The Graphite
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That's not even remotely new.
Display.exe: Posted to document the date of my invention
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That's not even remotely new.
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Guys, this is some funny stuff but lets not get too far off topic. :up:
Maybe we wouldn't if Bob would get this show on the road. :idunno:
genuineoriginal
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Bob's program can display every document requested under the Freedom of Information Act!
The Graphite
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Yeah, but would it ever be able to display documents that have not been released under the FOIA?
Maybe it's not a trick or a trap as you assume it is. Maybe there is no "show" to get on the road.
It isn't that. Bob assured me of that. Yet I think it's similar to a random pixel generator in that it is generating the content without having the data pre-stored anywhere, it does count off screen combinations, but it's not random, if it were random.... we wouldn't get any desirable results. (i.e., pages that make sense)
Keep in mind I don't have any inside info here, I'm just going off little tid-bits that Bob has told me.
By "show" I just meant whatever it ends up being, not necessarily a trick. At this point I believe there is a program. We just need to see it in action to separate fact from fiction.
elohiym
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Or more importantly can it output the source code for secret software used by the NSA and other government agencies? If it can, Bob has a BIG problem.
But even if it did, would the user of display.exe know what it is? Based on what has been described, I'm not sure they would. The data might be meaningful, but I'm not sure if we KNOW it's meaningful or in what way.
The Graphite
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I haven't seen the software, and Bob has not told me that it can or can't do that (just so you know I'm not stringing you along, here), but I have a sneaking suspicion that it can.
We'll see.
elohiym
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If the user could not know what the output was the software would be useless.
And if it could output that, all that matters is that someone (a bad guy) could understand the output.
That would compromise national security.
elohiym
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I truly hope for Bob's sake that it can't.
That's a great point.
As the software generated page, after page, after page, many of those pages would go unnoticed unless an actual intelligent being was reviewing and monitoring them. (that would obviously slow down the process and possibly make it far less valuable)
And furthermore....
Assuming there is a cure for cancer and assuming that the software would eventually display the cure, it wouldn't help us much unless there was someone there to recognize it as a valid solution, because obviously the software wouldn't know to tell us "hey you should take note of this page".
So it seems to me that the software could be a very real thing yet still only be beneficial in hypothetical ways.
Certainly fun to ponder.