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Skywalker Ranch Wines
Skywalker Ranch Wines
02/19/2004 07:40 PMWineZap Launches New Website to Help
Wine Consumers Find, Price and Compare
Wines; Subscribers to WineZap's Free
Newsletter Offered 10% Off Any Wine,
Regardless of Quantity Purchased
WineZap Launches New Website to Help
Wine Consumers Find, Price and Compare
Wines; Subscribers to WineZap's Free
Newsletter Offered 10% Off Any Wine,
Regardless of Quantity Purchased
07/15/2004 03:18 AMWineZap today announced the launch of a new website, WineZap.com, a
free online service that helps wine consumers to find, price, and
compare wines. WineZap.com assists both fine wine lovers and casual
wine drinkers to buy wines by making it easy to find a wine, compare
it with other wines, and find the lowest wine prices across hundreds
of U.S. retailers. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]
Recent Earthquakes - Map for 121-36
Recent Earthquakes - Map for 121-36
12/23/2003 11:32 PMthis is happening ..
map
quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/121-36.htm
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site | 4 links
recent updates
recent updates
04/14/2005 10:05 AMTechSpot Apr 14 2005 1:55PM GMT
Recent new voices
Recent new voices
05/06/2004 04:08 PM
We don't yet know what the steady state of the blogosphere is going to
look like. As has been
snarkily reported, lots of blogs die on the vine. Of
course plenty don't, and there's also a steady influx of new voices.
Here are three that have enriched my daily trawl for ideas and
perspectives.
...Some recent quickies
Some recent quickies
01/07/2004 05:29 PMIt has been a long time since I had a minute to come up for air. With
the holidays coming up and with the recent
Sputnik
release, I've finally got a chance to briefly point to some things
that I think are important:
recent links from MT entries
recent links from MT entries
01/11/2004 09:04 AMi want all of this bundled up into a neat MT plugin, so I can have a
feed of just the hyperlinks from posts
Recent Forum Discussions
Recent Forum Discussions
03/14/2005 06:08 PMThe MacMerc Forums are
an excellent place to ask questions about something you're trying to
do with your Mac or post comments about the news floating around the
Mac web. Here are a few threads that are looking for input:
As always, you can subscribe to the MacMerc Forums in your RSS reader
and keep
track of
just the new
thread titles or
verbose
coverage of all activity. Of course if you want to do more than
just lurk,
you're going to have to
regi
ster
with the forums and post!

Dissecting Microsoft's Recent 10-K
Dissecting Microsoft's Recent 10-K
09/08/2004 10:54 AMLots of interesting factoids in Microsoft's most recent 10-K that it
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As eWEEK reports,
Microsoft is claiming with more vigor than ever that it is facing
increasingly stiff competition from open-source software.
Behind Sun Micro's Recent Strength
Behind Sun Micro's Recent Strength
05/26/2004 08:53 AMTheStreet.com May 26 2004 12:46PM GMT
NewJour: Recent Issues
NewJour: Recent Issues
02/10/2004 02:49 AMNewJour: Recent Issueshttp://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
nj2/An excellent resource to monitor for the latest
Journals and Newsletters. This site updates daily. This is taken from
my
eCurrentAwareness
Resources 2004 Report.
Behind Sun Microsystems' Recent Strength
Behind Sun Microsystems' Recent Strength
05/26/2004 06:23 PMTheStreet.com May 26 2004 9:43PM GMT
Electrolite: Recent history.
Electrolite: Recent history.
04/18/2004 06:55 PMRecent history ..
Electrolite
nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/005031.html#00503
1
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IEEE Approves Most Recent 802.16
IEEE Approves Most Recent 802.16
06/28/2004 12:59 PM ">The IEEE ratified the 802.16-2004 standard, marking a milestone in
the development of the standard: Still, there's a long way to go. This
article doesn't draw the distinction between 802.16 and WiMax. Now
that the IEEE has ratified what had been called 802.16d, the WiMax
Forum must still release its final specification for WiMax, which will
be essentially a subset of the larger standard. Products built to the
WiMax specification that get approved by the WiMax Forum can be
assured to be interoperable with other WiMax gear. The IEEE
ratification is an exciting milestone but the reality of a WiMax
market in the United States is much farther in the future than some
writers and industry followers acknowledge. This article notes that
WiMax approved equipment should be available early next year. That's
true, but basically all manufacturers will build their first
generation products to operate in frequencies used overseas, not in
the United States. It also remains to be seen how the final
specifications--802.16 and WiMax--will affect folks like Alvarion.
