I had someone run my card to the limit, and the company just charged me my insurance co-pay. Bango, no problem.
No problem for you. Someone has to suck up the theft, and IIRC, it's the store, not the redit card company. Just because you don't have a direct personal interest in keeping your credit card number private doesn't mean it's not important. Indirectly, you end up paying more beause stores have to make a larger to profit to soak up theft.
I'm sorry, I doubt this project will ever pay for itself. for 1500 ft. they would have been far better off using another low loss system, like UHV or something.
I believe the idea of the installation is more of a proof of concept thing. If they can get superconductors to work for 1,500 ft., then the city is a lot more likey to sink money into a larger scale project, rather than an unproven technology.
Since the cable is run in a straight line, not couled or anything, I imagine that the magnetic field it threw off would not be that major. Also, since the power lines must run both ways, coming and going (at least, I believe that's how it works to close the circuit), I'd think the magnetic fields would pretty much cancel each other out.
I'm wondering if an attempt to hire free software developers for closed source projects would be considered somehow inappropriate
If open source coders don't want the job, they can always turn the job down, it's not like you're forcing them to come work on closed source projects, just offering a job.
First, any physics student knows it takes Less expended energy to lift 100 million-odd tons of mass straight up than it does to move it up a gradual incline.
Ahem. Any physics student known it take the exact same amount of energy. An incline spreads out the work over a longer time scale, but the work is lessenned, and it balances out perfectly. It's the same way pulley systems work. Sure, you have to pull for longer, but it's much easier to pull.
More important than being "depressed" is being impulsive. People with Attention Deficite Disorder, for example, are at a higher risk for suicide becuase the impulse for self-destruction that most people easily supress is that much stronger in ADD'ers.
This strikes me as very true. Appearantly I have some of that ADD mojo going on, and I tend to be rather impulsive. But I also know what's good for me, and dyin' ain't.
These sick bastards that teach because they don't know what else to do with their degrees make me sick.
Sounds to me like you're making a leap here that's a bit rash. It sounds to me like the punishment fint pretty well with the crime, if the kid did indeed crack the grading system, change his grades, and even sell access, as it is alleged. In that case, I think 10 days of suspension was neither cruel nor unusual. I'm not sure that this is really anyone's fault. (Although that's not to say that there aren't many "educators" out there that need to be drug out into the street and shot. Or at least given different jobs.)
According to his parents, Shinjan -- a youngster known for his infectious smile and outgoing personality -- was not depressed and only the night before had discussed plans to improve his swimming times.
This is almost certainly what they'd say about me, if I committed suicide. It is extremely unlikely I'd do that, but I am rather depressed at times. It is important to remember that teenager with boundless optimism are not always as happy as they seem.
According to the article, these laws have been around a while now: "The directive, enacted in late 1998, has repeatedly caused frictions with the US, which has accused the EU of trying to impose laws beyond its own frontiers."
From what I can tell, the article is actually about the EU pushing through a "model contract" for companies that want to work through these data regulations... a contract that the US wanted to delay.
That will hopefully protect people from being scammed and buying bootlegs unintentionally and it doesn't require some watermarking or encryption scheme that is doomed to fail.
Do you really think that consummers being sold bootleg DVDs unaware is the biggest threat to the DVD industry right now? Given the fact that 99% of all pirate DVDs are burned onto CDRs by college students with fast connections that know exactly what they're doing, I don't think holohraphy will help much at all.
What if only some (most?) "watermarks" are invalid and the player stops playing if it sees an invalid one?
If they went with a system like this, none of the old DVDs would work on the new players. That means a lot of people would have a lot of DVDs that were mostly worthless when their old player breaks down.
It seems unlikely that the MPAA would be willing to screw over so many customers. But you never know, they seems pretty stupid.
By doing a quick scan of the articles, one can see holes in the logic, and reporting, making swiss cheese of watermarking. Let's take a look:
Detector circuits in future DVD recorders and playback machines will read the watermark, says Miz Nakajima, spokesperson for Digimarc. The technology does not work with today's DVD players.
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The idea is to introduce a new protection scheme and hardware that will read it the new protection, but to let old hardware work without that protection. "You can't do that to consumers -- you've got to have to have backwards-compatibility. That's why this is not an easy solution," he says.
Further problems come along in the MPAA's attitude. They seems to be targetting the wrong peoplem, for one. An idea of theirs is to add holograms to the disc, ala Microsoft, so that "Right off the bat, you can examine the CD or DVD and know this is an imposter." But the problem with DVD pirates is obviously not the Chinese bootlegs they mention, but DVDs being ripped and swapped over the internet. The users know full they're getting pirated DVDs, and don't care, so long as it's free.
