Stealing would be walking into my house and taking my hard drive.
Do you lay any claim to the data on that hard drive? Would not the thief merely be requiring you to line up your kids and take new snapshots of them, or recalculate your taxes, or re-download all your torrents? Have they actually deprived you of anything, by your standards? I'm genuinely curious if you attach any value to time and effort, or if because it is merely digital it can never have any value at all.
In this example the theif would have deprived him of the data (as well as real physical property) since he would no longer have the hard disk. Piracy however is closer to the theif copying the entire contents of the hard drive remotely and without permission, but leaving its contents intact. Of course it takes time and effort to create media (even the painful manufactured stuff) - but copying does not make you have to repeat the effort of creating it again because someone has destroyed it.
... the drug taking sewer habiting alligators, always trying to ruin our fun.
On another note, I wonder if its possible to get a high of this water, and I worry about what the sharks with lasers might do when the rivers flow into the sea.
Pompeii, Stone Henge, The Pyramids... and closer to home, photographs and films of events such as WWI. All these a window onto past lives. This is just another thing that greed is destroying - the evedence we leave for the future. Our society's use of land is not going to leave anywhere near much history behind in the form of archeology because of our intensive use of land.
DRM just adds to this lack of information for the future. Is this the beginning of an age that will be seen as the New Dark Ages, because of unchecked corporate greed?
Just makes me wonder about what road is being taken, and how it will be seen looking back from future generations.
The BBC article states "The four and eight-colour geometric patterns...", but they do not show pictures of 8 colour ones.
So with a space the size of the picture shown 8 colours would provide 792 bits of information.
Nowhere do they state that their examples are using the maximum available, as is seen by the examples only having 4 colours not the maximum 8 that the article states. However with smaller triangles and 8 colours, their "3500 characters" per square inch claim could be possible. (though also likely is that their picture has been scaled up to make easier to see, and triangle size is static but sufficient to meet this claim)
Also I would guess that the reliability of scanning decreases with triangle size and number of colours, which might explain 4 colours and larger triangles being more common.
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Stealing would be walking into my house and taking my hard drive.
Do you lay any claim to the data on that hard drive? Would not the thief merely be requiring you to line up your kids and take new snapshots of them, or recalculate your taxes, or re-download all your torrents? Have they actually deprived you of anything, by your standards? I'm genuinely curious if you attach any value to time and effort, or if because it is merely digital it can never have any value at all.
In this example the theif would have deprived him of the data (as well as real physical property) since he would no longer have the hard disk. Piracy however is closer to the theif copying the entire contents of the hard drive remotely and without permission, but leaving its contents intact. Of course it takes time and effort to create media (even the painful manufactured stuff) - but copying does not make you have to repeat the effort of creating it again because someone has destroyed it.
... the drug taking sewer habiting alligators, always trying to ruin our fun.
On another note, I wonder if its possible to get a high of this water, and I worry about what the sharks with lasers might do when the rivers flow into the sea.
... not just our freedoms.
Pompeii, Stone Henge, The Pyramids... and closer to home, photographs and films of events such as WWI. All these a window onto past lives. This is just another thing that greed is destroying - the evedence we leave for the future. Our society's use of land is not going to leave anywhere near much history behind in the form of archeology because of our intensive use of land.
DRM just adds to this lack of information for the future. Is this the beginning of an age that will be seen as the New Dark Ages, because of unchecked corporate greed?
Just makes me wonder about what road is being taken, and how it will be seen looking back from future generations.
The BBC article states "The four and eight-colour geometric patterns...", but they do not show pictures of 8 colour ones. So with a space the size of the picture shown 8 colours would provide 792 bits of information. Nowhere do they state that their examples are using the maximum available, as is seen by the examples only having 4 colours not the maximum 8 that the article states. However with smaller triangles and 8 colours, their "3500 characters" per square inch claim could be possible. (though also likely is that their picture has been scaled up to make easier to see, and triangle size is static but sufficient to meet this claim) Also I would guess that the reliability of scanning decreases with triangle size and number of colours, which might explain 4 colours and larger triangles being more common.