Alvarion is offering products today that it promises to upgrade to
meet the final WiMax specification without additional cost to
customers. Glenn described the whole process a couple weeks ago. One
additional thought on Alvarion's decision to offer free upgrades is
that they've taken a bit of a risk here but didn't have much of a
choice. Some analysts have told me that some vendors are feeling a bit
of a squeeze as potential customers are deciding to wait for certified
WiMax equipment. In the meantime, the vendors aren't selling any gear.
So Alvarion took the risk that they could make a reasonable guess at
what the final specification would look like. They're hoping that they
are close enough that they don't have to make major, expensive
upgrades in the future to make the products WiMax compatible....
recent gaim advisory
recent gaim advisory
08/13/2004 10:56 AMinfamous41md_at_hotpop.com (Aug 12 2004)
Recent Game News
Recent Game News
03/13/2003 10:23 AMA few recent Everything in Moderation
posts...
A few recent Everything in Moderation
posts...
10/31/2003 05:03 AMFor those of you who haven't been keeping up, there are a few more
pieces up on Everything in
Moderation:
- Tagging Difficult Users with
Infectious Markers
- On Killfiles / Ignore User Functions
in online communities
- Kuro5hin's "Notes Towards a
Moderation Economy"
- An old-school guide to Usenet
Trolling
explains why recent unemployment and
economic
explains why recent unemployment and
economic
12/02/2003 03:02 AMAbout the Jobless "Recovery" 12/1 .. The Unemployment Myth .. some
people .. argues
nytimes.com/2003/11/30/opinion/30GOOL.html
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Recent Heart Maker Hearts
Recent Heart Maker Hearts
02/15/2004 09:19 AMhearts people are making right now .. recently
generated
heartmaker.acme.com/hearts.cgi
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site | 4 links
"how the recent IE security
vulnerabilities have started to im..."
"how the recent IE security
vulnerabilities have started to im..."
07/12/2004 04:00 AMRecent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark,
Conectiva
Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark,
Conectiva
01/25/2004 03:02 PMWeb Exclusive: A Brief (Recent) History
of Offshoring
Web Exclusive: A Brief (Recent) History
of Offshoring
04/15/2004 05:02 AMThe CEO of Covansys, one of the first American organizations to
explore offshoring, considers how Indian government regulation, the
Y2K problem, and the widespread acceptance of the Net contributed to
the current job loss and economic insecurity.
looks at recent domestic economic news
looks at recent domestic economic news
10/31/2003 04:04 PMAre gray skies clearing up? .. Daniel
Drezner
danieldrezner.com/archives/000857.html
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Is Apple's recent grow sustainable?
Is Apple's recent grow sustainable?
06/25/2004 02:28 AMIn his "Byte of the Apple" column for BusinessWeek today, Alex
Salkever examines Apple's recent stock surge ("...closing at US$33.18
on June 24...
Recent Book on Internet Strategies
Recent Book on Internet Strategies
12/28/2003 05:29 PMBeSpacific Dec 28 2003 4:09PM ET
Recent Grads and Experience Beyond the
Desktop?
Recent Grads and Experience Beyond the
Desktop?
06/26/2004 02:09 PMRegistry fixes for the recent IE
vulnerabilities
Registry fixes for the recent IE
vulnerabilities
07/02/2004 07:33 PMMike Cheng (Jul 01 2004)
Access recent items content via
AppleScript
Access recent items content via
AppleScript
05/13/2004 11:06 AMAfter reading about dynamic signatures on this site, I thought it
might be neat to add other random info about my computer to my
signature, and so I looked into accessing the Recent Items menu in the
Apple menu. The Recent I...
