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Uh, why do they have to ask a state commision? Unless the state's buying... Such a process will only increace the overhead to the power company of selling different types of light, and will decreace the likleihood that they will do so. And any efficient lights they might have been planning in the future, go down the...
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Henry, if I read you correctly, you may be asking "If I put a blackbody in interstellar space ('disregarding the Sun and nearby large warm objects'), what termperature will it reach in thermal equilibrium with the ambient radiation field?" If that's the case, let me point out that interstellar dust and molecul...
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There are companies (one in Canada, as I recall) which specialize in analyzing chips to understand process technology, design rules, ... to understand the probable yield of the assembly line making them, and therefore the probable current cost and possible future cost curves, given design shrinks, statistical quality ...
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Actually, David, I don't think it's any more intellectually honest to say there are no backdoors than to say there are backdoors, unless you've had a chance to examine the algorithm and the silicon closely. For all we know, skipjack could be easily broken, or impossible to break. And clearly, if skipjack is no...
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Well pat for once I agree with you and I like your first idea that you had. IT probably is the gamma ray signature of the warp transitions of interstellar spacecraft! :) Well it makes as much sense as some things. I was at the first Gamma Ray Burst conference here at UAH and had great fun watching the discomfiture ...
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This is factually incorrect. There was at least one message that said that Waco and Clipper justified "anything" in response. David
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I have two quations to ask: 1) Does it cause the body any harm if one picks one's nose? For example, might it lead to a loss of ability to smell? 2) Is it harmful for one to eat one's nose pickings?
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I would appreciate any thoughts on what makes a planet habitable for Humans. I am making asumptions that life and a similar atmosphere evolve given a range of physical aspects of the planet. The question is what physical aspects simply disallow earth like conditions. eg Temperature range of 280K to 315K (where temp i...
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It should be noted that the US benefitted not only from German science and technology after WW2 but also from British science and technology. From the discovery and manufacture of penicillin to jet engines, swing wing aircraft, the hovercraft etc etc. all were shipped lock-stick-and-barel across the Atlantic. We still ...
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[Text Deleted] I have, my thesis was on Sun Tzu. More to the point: Those who are called the good militarists of old, could make opponents lost contact between front and back lines, lose reliability between large and small groups, lose mutual concern for the welfare of the different social classes among them, los...
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It is my intent to cut the government off at the knees with the pen (and keyboard). True, the lawyer and the lawbook only go so far, but I agree that it is best to use those resources to the maximum extent before seriously contemplating anything more... disruptive.
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There can be. But depression is not diagnositic of thyroid deficiency. Thyroid blood tests are easy, cheap, and effective in diagnosing thyroid deficiencies.
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Me too. A tendency on the part of some people to hide their head in the sand. How many people do you want jailed for their convictions, for their insistence on real privacy? Why sit by quietly while the preconditions for a real civil war are put in place by a short-sighted government. The terminal is mightier tha...
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Unless the patient has a very short life expectancy, the possible complications from a hernia that hasn't been repaired far outweigh the risks of surgery. The risks of surgery, anyway, are minimal. Unless they are exceedingly large, hernias can be fixed under local anesthesia. Don't forget that hernias are one the l...
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hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner) Pontificated: To split a split hair, I believe that teflon (-CF4- monomer) was "discovered" by accident when someone I don't remember found what he thought was a liquid (or gas?) had turned to a solid... It just happend to fit the bill for the above use... I'm crossposting to...
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Khufu and Khafre are both patented (#5003597). Biham and Shamir showed that differential cryptanalysis can break 16-round Khafre with a chosen- plaintext attack using 1500 different encryptions. Khafre with 24 rounds can be broken with the same attack using 2^53 different encryptions. (There are probably more effici...
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The *security* of the system does depend only on the secrecy of the keys. The ability to tap is an inherent *insecurity* which depends fundamentally on the secrecy of the algorithm. To spell it out, because so many people seem to miss the point, if the algorithm were published, anyone could create a chip which would ...
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Its bogus. See the sci.skeptic FAQ (I edit it). You can diagnose some things by looking at the eyes. Glaucoma is the Classic Example, but there are probably others. Iridology maps parts of the body onto the irises of the eyes. By looking at the patterns, striations and occasional blobs in the irises you are supp...
