Yet another reason to go "off-the-grid".... that is, decentralizing in yet another way. Some time ago, reading one of those alternative-energy magazines, I read speculations that not only was the time coming when people could live "off-the-grid", but that it'd be quite an industry. I wasn't sure at the time, but when I think about this in the context of going off the grid being a decentralization, I can suddenly see a parallel between that idea and the Personal Computer revolution. And PCs have spawned quite an industry... Just a thought. So, does anyone know anything about getting off the grid? Check out Plug Power www.plugpower.com, Nasdaq:PLUG. Concept company right now, but they have hopes (now if they can just get their product to tolerate inductive loads...) I also have to stick my oar in, in favor of Junkbuster. I use it throughout my home LAN and it seems to work great. I also have been evaluating Naviscope www.naviscope.com which is another ad/cookie blocker. It is far more elegant than Junkbuster, with a nice interface and a lot of neat features. However, I like to be able to block the referrer info (Junkbuster does and Naviscope doesn't) and I also like to be able to spoof sites WRT my OS and browser (again, Junkbuster does and Naviscope doesn't) so I give the nod to Junkbuster, in general. On another, related topic (not cookies, but security) everyone should visit GRC.COM and see if your Shields are Up. If not, visit www.zonelabs.com for their free firewall to help solve the problem. (Windows machines anyway, don't know about Mac or Linux).
Can you embed an extractable watermark on white noise? Sure. If you have a priori knowledge of what you have put there, you can design a filter to pull it right out, but if you don't know what it is you can't ever find it. It does seem to me that such a scheme could be fairly easily defeated; as suggested here, strip the low order bits. Probably a slight blur or rotation wouldn't help.
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Yet another reason to go "off-the-grid".... that is, decentralizing in yet another way. Some time ago, reading one of those alternative-energy magazines, I read speculations that not only was the time coming when people could live "off-the-grid", but that it'd be quite an industry. I wasn't sure at the time, but when I think about this in the context of going off the grid being a decentralization, I can suddenly see a parallel between that idea and the Personal Computer revolution. And PCs have spawned quite an industry... Just a thought. So, does anyone know anything about getting off the grid? Check out Plug Power www.plugpower.com, Nasdaq:PLUG. Concept company right now, but they have hopes (now if they can just get their product to tolerate inductive loads...) I also have to stick my oar in, in favor of Junkbuster. I use it throughout my home LAN and it seems to work great. I also have been evaluating Naviscope www.naviscope.com which is another ad/cookie blocker. It is far more elegant than Junkbuster, with a nice interface and a lot of neat features. However, I like to be able to block the referrer info (Junkbuster does and Naviscope doesn't) and I also like to be able to spoof sites WRT my OS and browser (again, Junkbuster does and Naviscope doesn't) so I give the nod to Junkbuster, in general. On another, related topic (not cookies, but security) everyone should visit GRC.COM and see if your Shields are Up. If not, visit www.zonelabs.com for their free firewall to help solve the problem. (Windows machines anyway, don't know about Mac or Linux).
Can you embed an extractable watermark on white noise? Sure. If you have a priori knowledge of what you have put there, you can design a filter to pull it right out, but if you don't know what it is you can't ever find it. It does seem to me that such a scheme could be fairly easily defeated; as suggested here, strip the low order bits. Probably a slight blur or rotation wouldn't help.