
My name is Nathan, and I just graduated (May) from SUNY Buffalo, currently looking for jobs and trying to help with maintenance tasks and vandal-fighting here on WP. I majored in computer science, and am looking for sysadmin, Java/C++/C programming, or tech support positions. I would like to attend grad school and eventually do academic research around algorithm analysis (matrix multiplication, possibly). I am applying to start my MS in the fall of this year, having found significant inspiration in Objectivist philosophy, which I ironically discovered when User:Xed posted a rant about it on Jimbo's talk page. I am volunteering with the Greece (town), New York school district and working part-time for a small computer repair business. Statement of POVs, intrinsic biases and self-descriptions: *Atheism *'''Asperger's Syndrome and proud of it *straight with some Bisexuality''' leanings. I don't personally like the term "bicurious." *Clinical depression for several years now, but getting better every week now *not a registed United States Democratic Party, but agree with them on many issues *Libertarian to some extent, but I support taxation *Transhumanism (to some extent ">technological singularity) *Vegetarian, but not devout Strongly opposed to: *the vast majority of alternative medicine, especially when used for conditions which are not self-limiting *Communism which I feel has been experimentally shown not to work *Cults and cult-like groups *most Electronic voting as presently conducted in the US *Edit warring over trivialities. *Perpetual motion, also including "free energy" or "Casimir effect" devices I am a Wikipedia:Administrators. I firmly believe that sysops should use our abilities only as servants of the community. If you disagree with any of my actions, please discuss it on my talk page, or email me using the "email this user" option below; I try to check my email every 12 hours around the clock. Stuff that I'm proud of: I was probably one of about five sysops ''without'' one of these sections, so these are articles that I've improved and am, well, proud of my contributions to (in most if not all cases I didn't start these). *Ackermann function (created table, made analogies, translated some content to Spanish) ---- I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
*First archive at User talk:Pakaran/Archive1 created December 10 December 2003. *Second archive at User talk:Pakaran/Archive2 created December 21 December 2004. ==Reply October 31st== Maybe not yet, but one day, she will :) ==Balanced Ternary money system== (From Talk:Ternary) There seems to be some confusion on the Ternary page. Here is my understanding of a balanced ternary monetary system. In balanced ternary, you have digits that represent postive number, and digits that represent negative numbers. For example, 5 is represented "+--": 9 - 3 - 1. To represent five dollars in a balanced ternary system, one would have a nine dollar bill, a negative three dollar bill, and a negative one dollar bill. It's not balanced ternary unless we have some way of representing negative amounts. Well, if I had five dollars from having a positive nine dollar bill, and two negative bills, well I would just throw out the two negative bills and have nine dollars! So, yes, either I'm hopelessly confused about this, or we will need to keep the above sentence in the article. Please clarify if I am mistaken somehow. User:Samboy 14:09, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC) Hi, I saw you rv'd my mod to the Randi article and then rv'd your rv. Just to let you know I am not Ennis. For a while Ennis sowed a bit of FUD about me being a troll and it caused a momentary confusion on the matter. I hope my record speaks for itself, but if you have doubts about anything I write, please feel free to msg me. --User:Cchunder 18:27, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==amfetamine== I went ahead and moved Amfetamine back to Amphetamine since that's the common spelling here in the US and gets far more Google hits. No offense. User:Pakaran User talk:Pakaran 05:03, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Well thank you for letting me know. Wikiproject_Drugs has a Wikipedia:WikiProject_Drugs/General/Naming_of_drug_pages on the naming of drug pages and "common spelling here in the US" is not part of the policy. I posted on the amphetamine talk page that I was going to move the page, with a pointer to the project page, so that anyone who disagreed could raise any objections. The International Nonproprietary Name is amfetamine. I will move the page back there and I'd appreciate it if you'd leave it there. User:MattKingston 05:14, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Libertas== Thanks for dealing with this. I'm holding off on doing anything further to see if s/he continues this kind of behavior after being unblocked. I've already been through the whole RFC/ArbCom thing with Chuck and Reithy (Libertas might be a sockpuppet of the latter), and would prefer to forgo the hassle and aggravation if at all possible. User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 06:05, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==OS== I'm on a iMac (Mac OS X (10.3.7)). Since it's more-or-less Unix-based, I'm surprised if it's too different from Linux...but I suppose it