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Yes there is, the patent can be classified as secret. I recently saw a patent from 1947 (dealing with nuclear weapons technology) that was only declassified in the last couple of years. There is of course the problem of enforcing the patent. This is absolutely right.
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Money probably has a lot to do with keeping the practice of routine circumcision alive... It's another opporitunity to charge a few hundred extra bucks for a completely unnecessary procedure, the rationale for which until recently has been accepted without question by most parents of newborns. One could also ima...
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Am I correct in assuming that the science instruments buffer their acquired data in onboard RAM, which is then downloaded upon receipt of the MRO command?
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Need info on Circumcision, medical cons and pros I'm very surprised that medical schools still push routine circumcision of newborn males on the population. Since your friend is not a man, she can't imagine what it's like to have a penis, much less a foreskin. I guess if American medicine did an artistic job of circu...
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Sounds great. But how would something like this be done? Start up a news group for discussions of things like lobbying tecniques and how to get non-computer geeks as pissed-off as we are?
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1. Please take this out of sci.space. 2. Ayn Rand was not only born in Russia, but educated there. A lot of her philosophy reflects not only a European education but a reaction against certian events in Russia while she lived there. I've heard that to the extent there is a division of modern philosophy between the ...
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The aperture door will be shut during reboost. Using the shuttle means that there will be someone nearby to pry the door open again if it should stick.
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Considering the magnitude of loss of life in both the Moro Castle and Titanic disasters, I can't believe you can be so blithe there fred. Besides if a LNG tanker breaks up in a close harbor, you can kiss off quite a lot of population. same thing for any chemical tankers. I know the coast guard makes mandatory sa...
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Hmm... there must be two towns with the same name. Kaliningrad, located just North of Moscow is correct. It is the home of several Russian space enterprises, including NPO Energia, Krunichev, Fakel, and Tsniimach. The main Russian manned spacecraft control facility is also located here. Kaliningrad is easil...
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well it seemed to work for the Mac II installation I was talking about. Oh yeah there is something I forgot to mention : even though you're not suppposed to have water around, there IS some condenstion d dripping from the roof of the plane make sure that your hardware is covered. Make also sure that your keyboards a...
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Point 1: I'm beginning to see that *part* of the disagreements about the whole "yeast issue" is on differing perceptions and on differing meanings of words. Medical doctors have a very specific and specialized "jargon", necessary for precise communication within their field (which I'm fully cognizant of since I, to...
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I've been reading this board passively for a while now and find the subject absolutely fascinating, especially from the point of view of a civil rights nut like myself. My problem is that I'm new to the field and paragraphs like the above keep popping up. I'm sure what Mr. Bellovin is writing about is both fascinat...
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Let's put it this way, they have a charter and several executive orders to obey, among other things which *explicitly* prohibit sharing this information (unless things have changed withing the last little while). I suppose they could ignore it, if they choose. But I doubt they would. For an authoritative look at t...
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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. Could people replying to the above...
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Hi. Does anyone know the possible causes of nasoparynx carcenoma and what are the chances of it being hereditary? Also, in the advacned cases, what is the general procedure to reduce the pain the area as it prevents the patient from eating due to the excessive pain of swallowing and even talking? Thanks.
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A harmonic of the Earth's gravitational field? What IS a harmonic of the Earth's gravitational field? 14:1 resonance with WHAT? It's not like there's any wavelength or frequency to the Earth's gravitational field. Now, there' might be some interesting interactions with the Moon's tidal effect--is that what you're...
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u920496@daimi.aau.dk (Hans Erik Martino Hansen) writes Arthur C. Clarke was way ahead of you on this one... he wrote a short story (title?) in the 1950s describing exactly your proposal!
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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" com...
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STK1203@VAX003.STOCKTON.EDU Pontificated: One of the sci.space FAQ postings deal with this. It's archived somewhere. Perhaps someone can post where it is (I don' remember).
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I don't think mr. Clinton can even understand the technical details of the clipper encryption scheme. So, his "assurances" are of no value at al, if he gives them he just says what a panel of experts(?) told him. If I lived in the USA, I would hope those experts were not paid by the <fill here you favorite 3-letter ...
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Could anyone give me information on Umbilical hernias. The patient is over weight and has a protruding hernia. Surgery may be risky due to the obesity. What other remedies could I try? Thanx in advance
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However, he said on his radio show today that he won't read anything from the two alt groups. He simply deletes them without reading them. He says that some of the people in the two groups are vicious.
