Buy 2 printers. Feed the paper through the 2nd printer and re-print the same pattern over the first one.
Bad news: you lose resolution as a fucntion of how badly the new printing if registered with the previous copy.
Good news: the "signature" is replaced by the product of the two original printers, which is probably no longer identifiable.
BTW, encoding a special code (glyph) in the printout was patented ages ago by Xerox, but it isn't used and it isn't really microscopic and it's easy to defeat and it's only suitable for certain types of image. There are probably other methods, but nothing too magical.
Re. I can't get Tivo service at any price (Canada)
At least with replayTV, it's possible for Canadians to:
a) Call your home computer, serve your own local guide info from there. [ In my case, the may work because I have an old replay that has a lifetime subscription so there are to "activation" issues. ]
b) Call your home computer running pppd by using a local wire to an auto-answer modem, have the computer pass the call to the net.
c) Complicated in-between solutions may also be possible.
I can't imagine why this would not work with TiVo also. Option (b) presumes you are close enough to the US border for a US city's TV listing to serve you.
Doing even license plate recognition right is a bit tricky, in terms of both sensor quality and calibration. Setting them up to do this will make them on the costly side.
Of course several cities have used camera/photo systems that automatically record speeders. As fun as it is to be able to speed, I even think it's a good thing on balance. It's only a matter of time until such camera systems become ubiquitous on the road, even it the costs are acceptable at present.
Since each successive machine I purchase has much more disk space, I keep my most valuable files on line. As I upgrade, in addition no "normal" backups , I have key archival data on my obsolete old machine(s).
I listen to timeshifted radio programs on the way to work (via my iPod). I have a cron job that launches a streaming audio player (when the appropriate shows are on), the audio out then leads back to the audio in, and the show is recorded and coded as an MP3 using lame. Works great. (More elegant solutions that wiring in & out exist, but they are fragile.)
In the last few years I have heard people excuse all kinds of bad behavior because it's "just capitalism" (or just business). This came up often during the Microsoft trial.
Capitalism does not mean you have to forgoe ethics, good taste, social good or customer satisfaction, or that making a back necessarily supercedes these values. There was a time when the "rules of good business" supposedly superceded simply revenue maximization. I wonder if we are collectively starting to lose that important perspective?
I have a ReplyTV and am plugged into a group of other users. By and large, the bad experience reported above is anomalous -- I am extremely happy with my unit and my service.
I think the ability to share programs over a net connection is a really key advantage over Tivo and can't be dismissed by vaporware (commercial skip is/was cool too). ReplayTV and Tivo are *both* great technologies and they have slightly complementary advantages. I like ReplayTV better, but it seems to be a religious issue.
I know quite a few artists, working in many media (written, paint, etc.) Most of them do NOT make much money from their art, and might do a lot better if the large media publishing houses were less dominant (and people more more strongly enouraged to support local/live/original artists).
I make (some) money from copyrights myself, however...
Still, I think we would all be better off without the copyright system, which (a) feeds an unjust and unethical system, and (b) promotes medocrity and stagnation.
In the old days. This was our best approximation. Back when I was a kid we'd get one or two people on side of the road, and each "team" would pull on an invisible (virtual/imaginary) rope across the road. Most cars would slow down or stop thining there really must be a rope there, they just couldn't see it. Then we'd just walk away.
I guess we should have tried recruiting other mine-wannabes.
A key observation about AI, and to a lesser extent robotics and vision, is that the definition of these areas keeps shifting.
Will robots be ubiquitous?
Will AI be ubiquitous?
By 1970 standards the answer to both questions is probably yes, and the latter (re. AI) is possibly already yes since even chess playing was (once) considered "core" AI problem. As our automation gets better, we keep increasig the bar on what intelligence is, and what a "real" robot is.
In general, real robots/AI are not considered to be embodied by GNUchess, lego mindstorms, or commercial robots (even the very common ones on production lines).
So, I would guess that robots will be everywhere in 10 years (the US military has pretty much mandated that recently), but I also doubt that we will consider them to be "real" robots.... i.e. they will seem as lame as they do today as our notion of what it takes to be life-like evolves.
OK, so now we can pay more than the price of the movie to watch the movie being made, without the benefit of all that editing and such that makes the movie so "good" (hypothetically). This is just nuts!
