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Pshhh, big deal. This has already done before by Alan Greenspan, my hero. The only difference is he didn't have some big PR campaign. He's old school, and just slapped those bitches up the side of the head without any warning at all.

What, you don't believe me? See this historical proof and prove it to yourself. Alan Greenspan is a l33t h4xor, that fact is undeniable!

...as when economics went mainstream. In this publication Alan Greenspan admits that he misses "the old scene".

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Alan Greenspan, haxor economist

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Alan Greenspan, haxor economist

I think you mean this:

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H4x0r Economist

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You forget the fact that his VP invented the Internet, well, allowed it to become commercial and thus fostering the environment where Cisco could sell all those routers.

Part of the crash was not the Internet bubble itself, but rather the decrease in confidence of public companies (Enron, Worldcom, etc.). While some may say the book-cooking happened under Clinton's watch (it did), Clinton did have bills before congress to limit the ability of companies to do the kinds of things that Enron/Worldcom did. But the bills were defeated by lobbyists led by Harvey Pitt, who later became Bush's SEC chair. Talk about fox guarding the henhouse!

I would venture to say that it was a combination of Clinton (era of big government is over), Greenspan (H4x0r Economist), and the tech industry in general.

We all knew that economy could not keep going by itself. Anyone who thought the good times would last forever was living in fantasy land. Just like how the so-so economy of today won't last forever. But Bush's policies isn't making the so-so economy end anytime soon.

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Hey, thanks for the reminder on "Alan Greenspan, Hax0r economist". I think he nailed the current situation in #44

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Hey, I'm Dan Weaver, one of the members of the Cornell team. (I also occasionally write H4x0r Economist.) It's great to get all this attention!

The final standings were:
1. MIT
2. Cornell
3. Florida
4. Duke
5. Amador Valley High School (really sharp kids)

We worked on our submersible over the course of seven months, from the beginning of January to the very last minute before it entered the water for its final run on Sunday. Here's a link to a very nice picture of the sub, which we nicknamed Panther:

Our submarine

Briefly, the longer top hull houses electronics and the submersible's onboard computer; the two smaller bottom hulls house batteries and motor control equipment; the black canister in the center is a Doppler velocity log (DVL) sonar that measures velocity and altitude information; the glass-domed apparatus is a headlight; on the other side of Panther, not visible in this photograph, mounted in the same orientation as the lamp, is a CCD video camera. My personal responsibility was the DVL, but I'll be happy to answer specific inquiries about the submersible's components in greater detail.

We finished in a close second to MIT, who has won the competition four of the five years that it's been held. Although we detected more targets than MIT and detected them more accurately, we took a longer time to process our data and ended up losing out because of the time penalty. We also found some additional targets whose attributes we weren't entirely sure of, and submitted them a few minutes after we submitted our first list of targets. We turned out to be right on the money with the additional targets. Had we turned in the additional targets with our original data, or had we finished processing data three minutes earlier, we would have won the competition. That would have been nice, but as it stands, I'm more than happy with our performance. We did a superlative job of completing the mission, we did everything we went to San Diego to do, and I firmly believe that we were far and away the best in the areas of hull design, sensor layout, and AI. We'll get MIT next year.

I have to put in a good word for the Navy enlisted divers who supported us while we were running the competition at the TRANSDEC sonar test facility out on Point Loma. They all had great senses of humor, an untiring dedication to their art and their duty, and a really amazing air of competence and skill. Great guys, all of them.

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Allan Greenspan: H4x0r Economist!

This lack is why, when finally ditching my Amiga, I moved to a Mac, though my hacker side really wanted to take advantage of the Wintel-monopoly economies of scale and run Linux on a cheap PC... I'm an artist. An animator, to be precise. What's Linux got to offer besides, like, GIMP and maybe some kind of animgif creator?

Sound editors, animation, structured drawing (I'm busy falling in love with Illustrator 8), 'multimedia authoring' (that is, Director/Flash)... if any of this exists on Linux it's way below the radar for people with a casual knowledge of it. From the viewpoint of someone aware of, but not into Linux, the only tools for creation under Linux are for programmers. And the only two real uses for computers, IMHO, are as creative tools, or for playing games...

-- Peganthyrus