... but let's face it, 99% of the time the person being sued came up with the (not particularly original) idea with no knowledge of the original group and their patent.
Probably 100% of the time. Try reading a patent application sometime and see if you can understand what the $#?%! they're describing. If there is anything that fulfills Videodrome's promise of inducing a brain tumor in the viewer, it is patent applications.
The issue is complicated. Suppose someone takes a kiddie porn image, chops it into several thousand rectangular bitmaps and scatters them across thousands of computers on the Internet. Which computer can be said to contain kiddie porn?
Suppose someone takes a KP image and XORs it with online copies of the U.S. Constitution, an image of Julie Andrews, and a PDF file of U.S. census data. They then take the result and put it up on the net, labeled as "white noise". Then they delete the original KP image. Where is the kiddie porn now? It can be reconstructed by XORing all the remaining files together, but none of those files by itself is kiddie porn. Is the kiddie porn really in the instructions on how to assemble the files to recreate the original KP image? Or does the KP image not exist until someone actually XORs the files and recreates it?
Yeah, right. The secret is marketing half-truths, old-boy networks, graft, etc., the same bag of tricks as always. When I see something like the scene depicted in this David Horsey cartoon then I'll believe in your meritocracy.
Anyone else think Wired authors get paid by the word, with no maximum?
Yah, even for Wired this article reached a new low in tech content per page of copy. This story could have been summarized in a hundred words and saved us all a whole lot of time.
The point is to make spamming more expensive. if you can't make them pay postage, make them pay a compute penalty, fund research into computerized vision system or pay baleful hungry Chinese to do the OCR for them. Whatever the means, make them pay.
Using CR, systems, you've thrown a wrench in the works of all the spammers using turnkey spamming systems who have no clue what to do when their system stops working. With CR you've also raised the cost of doing business, and if the cost can be made high enough spamming might become uneconomical. That's the ultimate goal.
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Probably 100% of the time. Try reading a patent application sometime and see if you can understand what the $#?%! they're describing. If there is anything that fulfills Videodrome's promise of inducing a brain tumor in the viewer, it is patent applications.
I wonder if Ari Fleischer's Single Bullet Doctrine is applicable here. :)
The issue is complicated. Suppose someone takes a kiddie porn image, chops it into several thousand rectangular bitmaps and scatters them across thousands of computers on the Internet. Which computer can be said to contain kiddie porn?
Suppose someone takes a KP image and XORs it with online copies of the U.S. Constitution, an image of Julie Andrews, and a PDF file of U.S. census data. They then take the result and put it up on the net, labeled as "white noise". Then they delete the original KP image. Where is the kiddie porn now? It can be reconstructed by XORing all the remaining files together, but none of those files by itself is kiddie porn. Is the kiddie porn really in the instructions on how to assemble the files to recreate the original KP image? Or does the KP image not exist until someone actually XORs the files and recreates it?
Yeah, right. The secret is marketing half-truths, old-boy networks, graft, etc., the same bag of tricks as always. When I see something like the scene depicted in this David Horsey cartoon then I'll believe in your meritocracy.
Anyone else think Wired authors get paid by the word, with no maximum? Yah, even for Wired this article reached a new low in tech content per page of copy. This story could have been summarized in a hundred words and saved us all a whole lot of time.
The point is to make spamming more expensive. if you can't make them pay postage, make them pay a compute penalty, fund research into computerized vision system or pay baleful hungry Chinese to do the OCR for them. Whatever the means, make them pay. Using CR, systems, you've thrown a wrench in the works of all the spammers using turnkey spamming systems who have no clue what to do when their system stops working. With CR you've also raised the cost of doing business, and if the cost can be made high enough spamming might become uneconomical. That's the ultimate goal.