> Who the hell assumes noone is watching them in high school, anyways?
I know Charles Noone, and he's usually watching the grade school, not the high school. From the bushes. Oh wait, you meant no one. Never mind. Sorry about that Charles.
Read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was a numbers man at one point. You'd pick a number, and they'd use the close of the Dow Jones on the next day, down to the appropriate decimal. Public info, impossible to spoof, and pretty darn random.
But... but... but... according to your sig, you're a street walking cheetah, with a heart full of napalm. You're the runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb! Of course you'd do it! Else, you must retire your sig. No, I insist.
That's the first thing I thought of. I read though a few dozen posts, amazed no one had said as much. I had to search for 'hoax' to find your lone voice.
I don't grok. Plagiarism is cut-n-paste. If FindAPlager.exe greps for similar words, in different places, then uh, that's not plagiarism. If you rewrite someone, you may be a cheap hack, but a plagiarist you are not.
There are millions, not billions, of patents. I'm no Googler, but offhand guess, I'd say the full-text-index-search would fit in an easy terabyte. Not your desktop, but hardly out of bounds.
For your assertion of "finitely many ways", I think you've gone wrong in the opposite direction. I think there are oh-so-infinitely ways to describe, in vague legal speak, the same goddamn thing over and over and over.
Can software help? Of course. Can you plug in a package, and spit out The Answers? I doubt it.
Let's see, "simply install comparison software" - okay, I know, we'll have it do a google search on the words in the title of the application. If it finds more than, ah, 100 pages, then gosharoo, there must be prior art.
Your example fails: people don't plagiarise patents, they submit new applications of old ideas, using different words.
I suspect that "put them in a large database" (hey, thanks for qualifying with 'large') would be the easy part. Either they already are, duh, or else OCR 'em.
> The public are mostly morons-- and since when have they ever done anything but look for the absolute cheapest of [product]? Quality and longevity are of little or no concern.
Yes, that would be why Yugo decimated Honda and Toyota a decade ago.
> I don't care about screen size so long as it can do 800x600.
800x600? You can't be serious! The high end of 1991? I remember the rollout of 800x600, between VGA and 1024x768. Yes, there was some XGA nonsense in there, but we got to 1K pretty fast, and that's rock bottom ever since.
Look, I'll admit the current pixel dance is sort of goofy, with 2Kx1920 or whatever, but 800x600? A reasonable low end is 1280x1024.
Ob disclosure: my Dell Inspiron 8000 is 1600x1200, and yes those dots get a bit tiny sometimes. But I dig it.
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"Forced recreation, live in London!"
Big karma to whoever identifies the quote, in context.
Well, duh!
What, are those sweaters sold at an anti-NAFTA rally?
I know you are, but what am I?
> Who the hell assumes noone is watching them in high school, anyways?
I know Charles Noone, and he's usually watching the grade school, not the high school. From the bushes. Oh wait, you meant no one. Never mind. Sorry about that Charles.
> even with Java diabled in IE prefs you can't use the Buymusic.com site
I always knew Java was Satan's handchild!
> Every device you own can have an address
Hell, every dust spec on every mite on every device you own can have an address. Too bad Dr. Seuss isn't around to write about it.
> The sooner that IE is a minority the better
Excuse me sir, but have you noticed that you have monkeys flying out of your butt?
> MS did not come to have $40 billions in chash for beeing stupid.
Clearly not, or you'd be rolling in it.
Read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was a numbers man at one point. You'd pick a number, and they'd use the close of the Dow Jones on the next day, down to the appropriate decimal. Public info, impossible to spoof, and pretty darn random.
It's a terrific book!
But ... but ... but ... according to your sig, you're a street walking cheetah, with a heart full of napalm. You're the runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb! Of course you'd do it! Else, you must retire your sig. No, I insist.
I would rather have majored in Glass Chewing than Linear Algebra. Numerical Analysis was bad, but Linear Algebra ... ooh I get the shakes.
"fools misspell"
-Rabid
> they were invented by a Japanese American in this century.
Whoa, I could have sworn I saw them as far back as 1998.
Noone ever get's that right; its alot harder then it looks.
I'm always hoping natural selection will do its job on those who can't spell "its". Unfortunately, you dolts breed like rabbits.
I think the word you're looking for is 'pathetic'.
> mediocritomaton
Hey, watch your mouth!
> driving Toyota Landrovers
Blasphemer! Those would be Land Cruisers.
That's the first thing I thought of. I read though a few dozen posts, amazed no one had said as much. I had to search for 'hoax' to find your lone voice.
Well, do you or don't you? Does it depend? Tell us!
Ooooh, now I see - you haven't a clue how question marks work.
I don't grok. Plagiarism is cut-n-paste. If FindAPlager.exe greps for similar words, in different places, then uh, that's not plagiarism. If you rewrite someone, you may be a cheap hack, but a plagiarist you are not.
There are millions, not billions, of patents. I'm no Googler, but offhand guess, I'd say the full-text-index-search would fit in an easy terabyte. Not your desktop, but hardly out of bounds.
For your assertion of "finitely many ways", I think you've gone wrong in the opposite direction. I think there are oh-so-infinitely ways to describe, in vague legal speak, the same goddamn thing over and over and over.
Can software help? Of course. Can you plug in a package, and spit out The Answers? I doubt it.
Are you trolling? Surely. Yes?
Let's see, "simply install comparison software" - okay, I know, we'll have it do a google search on the words in the title of the application. If it finds more than, ah, 100 pages, then gosharoo, there must be prior art.
Your example fails: people don't plagiarise patents, they submit new applications of old ideas, using different words.
I suspect that "put them in a large database" (hey, thanks for qualifying with 'large') would be the easy part. Either they already are, duh, or else OCR 'em.
> The public are mostly morons-- and since when have they ever done anything but look for the absolute cheapest of [product]? Quality and longevity are of little or no concern.
Yes, that would be why Yugo decimated Honda and Toyota a decade ago.
> I'm a system integrator
Wow!
> I don't care about screen size so long as it can do 800x600.
800x600? You can't be serious! The high end of 1991? I remember the rollout of 800x600, between VGA and 1024x768. Yes, there was some XGA nonsense in there, but we got to 1K pretty fast, and that's rock bottom ever since.
Look, I'll admit the current pixel dance is sort of goofy, with 2Kx1920 or whatever, but 800x600? A reasonable low end is 1280x1024.
Ob disclosure: my Dell Inspiron 8000 is 1600x1200, and yes those dots get a bit tiny sometimes. But I dig it.