"Not everyone needs to do this, just sufficiently many people so that the vast majority of the positives of stego detection systems are going to be false positives. "
these aren't fake positives they are show people who have used the defective encoder. You then take this portion of the images and look for deviation from the normal actions of this plugin. The remander have a good chance of containing stegographic content.
You haven't made it harder to find stegged images you have cut down on the work needed to find them;-)
I can't understand this. Surely all the governments assets are yours. I thought you americans had a government of the people for the people?
You have the right to demand to know where every penny of you money goes.
"No, you can't build that road, I won't allow it since it's my money that you're using."
don't you have anti-road building protests? don't you get roads rerouted so they have minimum impact on the environment and population? or is this a european thing?
I would personally welcome a system where we have more rights to choose where our taxes go but I can't see any government allowing it. Not that many would allow the government to spend money on arms only those that where brainwashed into believing in an enemy that doesn't exist.
you should always remember that it is the population that votes for the government and gives it funds to spend if you don't agree with spending then do something about it. Email or fax your representative and demand they reply. How do you ever think things will get better without afirmative action?
It is trivial to write a program to discover content that has been stegged. A jpeg with hidden content would be quite easy to find if the areas with content where significantly different from those without. The problem comes when the data is similar to the carrier.
If you had hidden your message is bogus scientific data taken from a near random source then it would be very difficult to see the areas that contained stegged data.
It would be possible with time and processing power to dicover what bits where stegged if you used/dev/urandom to get the data. Knowing your processor type and kernel implientation the powers that be could find patterns in the data and look for those (or absence of those) in your message. But if the randomness is of a natural type then the difficulty increases by a massive amount.
So if you have to hide something from the feds then become a scientist and collect lots of data from nature. It should have an element of randomness that allows you to steg your secrets in the data.
"If I were a more qualified sociologist, I'd think it may have inspired by the way that our children play today versus how they played twenty years ago."
As a 31 year old I can confirm that I was playing with lego about 25 years ago much the same as my 5 year old does today.
lego (the company) was started in 1932 by master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen. in 1947 they started making plastic toys (a little ahead of the curve) one of the toys created was automatic binding bricks. They where renamed lego bricks (well lego mursten) and over the next few years became a favoutite toy the world over.
I am pretty sure I learnt a lot from my lego and enjoy watching my son playing with his. But they are not a new toy and I don't think you will find a trend in the way people play since lego since they are just one of a long line of constrution toys produced in europe.
Of course, for me "back in the day" was when Altavista was at altavista.digital.com
yup they where the only real search engine on the block, of any worth, back then.
What I want to know is when did they stop using altavista.net and start using altavista.com? I used altavista for the first time in years the other day and entered altavista.net and was surprised when it forwarded to altavista.com. I am sure it used to be the other way round.
I wonder how many alpha systems where sold because of altavista?
So the biggest tech flops all happened relatively recently and in america?
There is an easy solution to this lets not only stop using technology, not only from the USA, but from since the americas where discovered by modern europeans!
I'm blogging this right now on my own printing press and if anyone laughs I will get medieval on their arse (ass is such an americanism and is banned)
or alternativly we could find something better to do than look at year end reviews, year coming previews and over hyped journalistic endevours.
I can't wait for slashdot to leave the post holiday period and start getting good again;-)
http://slashdot.org/~Compact%20Dick/fans you are not totally alone;-)
I just added myself, drop any of your fans a line and have a chat, it can stay anonymous if you want.
it's normal to have these kinds of feelings more at this time of year there is a lot of help out there and like you I seem to have karma to burn so fuck those mods who mod down anything that doesn't fit their personal preferences. fuck em they can't hurt you.
you seem to be a together guy in your earlier posts and might be suffering a little at the moment but don't have to be alone. Drop someone a line and try and talk to them. it could be as simple as someone on slashdot or the samaratans or someone who you look up to.
if you a troll you took a long time to change your spots;-)
FUDmaster reports "The SCO arguements, a mysterious book of uncertain age, is widely believed to be written either in an unknown language or a long-lost encryption scheme. Groklaw reports that computer scientist Gordon Fud has demonstrated that it's possible to generate a text like the SCO arguements -- containing language-like regularities, despite being potentially meaningless -- using cryptographic techniques of the time. This lends some support to those who claim that the manuscript is a hoax. Dr Fud calls this language legalese and it is so convincing that major thinkers of the day are struggling to comprehend it!" Wow what do other slashdot readers think? (laugh it's funny - if off-topic)
my last position was as a college lecturer, I now want to get back into development. This is causing a few problems. *Good* jobs don't want me because I have been out of the industry for a couple of years (not withstanding open source developments that they choose to ignore) and the lesser jobs don't want me because they think I am over qualified. The SCO people will at least have been working with unix over the last few years;-)
"upgrading" from one OS to another is never trivial.