"recent post on the Digital Photography
Blog"
"recent post on the Digital Photography
Blog"
06/15/2004 12:12 AMFailed terrorism attempt on recent
flight?
Failed terrorism attempt on recent
flight?
07/26/2004 01:52 PMIt's been debunked
by Snopes.
First hand report from
a writer for Women's Wall Street about her experience on a flight from
Detroit to LA. Apparently a group of 14 men on the plane kept going
into the restrooms and signaling each other. Hard to say what really
happened, and it could have been perfectly innocent, but it makes for
interesting reading.
The man in the yellow T-shirt got out of his seat and went
to the lavatory at the front of coach -- taking his full McDonald's
bag with him. When he came out of the lavatory he still had the
McDonald's bag, but it was now almost empty. He walked down the aisle
to the back of the plane, still holding the bag. When he passed two
of the men sitting mid-cabin, he gave a thumbs-up sign. When he
returned to his seat, he no longer had the McDonald's bag...
...Then another man from the group stood up and took something from
his carry-on in the overhead bin. It was about a foot long and was
rolled in cloth. He headed toward the back of the cabin with the
object...
... The last man came out of the bathroom, and as he passed the man in
the yellow shirt he ran his forefinger across his neck and mouthed the
word 'No.'
One possibility -- the men were sharing food, and some of the food was
spoiled, so they threw it away in the restrooms.
Link (Thanks, Mike!)
Implications Of The Recent Hash Function
Attacks
Implications Of The Recent Hash Function
Attacks
09/01/2004 01:39 PMBeware Of Recent Phone, Internet Scams
Beware Of Recent Phone, Internet Scams
09/17/2004 06:04 AMTurnto10.com - Fri Sep 17, 10:32 am GMT
Recent Forum Discussions (March 10 - 18,
2005)
Recent Forum Discussions (March 10 - 18,
2005)
03/22/2005 05:05 PMThe MacMerc Forums are
an excellent
place to ask questions about something you're trying to do with your
Mac or post
comments about the news floating around the Mac web. Here are a few
threads that
are looking for input:
As always, you can subscribe to the MacMerc Forums in your RSS
reader and keep
track of just the
new thread titles or verbose
coverage of all activity. Of course if you want to do more than
just lurk,
you're going to have to regi
ster
with the forums and post!

Microsoft Responds To Recent Xbox 2
Reports
Microsoft Responds To Recent Xbox 2
Reports
06/22/2004 03:48 PMMicrosoft says recent Xbox 2 rumors are simply speculation at this
point. You may have read yesterday that a story originating on
gamesindustry.biz claimed the next Xbox would not feature backwards
compatibility due to the increased and varied technology of the latest
system from Microsoft. Well, the boys from Redmond apparently aren't
too happy about the initial claims and subsequent media barrage that
has swirled all over the net in the past 24 hours.
Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS
Attacks
Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS
Attacks
07/07/2004 02:21 PM"Matts recent spat with Glenn Reynolds"
"Matts recent spat with Glenn Reynolds"
09/05/2004 02:47 AMA recent feedback from an Altiris
technical interview II
A recent feedback from an Altiris
technical interview II
07/06/2004 06:46 PMA recent feedback from an Altiris
technical interview
A recent feedback from an Altiris
technical interview
06/29/2004 05:07 PMAccess recent Classic documents from the
dock
Access recent Classic documents from the
dock
07/20/2004 09:42 AMAs someone who still used a bunch of Classic apps -- sometimes with no
choice, like QuarkXpress, sometime just becuase I like to use fast old
apps when appropriate (Photoshop 3.0 is FAST for simple things), I am
often frustra...
Grok Description matches for Recent Wines
GrokA matches for Recent Wines
Mitsubishi Electric Selects Access
NetFront i-mode Global Profile for
Advanced i-mode Handset
Mitsubishi Electric Selects Access
NetFront i-mode Global Profile for
Advanced i-mode Handset
04/13/2005 03:56 AMJCNN Apr 13 2005 6:57AM GMT
Roomba 0.12
Roomba 0.12
04/28/2004 11:49 AMRoom booking software for hotels.
