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  1. NetAlert? on Australian Government Cracks Down on Net Users · · Score: 1

    Don't you love the way the Internet Advisory Board is known as `NetAlert.' The minister for communications sees the internet as nothing more than a danger to the fragile balance of civilisation. Who votes for these people? It wasn't me.

  2. Re:Attempted Math to Slashdot Translation on Shimura-Taniyama-Weil (STW) Solved · · Score: 1

    Another big push to the Langland's Program is a connection between Elliptic Modular Forms and group theory. The Monster Group's character table consists of linear combinations of coefficients from the Jacobi expansion of the elliptic modular function - this property is called Moonshine.
    Nobody has the faintest idea why.

    A pointless coincidence - both links above point to a computer called 'shimura'.

  3. Re:Nano stuff on Nano-switches and Self-Assembling Nanostructures · · Score: 1

    A book I read and enjoyed recently is
    Nanosystems : Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation
    by E. Drexler
    It should be technical enough.
    And the UNSWs Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility has a nice site.

  4. My Favorite Bits on The Starchild Project Claims to Have Alien Skull · · Score: 1

    " thrived until its death "

    " series of photographs taken in 1975 ... since this evidence is so new "

    Sorry the whole thing reminds me of that bizarre Celestine Prophecy craze of a few years ago. I mean Starchild? Forbidden Places? Aztec Temples?

    Llyod Pye's site has a plug for his book, some of his arguments seem annoyingly compelling although all his principles are unsubstantiated. (or unsubstantiable).

    Anyway, desperate to refute something I came across the story of the planet Nibiru. Nibiru has an elliptic orbit of period 3500 years during which it is somewhere between Mars and Alpha Centauri. As with comets this planet would spend less than 1 year in the inner solar system. Apparantly the beings of this planet came to earth to mine gold to " repair their atmosphere. "
    My question is, on a planet where nitrogen would exist as snow 99% of the time, who cares about atmospheres? Huh? Huh?

    To contribute against the Starchild project, please send a donation to

    G.P.O. Box 123456

    Brisbane, Qld

  5. Lambda Router? on Lucent Makes 10 Terabit Router · · Score: 1

    I made one of these a little while ago, by accident. Spilling marine diesel into the ocean provides the same technology.

  6. Similar ad a year ago on Xig Ad Campaign Slamming Xfree? · · Score: 1

    Around May 1998 I saw an advertisment for Accelerated-X in LJ, with the same " ... that free X-server that came with your Linux distribution ... " - it waxed lyrical about Accelerated-X providing support for laptop hardware that XFree86 didn't. The whole theme of this one and the one before makes me think of marketing paradigms and mission statements and many companies whose names begin with M.

  7. Contact The Minister on Lotus Says: The Industry Supports Censorship · · Score: 2

    The Minister is interested in your views and encourages feedback on the issues and activities in his portfolio.

    If you would like to suggest to the Minister that perhaps he has misunderstood the "industry", or that the views of "industry" are not necessarily those of the people he represents please send an email to the Minister.

  8. Can we see it elsewhere? on Crypto Show on the History Channel Tonight (9/12) · · Score: 2

    Or do US cryptography laws prevent the export of shows like this?