[Coco] Republishing Magazines

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 11:32 AM 12/28/03 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>I'd contend that with enough training, a rot-13 text could be read as 
>easily as the plaintext.

Buti ti sn oth umanl anguagea ndt hatw ast hena ndi np artt hei ssueb
ecauseit hinkim adet hep ointb yrotatingl etterso nep ositiona roundt hes
pacesi nordert os howh owu nnaturali twasw hene venas implec hangew asi
nitiatedm uchl essas ignificantb itr otation. :)

[regarding sampling granularity]
>Can we not define that this test would be with a generally experienced 
>ear, as opposed to one thats been trained in such nuances all its 
>life?

A generally experienced ear would hear classical vs. pop vs. jazz quite
differently (not to metion other styles as well as electronia), and, more
to the point...

>that reduces to an ambiguous result, and the law 
>hates ambiguity.

...et voilà!

>if you wanted to be 
>published in the Rainbow, you signed a contract that gave Lonnie all 
>rights in perpetuity.  Or were some people exempt from that?  Like 
>you, Barden, and Dibble?

:)

>Which is why an algorythm should not be patentable, there are so many 
>variations in the srcs that will compile down to the exact same code 
>once the optimizers get thru with it.

This is an area where the law has not caught up with technology, and a lot
of bad decisions were made at the genesis of patents for software.

Dennis