His point is interesting HOWEVER the vast majority of software patents I have seen recently are little more than arm waving and insufficient to implement white board renderings.
It is the RARE patent that has sufficient bounds and goals to be let as a cost plus contract that cannot be canceled.
A method for foo and bar... needs to pass the sufficient to contract an implementation test. i.e. both parties the company and the programming service should be able to arrive at a sound and well considered contract to implement by prudent men.
Style and design... that is interesting and different.
Pick up a new flat panel TV and begin to walk out the door without paying.
A polite establishment would say: "Excuse me sir (or madam) you forgot to pay for your TV. i.e. you have forgotten to discharge your debt. Ask the Venice store of Kamofie & Co with regard to Lindsay Lohan. And yes, a swarmy store would wait a week and call the "Boys in Blue" collection and advertisement agency.
As folk that write transaction systems the semantics and interlocks mater or value escapes the system. The teller rings up the product places it in a bag and now you close out the debt one way or another to be permitted to take the product home. The debt can be exchanged for debt with MasterCard or Visa or discharged promptly with currency.
I am curious what second hand transactions are. At what stage are diamonds second hand? At what stage is gold (Pandas, Maple Leaf, Krugerrand) second hand?
Then there is the privacy issue. If all transactions are tracked what and who can trigger a financial audit. What additional financial burden is being placed on banks and businesses large and small. Does a shoe box of Post-it notes comply. Golly knows that a missing Post-it note can get you tossed in the slammer (ask Martha). What information must be on the paperwork. i.e. Sold "Lot 22, odds and ends" $12.50. Sold: "Jar of old buttons" $1200.00. Sold painting see Antique Road Show episode November 22, 2011, "man on a strange horse found in the dustbin". $50,000.00
The center may have a policy but that policy is not law.
I am astounded that a "center's" policy results in the confiscation of personal property.
Was the policy posted in a clear and obvious way.
I have heard of people that have a policy that they should liberate goods from establishments when they are of the opinion that it over priced and or otherwise in need of liberation.
Older large tube displays did have circuits to degause and normalize the system.. Rotating some big 21+ inch monitors could see alignment changes as it was moved from north-south to east-west so it does not take a large field but they were designed to deal with this. In the years since the original litigation the digital transition has taken place so no OLD TV is likely in service and if so could be replaced for a couple hours of legal time.
One possible interaction is ground loop currents from multi phase power distribution. Ground loops can move astounding currents and if the connections to the steel were just so and some steel bolted but insulated by rust and other steel welded resulting in odd paths and grounding currents perhaps hundreds of amps could be flowing because of bad or anomalous earthing.
Again this can be tested and measured...
Ground loops are scarry. years ago some friends were pulling a wire across a roof that had transformers on it. The cases of the transformers were 'ground'. As the wire was pulled tight (make shift antenna) it touched both and promptly turned red and fuse linked in a big shower of sparks. We did check it and have it rechecked and it was all "correct" however the length of the grounds to common earth was long enough (resistive and inductive) to generate a low voltage astoundingly high amperage current.
Ohio is electrical storm country. Get lightening rods installed and verify earthing for the entire structure at the same time.
There is another way to look at this. Imagine you have gold behind a locked door. Now imagine you have 50 locked doors.
This is your security through obscurity.
Or another way... Imagine you have 50 locked doors all alike. Behind those 50 locked doors are 50 more doors all alike. And behind those doors 50 more doors.
Since the doors are "all alike" 49 can open to find any of the 48 all alike doors in large circular lists that never end. The 50th door that opens to the 50th door etc... to the interesting door can have any sane number of externally specified levels.
As long as there is no way for the attacker to leave gold coins to disambiguate his walk the location of the prize behind door number (pick a large number) remains well obscure.
Another way to think of this is that key+method is the necessary set of information to decrypt data. There is no reason to expose either.
....snip... (/dev/urandom is too slow and/dev/random...snip...
It is not necessary to generate a stream of random bits for the drive. A couple blocks of random bits written over and over will do the trick. The number of blocks can be large enough to optimize I/O say 1/3rd of the system memory...