I would think that on most i386 systems running linux the first 40mb or so is/boot or swap.
Swap is a simple case of swapoff then setting it up again in the freebsd setup (perhaps using the old/boot?)
and/boot is going bye bye anyway.
As a confirmed debian user (running it across multiple platforms) I wouldn't use this anyway and would suggest any user looking for a clean upgrade to a BSD from GNU/Linux would be better off backing up/home and other stuff that you want to survive the upgrade (/var/www perhaps) and nuking the whole thing using OpenBSD. If you are 'upgrading' from GNU/Linux to a BSD at least make it the safest variant;-)
If you don't like the thought of helping Mitnick make any more money why not help dr k with his hacker tales book
Not only is Dr K a dude but he is also a little more in touch with the hacker scene. I particulary like his fuck computers let's hack talk and brumcon
This link adds a guess for the 2.6 release. Anyone getting this wrong after the event deserves to lose;-)
Re:National conglomorate?
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In the UK Clearchannel own most of the billboards not the radio stations.
If they start taking over radio stations wholesale they have a whole lot of advertisising space to push their wares.
and now they can selectivly push them on roads where their pentitration is low;-)
sparkes
Re:And who pays for this? Seems different.
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the "alternative" station maybe gets the Ford Focus picture
[off-topic bit]
This is something us brits don't understand, what is alternative about a pretty boring family car?
I, for one, don't understand why these have taken off among the young in the states. Over here (where they where designed, manufactured in germany I think) they are driven by old folks.
oh, a little bit of trivia, I developed the software that tested the seat rails in the focus. This is one reason I have for never owning one;-)
[/off-topic]
swinging portable radios on telegraph poles anyone?;-)
I run debian on my ultra 10 (440 ultrasparc, 512mb ecc ram) and other than the crap x drivers it is pretty dam speedy.
it seems that well developed apps run quicker on the my sparc than on x86 hardware.
apache, mysql and a few others run faster on this than on my P3 600 desktop and p4 1gig laptop both also running debian. The new P4 3.2ghz kills it but that is too be expected.
I can't understand why people are getting excited about solaris being free as in beer when free as in speech computing is also available;-)
We discussed this at a lug meeting last night. I can't really see how this film is banned and it's predesor not. Unless it is the frequent use of the word Zion in a country where extremist members of the government talk of zionist cabels almost daily.
I personally think that reloaded has lost a lot of the religion from the first matrix film and this is why I don't understand the banning.
In the first so many hints where given that neo is the second coming (or the thousand some odd in reloaded) that it was not so much of an undertone as the major film.
I personally saw the trilogy moving towards an ultimate ending where neo is jesus, mohammed, budda and all the religous leaders ever in his various reincarnations and this one was leading to armageddon.
Sure it mixed up all the religions but the lack of a clear god figure made it aghostic anyway.
Unfortunatly reloaded made it all so in your face with far less of the undertones of the first film I am now a little worried that the white rabbit ending is coming. You know the one where he wakes up and the matrix was all a dream (or was it) it didn't work for Louis Carrol and I can't see it working here I just hope it doesn't happen.
still never mind the effects where good.
sparkes
PS. Is the zion of reloaded part of the matrix? or is that taking the p**s?
If I remember correctly the female CEO of handspring was one of key developers of the Palm OS. She left to start handspring who became the first licensees of the Palm OS.
So I guess the people involved in Handspring from Palm go back to their old jobs.
Palm and Handspring both win, unfortunatly we are the only possible (l)users. Handspring pushed palm and now they are gone Palm is alone in this segment of the market.
Stuff below Palm and Handspring machines (in terms of cost) are toys, the stuff above them are too expensive. As the better machines get cheaper do palm try to keep the middle ground or do they becomes toys?
Imagine a Zaurus for the price of a lowend Palm OS machine, no don't imagine purchase it in a couple of years.
Sorry Palm buying out your sister is not going to be enough to keep the sector you made your own.
Indie companies are still going to get ripped off they just get ripped of by an electronic distributor instead of an offline one.
Bands will still get very little cash for their effort.
Do you have any facts to back that up, or are you just trying to sell your own micropayment system?
I don't have a micropayments system that was a joke.
Bands have always been ripped of and unless they cut out one or more of the middlemen both bands and fans will continue to get the shitty end of the stick.
From the article:
Poneman said the decision to join the iTunes store would come down to the compensation package that Apple is offering, which he has not yet seen.
