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Ryan, of course I don't appreciate your remarks, but I direct this letter at the group, and not particularly at you. First, the statements I have made are truthful and accurate in all respects. ================================================ The only thing I should say, since some of you have looked up my past work, is that while my compression technology is real, it probably is not practical, as in running on the X86 chip in a PC. With the addition of a dedicated card with a VLSI chip, that would make it quite practical and probably heavily used. And trust me, I've spoken to VC's, it's not a clear win -- because new computer technology is quite difficult to 'own', it seems to leak and spread. And in case you haven't noticed, intellectual property is the next big thing in computing. Protecting it that is... It is certainly true that this claim is robust and that many observers think I am either a fraud or mistaken. But the fact is, while I don't have a system (a compressor and decompressor) that will compete with say, ARJ, or PKZIP, I do have a system that compress'es files and then, at a 'receiver' site, decompresses the file. And this system does meet my basic claim, that I can compress a file several times, recompressing the output from the prior stage. Slowly. That's it. Everything I have just said is true. While I recognize that most of you won't believe my assertion, occasionally, with appropriate security considerations, I do provide demonstrations. In fact I assume that a certain MIT prof, a good friend of mine, will decide to accept my offer eventually. The reason he is afraid to at present, is that he doesn't want to be the target of people, probably many of you, who would flame him for not disclosing the basis of operation. And frankly, while I know many people, I have learned over the years that trust is a fragile thing and that I would be taking a foolish risk were I to trust lot's of people. I did promise one individual who posts here a demo. I have not heard back from him. I hope to. But it will be done privately and I doubt that he will want to advertise anything. In fact, I promise that person complete anonomnity. I will not break my word. If anyone finds out about my offer, it will be him who tell's others -- not me. I've discovered that what I thought as a young engineering student ain't true -- it's not always a good idea to give the mass'es a better life. Some of them are jerks. Our job is not to join 'em. Before all this happened, I had thought about offering to do a demo at MIT for BLU, but security would be a huge problem. Occasionally I do one but never under circumsntaces where it's coneeivable someone could rush up and steal a floppy and run for it. I just have too much to lose. And 2-3 years ago, when I discovered BLU I thought about scheduling one on another subject but then, shelving that topic and giving a repeatable compression demo. I tried to schedule a demo for aiTRAN (a computer algebra system I developed for programer's,) but couldn't get the leader person (I forget his name,) to plug me in. Just as well, especially now... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Gabrielson" <agabriel at home.tzo.org> To: "Ryan L. Kitchen" <rkitchen at coe.neu.edu> Cc: <discuss at blu.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:42 PM Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: I need someone to put machine's together, to build the rack, to do the wiring, all this stuff.] > Ryan, > You realize its his plot to take over the world right moohaa :) > Maybe if we point and laugh at him he will go away. > > I apologize for the off topic flaming nature of this reply - I have slapt > my wrists appropriately... > > Anthony > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ryan L. Kitchen wrote: > > > > > I know many of you folks who use BLU are aggravated by these spam like > > messages, but this Jules Gilbert post was pretty much the funniest thing > > ever. > > > > I read it, and immediately several things came to mind, the first of which > > was this was either a) a scam or b) the biggest moronic plot ever or c) some > > weird combo of the two. > > > > I thought about welcoming Jules to threaten me and otherwise begin a long > > drawn out battle (not on blu of course). > > It would give me an excuse to put up a webpage, where others can then come > > and laugh at him, and otherwise belittle the person. Ultimately, I decided > > while this would be fun, it probably isn't worth my town. So instead, > > I thought I would just welcome you all to sit back and laugh at this > > pathetic human being :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org] On Behalf Of > > David Kramer > > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:25 PM > > To: discuss at blu.org > > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: I need someone to put machine's together, to build > > the rack, to do the wiring, all this stuff.] > > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Derek Martin wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:55:47PM -0400, Eric wrote: > > > > Another thing, I have never said that I've used Linux since 1991. > > > > > > You most certainly did. > > > > > > http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-August/046440.html > > > > No, he's right. He said he used Linux IN 1991, not SINCE 1991. Reread > > that email. Not that any of us believe that either, but we cannot > > prove/disprove that. > > > > > I can't speak for any e-mail that you traded personally, but I have > > > found your posts to be suspect and inappropriate. For example, > > > posting of Microsoft supposed stock quotes from the future... > > > I don't know by what means you purport to know said prices, but > > > posting future stock prices is completely unrelated to Linux or Unix, > > > and also either a) bull or b) illegal, so it doesn't belong here. > > > > ... and the estimate was wrong, to boot. > > > > > Quite frankly, while I was not vocal about it, after reading your > > > other posts to the list, I also had a first impression that your > > > request for help was some kind of scam. I can't know if it is, nor > > > can I know whether you really have such systems, nor if you ever will; > > > what I can tell you is that based on your posts here to date, I > > > consider you a Troll at best, and probably untrustworthy. I also > > > think that threatening to sue one of the mailing list members -- much > > > less actually doing so -- for stating their opinion of you on a public > > > mailing list is petty, childish, inane, unwarranted, and doesn't help > > > your image much. If you actually find someone from this list who is > > > willing to help you, I'll be surprised. > > > > I am going to list some resources for finding out more information on > > Jules Gilbert. I make no statements to my opinion of him by doing so; > > merely listing some information for others to form their own opinion. > > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Jules+Gilbert&btnG=Sear > > ch&meta= > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Jules+Gilbert&btnG=Sear > > ch&meta= > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Jules+Gilbert&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3f8b > > fbd6.50906937%40news.wanadoo.nl&rnum=2 > > > > I am also going to state, for a fact, as documented on the links above, > > that Jules Gilbert has threatened in public forums to sue several people > > who have disagreed with him or questioned him in those forums. > > > > I have had personal dealings with Jules Gilbert, which I will not discuss > > here, other than to say that I ended those dealings in short order. > > > > All of the above is fact, and can be proven. > > > > I, personally, would hate to see someone censored or removed from this > > mailing list, but I also feel that it is only fair (and safer) that the > > members of this list have background information on this situation. > > > > -- > > DDDD > > DK KD An optimist thinks the glass is half full. > > DKK D A pessimist thinks a glass is half empty. > > DK KD The software engineer thinks the glass is twice as big > > DDDD as it needs to be. Colin Walls > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss at blu.org > > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss at blu.org > > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040811/9a3d17b6/attachment.html>
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