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

[Crutcher Dunnavant]

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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