anthonymc

We have a foosball table in our office. best idea ever.

no. I suppose you could if you made an app that was nothing more than a wrapper around a web view, but I don't think that is what you mean.

Thanks for articulating what I couldn't.

The GPS requirement seems ridiculous. I understand why they are requiring it, but it really highlights how ridiculous tying services to geographic locations can be when the internet gets involved.

That being said, I'd buy one without hesitation if they were available in Houston.

I have been looking for some structured exercises to work through. These look fairly promising.

Neal Stephenson has some things to say about this in Cryptonomicon. Great book.

That is what I was thinking. Publishing a hash along with the listing of the article would essentially be free as far as bandwidth costs are concerned which is what is supposed to be the reason for the fee.

I showed this to a lawyer friend of mine who also has a background in technology. While he thought it was a nice tool for preliminary or casual research, he said that ultimately he will still need to go and purchase the documents so that he is absolutely certain they are the originals since there doesn't seem to be a publicly available way to verify them.

A possible solution to this would be a published hash value from the original source.

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