And:
But, he cautioned, were Sub Pop to join iTunes, the inclusion of music from many of the signature bands on the label's roster would have to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
So why would they get screwed if each band can opt-in if they want? At this point we have no idea what deal Apple is giving them, but since this is pure distribution without any physical costs associated with it I would imagine it's a heck of a lot better than other distributors.
It's not the sub-pop bands that can opt out by my understanding but the current record companies. I presume by signature bands it is talking about Nivana and the other sub-pop bands who signed for major labels and had distrubution deals for their back catalogues with companies such as Geffin.
Micropayments with the vast majority going to the artists would eleviate these problems.
Micropayments may work for the top 1% of a given field (web comics, online music), but I've never heard of anyone making a decent living off of it, and certainly not the average group.
the average group would make more taking control of their own destiny than allowing others to control them and each take a cut of the action.
In my experience of being in a band and playing with other bands most money comes from live performances, t-shirt sales and other business deals that the band and their immediate management take responsibility for.
A fraction of something you own is worth more that a big slice of the debts that most new bands are left with once they have paid for everything that is contractully their responsibility out of the up front payments.
Instead of paying EMI et al for the right to listen to a song I get to pay Apple.
Indie companies are still going to get ripped off they just get ripped of by an electronic distributor instead of an offline one.
Bands will still get very little cash for their effort.
Every band (or at least every indie label) should have their own website and take micropayments from customers direct. If you only had to pay a few pence for the rights to listen to a track you could share with your friends and if they like it they can go a pay for it as well.
One of the big reasons for piracy is the cost of tracks and how the cash is distributed. Micropayments with the vast majority going to the artists would eleviate these problems.
If any bands are willing to give this a try, get in touch I can help you get up and running for minimal cost;-)
The smaller arianne rockets are cheaper to launch than almost any other platform. Unfortunatly the new larger varient is more expensive as it keeps blowing up:-(
Slashdot Mirror
aaarrrhhhh.
;-)
So although you don't have a 'pro rata' say on how you money is spent you still believe you can, and should, still have a say
"Not everyone needs to do this, just sufficiently many people so that the vast majority of the positives of stego detection systems are going to be false positives. "
;-)
these aren't fake positives they are show people who have used the defective encoder. You then take this portion of the images and look for deviation from the normal actions of this plugin. The remander have a good chance of containing stegographic content.
You haven't made it harder to find stegged images you have cut down on the work needed to find them
I can't understand this. Surely all the governments assets are yours. I thought you americans had a government of the people for the people?
You have the right to demand to know where every penny of you money goes.
"No, you can't build that road, I won't allow it since it's my money that you're using."
don't you have anti-road building protests? don't you get roads rerouted so they have minimum impact on the environment and population? or is this a european thing?
I would personally welcome a system where we have more rights to choose where our taxes go but I can't see any government allowing it. Not that many would allow the government to spend money on arms only those that where brainwashed into believing in an enemy that doesn't exist.
you should always remember that it is the population that votes for the government and gives it funds to spend if you don't agree with spending then do something about it. Email or fax your representative and demand they reply. How do you ever think things will get better without afirmative action?
It is trivial to write a program to discover content that has been stegged. A jpeg with hidden content would be quite easy to find if the areas with content where significantly different from those without. The problem comes when the data is similar to the carrier.
/dev/urandom to get the data. Knowing your processor type and kernel implientation the powers that be could find patterns in the data and look for those (or absence of those) in your message. But if the randomness is of a natural type then the difficulty increases by a massive amount.
If you had hidden your message is bogus scientific data taken from a near random source then it would be very difficult to see the areas that contained stegged data.
It would be possible with time and processing power to dicover what bits where stegged if you used
So if you have to hide something from the feds then become a scientist and collect lots of data from nature. It should have an element of randomness that allows you to steg your secrets in the data.
"If I were a more qualified sociologist, I'd think it may have inspired by the way that our children play today versus how they played twenty years ago."
As a 31 year old I can confirm that I was playing with lego about 25 years ago much the same as my 5 year old does today.
lego (the company) was started in 1932 by master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen. in 1947 they started making plastic toys (a little ahead of the curve) one of the toys created was automatic binding bricks. They where renamed lego bricks (well lego mursten) and over the next few years became a favoutite toy the world over.
I am pretty sure I learnt a lot from my lego and enjoy watching my son playing with his. But they are not a new toy and I don't think you will find a trend in the way people play since lego since they are just one of a long line of constrution toys produced in europe.
Of course, for me "back in the day" was when Altavista was at altavista.digital.com
yup they where the only real search engine on the block, of any worth, back then.
