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

[Christie Dudley]

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
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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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