Roomba
Roomba
04/10/2004 02:05 PM0.11 released
Revenge of the Roomba
Revenge of the Roomba
07/13/2004 03:41 PMThe profesor sent us
this about the new and
improved Roomba robot vacuum cleaner:
iRobot yesterday announced
some new versions of our Roomba line of robotic vacuums. Cool new
features include a recharging docking station and a dirt sensor, in
addition to many changes to make it a more solid product. For more
details see the iRobot
press release. According to their website, the new version also
includes a bigger dust bin that
holds three times as much as the old Roomba. I've also heard that
Roomba hackers may find
some interesting new changes inside too. But can it still be used to
deliver beer?
More Roomba hacking
More Roomba hacking
07/14/2004 10:00 AM
Another group of hardware hackers have at a Roomba robotic
vacuum cleaner:
"For higher level control, we've attached a Virgin
Webplayer. The Webplayer was sold as a loss leader for Virgin's
internet service in the late 90s, and thus can be found on ebay for
under $100. It has two serial ports, a 200MHz Geode processor, 64M
ram, and a miniPCI port. Thus, we can give it an 802.11b card, a
webcam, and a usb-serial adapter."
Link (via MetaFilter)Roomba Discovery
Roomba Discovery
07/12/2004 07:39 AM
Oh hey, new Roomba! The Roomba Discovery is being
pre-sold "exclusively [to] current Roomba owners" at the moment, but
includes some much-needed improvements, like a self-charging Home Base
which the Roomba will head to, automatically, when done cleaning
(finally!), an "intense cleaning" feature (presumably detecting areas
that need multiple passes, and a dust bin that's 3 times larger.
Sounds like an all-around improvement, so good on them. The Discovery
is currently being sold on the iRobot Store site for $250.
R
ead - Product Page [NewRoomba]
Related
Australian Robot Vacuum Contender:
Floorbotics [Gizmodo]
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery Revealed
[ArtOfSpeed]
Electrolux Trilobite
Robotic Floor Vac Review (Bunny Not Included) [Gizmodo]
Roomba Gets Overhaul
Roomba Gets Overhaul
07/13/2004 02:02 PMExtreme Tech Jul 13 2004 5:46PM GMT
I lust for a Roomba
I lust for a Roomba
02/10/2004 01:28 PMI'm just listening to Helen Greiner's presentation of
Roomba.
She actually has one that she is running on the table, and the #etech
-channel is filled with geeks declaring their instant love at the tiny
little home robot.
Can't say I'm much different.
I seriously, seriously want one. Like now.
Update: Joi snapped a photo of me, relaxing outside :-)
Update2: I'm now a bit less enthusiastic. IRobot does in addition
build the PackBot, which is a military bot.
We were shown a cool video in which the PackBot? is
thrown in through a window to a building, drives off the roof, and
drives directly into a river; surviving all this stuff. It was
apparently used during the Afghan war as well. It's just a matter of
time before they strap it with guns.
Roomba customer support
Roomba customer support
07/02/2004 04:35 PMWe have a Roomba at home to sweet our floor while we're out (it's
really noisy). Yes, from iRobot makers of the "next step in unmanned
tactical mobile robots". In other words: They are makers of robotic
killing machines! Anyway, one of the evil cats ate the power supply
some time ago, so it hasn't gotten much use lately. (Her cats, I
usually say when they do things like that) I sent them an email
through their online email form...
Back-door your Roomba
Back-door your Roomba
05/07/2004 03:35 AMPT sez, "This week's "how to" article from Engadget shows how to put
the Roomba Robot Vacuum in hardware check mode. This is a useful mode
for Roomba hackers (and anyone else) to test the functions of the unit
as well as see how the unit works, test the 'virtual walls,' clean
specific parts and have some fun."
Pressing the L button for the 5th time (you'll hear 5 beeps) will put
the Roomba in "bulldozer" mode, in other words it'll just roll forward
no matter what, the sensors and bumpers and picking it up will not
stop it. Be careful, don't let the Roomba damage you or itself.
