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New quotes for Tue Jan 24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Tue Jan 24 04:02:48 1995
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 04:01:42 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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alitass (Mohammad Ali Tassoudji):
Ali Tassoudji
Qualcomm, Inc
6455 Lusk Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121
alit@qualcomm.com
(619) 658-3153
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connolly (Christopher I Connolly):
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dankatz (Daniel Katz):
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edwang (Cheuk-San Wang):
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
toys: N-scale railroad. Small bits on my web page already...
68hc11 microcontroller board is functioning now...
awful news quotes:
The Times said the security warning to be issued Monday will
include a list of brands of computers that can use a
program to protect against the new attack, which is called
IP, or Internet protocol.
even worse:
The winner is Kevin Kwaku, who suggested that while the Information
Superhighway is a bad name, it could be a great acronym, standing for:
"Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing,
And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleasing Practically
Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And
Yahoos."
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
Found on a vax that'd been turned off since 1991. It's amazing the junk
people store around here.
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It's common knowledge that whenever you get two or more CS grad students
together, the conversation will inevitably drift to the same topic:
automatic weapons. Lately, we've noticed that whenever we attend a CS
party, picnic, or bullsession, we always hear the same questions and
discussions, usually from the younger grad students:
"When I switched from guncotton to standard ball powder on my .223 loads,
the gas ports on my M16 would clog like you wouldn't believe. Steer clear
of that stuff."
"You haven't cleared an ejection port jam until you've cleared one in
the Hill district at 4:00 AM on a Saturday morning."
"I want to mount an M60 in front of the sun roof of my Tercel, but
the mounting bracket wasn't drilled for import cars. How did Josh
Bloch do his?"
"What exactly are those special 'conference rounds' that Newell hand loads
before AAAI every year?"
"Some of my friends at the MIT AI Lab don't like M203's because the
grenade launcher adds too much weight, but I wouldn't have gotten
out of IJCAI-85 in one piece if it hadn't been for those 40mm flechette
rounds. What do you think?"
"Do you have to be a god-damned tenured professor to get teflon rounds
at this place?"
"Does the 'reasonable person principle' cover hosing down a member
of the Soar project after he's used the phrase 'cognitively plausible'
for the fifteenth time in a 20 minute conference talk?"
"Where *did* Prof. Vrsalovic get that Kalashnikov AK-47?"
"I used to use Dri-Slide to lube my M16. How come my advisor says
Dri-Slide is for momma's boys and Stanford profs?"
"Does the way Jon Webb keeps flicking the safety of his Mac-10 on
and off at thesis defenses make you nervous, too?"
In short, there is a lot of concern in this department for the proper
care, handling and etiquette of automatic weapons. So as a service to
the department, we are starting a two week daily series on "The Care and
Handling of Your M16A1." Every day for the next two weeks, we will post
on the wall outside our office the day's helpful hint on care and
maintenance of that good old departmental standby: the M16A1. Our
thanks to the US Army, whose training manuals we have shamelessly
cribbed for material.
We would like to encourage other knowledgeable members of the CS
community to share their expertise in a similar fashion. There is a
real need for this kind of dialogue in the department. The new students
come in here every fall, and are totally unequipped to handle the
realities of graduate student life at CMU. Computability theory and
lexical scoping are fine things to know about, but they just don't cut
the mustard when somebody from the Psych department opens up on you with
an Ingram set to full auto.
-the friendly automatic weapons enthusiasts of SkyCave1,
Olin, Derek, and Allan
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