* * * * *

                           fycrdthsy2cnwrktzeosync

My associate [1] just wrote in again about ZeoSync [2] and their claims for
exceeding Claud Shannon's theoretical limits for compression. I'm keeping the
identity of the associate secret  mostly for protection if this does fall out
as a hoax, but anyway, my associate writes (and I have permission to quote
this):

> I am still undecided on how valid their claims are. They seem to have toned
> them down a little. Typical academics.
>
> Slashdot [3] is still battering the shit out of them, but I highly suspect
> that but I could be wrong. I'm not enough of a data compression [expert] to
> say one way or the other.
>
> Their algorithm certainly is interesting, it's just too damn slow to
> implement if you ask me—and I'm talking silicon here, not software.
>

Amusing. It may just have to wait until quantum computing becomes a reality
before the algorithm can probably be implemented in any reasonable amount of
time. And that is pure conjecture on my part.

I also find it iteresting that one of the scientists mentioned, Borko Furht
[4] (who's page was last modifed on Wednesday, January 2^nd, 2002) that he
hasn't even mentioned working at or for ZeoSync. I would think that something
this revolutionary would be worthy of mention.

Hmmmmmmm …

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/01/09.1
[2] http://www.zeosync.com/
[3] http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/14/1324218.shtml
[4] http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/

Email author at [email protected]

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.conman.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.