"I don't think DVD bootlegging is that much of a problem. As long as you can get a movie at $19.99 with superior quality and extras, what's the incentive to get a poor version for less than that?"
A one-second stream of video can range from two to ten megabits in size, so an attempt to remove it would be the ultimate search for a needle in a haystack, and even a successful removal could damage the video itself
Sure, finding the 2 or three bits of video information that contains watermarking will be hard. But randomly adjusting the pixels just a bit will be all but unnoticable to the human eye, and destroy watermark. Brute force teqniques like this have worked for watermarks before, they'll probably work again.
Even a perfectly copied DVD video would contain watermarks that would prevent a DVD recorder with a watermark detection chip from playing the bootleg copy.
Seems fairly obvious to me that a "perfectly copied" DVD would contain the exact same watermark as the original. Why you could copy the original, but not the copy is beyond me, if the copy is indeed perfect.
To complicate matters, Macrovision is independently working on a DVD copy-protection mechanism to block copying through the audio and video out ports in the DVD player to a VCR
As has been pointed out time and time again, if media can be presented to someone, it can be copied by that someone. Some VCRs can overcome Macrovision, and I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to set up some hardware to get past it, if you had a soldering gun and the hacker ethic. Sure, not everyone can, but it only takes one to spread the divx.
That's about all I have to say. Try again, MPAA, it's been fun.
"As long as you can get a movie at $19.99 with superior quality and extras, what's the incentive to get a poor version for less than that?"
I'd say there's considerable incentive, judging by my freinds' sizable movie-on-cd collections. There has always been a market for low quality at a low cost. Dr. Skippers, anyone? Store Brands, Geo Metros, Community college. The list goes on.
Perhaps the most curious was the site promoting a program that would bring about a 2- to 6-inch growth in sexual endowment. "No pumps, pills or weights are used," it said. "The only tool--your hand."
You know, I've been trying similar techniques fo years, with little improvement. I guess I just need to step up my strict regiment.
I'd assume that the phone would be for connectivity for the webcam. Doesn't that make a little more sense to you?
My bet is that he wants the phone so that if the webcam detects that someone is on the boat, the phone calls the security guy, so he can do something about it.
Where did the cool poweder blue color scheme come from? I really like it. For that matter, why is it that pages tend to have different color schemes? Normally it's the plain green, but sometimes there is tht red scheme that, imo, look prettty bad.
Not to bitch, but really: must you inform us of stories on sites like Wired? Isn't it fair to assume that most people who visit Slashdot are well aware of -- and probably check with at least the same frequency -- Wired's site?
Having an open comment forum, though, is nice. I visit slashdot for the insightfull comments on the articles, not the articles themselves.
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Science, huh? Nice try, editors.
I had someone run my card to the limit, and the company just charged me my insurance co-pay. Bango, no problem.
No problem for you. Someone has to suck up the theft, and IIRC, it's the store, not the redit card company. Just because you don't have a direct personal interest in keeping your credit card number private doesn't mean it's not important. Indirectly, you end up paying more beause stores have to make a larger to profit to soak up theft.
Does this set a precedent that you are responsible for what you do as in individual while employed by a company, doing you job?
I believe that precendent was already set, in the Nuremburg trials.
Does coding for an open-source project, say Linux, count as Community Service? They don't really gain any benefit from it now do they...
If IBM didn't gain any benifit, I'm sure they wouldn't need to advertise. After all, IBM isn't in business just to try and be nice.
I'm sorry, I doubt this project will ever pay for itself. for 1500 ft. they would have been far better off using another low loss system, like UHV or something.
I believe the idea of the installation is more of a proof of concept thing. If they can get superconductors to work for 1,500 ft., then the city is a lot more likey to sink money into a larger scale project, rather than an unproven technology.
Since the cable is run in a straight line, not couled or anything, I imagine that the magnetic field it threw off would not be that major. Also, since the power lines must run both ways, coming and going (at least, I believe that's how it works to close the circuit), I'd think the magnetic fields would pretty much cancel each other out.
It sounds pretty expensive - will the extra efficiency be worth all the money spent on liquid nitrogen?
Well, if you'd RTFA, you'd know that is is. While they don't give actual stats, they do mention that liquid nitro is "cheaper than kool-aid."
Sure, a skilled programmer could cheat.
But only a skilled programmer. Because, after all, exploits are never widely distibuted as any sort of script or used by any sort of kiddy.
I'm wondering if an attempt to hire free software developers for closed source projects would be considered somehow inappropriate
If open source coders don't want the job, they can always turn the job down, it's not like you're forcing them to come work on closed source projects, just offering a job.
