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<BR>Ryan, of course I don't appreciate your remarks, but I direct this
letter at<BR>the group, and not particularly at you.<BR><BR><BR>First, the
statements I have made are truthful and accurate in all respects.<BR>
================================================<BR><BR><BR>The only thing I
should say, since some of you have looked up my past work,<BR>is that while
my compression technology is real, it probably is not<BR>practical, as in
running on the X86 chip in a PC. With the addition of a<BR>dedicated
card with a VLSI chip, that would make it quite practical and<BR>probably
heavily used. And trust me, I've spoken to VC's, it's not a clear<BR>
win -- because new computer technology is quite difficult to 'own', it
seems<BR>to leak and spread.<BR><BR><BR>And in case you haven't noticed,
intellectual property is the next big thing<BR>in computing.
Protecting it that is...<BR><BR><BR>It is certainly true that this claim is
robust and that many observers think<BR>I am either a fraud or
mistaken. But the fact is, while I don't have a<BR>system (a
compressor and decompressor) that will compete with say, ARJ, or<BR>PKZIP, I
do have a system that compress'es files and then, at a 'receiver'<BR>site,
decompresses the file. And this system does meet my basic claim,
that<BR>I can compress a file several times, recompressing the output from
the prior<BR>stage.<BR><BR>Slowly.<BR><BR><BR>That's it. Everything I
have just said is true.<BR><BR><BR>While I recognize that most of you won't
believe my assertion, occasionally,<BR>with appropriate security
considerations, I do provide demonstrations. In<BR>fact I assume that
a certain MIT prof, a good friend of mine, will decide to<BR>accept my offer
eventually. The reason he is afraid to at present, is that<BR>he
doesn't want to be the target of people, probably many of you, who would<BR>
flame him for not disclosing the basis of operation. And frankly,
while I<BR>know many people, I have learned over the years that trust is a
fragile<BR>thing and that I would be taking a foolish risk were I to trust
lot's of<BR>people.<BR><BR><BR>I did promise one individual who posts here a
demo. I have not heard back<BR>from him. I hope to. But it
will be done privately and I doubt that he<BR>will want to advertise
anything. In fact, I promise that person complete<BR>anonomnity.
I will not break my word. If anyone finds out about my offer,<BR>it
will be him who tell's others -- not me.<BR><BR><BR>I've discovered that
what I thought as a young engineering student ain't<BR>true -- it's not
always a good idea to give the mass'es a better life. Some<BR>of them
are jerks. Our job is not to join 'em.<BR><BR><BR>Before all this
happened, I had thought about offering to do a demo at MIT<BR>for BLU, but
security would be a huge problem.<BR><BR>Occasionally I do one but never
under circumsntaces where it's coneeivable<BR>someone could rush up and
steal a floppy and run for it. I just have too<BR>much to lose.
And 2-3 years ago, when I discovered BLU I thought about<BR>scheduling one
on another subject but then, shelving that topic and giving a<BR>repeatable
compression demo. I tried to schedule a demo for aiTRAN (a<BR>computer
algebra system I developed for programer's,) but couldn't get the<BR>leader
person (I forget his name,) to plug me in.<BR><BR>Just as well, especially
now...<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>
From: "Anthony Gabrielson" <<A href="mailto:agabriel@home.tzo.org">
agabriel@home.tzo.org</A>><BR>To: "Ryan L. Kitchen" <<A
href="mailto:rkitchen@coe.neu.edu">rkitchen@coe.neu.edu</A>><BR>Cc:
<<A href="mailto:discuss@blu.org">discuss@blu.org</A>><BR>Sent:
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:42 PM<BR>Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: I need someone
to put machine's together, to build<BR>the rack, to do the wiring, all this
stuff.]<BR><BR><BR>> Ryan,<BR>> You realize its his plot to take over
the world right moohaa :)<BR>> Maybe if we point and laugh at him he will
go away.<BR>><BR>> I apologize for the off topic flaming nature of
this reply - I have slapt<BR>> my wrists appropriately...<BR>><BR>>
Anthony<BR>><BR>> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ryan L. Kitchen wrote:<BR>
><BR>> ><BR>> > I know many of you folks who use BLU are
aggravated by these spam like<BR>> > messages, but this Jules Gilbert
post was pretty much the funniest thing<BR>> > ever.<BR>> ><BR>
> > I read it, and immediately several things came to mind, the first
of<BR>which<BR>> > was this was either a) a scam or b) the biggest
moronic plot ever or c)<BR>some<BR>> > weird combo of the two.<BR>>
><BR>> > I thought about welcoming Jules to threaten me and
otherwise begin a<BR>long<BR>> > drawn out battle (not on blu of
course).<BR>> > It would give me an excuse to put up a webpage, where