may be more natively Unicode-friendly, which may be the reason I had some success. - User:Nunh-huh 22:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Blocking== Recently, you blocked me for a period in excess of 24 hours, for breaching the three revert rule. I concede that it appears that I did breach this rule. You asserted that I had been warned about breaching the rule and that I ignored the warning. You further asserted that I was a long-time user. Neither of these assertions is true. Given the political orientation you profess on your user page, I am concerned that you did not exercise your authority correctly. I would like to inquire as to the following: #How did you become aware of the breach of the rule? #Have you ever blocked someone before without warning them? #What interaction do you have with those editing the Soviet Union or Russian articles? #Why did you block me for a period in excess of 24 hours? Please respond promptly. User:Libertas ===Warning=== I was certainly not warned until after the changes were made. Check the timing. Once warned, I made no further changes. While no excuse, I was not aware of the rule and was certainly not told about it until it was too late. It is my responsibility to read the rules, of course. However, I am told on IRC under the Blocking policy it is customary to warn "vandals" twice. No one even suggested I was vandalizing anything. Far from it, I was making an entirely sensible change to an article, which some on your side of politics seemed not to like. Again, I ask you whether you have ever blocked someone without warning them? Presumably the process of warning involves 1) warning 2) an opportunity to comply with the rule or persist in breaching it and 3) penalty. You exercised your authority quite wrongly in that context. I also ask whether you review your 24 hour blocks or whether you rely on them to automatically expire when the system for that seems not to work. I sent you an email about this and received no reply. This excessive penalty compounds your original error. User:Libertas 172 is in breach of the orders of the ArbCom, please let me know if you wish to know more and would consider blocking him. User:Libertas ==Call for AMA election== AMA Member Advocate, There's a poll currently in the WP:AMA about making a new AMA Coordinator election. Please, cast your vote there (though it's not mandatory). Any comments you have about this, write it on the Wikipedia talk:Association of Members' Advocates. Cheers, --User:Imaglang 18:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Greetings== Greetings; stumbled upon your user page after running across some talk page comments. Wanted to point out a typo, since I don't know how you feel about others editing your user page: "singularitarian" rather than "singulatarian". (I'm a extropian with leanings that way myself.) Also, it gives me an excuse to say I admire your work. User:Mindspillage User talk:Mindspillage 18:20, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Greetings!== Did you take a look at User talk:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia? ==Another greetings!== Are you going to expand the article Free Kingdom of Wikipedia or any other articles in User talk:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia? ===Hello?=== Any comments? ==More greetings!== I made User talk:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia. ==Inspiration== Glad to have inspired you. Ironically and otherwise. Fully support your opposition to Perpetual motion. - User:Xed.User talk:Xed ==EFF machine cost== Hi! Wasn't the cost of the EFF's DES-cracking machine a little less than US$250,000 [http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/]? User:Matt Crypto :See http://cryptome.org/cracking-des.htm and search for "project was budgeted". It was $210,000, which is closer to 200K (but, of course, "under 250K"). I'm not going to start an argument over it, though. User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 17:10, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :: Sure, thanks for the link. User:Matt Crypto 17:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) On a tangent, I notice that SHA family lists the alleged SHA-1 break, which has yet to be published or receive formal review (Schneier notes in his blog only that the paper "looks good" and has reputable authors). Do you think we should make it more obvious that this is an unconfirmed result? Also, what algorithms have little in common with the SHA family and aren't already broken, in the event that this ''is'' an issue? Scneier says that SHA-1 is now broken as a hash function for signatures, but breaking signatures involves finding a collision with one of the few possible hashes that have been signed, not finding a collision on any hash - am I missing something here? User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 17:39, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :To clarify, I'm asking at least somewhat out of personal curiousity, I'm considering studying crypto in grad school. User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 17:40, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :: Yes, I think you're right: it would be good working practice to make clear that the result is only "hearsay" at this point, and hasn't even been