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You are welcome to use any of this that you think may be helpful:

http://www.ideationizing.com/2...

It is not designed to resist monitoring as much as it is designed to get information in and out of remote areas. Though, it could be modified to fly under the radar, so to speak, pretty well.

Free will is doing whatever your brain decides, regardless of whether the conscious part of your brain was aware of it as the unconscious part was making the decision. Researchers and philosophers regularly bring this up because it creates controversy, and thus attention to their work. But their premises is always based on redefining "free will" to mean "what you are consciously aware of thinking, and had complete control of the entire thought process." Hell, that definition never applies, and they know it.

I wrote a blog post about this fallacy-based conclusion way back in 2011: http://www.ideationizing.com/2...

Back in 2009 I proposed a very similar system but for the purpose of generating prior art to thus invalidate as many troll patents as possible. I even posted it here on Slashdot. funny, I got no responses. Here's a link to my blog post about it: http://www.ideationizing.com/2....

Yes, I know. My method is not similar enough to invalidate their patent, which I am sure they will get despite their method being an algorithm. But this is Slashdot, the home of misleading headlines.

This sounds similar to my idea for establishing a special top-level domain for scientists to register a permanent domain name, which I posted back in February. Except, with my system the ID incorporates the scientists name and birth date, identifying information that is already commonly used when referring to historical figures. (OK, all the Wangs may need to include the exact time of their birth, down to the second in order to get a unique ID.) With my system the ID is itself an IRI so it can be used in RDF and RDFa information. And it allows for the creation of actual web sites that sit under that IRI, with additional information about the scientist. All using standard, common web technologies. Finally, I am not going to be trying to make money off of this system by selling registrations. Once a law is in place creating the .sci TLD and specifying that the domain names will be sold for perpetuity (rather than requiring renewal each year), then the regular, existing domain registration system can be used. No need for massive non-profit organizations with signatories and memberships. No worries that said non-profit organization - and thus their system - will cease to exist in the future.

We stopped calling Topeka "Google" yesterday.

No, we never actually changed the name of the city. The mayor just signed a proclamation that we would "call" ourselves "Google" for the month of March.

Yep, I currently live in Topeka, KS, the capital city that seems to be the most famous for silly and embarrassing things. I am not one of those who believe all our problems will be solved by a Google branded fiber optic internet service, but I do still applaud what I believe Google is trying to do. In fact, I wrote a paper about it for English class. In it I explain the impact of the "Digital Divide" on poverty and argue that the major potential effect of Google's service would be to spur competition, which would then make broadband affordable to more poor people, thereby helping them rise out of poverty.

The thesis isn't written. I'm not even in graduate school yet. But that is likely what my thesis will be about when I finally write it. My head continuously swims with all the connections between information that need to be tracked. Maybe I'll get to be a pioneer. Woo hoo.

You can find information about many of my ideas at www.ideationizing.com.

Or we could build a Prior Art Combinator: A tool to preemptively invalidate troll patents. Granted, it wouldn't be effective against all the vague and generic patents that were filed 10 years ago. But it might cut down on the new filings of troll patents.

With Intellegent Epidemic Routing this could actually work as a viable - if time delayed - networking system.

P.S. What is up with the Slashdot comment form? The text box is only about 20 characters wide.

I agree that Word and other word processors are not as useful as they used to be in an age where many documents are not necessarily printed out. However, that does not mean that nothing will ever be printed again. I also agree that a Wiki is a great way to store business intelligence however, MediaWiki does not have a very easy to use editor. Other wiki servers offer much better editors. I also agree with many posters in Slashdot and ARS that without the ability to easily embed things like spreadsheets into wiki pages then we will still need word processors to generate the documents the way we really want them to look and then post those as .PDF files.

But why is everyone just sitting around whining about how his idea won't work instead of getting together and figuring out a way to make it work. HTML and CSS provide a great way to display a document with almost all of the features people usually want. The problem is that editing the documents - and the styles used within them - is still more difficult than it should be for regular people. Word allows a user to easily create, name, and update styles. CSS not so much. Users have to learn arcane concepts such as CSS Selectors, inheritance, etc. Why can't someone write a "document editor" that simply saves it's files as HTML with CSS styles? Not a web-site-design-tool for professional web developers, but just a document editor that works kind of like a word processor for regular people. These could be available as stand alone programs or as plug-ins for browsers.

Has anyone ever seen a web page with an active embedded spreadsheet? They may exist but I haven't seen one. Why not? Because they aren't readily and easily available. Why hasn't someone taken some existing standard for spreadsheet data like ODF (or even - heaven forbid - Open Office XML) and created a standardized way to embed that into a web page. Then others could create standalone or browser-plug-in-based spreadsheet editors to work with that standardized spreadsheet data format. Users should be able to open and edit that embedded spreadsheet just as easily as they can edit a table in some wiki sites. In fact it should be even easier.

And wiki software designers really need to get off their duffs as well. I am an experienced network manager. I have been working with computers since 1976 and posting online in various forms since the 300 baud bulletin board days. But I don't ever post anything on WikiPedia. Why? Because I don't want to have to learn yet another stupid formatting system (that is about three levels of jury rigging deep) instead of some formatting system I already know and is an industry wide standard. Users really need editors that will edit a wiki page just as if it were a word processing document, or at least a regular web page. The user should be able to embed whatever they want into the page and the software should handle the difficult formatting. There should be templates that can be easily called up (rather than downloaded and copied and pasted and modified to fit in this wiki and hacked and rehacked until they work) so that users will get the look the want (or a corporate standard look) without much effort at all. I am sure some higher end wiki servers have some of these features but they must be locked up in proprietary systems or protected by some kind of patents because I haven't seen them in use out in the real world. How hard can it be for the community to settle on some standards for these things so that developers can get started working on various FOSS and commercial applications to make use of the standards. I mean really! People have been bitching about this for years now.

And before anyone jumps in and asks me why I am not fixing all this myself... It is because I am already working on saving the world in my own way. See www.demml.org and www.ideationizing.com. But someone, somewhere must have some spare time to solve some of the major issues