Speaking of Monty Python, featured on
BBSpot's daily spot, is a Monty Python Lego movie in quicktime. Windows media version is here.
Anybody who likes Monthy Python and Lego, check it out. Hmm I guess that's everybody here...
Everything I read about stegonagraphy seems to rely on hiding sensitive information within a single, seemingly innocous file.
I've always thought it'd make more sense to spread it between files so that, with the encoding based on differences between the files.
For example, say I want to transmit the binary number 1011, for whatever reason. 1011 is in decimal number the 11, so now I take an image, make a single pixel change at (1,11) and then make some humorous 'before and after' changes to the image, like moustaches, body parts or captions. Whatever, just don't alter row 1.
Send the two pictures, the receiver checks the difference between row 1 of the two images, and gets 11, which he can then converts to 1011. From there, he uses whatever binary-message decoding.
You can thus encode a 512-bit message by making a single pixel change to a 264x512 image.
Include those two images in a pic gallery of 200 images, and now it really becomes hell for anybody trying to detect it.
Atollo looks fun, and the regular polyhedrons would amuse a few people at my next roleplaying session.
But for younger children, I think Lego is still a better boost to their creativity.
For example: when a child is first given a crayon, and some paper, he'll play with it for a while. He'll discover that when he strikes the paper with the crayon, it leaves a mark. He sees a cause-and-effect and, curious, he repeats it.
For some time, he will make random, meaningless markings, but, at some point he will draw two dots, with a line underneath, and suddenly recognise it as a face. This is hugely important to our developement, as it develops the concepts of abstraction and represention of objects and ideas.
Herein lie the basis for writing, art, architecture, orthography, etc. The child will develop this, by drawing new faces, adding heads, limbs and whatnot, emerging with the stick-people we're all familiar with.
Now with lego, you push a few pieces on top of each other, and, hey presto, it's a wall. Put a few walls together, and you have a building.
The problem with K'nex, Atollo, and the like, is that it's harder to make that connection, because of all the gaps, hinges, and stickly bits.
So I say, start a kid off with Lego, and once they start getting comfortable with that, throw the other systems at them too.
I can't help thinking that the Atollo stuff will be picked up by chemists and biologists, much like Mindstorm is picked up by robotics people.
Incidentally, the behaviour I mentioned about children and crayons, is played out the exact same way with Chimpanzees. The thing is, the chimpanzee never seems to recognise the face, and never progress from there.
Society salutes the bravery of its soldiers who, throughout history, have given their lives in the cause of freedom.
Now that it's civilians who died, suddenly freedom doesn't seem so important... does this make sense to anybody? Should those soldiers now be counted fools?
Surely the whole point of 'Operation Infinite Justice' is to protect the human rights of the coalition's citizens?
The terrorists attack is seen as an attack on the free world. If you relinquish that freedom, they have won this battle.
From their FAQ: Q: Why does ITR sometimes show all zeros or strange numbers?
A: We are currently working on a complete re-write and overhaul of the ITR system to provide much more detailed and accurate information more quickly and reliably. During this transition phase, there may be rare occurrences when the data reported by ITR looks "strange" for an hour or so. Please bear with us during this transition, as we are certain that the new ITR (to be released sometime near the end of September) will be well worth the wait!
There's one other point you neglected - In-flight security guards.
Israel grounded all incoming civilian flights in response to the news, except for those of Israeli carriers - for the simple reason that Israeli airlines always have armed guards on board.
Well, you're close, but it's not in a bid to boost Microsoft's stocks.
If the market see the Bush administration strengthening Microsoft's monopoly then, while MS stocks may go up, the stocks of every MS competitor will fall. In suit, the companies which use/rely on those competitors will suffer too. So while one company goes up, many more will go down.
However, if the White House goes easy on Microsoft, but still does enough to punish them, then the boardrooms and shareholders of the other large US companies will see Bush as a friend of big-business, and *their* stocks could go up. The market will react favourably to a government who is seen to support businesses where they can, but who will maintain some authority over the situation.
I suspect if Bush had been 'elected' prior to Judge Jackson's original findings, the case may have been quietly dropped. At this stage though, MS have been found guilty, and thus some punishment has to be doled out, to keep MS's competitors happy. The trick is not to be so harsh as to scare other large companies.
If MS were completlely let go, I think you;d have the economical equivalent of the L.A. Riots.
Well, apparently we now need to receive a cookie *every* time you click on a link.
Which gets really annoying when you have cookie warnings turned on. Which I normally do, since I usually read slashdot when I'm meant to be developing sites...
So you Americans wanna record your votes on a potentially complex system, which will envariably be designed, developed and depolyed by the lowest bidder?
Now that'd be a fun house committee to sit in on...
And of course, next time, it won't be the Florida elections in dispute...
Good ol' Californian brownouts will see to that.
I switched to Sylpheed about a month ago, and I'm well impressed. It's GTK+ based, with multiple POP3/APOP/IMAP4/NNTP support, GPGME support, and is very, very fast.
Check it out if you're not happy with mozilla/netscape emailer.
It's the only GUI client for X I could find which handles APOP, and that sold it for me.
2nor am I sure that Adobe doesn't have a trademark on "Illustrator" by itself."
Actually, they have both.
Work Mark: Illustrator
Serial no. 74731075:
G&S: computer software for use in graphic design, desktop publishing, electronic publishing, printing, artistic and technical drawing, creating fonts and typefaces, and special graphical and textual effects; computer software containing clip art, and typefaces; and users' manuals and instructional books sold as a unit therewith. FIRST USE: 19861215.
FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215
Work Mark: Abode Illustrator
Serial Number Registration Number: 1479408
G&S: COMPUTER PROGRAMS. FIRST USE: 19861215. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215
G&S: MANUALS FOR USE WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS. FIRST USE: 19861215. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215
Or check tess.uspto.gov
For those not making the connection it's just another webbug, and I'm sure many spammers still do this. Just like when you click 'UnSubscribe' - they know you got the email, so they unsub you from one list,and put you on ten more.
Bring them in a demo, making it clear to them that this has been developed in your spare time. NO IP clause can cover work done in spare time.
To get it finished, either take some vacation time, or try this:
Agree to waive the licence fee in exchange for using company time to complete it. You'd need to draw up an agreement to explicitly state that the company has no rights to this product, and any existing IP agreement does not apply in this case.
In effect, your wages would pay for the licence. You then retain rights, your employer is happy, as they have the product deliverable quicker, and the client is happy too.
A few months ago when this came out, I was curious as to what it was doing...
An hour of two of playing with tcl and neowebscript, and I'd started to decode messages from it. I'm not a cryptographer, so I seriously doubt the algorithm involved will upset the likes of Carnivore et. al. It is an excellent concept, don't get me wrong, now if they can only improve their algorithm...
And, of course, I've no idea where those scripts are, and I'm actually busy these days, so I probably won't reproduce them anytime soon.
The man speaks sense.
When we finish with a client's site, it's nice to know that anybody with a browser built to specification will see it the way it's meant to look. And if other people's sites don't work because of bad coding on their part, that's their problem.
Can someone shout out a window to MS to give an warning when IE starts "best guessing"?
Considering they didn't even tell us about their first mission until after it landed, it's not inconceivable that they have humans up there right now. If things go wrong, and they die, we won't hear about it
.
If on the other hand they survive, China scores another propaganda point with "look how fast our space program is developing"
In the meantime, let's hope NASA can actually lauch the Destiny module - Friday's launch has been cancelled due to fears of a "criticality one" failure ( read: Big Boom )
Read the whole thing... (not that I agree, but at least read it)
Q. Have the defendants actually used DeCSS to make illegal copies?
A. It is irrelevant whether or not the defendants were personally engaged in making illegal copies. They are clearly "providing the keys to the castle," which is in violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the federal copyright law.
Okay, so it's an 8-bit Turing complete machine. Many text editors, such as VI are complete but you ain't gonna see me playing Quake on them...
Yeah, it's nice for Java, after all, the more machines a VM can run on, the better for it.
Unfortunately, the white paper reads more like marketing spiel rather than anything else.
If he had a point to make at all, it's that too many programmers don't write code with a view to reusability in mind. Now that is something worth reminding us...
Amazed at how many posts have been moderated 0 in this topic...
I've only just seen this article, and I have to run, so I'm sure many people have made the point,
just don't use NSI, IMO they are money-grabbing tossers, there's plenty of alternatives, go to Tucows and you'll find many resellers of their OpenSRS system, like this crowd.
The only domain that is not allowed, is 'example' for use in textbooks, plus the tlds themselves., (not the cctlds mind)
Blah, I'm rushing.
There is no banning of vulgar words in tlds, just some regitrars who are afraid of getting hassle
A lot of people here seem to be sneering at the 'confused' voters. comments like '6 steps, how difficult is it' etc. and a private laugh.
You know all those product warnings like 'do not stop chainsaw blades with fingers' that we all say, "well, obviously" to? Well obviously it's not so obvious to somebody.
I know that a certain percentage of people do not vote because the never have before and are afraid they'll get things wrong. And a certain percentage are illiterate. And a certain percentage panic when asked to operate an unfamiliar device. And an overwhelming percentage of people are afraid/unconfident in asking for assisstance.
Keep voting procedures simple, and always, always, design them for the lowest common denominator.
And Mr. Katz, try explaining how to vote online to my 80 year old, phoneless grandmother.
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Speaking of Monty Python, featured on
BBSpot's daily spot, is a Monty Python Lego movie in quicktime. Windows media version is here.
Anybody who likes Monthy Python and Lego, check it out. Hmm I guess that's everybody here...
Everything I read about stegonagraphy seems to rely on hiding sensitive information within a single, seemingly innocous file.
I've always thought it'd make more sense to spread it between files so that, with the encoding based on differences between the files.
For example, say I want to transmit the binary number 1011, for whatever reason. 1011 is in decimal number the 11, so now I take an image, make a single pixel change at (1,11) and then make some humorous 'before and after' changes to the image, like moustaches, body parts or captions. Whatever, just don't alter row 1.
Send the two pictures, the receiver checks the difference between row 1 of the two images, and gets 11, which he can then converts to 1011. From there, he uses whatever binary-message decoding.
You can thus encode a 512-bit message by making a single pixel change to a 264x512 image.
Include those two images in a pic gallery of 200 images, and now it really becomes hell for anybody trying to detect it.
And that's using a very, very simple method.
Atollo looks fun, and the regular polyhedrons would amuse a few people at my next roleplaying session.
But for younger children, I think Lego is still a better boost to their creativity.
For example: when a child is first given a crayon, and some paper, he'll play with it for a while. He'll discover that when he strikes the paper with the crayon, it leaves a mark. He sees a cause-and-effect and, curious, he repeats it.
For some time, he will make random, meaningless markings, but, at some point he will draw two dots, with a line underneath, and suddenly recognise it as a face. This is hugely important to our developement, as it develops the concepts of abstraction and represention of objects and ideas.
Herein lie the basis for writing, art, architecture, orthography, etc. The child will develop this, by drawing new faces, adding heads, limbs and whatnot, emerging with the stick-people we're all familiar with.
Now with lego, you push a few pieces on top of each other, and, hey presto, it's a wall. Put a few walls together, and you have a building.
The problem with K'nex, Atollo, and the like, is that it's harder to make that connection, because of all the gaps, hinges, and stickly bits.
So I say, start a kid off with Lego, and once they start getting comfortable with that, throw the other systems at them too.
I can't help thinking that the Atollo stuff will be picked up by chemists and biologists, much like Mindstorm is picked up by robotics people.
Incidentally, the behaviour I mentioned about children and crayons, is played out the exact same way with Chimpanzees. The thing is, the chimpanzee never seems to recognise the face, and never progress from there.
Society salutes the bravery of its soldiers who, throughout history, have given their lives in the cause of freedom.
Now that it's civilians who died, suddenly freedom doesn't seem so important... does this make sense to anybody? Should those soldiers now be counted fools?
Surely the whole point of 'Operation Infinite Justice' is to protect the human rights of the coalition's citizens?
The terrorists attack is seen as an attack on the free world. If you relinquish that freedom, they have won this battle.
Q: Why does ITR sometimes show all zeros or strange numbers?
A: We are currently working on a complete re-write and overhaul of the ITR system to provide much more detailed and accurate information more quickly and reliably. During this transition phase, there may be rare occurrences when the data reported by ITR looks "strange" for an hour or so. Please bear with us during this transition, as we are certain that the new ITR (to be released sometime near the end of September) will be well worth the wait!
There's one other point you neglected - In-flight security guards.
Israel grounded all incoming civilian flights in response to the news, except for those of Israeli carriers - for the simple reason that Israeli airlines always have armed guards on board.
Maybe it's my late-night mind-numbness, but I couldn't detect any sarcasm in that. I did say 'economical equivalent'...
Well, you're close, but it's not in a bid to boost Microsoft's stocks.
If the market see the Bush administration strengthening Microsoft's monopoly then, while MS stocks may go up, the stocks of every MS competitor will fall. In suit, the companies which use/rely on those competitors will suffer too. So while one company goes up, many more will go down.
However, if the White House goes easy on Microsoft, but still does enough to punish them, then the boardrooms and shareholders of the other large US companies will see Bush as a friend of big-business, and *their* stocks could go up. The market will react favourably to a government who is seen to support businesses where they can, but who will maintain some authority over the situation.
I suspect if Bush had been 'elected' prior to Judge Jackson's original findings, the case may have been quietly dropped. At this stage though, MS have been found guilty, and thus some punishment has to be doled out, to keep MS's competitors happy. The trick is not to be so harsh as to scare other large companies.
If MS were completlely let go, I think you;d have the economical equivalent of the L.A. Riots.
For commercial interests, time is money, and if testing takes up too much time, then it is generally axed.
Well, apparently we now need to receive a cookie *every* time you click on a link.
Which gets really annoying when you have cookie warnings turned on. Which I normally do, since I usually read slashdot when I'm meant to be developing sites...
So you Americans wanna record your votes on a potentially complex system, which will envariably be designed, developed and depolyed by the lowest bidder?
Now that'd be a fun house committee to sit in on...
And of course, next time, it won't be the Florida elections in dispute... Good ol' Californian brownouts will see to that.
It's the only GUI client for X I could find which handles APOP, and that sold it for me.
2nor am I sure that Adobe doesn't have a trademark on "Illustrator" by itself." Actually, they have both. Work Mark: Illustrator Serial no. 74731075: G&S: computer software for use in graphic design, desktop publishing, electronic publishing, printing, artistic and technical drawing, creating fonts and typefaces, and special graphical and textual effects; computer software containing clip art, and typefaces; and users' manuals and instructional books sold as a unit therewith. FIRST USE: 19861215. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215 Work Mark: Abode Illustrator Serial Number Registration Number: 1479408 G&S: COMPUTER PROGRAMS. FIRST USE: 19861215. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215 G&S: MANUALS FOR USE WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS. FIRST USE: 19861215. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19861215 Or check tess.uspto.gov
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
For those not making the connection it's just another webbug, and I'm sure many spammers still do this. Just like when you click 'UnSubscribe' - they know you got the email, so they unsub you from one list,and put you on ten more.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
What a strange man.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Bring them in a demo, making it clear to them that this has been developed in your spare time. NO IP clause can cover work done in spare time.
To get it finished, either take some vacation time, or try this: Agree to waive the licence fee in exchange for using company time to complete it. You'd need to draw up an agreement to explicitly state that the company has no rights to this product, and any existing IP agreement does not apply in this case.
In effect, your wages would pay for the licence. You then retain rights, your employer is happy, as they have the product deliverable quicker, and the client is happy too.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
A few months ago when this came out, I was curious as to what it was doing...
An hour of two of playing with tcl and neowebscript, and I'd started to decode messages from it. I'm not a cryptographer, so I seriously doubt the algorithm involved will upset the likes of Carnivore et. al. It is an excellent concept, don't get me wrong, now if they can only improve their algorithm...
And, of course, I've no idea where those scripts are, and I'm actually busy these days, so I probably won't reproduce them anytime soon.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Now I'd love to see the cost of a casino junket to ISS... :)
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
The man speaks sense. When we finish with a client's site, it's nice to know that anybody with a browser built to specification will see it the way it's meant to look. And if other people's sites don't work because of bad coding on their part, that's their problem. Can someone shout out a window to MS to give an warning when IE starts "best guessing"?
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Considering they didn't even tell us about their first mission until after it landed, it's not inconceivable that they have humans up there right now. If things go wrong, and they die, we won't hear about it
. If on the other hand they survive, China scores another propaganda point with "look how fast our space program is developing"
In the meantime, let's hope NASA can actually lauch the Destiny module - Friday's launch has been cancelled due to fears of a "criticality one" failure ( read: Big Boom )
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Can somebody tell me what the power output of something like this is?
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Read the whole thing... (not that I agree, but at least read it)
Q. Have the defendants actually used DeCSS to make illegal copies? A. It is irrelevant whether or not the defendants were personally engaged in making illegal copies. They are clearly "providing the keys to the castle," which is in violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the federal copyright law.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Okay, so it's an 8-bit Turing complete machine. Many text editors, such as VI are complete but you ain't gonna see me playing Quake on them...
Yeah, it's nice for Java, after all, the more machines a VM can run on, the better for it. Unfortunately, the white paper reads more like marketing spiel rather than anything else.
If he had a point to make at all, it's that too many programmers don't write code with a view to reusability in mind. Now that is something worth reminding us...
Amazed at how many posts have been moderated 0 in this topic...
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
I've only just seen this article, and I have to run, so I'm sure many people have made the point, just don't use NSI, IMO they are money-grabbing tossers, there's plenty of alternatives, go to Tucows and you'll find many resellers of their OpenSRS system, like this crowd. The only domain that is not allowed, is 'example' for use in textbooks, plus the tlds themselves., (not the cctlds mind) Blah, I'm rushing. There is no banning of vulgar words in tlds, just some regitrars who are afraid of getting hassle
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
You know all those product warnings like 'do not stop chainsaw blades with fingers' that we all say, "well, obviously" to? Well obviously it's not so obvious to somebody. I know that a certain percentage of people do not vote because the never have before and are afraid they'll get things wrong. And a certain percentage are illiterate. And a certain percentage panic when asked to operate an unfamiliar device. And an overwhelming percentage of people are afraid/unconfident in asking for assisstance.
Keep voting procedures simple, and always, always, design them for the lowest common denominator.
And Mr. Katz, try explaining how to vote online to my 80 year old, phoneless grandmother.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"