Alas cats, unlike well brought up children, have a habit of choosing to urinate in the cupboard if they don't get what they want when they want...
The old saying "Dogs have masters, cats have slaves..."
Mind you, I have both child and cats, and it all works out well:) But I still like my VCR as there are a bunch of movies I have that I have no chance of finding on DVD in a hurry, but where I can I replace a movie to DVD. I like my 'extra features' options.
But I think the proviso comes to mind "most criminals are stupid". The amount of people that want to act criminal don't think about what of their actions may lead to their capture and the sort of folk that would think about each piece of action would most likely tend towards realising there is little likely gain for a lot of effort. Well one would hope so (of course, now and again there are criminals that get away with their actions, either due to luck, lack of too much greed or intelligence).
You are quite right. A few anti-spook articles I read a while ago talked about pen-ink companies doping each batch slightly differently so they can be traced to certain end-sellers. Also older printers (whether laser, inkjet, dotmatrix, even daisy wheel) tend to age and leave artifacts on the page. Infact I remember seeing a how-they-solved-this-crime type television show that explained that the artifacts left by older printers could be easily used to identify which printer was used.
Of course, the real solution, is to print something out, xerox it a few times at different sites, changing the contrast / brightness each time to something random. Yes the image degrades, but artefacts vanish;) Maybe...
25k years ago for man arriving in central asia can't be entirely right. The australian aboriginals have been around in this country for 40-60k years, and its theorized they came via an asian landbridge.. Unless of course the SE Asian humans were around before the Central asian.
Yes, but the deviant art site stock photos may have different licensing. Some of the stock art on DevArt is for internal use only, some of it is for non-commercial etc. From what I understand of Morguefiles is that its all use-however-you-want..
I have seen worse in job adverts. They were advertising for 5+ years in technologies that had (at that time) been around 3 less than 3 years.
I think it was a case, though, of the boss asking the copywriter / secretary to chuck in the default advert with XYZ skill set. Oh well, they were rather embaressed when I rang up and pointed this out;)
Porn isn't illegal in any state of australian. The level and types of pornography are restricted in various states. With the exception of the territories (ACT, NT) porn has to be R rated at the best (in video format) and each state has different allowed-types of printed-visual pornography as well.
Alas we also have powers that be that want to restirct access to online porn. Never going to happen too well though;)
Being able to remotely shutdown or halt a machine is a godsend. The trick is to restrict SSH access-in from certain 'secure' IP addresses, and firewall the rest of them out. Secondly, I guess only allow root access from a non-root account (ie: no ssh'ing in as root).
But I guess to each their own:)
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Sounds like something out of the movie Pi and also the practice known as 'Gemetia'.
Not including terrorists and foriegn goverments, lots of entities would love to know what the US intelligence community finds interesting.
Your point here is the most interesting. I think you have it right on the ball here. I am sure there are a number of large corporations that would love to know about any potential future flare ups in certain regions so that they can get their tenders in for redevelopment work and other such things in before their competition has even heard about it.
I suspect 20 minutes into the future (poorly paraphrased reference I know) protecting privacy (online and otherwise) and allowing one to be anonymous online will be a lot more to do with stopping corporate monitor and *abuse* of data than protecting people from governments.
The government wants to control you and make sure you don't break laws. Corporations want to make sure they sell something to you before anyone else does. Both are bad, selling tends to be more invasive and insideous (due to be apparent 'innocence').
Yeah that too. But I decided a/. comment wasnt really the place to go into many details. Hence why google searches for real texts may be more useful.
I guess I get easily annoyed at the many "but the government can crack these codes in minutes" type arguments every time cryptography comes up. Its one of the few things that REALLY irritates me.
Fairly obviously you don't have much of an understanding of cryptography or prime-number theory etc.
