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Shannon's Theory Finally Broken

Mike Monett writes, "Claude E. Shannon published A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948, and his work has successfully resisted all attempts to find a loophole. Since then, the communications industry has been guided by a term called "signal-to-noise ratio," and negative values are frowned upon. This sets the limit for communication in the presence of unwanted noise added to a signal as it is transmitted from one place to another. But a loophole has been finally discovered. I have found a method of recovering arbitrary signals buried in noise. An example is available here. No information on how it is done, but a brief summary of the good and bad features of the discovery. Will it affect you? There is a good possibility. Will the effect be good? Probably. Will my site be taken down by the Slashdot effect? There is a good chance of that also. "

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