made public yet. (I think Adi Shamir also mentioned the break, and this team is reputable, so it's unlikely Schneier's wrong). I've heard people suggest Whirlpool (hash) as a replacement algorithm that doesn't use the MD-x/SHA-y/RIPEMD-z structure. There is a reasonable concern that you can use collisions in nasty ways with digital signatures: if you create a collision ''X'' and ''Y'', ''H(X)=H(Y)'', and convince someone to sign ''X'', then you've forged a signature for ''Y'' as well. Of course, in practice ''X'' and ''Y'' would have to take on a certain form for this to be of any practical benefit to an attacker — but that would very much depend on the specifics of the collison-finding method. (And the attack that you can do with the brute-force method that's listed on Birthday attack might not be possible.) Re: grad school — cool! Where and what are you thinking of studying? User:Matt Crypto 17:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::I'd be studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology for an MS in computer science. I'll probably go elsewhere for my Ph.D. for financial reasons, they have very few assistantship options at RIT. As regards the first remark... the problem is first of all storing the hashes you're saving to match on this. And yeah, birthday attack assumes that you can find collisions equally well on anything. If you have to come up with large numbers of message variations to find one that hashes to something your collision-finding method works on, you've got a problem right off the bat. User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 18:01, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::: Yeah; my hunch is that we're a long way off from having any interesting practical attacks made possible by the recent hash function breaks. But, of course, migrating to better primitives is still very prudent — better to be conservative about security. Re: RIT -- would it be research or taught-course? Myself, I'm part way through a PhD (in cryptography) at the University of York, but it's going a lot slower than I'd hoped. My only advice would be, before starting a PhD, to make sure you've genuinely interested in the topic. If my area wasn't crypto (about which I'm a little obsessive...) I'm sure I would have given up by now! User:Matt Crypto 19:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) ===meta:Silesia=== Nice work. Not just because I come from there ^^ (Lower Silesia, to be exact) but I do agree it's a wikiphenomenon worth of seeing... Greets! User:194.145.96.66 18:52, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week== I would like to revive this project. I noticed that you've added yourself to the list of available Spanish-to-English translators. Are you interested in working on Spanish Translation of the Week? — User:J3ff 06:05, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia== Perhaps you may want to add a Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countries for User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia to add some realism. It was great reading, really. =D - User:Mailer diablo 09:54, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Yet more greetings!== Have I improved User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia? *Looks even better now. ;) - User:Mailer diablo 11:29, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) **Yeah, thanks. - User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 12:03, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Translations== *Did you know that in Korean language The Free Kingdom of Wikipedia is 위키피디아자유왕국 or 위키백과자유왕국? User:68.23.105.21 22:32, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) **Note: 위키피디아 is the transliteration of Wikipedia, but the translation is 위키백과. *Can anyone check if 维基百科自由王国 means The Free Kingdom of Wikipedia in Chinese language? **It's a, well, transliteration, though I don't see how it can be better done. 自由王国 is literally correct, but the "kingdom" takes on a children's storybook connotation of "kingdom" when read. Maybe 维基百科自由国 would be a bit better (literally, "Free Kingdom" -> "Free Nation"). User:Znode 05:38, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC) *I think El Reino Libre de Wikipedia is the Spanish language form of it. *Also, Le Royaume Libre de Wikipédia would be the French language form. *Is Das Freie Königreich von Wikipedia the correct German language form? ==Even more greetings!== Hi. (That's all.) ==Medical prescription== For the mixup between microgram and milligram, I couldn't find a reference for "unbelievably, deaths have resulted from pharmacists blindly following such a misreading". If you have a reference, I would love to put such a dramatic statement back in. User:Samw 02:15, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Dividend tax == You probably hear about dilution most often with mergers where stock is swapped rather than new stock issues, of course with new stock issues control is always being diluted unless it is existing stockholder that purchase the stock. There is often a price drop in mergers, because generally a premium is being paid over what was the market price of the company being acquired. However, the executives and those stock holders that retain their shares generally agree that the stock is worth more because of some synergies or cost savings that will result because of the merger. Dilution is sometimes viewed by the market as an issue, however, I don't this necessarily being a topic for the Dividend tax article. Best wishes. --User:Silverback 18:36, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Holiday greetings!