One of my sillier recent ideas was to have additional forms of patents that work the other way around:
1. Original Patent Arrangement: no-one else can do what the patent describes without the patent holder's permission.
2. Upside-Down-Patent Arrangement: everyone has to follow what the patent describes.
The vocabulary in programming languages is actually really small.
It helps of course, to know the some English, but it's not necessary.
When working together with English speakers, there is obviously a hurdle: they might not know other languages; some may even think that knowledge of English is obligatory.
The relativity fridge has a large mass inside so that time runs much slower - at a ratio of 1 year to one second. So take food out as you put it in - preserves freshness + temperature (cold or hot).
From the other posts I think you'll agree that such a fridge is your only option - electronics are not built to last that long! And there will likely not be any spare parts.
Will they be able to keep the network up? I doubt it.
So another patent application for which it would be good to require a working implementation.
Someone who can really make this work will have to pay a license fee -- but the effort is somewhere else, not in "developing" this rather lame idea.
(Reference: The Google advantage is that their search engine works and is reliable; while Microsoft has had enough time to match this but has not been able to do so.)
I guess software can make it easier to avoid inadvertent disclosures, but I wouldn't trust it too much - plus the usability will suffer (pop-ups all the time?), even if it works.
Scary thought to rely on Microsoft to solve this problem. I see quite a few other Microsoft pointers in the comments.
The problem seems to be what *people* do with the documents, not what the software does. Think sales person handing out brochures plus other informational material, sending emails with attachments etc.
The solution to this *people* problem is simply : policies + training.
I was thinking that other measurements might come in later on.
For example, water usage or temperature. Or the numbers from the monthly bill, including the current price of electricity.
Temparature can be measured frequently, resulting in a lot of data over the years: reports will become slow if there is no supporting structure. A database will give you indices.
Using several files I think will become confusing.
Don't forget the value of ACID.
I wouldn't go through Open Office's "friendly interface", I would like to see the graphs in a web browser. One click: open bookmark. Then the page with the graphs will have links to yearly, monthly reports etc. I don't think OO will make that easy.
What if there is no gas? What if just one lollipop drops into the black hole every hundred years? Would the black hole then reach a limit "No more lollipops, please" ?
I'm glad the "zone" is within the US - when I first read the posting, I thought they want to check people outside of the border - within Canada / Mexico...
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See "Illegal immigration to the United States": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States
Looks like around 4%. Where do the immigrants come from?
If you don't have an SSN and you see "SSN required", surely you know you're not welcome.
Stephan
So if you simply don't have a SSN, then you can't open an account with Sprint !?
-> Racism.
Stephan
What does that have to do with freegeek?
Stephan
I forgot; there's a list of cities at
http://www.freegeek.org/about/intergalactic
* Free Geek Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
* Free Geek Central Florida (Orlando, Florida)
* Free Geek Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
* Free Geek Columbus (Columbus, Ohio)
* Free Geek Michiana (South Bend, Indiana area)
* Free Geek Twin Cities (Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota)
* Born Again Technologies (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)
* Free Geek Vancouver (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
* Free Geek Providence (Providence, Rhode Island)
* The original Free Geek, often referred to as âoethe "Mothership". (Portland, Oregon)
Stephan
freegeek ( http://www.freegeek.org/ ) recycles PC's and sells them if they have some left-over.
Linux pre-installed.
Have to check if there is one where you live.
Stephan
One of my sillier recent ideas was to have additional forms of patents that work the other way around:
1. Original Patent Arrangement: no-one else can do what the patent describes without the patent holder's permission.
2. Upside-Down-Patent Arrangement: everyone has to follow what the patent describes.
It becomes sort of like a law-by-application.
Stephan
The vocabulary in programming languages is actually really small.
It helps of course, to know the some English, but it's not necessary.
When working together with English speakers, there is obviously a hurdle: they might not know other languages; some may even think that knowledge of English is obligatory.
Stephan
Also include numerical computations and symbolic algebra?
Stephan
The old model K-300 had a bit of a problem like that. But the newer models are just fine. It is completely safe to put your hand in any of them!
The relativity fridge has a large mass inside so that time runs much slower - at a ratio of 1 year to one second. So take food out as you put it in - preserves freshness + temperature (cold or hot).
From the other posts I think you'll agree that such a fridge is your only option - electronics are not built to last that long! And there will likely not be any spare parts.
Stephan
What if the cookie of the target site is against a host name such as
http://094ec182f4a74bc1382206407.bank.com/
The attacker would not waste their time trying to guess the (randomly generated) 094ec182f4a74bc1382206407 part.
So when you login your logging in with a host name with a token.
Stephan
The American people are being cheated, once again.
Stephan
Will they be able to keep the network up? I doubt it.
So another patent application for which it would be good to require a working implementation.
Someone who can really make this work will have to pay a license fee -- but the effort is somewhere else, not in "developing" this rather lame idea.
(Reference: The Google advantage is that their search engine works and is reliable; while Microsoft has had enough time to match this but has not been able to do so.)
Another lose - lose.
Stephan
You mean as in the software will not allow any printing? That's a bit hard to swallow.
On the other hand, once it's on paper it's outside of software control.
Tamper - toughness has gone out the window.
So I find it's best to look at this as a people problem and not a systems problem -- avoid software (and especially Microsoft).
Stephan
Sure, but software will not extend to print-outs.
I guess software can make it easier to avoid inadvertent disclosures, but I wouldn't trust it too much - plus the usability will suffer (pop-ups all the time?), even if it works.
Stephan
Scary thought to rely on Microsoft to solve this problem. I see quite a few other Microsoft pointers in the comments.
The problem seems to be what *people* do with the documents, not what the software does. Think sales person handing out brochures plus other informational material, sending emails with attachments etc.
The solution to this *people* problem is simply : policies + training.
Stephan
Use latex and a Makefile.
Set up targets for every chapter separately; add features / other make targets as you go along.
Stephan
The opposite of a dumb idea is not necessarily not dumb.
I smell sales-people have been involved.
Stephan
I was thinking that other measurements might come in later on.
For example, water usage or temperature. Or the numbers from the monthly bill, including the current price of electricity.
Temparature can be measured frequently, resulting in a lot of data over the years: reports will become slow if there is no supporting structure.
A database will give you indices.
Using several files I think will become confusing.
Don't forget the value of ACID.
I wouldn't go through Open Office's "friendly interface", I would like to see the graphs in a web browser. One click: open bookmark.
Then the page with the graphs will have links to yearly, monthly reports etc. I don't think OO will make that easy.
Stephan
Once you have your OCR working, I think you should use a database to store the data, not a OO Spreadsheet.
sqlite might be the easiest.
Stephan
Should be good for playing music on bicycles!
Stephan
Surely what is required is to isolate the sensitive information, so that it can be protected.
Blanket encryption may impress some people, but it hardly solves the problem.
Details of how to implement isolation and protection would depend on the data, and which subsets are used in the calculations.
Stephan
What if there is no gas? What if just one lollipop drops into the black hole every hundred years? Would the black hole then reach a limit "No more lollipops, please" ?
Oh well,
Stephan
I'm glad the "zone" is within the US - when I first read the posting, I thought they want to check people outside of the border - within Canada / Mexico ...
There is only one space-time continuum monitoring service, http://space-time.net/
Stephan