The major risk for some is junk that should have been removed. Deleting files from a dumpster should begin with a rename of the files with a name long enough to leave little clue what the file was. Walk through some random bits with a hex dump tool to make file names and rename based on that. Filling up a file system with random bits of junk filled files occasional can minimize garbage that might be latent in 'free' disk blocks. Overwriting a file does nothing predictable as new filesystems are happy to use free blocks and just change the list of blocks. The old data can hang about a long time in the list of free blocks. Longer on solid state disks.
Writing zeros is less interesting than writing some random bits or pseudo bits. Gather a block of bits from/dev/random and then write a gazillion files with those bits in the files to fill up the disk.
Many companies have a physical search and destroy policy because working drives would be send out to salvage at uncle bobs and then sold on the market.
By sawing a drive in half the auditor that has no clearance can record the serial number in the gone for good logs. And warranty might be collected from some companies.
If the data has value the policy looks a lot like the roach motel. By stopping any repair, reuse or misuse data cannot flow out on a 'spare'.
Solid state drives add some complexity to all this....
Salvage the magnets recycling firms will begin to pay real bucks for rare earth scrap.
With the magnets in hand you also have the disks in hand. Run those salvaged motor and seek magnets over the media -- then don goggles and smack the platters with a hammer.
Just think on what you said. The GPS could be proof that you were doing something like that and not ditching work. Even though it would be invading some of your privacy, it could also be used to justify your absence during a certain period.
It's a double edged sword, I'm quite sure you can find good argument for both sides, but I'm just saying that if I owned a company I'd want to check on my employees during work hours. If I'm paying them to work, I actually want to make reasonably sure they do.
Just think on what you said. The GPS could be proof that you were doing something like that and not ditching work....snip....
Yes, yet doctors keep appointment books and logs. The FBI keeps logs... You can subscribe to one of many family oriented trackers and track yourself as you would a rambunctious teenager.
Yes as an employer you are paying them to work but that gives you rights in the work place not in their lives. If there is an out of policy absence dock them pay after your ask for an in policy explanation.
If the workspace is in a vehicle then miles and routes inside of the prescribed works hours get interesting and murky depending on who owns the vehicle and the employee status. The murky bit can be cleared up by a clear policy that covers ALL employees.
To secretly target an individual because you are able to as a state agency is likely an abuse of power. Note that an individual abused by a corporation normally has recourse via the state. This fail-safe seems to be absent which makes the abuse of power likely, insidious and troubling.
My wife has the RFID thing, as part of her ID card.....snip....
Tell me more about the RFID thing. Most work by actively saturating a region with an electro-magnetic field strong enough to activate a transmitter/ receiver.
Many people believe that cell phones cause brain cancer... what about this electro-magnetic field. It is one thing to have entrances and exits surrounded by a bounded and very localized power field. It is another to have "the work place" saturated with them. And if it reaches out 400 meters or more from the work place then the power levels boggle the mind. Card key readers are quite local and are activated to distances of less than a meter. Merchant RFID tags work because of the gate like localization of the power and receiver hardware at the doors.
If you take your private car out during the time you're supposed to be working, the company should be allowed to check that, right?
This is inside out... If you take your private car someplace during normal work hours -- NO. Should they notice you are not at work-- Yes, but they do not need to know where you go just that you are absent.
More apropos will be privacy issue should you visit a doctor, planned parenthood, a psychiatrist, AA meeting or religious obligation. Yes even visit the offices of the FBI or a legal counsel because the company is engaged in something illegal or fraudulent as they are obviously doing.
What class of construction is the building? Straw, sticks, bricks... this wolf wants to know
Are regions RF isolated from each other do you have multiple floors and multiple buildings? Can RF pass between these odds and ends.
First you need to wire the building and also decide if your WiFi boxes will get power from the ethernet wire links or from the wall.
Do you need secure access for all or is this install wide open and plan to let VPN do the security. i.e. guests will always want WiFi service.
Have you done any site research. If a neighbor already has WiFi deployed and all the channels occupied you may be the last fool in the pool. There are some Android applications that I would use to see what is already transmitting.
