From lsilva@delphi.com Tue Dec 03 07:45:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!lsilva From: lsilva@delphi.com (Lars Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec03.074543.2229@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 07:45:43 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Lars Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From thughes@stanford.edu Wed Dec 04 16:16:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!thughes From: thughes@stanford.edu (Tomas Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec04.161643.7039@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:16:43 GMT References: <1996Dec03.074543.2229@delphi.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec03.074543.2229@delphi.com>, lsilva@delphi.com (Lars Silva) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- === Tomas Hughes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "They will send a copy in my place." From mgonzalez@mit.edu Wed Dec 04 17:01:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@mit.edu (Mikhail González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec04.170143.2505@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 17:01:43 GMT References: <1996Dec03.074543.2229@delphi.com> <1996Dec04.161643.7039@stanford.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec04.161643.7039@stanford.edu>, thughes@stanford.edu (Tomas Hughes) writes: > Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- === Mikhail González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "They will send a copy in my place." From hgirard@stanford.edu Thu Dec 05 20:50:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!hgirard From: hgirard@stanford.edu (Heather Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec05.205043.9164@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 20:50:43 GMT References: <1996Dec03.074543.2229@delphi.com> <1996Dec04.161643.7039@stanford.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec04.161643.7039@stanford.edu>, thughes@stanford.edu (Tomas Hughes) writes: > Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- Heather Girard "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / FreeBSD 2.1