http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/4006271 ... ond-conman
Judge David McKegg will tomorrow sentence a Richmond businessman convicted in Nelson District Court of cheating investors out of $5.3 million by claiming he had invented a revolutionary form of data compression - a key issue in computing.
The investments were based on Whitley's claims to investors that he had invented and patented a revolutionary "lossless" method of compressing data.
If the technology was genuine it would have been worth billions of dollars.
A cautionary tail
Its "tale", not "tail". A tail would be a thing attached to a dog.
Otherwise, I agree, dont believe everything people tell you without a) understanding what they are claiming, b) having it reviewed by someone who does understand it and generally questioning their claims.
Some people are so gullible. That is why the nigerians still spam arround asking people to help them with the transaction of billions of dollars...
Sometimes I am wondering whether people that are that stupid really dont deserve any better though. When I look arround my hometown, where I see one casino, one gambling place, one strip club and one "contact bar" next to each other, I sometimes get the feeling that people really want this and deserve this. Maybe they really deserve getting ripped off like that.
Otherwise, I agree, dont believe everything people tell you without a) understanding what they are claiming, b) having it reviewed by someone who does understand it and generally questioning their claims.
Some people are so gullible. That is why the nigerians still spam arround asking people to help them with the transaction of billions of dollars...
Sometimes I am wondering whether people that are that stupid really dont deserve any better though. When I look arround my hometown, where I see one casino, one gambling place, one strip club and one "contact bar" next to each other, I sometimes get the feeling that people really want this and deserve this. Maybe they really deserve getting ripped off like that.
The monkey was going through the forest, jumping from tree to tree, having fun, when suddenly he heard a voice behind him say, "Watch out, that branch is rotten!"
The advice was just in time, and he was able to grab a second branch as the first broke.
"Who said that?"
"Oh, it's just me. I'm a cautionary tail," said his tail.
The advice was just in time, and he was able to grab a second branch as the first broke.
"Who said that?"
"Oh, it's just me. I'm a cautionary tail," said his tail.
Wandering Kernel of Happiness
I'll start to worry if they begin to offer low interest no collateral loans for a few of my pet projects.That is why the nigerians still spam arround asking people to help them with the transaction of billions of dollars...
Of course the loan arranger will need a fee.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
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The energy and propulsion fields are both full of this sort of stuff. There are dozens of active scams running at any given moment. The Searle scam has been running for years and years now, as has the Russian version of the same. Some are treading the line and hard to understand even over time. I still don't know what's with Steorn or EEStor.
Steorn should have been dead by now. Didn't they do Puthoff's "One-Watt Challenge"? Odd what must be happening to keep it alive.
Steorn should have been dead by now. Didn't they do Puthoff's "One-Watt Challenge"? Odd what must be happening to keep it alive.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
You gentlemen are obviously incompetent. I can compress TWO multigiabyte messages into one bit.
Any one want to raise some money for my latest advance in the field?
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I see Dan beat me to it. What more proof is needed?
Any one want to raise some money for my latest advance in the field?
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I see Dan beat me to it. What more proof is needed?
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Anyone for a googolplex of gigabytes?
And just how big is that anyway? How many bytes?
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Googolplex
And another question, "How long would it take for the fastest processor to write googolplex to high speed memory?" That is, without using scientific notation.
And just how big is that anyway? How many bytes?
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Googolplex
And another question, "How long would it take for the fastest processor to write googolplex to high speed memory?" That is, without using scientific notation.
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