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Date: 7 October 1980 00:29 edt
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From: SSteinberg.SoftArts at MIT-Multics (SAS at SAI-Prime)
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Subject: network bugs?
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Sender: COMSAT.SoftArts at MIT-Multics
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To: dlw at MIT-AI
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Message-ID: <801007042955.031045 at MIT-Multics>
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I think BBN must have been trying out a new algorithm which optimizes
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space time geodisics because this wound up in my mailbox. It seems
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like you sent (or rather will send) this in the late 80's but otherwise
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I don't know what to make of it. Feel free to retransmit it since you
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obviously transmitted (will transmitted) it the first time?
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*** SPOILER WARNING ***
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The following messages contain information from the future which by
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basic causality we aren't supposed to be able to know about so if you
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are at all worried about the fabric of the universe do not read on.
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*** SPOILER WARNING ***
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Lauren Digest Friday, October 8, 1988 Volume 2: Number 37
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Today's Topics: DOE Hearings, Latin SF,
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BankNet-Protocols and the Third World,
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New Host - My Summer Home, SW17,
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Raising My Quota, Undercover Software
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________________________________________________________________
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Date: 8 October 1988 0211-PDT (Friday)
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Dirac goes to D.C.
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I was in D.C. the other week and right after the 3AM Quick Death
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Chiller Feature about a used car salesman who takes over Miami Beach
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with a group of crazed gas guzzlers (which had been pronounced
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extinct by an eminent scientist who wore a Johnny Seven helmet and
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Saran Wrap) I was able to pick up some reruns on the internal
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Congressional TV Network by pouring a coke with ice into the motel
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TV set. Sure enough it was a classified DOE hearing with some crazy
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physicist muttering about changing little c and big G. Apparantly a
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change of big G by as little as 0.0000001% would immediately end our
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need to import oil and a change of about 0.000001% would end our
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need to pump any oil, drill coal, chop wood or anything except eat
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about a teaspoon of sugar a day. Dirac claimed that $37.8 billion
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dollars would allow him to change G enough to test out the basic
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hypothesis. The next witness was a big red guy with pointy ears
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who kept jumping up and down pointing at things with his pitchfork.
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Does anyone know if Dirac has finally gone bonkers or if his numbers
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correct. My calculations show that the local Ricci tensor changes
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would probably cost closer to $573.2 billion dollars and would only
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last for about 50 years before everything settled down again.
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________________
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Date: 8 October 1988 0211-PDT (Friday)
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: SF and the old school
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I was reading Timon's latest book "Who Watches These ..." which
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is a eerie negative utopian story about three people who try to
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escape from a world in which rational events occur. Apparantly
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they become incapable of predicting the future which drives the
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ruling hierarchy to send the feared gladiators after them. They
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manage to escape to modern New York City where they are accused
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of stealing several priceless artifacts and become celebrities.
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It is kind of an ordinary story but very well written in Modern
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Church Latin. It is published by Cave de Vatican Press and is
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a bit hard to find as are most of Timon's books. Does anyone
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have any idea where I could get a copy of his "Nothing Begets
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Nothing"? Also, why does he choose English titles? One
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story I heard is that he is a shoe salesman in Detroit.
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________________
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Date: 7 October 1988 1751-PDT (Thursday)
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: BankNet
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A friend of mine has just gotten a hookup to the new BankNet
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which now covers Bolivia where she works and is interested in knowing
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if anyone has ever used their new Cash Transfer Protocol which is
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unlike anything she or anyone else in Bolivia has ever seen.
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She sent me a copy of the 4 pages of documentation in Spanish
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and it seems to be related to the CMU Cheese Transfer Protocol
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except with lots of security stuff added. The virtual lawyer feature
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is kind of obscure.
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________________
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Date: 7 October 1988 1134-PDT (Thursday)
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Growing the ARPANET
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I have finally gotten an ARPANET connection in my summer home in
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Arizona! My friend and I have finally figured out how to use the
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reverse carrier on the 1.8M-volt lines they ran from downtown LA
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to Pacific's newest solar power collector. You can send me net
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mail directly via socket 3616257652\4686815.00001 or to
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Lauren@SOLPOWHACK. (Thanks to Brian Lloyd and Dr. Forward for figuring
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out how big a capacitor I needed and Jake Feinler for helping to
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spread the word.
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________________
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Date: 6 October 1988 0334-PDT (Thursday):
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: SW17
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I was waiting on line at the MegaMart down the block behind some turkey
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trying to cash a $3.5E6 IMF Non-Imfundable Security and as usual the
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checkout guy couldn't figure out the redemption form so they ran off
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to the back room while I cooled my heels and watched my ice cream melt.
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I noticed this guy had left a folder marked only SW17 on the counter
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along with the head of lettuce and can of pork and beans he was buying.
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I couldn't resist and managed to read most of the Star Wars Number 17
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script which is being produced by the Paramount Division of LucasFilms.
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Starting with the next newsletter I will offer a serialized plot summary
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along with an appropriate SPOILER WARNING.
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________________
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Date: 6 October 1988 1034-PDT (Thursday)
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: More packet quota!
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I need more quota - 1.6M-bytes per day is not enough. How can
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I answer my net mail?
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________________
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Date: 6 October 1988 0627-PDT (Thursday)
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From: Lauren at UCLA-Security (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Undercover Software
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Anyone know anything about this NET-Reuters frobbie:
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WASHINGTON DC - Mid-level officials in the recently revealed
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XCT super-secret security and intelligence branch which was
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created when the CIA was being gutted revealed that IBM's
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OS/370 releases 4542.97A and up were sent to the Soviet Union
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along with an undercover package known only as "The Program
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With a Thousand Phases". This package was used to smuggle out
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military secrets and civil data by means which have not yet
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been revealed.
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I have heard that the program they were talking about started out
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as an overlay in the SYSGEN module and was capable of disguising
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itself as a COBOL or Fortran 77 compiler. Furthermore it could
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run on any 360 series machine or any American, French, British or
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West German PBX! Did it use reference counts for register optimization?
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________________
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