== Hi. Bye. == Tolls are inefficient? == I saw your change on the Tax article, and thought you might want to reconsider. As a libertarian, I'm sure you've heard of the Cato Institute. One of their recent policy analysis had to do with the Federal Gasoline Tax. They concluded that a toll was a far better solution than the current system for paying for highways. If you're interested, you might want to check out the paper. [http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa538.pdf] --User:Fcoulter 01:35, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC) == AMA Meeting Proposal == Hi! I put together a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AMA_Meeting_%28suggested_topics%29#New_Membership_Meeting_Call proposal for another AMA meeting] that I'm hopeful you can chime in on. --User:Wgfinley 20:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Micronation Status?== Would it be appropriate to add User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia to the Micronations category? User:Dave Cohoe 21:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Er, no :) User:Dan100 20:21, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC) ::Thanks, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. Many of the Micronations are as tongue-in-cheek and more imaginary than the "Kingdom" of Wikipedia. :) -- User:Dave Cohoe 21:32, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Nazarene Karaites== Can you look over what I just did (revert at Karaite Judaism) and read my rationale at Talk:Karaite Judaism and lemme know whether or not you think my action was justified? User:TShilo12 User talk:TShilo12 21:12, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC) == re: 'the finger' == It is claimed by some that many might believe that certain people's edits are not entirely within some people's notions of a certain notion of Wikipedia policy!! Certain people might say to some that certain others are believed by experts to perhaps say that it is possibly believed that such edits are not unanimously endorsed by many! It is possible that certain some might by many perhaps some be possibly...urk! agh! ock! (strangled by own intestine) Some might certain of some believe that possibly perhaps!!!!! User:Auto movil 21:08, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Thanks! re: FairTax == Thanks for the compliment re: FairTax. I now have it on my watch list, and I'll make it even better soon. --User:Unfocused 23:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC) == Hello! == Hello, Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia! == Jelou == Could you help us with this: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Pakaran/Wikipedian political entities? - User:68.251.209.191 23:16, 31 May 2005 (UTC) == User:Humanbot update 04 June 2005 == Since you entered the mailing list while the project was down, I assume that you wanted to be told when it was up. Well, it's up. Note that it is generally unreliable at the moment and if it doesn't work now you should check back in a few hours. User:R3m0t User talk:R3m0t 12:22, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC) ==User:Humanbot update 08 June 2005== Version ''two''-''two'' released today includes in that green box a nice count of how many articles are left. This more or less co-incides with the event of hitting only 1000 articles remaining. Also, I have re-arranged the User:Humanbot page to make it easier to get to the right stuff. Progress charts, wikicookies, wikilove and a more thorough spelling check is promised when this is completed. (and also when the exam pressure eases off a little on me) User:R3m0t User talk:R3m0t 17:40, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC) Note: If you think this message was too trivial for a mailing, tell me and I'll stick to more important announcements on the list. ==New greetings!== Hello, 申忠容承和. - User:68.72.129.171 02:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Newer greetings!== Hello, Pakaran! - User:68.255.37.206 00:54, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) == User:Humanbot update 13 June 2005 == The spelling2 project (to work on secondary namespaces) was opened and finished. Progress charts will be available soon. Version ''six-three'' tracks who made the edits, and rankings are available. Much of the work was done while I was asleep, explaining my [http://humanbot.joeyday.net/enwiki/stats.php low place] ;). The next project, which may even be released today, will probably fix incorrectly capitalised headings, particularly "See Also" and "External Links". The mailing list has grown to 24 people and while that is very nice for my ego, it is rather difficult to send out updates. This is why I did not send out a notice that the spelling2 project had opened. From now on, then, you must watch User:Humanbot/announce for updates. User:R3m0t User talk:R3m0t 12:03, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
