From dcampbell@illinois.edu Sat Jan 07 21:05:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!dcampbell From: dcampbell@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 21:05:01 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' They didn't want a pop star. They wanted an immortal corporate asset that could never sue for royalties, age, or OD in a hotel room. -- === Dong-hyun Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mpark@unam.mx Sun Jan 08 15:38:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!mpark From: mpark@unam.mx (Mateo Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan08.153801.9357@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 15:38:01 GMT References: <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu>, dcampbell@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Campbell) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- === Mateo Park === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From vsokolov@kiae.su Tue Jan 10 11:10:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!vsokolov From: vsokolov@kiae.su (Valeria Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan10.111001.7930@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 11:10:01 GMT References: <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu>, dcampbell@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Campbell) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- Valeria Sokolov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From rramirez@berkeley.edu Wed Jan 11 03:03:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!rramirez From: rramirez@berkeley.edu (Renata Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan11.030301.3218@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 03:03:01 GMT References: <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu> <1995Jan10.111001.7930@kiae.su> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan10.111001.7930@kiae.su>, vsokolov@kiae.su (Valeria Sokolov) writes: > The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Renata Ramírez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lmuller@hanse.de Thu Jan 12 21:07:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!lmuller From: lmuller@hanse.de (Liam Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jan12.210701.6456@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:07:01 GMT References: <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan07.210501.5853@illinois.edu>, dcampbell@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Campbell) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > '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. -- Liam Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0