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From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Public Access Sites -- concerns, problems, and precedents
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Date: 17 Jun 91 15:31:34 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

>Some questions for the field:
[...]
>1)	What, today, is the state of the law with regards to public-access
>	systems?  Is the "Jolnet/RIPCO/SJG" paradigm what I should expect of
>	our public officials today?  If not, what IS?
[...]

[warning: sarcasm]

As a PhD candidate of the subfield of artificial intelligence called
machine learning, I think I uniquely qualified to address your
concerns.  Machine learning covers many topics including neural nets.
My area is the automatic creation of expert systems based on
classified examples.

I have given a description of all the cases and their outcome to
PLS-LISP, a machine learning program related to the better known ID3.
The result is this expert system:

If amount-of-money-you-can-speed-on-your-defense >= 100000
then all-charges-will-be-dismissed
else you-will-plead-guilty-to-lesser-charges

Extensive cross validation, confirms the predictiveness of this expert
system.

Based on these results, I recommend you set up a bond for $100,000 to
be used for your defense. Then add this message to the sign in screen
of your BBS:

"Attention: Secret service and telephone company

As a person with a bond for $100,000, I am fully protected by the
Constitution of the United States; so you might as well look
elsewhere. (Contract XXXX to verify the existence of the bond.)"

If you can not afford your constitutional rights, I recommend you
find another hobby.

- Carl
-- 
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign