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  1. Re:Questionable on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1

    The watermark is embedded in the image multiple times. As complex a scene as it is, you can compare the multiple copies and look for the variations between them in common. If you already know where the "pixels" of the encoding is at and the differential that is used, it would be relatively easy to extract. On the other hand, Digimarc has a patent on it so it's relatively complex anyway.

    Remember, you don't have to use an image manipulation tool to read the watermark. If the RGB values are all shifted by 1 to make the encoding, it's really faint, but on the numbers side, it's still a higher/lower value. It's also why the grid uses > 1 pixel squares.

  2. Re:Unsubstantiated Rubbish on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1

    To prevent additional artifacts when you resize and save the image to JPG again. If you're doing anything to the image before publishing it, you don't want anything wrong at all with it.

  3. Re:Postgres-Curious on PostgreSQL 9.2 Out with Greatly Improved Scalability · · Score: 1

    I have to admit, as a long-time MySQL user, it really messes with your head and makes you not do things in a way that works with MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL. Especially how MySQL does its lazy grouping.

    I've only tried other databases for a short while and give up because I know that I'd have to learn everything properly. If I was starting a brand new project, it might be great, but I wouldn't want to rewrite an existing database app with it.

  4. Re:LOL on PostgreSQL 9.2 Out with Greatly Improved Scalability · · Score: 1

    I think they're trying to say that Microsoft calls theirs "SQL Server" in such a way as to make it seem that the SQL standard is something they own or control.

  5. Re:I don't get fiber on 90 Percent of Eligible Kansas City Neighborhoods Sign Up For Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Won't matter as much until everyone has it. But I have an antenna at home that gets digital TV at roughly 20Mbps. I can watch it anywhere on my LAN, but not outside my home without transcoding. Would be awesome to pull up my home TV antenna at full quality from anywhere regardless of what streaming services are out there that can do 2Mbps "HD." Only equipment required would be an HDHomerun box.

  6. Re:Drill a hole, relieve the pressure? on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1

    vulcanologist.

  7. Re:Explosive on TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New · · Score: 2

    Or that it's flavorless...

  8. Re:Very slow news day on AMD64 Surpasses i386 As Debian's Most Popular Architecture · · Score: 1

    Like being in the midwest and asking for a coke, and you get a pepsi--because coke means soda. Go out east coast and ask for a coke and they're like... we have pepsi, is that ok?

    You mean the south/southeast? It's pop or soda in the midwest.
    http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

  9. Doctor Who Premieres tomorrow on Gamma-Ray Photon Observations Indicate Space-Time Is Smooth · · Score: 1

    So it's not a wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey stuff?

  10. Re:Lies on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    You left out my favorite part:

    As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

  11. Re:Jesus. on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Close. I grew up thinking I was the one that wasn't circumcised. First time in a locker room shower at school, and one or two people appeared to be missing their glans. I decided that must be what circumcision means. So that shows you how little the concept is even talked about, despite being practiced so widely where I live.

  12. Re:whereas... on Malaysian Cyber Cafe Owners Liable For Patron Behavior · · Score: 1

    I agree with you that this should be the outcome of the trial. But the fact that he was charged still makes sense - he violated one rule to uphold another. The fact that he's not had a trial yet is the only real issue.

  13. Re:whereas... on Malaysian Cyber Cafe Owners Liable For Patron Behavior · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that the Uniform Code of Military Justice has nothing to say about leaking classified information?

  14. Re:Wait... on Malaysian Cyber Cafe Owners Liable For Patron Behavior · · Score: 1

    They want to be sure they have someone to punish or even just intimidate business owners for providing Internet access. With the cell phone company, the individual user is already tracked by device - unique IP tied to time of day tied to paid account. In this case, they see that Internet cafes have become havens for these types of dissenters to post with impunity.

  15. Re:dual xeon intel board questions and thoughts on CPUs Do Affect Gaming Performance, After All · · Score: 1

    If you're running Windows 7, you're going to be limited to 192GB of RAM on Pro or Ultimate: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx

  16. Re:Looks like Metro tiles on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 1

    They're using the term Modern UI as kind of an interim name.

  17. Re:Why is Linux's SSD performance so terrible? on OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hope you mean TRIM and not defragmenting, which occurs when a file is deleted on an SSD, not when one is written. You don't defragment an SSD, as there's no gain at all.

  18. Re:Launched? Unveiled? on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's definitely overcompressed.

  19. Re:Looks like Metro tiles on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer "The UI formerly known as Metro"

  20. Re:I dont see the point, yet on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    Nice! Hopefully it doesn't let cable companies flag half the channels as never-copy. Does no good if you can't hook it up to or integrate into a DVR.

  21. Re:Already past what eye can resolve on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 2

    I don't think we want light-field television (non-polarized light picture allowing you to focus on foreground or background) any more than we want 360 degree panoramic TV (except maybe for live events). The director chooses what's in the frame and what's in-focus and it's a storytelling tool. I'd like a higher color gamut and greater dynamic range, though.

  22. Re:What about the encoding? on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    The re-encoding is handled by the individual affiliate's tower. If they try to squeeze two or three subchannels into their 20Mbps feed, then quality suffers. Networks tend to balance the bandwidth more to the primary sub-channel at prime-time, while making it more equal during the day. Some just have lousy encoders and waste bandwidth.

  23. Re:I dont see the point, yet on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    That would be fine as long as something like CableCard existed for it so that you could bring your own device.

  24. Re:Why is this a dire situation? on 19 Million Americans Cannot Get Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    poop or poor? Freudian slip on your part?

  25. Re:Only 19 million? on 19 Million Americans Cannot Get Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    If you really get your full bandwidth of 3Mbps, Netflix only requires 0.6Mbps (~600kbps) for "Good" quality. Only HD requires more than 3Mbps. Yes, that's for one TV and nothing else going on.

    Streaming video is quite comfortable as long as you have a guaranteed 1Mbps. Youtube, Netflix, Hulu - all will run just fine.