or National Boards) Part 1.
My wife is sitting this examination in early June this year and would
like to have a look at some old National Boards, Part 1 questions
found in the following books. These books are currently out of pr... | 1 |
3,806 | [ideas that are claimed not to work deleted...]
How about putting your system inside a faraday cage? Even I could build
one...
/Jim
| 1 |
1,358 |
Sorry to split hairs, but I just read in "The making of the atomic
bomb"(*) that teflon was developed during world war 2. A sealant was
needed for the tubing in which uranium hexafluoride passed as it was
gradually enriched by difussion. UF6 is very corrosive, and some very
inert yet flexible material was needed for... | 1 |
4,098 | What fraction of the NASA workforce is civil servant
as opposed to contractor and what are the rules on
reduction in work force for civil servants?
eg, if say the shuttle program is terminated, how
much is payroll reduced and how? | 1 |
1,416 |
I have to agree with Ward. The problem with your approach is they add
up what you can reasonably claim as 'spin-offs', add up what's been
spent on space, and then come back with something like, "You spent $X
billion for that? Wouldn't it be better just to spend the money on
direct research and forget all this spac... | 1 |
4,462 |
According to this reasoning there are no rights, at least none that I can think
of....
Let's see. Do I have a right to unpolluted air? No, because the majority
drive cars and use goods that create air pollution in the manufacturing process.
Do I have the right to clean water? I guess not, by the same reasoning.... | 1 |
4,315 | Hello,
Just one quick question:
My father has had a back problem for a long time and doctors
have diagnosed an operation is needed. Since he lives down in
Mexico, he wants to know if there is a hospital anywhere in
the United States particulary famous for this kind of surgery,
... | 1 |
1,281 | I would like to know if their is any medical consensus
(or consensus within this group) regarding the ethics
of the following:
1: Prescription of placebo medications when the patient
did not specifically request any sort of treatment.
2: Selling a placebo medication for a profit.
3: Prescribing homeopathi... | 1 |
6,810 |
I do not think they can use the eavesdropping as evidence at all. However,
using the info they gather while listening, they can go searching THE right
place and find good, strong evidence, which they can use in court.
Question : currently, it is easy to wire-tap, from the technical point of
view, at least. Anybody u... | 1 |
5,838 |
Evil and good walk hand in hand. It is also important to note that
the good in the tools lies in the wielder of the tools.
I cannot accept this ridiculous leap in logic. Technology is neutral
to good or evil. When technology is used by "evil" men, it is called
evil technology. When it is used by "good" men, it i... | 1 |
1,662 |
Now, almost 100 years later, we have the right words for the problem here.
Phone calls are "virtual visits". Those experienced in virtual reality
would know from that title that phone calls need to have all the properties
of a walk in the park with your friend -- security from casual overhearing
and easy verificatio... | 1 |
5,453 |
celular phones...........
| 1 |
6,438 | You're confused. You are talking about KIRILIAN photography.
Bill is talking KRILLEAN photography.
| 1 |
5,714 | (sci.space readers can skip the first paragraph)
Yesterday, in response to Henry Spencer's question about the
temperature of a blackbody in interstellar space, I said "Dust grains
acts as blackbodies, and they're at 40-150 K." Well, I was dead
wrong. Our local interstellar dust expert, Bruce Draine, has
informed ... | 1 |
7,001 | How is it that placebos are legal? It would seem to me that if, as a patient,
you purchase a drug you've been prescribed and it's just sugar (or whatever),
there's a few legal complications that arise:
1.
If you have been diagnosed with a condition and you aren't given accepted
treatment for it, it seems like inten... | 1 |
1,633 |
Well, I think you might want to visit a doctor who is familiar with
sleep disturbances, because antihistamines only help induce sleep when
they're used intermittently; they lose their sedative effect if they're
used on a nightly basis. Their anticholinergic effects (drying of secretions,
relaxing effects on smooth mu... | 1 |
6,276 | 1 | |
4,860 |
I assume that can only be guessed at by the assumed energy of the
event and the 1/r^2 law. So, if the 1/r^2 law is incorrect (assume
some unknown material [dark matter??] inhibits Gamma Ray propagation),
could it be possible that we are actually seeing much less energetic
events happening much closer t... | 1 |
717 |
Though I think this an overstatement, it does contain a grain of truth. It's
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.
David | 1 |
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