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Very good. For anyone else that wanted to find the source of this, this website: http://www.skypoint.com/members/camilian/humor/SantaAnalysis.shtml claims:

"This was sent via e-mail a couple years ago, circa 1996. Therefore the author's information is unknown."

If someone has more information on the source I'd like to hear it.

Sigh.

Please stop posting.

Just because you can't google image search for every text you'd like does not mean they are inaccessible. Sometimes, if there is no facimile edition of the text, or reputable printing, you actually have to go to the library where they are held and work. Shocking, I know. It's called scholarship. I also can't help but notice that you have shifted your argument from the current state of affairs to a "long, long history."

In any case, I suspect you like things with "secret" in the title, so perhaps you should order this? Should you actually want to try some real work, fill out one of these out and go to a reading room.

Superman was created by 2 kids in 1933. One of them, was born in Canada, but moved to America 10 years earlier at age 7. That is he grew up in America from age 7->17 prior to co-creating Superman. They other creator was pure American. You seem to want to always have half-truths in just about everything that you say.

So in your words, nice anti-truth troll.

And modders, Just remember that Google (and his past postings) is your friend, when it comes to this guy.

At 186,000 MPS, it's the strength of the signal, not the distance traveled, that matters. In this context, the distances from orbit are insignificant, and the depth of rock only somewhat less so. It's the echo from the water under the rock that's being returned to the sattelite, not imaging data.

Googling for info on earth orbiting radar platforms lead me to more info on earth orbiting radar sattelites that you'd ever need

• Access to all the commericial and public algorithms in use today and many others
  
• The ability to directly influence cryptologists
  
• The power to weaken algorithms before they are commericially implemented
  
• Access to the money and expertise to build specialist custom decryption hardware which can continue to out perform COTS hardware for many years e.g. colossus!
  
• The ability to delay ideas often for many years
  

He and Gibson started Cyberpunk.
Uhhh... no.
John Brunner was writing stuff like Shockwave Rider w a-a-a-a-a-a- y before either of those two.
For that matter, some of Phillip K. Dick's stuff and that of a dozen others was pretty doggone relevant back when Gibson and Sterling were still in nappies. Delany certainly is on that list of earlier folks, as is Bester.
For tone, I'ld go with Cordwainer Smith or even Van Vogt.
Lem? Funny as hell, smart and sharp. But I wouldn't classify him as cyberpunk.
Silly though his tone may be, some of Harry Harrison's stuff has some pretty good cpunkish meat under all the sugar.

Don't get me wrong, I love Stirling's and Gibson's work. Just reread Globalhead for that matter (fifth time?). But "started"? Uh-uh.

Rustin

The Textus Receptus was created in 1518 by Desiderius Erasmus

That statement is actually misleading. The "Textus Receptus" was based on Erasmus' version, but was revised many times (Erasmus also revised his own text, multiple times), before it was called the "Textus Receptus". The name "Textus Receptus" comes from a quote in the introduction of Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir's edition published in 1633 (note this is much later than your 1518 date). Check out This article for the quote.

The truth is that the majority of existing Greek text are remarkably simmilar. There is another Greek text called the "Majority Text" which as the name indicates is based on the majority of available texts. The "Majority Text" is very similar to the "Textus Receptus".
Some quotes from The Majority Text Society:
Among these thousands of Greek mss., about eighty-five percent agree among themselves to such a great extent that they might be called a "Majority Text"
The most widely read translation in history, the King James Version (KJV), is based on the Textus Receptus (TR), a close cousin of the M-text.

While older, the "Alexandrine-tradition manuscripts" differ quite a bit from the majority of text, which does bring their veracity into question.

Argh! I'm late to the rant party. I suspect this will never get read by anybody, but here's a thought for you:

Let's say IBM chooses to fight this (this seems to be the plan), and let's say some idiot US judge actually sides with SCO, and let's say SCO looses on appeal. Won't this really end up meaning that all Linux development will happen outside of the states? (a whole slew of it does already.) Think about Alan Cox's "I can't describe this security patch because it's a violation of the DMCA." Think about how open source cryptology was developed when encryption was considered a munition. Remember poor Phil Zimmerman?