Dnet when it ran its RSA challenges and the current challenges used a lot of resources. Many many many thousands of computers and even then, the process took some years. And, the ciphers that were broken were just very short key lengths. Much smaller than the usual non-paranoid key length used by most people. And paranoid key lengths (PGP used 768 or 1024 bits as a first choice, GnuPG uses 2048 in there. 2048bits is quite a number of factors larger than even 1024 bits.).
Now, the NSA has admitted they can build a suitcased sized device that can crack a 56bit DES key in a few hours. Will only cost them $256000 or so. But, that said, 56bit DES is considered weak.
You also make the unfortunate assumption that the Government has unlimited funds. (Un)fortunately they don't. Governments, no matter how large, can't keep throwing money at problems til a solution happens. Whether one assumes they are all powerful and deceptive or not.
All that said, its been a few months since I brushed up on my cryptography and I have had too much coffee this morning. If you want detailed information on cryptography, search for a FAQ online called the 'Cryptonomicon' (named after Neal Stephenson's book and/or the original 'Cryptonomicon' a treaty on cryptography written a few hundred years ago).. Or maybe look on Cryptopane (I think that is BruceS's page)..
Never said it was a valid patent. Just think its a cool idea. Of course, the patent appears to cover using all these things together to make some sort of all journalling photo-catalog.
I suppose my expression of cool comes from a few extensions of the idea. The OCR bit is interesting (if automagickal), and was thinking about merging this concept with something akin to LJ, giving a person a continuous digital vanity service. I guess the coolness comes from working out the underlying reason behind why data occurs at a certain time. Oh well:)
Ah yes, you are very right. Given I have a digital camera and on posting images to DevArt I have seen the EXIF metadata.
I should have thought a bit more before I made my 'not sure if it does this already' comments.
Oh well:)
My thought stands, still unsure if anyone has done this organization scheme before based on the EXIF information. Although as suggested by others maybe iPhoto does it. The OCRish bit is kind of cool though.
Of course, upon reading the patent (gods they are boring to read) it says that the sorting is based on the following potential factors:
A image date stored in the image (unsure if jpeg does this now) as meta data
Extracting the date from an image (using a OCR type arrangement for those cameras that data stamp the visual part of the file)
So technically, they have a valid patent. Unless of course the meta data already exists in common file formats to allow date information to be extracted.
Sorting by system create/modify dates isn't really valid in this case. If, say, you cropped an image, maybe added a border, then the image either has a new modify date or a new create date (saved as another image). But assuming the meta-date is preserved it would work. Hmmmms.
Damnit, I also sounded pro-MS there. Still it is a cool idea, and better than their apple.
Whilst I can see that most indie bands would sign over as you suggest, there are a great many that were prefer to keep it small, work with small labels or self-produce and work with only a distribution label.
I think there is a fear (from my experience with 'indie' bands and personal experience) about the risk to ones image and future stake holdings if one gets involved with a major label.
The problem comes if major labels start trying to buy out the indies or force them out of business so that they are the only ones allowed to distribute music. That in itself would be much worse than the current sabre rattling going on now.
Mind you, maybe my viewpoint is slightly skewed, I have fairly free distribution license on my audio work. Distribute it as much as you want, burn it to CD, give it to your grandparents, just dont edit it. Oh well:)
It could be that the power requirements to power one of this 4-terminal setups may be quite a bit less than the requirements to power 4 seperate box PCs.
And in the long term, less parts maintainance, as there is only one motherboard etc.
Its one solution I have found. Plus as a result I have gotten to know a number of other bands (well quite a few) who send me copies of their CDs (the CDr scene is doing well it seems for indie bands..)
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Alas cats, unlike well brought up children, have a habit of choosing to urinate in the cupboard if they don't get what they want when they want...
The old saying "Dogs have masters, cats have slaves..."
Mind you, I have both child and cats, and it all works out well :) But I still like my VCR as there are a bunch of movies I have that I have no chance of finding on DVD in a hurry, but where I can I replace a movie to DVD. I like my 'extra features' options.
True true.
