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Another Audio Watermark Scheme Wins TI DSP Contest
CaptainTylor writes: "Texas Instruments' DSP and Analog Design Contest Challenge is over, and the winner is a group of students from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, who presented yet another scheme for digital-audio watermarking, and got US$100,000 for it. Here is a Dallas Morning News article on the winners, which is of course light on the tech details. Abstracts of the winner and the other two finalists are available, but I couldn't find the full submissions. It's worth noting that the competition was not specifically about copyright protection, just about using the TI TMS320 DSP in interesting ways. Wonder how long it'll take before someone cracks this scheme..."
And speaking of schemes, cracking, audio and contests, Logic Bomb writes: "According to an article from the Associated Press, the United States National Archives are holding a contest of sorts to see if anyone can finally figure out what was erased on the infamous Watergate tape that pushed Nixon's downfall over the brink. It would be amazing to have this national mystery put to rest."
Why would anyone want to give him a better speech synthesis system? I think most people have heard just about the maximum of crap they can tolerate from Stephen "Black Hole" Hawking.
What a fucking crock that guy is. Someone needs to shut that crippled hole he calls a mouth.
What do they call their military college? Uzion? And Holion for their rabbis to study at?
Sheeesh.
birtst poost@!!@!!@!
....we know what should have been erased :)
Nope. You are manipulating analog signals, and D in DMCA stands for _digital_. Abs-oh-loot-ly certain, and this comes from a dude who not only is NAL (not ANAL), but also plays one on Slashdot.
Heh heh... what did your mother tell you about believing everything you read on Slashdot?
Sure, and absolutely everyone subscribes to the same left-wing philosophy as you.
I'm an NRA member.
Not all of us are satisfied living in a dingy office at MIT.
I just had the pleasure of visiting RMS's office last week - I can assure you that it is a clean, decent place, a little cluttered but that's it. And I, personally, live in a real house, with doors and everything - and I paid for most of it with GPL'ed work.
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you.
This MAY sound like a radical concept, but not everyone *wants* to work on Free Software or on OSS projects.
Btw, Stephen Hawking turned down a better speech synthsesis program. Besides how could he explain the new voice to all his fans of his gangsta rap!?!? www.mchawking.com for more info
i am lame.. first post.. wow!!!! who cares?