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Darren New wrote:
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> I think you're going to need a huge car to smuggle a 256 byte program. :-)
>
How much volume would 3.231700607131100730071487668867e+616 bb's fill?
I'm thinking even bird shot would take up quite a bit of room....
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~Mike
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Invisible wrote:
> Seriously - has the author *heard* of steganography? There are much more
> plausible techniques available than this one! o_O
I have an exquisite print of the Mona Lisa to share with you. If you
look at it the right way, you can see the source code to Windows Vista
Handle it with care.
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~Mike
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gregjohn wrote:
> I heard on a math contest the fact that all programs are essentially just big
> numbers. The compiled binary or even the ASCII for the source may ultimately
> be thought of as just some really big, unique number. When you buy software,
> they tell you what the number is.
>
> I was just imagining a scifi novel where The Man has complete control over
> people's computers and the only way to share software (legally/ illegally) is
> to load your car up with bb pellets. The Man doesn't stop cars and doesn't
> think to check for bb's. Once you get to the destination, you count bb's, and
> viola, sofware is shared.
The term "googol" comes to mind here.
Regards,
John
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>> Once you get to the destination, you count
>> bb's, and
>> viola, sofware is shared.
>
> The term "googol" comes to mind here.
Except that here, "googol is *not* your friend"! ;-)
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"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoo com> wrote in message
news:web.4979c212dff1dbe634d207310@news.povray.org...
> "somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> > "Mueen Nawaz" <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote in message
> >
> > > > I think you're going to need a huge car to smuggle a 256 byte
program.
> > :-)
> > > Different color bb's can represent different bases. Problem solved.
> > You just need one pellet with a carefully chosen colour.
> 1) I could do the math, but what would the number be for say a 650MB
distro in a
> world where SCO won the lawsuit?
On the order of 2^(650*(2^23))
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gregjohn escreveu:
> I heard on a math contest the fact that all programs are essentially just big
> numbers. The compiled binary or even the ASCII for the source may ultimately
> be thought of as just some really big, unique number. When you buy software,
> they tell you what the number is.
A computer is nothing but a calculator: everything that goes through it
is nothing but numbers, including the instructions that manipulate such
numbers. Everything has to be converted into numbers before being
processed by a computer. Sounds, images and textual information are
codified/decodified just for convenience. :)
> I was just imagining a scifi novel where The Man has complete control over
> people's computers and the only way to share software (legally/ illegally) is
> to load your car up with bb pellets. The Man doesn't stop cars and doesn't
> think to check for bb's. Once you get to the destination, you count bb's, and
> viola, sofware is shared.
More likely The Man won't know any math anymore in the near future:
http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.htm
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somebody wrote:
> On the order of 2^(650*(2^23))
assuming the quantum uncertainty doesn't get in the way.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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Invisible wrote:
> This is starting to sound like that blog I read. Apparently America was
> planning to enact a law that makes it illegal to "facilitate copyright
> infringement".
We already have that. It's called "Contributory copyright infringement" or
some such. That's why Napster got shut down even tho they weren't hosting
the copyrighted content themselves.
Xerox and Betamax (and YouTube) didn't, because they showed the copying
mechanism could be used for things other than copyright infringement.
> I have no idea if this act ever become law. ;-)
Doesn't need to.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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nemesis wrote:
> A computer is nothing but a calculator: everything that goes through it
> is nothing but numbers, including the instructions that manipulate such
> numbers. Everything has to be converted into numbers before being
> processed by a computer. Sounds, images and textual information are
> codified/decodified just for convenience. :)
Not precisely. Everything is converted into electrical signals. Computer
programmers think of those signals as representing numbers. :-)
The *theory* of computer science treats everything as numbers. Actual
computers don't use numbers for anything.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Smuggling BB's as software piracy
Date: 23 Jan 2009 22:06:53
Message: <497a85cd@news.povray.org>
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gregjohn wrote:
> I heard on a math contest the fact that all programs are essentially just
> big
> numbers. The compiled binary or even the ASCII for the source may
> ultimately
> be thought of as just some really big, unique number. When you buy
> software, they tell you what the number is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
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