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My name is Nathan, and I just graduated (May) from SUNY Buffalo, currently looking for jobs and trying to help with maintenance tasks and vandal-fighting here on WP. I majored in computer science, and am looking for sysadmin, Java/C++/C programming, or tech support positions. I would like to attend grad school and eventually do academic research around algorithm analysis (matrix multiplication, possibly). I am applying to start my MS in the fall of this year, having found significant inspiration in Objectivist philosophy, which I ironically discovered when User:Xed posted a rant about it on Jimbo's talk page. I am volunteering with the Greece (town), New York school district and working part-time for a small computer repair business. Statement of POVs, intrinsic biases and self-descriptions: *Atheism *'''Asperger's Syndrome and proud of it *straight with some Bisexuality''' leanings. I don't personally like the term "bicurious." *Clinical depression for several years now, but getting better every week now *not a registed United States Democratic Party, but agree with them on many issues *Libertarian to some extent, but I support taxation *Transhumanism (to some extent ">technological singularity) *Vegetarian, but not devout Strongly opposed to: *the vast majority of alternative medicine, especially when used for conditions which are not self-limiting *Communism which I feel has been experimentally shown not to work *Cults and cult-like groups *most Electronic voting as presently conducted in the US *Edit warring over trivialities. *Perpetual motion, also including "free energy" or "Casimir effect" devices I am a Wikipedia:Administrators. I firmly believe that sysops should use our abilities only as servants of the community. If you disagree with any of my actions, please discuss it on my talk page, or email me using the "email this user" option below; I try to check my email every 12 hours around the clock. Stuff that I'm proud of: I was probably one of about five sysops ''without'' one of these sections, so these are articles that I've improved and am, well, proud of my contributions to (in most if not all cases I didn't start these). *Ackermann function (created table, made analogies, translated some content to Spanish) ---- I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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*First archive at User talk:Pakaran/Archive1 created December 10 December 2003. *Second archive at User talk:Pakaran/Archive2 created December 21 December 2004. ==Reply October 31st== Maybe not yet, but one day, she will :) ==Balanced Ternary money system== (From Talk:Ternary) There seems to be some confusion on the Ternary page. Here is my understanding of a balanced ternary monetary system. In balanced ternary, you have digits that represent postive number, and digits that represent negative numbers. For example, 5 is represented "+--": 9 - 3 - 1. To represent five dollars in a balanced ternary system, one would have a nine dollar bill, a negative three dollar bill, and a negative one dollar bill. It's not balanced ternary unless we have some way of representing negative amounts. Well, if I had five dollars from having a positive nine dollar bill, and two negative bills, well I would just throw out the two negative bills and have nine dollars! So, yes, either I'm hopelessly confused about this, or we will need to keep the above sentence in the article. Please clarify if I am mistaken somehow. User:Samboy 14:09, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC) Hi, I saw you rv'd my mod to the Randi article and then rv'd your rv. Just to let you know I am not Ennis. For a while Ennis sowed a bit of FUD about me being a troll and it caused a momentary confusion on the matter. I hope my record speaks for itself, but if you have doubts about anything I write, please feel free to msg me. --User:Cchunder 18:27, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==amfetamine== I went ahead and moved Amfetamine back to Amphetamine since that's the common spelling here in the US and gets far more Google hits. No offense. User:Pakaran User talk:Pakaran 05:03, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Well thank you for letting me know. Wikiproject_Drugs has a Wikipedia:WikiProject_Drugs/General/Naming_of_drug_pages on the naming of drug pages and "common spelling here in the US" is not part of the policy. I posted on the amphetamine talk page that I was going to move the page, with a pointer to the project page, so that anyone who disagreed could raise any objections. The International Nonproprietary Name is amfetamine. I will move the page back there and I'd appreciate it if you'd leave it there. User:MattKingston 05:14, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Libertas== Thanks for dealing with this. I'm holding off on doing anything further to see if s/he continues this kind of behavior after being unblocked. I've already been through the whole RFC/ArbCom thing with Chuck and Reithy (Libertas might be a sockpuppet of the latter), and would prefer to forgo the hassle and aggravation if at all possible. User:Radicalsubversiv User talk:Radicalsubversiv 06:05, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==OS== I'm on a iMac (Mac OS X (10.3.7)). Since it's more-or-less Unix-based, I'm surprised if it's too different