What I want to know is when did they stop using altavista.net and start using altavista.com? I used altavista for the first time in years the other day and entered altavista.net and was surprised when it forwarded to altavista.com. I am sure it used to be the other way round.
I wonder how many alpha systems where sold because of altavista?
So the biggest tech flops all happened relatively recently and in america?
;-)
There is an easy solution to this lets not only stop using technology, not only from the USA, but from since the americas where discovered by modern europeans!
I'm blogging this right now on my own printing press and if anyone laughs I will get medieval on their arse (ass is such an americanism and is banned)
or alternativly we could find something better to do than look at year end reviews, year coming previews and over hyped journalistic endevours.
I can't wait for slashdot to leave the post holiday period and start getting good again
oh, and my fav techno flop is the Sinclair C5
http://slashdot.org/~Compact%20Dick/fans you are not totally alone ;-)
;-)
I just added myself, drop any of your fans a line and have a chat, it can stay anonymous if you want.
it's normal to have these kinds of feelings more at this time of year there is a lot of help out there and like you I seem to have karma to burn so fuck those mods who mod down anything that doesn't fit their personal preferences. fuck em they can't hurt you.
you seem to be a together guy in your earlier posts and might be suffering a little at the moment but don't have to be alone. Drop someone a line and try and talk to them. it could be as simple as someone on slashdot or the samaratans or someone who you look up to.
if you a troll you took a long time to change your spots
FUDmaster reports "The SCO arguements, a mysterious book of uncertain age, is widely believed to be written either in an unknown language or a long-lost encryption scheme. Groklaw reports that computer scientist Gordon Fud has demonstrated that it's possible to generate a text like the SCO arguements -- containing language-like regularities, despite being potentially meaningless -- using cryptographic techniques of the time. This lends some support to those who claim that the manuscript is a hoax. Dr Fud calls this language legalese and it is so convincing that major thinkers of the day are struggling to comprehend it!" Wow what do other slashdot readers think? (laugh it's funny - if off-topic)
my last position was as a college lecturer, I now want to get back into development. This is causing a few problems. *Good* jobs don't want me because I have been out of the industry for a couple of years (not withstanding open source developments that they choose to ignore) and the lesser jobs don't want me because they think I am over qualified. The SCO people will at least have been working with unix over the last few years ;-)
"upgrading" from one OS to another is never trivial.
/boot or swap.
/boot?)
/boot is going bye bye anyway.
/home and other stuff that you want to survive the upgrade (/var/www perhaps) and nuking the whole thing using OpenBSD. If you are 'upgrading' from GNU/Linux to a BSD at least make it the safest variant ;-)
I would think that on most i386 systems running linux the first 40mb or so is
Swap is a simple case of swapoff then setting it up again in the freebsd setup (perhaps using the old
and
As a confirmed debian user (running it across multiple platforms) I wouldn't use this anyway and would suggest any user looking for a clean upgrade to a BSD from GNU/Linux would be better off backing up
2003-12-29 08:55:57 Linux powered tarzan robots (articles,linux) (rejected)
I have suffered a dodgy cable to my sky tv box, a powercut, my second best laptop burst into flames, and now rejection by slashdot. oh woe is me.
www.a2rt.org and lowtech.org to get those old pc's recycled into art installations or access spaces running linux.
;-) and drop by from time to time to party with wolves lug.
besides the blokes running these projects are cool
If you don't like the thought of helping Mitnick make any more money why not help dr k with his hacker tales book
Not only is Dr K a dude but he is also a little more in touch with the hacker scene. I particulary like his fuck computers let's hack talk and brumcon
This link adds a guess for the 2.6 release. Anyone getting this wrong after the event deserves to lose ;-)
In the UK Clearchannel own most of the billboards not the radio stations.
;-)
If they start taking over radio stations wholesale they have a whole lot of advertisising space to push their wares.
and now they can selectivly push them on roads where their pentitration is low
sparkes
the "alternative" station maybe gets the Ford Focus picture
;-)
;-)
[off-topic bit]
This is something us brits don't understand, what is alternative about a pretty boring family car?
I, for one, don't understand why these have taken off among the young in the states. Over here (where they where designed, manufactured in germany I think) they are driven by old folks.
oh, a little bit of trivia, I developed the software that tested the seat rails in the focus. This is one reason I have for never owning one
[/off-topic]
swinging portable radios on telegraph poles anyone?
sparkes
I run debian on my ultra 10 (440 ultrasparc, 512mb ecc ram) and other than the crap x drivers it is pretty dam speedy.