Windows and floors do you want to secure the inside from outside listeners? And do you want to secure the inside from external access.
Since all WiFi is tested to and operates to public standards there is going to be little difference from vendor to vendor at first glance. Placement and wired infrastructure will make as big a difference as anything.
You are going to need wired links lots of them. Plan on a robust wired infrastructure to start. The cell phone companies often have less trouble on their last mile... than you might expect.
Will Cell phones have the ability to connect their WiFi links to your network? If the company provides phones the answer will be yes... Cell phones + laptops + iTouch three times the load you might expect. Will you have to put Femto cells in for executives?
You may have to screen areas with hardware cloth or some RF limiting wall covering to keep areas from interfering with each other....
Net nannie... do you have legal issue to audit and manage both incoming and outgoing? Privacy issues that make shared pass words a tangle.
Central management? Can one person walk around and check them all? Backup...
No matter which way this goes it will shake up the entire professional world. A comment about quakes, fire, flu shots, immunizations the mind boggles at the things folk might abandon responsibility for and attack others....
When starting a research group one important and largish investment is the desktops and local storage to manage the code and the data.
A startup should start with dual purpose resources when possible. Code design should begin with some notion of progress and checkpoint and restart. Building reliable infrastructure is a royal PITA.
The desktop tools and cluster tools should play well together.
Do research the various cloud resources. Optimum use of cloud resources can depend on the smallest initial design decisions.
As always read Jon Louis Bentley's "Programming Pearls"
Does he write you a check for part of the shared utilities (internet included)? If so there is a paper record that you are not the only person using the link.
To me the prototype design was the old slate blackboard same shape rounded edges on some. Able to draw in regions of arbitrary shape, able to fill the regions with text or art.
I know a guy...snip...
Jammers are available but the GPS signal is so weak anyway that you could probably sabotage it without needing to keep something that would act as evidence in court in your car.
...snip...
Something like a tin foil hat over the antenna? Perhaps with magnetic attachments and even a solar panel to power something....
What if a common carrier redirected your parcel or first class letter to you via an alternate carrier for profit.
Then the alternate carrier did a deep package inspection of your commerce and sent you product you did not order and also sold that deep package inspection the To: and From: address info and sold that in conjunction with the results of their "deep package" inspection.
Remember most "Mail" transport is contracted to airlines and trucking services....
The main difference, of course, as that the UK PM is discussing the action before just plain doing it without informing the public.
Yes, it's always so much better when the rapist let's you know he's going to rape you before he does it.
Rape, when it's discussed and agreed upon beforehand, is called consensual sex.
Not when it is with the Boss.... So now lets discuss your job and pay. If you consent you keep your job and still get paid (no overtime for the all night efforts). These become abuses of power....
Wait a couple hours then go and buy some for the home (I want to get mine first).
One problem is that in large numbers they will trigger breakers and fuses knocking out power in large areas that will then trigger surges in other areas. The good news is that your flat screen TV might survive but there will be no wall power or TV transmissions to watch.
Turn it inside out..... reread the thread:
"Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US"
i.e. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
I suspect it is clear and outright fraud to redirect traffic to a proxy that does anything beyond improve response and bandwidth.
But since this proxy abuse is so invisible and insidious it makes sense to use https and multiple personas.
For example I NEVER search for the best price for "Depends" using my own name. I reserve a second hand yard sale laptop for that and then only at open WiFi sites.
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His point is interesting HOWEVER the vast majority of
software patents I have seen recently are little more than arm waving
and insufficient to implement white board renderings.
It is the RARE patent that has sufficient bounds and goals
to be let as a cost plus contract that cannot be canceled.
A method for foo and bar... needs to pass the sufficient
to contract an implementation test. i.e. both parties
the company and the programming service should be able
to arrive at a sound and well considered contract to
implement by prudent men.
Style and design... that is interesting and different.
Pick up a new flat panel TV and begin to walk out the door
without paying.
