DCC, or Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse is a method where when the internet gets slammed with spam, this system adds a header to each of your e-mails. With this header, you can strip out e-mails which are most likely spam. Here's an example header:
Basically every e-mail you get, you pipe through a program. The program takes all the headers and the body, generates a checksum on them, and stores it in a database. As you can see from above, you have From, Message-ID, Received, Body, Fuz1 and Fuz2. If everyone on the net gets 10,000 e-mails from the same From: line, it would show "many" instead of 0 (zero). Here the Body of the spam, as well as two Fuzzy methods (lossy?:-) identify this e-mail as something that has gone to tons of people, and is marked as such. Then I just have procmail spit it into/dev/null and voila! It's gone.
There are hooks for sendmail and qmail if you want to do it enterprise wide. I've been real happy with it. Only on a few occasions do I lose mail, but mostly because I haven't set up my "white list" or approved senders.
Each human can be equally assigned
12,909,917,307,196,405,017 IDs, or
12 quintillion ID's, or
12,909,917 trillion ID's per person, equally distributed among all humans.
I don't think I have that much stuff in my house, even if you break down every item into its simplest parts. And I have 6 PC's!
So my question is, can someone drive by in a van, by my house, and get an entire inventory of what I have in my house? Or does it only work within a few feet?
Could the Gas Man (natural gas) with a little wand walk around my house and get a good idea of what I have? Yikes!
With a Pringles can and some 802.11b equipment, you could throw the signals about 10 miles line of sight. It'd be kind of funny to see a washing machine mounted on a telephone pole with 50 pringles cans attached to it though.
Sherman reminds me of that guy from American Pie. Red headed step child, geek, braces, skinny and real prone to a nasty sunburn.
I wonder what Sherman (in this case) really looked like. Kind of funny to imagine AP's Sherman playing video games being busted by the Feds in his own house. Lots of girlish screaming methinks.
The biggest question on my mind is who will own the space where these messages are left? Will I own the cubicle area in my office building? Will my company? Will they allow me to use it? What if I use it for advertising something I'm working on outside of work?
Who will own the space outside the restaurant? You and I? The public? What if someone who hates the restaurant owner leaves nasty, misleading messages in that space outside the place -- does the owner have recourse? Who does he go to? HP?
Who's message will have a higher priority? Mine? Yours? Your mom's? Will it be based on age? Date posted? Will bots come out posting the latest or the highest rated note for that particular GPS location? Will a Slashdot-like moderation system need to be implemented to sort out the crap/flamebaits/trolls from the insightful/interesting/funny notes?
Are the notes time dependant? "I just left a doosey in here!" near a public toilet -- does that stay until someone else posts, or only 5 minutes?
I wonder if the real estate agents will start selling the space with the house/commercial property, or if they will sell it separately.
You've gotta have an antenna in order to read the chip after you've induced the AC current in the coil, right? Disable the antenna, and voila -- you've reduced the range of the bill's ability to be read, but it would still be accepted at the store if the bill was close enough.
Besides, what happens when your bill worked when you got it, but now doesn't. Do you lose your $20? $200? $500? Can you not spend it?
Bills will quickly go away if that's the case. I think the serial number should be used and scanned (and hell, make up a way to validate a serial number that's complex!). If you can't read the serial, then you should get a new bill. Technology is an interesting solution, but technology is also easily defeated by the intelligent tinkering community that lives here.
Modifying, manipulating and deleting a log on a bill will be easy, but if the bill is scanned at every location and the logs are held by the companies that take the bills, rather than the bill itself, then it would be difficult but possible to follow the bill -- just supena (sp) the records for the suspect bill's serial, and if anyone has it, they will cough it up -- time, date used, etc.
Plus, it could help to kill counterfeiting, using the printed serial. The Gov't could maintain a database of in-circulation valid serial numbers. If its not there, it's counterfeit. If it is, but has recently been requested at another location, it could return a "Valid but questionable" response, giving the clerk the notice that that serial was requested recently and far away location-wise.
However, securing that data would be difficult, and in the wrong hands, could be very destructive to either a person, a business or the government (or even our national security! Who know's how...)
So my future-lawyer wife and I had a debate (heated I might add) about this issue.
We came to the determination that there are two pieces of the sale: the physical box containing the manual and the CD, and the license which is included in the package.
The box, containing a copy of the software on CD and a manual for how to use the software is included in the box. The CD and manual are yours to sell. So is the license included in the package.
You are buying a physical CD, a book (manual), and a license. However, until you install the software, you do not agree to the license. This way, everyone can sell boxed software all they want. However, the license is SEPARATE from the SALE of the box, because you still haven't installed the software, which activates the license.
