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Hoaxes in general

2004-08-06 by Graham Davies

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@c...> wrote:

> ... It could be that you are being
> used to lend credibility to this
> thing, to dupe investors ...

Yes, that's going to be the motive, isn't it. Check out ZeoSync, who 
back in 2002 went after 40 million to develop "standard setting 
compression/encoding technology". Today they don't even have a Web 
site up. It was all a rip-off.

And what about storing arbitrary amounts of data in a single 128-bit 
word? Here's someone who apparently still thinks this is possible:
http://www.karenware.com/newsletters/2002/2002-07-12.asp
Someone pulled that hoax off in the UK in the early 80s.

Not to mention cold fusion.

Kat, the human mind does not store data in text format. Haven't you 
ever had an idea that is really, really hard to put into words? You 
can't emulate the human thought process by matching up chunks of 
text, no matter how much text you have and how fast you match it. How 
would you deal with music or math? We may not know how the mind works 
but I think we know how it doesn't.

Graham.

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