A polite establishment would say: "Excuse me sir (or madam)
you forgot to pay for your TV. i.e. you have forgotten
to discharge your debt. Ask the Venice store of Kamofie & Co
with regard to Lindsay Lohan. And yes, a swarmy store would wait
a week and call the "Boys in Blue" collection and advertisement
agency.
As folk that write transaction systems the semantics and interlocks
mater or value escapes the system. The teller rings up the product
places it in a bag and now you close out the debt one way or another
to be permitted to take the product home. The debt can be exchanged
for debt with MasterCard or Visa or discharged promptly with currency.
I am curious what second hand transactions are. At what stage
are diamonds second hand? At what stage is gold (Pandas, Maple Leaf,
Krugerrand) second hand?
Then there is the privacy issue. If all transactions are tracked what
and who can trigger a financial audit. What additional financial burden is
being placed on banks and businesses large and small. Does a
shoe box of Post-it notes comply. Golly knows that a missing Post-it
note can get you tossed in the slammer (ask Martha). What information
must be on the paperwork. i.e. Sold "Lot 22, odds and ends" $12.50.
Sold: "Jar of old buttons" $1200.00. Sold painting see Antique Road Show
episode November 22, 2011, "man on a strange horse found in the dustbin". $50,000.00
I am not a lawyer, but...snip....
shopping malls are private property in the sense that someone owns them and can set the rules. ....snip....
And if the property is leased.
Ownership has some rights and responsibilities.
So does being a renter or lease holder.
So does being the tax payer.
Who holds the property deed?
In some areas not too far the property is
owned in whole or in part by a tribal
council of American Indians. Now the
law gets real murky.
The center may have a policy but that policy is not law.
I am astounded that a "center's" policy results in
the confiscation of personal property.
Was the policy posted in a clear and obvious way.
I have heard of people that have a policy that they should
liberate goods from establishments when they are of the opinion
that it over priced and or otherwise in need of liberation.
Measure and quantify what is going on!
Magnetism is easy to measure.
Older large tube displays did have circuits to
degause and normalize the system.. Rotating
some big 21+ inch monitors could see alignment
changes as it was moved from north-south to east-west
so it does not take a large field but they were designed to
deal with this. In the years since the original litigation
the digital transition has taken place so no OLD TV
is likely in service and if so could be replaced for a
couple hours of legal time.
One possible interaction is ground loop currents from
multi phase power distribution. Ground loops can
move astounding currents and if the connections to
the steel were just so and some steel bolted but insulated
by rust and other steel welded resulting in odd paths and
grounding currents perhaps hundreds of amps could
be flowing because of bad or anomalous earthing.
Again this can be tested and measured...
Ground loops are scarry. years ago some friends were pulling
a wire across a roof that had transformers on it. The
cases of the transformers were 'ground'. As the wire
was pulled tight (make shift antenna) it touched
both and promptly turned red and fuse linked in a big
shower of sparks. We did check it and have it rechecked
and it was all "correct" however the length of the grounds
to common earth was long enough (resistive and inductive) to generate
a low voltage astoundingly high amperage current.
Ohio is electrical storm country. Get lightening rods
installed and verify earthing for the entire structure at
the same time.
Changer a kids nappy in the car (possible view of the
camera) and then troll for sex offenders.
If you got em -- smoke em.
There is another way to look at this.
Imagine you have gold behind a locked door. Now imagine you have 50 locked doors.
This is your security through obscurity.
Or another way...
Imagine you have 50 locked doors all alike.
Behind those 50 locked doors are 50 more doors
all alike. And behind those doors 50 more doors.
Since the doors are "all alike" 49 can open to find
any of the 48 all alike doors in large circular
lists that never end. The 50th door that opens
to the 50th door etc... to the interesting door can
have any sane number of externally specified levels.
As long as there is no way for the attacker to leave
gold coins to disambiguate his walk the location
of the prize behind door number (pick a large number)
remains well obscure.
Another way to think of this is that key+method
is the necessary set of information to decrypt
data. There is no reason to expose either.
....snip... /dev/random ...snip...
