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July 4, 2007

This just in: Laws o' physics still unbroken

Filed under: Nerdery, Science, Scams

Whaddaya know - another compression scheme that violates rules of information theory has turned out to be a great big scam. The only part of this that surprises me is that I’d never previously heard of this Brent Kovar and his particular take on the broadband-down-a-thin-straw idea.

(For more shenanigans of this sort, check out the last letter in this column.)

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  1. YES! I'd been looking for that Madison Priest story for a while (couldn't remember his name). I must have first seen it when you posted that letters column. I won't lose it this time.

    Comment by HitScan — July 4, 2007 @ 6:25 am

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