Re: [registrars] Alternic

["Robert F. Connelly" <BobC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:42 AM 3/6/03, Paul Goldstone wrote:
> Bob,
>
> It was Eugene Kashpureff in 1997.  Here's the old cnet article:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-204904.html?legacy=cnet
>
> ~Paul
>
> At 11:09 PM 3/5/2003 -0800, Robert F. Connelly wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues:  What was the name of the guy who broke through and 
> > edited  BIND to redirect the NSI registration page to his own web site 
> > for registering with Alternic.  That was in 1998, I think.  He escaped 
> > into Canada;  was arrested in Canada;  extradited to the States, 
> > convicted in Federal Court and did hard time here.
> > Regards, BobC
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > "One test is worth three expert opinions!"
> > U.B. Bray
> >
> > In a case in which I'd made an assertion that he didn't think was correct,
> > Doctor Bray would come out to my lab and say, "Let's have a meeting
> > of the Skeptics' Committee".  He'd then take a clean beaker and graduated
> > cylinder off the rack and start to experiment.
> >
> > The results may have confirmed my assertion -- or disproved it -- or sent
> > me out for further confirmation.  But the fact is that "One test *really is*
> > worth three or more expert opinions.
> >
> > Doctor Bray was the most brilliant industrial chemist I have ever known.
> >
> > Here's another opinion:
> >
> > "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
> > Albert Einstein
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In light of the above, I cannot understand why NASA management
> > did not call for a space walk by the crew of the Columbia *prior_to*
> > the ill fated return flight.  Certainly there could have been another
> > way to return the crew to Earth.