from Linux...but I suppose it may be more natively Unicode-friendly, which may be the reason I had some success. - User:Nunh-huh 22:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Blocking== Recently, you blocked me for a period in excess of 24 hours, for breaching the three revert rule. I concede that it appears that I did breach this rule. You asserted that I had been warned about breaching the rule and that I ignored the warning. You further asserted that I was a long-time user. Neither of these assertions is true. Given the political orientation you profess on your user page, I am concerned that you did not exercise your authority correctly. I would like to inquire as to the following: #How did you become aware of the breach of the rule? #Have you ever blocked someone before without warning them? #What interaction do you have with those editing the Soviet Union or Russian articles? #Why did you block me for a period in excess of 24 hours? Please respond promptly. User:Libertas ===Warning=== I was certainly not warned until after the changes were made. Check the timing. Once warned, I made no further changes. While no excuse, I was not aware of the rule and was certainly not told about it until it was too late. It is my responsibility to read the rules, of course. However, I am told on IRC under the Blocking policy it is customary to warn "vandals" twice. No one even suggested I was vandalizing anything. Far from it, I was making an entirely sensible change to an article, which some on your side of politics seemed not to like. Again, I ask you whether you have ever blocked someone without warning them? Presumably the process of warning involves 1) warning 2) an opportunity to comply with the rule or persist in breaching it and 3) penalty. You exercised your authority quite wrongly in that context. I also ask whether you review your 24 hour blocks or whether you rely on them to automatically expire when the system for that seems not to work. I sent you an email about this and received no reply. This excessive penalty compounds your original error. User:Libertas 172 is in breach of the orders of the ArbCom, please let me know if you wish to know more and would consider blocking him. User:Libertas ==Call for AMA election== AMA Member Advocate, There's a poll currently in the WP:AMA about making a new AMA Coordinator election. Please, cast your vote there (though it's not mandatory). Any comments you have about this, write it on the Wikipedia talk:Association of Members' Advocates. Cheers, --User:Imaglang 18:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Greetings== Greetings; stumbled upon your user page after running across some talk page comments. Wanted to point out a typo, since I don't know how you feel about others editing your user page: "singularitarian" rather than "singulatarian". (I'm a extropian with leanings that way myself.) Also, it gives me an excuse to say I admire your work. User:Mindspillage User talk:Mindspillage 18:20, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Greetings!== Did you take a look at User talk:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia? ==Another greetings!== Are you going to expand the article Free Kingdom of Wikipedia or any other articles in User talk:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia? ===Hello?=== Any comments? ==More greetings!== I made User talk:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia. ==Inspiration== Glad to have inspired you. Ironically and otherwise. Fully support your opposition to Perpetual motion. - User:Xed.User talk:Xed ==EFF machine cost== Hi! Wasn't the cost of the EFF's DES-cracking machine a little less than US$250,000 [http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/]? User:Matt Crypto :See http://cryptome.org/cracking-des.htm and search for "project was budgeted". It was $210,000, which is closer to 200K (but, of course, "under 250K"). I'm not going to start an argument over it, though. User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 17:10, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :: Sure, thanks for the link. User:Matt Crypto 17:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) On a tangent, I notice that SHA family lists the alleged SHA-1 break, which has yet to be published or receive formal review (Schneier notes in his blog only that the paper "looks good" and has reputable authors). Do you think we should make it more obvious that this is an unconfirmed result? Also, what algorithms have little in common with the SHA family and aren't already broken, in the event that this ''is'' an issue? Scneier says that SHA-1 is now broken as a hash function for signatures, but breaking signatures involves finding a collision with one of the few possible hashes that have been signed, not finding a collision on any hash - am I missing something here? User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 17:39, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :To clarify, I'm asking at least somewhat out of personal curiousity, I'm considering studying crypto in grad school. User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 17:40, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :: Yes, I think you're right: it would be good working practice to make clear that the result is only "hearsay" at