Drive to the Blockbuster to load up your iPod? When I have a perfectly good cable modem connection? Can you say "Akamai", boys and girls?
Blockbuster is not in Korea, like you, where broadband penetration is almost universal. Blockbuster is in the US, where, thanks to the competition between the baby bells and between the beloved cable companies, broadband penetration is almost nonexistent.
There should be no mercy. Banks should positively tell their clients what phishing is. Then, the clients should acknowledge what phishing is; if they do not acknowledge, the banks shall cut their online access. And if ever they fall for a phish, well, though fucking noogies. They were warned, with proof on file.
LCDs are notoriously poor colour renderers, compared to CRTs.
It is nearly impossible to have uniform backlight illumination, so you will always have colour variation problem. And the pixel intensity response is not gammaifiable like CRTs, and is bound to vary along the screen.
If you expect your LCD to do photo-edition, you're SOL.
Let's be honest. Atheists want porn. Communists want porn. Religious wingnuts want porn. We all want porn. But we're all too embarrassed to say so.
I'm atheist, and I'm not embarrassed with my gigabytes of pr0n (both movies and pictures) carefully assembled over the last 15 years or so. I'm not even embarrassed of saying that I jerk-off 2-3 times a day!!! And in the summer, I don't have problems going to a secret sex park and have sex with people watching. So what the fuck is wrong with those people???
Atheist, communist China does not want pr0n on the Internet. Religious wingnuts don't want pr0n on the Internet. Why those two who are at extremely opposed political positions don't want pr0n on the Internet???
(The Scots voted Gay a few days ago, and they are not noted for doing so.)
Well, when they run around in those skirts, one would tend to think otherwise...
(Funniest thing I ever saw was, on a fine summer evening, at the train station, there were some people waiting for a train to arrive. Amongst them, an older man wearing a kilt [we're more than 4000 miles away from Scotland].
Also, there was a totally-puzzled oriental man, who obviously could not believe not that the old man was wearing a skirt, but that everyone else found this perfectly normal...)
So, the watermarking process is steganographic, then. If you diddle the least significant bits, you don't introduce human-noticeable distortion.
It's a bit like those secret government documents who have several purposely-placed typoes, different for each distributed copies, with which you can deduce who leaked the document according to the typoes that surface in the unauthorized copies...
So, what can prevent anyone from shaving-off the least significant bits and putting garbage instead? This way, you cannot tell who "pirated" the stuff...
The first thing I ever programmed was an HP-25 pocket calculator, locked on one of those ornate desktop displays with a mini-slide projector showing a demo, in a huge department store, back in 1975.
Then, I worked through a whole summer to buy myself a Texas Instruments SR-56, which was half the price of a HP-25... Eventually, after going through an TI-58 and an HP-29C, I got myself my first computer, a hand-made wire-wrapped motorola 6809 system running UNIX in 168K of RAM and two 8 inch floppies. Yes, sir, nothing less than UNIX!!!
It was not until 1986 that I got myself a PC compatible machine. And the rest is history...
If the japanese society wasn't so fucked-up, this would not be a problem.
The japanese are extremely competitive, and socially constrained, to the point that individuality is savagely repressed.
Recent events of railroad employees been humiliated when they run their trains late have resulted in horrific rail crashes thanks to a train engineer running late trying desperately to make up lost time.
And with the japanese economy on life-support to prop-up corrupted banks, it's no wonder that kids do not see any future and want to end it all.
The japanese culture does not value original thought, to the point that it can be argued that they are almost incapable of it. The only thing they can do is imitate, and this is what the japanese have been doing since Admiral Perry visited Japan more than 120 years ago.
Japan has been monkeying the United States and the West, by engaging in war with Russia in 1911, and then with the US in 1941. After nearly escaping anhihilation, under american rule, Japan has been transformed in a huge factory turning out zillions of trinkets, to the point of wasting whole industrial sectors abroad, all the while providing an antfarm existence to it's population.
Clearly such an environment is wholly unforgiving of non-comformity. But for the japanese to do otherwise would mean a major cultural upheaval. So, in the end, it's really up to them.
Fair enough, the hospital should have been more secure, but there again, it all comes down to how many admins they have on the job.
If the US health-care system was not bogged-down with private insurance company administrative overhead, and had so much of it's money diverted into croporate profits, they'd be enough money for proper network administration.
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Too bad they didn't also answer a working model for many software that's patented, as well as some business methods, such as the RIAA's...
We used to have a drinking buddy who was 15, and he had no trouble coming with us in bars and taverns...
There should be no mercy. Banks should positively tell their clients what phishing is. Then, the clients should acknowledge what phishing is; if they do not acknowledge, the banks shall cut their online access. And if ever they fall for a phish, well, though fucking noogies. They were warned, with proof on file.
How nice!
Now, how about telling us so up-front? And how about disabling it, or having another "feature" that enables us to turn it off?
It is nearly impossible to have uniform backlight illumination, so you will always have colour variation problem. And the pixel intensity response is not gammaifiable like CRTs, and is bound to vary along the screen.
If you expect your LCD to do photo-edition, you're SOL.
Atheist, communist China does not want pr0n on the Internet. Religious wingnuts don't want pr0n on the Internet. Why those two who are at extremely opposed political positions don't want pr0n on the Internet???
Given how many cars around here are driven by slime molds, does it exhibits road-rage behaviour????
(Funniest thing I ever saw was, on a fine summer evening, at the train station, there were some people waiting for a train to arrive. Amongst them, an older man wearing a kilt [we're more than 4000 miles away from Scotland].
Also, there was a totally-puzzled oriental man, who obviously could not believe not that the old man was wearing a skirt, but that everyone else found this perfectly normal...)
The national health number is not for identification, but for health-care purposes. The absence of a warm and fuzzy feeling towards security? The lack of control by politicians?
It's a bit like those secret government documents who have several purposely-placed typoes, different for each distributed copies, with which you can deduce who leaked the document according to the typoes that surface in the unauthorized copies...
So, what can prevent anyone from shaving-off the least significant bits and putting garbage instead? This way, you cannot tell who "pirated" the stuff...
Then, I worked through a whole summer to buy myself a Texas Instruments SR-56, which was half the price of a HP-25... Eventually, after going through an TI-58 and an HP-29C, I got myself my first computer, a hand-made wire-wrapped motorola 6809 system running UNIX in 168K of RAM and two 8 inch floppies. Yes, sir, nothing less than UNIX!!!
It was not until 1986 that I got myself a PC compatible machine. And the rest is history...
The japanese are extremely competitive, and socially constrained, to the point that individuality is savagely repressed.
Recent events of railroad employees been humiliated when they run their trains late have resulted in horrific rail crashes thanks to a train engineer running late trying desperately to make up lost time.
And with the japanese economy on life-support to prop-up corrupted banks, it's no wonder that kids do not see any future and want to end it all.
The japanese culture does not value original thought, to the point that it can be argued that they are almost incapable of it. The only thing they can do is imitate, and this is what the japanese have been doing since Admiral Perry visited Japan more than 120 years ago.
Japan has been monkeying the United States and the West, by engaging in war with Russia in 1911, and then with the US in 1941. After nearly escaping anhihilation, under american rule, Japan has been transformed in a huge factory turning out zillions of trinkets, to the point of wasting whole industrial sectors abroad, all the while providing an antfarm existence to it's population.
Clearly such an environment is wholly unforgiving of non-comformity. But for the japanese to do otherwise would mean a major cultural upheaval. So, in the end, it's really up to them.
Clearly, the hospital IT department shares at least half of the blame!!