Link
(
Thanks, PT!)
SmartCarpet Roomba Killer
SmartCarpet Roomba Killer
06/17/2005 06:15 PM
Foreign companies
Vorwerk and Infineon are furthering the process of making Americans
even more lazy. Research into the popular robot vacuum,
Roomba, has shown the inefficiency of being able to cover all parts of
the carpet. These foreigners are developing a robotic vacuum that
interacts with RFID chips imbedded into the carpet. The robot uses the
RFID transmission information to decipher whether or not it has
actually covered all areas of the carpet.
Intelligent Robot
Vacuum [Ohgizmo.com]
RE: Multiple WinXP kernel vulns can give
user mode programs kernel mode
privileges
RE: Multiple WinXP kernel vulns can give
user mode programs kernel mode
privileges
02/19/2004 12:47 PMAlun Jones (Feb 19 2004)
Multiple WinXP kernel vulns can give
user mode programs kernel mode
privileges
Multiple WinXP kernel vulns can give
user mode programs kernel mode
privileges
02/18/2004 08:05 PMfirst last (Feb 18 2004)
Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews
Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews
07/15/2004 06:58 AM<
img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/roomba_discovery.jpg"
alt="roomba_discovery.jpg image" width="200" height="200"
class="borderyes" border="0" align="right" vspace="5"
hspace="15"/>We're going to give this New York Times'
Circuits section review of the new Roomba Discovery a passing
grade, if only because author William Grimes (oh ho ho) talks about
torturing robots. It's good to know that when robots rise up against
their fleshy masters, we'll all be able to blame Circuits. The
new Discovery does well enough -- it's clearly an improvement over the
previous generations -- but its still, ultimately, an expensive
distraction to getting real cleaning done. And that's why I love
it.
More Roomba and links inside.
Roomba is Sucking up Christmas Dollars
Roomba is Sucking up Christmas Dollars
12/19/2004 03:41 PMA new CNET
article notes that the iRobot
Roomba is a hot item among Christmas
shoppers
this season. Best Buy claims it's the most popular gift item at
their stores this year and the Roomba
4100 has also recently reached the
number four position on Amazon's
Housewares top sellers list (it has since dropped to position six).
The San Mateo Daily Journal recently picked
the Roomba as number six on its list of the top ten holiday gadgets.
So
you better watch out, Santa may be bringing you an autonomous robot
vacuum cleaner this year.
Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler
Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler
06/24/2005 04:01 PM
CNET
News.com gets freaked out when we link to their stories and use their
pictures, so thank god iRobot has a picture of their new Roomba
Scheduler on their site already. The Schedular is pretty similar to
the Discovery, except it includes a timer function that can be set to
activate the robot on a schedule (hence...). It's sort of an obvious,
if welcome, upgrade, so the additional news that iRobot will be
encouraging tinkerers to hack in additional features into this model
is great. A Roomba with a camera is cool, but I think it's time
somebody figured out how to make a Roomba that's smart enough to not
eat cords.
Catalog
Page [iRobot]
Trick out your Roomba
[News.com]

Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery
Revealed
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery
Revealed
06/01/2004 01:53 PM
Ever wonder why the
Trilobite 2.0 robotic vacuum is about $1,800 when you can get a good
ol' American Roomba for as low as $160? Turns out, it's because the
Roomba is, as robots are judged, pretty dumb. One of I4U's readers
with a degree in human computer interaction and artificial
intelligence wrote a nice piece about some of the major differences
between the two robot vacuums, which he compares to the difference
between a "Trabant versus a Rolls." Unfortunately, without one of them
fancy AI degrees, the Roomba is the one I can afford.
Read
[I4U]
The UAV Swarm
The UAV Swarm
11/15/2003 05:41 PMImagine an enemy, fighting the Americans, and they look up and see a
swarm of attacking drones! The enemy would be inundated by an
innumerable flock of UAVs. From
this article it appears that's just what the US Navy has in mind.
