On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Pavitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2008 12:13:21 pm ihope wrote: >> The Quota is a positive integer, initially 30. If more than 30 >> Potatoes have been Fried in the last 30 days, then the Muckle CAN >> increment the Quota by 1, and SHALL do so as soon as possible. > There should be a way to decrease the Quota too, just in case.
Decrease the Quota if less than 14 have been Fried in the last 30 days, I suppose. Also, prevent the Muckle from changing it if it's been changed in the last 30 days, of course. >> * That date's Dow opening (if there is none, that date has no >> Potatoes). > It's not obvious, to me at least, how to find this out. Can we make it > something internal to Agora, but still uncontrollable? Maybe the > mod-2^16 sum of the hashes of the last message sent by each party on > the preceding day. It'd be easier, I think, to simply tell people where they can find this information. "To find this, go to http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=983582. To the right of the big number, there should be an 'Open:' number, and below the big number, there should be the date it corresponds to." Also, where I said SHA-1 hash, I meant SHA-512 hash. It's perhaps more secure, as a theoretical vulnerability has been found in SHA-1. Perhaps "the current Quota" should instead be "the Quota at the beginning of that date", so that Quota changes don't invalidate all existing Potatoes. (Did I mention that I was expecting you guys to pick random positive integers rather than using random bits elsewhere? Oh well. And Pavitra, do you have an existing program that's capable of finding Potatoes?) --Warrigal of Escher