I figure if they do win, they'll only be screwing over those of us who live (and program) in the states. Will China care? Especially two years from now when Red Flag Linux has gotten that much better. Will Europe care? (It's not like there is a whole lot of love between the US and Europe these days.) I suspect the rest of the world will shrug their shoulders at the silly Americans and their inane legal system and that will be the end of it.

Great book, wrong decade. "Stand On Zanzibar" was published in 1968, and is extremely influenced by what was going on in "Swingin' London" during the writing of the book. The events of the book are influenced by '60s-era history...Vietnam, Sukarno being deposed in Indonesia, unrest in various parts of Africa, etc. etc.

This was indeed somewhat prescient of current technology in the early 21st Century: a computer about a foot square with cooling systems that take up an entire room,(a logical final stage to the megahertz race and hotter and hotter CPUs!) narrowcast cable television, 24-hour news channels. He also got a direct hit on Glam Rock of the early 1970s and Punk Rock of the late 1970s.

However, "The Shockwave Rider," written in 1975, was the real Cyberpunk precursor, not "Stand On Zanzibar." A great article on just how prescient "The Shockwave Rider" was of the Internet is available here.

Brunner rocked. It's a shame he hasn't gotten the same reputation as Philip K. Dick as a must-read author.

you yanks

Watch the insults. I am a canuck :-)

Still, you have to admire his willingness to stand up for Truth, Justice, and the American Way when he isn't even eligible to run for president.

You are both wrong. Superman was created by a Canadian

Man, I'm sick of Canada being in the shadows of the USA. Did I mention we also invented basketball, telephone, radio and insulin?

There is no way to "fix the spam problem".

There certainly isn't if you're fatalistic and don't look for solutions.

Claude Shannon proved decades ago that noise is inevitable in communications

Ignoring the abundant misunderstanding of Shannon's research (hey, go read here and you'll already know more thant he poster), to call spam noise on the data network is an amazing stretch. Spam is not noise. Spam is data. If you took the spam off the network some other crap that nobody wanted wouldn't magically fill the spot.

I also deeply question your off-the-cuff nlogn value for spam. Let's just take my Hotmail account as an example. It receives roughly 200 spam emails a day. They average 8k each. So that's 1.6MB of spam per day per user. Now, there's 118 million Hotmail accounts. Assume that a mere 1% of them get this much spam. That's 1,888,000 MB of spam. Daily. To Hotmail alone. That's nearly 2 terabytes of capacity. Daily .

Now lets start throwing in Yahoo! mail, AltaVista mail, juno, excite, etc. etc. etc. and start counting numbers. It's scary. Very, very scary.

If anyone can actually provide real numbers for how much bandwidth is consumed by spam, please do. I did a Google search a couple weeks ago and came up empty. Lots of sites referring to it consuming "great amounts of bandwidth", but no hard numbers.

Here's some links for information on that legendary spam. I remember sitting down to read my newsgroups that day and seeing this message in _every_ newsgroup I subscribed to. It was strange to see such a thing back then!

http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/usewar.htm l http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/Legal /Cases/Canter_Siegel/

I look at the things the ACLU has written, and although I do not disagree with a single thing they say, it seems a little light on facts. I feel I am in the "know" about computer security issues and how they impact my rights, however this stuff just seems to be written on a very low level. This has made me wonder, usually when I talk to someone about why the actions of the US government are creepy right now I get into details - I explain the whole clipper chip fiasco, and I get them to ponder the real reason the feds case was dropped (google cache) so quickly against Phil Zimmerman. Anyway, this means almost always gets others to be more in the "know." But is this approach not appropriate in dealing with my representatives? I realize that for many in congress the little people's letters are just read by someone else and tallied and maybe a few are handed over with the stats... But should I send a cookie-cutter boxing-gloves-on letter, or a diatribe explaining not just things are bad - but WHY?

http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/burnin.htm l

Unfortunately, the links it references are no longer active, and the U of Minnesota Daily seems to have forgotten to put it's July and August issues from 1995 online.
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