November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Re: Weizmann Institute Amazes World Again
by Eric Cordian 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

Tim wrote: > Sounds like the same DNA computing that Adleman was doing several years > ago. As I recall, Adleman's DNA actually chugged away in a test tube computing Hamiltonian Paths. I look forward to news of Shapiro's DNA doing something similarly useful. > A good thing the Department of Hype was brought in to co-author the > scientific press releases. My favorite Weizmann Institute press release was the one about their amazing discovery that electrons in a double slit experiment do not produce an interference pattern when you observe which slit they go through. (E. Buks et al., Nature, 26 Feb. 1998.) Vulis lampooned this in a very funny spoof, in which the "Weizmann Institute" announced the "amazing result" of a similar experiment with photons. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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by Eugene Leitl 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:37:50 -0500 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10. >Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:28 -0600 >From: gep2(a)terabites.com >Subject: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10. >To: dallasdemocrats(a)egroups.com, dave(a)farber.net >X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 > >Here's a disturbing story from today's New York Times: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/national/21BOOK.html?todaysheadlines > >I sure hope that the government is investigating and following each and every >person who buys a copy of this book... I wonder if there's a way to force >Tobiason to foot the bill for that security? > >In any case, jerks like this clearly aren't helping to keep our nation >secure... >if anything, crap like this will make our government MORE repressive (not >less). > >[quote] > >November 21, 2001 > >THE HOW-TO BOOK >In Utah, a Government Hater Sells a Germ-Warfare Book > >By PAUL ZIELBAUER with WILLIAM J. BROAD > >SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19 At the "Crossroads of the West" gun show here last >weekend, weapons dealers sold semi- automatic rifles and custom-made pistols, >and ammunition wholesalers unloaded bullets by the case. But perhaps the most >fearsome weapon for sale in the cavernous, crowded exposition center was a >book. > >Next to the Indian handicraft booth, Timothy W. Tobiason was selling >printed and >CD copies of his book, "Scientific Principles of Improvised Warfare and Home >Defense Volume 6-1: Advanced Biological Weapons Design and Manufacture," a >germ-warfare cookbook that bioterrorism experts say is accurate enough to be >dangerous. > >Mr. Tobiason, an agricultural-chemicals entrepreneur from Nebraska with a >bitter >hatred for the government, said he sold about 2,000 copies of his >self-published >book a year as he moved from gun show to gun show across America. The book, >which includes directions for making "mail delivered" anthrax, suggests >that the >knowledge necessary to start an anthrax attack like the one that has >terrorized >the East Coast is readily accessible. <snip> For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/

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Weizmann Institute Amazes World Again
by Eric Cordian 22 Nov '01

22 Nov '01

You know, when I saw the headline for this story, the words "Weizmann Institute" immediately leaped into my head. It's just that certain something about Weizmann Institute press releases that reminds me of University of Utah press conferences back in the days of Cold Fusion. In any case, the folks at the Weizmann Institute are now claiming to have developed the "trillion would fit in a test tube" DNA computer. http://in.news.yahoo.com/011121/107/199x5.html ----- LONDON (Reuters) - Following Mother Nature's lead, Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy. Instead of using figures and formulas to solve a problem, the microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information in living organisms. Scientists see such DNA computers as future competitors to for their more conventional cousins because miniaturisation is reaching its limits and DNA has the potential to be much faster than conventional computers. "We have built a nanoscale computer made of biomolecules that is so small you cannot run them one at a time. When a trillion computers run together they are capable of performing a billion operations," Professor Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute in Israel told Reuters on Wednesday. It is the first programmable autonomous computing machine in which the input, output, software and hardware are all made of biomolecules. Although too simple to have any immediate applications it could form the basis of a DNA computer in the future that could potentially operate within human cells and act as a monitoring device to detect potentially disease-causing changes and synthesise drugs to fix them. The model could also form the basis of computers that could be used to screen DNA libraries in parallel without sequencing each molecule, which could speed up the acquisition of knowledge about DNA. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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21 Nov '01

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by Anonymous 21 Nov '01

21 Nov '01

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