FLP proof. (Consensus is impossible in asynchronous system with even one failure)

 

http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?p=49

The Last freak show

http://sideshowworld.com/Tribute-Bruce-Snowden.html

I saw the Jim Rose freak show back when I was in college... And my thought on hearing of the death of the last "Fat Man"  is that we can modernize this a bit... I wouldn't pay money to see a Fat Man.. The result of a life time of obsessive over eating:

"Bruce was working on becoming professionally fat.  He was fat already but he wasn't one hundred percent there yet.  So every now and then he'd fill a mayonnaise jar with a five-pound bag of sugar, add a little water to it to make a solution, and drink in down."

But I would spend money to stare at someone that is the result of a lifetime of drug abuse.

http://www.drugfree.org/portal/drugissue/methresources/faces/index.html

Availability and Partition Tolerance

A nice summary.

 

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2521#