We can take this one more step meta and pay $40 to watch the guys installing the web cam. Maybe $80 to watch the guys filming the guys who are installing the webcam?
Eventually, we'll be paying oodles to watch ourselves watching.
The build-your-own cost was already beaten to death in this slashdot article. While it's a bit dated, the cost of a do-it-yourself Tivo/replaytv can also be found here (although they are a bit dated): for both replay and tivo.
Very important is that you also need to get the TV-guide-snagging software configured, which is a bit painful. Perhaps worse, if it ever really catches on you can be sure the people who provide the guide info will want their slice (which is covered by the Tivo/ReplayTV subscriptions).
Lastly, the idea of building your own cheaply assumes your time is free, which makes sense if you are doing it for fun, but isn't really a sensible econimic argument.
I am heartened to see that people in government are taking spam seriously as the destructive thing it is (for me, it has made email substantially less useful than it once was). That said, this measure does not seem like it's going to make a big difference by itself. There are just too many open relays, and too many users who don't have the knowledge, time or ability to properly fix things.
It seems things have degenerated to the point that a more drastic solution will be required (such as the email tax we've heard about).
(I am considering rotating my true email address weekly so that email to be gets a bounce message to request it be re-sent to the properly weekly destination. Horrible but maybe better than getting all that crap.)
I used this kind of steganography as an undergrad (intro) computing assignment. It's so easy hat a press release on the subject is laughable. It's so weak as a cryptographic protocol that it's a joke.... uh, sorry, Mr. terrorist.. I meant it's very secure and *you* should really use it.
Which is a better movie? God, they're both hopeless moronic drivel. The big difference it that the prior films and massive hype allowed a clearer realization of how wooden predictable and predictable ATOC would be. Spiderman is "merely" cartoonish.
Suits versus artists? Welcome out of your time machine, pal. We hope you like the 20th... uh, 21st, century!
The "artists" are as comercially sold-out as the executives these days, and as devoid of real "art" in the case of any of these big commercial CDs. They're probably all as decent as most people, but I don't think there are any 'special' good guys. The whole industry is a big commercial money-sucking machine that devalues real art. It's the microsoft story in a different guise.
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Buy 2 printers. Feed the paper through the 2nd printer and re-print the same pattern over the first one.
Bad news: you lose resolution as a fucntion of how badly the new printing if registered with the previous copy.
Good news: the "signature" is replaced by the product of the two original printers, which is probably no longer identifiable.
BTW, encoding a special code (glyph) in the printout was patented ages ago by Xerox, but it isn't used and it isn't really microscopic and it's easy to defeat and it's only suitable for certain types of image. There are probably other methods, but nothing too magical.
At least with replayTV, it's possible for Canadians to:
a) Call your home computer, serve your own local guide info from there. [ In my case, the may work because I have an old replay that has a lifetime subscription so there are to "activation" issues. ]
b) Call your home computer running pppd by using a local wire to an auto-answer modem, have the computer pass the call to the net.
c) Complicated in-between solutions may also be possible.
I can't imagine why this would not work with TiVo also. Option (b) presumes you are close enough to the US border for a US city's TV listing to serve you.
Doing even license plate recognition right is a bit tricky, in terms of both sensor quality and calibration. Setting them up to do this will make them on the costly side.
Of course several cities have used camera/photo systems that automatically record speeders. As fun as it is to be able to speed, I even think it's a good thing on balance. It's only a matter of time until such camera systems become ubiquitous on the road, even it the costs are acceptable at present.
Since each successive machine I purchase has much more disk space, I keep my most valuable files on line. As I upgrade, in addition no "normal" backups , I have key archival data on my obsolete old machine(s).
I listen to timeshifted radio programs on the way to work (via my iPod). I have a cron job that launches a streaming audio player (when the appropriate shows are on), the audio out then leads back to the audio in, and the show is recorded and coded as an MP3 using lame. Works great. (More elegant solutions that wiring in & out exist, but they are fragile.)
In the last few years I have heard people excuse all kinds of bad behavior because it's "just capitalism" (or just business). This came up often during the Microsoft trial.
Capitalism does not mean you have to forgoe ethics, good taste, social good or customer satisfaction, or that making a back necessarily supercedes these values. There was a time when the "rules of good business" supposedly superceded simply revenue maximization. I wonder if we are collectively starting to lose that important perspective?
