There are several search algorithms/technologies featured in the Google contest page. Dan Egnor is fondly remembered as a key contributor to the Seattle...
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/59/mcewen.html is a story about a company that had humongous data about their mining reserves, and found that it was cheaper...
... If I recall correctly, you cannot offer to convert other people's Postscript to PDF using Adobe Acrobat. Technologically, this conversion would be a...
Johannes Ernst
jernst@...
Jun 3, 2002 6:22 pm
5850
... So, the customer would have to advertise their desire for the service, instead of the seller, advertising the service available. Western culture has long...
... Everyone has one job but many needs, so organization from the buy side is more complicated than you make it out to be. That having been said, a lot (most)...
Clay Shirky
clay@...
Jun 3, 2002 7:43 pm
5852
... I would reject the Google, Priceline, and Mobshop models for lacking sufficient convenience/time savings for the consumer. They also lack mechanisms to...
Here is a copy the relavent text from my Acrobat 5.0 license.txt file. Section 2.2 on Server Use seems to be quite explicit wrt web hosting... 2. Software...
In article <003801c20dcd$04594050$0602a8c0@psnw2k008>, Michael Herman (mwherman2000) <mwherman2000@...> writes ... When I saw Napster take VC money,...
Here is one possibility, presaged by a UK broadband ISP (whose name I don't recall). In the terms of service, the ISP prohibits participation in file sharing...
Tim Dorcey
Tim.Dorcey@...
Jun 7, 2002 5:15 pm
5859
I'd say the solution is to utilize an existing infrastructure, such as X.509 certificates, and design the file sharing system so that if the RIAA went after...
Josh
josh@...
Jun 7, 2002 6:16 pm
5860
... number of customers? The answer is bandwidth. P2P networks directly affect ISP's bottom line, with excessive bandwidth charges. I've watched my node run...
Josh
josh@...
Jun 7, 2002 6:19 pm
5861
FYI ... Microsoft Windows 'TrustBridge' to Enable Organizations to Share User Identities Across Business Boundaries June 06, 2002 06:01:00 AM ET Cornerstone of...
... Indeed, this is part of what we're trying to do, make a single interface which works on top of all of the existing networks. That way you can use a single...
... Like I said, if that was the rationale, why not just meter bandwidth? It would be a whole lot simpler, probably can just set a few parameters on their...
Tim Dorcey
Tim.Dorcey@...
Jun 7, 2002 6:52 pm
5864
In article <000901c20e50$1df0d450$35512304@koi>, Josh <josh@...> writes ... A lot of broadband T&Cs say "no servers". I want a static IP with...
In article <002201c20e50$ea99b670$0602a8c0@psnw2k008>, Michael Herman (mwherman2000) <mwherman2000@...> writes ... I'm not at all sure the market will...
I'm all for it! I switched my design over from RIPEMD to SHA-1 since its much more popular. I strongly recommend including the uncompressed file size with the...
Josh
josh@...
Jun 7, 2002 7:20 pm
5867
... This topic has been much debated. I favor base 16 because it has some good properties. It doesn't contain any characters that make it difficult to work as...
I didn't feel comfortable posting this on decentralization so I put it on my website... comments welcome, http://www.gldialtone.com/P2PAxes.htm Basically, when...
... SHA1 keys are an excellent solution to common-denominator identifiers. ... Bitzi will be happy to maintain this sort of info, publishing key equivalencies...
... This really doesn't add much. It is _possible_ (as in not mathematically precluded) for 2 files of different sizes to have the same SHA1 hash, but it is...
I follow you on the mathematics of it. But I'm not looking at the 1 in a billion (or whatever it works out to be) chance, I'm looking at addressing all files...
Josh
josh@...
Jun 8, 2002 4:22 am
5872
For SHA-1 (160 bits) it would take 2^80 random documents to have even a 50% chance of collision between the hashes of any of them. 2^80 is an incredibly large...
... I'd be surprised if either the OceanStore or FarSite projects haven't done the math. Maybe someone can report back on the results so we don't have to have...
... But adding the size has a cost: it makes the identifiers longer. What I am saying is that IF you are concerned about collisions, AND you are willing to...
... Z> If I got a collision under those conditions I'd frame it. Seems to me I've heard this argument before. DNS, XML elements ... What if, say in 2125, the...
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