Gojomo:
>How about a highly error corrected atomic level 3D encoding scheme that
>relies on shape, colour and chemical make up to uniquely identify every
>object in the universe. Objects uniquely identify themselves - theres no
>need for barcodes.
That might work easily enough for reasonably rigid
solids that can be positioned and fingerprinted. I
think it would be more difficult for other items.
Like a sweater. The exact pattern of threads is never
quite the same, with the loose weave and all. The
problem of automatically capturing any object's look,
adequately to uniquely identifying it later, is still
open research.
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Re: TCPA and Palladium: Content Control for the Masses
From fork-admin@xent.com  Wed Aug 14 11:01:48 2002

> The most significant problem with TCPA and Palladium is not
> whether they may interfere with the power of the universal
> logic device, or whether they are effectual from the
> standpoint of privacy and security concerns, though these
> are all very important concerns.  Rather, the fundamental
> problem they present is in the political premises that they
> hope to implement for the sake of the "content industries."
I've been thinking about this sort of thing
lately, and how the technological realization
of these issues is one that enforces *absolute*
control of content, where the original legal
strictures (copyright) only enforced a limited
time limited right to content.
What I'm wondering is this:  if you give
people absolute control of copyright, whose
works will be around in 100 years?  Because
I'm starting to think that the content
creator who wants to produce for posterity
had better do it in such a way that the
content is *not* "protected", or the content
will be inaccessible to people in 15 years,
much less 100.
This of course assumes that the content
control mechanisms aren't so pervasive that
one *cannot* create content without going
through controlled channels.
-faisal
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