Heck, the could sell the CD and the manual for $1, and then sell the license online for $148.99. You could still sell the CD and the manual all you want (since you own those physical items), but you down own the RIGHT to install that software on a computer.
The court is saying that Softman had every right to sell the box, which he did, and should. But the court SHOULD NOT have said that the entire transaction invalidates the license and allows Softman to do whatever he wants with it (copying, fraud, copying to multiple computers, etc).
I think we'll see this overturned, but hopefully the appeals court will see that there are two transactions -- the sale of the copy of the software, and the license that is agreed to when you INSTALL the software, not just buy the box that it is in.
So I'm getting married. August. 2001. And her birthday? March 4. Would have guessed that, but CNN screwed things up.
So I think that I will go with my own date, the date that Hugh Hefner was born:
2001-04-09 17:35:21
I mean, come on, if Hugh has got things going down on him, there has got to be a correlation!
PS, my official entry is the hugh hefner date. Don't tell my fiance.
This patent will cover all steel-belted reinforced rubber tires which, at high speeds and warm temperatures, will allow the tread of the tire to seperate from the main tire structure, thus providing the driver of the vehicle no less than three driving benefits:
Softer, smoother ride and increased comfort to passengers
Increased ability to easily roll vehicle
Simple and inexpensive source of material to re-sole your Birkenstock Sandals or brand-named Tennis Shoes
This patent will cover any and all tires ever produced that are either still in production or in inventory at sales and warehousing locations.
First, write a business plan. The Business Plan will contain what you want to do, how this device will sell, who it will sell to, and how you plan on making money and how long it will take to become profitable.
Check out www.bplans.com -- do it online there with some of their examples.
Then, find a non-disclosure agreement. I found a few just searching, here are some sites:
Any generic NDA will work just fine. First have them sign the NDA, then give them the business plan that lays out how your product works, what it does, and what market it fills.
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DCC, or Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse is a method where when the internet gets slammed with spam, this system adds a header to each of your e-mails. With this header, you can strip out e-mails which are most likely spam. Here's an example header:
/dev/null and voila! It's gone.
X-DCC-wanadoo-be-Metrics: thermonuclear.org 1016; From=0 Message-ID=0
Received=0 Body=many Fuz1=many Fuz2=many
Basically every e-mail you get, you pipe through a program. The program takes all the headers and the body, generates a checksum on them, and stores it in a database. As you can see from above, you have From, Message-ID, Received, Body, Fuz1 and Fuz2. If everyone on the net gets 10,000 e-mails from the same From: line, it would show "many" instead of 0 (zero). Here the Body of the spam, as well as two Fuzzy methods (lossy?:-) identify this e-mail as something that has gone to tons of people, and is marked as such. Then I just have procmail spit it into
There are hooks for sendmail and qmail if you want to do it enterprise wide. I've been real happy with it. Only on a few occasions do I lose mail, but mostly because I haven't set up my "white list" or approved senders.
More info on Rhyolite's site.
Peter
2^96 (2 to the 96th power), or
79 octillion, or
79,228,162,514,264,337 trillion, or
79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336
unique identifiers.
According to the Population Reference Bureau there are 6.137 billion people on earth, 1.193 billion of those in "more developed countries".
Doing a little quick math:
Each human can be equally assigned
12,909,917,307,196,405,017 IDs, or
12 quintillion ID's, or
12,909,917 trillion ID's per person, equally distributed among all humans.
I don't think I have that much stuff in my house, even if you break down every item into its simplest parts. And I have 6 PC's!
So my question is, can someone drive by in a van, by my house, and get an entire inventory of what I have in my house? Or does it only work within a few feet?
Could the Gas Man (natural gas) with a little wand walk around my house and get a good idea of what I have? Yikes!
With a Pringles can and some 802.11b equipment, you could throw the signals about 10 miles line of sight. It'd be kind of funny to see a washing machine mounted on a telephone pole with 50 pringles cans attached to it though.
Sherman reminds me of that guy from American Pie. Red headed step child, geek, braces, skinny and real prone to a nasty sunburn.
I wonder what Sherman (in this case) really looked like. Kind of funny to imagine AP's Sherman playing video games being busted by the Feds in his own house. Lots of girlish screaming methinks.
The biggest question on my mind is who will own the space where these messages are left? Will I own the cubicle area in my office building? Will my company? Will they allow me to use it? What if I use it for advertising something I'm working on outside of work?
Who will own the space outside the restaurant? You and I? The public? What if someone who hates the restaurant owner leaves nasty, misleading messages in that space outside the place -- does the owner have recourse? Who does he go to? HP?