this point, and hasn't even been made public yet. (I think Adi Shamir also mentioned the break, and this team is reputable, so it's unlikely Schneier's wrong). I've heard people suggest Whirlpool (hash) as a replacement algorithm that doesn't use the MD-x/SHA-y/RIPEMD-z structure. There is a reasonable concern that you can use collisions in nasty ways with digital signatures: if you create a collision ''X'' and ''Y'', ''H(X)=H(Y)'', and convince someone to sign ''X'', then you've forged a signature for ''Y'' as well. Of course, in practice ''X'' and ''Y'' would have to take on a certain form for this to be of any practical benefit to an attacker — but that would very much depend on the specifics of the collison-finding method. (And the attack that you can do with the brute-force method that's listed on Birthday attack might not be possible.) Re: grad school — cool! Where and what are you thinking of studying? User:Matt Crypto 17:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::I'd be studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology for an MS in computer science. I'll probably go elsewhere for my Ph.D. for financial reasons, they have very few assistantship options at RIT. As regards the first remark... the problem is first of all storing the hashes you're saving to match on this. And yeah, birthday attack assumes that you can find collisions equally well on anything. If you have to come up with large numbers of message variations to find one that hashes to something your collision-finding method works on, you've got a problem right off the bat. User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 18:01, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::: Yeah; my hunch is that we're a long way off from having any interesting practical attacks made possible by the recent hash function breaks. But, of course, migrating to better primitives is still very prudent — better to be conservative about security. Re: RIT -- would it be research or taught-course? Myself, I'm part way through a PhD (in cryptography) at the University of York, but it's going a lot slower than I'd hoped. My only advice would be, before starting a PhD, to make sure you've genuinely interested in the topic. If my area wasn't crypto (about which I'm a little obsessive...) I'm sure I would have given up by now! User:Matt Crypto 19:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) ===meta:Silesia=== Nice work. Not just because I come from there ^^ (Lower Silesia, to be exact) but I do agree it's a wikiphenomenon worth of seeing... Greets! User:194.145.96.66 18:52, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week== I would like to revive this project. I noticed that you've added yourself to the list of available Spanish-to-English translators. Are you interested in working on Spanish Translation of the Week? — User:J3ff 06:05, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia== Perhaps you may want to add a Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countries for User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia to add some realism. It was great reading, really. =D - User:Mailer diablo 09:54, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Yet more greetings!== Have I improved User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia? *Looks even better now. ;) - User:Mailer diablo 11:29, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) **Yeah, thanks. - User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 12:03, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Translations== *Did you know that in Korean language The Free Kingdom of Wikipedia is 위키피디아자유왕국 or 위키백과자유왕국? User:68.23.105.21 22:32, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) **Note: 위키피디아 is the transliteration of Wikipedia, but the translation is 위키백과. *Can anyone check if 维基百科自由王国 means The Free Kingdom of Wikipedia in Chinese language? **It's a, well, transliteration, though I don't see how it can be better done. 自由王国 is literally correct, but the "kingdom" takes on a children's storybook connotation of "kingdom" when read. Maybe 维基百科自由国 would be a bit better (literally, "Free Kingdom" -> "Free Nation"). User:Znode 05:38, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC) *I think El Reino Libre de Wikipedia is the Spanish language form of it. *Also, Le Royaume Libre de Wikipédia would be the French language form. *Is Das Freie Königreich von Wikipedia the correct German language form? ==Even more greetings!== Hi. (That's all.) ==Medical prescription== For the mixup between microgram and milligram, I couldn't find a reference for "unbelievably, deaths have resulted from pharmacists blindly following such a misreading". If you have a reference, I would love to put such a dramatic statement back in. User:Samw 02:15, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Dividend tax == You probably hear about dilution most often with mergers where stock is swapped rather than new stock issues, of course with new stock issues control is always being diluted unless it is existing stockholder that purchase the stock. There is often a price drop in mergers, because generally a premium is being paid over what was the market price of the company being acquired. However, the executives and those stock holders that retain their shares generally agree that the stock is worth more because of some synergies or cost savings that will result because of the merger. Dilution is sometimes viewed by the market as an issue, however, I don't this necessarily being a topic for the Dividend tax article. Best wishes. --User:Silverback 18:36, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Holiday greetings!