But I think the proviso comes to mind "most criminals are stupid". The amount of people that want to act criminal don't think about what of their actions may lead to their capture and the sort of folk that would think about each piece of action would most likely tend towards realising there is little likely gain for a lot of effort. Well one would hope so (of course, now and again there are criminals that get away with their actions, either due to luck, lack of too much greed or intelligence).
I suspect it would too, but with a bit of care and paranoia its a lot harder to track a person down to the usage of such things.
But I guess ultimately, if you are going to do something illegal these days there is enough technology around that can 'eventually' track you down.
You are quite right. A few anti-spook articles I read a while ago talked about pen-ink companies doping each batch slightly differently so they can be traced to certain end-sellers. Also older printers (whether laser, inkjet, dotmatrix, even daisy wheel) tend to age and leave artifacts on the page. Infact I remember seeing a how-they-solved-this-crime type television show that explained that the artifacts left by older printers could be easily used to identify which printer was used.
Of course, the real solution, is to print something out, xerox it a few times at different sites, changing the contrast / brightness each time to something random. Yes the image degrades, but artefacts vanish ;) Maybe...
25k years ago for man arriving in central asia can't be entirely right. The australian aboriginals have been around in this country for 40-60k years, and its theorized they came via an asian landbridge.. Unless of course the SE Asian humans were around before the Central asian.
Yes, but the deviant art site stock photos may have different licensing. Some of the stock art on DevArt is for internal use only, some of it is for non-commercial etc. From what I understand of Morguefiles is that its all use-however-you-want..
And quite a few very very smart people did go to college (well university).
I have seen worse in job adverts. They were advertising for 5+ years in technologies that had (at that time) been around 3 less than 3 years.
I think it was a case, though, of the boss asking the copywriter / secretary to chuck in the default advert with XYZ skill set. Oh well, they were rather embaressed when I rang up and pointed this out ;)
Porn isn't illegal in any state of australian. The level and types of pornography are restricted in various states. With the exception of the territories (ACT, NT) porn has to be R rated at the best (in video format) and each state has different allowed-types of printed-visual pornography as well.
Alas we also have powers that be that want to restirct access to online porn. Never going to happen too well though ;)
Being able to remotely shutdown or halt a machine is a godsend. The trick is to restrict SSH access-in from certain 'secure' IP addresses, and firewall the rest of them out. Secondly, I guess only allow root access from a non-root account (ie: no ssh'ing in as root).
:)
But I guess to each their own
Sounds like something out of the movie Pi and also the practice known as 'Gemetia'.
This link may interest you :)
Not including terrorists and foriegn goverments, lots of entities would love to know what the US intelligence community finds interesting.
Your point here is the most interesting. I think you have it right on the ball here. I am sure there are a number of large corporations that would love to know about any potential future flare ups in certain regions so that they can get their tenders in for redevelopment work and other such things in before their competition has even heard about it.
I suspect 20 minutes into the future (poorly paraphrased reference I know) protecting privacy (online and otherwise) and allowing one to be anonymous online will be a lot more to do with stopping corporate monitor and *abuse* of data than protecting people from governments.
The government wants to control you and make sure you don't break laws. Corporations want to make sure they sell something to you before anyone else does. Both are bad, selling tends to be more invasive and insideous (due to be apparent 'innocence').
Thats a rather interesting linguistical / cultural point. Rather interesting indeed.
Could be a cultural thing as well. I really should find the book the paper / article / study was published in again. Oh well :)
Marketing theory (based on something I read a number of years ago) is that prices that contain many 9s in them sells better.
A product for $14.99 will sell better than one for $14.95 if similiar products.
For some reason 9s sell.
Although given that australia no longer has 1c or 2c coins, most sub-dollar values are now in 5c increments.
Yeah that too. But I decided a /. comment wasnt really the place to go into many details. Hence why google searches for real texts may be more useful.
I guess I get easily annoyed at the many "but the government can crack these codes in minutes" type arguments every time cryptography comes up. Its one of the few things that REALLY irritates me.
