brad had an idea for a cool hack today. In case he never gets around to it and someone else eventually does it, here's the SHA-1 of it expressed as three words: 9d3eb297e195a09034cb315043c05310e2198972.
Sadly, that key was created just for that - I realized my old key expired more than a year ago. I guess that's what happens when you move almost exclusively to webmail.
(Also, I wasn't clear whether this was just for coolness points if it gets done or if this is such an awesome hack that you wanted to establish prior art. In either case, I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a disinterested/uninformed third party sign it.)
So, now every time I come up with some idea, I gotta take it's SHA-1 and google for it? Hey, we could replace the patent system with something like this. That'd be awesome! It'd be like a patent fingerprint system. Oh shit. That's three words.
I often imagine that the place our "intellectual property" law is eventually going to take us -- if nerds prevail -- is in government-issued true "property rights" to monopoly use of an anchor bitstring along with a "radius" of some amount of AIT-like relative information content, surrounding the bitstring.
Most lawyers I talk to start laughing somewhere around the middle of the sentence, though.
But I can't say that in three words.
signed by key ID 84D5D32A
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1
Wed Oct 3 04:13:26 EDT 2007
9d3eb297e195a09034cb315043c05310e2198972
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)
iD8DBQFHA1UYOX+qUYTV0yoRAhvUAJ9PPLhWyTX1
W94oY69wRBLZNPtqNLA+lXc=
=/3ib
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Re: signed by key ID 84D5D32A
Sadly, that key was created just for that - I realized my old key expired more than a year ago. I guess that's what happens when you move almost exclusively to webmail.Re: signed by key ID 84D5D32A
(Also, I wasn't clear whether this was just for coolness points if it gets done or if this is such an awesome hack that you wanted to establish prior art. In either case, I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a disinterested/uninformed third party sign it.)9df575906e6572ee055dfb3ee19bf0ab005e5877
And for two characters there, I thought I had it...
drat
$ echo "bacon-flavoured toothpaste" | sha1sumd881bf8f33c29a8aa76544c6febac0f373c56836 -
guess not.
Re: drat
"Bacon-flavored" is only one word. Also, you misspelled it.The trick is likely in the third word. I can confirm it's not "fluorescent" or "minty," though.
Though odds are good for at least one word with more than five letters - maybe bias the lexicon towards words used in Brad's LJ?
9f994201c97324717fedb3cb4e8777358c2937c1
Whew! This baby's mine.
Most lawyers I talk to start laughing somewhere around the middle of the sentence, though.