[Noisebridge-discuss] deep crack announcement .. tax issue/

[Tom Longson (nym)]

Computer museum makes so much more sense to me if this is a historical
marker in computing, which it sound like it is.

Cheers,
Tom Longson (nym)
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robots++
>
> I have to agree that the museum in SJ would get more use out of this.
> Although a small amount of time with the machine sounds groovy, we don't
> have infinite space, time or energy to move it in and out, etc.
>
> Christie
> ---
> Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.
>     - RFC 1925
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I specifically asked about redirecting it to the Computer History Museum
>> during the meeting. There was no response then, but I still think its a good
>> idea.
>> More to the point ... the idea is to place 6 racks worth of computer that
>> we can't afford to run, that we can't repair, and that we must maintain
>> access control too, in Noisebridge?
>>
>> It sounds like we're begging for someone to make a giant robot out of it.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps the right place for this machine is to have it kept as a
>>> historical item of value -- at the Computer History Museum in San
>>> Jose.   It did something remarkable, and will be remembered in the
>>> time of Quantum Computing as our best attempt at parallel computing
>>> for a specific task.
>>>
>>> What do y'all think?
>>>
>>> -Martin
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>> Announce: Deep Crack offered to NB. Fastest (non-classified) 3DES
>>> >>> cracker.
>>> >
>>> > This makes me happy.
>>> >
>>> >>> Non repurposable. US citizen use only. Claimed value $250k.
>>> >>> Takes a lot of power, six racks worth of stuff, needs a truck.
>>> >
>>> > This makes me sad.
>>> >
>>> > I'd be right behind just having the thing as furniture/talking point,
>>> > to be honest. If there's no power, there's no issue with
>>> > non-US-citizen use, right? And is there anything interesting in the
>>> > way of legitimate research left to do in this space anyway? If we want
>>> > to run demos with it (which we obviously would), we could take some
>>> > care with the legalities while it was running and otherwise enjoy its
>>> > silent hulking presence.
>>> >
>>> > m.
>>> >
>>> >>> (Talk
>>> >>> to Jake)
>>> >>
>>> >> Does accepting such a high-value donation have any tax implications
>>> for NB?
>>> >>
>>> >> -Martin
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