Scene: Two construction workers, Bob and Jim, having lunch at their local pub. Bob is seated at the bar watching the game. Jim just went out to the truck for his wallet.
Television cuts away from the game to a news bulletin: We're interrupting the game to bring you this breaking report on the crash of an Irisbus in front of the Home Depot on Main Street just a short while ago. Authorities say...
Jim walks back in: Hey, Bob. Looks like we lost that five-gallon bucket of red paint. I bet it fell off when we hit that bump pulling out of Home Depot.
Seriously, how do you authenticate a stripe of red paint?
Humans aren't perfect, but applications of technology that remove human control are scary. The increased potential for intentional and accidental abuse are staggering. The scene above was sort of tongue-in-cheek, but in reality, this bus might very well reduce the cost of terrorism to the price of a bucket of paint!
It happened to the Swiss in the 1970's, it's happening to Polaroid now, and inevitably it will happen again to another company. Why is it that success seems to turn individuals and institutions, once hailed as brilliant for their insight and achievement, into complete idiots with no respect for history?
Hear hear! The trip "through the planet core" would be the first thing to go! Not only does it contain the annoying JarJar, but it's a huge plot mistake in my book. Am I supposed to believe that the invasion force landed ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET, and then used land-based vehicles to go the rest of the way? Not only that, but if I AM asked to believe this, then how did the invasion force get there BEFORE JarJar and the Jedi? Maybe my geometry's a little rusty, but I'm fairly certain it would take a hell of lot more time to go AROUND the planet than THROUGH it.
It wasn't web pages, it was files stored on a central file server that were redistributed automatically to Windows machines in a public lab in case the users changed them, or in case someone needed to change the master on the server and have it automatically redistributed. The checksum was CRC32 and not MD5, but what I implemented was an entire system, with a front-end even, that used checksums to automate the process of checking for out-of-sync files on a central server and to then distribute the appropriate updates. Sounds like prior art to me...
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It seems that Mr. Grepstad is consulting the wrong group of experts ...
Scene: Two construction workers, Bob and Jim, having lunch at their local pub. Bob is seated at the bar watching the game. Jim just went out to the truck for his wallet.
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Television cuts away from the game to a news bulletin: We're interrupting the game to bring you this breaking report on the crash of an Irisbus in front of the Home Depot on Main Street just a short while ago. Authorities say
Jim walks back in: Hey, Bob. Looks like we lost that five-gallon bucket of red paint. I bet it fell off when we hit that bump pulling out of Home Depot.
Seriously, how do you authenticate a stripe of red paint?
Humans aren't perfect, but applications of technology that remove human control are scary. The increased potential for intentional and accidental abuse are staggering. The scene above was sort of tongue-in-cheek, but in reality, this bus might very well reduce the cost of terrorism to the price of a bucket of paint!
It happened to the Swiss in the 1970's, it's happening to Polaroid now, and inevitably it will happen again to another company. Why is it that success seems to turn individuals and institutions, once hailed as brilliant for their insight and achievement, into complete idiots with no respect for history?
Hear hear! The trip "through the planet core" would be the first thing to go! Not only does it contain the annoying JarJar, but it's a huge plot mistake in my book. Am I supposed to believe that the invasion force landed ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET, and then used land-based vehicles to go the rest of the way? Not only that, but if I AM asked to believe this, then how did the invasion force get there BEFORE JarJar and the Jedi? Maybe my geometry's a little rusty, but I'm fairly certain it would take a hell of lot more time to go AROUND the planet than THROUGH it.
Go Phantom Edit!
Could give a whole new meaning to the concept of windows technology. And what do you clean them with? Windex?
It wasn't web pages, it was files stored on a central file server that were redistributed automatically to Windows machines in a public lab in case the users changed them, or in case someone needed to change the master on the server and have it automatically redistributed. The checksum was CRC32 and not MD5, but what I implemented was an entire system, with a front-end even, that used checksums to automate the process of checking for out-of-sync files on a central server and to then distribute the appropriate updates. Sounds like prior art to me ...