User talk:PulpSpy

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ClockworkSoul 03:47, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia.

Often when I am trying to explain things to someone else, that person teaches me a few things that fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge.

I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia and learning new things from the people here.

The edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dining_cryptographers_protocol&diff=prev&oldid=59572201 deleted an explanation of why we need at least 5 dining cryptographers for perfect anonymity.

I think the "5 needed" assumed that, after one person picked a random number, that person showed the number to *both* neighbors (left and right) -- so 3 people know that number.

The protocol on that page has that person show the number to only one neighbor -- only 2 people know that number. So do we really need only 3 in that case? -- User:DavidCary --70.189.77.59 19:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

July 2008
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to move by copying its content and pasting it into. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is considered undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Cut and paste move repair holding pen.  BradV  18:41, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I left this note because it appears that is what happened, although the history of the articles is not entirely clear. Feel free to delete the notice once you've read it if you don't want it left around.  BradV  18:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Draft of Scantegrity II
Could you do me a favor by reviewing/editing/commenting on User:AndersJohnson/Draft_of_Scantegrity_II? Thanks! AndersJohnson (talk) 18:46, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Punchscan logo.jpg)
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Gavin Andresen namechange
Your cite for Gavin's namechange goes to a page that doesn't mention it directly. I see he mentions it in the keynote, somewhere between 4:42 and 5:07 (my video player won't tell me exactly) -- can you update the cite to point at the video, and give the timestamp? I'd do it myself but frankly I am not at all current on Wikipedia citation policy. (I might suggest citing this page instead: http://www.skypaint.com/gavin/ -- except that I think it might be unacceptable due to being a primary source, and I don't remember the rules exactly.) Thanks, User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 09:38, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Punchscan for deletion
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