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Message no. 1
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: [OT] CMOS batteries (was Re: Sniper rifles)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 10:51:26 -0500
At 12:28 PM 12/31/97 +0100, Gurth wrote these timeless words:
>George H Metz said on 16:40/30 Dec 97...
>
>> Fine, twist my arm, why don't you! =) It's been changed, but I was
>> wondering if anyone knew WHY it might be running slow? Dying CMOS battery
>> a possibility?
>
>That is what I expected. Didn't you have the same defect before, BTW, or
>was that someone else?
>
Might have been me... My CMOS is actually dead... I don't turn my
computer off anymore, simply so I don;t hvae to reset the clock! :]

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Message no. 2
From: Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: [OT] CMOS batteries (was Re: Sniper rifles)
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:26:59 -0500
But, the ammount of Mp needed will still be huge. I'd cut Gurth's
number in half.

/ > Also, in your collective opinions, could you "zip" a brain?
/
/ IMHO you could zip his memories (thereby forcing him to do without those
/ unless he spends a little time to unzip the ones he needs), but not the
/ part of the brain that does the actual thinking -- try zipping an exe file
/ and running it while it's still in the zip file, for example. For ease,
/ I'd give it 50% compression.

The brain already zips memories. I'd allow another 10% reduction at
most. As for the active thought process, I'd allow a 10% reduction
due to the complexity of human thought.

Also, I'd have Bull suffer a little because I don't feel that it
would be possible to do a 100% transfer of memory and personality to
computer. When he ends up in his new body I'd drop his mental stats
due to this, and maybe give him a couple personality quirks.

/ > Would it be easier/safer for Bull to simply place his meat brain on life
/ > support and the do a direct transfer?

In a sense, yes. Per Cybertechnology(?) they can replace your torso
and body with a cybertorso and cyberlimbs. So, that means that they
can put a brain/head on life support. It then follows that the
technology and knowledge exists to put someone's brain in someone
else's body (you'd probably have to take medicine for the rest of
your life to keep the body from rejecting the brain). Since Bull's
brai

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