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Has someone scanned in an artist's rendering of Aurora? If so, is the GIF available somewhere? Please reply via email. Thanks, Craig
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The "low radiation" claims one sees on monitors these days pertain to allegedly harmful electromagnetic emissions, which does not necessarily have anything to do wtih TEMPEST security. (I think the alleged hazard is BS, but that's another topic.)
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: I've seen people in their forties and fifties become disoriented and : demented during hospital stays. In the examples I've seen, drugs were : definitely involved. : My own father turned into a vegetable for a short time while in the : hospital. He was fifty-three at the time, and he was on 21 separate : medication...
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This is to followup my previous reply on this topic, which it has been pointed out to me might have been dangerously misleading in two spots. 1. I stated that psychotherapy (meaning talking therapy and so on) was used to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which though sometimes true is misleading. It is ...
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... So how about this? Give the winning group (I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year moratorium on taxes. You are talking about the bozos who can't even manage in November to keep promises about taxes made in October, and you expect them to make (and keep!) a 50-year promise like t...
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This definitely had nothing to do with the entry of the government into the support of science; some of it is relevant in technology. There was little involvement of federal funds, or except through support of state universities, of state funds, for scientific research before WWII. The US research position had been ...
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Better yet: act. John
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There have been a few postings in the past on alleged pathological (esp. neurological) conditions induced by playing video games (e.g. Nintendo). Apparently, there have been reported several cases of "photosensitive epilepsy", due to the flashing of some patterns and the strong attention of the (young) players. One po...
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Speaking of educational systems, I recently had a colleague tell me that the reason one of our fifth grade students is so physically developed is because she was sexually abused as a younger child. This, she went on to say, kicks the pituitary gland into action and causes puberty.
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Direction-finding and directional monitoring receivers. Can you say "little black bakery truck"? :-) David
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Yow! Am I ENCRYPTING yet? Didn't we go over this guns'n'crypto discussion a few months ago? Must we go over it again?
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I need information on the medical (including emotional :-) pros and cons of circumcision (at birth). I am especially interested in references to studies that indicate disadvantages or refute studies that indicate advantages. A friend who is a medical student is writing a survey paper, and apparently the studies she h...
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Please post your results, a close friend has this condition and has asked these same questions.
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"Let's make a deal!" If you're going to put up a billion, I'd want to budget the whole sheebang for $450-600 million. If I have that much money to throw around in the first place, you betcha I'm going to sign a contract committing to volume production...
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This effect disappears if you clean your apparatus after you kirlianed the whole leaf and before kirlianing the leaf part.
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If I prescribe itraconazole for a patient's sinusitis neither the AMA, FDA, State Licensing Board, nor ABFP will be knocking on my door to ask why. This is a specious argument. Among other things, how to evaluate new theories and treatments. Funny, I thought it meant "one who fraudulently misrepresents his abil...
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You might look for an allergy doctor in your area who uses sublingual drops instead of shots for treatment. (You are given a small bottle of antigens; 3 drops are placed under the tongue for 5 minutes.) My allergy to bermuda grass was neutralized this way. Throughout the treatment process I had to return to the doctor'...
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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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Arthur Melnick posts an interesting first-hand message about his NEA algorithm. Though I have no reason to disbelieve anything he says, I want to clarify one point: He says he has no connection with the NSA. If he was part of an "NSA plot", of course he'd say that. Now I don't think he is. But the level of some discu...
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Is the U used in the law enforcement field from the phone which placed the call, from the unit whose 'start secure session' button was pressed first, or does each phone transmit its own law enforcement field? Even assuming one of the first two choices, the FBI is going to get a fresh N,U for its own database about ev...
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I saw this a few years ago on "Tomorrow's World" (low-brow BBC technology news program). The patient is lowered into a bath of de-ionized water and carefully positioned. High intensity pressure waves are generated by an electric spark in the water (you don't get electrocuted because de-ionised water does not conduc...
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I seem to recall Rush saying that he has a CompuServe account. If anyone wants to E-mail him, all we need is his account number (i.e.: 12345,6789) and then we could e-mail him via gateway by using a dot instead of a comma like so: "12345.6789@compuserve.com". (THIS IS *NOT* HIS ADDRESS.) So, does anyone know his e-...
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I like to know how effective ProHibit is to prevent spiral meningitis for a child who is five years old. I heard it's from Canada. What sort of side effects , etc.
