Does anyone besides me think that this kind of technique could provide stronger protection in cases of source code piracy such as GPL violations, theft of codebase, etc.,? By generating visual patterns based on the occurrence of keywords (or even compiled bytecodes) a signature of a codebase could be generated that is still recognizable even after comments have been stripped out or subtle changes introduced. This could be immensely valuable in GPL infringement cases.
Except that bandwidth terminology comes from the telecom world which has consistently used the decimal representations.
In SCSI, for example 10MB/s really is 10,000,000 bytes per second.
Where things really get nuts is in calculating throughput for tape backup systems over networks. Those differences from power of two storage units to power of ten bandwidth can add up, especially when the accepted symbols (KB, MB, GB) are the same.
An interesting exercise for is writing functions to convert between the two. (Eg., how many GB per hour can I back up over my 10MB/s SCSI bus?)
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Does anyone besides me think that this kind of technique could provide stronger protection in cases of source code piracy such as GPL violations, theft of codebase, etc.,? By generating visual patterns based on the occurrence of keywords (or even compiled bytecodes) a signature of a codebase could be generated that is still recognizable even after comments have been stripped out or subtle changes introduced. This could be immensely valuable in GPL infringement cases.
Except that bandwidth terminology comes from the telecom world which has consistently used the decimal representations.
In SCSI, for example 10MB/s really is 10,000,000 bytes per second.
Where things really get nuts is in calculating throughput for tape backup systems over networks. Those differences from power of two storage units to power of ten bandwidth can add up, especially when the accepted symbols (KB, MB, GB) are the same.
An interesting exercise for is writing functions to convert between the two. (Eg., how many GB per hour can I back up over my 10MB/s SCSI bus?)
--PLB