With seeing huge flocks of birds heading south for the winter this
time of year, it's not hard to imagine what a swarm of drones might
look like: it would look like the swarm of squidlike robots from
The Matrix. Intelligent flying autonomous vehicles would have
inter-robot communication network so that it could organize it's own
collective configuration and reconfigure in the event of losses. The
ememy would really have to watch out for their droppings.
Roomba Discover vs Sharper Image eVac
Roomba Discover vs Sharper Image eVac
08/10/2004 10:18 AMEveryday Robots has posted a comparison
of the Roomba
Discovery and Sharper
Image eVac robot vacuum cleaners. It's
primarily a consumer-oriented review on points such as suction power
and
carpet types rather than more interesting things like hackability. But
if you're thinking about buying a robot vacuum for its intended
purpose,
this could be a helpful review.
Swarm Intelligence (SI)
Swarm Intelligence (SI)
01/25/2004 11:42 AMSwarm Intelligence (SI)ht
tp://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec04-swarm/index.htmSuch systems are made up by a population of simple agents
interacting locally with one other and with their environment.
Although there is typically no centralised control dictating the
behaviour of the agents, local interactions ong the agents often cause
a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found
in nature, including ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding,
honey bees, bacteria, and many more. Swarm-like algorithms, such as
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO),
have already been applied successfully to solve real-world
optimization problems in engineering and telecommunication. SI models
have many features in common with Evolutionary Algorithms.
Peace Swarm
Peace Swarm
03/20/2003 08:31 AM Here's a little experiment in social software. I've been talking with
Jack Bury, a 20-year-old American poet living in Amsterdam, who is
part of a tiny start-up trying to get some traction for "Eyebees," a
Microsoft IE add-in. (It'll be open sourced eventually.) The add-in
puts a frame on the left of your browser that shows you up to 200
little dots (Eyebees), each representing another person in the "swarm"
you've joined. Their relative position shows which pages they're
currently viewing. If a few people are each looking at, say, Doc's
blog, then you'll see the five Eyebees clustered...
Locusts swarm over Mauritania
Locusts swarm over Mauritania
08/05/2004 04:04 PMTax Filers Swarm To The Internet
Tax Filers Swarm To The Internet
04/14/2005 07:53 PMTechWeb Apr 14 2005 11:43PM GMT
Particle Swarm (PSO) Toolbox
Particle Swarm (PSO) Toolbox
05/30/2004 09:06 AMRegarding Bug Reporting
Report: ZigBee wireless set to swarm
Report: ZigBee wireless set to swarm
08/10/2004 05:33 PMCNET News.com Aug 10 2004 9:19PM GMT
Helicopters swarm gas station in Norway
Helicopters swarm gas station in Norway
06/11/2004 07:16 PMHelicopters Swarm Gas Station in Norway
(AP)
Helicopters Swarm Gas Station in Norway
(AP)
06/11/2004 05:47 PMAP - Erling Boland didn't know what to think when a swarm of six
helicopters noisily swooped down on his gas station.
Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased
Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased
05/28/2004 08:05 PMMac BitTorrent client with 3D
swarm-visualizer
Mac BitTorrent client with 3D
swarm-visualizer
03/27/2005 08:20 AMCory Doctorow:

Bits on Wheels is a Mac-only BitTorrent client that shows you your
current downloading "swarm" as a 3D visualization.
Link
(
via Waxy)
Swarm Robots and the Freeze-Tag Problem
Swarm Robots and the Freeze-Tag Problem
03/06/2004 02:03 AMThe Freeze-Tag Problem is a common optimization problem when dealing
with swarms of robots. You start out with a swarm of "sleeping" robots
in an arbitrary arrangement. One robot has to wake the swarm. To wake
a
sleeping robot, it must be "tagged" by an active robot.
Once a
robot is awakened, it can assist in waking other robots. The problem
is
figuring out how to wake all the robots as early as possible. In a
recent
paper,
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to
Wake Up a Swarm of Robots (PDF format), Esther M. Arkin,
Michael A. Bender and
several other researcher do a lot of interesting math that proves the
problem is NP-hard; a result
confirmed by other
studies of the problem.
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