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Hi Stephen Ear wax is a healthy way to help prevent ear infections, both by preventing a barrier and also with some antibiotic properties. Too much can block the external auditory canal (the hole in the outside of the ear) and cause some hearing problems. It is very simple, and safe, to remove excess wax on your own...
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A bright light phenomenon was observed in the Eastern Finland on April 21. At 00.25 UT two people saw a bright, luminous pillar-shaped phenomenon in the low eastern horizont near Mikkeli. The head of the pillar was circular. The lower part was a little winding. It was like a monster they told. They ...
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This is actually more like the stuff from Phase A and MOL....Phase B ended with a "Power Tower" approach....
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("like most good ideas,..." please, people!) _Five Weeks in a Balloon_. Not a good idea unless you have helium. Verne's protagonists didn't. They just got increadibly lucky. And yes, I knew the title of the movie too, just didn't want to start talking about it. Except to bring up the image of a team of S. African...
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The best thing to do is leave it, it will work its own way out to the surface. Anything you stick up there to try and clean it is just going to push the wax up against your eardrum and pack it on there solid, thus impairing your hearing .
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Dear netters: I have been scanning this news group for a while but has not found a FAQ. Could someone enlight me where to find the FAQ if there is a one. Also, could someone recommend a few good books about encription and decription, about patent information, goverment regulation on this science/technology. I will app...
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I disagree. It think the average joe is interested/curious about spaceflight but sees it as an elitist activity. Not one which he is ever going to participate in. Why is the general public going to be interested in the technical details of long term space habitation? I like the idea of the study, but it should be...
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Idea for repair of satellites: Warning I am getting creative again: Why not build a inflatable space dock. Basically deploy one side of the space dock (using a scissor shaped structure, saw it on beyond 2000), then maneuer the side to next to the satellite and then move the rest of the dock around the satellite and ...
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Ron, you are absolutely right. Not all kidney stones have calcium and not all calcium stones are calcium-oxalate. But the vast majority are calcium- oxalate. Calcium is just one piece of the puzzle. I cited that NEJM article as a way of pointing out to some of the physicians in this group that conventional wisd...
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Hello. I am the David Sternlight keeper of the FAQ. Unfortuantely I cannot find it at the present time. From the original FAQ: Question: Does anyone take David Sternlight serious? Fact: No one takes David Sternlight serious. They review his opinions and in most cases immediately discard them or jerk them over to a...
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Could some please refer me to someone who can perform PRK (Photo Refractive Keratostomy) in Canada (preferably eastern portion). I've looked in the yellow pages with little success, and if someone has had a good (or bad, for that matter) experience, that would be especially helpful if you could please let me know.
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Qualcomm had spare cycles in the DSPs for their new CDMA digital cellular phones. They wanted to put strong crypto into them since they had the capacity. The government decided to "discourage" them. Really, none of this stuff is especially hard. All you need for a true private phone is an ISDN codec, a vocoder (eithe...
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About three weeks ago on the SPACE list, someone was quoting a source on the relative traffic and rankings of this listserv. A figure of 88th in traffic(?) was given. Unfortunately I did not clip the message and I would like to know the source of the rankings list. If anybody still has that discussion on their disk ...
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That may change next month; at least I hope it will. A couple of hundred journalists have requested press passes for the test flights. Sustaining that publicity however, will be a problem. Allen
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: >: I'd really like to see such a thing developed so that interactive : >:internet talk radio could be done. Ideally, though, it should be a general : >:purpose device. It should be a general purpose enough device that nobody : >:should be able to balk at its widespread use. Obviously, to make it easy : >:for homebrew...
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The patents don't apply in Canada. I think the free trade agreement may provide for recognition of new patents, but not old ones.
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I would have to say that the "greatest philosopher" title would have to go to Plato since the whole enterprise of philosophy was essentially defined by him. Although he got most of his answers wrong, he did definitively identify what the important questions are. I think it was Descartes who said that "All philos...
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< < Some countries have laws about importing crypto gear--I believe the U.S. < does. Without a license the above scheme won't work (at least not legally) < in such countries, including at least France and the U.S. < < David < <BZZT! < <Wrong. The US does NOT have crypto import laws. I'd not be so sure about t...
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No. It's called "not wiping off the apparatus after taking a picture of the whole leaf."
