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Mementos as Document Retrieval Keys
Dekaner writes "The BBC is running a story that BT has demonstrated a scanner that can be used to retrieve digital documents by associating them with a physical object. When the digital files are stored on the server, they are associated with a scanned image of the object, for example a seashell. Later, when the user wants to retrieve the files, the memento is again placed on the scanner. The resulting image is used as the retrieval key."
I can see a lot of people using their asses as the "memento"...
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Turning the paperless office into a huge junk bin!
"Mike, do you have the financial data for 2002?"
"Somewhere. Help me look for the squeaky red clown nose."
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...Mentos. The Freshmaker.
Was the Marketing Plan associated with one of these seashells or one of these pebbles? Or maybe it was my coffee cup?
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If they try to patent this idea, I'm citing Johnny Mnemonic as prior art!!!
Guess you could have actual keys for database access. Then you can put all the keys on a keyring...
This is more stupid than anything else I've heard this week.
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Please put penis on scanner to locate pr0n
If ten years ago someone told me that in the year 2003 i would be using a seashell to retrieve data i would tell that person that he is fscking stupid.
Disco Stu was talkin' to you.
... Uh dear.. well.. uh I need you to sit on the scanner... Please, don't ask.
"Derp de derp."
Next your not going to scan a picture of the object but actually drag the object to a special platform. "Mom where's my M16, I want to play American Army
God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man - Kronecker
Use the Memento pattern when
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Mentos as Document Retrieval Keys
which quickly brought to mind an image of people trying to stick them into various ports on thier PCs. This could create and a whole new industry dedicated to cleaning floppy drives.
When I lose an important memento, I don't have to worry because I kept all the serial number and insurance info in a file which... DAMN!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
So now I can lose all of my electronic files along with the physical ones in the piles of junk on my desk...
If you stick a crystal on the scanner, a hologram of Marlon Brando will appear and tell you the secrets of the universe.
This is a fascinating idea.
Maybe someday, a picture of the item could actually just be placed on the screen, without having to scan a real object. And when you want to get your file, you just point your finger at the picture.
This "iconic representation" could even be moved around the computer screen like you'd organize something on your desktop.
I know, you're laughing.. how can my Wang 80-column green screen actually someday show a PHOTOGRAPHIC QUALITY PICTURE?
Well don't laugh. Someday soon, we'll be able to see pictures on our computer screens, at 100x100 dot resolutions or even higher! Some advanced models may even show different shades of green for each pixel.
I hope that bright young man Steve Wozniak comes up with something! As soon as he stops hanging around that troublemaker Steve Jobs, all he wants to do is eat fruit and masturbate to Picasso paintings.
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...of the file as my memento. To make the association more secure, each page will have it's own memento, consisting of the page printed out. That way when I need to retrieve the file on the computer to print out, all I have to do is scan each page, open the file, and print.
This technology has promise.
Whoops!--dropped the seashell!
Looks like Grandma's estate is going to probate.....
Did anyone else misparse the article title and summary as Mentos?
I was visualizing someone putting a strawberry Mento on the scanner, and pulling up whatever.
Then I began to think -- well jesus, all the mentos look the same, how freaking secure is that? And, just what the hell do you do if you *eat* that mento? Your data is unretrievable!
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