Fairly obviously you don't have much of an understanding of cryptography or prime-number theory etc.
Dnet when it ran its RSA challenges and the current challenges used a lot of resources. Many many many thousands of computers and even then, the process took some years. And, the ciphers that were broken were just very short key lengths. Much smaller than the usual non-paranoid key length used by most people. And paranoid key lengths (PGP used 768 or 1024 bits as a first choice, GnuPG uses 2048 in there. 2048bits is quite a number of factors larger than even 1024 bits.).
Now, the NSA has admitted they can build a suitcased sized device that can crack a 56bit DES key in a few hours. Will only cost them $256000 or so. But, that said, 56bit DES is considered weak.
You also make the unfortunate assumption that the Government has unlimited funds. (Un)fortunately they don't. Governments, no matter how large, can't keep throwing money at problems til a solution happens. Whether one assumes they are all powerful and deceptive or not.
All that said, its been a few months since I brushed up on my cryptography and I have had too much coffee this morning. If you want detailed information on cryptography, search for a FAQ online called the 'Cryptonomicon' (named after Neal Stephenson's book and/or the original 'Cryptonomicon' a treaty on cryptography written a few hundred years ago).. Or maybe look on Cryptopane (I think that is BruceS's page)..
Never said it was a valid patent. Just think its a cool idea. Of course, the patent appears to cover using all these things together to make some sort of all journalling photo-catalog.
I suppose my expression of cool comes from a few extensions of the idea. The OCR bit is interesting (if automagickal), and was thinking about merging this concept with something akin to LJ, giving a person a continuous digital vanity service. I guess the coolness comes from working out the underlying reason behind why data occurs at a certain time. Oh well :)
I agree it may not be validly patentable, but the idea is rather nifty :)
;)
Or maybe I have spend far too long playing with data manipulation so that I get facinated by it all too easily
Ah yes, you are very right. Given I have a digital camera and on posting images to DevArt I have seen the EXIF metadata.
:)
I should have thought a bit more before I made my 'not sure if it does this already' comments.
Oh well
My thought stands, still unsure if anyone has done this organization scheme before based on the EXIF information. Although as suggested by others maybe iPhoto does it. The OCRish bit is kind of cool though.
Of course, upon reading the patent (gods they are boring to read) it says that the sorting is based on the following potential factors:
So technically, they have a valid patent. Unless of course the meta data already exists in common file formats to allow date information to be extracted.
Sorting by system create/modify dates isn't really valid in this case. If, say, you cropped an image, maybe added a border, then the image either has a new modify date or a new create date (saved as another image). But assuming the meta-date is preserved it would work. Hmmmms.
Damnit, I also sounded pro-MS there. Still it is a cool idea, and better than their apple.
Whilst I can see that most indie bands would sign over as you suggest, there are a great many that were prefer to keep it small, work with small labels or self-produce and work with only a distribution label.
:)
I think there is a fear (from my experience with 'indie' bands and personal experience) about the risk to ones image and future stake holdings if one gets involved with a major label.
The problem comes if major labels start trying to buy out the indies or force them out of business so that they are the only ones allowed to distribute music. That in itself would be much worse than the current sabre rattling going on now.
Mind you, maybe my viewpoint is slightly skewed, I have fairly free distribution license on my audio work. Distribute it as much as you want, burn it to CD, give it to your grandparents, just dont edit it. Oh well
It could be that the power requirements to power one of this 4-terminal setups may be quite a bit less than the requirements to power 4 seperate box PCs.
And in the long term, less parts maintainance, as there is only one motherboard etc.
Still, ultimately it looks like a good idea.
I can't add much to this. But hear hear!
Especially the 'Make it!' bit.
Its one solution I have found. Plus as a result I have gotten to know a number of other bands (well quite a few) who send me copies of their CDs (the CDr scene is doing well it seems for indie bands..)