<div dir="ltr">This is trolling Ferrous. you are a troll. Go away<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Oscar Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com" target="_blank">oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 21 January 2013 12:06, Ferrous Cranus <<a href="mailto:nikos.gr33k@gmail.com">nikos.gr33k@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Τη Δευτέρα, 21 Ιανουαρίου 2013 11:31:24 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Chris Angelico έγραψε:<br>
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</div><div class="im">>> Seriously, you're asking for something that's beyond the power of<br>
>> humans or computers. You want to identify that something's the same<br>
>> file, without tracking the change or having any identifiable tag.<br>
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>> That's a fundamentally impossible task.<br>
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> No, it is difficult but not impossible.<br>
> It just cannot be done by tagging the file by:<br>
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> 1. filename<br>
> 2. filepath<br>
> 3. hash (math algorithm producing a string based on the file's contents)<br>
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> We need another way to identify the file WITHOUT using the above attributes.<br>
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</div>This is a very old problem (still unsolved I believe):<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus</a><br>
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Oscar<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Joel Goldstick<br></div><a href="http://joelgoldstick.com" target="_blank">http://joelgoldstick.com</a><br></div>
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