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Heck, I seem to feel like that *every* time I eat out. Including in the cafeteria at work. About half the time, the headache intensifies until nothing will make it go away except throwing up. Ick. As you might imagine, I don't eat out a lot. I guess my tolerance for food additives has plummeted si...
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I have several isolation amplifier boards that are the ideal interface for EEG and ECG. Isolation is essential for safety when connecting line-powered equipment to electrodes on the body. These boards incorporate the Burr-Brown 3656 isolation module that currently sells for $133, plus other op amps to produce an over...
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This is a good question. There are major blind spots in our understanding of what makes the earth habitable. For example, why does the earth's atmosphere have the concentration of oxygen it does? The naive answer is "photosynthesis", but this is clearly incomplete. Photosynthesis by itself can't make the atmospher...
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I'm not sure if this is a big issue, but it seems to me like it might be -- up till now, all >1g forces applied to the mirror and its mounting (and nearly all =1g forces) have been applied along the telescope's optical axis, and against the mirror's base. Reentry would apply forces along roughly the same axis, but te...
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About six years ago my ears clogged up with wax, probably as a result of to much headphone use. Anyway, the clinic that cleaned them out used the following procedure: 1. Inject olive oil into ears. 2. Prevent leakage of oil with cotton. 3. Come back in an hour. 4. Rinse ears with warm vater, forcefully injected i...
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I just posted this reply to comp.risks (answering RISKS DIGEST 14.53). Summary: Re: [14.53 Mark Seecof] "key escrow" It is tempting (albeit chauvinistic) to believe that we have a new situation here, thanks to our pet computers. This is not true. David Kahn's "The Codebreakers", a history of cryptography, makes tw...
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I have osteoarthritis, and my huband has just been diagnosed with diabetes (type II, I guess--no insulin). I've been trying to read up on these two conditions, and what really surprises me is how few experiments have been done and how little is known. Losing weight appears to be imperative for diabetes and advisabl...
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Well, you better not get the shuttle as your launch vehicle. and most ELV's have too far of a backlog for political messages. If during the campaign season, the candidates for president had launched one, right around now we'd be getting a launch for PEROT 92. and if they had used the shuttle, we'd be seeing la...
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>I wouldn't think so. Asking people to trust a secret algorithm seems >unsound to me. Maybe so, but it's quite common. There are millions of Macintosh users who have no idea what's in Apple's patented ROMs. Many have modems connected. How do you know all your business secrets aren't being stolen? Answe...
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Sorry, my news reader doesn't seem to know how to copy a subject header. This tracks the thread "why people don't need strong crypto....." The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 expressly forbids *thinking* about building nuclear devices. While I was in grad school, a friend of mine got a security clearance to work on the de...
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A good source of information on Burzynski's method is in *The Cancer Industry* by pulitzer-prize nominee Ralph Moss. Interesting. What book got Moss the pulitzer nomination? None of the flyers for his books mention this, and none of the Cancer Chronicle Newsletters that I have mention this either. Also, a n...
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Voting for creation of the newsgroup misc.health.diabetes ended at 23:59 GMT on 29 Apr 93. At this time, the total response received consisted of 155 votes for newsgroup creation and 14 votes against newsgroup creation. Under the Guidelines for Usenet Group Creation, this response constitutes a passing vote. There w...
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[...] OK Steve, here's a sketch of an alternative that I believe addresses most of the objections to the Clipper scheme. Notation: + concatenation ^ exclusive or E(M,K) message M encrypted by key K D(M,K) message M decrypted by key K H(M) hash (digest/signature) of message M Important Values: U0[X] local chip...
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ANP is secreted by the atria in response to increases in fluid volume and acts to facilitate sodium and water excretion from the kidneys. Can someone tell me the molecular mechanism by which this is done? Please email your response Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Analog SF magazine did an article on a similar subject quite a few years ago. The question was, if an alien spacecraft landed in Washington, D.C., what was the proper organization to deal with it: The State Department (alien ambassadors), the Defense Department (alien invaders), the Immigration and Naturalization S...
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The War on some drugs has already turned alot of police into criminals. This is yet another nail in the constitution's coffin.
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"The Forever War", one of my favorite SciFi books, had a passage devoted to breathing fluids. The idea was to protect people from the high accelerations required for interstellar travel by emersing the passengers in dry-cleaning fluid saturated with oxygen. Plenty of very imaginative ideas is this book. I would cert...
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