others can then<BR>come<BR>> > and laugh at him, and otherwise
belittle the person. Ultimately, I<BR>decided<BR>> > while this would
be fun, it probably isn't worth my town. So instead,<BR>> > I thought
I would just welcome you all to sit back and laugh at this<BR>> >
pathetic human being :)<BR>> ><BR>> > -----Original
Message-----<BR>> > From: <A href="mailto:discuss-admin@blu.org">
discuss-admin@blu.org</A> [mailto:discuss-admin@blu.org] On Behalf Of<BR>
> > David Kramer<BR>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:25
PM<BR>> > To: <A href="mailto:discuss@blu.org">discuss@blu.org</A><BR>
> > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: I need someone to put machine's together,
to<BR>build<BR>> > the rack, to do the wiring, all this stuff.]<BR>
> ><BR>> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Derek Martin wrote:<BR>>
><BR>> > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:55:47PM -0400, Eric
wrote:<BR>> > > > Another thing, I have never said that I've
used Linux since 1991.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > You most
certainly did.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > <A
href="http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-August/046440.html">
http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-August/046440.html</A><BR>>
><BR>> > No, he's right. He said he used Linux IN 1991, not
SINCE 1991. Reread<BR>> > that email. Not that any of us
believe that either, but we cannot<BR>> > prove/disprove that.<BR>>
><BR>> > > I can't speak for any e-mail that you traded
personally, but I have<BR>> > > found your posts to be suspect and
inappropriate. For example,<BR>> > > posting of Microsoft
supposed stock quotes from the future...<BR>> > > I don't know by
what means you purport to know said prices, but<BR>> > > posting
future stock prices is completely unrelated to Linux or Unix,<BR>> >
> and also either a) bull or b) illegal, so it doesn't belong here.<BR>
> ><BR>> > ... and the estimate was wrong, to boot.<BR>>
><BR>> > > Quite frankly, while I was not vocal about it, after
reading your<BR>> > > other posts to the list, I also had a first
impression that your<BR>> > > request for help was some kind of
scam. I can't know if it is, nor<BR>> > > can I know whether
you really have such systems, nor if you ever will;<BR>> > > what I
can tell you is that based on your posts here to date, I<BR>> > >
consider you a Troll at best, and probably untrustworthy. I also<BR>
> > > think that threatening to sue one of the mailing list members
-- much<BR>> > > less actually doing so -- for stating their
opinion of you on a public<BR>> > > mailing list is petty,
childish, inane, unwarranted, and doesn't help<BR>> > > your image
much. If you actually find someone from this list who is<BR>> >
> willing to help you, I'll be surprised.<BR>> ><BR>> > I am
going to list some resources for finding out more information on<BR>>
> Jules Gilbert. I make no statements to my opinion of him by doing
so;<BR>> > merely listing some information for others to form their
own opinion.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR><A
href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Jules+Gilbert&btnG=Sear">
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Jules+Gilbert&btnG=Sear</A>
<BR>> > ch&meta=<BR>> ><BR><A
href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Jules+Gilbert&btnG=Sear">
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Jules+Gilbert&btnG=Sear</A>
<BR>> > ch&meta=<BR>> ><BR><A
href="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Jules+Gilbert&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3f8b">
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Jules+Gilbert&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3f8b</A>
<BR>> > fbd6.50906937%40news.wanadoo.nl&rnum=2<BR>> ><BR>
> > I am also going to state, for a fact, as documented on the links
above,<BR>> > that Jules Gilbert has threatened in public forums to
sue several people<BR>> > who have disagreed with him or questioned
him in those forums.<BR>> ><BR>> > I have had personal dealings
with Jules Gilbert, which I will not<BR>discuss<BR>> > here, other
than to say that I ended those dealings in short order.<BR>> ><BR>>
> All of the above is fact, and can be proven.<BR>> ><BR>> >
I, personally, would hate to see someone censored or removed from this<BR>
> > mailing list, but I also feel that it is only fair (and safer)
that the<BR>> > members of this list have background information on
this situation.<BR>> ><BR>> > -- <BR>> > DDDD<BR>> >
DK KD An optimist thinks the glass is half full.<BR>> > DKK
D A pessimist thinks a glass is half empty.<BR>> > DK KD
The software engineer thinks the glass is twice as big<BR>> >
DDDD as it needs to
be.
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