First, any physics student knows it takes Less expended energy to lift 100 million-odd tons of mass straight up than it does to move it up a gradual incline.
Ahem. Any physics student known it take the exact same amount of energy. An incline spreads out the work over a longer time scale, but the work is lessenned, and it balances out perfectly. It's the same way pulley systems work. Sure, you have to pull for longer, but it's much easier to pull.
All us dot-bombers know what happens when you throw together a grand plan in too little time. Think IBM, not eLaundryBasket.com.
Appearantly someone was thinking eLaundryBasket.com: "Domain for sale at DomainCollection.com."
More important than being "depressed" is being impulsive. People with Attention Deficite Disorder, for example, are at a higher risk for suicide becuase the impulse for self-destruction that most people easily supress is that much stronger in ADD'ers.
This strikes me as very true. Appearantly I have some of that ADD mojo going on, and I tend to be rather impulsive. But I also know what's good for me, and dyin' ain't.
These sick bastards that teach because they don't know what else to do with their degrees make me sick.
Sounds to me like you're making a leap here that's a bit rash. It sounds to me like the punishment fint pretty well with the crime, if the kid did indeed crack the grading system, change his grades, and even sell access, as it is alleged. In that case, I think 10 days of suspension was neither cruel nor unusual. I'm not sure that this is really anyone's fault. (Although that's not to say that there aren't many "educators" out there that need to be drug out into the street and shot. Or at least given different jobs.)
According to his parents, Shinjan -- a youngster known for his infectious smile and outgoing personality -- was not depressed and only the night before had discussed plans to improve his swimming times.
This is almost certainly what they'd say about me, if I committed suicide. It is extremely unlikely I'd do that, but I am rather depressed at times. It is important to remember that teenager with boundless optimism are not always as happy as they seem.
The computer with my name is a better artist than I am. It's been under developement longer, but still...
It is astonishing how easily the great majority of us fall into step with our neighbors.
He predicted the general population would still be as docile and conformist as sheep. Looks like he was right. Damn
According to the article, these laws have been around a while now: "The directive, enacted in late 1998, has repeatedly caused frictions with the US, which has accused the EU of trying to impose laws beyond its own frontiers."
From what I can tell, the article is actually about the EU pushing through a "model contract" for companies that want to work through these data regulations... a contract that the US wanted to delay.
That will hopefully protect people from being scammed and buying bootlegs unintentionally and it doesn't require some watermarking or encryption scheme that is doomed to fail.
Do you really think that consummers being sold bootleg DVDs unaware is the biggest threat to the DVD industry right now? Given the fact that 99% of all pirate DVDs are burned onto CDRs by college students with fast connections that know exactly what they're doing, I don't think holohraphy will help much at all.
What if only some (most?) "watermarks" are invalid and the player stops playing if it sees an invalid one?
If they went with a system like this, none of the old DVDs would work on the new players. That means a lot of people would have a lot of DVDs that were mostly worthless when their old player breaks down.
It seems unlikely that the MPAA would be willing to screw over so many customers. But you never know, they seems pretty stupid.
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"As long as you can get a movie at $19.99 with superior quality and extras, what's the incentive to get a poor version for less than that?"
I'd say there's considerable incentive, judging by my freinds' sizable movie-on-cd collections. There has always been a market for low quality at a low cost. Dr. Skippers, anyone? Store Brands, Geo Metros, Community college. The list goes on.
Perhaps the most curious was the site promoting a program that would bring about a 2- to 6-inch growth in sexual endowment. "No pumps, pills or weights are used," it said. "The only tool--your hand."
You know, I've been trying similar techniques fo years, with little improvement. I guess I just need to step up my strict regiment.
If you'd like, you can call back tomorrow. We have a couple of guys here, Steve and Paul, and they 're much better with computer stuff than I am
So, Steve and Paul, who know a lot about computers, work for the psychic friends network? It wouldn't happen to be Allen & Jobs, would it?
I'd assume that the phone would be for connectivity for the webcam. Doesn't that make a little more sense to you?
My bet is that he wants the phone so that if the webcam detects that someone is on the boat, the phone calls the security guy, so he can do something about it.
Where did the cool poweder blue color scheme come from? I really like it. For that matter, why is it that pages tend to have different color schemes? Normally it's the plain green, but sometimes there is tht red scheme that, imo, look prettty bad.
This blue is really cool, though. Very soothing.
Not to bitch, but really: must you inform us of stories on sites like Wired? Isn't it fair to assume that most people who visit Slashdot are well aware of -- and probably check with at least the same frequency -- Wired's site?
Having an open comment forum, though, is nice. I visit slashdot for the insightfull comments on the articles, not the articles themselves.