Who's message will have a higher priority? Mine? Yours? Your mom's? Will it be based on age? Date posted? Will bots come out posting the latest or the highest rated note for that particular GPS location? Will a Slashdot-like moderation system need to be implemented to sort out the crap/flamebaits/trolls from the insightful/interesting/funny notes?
Are the notes time dependant? "I just left a doosey in here!" near a public toilet -- does that stay until someone else posts, or only 5 minutes?
I wonder if the real estate agents will start selling the space with the house/commercial property, or if they will sell it separately.
It will be interesting to see.
You've gotta have an antenna in order to read the chip after you've induced the AC current in the coil, right? Disable the antenna, and voila -- you've reduced the range of the bill's ability to be read, but it would still be accepted at the store if the bill was close enough.
Besides, what happens when your bill worked when you got it, but now doesn't. Do you lose your $20? $200? $500? Can you not spend it?
Bills will quickly go away if that's the case. I think the serial number should be used and scanned (and hell, make up a way to validate a serial number that's complex!). If you can't read the serial, then you should get a new bill. Technology is an interesting solution, but technology is also easily defeated by the intelligent tinkering community that lives here.
Modifying, manipulating and deleting a log on a bill will be easy, but if the bill is scanned at every location and the logs are held by the companies that take the bills, rather than the bill itself, then it would be difficult but possible to follow the bill -- just supena (sp) the records for the suspect bill's serial, and if anyone has it, they will cough it up -- time, date used, etc.
Plus, it could help to kill counterfeiting, using the printed serial. The Gov't could maintain a database of in-circulation valid serial numbers. If its not there, it's counterfeit. If it is, but has recently been requested at another location, it could return a "Valid but questionable" response, giving the clerk the notice that that serial was requested recently and far away location-wise.
However, securing that data would be difficult, and in the wrong hands, could be very destructive to either a person, a business or the government (or even our national security! Who know's how...)
Peter
Hackers unite! Find an open hole, put your worm in it. Kind of rediculous.
So my future-lawyer wife and I had a debate (heated I might add) about this issue.
We came to the determination that there are two pieces of the sale: the physical box containing the manual and the CD, and the license which is included in the package.
The box, containing a copy of the software on CD and a manual for how to use the software is included in the box. The CD and manual are yours to sell. So is the license included in the package.
You are buying a physical CD, a book (manual), and a license. However, until you install the software, you do not agree to the license. This way, everyone can sell boxed software all they want. However, the license is SEPARATE from the SALE of the box, because you still haven't installed the software, which activates the license.
Heck, the could sell the CD and the manual for $1, and then sell the license online for $148.99. You could still sell the CD and the manual all you want (since you own those physical items), but you down own the RIGHT to install that software on a computer.
The court is saying that Softman had every right to sell the box, which he did, and should. But the court SHOULD NOT have said that the entire transaction invalidates the license and allows Softman to do whatever he wants with it (copying, fraud, copying to multiple computers, etc).
I think we'll see this overturned, but hopefully the appeals court will see that there are two transactions -- the sale of the copy of the software, and the license that is agreed to when you INSTALL the software, not just buy the box that it is in.
Peter
So I'm getting married. August. 2001. And her birthday? March 4. Would have guessed that, but CNN screwed things up. So I think that I will go with my own date, the date that Hugh Hefner was born: 2001-04-09 17:35:21 I mean, come on, if Hugh has got things going down on him, there has got to be a correlation! PS, my official entry is the hugh hefner date. Don't tell my fiance.
- 3dfx: All White Meat
- 3dfx: Modern Medicine
- 3dfx: Proud Engineer
Damn entertaining!!!- Softer, smoother ride and increased comfort to passengers
- Increased ability to easily roll vehicle
- Simple and inexpensive source of material to re-sole your Birkenstock Sandals or brand-named Tennis Shoes
This patent will cover any and all tires ever produced that are either still in production or in inventory at sales and warehousing locations.[1] Firestone AT Wilderness
AdCritic.com - IBM: Yottabytes
Pretty amusing. And as a bonus:
AdCritic.com - Spoof: Wazzup Grandmas -- Friggin' Hilarious!!!
Check out www.bplans.com -- do it online there with some of their examples.
Then, find a non-disclosure agreement. I found a few just searching, here are some sites:
http://www.ilrg.com/forms/non-disc.html
http://www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~wo lfj/FCLO/AOLNDA.html
http://www.kidtrak.com/nda.html
http://www.defiant.com.au/nda.html
Any generic NDA will work just fine. First have them sign the NDA, then give them the business plan that lays out how your product works, what it does, and what market it fills.