== Hi. Bye. == Tolls are inefficient? == I saw your change on the Tax article, and thought you might want to reconsider. As a libertarian, I'm sure you've heard of the Cato Institute. One of their recent policy analysis had to do with the Federal Gasoline Tax. They concluded that a toll was a far better solution than the current system for paying for highways. If you're interested, you might want to check out the paper. [http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa538.pdf] --User:Fcoulter 01:35, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC) == AMA Meeting Proposal == Hi! I put together a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AMA_Meeting_%28suggested_topics%29#New_Membership_Meeting_Call proposal for another AMA meeting] that I'm hopeful you can chime in on. --User:Wgfinley 20:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Micronation Status?== Would it be appropriate to add User:Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia to the Micronations category? User:Dave Cohoe 21:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Er, no :) User:Dan100 20:21, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC) ::Thanks, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. Many of the Micronations are as tongue-in-cheek and more imaginary than the "Kingdom" of Wikipedia. :) -- User:Dave Cohoe 21:32, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Nazarene Karaites== Can you look over what I just did (revert at Karaite Judaism) and read my rationale at Talk:Karaite Judaism and lemme know whether or not you think my action was justified? User:TShilo12 User talk:TShilo12 21:12, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC) == re: 'the finger' == It is claimed by some that many might believe that certain people's edits are not entirely within some people's notions of a certain notion of Wikipedia policy!! Certain people might say to some that certain others are believed by experts to perhaps say that it is possibly believed that such edits are not unanimously endorsed by many! It is possible that certain some might by many perhaps some be possibly...urk! agh! ock! (strangled by own intestine) Some might certain of some believe that possibly perhaps!!!!! User:Auto movil 21:08, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Thanks! re: FairTax == Thanks for the compliment re: FairTax. I now have it on my watch list, and I'll make it even better soon. --User:Unfocused 23:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC) == Hello! == Hello, Pakaran/Kingdom of Wikipedia! == Jelou == Could you help us with this: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Pakaran/Wikipedian political entities? - User:68.251.209.191 23:16, 31 May 2005 (UTC) == User:Humanbot update 04 June 2005 == Since you entered the mailing list while the project was down, I assume that you wanted to be told when it was up. Well, it's up. Note that it is generally unreliable at the moment and if it doesn't work now you should check back in a few hours. User:R3m0t User talk:R3m0t 12:22, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC) ==User:Humanbot update 08 June 2005== Version ''two''-''two'' released today includes in that green box a nice count of how many articles are left. This more or less co-incides with the event of hitting only 1000 articles remaining. Also, I have re-arranged the User:Humanbot page to make it easier to get to the right stuff. Progress charts, wikicookies, wikilove and a more thorough spelling check is promised when this is completed. (and also when the exam pressure eases off a little on me) User:R3m0t User talk:R3m0t 17:40, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC) Note: If you think this message was too trivial for a mailing, tell me and I'll stick to more important announcements on the list. ==New greetings!== Hello, 申忠容承和. - User:68.72.129.171 02:59, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Newer greetings!== Hello, Pakaran! - User:68.255.37.206 00:54, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) == User:Humanbot update 13 June 2005 == The spelling2 project (to work on secondary namespaces) was opened and finished. Progress charts will be available soon. Version ''six-three'' tracks who made the edits, and rankings are available. Much of the work was done while I was asleep, explaining my [http://humanbot.joeyday.net/enwiki/stats.php low place] ;). The next project, which may even be released today, will probably fix incorrectly capitalised headings, particularly "See Also" and "External Links". The mailing list has grown to 24 people and while that is very nice for my ego, it is rather difficult to send out updates. This is why I did not send out a notice that the spelling2 project had opened. From now on, then, you must watch User:Humanbot/announce for updates. User:R3m0t User talk:R3m0t 12:03, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
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