(/dev/urandom is too slow and
It is not necessary to generate a stream of random bits
for the drive. A couple blocks of random bits written
over and over will do the trick. The number of blocks
can be large enough to optimize I/O say 1/3rd of
the system memory...
The major risk for some is junk that should have been removed.
Deleting files from a dumpster should begin with a rename of the
files with a name long enough to leave little clue what the file was.
Walk through some random bits with a hex dump tool to make file names and rename
based on that. Filling up a file system with random bits of junk filled files occasional
can minimize garbage that might be latent in 'free' disk blocks.
Overwriting a file does nothing predictable as new filesystems are happy to
use free blocks and just change the list of blocks. The old data can
hang about a long time in the list of free blocks. Longer on solid state disks.
Writing zeros is less interesting than writing some /dev/random and then write a gazillion files
random bits or pseudo bits. Gather a block of
bits from
with those bits in the files to fill up the disk.
Many companies have a physical search and destroy
policy because working drives would be send out to
salvage at uncle bobs and then sold on the market.
By sawing a drive in half the auditor that has no clearance
can record the serial number in the gone for good logs.
And warranty might be collected from some companies.
If the data has value the policy looks a lot like the roach motel.
By stopping any repair, reuse or misuse data cannot flow
out on a 'spare'.
Solid state drives add some complexity to all this....
Salvage the magnets recycling firms will begin to pay
real bucks for rare earth scrap.
With the magnets in hand you also have the disks
in hand. Run those salvaged motor and seek magnets
over the media -- then don goggles and smack the platters
with a hammer.
Just think on what you said. The GPS could be proof that you were doing something like that and not ditching work. Even though it would be invading some of your privacy, it could also be used to justify your absence during a certain period.
It's a double edged sword, I'm quite sure you can find good argument for both sides, but I'm just saying that if I owned a company I'd want to check on my employees during work hours. If I'm paying them to work, I actually want to make reasonably sure they do.
Just think on what you said. The GPS could be proof that you were doing something like that and not ditching work. ...snip....
Yes, yet doctors keep appointment books and logs.
The FBI keeps logs...
You can subscribe to one of many family oriented trackers
and track yourself as you would a rambunctious teenager.
Yes as an employer you are paying them to work but that gives you rights in the
work place not in their lives. If there is an out of policy absence
dock them pay after your ask for an in policy explanation.
If the workspace is in a vehicle then miles and routes inside of the
prescribed works hours get interesting and murky depending on
who owns the vehicle and the employee status. The murky bit
can be cleared up by a clear policy that covers ALL employees.
To secretly target an individual because you are able to
as a state agency is likely an abuse of power. Note that
an individual abused by a corporation normally has recourse
via the state. This fail-safe seems to be absent which makes
the abuse of power likely, insidious and troubling.
The tax office should patent any method
and collect a fee.
If they do it correctly the fees they
collect should close the gap
on the national debt.
Some say the tax code is Greek to
them so there is hope that they
will also obtain some relief.
My wife has the RFID thing, as part of her ID card. ....snip....
Tell me more about the RFID thing. Most work by actively
saturating a region with an electro-magnetic field strong enough
to activate a transmitter/ receiver.
Many people believe that cell phones cause brain cancer...
what about this electro-magnetic field. It is one thing
to have entrances and exits surrounded by a bounded and very
localized power field. It is another to have "the work place"
saturated with them. And if it reaches out 400 meters or
more from the work place then the power levels boggle the mind.
Card key readers are quite local and are activated to distances
of less than a meter. Merchant RFID tags work because of
the gate like localization of the power and receiver hardware at the
doors.
Hmmm....
...snip...
If you take your private car out during the time you're supposed to be working, the company should be allowed to check that, right?
This is inside out...
If you take your private car someplace during normal work hours -- NO.
Should they notice you are not at work-- Yes, but they do not need to
know where you go just that you are absent.
More apropos will be privacy issue should you visit a doctor, planned
parenthood, a psychiatrist, AA meeting or religious obligation. Yes even visit the
offices of the FBI or a legal counsel because the company is engaged
in something illegal or fraudulent as they are obviously doing.
What does enterprise size mean?
