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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:22:25 -0700

Sure, the *object* of a particular head of lettuce may be unique, but 
we're not tracking lettuce heads -- we're tracking the *idea* of a 
lettuce head in a capitalist system, an ownership relation.

Besides, in the worst case, these damn object ID's aren't very 
compressible. Best representation of a unique head of lettuce I can 
think of is... that very head of lettuce.

Of course, an accumulator is much easier to write, since the Pauli 
Exclusion Principle guarantees that adding a head of lettuce to a bin is 
an _atomic operation_

:-)

Rohit



On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 09:56  PM, Damien Morton wrote:

>
> How about a highly error corrected atomic level 3D encoding scheme that
> relies on shape, colour and chemical make up to uniquely identify every
> object in the universe.
>
> Objects uniquely identify themselves - theres no need for barcodes.
>
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