# cat/dev/random | grep "the answer to life, the universe and everything" | sed -e 's/the answer to life, the universe and everything/42/'
Binary file (standard input) matches
Some of the researchers associated with
Google have been working on identifying similar, but not identical web pages.
At a talk I attended, J. Cho described the process of fingerprinting
documents (rather than checksumming them).
Recording police *conduct with their knowledge may not be illegal, but it certainly pisses them off. Probably enough that they will "ask" you to give them the device. At least that's what happened to a friend of mine who had a super-8 camera with him when the cops found him investigating/trespassing in a university building. He had the camera not-quite hidden and was a bit excited to be getting the audio of the conversation. When the cops saw the camera, they demanded it, and he didn't get it back for months, never getting back the tape itself.
My Dad has one of the patents that I would consider prior art. But I guess we'll let the
lawyers sort it all out. One clear difference with my dad's is that he described independent read and write heads, which seems to be unnecessary complexity considering the speed of hard drives these days, and the benefit derived from using off-the-shelf parts.
Here are links to the time-shifting patent and some other interesting ones...
afaik, bug 42184 is still unresolved. As a sysadmin, I can't really take mozilla seriously when its release notes suggest installing it separately for each user who wants to run it.
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It didn't output 42 for me:
# cat /dev/random | grep "the answer to life, the universe and everything" | sed -e 's/the answer to life, the universe and everything/42/'
Binary file (standard input) matches
Some of the researchers associated with Google have been working on identifying similar, but not identical web pages. At a talk I attended, J. Cho described the process of fingerprinting documents (rather than checksumming them).
These papers might be interesting:
I watched most of Jobs' keynote address. Pretty
boring to me. New iDVD software, OS X can talk
to your digital camera, etc.
And this rant about linux having too many
obnoxious users... grow up, but don't expect
everyone else to do the same.
Recording police *conduct with their knowledge may not be illegal, but it certainly pisses them off. Probably enough that they will "ask" you to give them the device. At least that's what happened to a friend of mine who had a super-8 camera with him when the cops found him investigating/trespassing in a university building. He had the camera not-quite hidden and was a bit excited to be getting the audio of the conversation. When the cops saw the camera, they demanded it, and he didn't get it back for months, never getting back the tape itself.
My Dad has one of the patents that I would consider prior art. But I guess we'll let the lawyers sort it all out. One clear difference with my dad's is that he described independent read and write heads, which seems to be unnecessary complexity considering the speed of hard drives these days, and the benefit derived from using off-the-shelf parts.
Here are links to the time-shifting patent and some other interesting ones...
afaik, bug 42184 is still unresolved. As a sysadmin, I can't really take mozilla seriously when its release notes suggest installing it separately for each user who wants to run it.