I have a ReplyTV and am plugged into a group of other users. By and large, the bad experience reported above is anomalous -- I am extremely happy with my unit and my service.
I think the ability to share programs over a net connection is a really key advantage over Tivo and can't be dismissed by vaporware (commercial skip is/was cool too). ReplayTV and Tivo are *both* great technologies and they have slightly complementary advantages. I like ReplayTV better, but it seems to be a religious issue.
I know quite a few artists, working in many media (written, paint, etc.) Most of them do NOT make much money from their art, and might do a lot better if the large media publishing houses were less dominant (and people more more strongly enouraged to support local/live/original artists).
I make (some) money from copyrights myself, however...
Still, I think we would all be better off without the copyright system, which (a) feeds an unjust and unethical system, and (b) promotes medocrity and stagnation.
In the old days. This was our best approximation. Back when I was a kid we'd get one or two people on side of the road, and each "team" would pull on an invisible (virtual/imaginary) rope across the road. Most cars would slow down or stop thining there really must be a rope there, they just couldn't see it. Then we'd just walk away.
I guess we should have tried recruiting other mine-wannabes.
A key observation about AI, and to a lesser extent robotics and vision, is that the definition of these
areas keeps shifting.
Will robots be ubiquitous?
Will AI be ubiquitous?
By 1970 standards the answer to both questions is probably yes, and the latter (re. AI) is possibly already yes since even chess playing was (once) considered "core" AI problem. As our automation gets better, we keep increasig the bar on what intelligence is, and what a "real" robot is.
In general, real robots/AI are not considered to be embodied by GNUchess, lego mindstorms, or commercial robots (even the very common ones on production lines).
So, I would guess that robots will be everywhere in 10 years (the US military has pretty much mandated that recently), but I also doubt that we will consider them to be "real" robots.... i.e. they will seem as lame as they do today as our notion of what it takes to be life-like evolves.
We can take this one more step meta and pay $40 to watch the guys installing the web cam. Maybe $80 to watch the guys filming the guys who are installing the webcam?
Eventually, we'll be paying oodles to watch ourselves watching.
The build-your-own cost was already beaten to death in this
slashdot article. While it's a bit dated, the cost of a do-it-yourself Tivo/replaytv can also be found here (although they are a bit dated):
for both replay and tivo.
Very important is that you also need to get the TV-guide-snagging software configured, which is a bit painful. Perhaps worse, if it ever really catches on you can be sure the people who provide the guide info will want their slice (which is covered by the Tivo/ReplayTV subscriptions).
Lastly, the idea of building your own cheaply assumes your time is free, which makes sense if you are doing it for fun, but isn't really a sensible econimic argument.
I am heartened to see that people in government are taking spam seriously as the destructive thing it is (for me, it has made email substantially less useful than it once was). That said, this measure does not seem like it's going to make a big difference by itself. There are just too many open relays, and too many users who don't have the knowledge, time or ability to properly fix things.
It seems things have degenerated to the point that a more drastic solution will be required (such as the email tax we've heard about).
(I am considering rotating my true email address weekly so that email to be gets a bounce message to request it be re-sent to the properly weekly destination. Horrible but maybe better than getting all that crap.)
> majority of Linux users are whining thieving
> babies who want everything for free?
Or, to put it another way, we're all corrupt greedy self-centered bastards, why aren't you?
That advantage is their reward for running the service. I'm happy to see them do well as a result.
I used this kind of steganography as an undergrad (intro) computing assignment. It's so easy hat a press release on the subject is laughable. It's so weak as a cryptographic protocol that it's a joke. ... uh, sorry, Mr. terrorist.. I meant it's very secure and *you* should really use it.
Which is a better movie? God, they're both hopeless moronic drivel. The big difference it that the prior films and massive hype allowed a clearer realization of how wooden predictable and predictable ATOC would be. Spiderman is "merely" cartoonish.
The "artists" are as comercially sold-out as the executives these days, and as devoid of real "art" in the case of any of these big commercial CDs. They're probably all as decent as most people, but I don't think there are any 'special' good guys. The whole industry is a big commercial money-sucking machine that devalues real art. It's the microsoft story in a different guise.