What class of construction is the
building? Straw, sticks, bricks... this wolf wants to know
Are regions RF isolated from each other
do you have multiple floors and multiple
buildings? Can RF pass between these
odds and ends.
First you need to wire the building and also decide if
your WiFi boxes will get power from the ethernet wire
links or from the wall.
Do you need secure access for all or is this install
wide open and plan to let VPN do the security.
i.e. guests will always want WiFi service.
Have you done any site research. If a neighbor already
has WiFi deployed and all the channels occupied you
may be the last fool in the pool. There are some
Android applications that I would use to see what is already
transmitting.
Windows and floors do you want to secure the inside
from outside listeners? And do you want to secure the
inside from external access.
Since all WiFi is tested to and operates to public standards
there is going to be little difference from vendor to vendor
at first glance. Placement and wired infrastructure will make
as big a difference as anything.
You are going to need wired links lots of them. Plan on
a robust wired infrastructure to start. The cell phone companies
often have less trouble on their last mile... than you might expect.
Will Cell phones have the ability to connect their WiFi links
to your network? If the company provides phones the answer
will be yes... Cell phones + laptops + iTouch three times the
load you might expect. Will you have to put Femto cells in
for executives?
You may have to screen areas with hardware cloth or some
RF limiting wall covering to keep areas from interfering with
each other....
Net nannie... do you have legal issue to audit and manage
both incoming and outgoing? Privacy issues that make shared
pass words a tangle.
Central management? Can one person walk around and
check them all? Backup...
Now this will shake things up.
No matter which way this goes it will shake up
the entire professional world. A comment about
quakes, fire, flu shots, immunizations the mind
boggles at the things folk might abandon responsibility
for and attack others....
Well a research group should do some research.
Security and revision control are important.
When starting a research group one important
and largish investment is the desktops and local
storage to manage the code and the data.
A startup should start with dual purpose resources
when possible. Code design should begin with
some notion of progress and checkpoint and restart.
Building reliable infrastructure is a royal PITA.
The desktop tools and cluster tools should play well
together.
Do research the various cloud resources. Optimum
use of cloud resources can depend on the smallest
initial design decisions.
As always read Jon Louis Bentley's "Programming Pearls"
Does he write you a check for part of the
shared utilities (internet included)? If so
there is a paper record that you are not
the only person using the link.
this makes sense for a "design" patent.
To me the prototype design was the old
slate blackboard same shape rounded edges
on some. Able to draw in regions of arbitrary
shape, able to fill the regions with text or art.
I know a guy ...snip...
Jammers are available but the GPS signal is so weak anyway that you could probably sabotage it without needing to keep something that would act as evidence in court in your car.
Something like a tin foil hat over the antenna?
Perhaps with magnetic attachments and even a solar
panel to power something....
What if a common carrier redirected your parcel or
first class letter to you via an alternate carrier for profit.
Then the alternate carrier did a deep package inspection
of your commerce and sent you product you did
not order and also sold that deep package inspection
the To: and From: address info and sold that in conjunction
with the results of their "deep package" inspection.
Remember most "Mail" transport is contracted to airlines and trucking
services....
Rape, when it's discussed and agreed upon beforehand, is called consensual sex.
Not when it is with the Boss....
So now lets discuss your job and pay.
If you consent you keep your job and still get paid (no overtime for the all night efforts).
These become abuses of power....
Bonus... first to mention surge protectors.
Wait a couple hours then go and buy some
for the home (I want to get mine first).
One problem is that in large numbers they will trigger breakers and
fuses knocking out power in large areas that will then trigger surges in
other areas. The good news is that your flat screen TV might
survive but there will be no wall power or TV transmissions
to watch.
Turn it inside out..... reread the thread:
"Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US"
i.e. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
I suspect it is clear and outright fraud to redirect
traffic to a proxy that does anything beyond
improve response and bandwidth.
But since this proxy abuse is so invisible and insidious
it makes sense to use https and multiple personas.
For example I NEVER search for the best price for
"Depends" using my own name. I reserve a second hand
yard sale laptop for that and then only at open WiFi sites.