Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
-- Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been misinterpreted.) No no, Stalin was a very bad man - yet, not however, as bad as Ronald Reagan et al. Furthermore the five year plans involved no bloodshed whatsoever, well only a teensy weensy little bit, nothing like what General Motors does in its well known slave labor camps, and the liquidation of the kulaks was self defense against a vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the proletariat. :-) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ikKvUYkvyBE7ikT3WsIGcsxLztiI6VjO7F+lbUPi 43u1MspIR5iABmysKM+9wkz7R+H7AgDDsuhTSZJ4A
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
-- Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been misinterpreted.) No no, Stalin was a very bad man - yet, not however, as bad as Ronald Reagan et al. Furthermore the five year plans involved no bloodshed whatsoever, well only a teensy weensy little bit, nothing like what General Motors does in its well known slave labor camps, and the liquidation of the kulaks was self defense against a vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the proletariat. :-) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ikKvUYkvyBE7ikT3WsIGcsxLztiI6VjO7F+lbUPi 43u1MspIR5iABmysKM+9wkz7R+H7AgDDsuhTSZJ4A
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Cheers, RAH I feel *gd*... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be asking. (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been misinterpreted.) -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is new journalism, since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does this special-purpose hardware make you _feel_? Can you express the cost of the machine in terms of bags of rice which could have been given to starving chldren in Nepal, or wherever children are starving nowadays? How much higher could the NOLA levees have been built if everyone who worked on this machine had instead been working full-time pouring concrete and piling sandbags? What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is new journalism, since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... Never mind the numbers. How does this special-purpose hardware make you _feel_? Can you express the cost of the machine in terms of bags of rice which could have been given to starving chldren in Nepal, or wherever children are starving nowadays? How much higher could the NOLA levees have been built if everyone who worked on this machine had instead been working full-time pouring concrete and piling sandbags? What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Cheers, RAH I feel *gd*... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote: What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? There you go again... Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be asking. (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been misinterpreted.) -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
At 11:34 AM -0700 9/16/05, Bill Stewart wrote: So, I saw this here at Farquhar Street at 14:55EST, jumped in the shower, thus missing the train 13:20 train at Rozzy Square :-), instead took the ^ bus, and then the T, and got to MIT's New Funny-Looking Building about 16:40 or so, and saw the last few slides, asking the first, and only, question, because the grad-students shot out of there at relativistic velocity, probably so they wouldn't miss their dinner, or something... Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is new journalism, since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... :-) Cheers, RAH Who reminds people that sentences that begin The upshot, to me,, et. al., are usually committing the informal fallacy of relativism anyway...But enough about me, what do *you* think about me... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
