From hkarlsson@demon.co.uk Sun Feb 12 02:10:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!hkarlsson From: hkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Heather Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Feb12.021024.9338@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 02:10:24 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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.' 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Heather Karlsson "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From kstewart@cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 13 20:10:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!kstewart From: kstewart@cam.ac.uk (Kirsty Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Feb13.201024.6886@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 20:10:24 GMT References: <1995Feb12.021024.9338@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb12.021024.9338@demon.co.uk>, hkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Heather Karlsson) writes: > 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.' Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Kirsty Stewart "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Macintosh IIfx / FreeBSD 2.1 From jkarlsson@uu.net Wed Feb 15 19:07:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!jkarlsson From: jkarlsson@uu.net (Jen Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Feb15.190724.8930@uu.net> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:07:24 GMT References: <1995Feb12.021024.9338@demon.co.uk> <1995Feb13.201024.6886@cam.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb13.201024.6886@cam.ac.uk>, kstewart@cam.ac.uk (Kirsty Stewart) writes: > Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Jen Karlsson "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Decstation 5000/200 / Linux 1.2.13