This could explain the non-sex with Math people. Some apparently get to make porn throughout their work day.

REAL Mathsex

this is so fucked up and sad...

suicide

Surprisingly enough, the title pretty much sums it up.
I can so see some people I know at GaTech making these sorts of things...

Don't forget the "Double Jetaime"!
http://www.fuckingmachines.com/meetthemachines/machine_jetaime2.php

Custom-Made Fucking Machines

A goldmine of memetic discussion I recently found published on the internet with no subscription fee. Just click on "index of all issues". The advisory board contains the memetic heavyweights Susan Blackmore,Gary Cziko, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett,Liane Gabora, and David Hull.

Journal of Memetics- Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission

] Welcome, lowly pilgrim. You stand before the doors of the
] first church of the Grey Goo. Abandon hope! Seek your
] salvation in the Grey Goo.

the internet is a strange place...

--Abaddon

it sure is:)

-Nano

Fufill the Buddhist dream of cosmic one'ness in a whole new way!

-Romanpoet

The First Church of the Grey Goo

There were a few interesting [yet unrelated] side-facts about the case that prevented it from being as cut and dry as it needs to be for the media to take the side of the evil hackers and see it as a suppression of speech.

Rattle wrote:
] I'm still quite frustrated that this did not get more
] attention when it happened. It was a clear case of a company
] using the law to suppress speech, and it went off without a
] hitch..
]
] ] In the end, Blackboard was able to use the law to ban two
] ] students from speaking at a conference, conducting
] ] security research and publicly criticizing its product.
] ] As long as such efforts prove effective, other
] ] individuals and corporations will continue to misuse the
] ] law in order to censor speech and other legitimate
] ] activities. Those concerned with chilling effects should
] ] take note.

RE: Chilling Effects Analysis of the Blackboard Case

An old debunker's adage goes (in various iterations), "You can never be too skeptical." Lately, largely because of my run-ins with "skeptics" of evolution, I've become increasingly convinced that this slogan is fundamentally flawed. Consider, for example, what happens when a predisposition towards skepticism leads one to doubt a consensus view in the scientific community, or to pooh-pooh a possibility that many leading scientists consider highly likely. Taken to extremes, it can lose its usefulness and even lead to perverse outcomes.

Abuses of Skepticism

A concise effective description that has my seal of approval. It is factually correct and a vast majority of the insinuations made are also true. A significantly better description and analysis than anything else I've seen written on the issue.

Analysis of the Blackboard Case

They agreed to provide this information, and said they had no problem telling users how to solve the problem. I, in turn, provided webspace and bandwidth for them. The bottom line: after two days of lies and false starts, and milking my institution's generosity by providing almost 100,000 downloads and 0.7 terabytes of data transfer, they NEVER posted any information about how to solve the problem that they promised to post. Their agenda seems clear, and that's sensationalism, melodrama, and attention. The full email exchange is here:

[ insert Michael Moore joke here ]

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Of note, upon further analysis this technique is highly impractical. If we recall that all TCP packets are encased in IP packets, each of which have their own checksum, which are identical. To evaluate the incoming IP packets, we must do the work that they are doing for us in the TCP stage.

-Virgil

Rattle wrote:
] Nature 412 had an amazing article on very novel development,
] "Parasitic Computing". Simply put, some guys at Noterdame
] found a way to utilize/exploit the TCP error-checking
] algorithm to make users that you are communication with do
] useful computaitonal work for you. This is technique can be
] done effectively, we're talking about some very impressive
] computational resources at one's disposal.
]
] Also of note.. Albert-László Barabási and Hawoong Jeong, two
] of the people behind this parasitic computing project, are
] also two of the leading authorities on self forming networks.
] Barabási authored a book called Linked: The New Science of
] Networks which is considered one of the "must reads" on
] the subject. Infact, its the book I was reading when I
] started work on the mapping the social network on
] MemeStreams..

RE: New Technique: Parasitic Computing