;-)
it seems that well developed apps run quicker on the my sparc than on x86 hardware.
apache, mysql and a few others run faster on this than on my P3 600 desktop and p4 1gig laptop both also running debian. The new P4 3.2ghz kills it but that is too be expected.
I can't understand why people are getting excited about solaris being free as in beer when free as in speech computing is also available
We discussed this at a lug meeting last night. I can't really see how this film is banned and it's predesor not. Unless it is the frequent use of the word Zion in a country where extremist members of the government talk of zionist cabels almost daily.
I personally think that reloaded has lost a lot of the religion from the first matrix film and this is why I don't understand the banning.
In the first so many hints where given that neo is the second coming (or the thousand some odd in reloaded) that it was not so much of an undertone as the major film.
I personally saw the trilogy moving towards an ultimate ending where neo is jesus, mohammed, budda and all the religous leaders ever in his various reincarnations and this one was leading to armageddon.
Sure it mixed up all the religions but the lack of a clear god figure made it aghostic anyway.
Unfortunatly reloaded made it all so in your face with far less of the undertones of the first film I am now a little worried that the white rabbit ending is coming. You know the one where he wakes up and the matrix was all a dream (or was it) it didn't work for Louis Carrol and I can't see it working here I just hope it doesn't happen.
still never mind the effects where good.
sparkes
PS. Is the zion of reloaded part of the matrix? or is that taking the p**s?
If I remember correctly the female CEO of handspring was one of key developers of the Palm OS. She left to start handspring who became the first licensees of the Palm OS.
So I guess the people involved in Handspring from Palm go back to their old jobs.
Palm and Handspring both win, unfortunatly we are the only possible (l)users. Handspring pushed palm and now they are gone Palm is alone in this segment of the market.
Stuff below Palm and Handspring machines (in terms of cost) are toys, the stuff above them are too expensive. As the better machines get cheaper do palm try to keep the middle ground or do they becomes toys?
Imagine a Zaurus for the price of a lowend Palm OS machine, no don't imagine purchase it in a couple of years.
Sorry Palm buying out your sister is not going to be enough to keep the sector you made your own.
Indie companies are still going to get ripped off they just get ripped of by an electronic distributor instead of an offline one.
Bands will still get very little cash for their effort.
Do you have any facts to back that up, or are you just trying to sell your own micropayment system?
I don't have a micropayments system that was a joke.
Bands have always been ripped of and unless they cut out one or more of the middlemen both bands and fans will continue to get the shitty end of the stick.
From the article:
Poneman said the decision to join the iTunes store would come down to the compensation package that Apple is offering, which he has not yet seen.
And:
But, he cautioned, were Sub Pop to join iTunes, the inclusion of music from many of the signature bands on the label's roster would have to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
So why would they get screwed if each band can opt-in if they want? At this point we have no idea what deal Apple is giving them, but since this is pure distribution without any physical costs associated with it I would imagine it's a heck of a lot better than other distributors.
It's not the sub-pop bands that can opt out by my understanding but the current record companies. I presume by signature bands it is talking about Nivana and the other sub-pop bands who signed for major labels and had distrubution deals for their back catalogues with companies such as Geffin.
Micropayments with the vast majority going to the artists would eleviate these problems.
Micropayments may work for the top 1% of a given field (web comics, online music), but I've never heard of anyone making a decent living off of it, and certainly not the average group.
the average group would make more taking control of their own destiny than allowing others to control them and each take a cut of the action.
In my experience of being in a band and playing with other bands most money comes from live performances, t-shirt sales and other business deals that the band and their immediate management take responsibility for.
A fraction of something you own is worth more that a big slice of the debts that most new bands are left with once they have paid for everything that is contractully their responsibility out of the up front payments.
Instead of paying EMI et al for the right to listen to a song I get to pay Apple.
;-)
Indie companies are still going to get ripped off they just get ripped of by an electronic distributor instead of an offline one.
Bands will still get very little cash for their effort.
Every band (or at least every indie label) should have their own website and take micropayments from customers direct. If you only had to pay a few pence for the rights to listen to a track you could share with your friends and if they like it they can go a pay for it as well.
One of the big reasons for piracy is the cost of tracks and how the cash is distributed. Micropayments with the vast majority going to the artists would eleviate these problems.
If any bands are willing to give this a try, get in touch I can help you get up and running for minimal cost
You know what they say behind every Bush is a terrorist these days ;-)
The smaller arianne rockets are cheaper to launch than almost any other platform. Unfortunatly the new larger varient is more expensive as it keeps blowing up :-(
you would need a lot more than three for a Global positioning system the planet keeps getting in the way of the signal ;-)
the more signals the better the resolution of the data you can get.