This is just a idea without code, but it seems a smop to create a program that takes the text of the Constitution of the United States as input and outputs the DeCSS code. Extra points to anyone who devises a "computer language" in which the Constitution *is* a program equivalent to DeCSS. Then, of course, the RIAA should go after "We the people", or maybe the heirs of the Founding Fathers.
Just to show something mathematicians know long time ago: from contradiction you can probe anything.
This is what happened somewhere in Spain a couple of days ago. A 16 years boy murdered his mother, father and little sister with a katana (a gift from his father). Nobody understood why, 'cause the guy was not a "problematic" child. Then, someone discovered some satanic books in his room, and a copy of Final Fantasy VII. It happens this guy was a big fan of the game. Suddenly ALL newspaper, TV news, radio and carrier piggeons, were giving the news that the game was the ultimate cause for the crime. The idea is that the guy in the game is an orphan, so this crazy boy decided to be one too. Some even say they look alike. I personally can't stand the simple logic some so called journalists use in some newspapers and TV.
Alan Kay wrote in 1976 an internal memo to Xerox mgmt, "A Simple Vision of the Future". Just a quote:
In the 1990s there will be millions of personals computers. They will be the size of notebooks of today, have high-resolution flat-screen reflective displays, weigh less than ten pounds, have ten to twenty times the computing and storage capacity of an Alto. Let's call them Dynabooks.
The purchase price will be about that of a color television set of the era, although most of the machines will be given away by manufactures who will be marketing the content rather than the container of personal computing.
Italics are mine. Kay was off just a decade. BTW, the "notebooks" the mentions are the ones made of trees.
I read the last page in full without knowing it *was* the last one. Next phrase (on next page) was: "THANKS. To everyone who waited for this one blah blah blah May 10, 1999 Vancouver, B.C.". Reminded me a chapter in "Godel, Escher, Bach", about fake endings.
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Just to show something mathematicians know long time ago: from contradiction you can probe anything.
This is what happened somewhere in Spain a couple of days ago. A 16 years boy murdered his mother, father and little sister with a katana (a gift from his father). Nobody understood why, 'cause the guy was not a "problematic" child. Then, someone discovered some satanic books in his room, and a copy of Final Fantasy VII. It happens this guy was a big fan of the game. Suddenly ALL newspaper, TV news, radio and carrier piggeons, were giving the news that the game was the ultimate cause for the crime. The idea is that the guy in the game is an orphan, so this crazy boy decided to be one too. Some even say they look alike. I personally can't stand the simple logic some so called journalists use in some newspapers and TV.
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Much better than the Spam, sounds offensive!
"Solaris forever": that is a good joke.
I read the last page in full without knowing it *was* the last one. Next phrase (on next page) was: "THANKS. To everyone who waited for this one blah blah blah May 10, 1999 Vancouver, B.C.". Reminded me a chapter in "Godel, Escher, Bach", about fake endings.