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UVB-76 Explained
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The purpose is quite straightforward, anything spoken into the uvb-76 mic is automatically posted to wikipedia within 24 hours, it's like a russian Twitter.
From an efficiency standpoint, having the copyright owner submit the material to a centralized location for fingerprinting seems odd. Distributing the fingerprinting mechanism and having content owners create the (presumably more compact) fingerprints themselves would make sense.
Of course, publicizing the fingerprinting mechanism would make it easier for those designing circumvention tech.
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Looks like www.gcdc.net has been Slashdotted, here are a few links that might be interesting: (they actually use 5.9 GHz communications, 802.11p specifically for use in intelligent transportation systems) Movie from the preparations to the challenge, lots of nerds and tech: http://youtu.be/lmRifLzw8iA Winning team technical paper: http://www.mrt.kit.edu/annieway/downloads/gcdc11_team_description.pdf Runner up technical paper: http://www.hh.se/download/18.7a4c72f812fdb65798d80003243/IDE1120KLTechReportTeamPaper.pdf
The purpose is quite straightforward, anything spoken into the uvb-76 mic is automatically posted to wikipedia within 24 hours, it's like a russian Twitter.
The article mentions that a meeting has been held but no decision on whether to appeal the court order.
From an efficiency standpoint, having the copyright owner submit the material to a centralized location for fingerprinting seems odd. Distributing the fingerprinting mechanism and having content owners create the (presumably more compact) fingerprints themselves would make sense. Of course, publicizing the fingerprinting mechanism would make it easier for those designing circumvention tech.
This looks very similar to the AeroCar on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight. http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Taylor%20Aerocar.asp From what I recall the AeroCar actually came close to serial production back in the 40s-50s, however was ultimately dropped.